There's a fundamental problem with that argument though. It's easier to prove that something exists than prove that something doesn't exist. You find it, you show us. How do you prove that something doesn't exist? Which is why the burden of proof is on the people that claim the affirmative. The negative is fundamentally much harder to prove, if provable at all.
I can say that I believe that a unicorn with purple stripes exist, and my people believed in them for thousands of years. If someone asks me to prove it, then with your argument, I can just throw it back at them, asking them to prove they don't exist.
Supposedly the keys mechanisms are more ergonomic. I really don't buy that though, the assertion has never been backed up or studied scientifically, it's all just one-off anecdotes. Another claim is that they are more "tactile" meaning that if you feel the click, the click is really made that the computer registers. The only keyboards I've seen that have a problem with not every click being counted as a keypress is only with the very cheap keyboards.
The fact that those kinds of keyboards aren't offered with native USB support is enough for me to stay away.]
The durability argument doesn't really help, my Natural Elites are nearly a decade old before one even started failing on me.
You say that as if the work force is static. The article says that not enough are being enrolled into those programs. How do you increase interest and enrollment? It would seem that money would be a pretty good enticement.
Basic market economics says that if a resource is in sufficient demand that the wages go up, then there will be more interest in it such that bright people from other fields would be willing to take a risk, go through training and put up with the bullshit that IT work entails to get higher wages.
I've never understood mutt anyway. The fate of Pine and nearly any other major character/terminal-oriented software no longer matters to me. I use bash to do certain configuration operations but that's it.
I understand your points, though I have a few quibbles, I do understand
I never thought that syncing without a cable made sense because the battery needs to be charged at some point, might as well do it during syncing. Using WiFi cuts down the run time by a whole hour anyway.
I don't think that Microsoft can afford to sell wireless for sharing files the way you want because it would clearly be seen as enabling massive copyright infringement. That would make Microsoft a too-tempting target for litigation.
I would expect that there will be a community project to either hack the existing firmware or replace it with Linux + other software to do what you want. I don't expect it to come out for a while, and I would not buy it now in the hopes that the replacement firmware will be good.
This is true. I had seen survey results that showed that "coolness" was like fifth place in the list of reasons that people bought an iPod. But marketing is still important. The only marketing I have seen for direct competitors (i.e. non-phones) was one billboard for a Creative Zen. That's it. Otherwise, the most that most people that knew that there were competitors was at the store.
Then Microsoft fixes the problem. Each new release gets better. In time, the competition is crushed.
That's not always the case. They had axed WebTV, Ultimate TV, and their networking hardware line-up. When they axed their network hardware line-up, even the driver downloads for them disappeared. Their input devices never did dominate, and still don't have a dominant position in the market, though I do like some of those products. XBox 360 is probably still a huge drain on Microsoft. I'd like to know
I also don't expect that Apple is unaware the of the Microsoft product history. I don't believe for a minute that they will be ignoring that.
If you compare the press' first reaction between the two, I think the difference would be pretty apparent. Except with some of the techie community, iPod did generally compare favorably against its competitors. I don't know why Taco thought that wireless was a realistic expectation, nor why Taco thought that the Nomad brick was desirable. The original iPod was a little large, but still a lot smaller than Nomad.
The range on a single AP is not that great, even with a high power, high sensitivity AP, it would seem like you would want one on every other street light, and that's not cheap. In my experience, a mesh isn't very good at making a stable connection, and wiring every fourth AP doesn't sound very cheap either.
The players still seem pretty commonplace, and the media is still readily available. I just reused my tapes.
I think tonight I am going to just stick a $150 eyeTV hybrid on my satellite box and forget about the VCR, I forgot to change the tape two nights in a row.
You say a silly things with such seriousness. I commend you. So each of your programs should be on their own dedicated core? It almost seems like the background tasks you vaguely suggest are mostly euphemisms for software that makes up for Window's shortcommings, like AV scans and such.
That's what I thought. I wonder who the first prick was that suggested using "speculative fiction". To me, it sounds like some ego thing, snobbery and such. Maybe that's the topic of a Google search some other day.
I figured they'd offer a man-purse with a dedicated pocket for the Zune. Sounds like a time to mash-up the Seinfeld episode and the Zune ad.
But I think there's a little bit of a point, if you want a large screen and good battery life, you are probably going to have to deal with a brick. You can't have everything and have it now. Large screens and video decoding are going to be done with less power in the future for a slimer unit, so you can have everything, but you'll have to wait until two years from now.
