In todays market? I don't think the average consumer is going to expect more then a couple hunderd dollar variation for a product. If product A costs $999, product B is slightly better and costs $1100, and product C is perfect but costs $1500, product B will most likely sell the best.
The people who want a cheap computer will go for A, the rest will pay a little extra because they know they are getting somthing extra. But only people with money to waste are going to spend that much extra on the small amount of gain. Such is Apples niche market.
this isnt 1985 - the 1 megabyte a year at MOST of spam an average email account recieves isn't much. and if you save spam, may god save your soul. so there goes disk space...
yeah, someone will bitch because they get more, but really. I don't get more then 50 spam emails a year, which is less then 100kb i'd bet. which is not much, espically if you have broadband.
but you did exchange money for it, which means you agree to any licensing restrictions put forth by the manufacture (eg, if i open it i void my warrenty, whatever), don't you?
of course, nobody said EULAs were legal from the start.
Explaining technology to someone who doesn't understand it is essential.
correct me if im wrong, but isn't that the whole point of the trial? to present the case, and your side of the case?
I think explaining the technology would be covered under that. I don't think many judges would understand 32-bit memory addressing just as much as they would understand how to design a suspension bridge. They know law, and maybe some other specifics.
Ditto for audio - hold mic to speaker and press record on tape player.
Sure its not high quality, but whats the difference to the RIAA/MPAA? The whole thing is a waste of time and a ploy to sell more computers and copies of windows.
I dont blame them either; Windows 2000 works. Most of the time, too. Why would I want to buy a new operating system when mine works? Or buy a new office suite, when mine works? They have zero future the way it stands.
If you don't have a market to sell your product, what better way to sell your product then to make the market and try to make it law that its required. Then rewrite it over and over as it gets cracked.
no, it is impossible to do hardware acceleration on the second monitor in windows. directx apps will work because they do (gasp) software emulation on the second monitor, but thats... slow.
you'll just get an error that opengl can't initalize when you try to use the 2nd monitor.
as for the crosshair, i have 19" and 17", and its not that - its the fact that the crosshair is split half and half on the two monitors, and theres about 4 inches of plastic between the two edges.:)
Yes, you can play quake 3 with 2 monitors. In fact, if you run Linux, you can use as many monitors as your system can support with 3d acceleration.
All you need is your combined desktop width/height, and set a custom one in quake. Set the following commands in your config: seta r_customaspect "1" seta r_customheight "480" seta r_customwidth "1280" seta r_fullscreen "1" seta r_mode "-1"
The width is 640*2, if your wondering. I got this to work great at 1600x600 (800x600 * 2), but couldn't get 640x480 to work quite right. Anyway, it does work, and its great fun to amaze your friends with it.
Also note that this WONT work in Windows - it treats each monitor seperately, and OpenGL doesn't support more then 1 monitor. Xinerama treats the two monitors as one display, and OpenGL uses that one display, so everything works great.
I've heard this is possible in Unreal Tournament doing basicly the same thing, however I havn't tried it.
The downside is your crosshair is split between the two monitors, and it is impossible to aim. I guess you could get good at it eventually tho, if you don't mind being crosseyed. I'm using a dual head nvidia geforce 2 mx, if your wondering. FPS is hardly affected with my setup. Now if only nvidia would make dual head more stable, i could use it...
The correct conclusion would be "Any cheap switch does not provide security against packet sniffing attacks."
These things are nothing new, and cisco catalyst switches can be configured to prevent all of these. Of course, they come at a cost - about $1000 for bottom of the line.
Why would you ever bother putting a large amount of data on DVD? Espically when it needs to be accessable from the internet. You are going to end up spending a lot of money on the DVD media ($20 a pop i believe?) and then you need to buy an equal number of dvd drives to be able to access all the data. You will likely need more then one writer to be efficient with the entire process, too.
A 80gb IDE drive costs less then $100, and holds more then 5 DVDs. If you need speed, go SCSI, it'll end up costing as much as the opticial solution and be easier to manage. But really, optical media has been obsoleted by todays harddrive sizes. If it needs to be portable, then there might be a reason to go for it, but even then you should look at removable harddrives.