I think it's the Republican's own fault. From brazen hypocrisy on gays to just about anything else, chronic coverups of Foley's antics, including Santorum and of course, Allen's unfortunate choice of words, they've been doing it to themselves. Figuratively speaking, the Republicans somehow, from pants on in one corner of a room and an open dildo in the other, managed to stumble across the room, drop their collective pants on the way there, and somehow "impaled" themselves on the dildo.
There is a fundamental difference in markets there. The Precision computers are business & professional level computers. IT departments probably don't tolerate that crap, so Dell doesn't try to put it on them. Plus, Precisions are higher margin computers so they don't need to pre-install sample software, I think most of that is paid for by the software maker in the hopes of the user paying for the full version, or at least thrown on to add bullet points to make the computer look better than it is. Usually the pre-loaded stuff is targeted at consumers anyway and useless for the pro buyer.
For one, MySpace loads up less than four seconds for me and I am using DirecWay.
Another is that MySpace is an entertainment site, not a commerce site, and I think that makes a difference in what people will tolerate. For some reason, people want to be there. A lot of people don't want to wait to buy things, it's not entertaining. For some reason, people will often wait an hour in line for entertainment, but only rarely would they be willing to wait an hour to buy something.
I think you should accept that the meaning of words change over time. The same with "piracy" and the negative connotation for "hacker". A few people on some web site aren't going to change the mainstream usage.
I know what they originally meant, but fussing about its meaning just makes you look like that stereotypical old retired fart down everyone's street that rambles on about how things should be.
Republicans seem to be saying that Lieberman votes with the Democrats unless it has something to do with national security or foreign policy, namely Iraq. Those are the high-profile issues, so that's why there may be the perception that he's a closet Republican.
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There's a fundamental problem with that argument though. It's easier to prove that something exists than prove that something doesn't exist. You find it, you show us. How do you prove that something doesn't exist? Which is why the burden of proof is on the people that claim the affirmative. The negative is fundamentally much harder to prove, if provable at all.
I can say that I believe that a unicorn with purple stripes exist, and my people believed in them for thousands of years. If someone asks me to prove it, then with your argument, I can just throw it back at them, asking them to prove they don't exist.
Even a notebook of the notorious models had about a .00001% chance of blowing up, which is a pretty unlikely occurence.
Supposedly the keys mechanisms are more ergonomic. I really don't buy that though, the assertion has never been backed up or studied scientifically, it's all just one-off anecdotes. Another claim is that they are more "tactile" meaning that if you feel the click, the click is really made that the computer registers. The only keyboards I've seen that have a problem with not every click being counted as a keypress is only with the very cheap keyboards.
The fact that those kinds of keyboards aren't offered with native USB support is enough for me to stay away.]
The durability argument doesn't really help, my Natural Elites are nearly a decade old before one even started failing on me.
You say that as if the work force is static. The article says that not enough are being enrolled into those programs. How do you increase interest and enrollment? It would seem that money would be a pretty good enticement.
Basic market economics says that if a resource is in sufficient demand that the wages go up, then there will be more interest in it such that bright people from other fields would be willing to take a risk, go through training and put up with the bullshit that IT work entails to get higher wages.
I've never understood mutt anyway. The fate of Pine and nearly any other major character/terminal-oriented software no longer matters to me. I use bash to do certain configuration operations but that's it.
I understand your points, though I have a few quibbles, I do understand
I never thought that syncing without a cable made sense because the battery needs to be charged at some point, might as well do it during syncing. Using WiFi cuts down the run time by a whole hour anyway.
I don't think that Microsoft can afford to sell wireless for sharing files the way you want because it would clearly be seen as enabling massive copyright infringement. That would make Microsoft a too-tempting target for litigation.
I would expect that there will be a community project to either hack the existing firmware or replace it with Linux + other software to do what you want. I don't expect it to come out for a while, and I would not buy it now in the hopes that the replacement firmware will be good.
This is true. I had seen survey results that showed that "coolness" was like fifth place in the list of reasons that people bought an iPod. But marketing is still important. The only marketing I have seen for direct competitors (i.e. non-phones) was one billboard for a Creative Zen. That's it. Otherwise, the most that most people that knew that there were competitors was at the store.
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Then Microsoft fixes the problem. Each new release gets better. In time, the competition is crushed.