You can run with these things in your pocket, they are less likely to brake (well, in theory- less moving parts), the disk media doesn't scratch easily, its easier to add/erase songs, you can store more music in less space... The list goes on.
Although its true, cds are cheaper. It depends if you want to jog with music or not, I guess.
woah there, they aren't getting rid of them first off and second they are getting rid of movie releases. you can still buy a vcr and record tv shows, and you still will be able to 10 years from now. (just like I can still use a casette player to record audio, but buy new music in CD form. Also can buy it on tape, but it'll be harder to find.)
just because they are favoring a newer, higher quality, digital format over aging VHS in MOVIE RELEASES doesn't mean the worlds over.
Is it illegal for me to download a mp3 of a song I paid for? Say I want to listen to the song on my computer, but I don't have a cdrom drive in my computer.
But to start, you MUST pull the flash rom chip and reprogram it with your own code. Better hurry before Microsoft changes the secret bootloader or even the hardware itself, now that they know of the weakness.
Surely you have at least 6 months before the next XBox service pack? Nevermind the history of fixing symptoms of bugs instead of the bugs themselves. Or just ignoring it all together and hoping it will "go away".
This is true. A guy I know said he was constantly getting calls from the military, about one a week. He had no intentions of joining military just because, and he finally lied and said "well, fine, its because i'm gay.". The recruiter must have been surprized, he just said that there were pleanty of oppertunities still and you could join. The calls stopped after that tho.
Except the new office down the road sends you an Office 2005 document, your ancient system will no longer be able to read it.
And people like getting new toys. Espically faster ones. New computers running Linux with a step-up in monitor size is a good start (you are probably saving a lot more money then the cost of 15" to 17" or higher!)
Be sure you migrate your tech. department first, they will put the most stress on the systems.
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In todays market? I don't think the average consumer is going to expect more then a couple hunderd dollar variation for a product. If product A costs $999, product B is slightly better and costs $1100, and product C is perfect but costs $1500, product B will most likely sell the best.
The people who want a cheap computer will go for A, the rest will pay a little extra because they know they are getting somthing extra. But only people with money to waste are going to spend that much extra on the small amount of gain. Such is Apples niche market.
if they want to block out their potential customers and keep ignoring you, let them. just go elsewhere. is it really your loss?
this isnt 1985 - the 1 megabyte a year at MOST of spam an average email account recieves isn't much. and if you save spam, may god save your soul. so there goes disk space...
yeah, someone will bitch because they get more, but really. I don't get more then 50 spam emails a year, which is less then 100kb i'd bet. which is not much, espically if you have broadband.
but you did exchange money for it, which means you agree to any licensing restrictions put forth by the manufacture (eg, if i open it i void my warrenty, whatever), don't you?
of course, nobody said EULAs were legal from the start.
Junkbuster does it.
Explaining technology to someone who doesn't understand it is essential.
correct me if im wrong, but isn't that the whole point of the trial? to present the case, and your side of the case?
I think explaining the technology would be covered under that. I don't think many judges would understand 32-bit memory addressing just as much as they would understand how to design a suspension bridge. They know law, and maybe some other specifics.
Ditto for audio - hold mic to speaker and press record on tape player.
Sure its not high quality, but whats the difference to the RIAA/MPAA? The whole thing is a waste of time and a ploy to sell more computers and copies of windows.
I dont blame them either; Windows 2000 works. Most of the time, too. Why would I want to buy a new operating system when mine works? Or buy a new office suite, when mine works? They have zero future the way it stands.
If you don't have a market to sell your product, what better way to sell your product then to make the market and try to make it law that its required. Then rewrite it over and over as it gets cracked.
to unthaw it to place it in the oven, of course.
it takes off a good 10 minutes of baking time, which is good because a nerd can only take off so much time away from a computer...
The Linux OS?! when did that come out?
what card do you have? mine doesn't do that :(
no, it is impossible to do hardware acceleration on the second monitor in windows. directx apps will work because they do (gasp) software emulation on the second monitor, but thats... slow.
:)
you'll just get an error that opengl can't initalize when you try to use the 2nd monitor.
as for the crosshair, i have 19" and 17", and its not that - its the fact that the crosshair is split half and half on the two monitors, and theres about 4 inches of plastic between the two edges.