That's not always the case. They had axed WebTV, Ultimate TV, and their networking hardware line-up. When they axed their network hardware line-up, even the driver downloads for them disappeared. Their input devices never did dominate, and still don't have a dominant position in the market, though I do like some of those products. XBox 360 is probably still a huge drain on Microsoft. I'd like to know
I also don't expect that Apple is unaware the of the Microsoft product history. I don't believe for a minute that they will be ignoring that.
If you compare the press' first reaction between the two, I think the difference would be pretty apparent. Except with some of the techie community, iPod did generally compare favorably against its competitors. I don't know why Taco thought that wireless was a realistic expectation, nor why Taco thought that the Nomad brick was desirable. The original iPod was a little large, but still a lot smaller than Nomad.
The range on a single AP is not that great, even with a high power, high sensitivity AP, it would seem like you would want one on every other street light, and that's not cheap. In my experience, a mesh isn't very good at making a stable connection, and wiring every fourth AP doesn't sound very cheap either.
So you can't own and control a DVD writing DVR? You can't control MythTV or any other open software PVR solutions?
The players still seem pretty commonplace, and the media is still readily available. I just reused my tapes.
I think tonight I am going to just stick a $150 eyeTV hybrid on my satellite box and forget about the VCR, I forgot to change the tape two nights in a row.
I can't see avoiding a large degree of power loss, and the last thing we need right now is something more inefficient than wll-warts.
I would expect that it's worst than that, the wireless power transmitter would be powered with a wall-wart.
You say a silly things with such seriousness. I commend you. So each of your programs should be on their own dedicated core? It almost seems like the background tasks you vaguely suggest are mostly euphemisms for software that makes up for Window's shortcommings, like AV scans and such.
I think this list concentrates on well-known bad consoles. In comparison, I think Pippin is more obscure.
That's what I thought. I wonder who the first prick was that suggested using "speculative fiction". To me, it sounds like some ego thing, snobbery and such. Maybe that's the topic of a Google search some other day.
I think "just once" implies more than once.
I figured they'd offer a man-purse with a dedicated pocket for the Zune. Sounds like a time to mash-up the Seinfeld episode and the Zune ad.
But I think there's a little bit of a point, if you want a large screen and good battery life, you are probably going to have to deal with a brick. You can't have everything and have it now. Large screens and video decoding are going to be done with less power in the future for a slimer unit, so you can have everything, but you'll have to wait until two years from now.
I think it's the Republican's own fault. From brazen hypocrisy on gays to just about anything else, chronic coverups of Foley's antics, including Santorum and of course, Allen's unfortunate choice of words, they've been doing it to themselves. Figuratively speaking, the Republicans somehow, from pants on in one corner of a room and an open dildo in the other, managed to stumble across the room, drop their collective pants on the way there, and somehow "impaled" themselves on the dildo.
The EU provides social services that simply aren't available in the US, or are not nearly the same scale as the EU programs.
There is a fundamental difference in markets there. The Precision computers are business & professional level computers. IT departments probably don't tolerate that crap, so Dell doesn't try to put it on them. Plus, Precisions are higher margin computers so they don't need to pre-install sample software, I think most of that is paid for by the software maker in the hopes of the user paying for the full version, or at least thrown on to add bullet points to make the computer look better than it is. Usually the pre-loaded stuff is targeted at consumers anyway and useless for the pro buyer.
I don't think your argument holds much weight.
For one, MySpace loads up less than four seconds for me and I am using DirecWay.
Another is that MySpace is an entertainment site, not a commerce site, and I think that makes a difference in what people will tolerate. For some reason, people want to be there. A lot of people don't want to wait to buy things, it's not entertaining. For some reason, people will often wait an hour in line for entertainment, but only rarely would they be willing to wait an hour to buy something.
It's too late.
I think you should accept that the meaning of words change over time. The same with "piracy" and the negative connotation for "hacker". A few people on some web site aren't going to change the mainstream usage.
I know what they originally meant, but fussing about its meaning just makes you look like that stereotypical old retired fart down everyone's street that rambles on about how things should be.
Republicans seem to be saying that Lieberman votes with the Democrats unless it has something to do with national security or foreign policy, namely Iraq. Those are the high-profile issues, so that's why there may be the perception that he's a closet Republican.
If I wanted to, I can turn off the screen on my point and shoot. I would expect that a DLSR with live preview would have the same ability.