Yes, you can play quake 3 with 2 monitors. In fact, if you run Linux, you can use as many monitors as your system can support with 3d acceleration.
All you need is your combined desktop width/height, and set a custom one in quake. Set the following commands in your config:
seta r_customaspect "1"
seta r_customheight "480"
seta r_customwidth "1280"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "-1"
The width is 640*2, if your wondering. I got this to work great at 1600x600 (800x600 * 2), but couldn't get 640x480 to work quite right. Anyway, it does work, and its great fun to amaze your friends with it.
Also note that this WONT work in Windows - it treats each monitor seperately, and OpenGL doesn't support more then 1 monitor. Xinerama treats the two monitors as one display, and OpenGL uses that one display, so everything works great.
I've heard this is possible in Unreal Tournament doing basicly the same thing, however I havn't tried it.
The downside is your crosshair is split between the two monitors, and it is impossible to aim. I guess you could get good at it eventually tho, if you don't mind being crosseyed. I'm using a dual head nvidia geforce 2 mx, if your wondering. FPS is hardly affected with my setup. Now if only nvidia would make dual head more stable, i could use it...
damn republicans.
car company, cartel. ha ha. sounds wierd in some odd way.
*runs off*
The correct conclusion would be "Any cheap switch does not provide security against packet sniffing attacks."
These things are nothing new, and cisco catalyst switches can be configured to prevent all of these. Of course, they come at a cost - about $1000 for bottom of the line.
Why would you ever bother putting a large amount of data on DVD? Espically when it needs to be accessable from the internet. You are going to end up spending a lot of money on the DVD media ($20 a pop i believe?) and then you need to buy an equal number of dvd drives to be able to access all the data. You will likely need more then one writer to be efficient with the entire process, too.
A 80gb IDE drive costs less then $100, and holds more then 5 DVDs. If you need speed, go SCSI, it'll end up costing as much as the opticial solution and be easier to manage. But really, optical media has been obsoleted by todays harddrive sizes. If it needs to be portable, then there might be a reason to go for it, but even then you should look at removable harddrives.
You can run with these things in your pocket, they are less likely to brake (well, in theory- less moving parts), the disk media doesn't scratch easily, its easier to add/erase songs, you can store more music in less space... The list goes on.
Although its true, cds are cheaper. It depends if you want to jog with music or not, I guess.
woah there, they aren't getting rid of them first off and second they are getting rid of movie releases. you can still buy a vcr and record tv shows, and you still will be able to 10 years from now. (just like I can still use a casette player to record audio, but buy new music in CD form. Also can buy it on tape, but it'll be harder to find.)
just because they are favoring a newer, higher quality, digital format over aging VHS in MOVIE RELEASES doesn't mean the worlds over.
Is it illegal for me to download a mp3 of a song I paid for? Say I want to listen to the song on my computer, but I don't have a cdrom drive in my computer.
*shrug*
posting anonymous so i dont get shot, but try this. sounds good, was about to try it right now.
But to start, you MUST pull the flash rom chip and reprogram it with your own code. Better hurry before Microsoft changes the secret bootloader or even the hardware itself, now that they know of the weakness.
Surely you have at least 6 months before the next XBox service pack? Nevermind the history of fixing symptoms of bugs instead of the bugs themselves. Or just ignoring it all together and hoping it will "go away".
not to be mean/insulting, but you go to school for years and gain the intelligence of that of a doctor to do what? Count pills.
Thats right, folks, you could be making 90K a year counting pills. yikes.
This is true. A guy I know said he was constantly getting calls from the military, about one a week. He had no intentions of joining military just because, and he finally lied and said "well, fine, its because i'm gay.". The recruiter must have been surprized, he just said that there were pleanty of oppertunities still and you could join. The calls stopped after that tho.
except mcdonalds is where you take your kids to eat, and aol is an isp. beyond that, they certianly are the same....
Except the new office down the road sends you an Office 2005 document, your ancient system will no longer be able to read it.
And people like getting new toys. Espically faster ones. New computers running Linux with a step-up in monitor size is a good start (you are probably saving a lot more money then the cost of 15" to 17" or higher!)
Be sure you migrate your tech. department first, they will put the most stress on the systems.