It depends on what you are comparing it to. If you are comparing DSLR to SLR, then you seem to ignore the liability presented by film usage. Heck, you seem to ignore that changing film rolls is a liability, nevermind the costs. In comparison, batteries are a pittance in terms of space, cost and change time. I have to think that over the life of the camera, the "expense" of the digital camera probably makes up for itself several times over by not needing film.
I wonder if the article is some sort of a troll in that respect because most digicam's I've seen and used are constructed with a lot of metal and feel pretty solid. I've heard about some DSLRs that have a plastic enclosure, does that mean it's bad? I don't think so because plastic in itself isn't bad, there are different types of plastic. Plastic doesn't always mean cheap. Some plastics are more expensive than aluminum by weight or volume. Sometimes you don't want metal, plastics can often take shocks better and more often than metal. To make a good argument, it's best to not appeal to some sort of ignorant bias with repsect to materials.
My 3MP point and shoot and my dad's 8MP point and shoot can record video, so I doubt it's a processing issue. They do apparently have some means of scaling down and only record at VGA resolution though. For some reason, mine takes absolutely stunning video given that it's really only a still camera.
I'm not sure why you are suggesting a DV camcorder with AV in. I really haven't had a need for that, which is fine, because my HDV camcorders don't have AV in.
I think that a comparison to digital point and shoots would be more apt. The people still doing film SLRs are basically holdouts, but when they convert, it's likely to be to a DSLR anyway.
They do stop AIDS if used. The problem is that they are too expensive to be practical. Last I heard, the annual cost of the drugs is something like $65k in the US.
To add to that, a bullet would spray too much blood anyway, possibly help spread it even farther.
Unfortunately, the best way to fix this crisis is to change personal behavior and cultures but that doesn't happen because those don't change quickly or often. Personal behavior in not sharing needles, and in using protection during sex. Men in many cultures refuse to use protection, and in many cultures, women are in no position to insist on using protection.
As eager as I am to rally behind censorship, I'm not too keen on gay shirtless men popping up on my monitor as I eat my lunch. My Christian coworker might think odd things of me.
I'm not sure why what someone else thinks of you is that important though. Does said person worry about what you think of him/her?
Your Christian coworker probably already thinks odd things of you, now that person will see that and think it's a confirmation of their suspicions.
In the scriptures, there is a difference between a government meting out justice based on deliberation and an individual doing the same thing, because generally the individual is generally out for vengeance. It is because of the same practice of cherry-picking that the law was interpreted to allow for individuals exacting vengeance in the first place. Careful reading of the original text containing the "eye for an eye" wording would show this, I think pretty clearly.
Jesus wasn't talking about Rome, Herod or the local authorities. He wasn't talking to them either. Not that the governments at the time were nice, but there are scriptures that justice must be done, but that should only be done by people that have the proper authority to do so and the wisdom to know what is best.
And yes, those scriptures do allow for death as a penalty for murder. The old law isn't automatically abolished just because of Jesus, he made his life of interpreting and reaffirming a lot the Torah to show how individuals should live.
I don't consider 8% growth as "flat" or even close to "flattening". No market can grow double digits forever. Eight percent growth isn't enough to start going chicken little on us.
Take the unit in for repairs on the whine. Some people's problems are issues with an inverter.
For the heat, use smcFanControl and step it up to 1500, if that's not cool enough, 2000 RPM. With that, mine is a lot nicer, barely warm to the touch. Mine is now cool and still very quiet, the fans are barely audible to me.
Speaking of Napster... how are they getting along?
I thought I read rumors of them shutting down yet another time, but they were probably unfounded. They are still alive, but I wonder if they are viable. I would have tried their service but I had technological issues, wrong OS (XP only) and they had trouble with my ISP.
In "buy the show", do you mean buy an episode, a la carté?
I really don't think iTunes is really a threat to the DVD buying model. The DVD format is a threat in itself and to itself. I think DVD has been fading since Spring of 2005 when Shrek DVD sales slumped quicker than anyone expected. And that was the best selling DVD ever. It may have meant that analysts and the industry was overeager, thinking DVD would continue to grow, but there's a point where there is market saturation and so many other options. I still buy DVDs but with PVRs and Netflix, there's almost no reason to even buy the heavily discounted stuff that's now $6 from $20 when they were first released. I think the reason I just stated should be considered as a reason why the buy-the-movie services may not work so well.
I think it's at least a mild misuse of the word 'force' anyway. I think it's only fair for me to say that in a crowd where some people complain about the misuse of 'piracy'.
I managed to use the equivalent of three cores for quite a bit this week. I was playing an HD stream, recording another and the system was encoding to iPod, while I was editing or encoding a video from the video editing software. I can use the fourth if I wanted to participate in those distributed computing initiatives. I'm not going to do that until I get a good number on what that's going to cost me to run my computer at full blast all the time.
It really depends on what you want out of the computer. I've got a dual 500MHz Xeon/w 1GB RAM in my care that's still doing fine. I have no idea what it would have costed when it was new, but $4000 might be a low-ball estimate. It's eight years old now and even now has no reliability issues or system crashes. It's a little sluggish but still quite useful.
If you don't need the latest wizz-bang software, then any computer made now should easily serve five years. Not everybody gives a damn about Vista, they'll get it when they replace the computer. It's not that hard to come across people still using Windows 98 because it still works fine for them. When the computer dies, they will get a new one. I just upgraded my Grandparents to Windows 2000 because their Windows 98 computer died.
It is being marketed to the enterprise in the form of Clovertown and Tigerton chips. I think the consumer variant is inappropriate because it will only connect to consumer boards, losing out on the features that enterprise markets demand.
You can buy pretty nice HDTVs for $500 now. Heck, the Dell 24" LCD monitor can be used as an HDTV. HD video looks fantastic on just about every display I've seen it on. Even on an XGA projector it looks a lot nicer than any DVD can possibly look.
I have not had a single instance of PayPal screwing me over the way you describe, and I've done over 500 transactions. I haven't had anyone I know complain about PayPal or had problems with them. Even on the forums that I use, when there is a mention of PayPal, I haven't seen anyone complain of losing money themselves or people they personally know. Anyone that mentions problems only refer to some web site or repeat what they heard third hand from someone they don't personally know losing money, which usually tracks back to the small collection of web sites.
In short, I've not heard what I would consider to be a credible, bankable reason to believe that PayPal is out defrauding millions of people. I chalk it up to the "Internet Bullhorn Effect", where one person out of a million has a problem and of course it's percieved to be one out of ten.
That's not the point. Used notebooks aren't a sustainable plan in large volumes. It's not very maintainable, either, with replacement parts also being over seas. If you do this, you get an unsupportable mess of different notebook models, the steps to repairing each one is different, with different replacement parts needed to fix different models.
The point that is often missed is that the education could have significantly reduced the social ills you described. In fact, in my area, there is apparently a statistic that a kid that can't read by the seventh grade will end up in prison as an adult.
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It depends on what you are comparing it to. If you are comparing DSLR to SLR, then you seem to ignore the liability presented by film usage. Heck, you seem to ignore that changing film rolls is a liability, nevermind the costs. In comparison, batteries are a pittance in terms of space, cost and change time. I have to think that over the life of the camera, the "expense" of the digital camera probably makes up for itself several times over by not needing film.
I wonder if the article is some sort of a troll in that respect because most digicam's I've seen and used are constructed with a lot of metal and feel pretty solid. I've heard about some DSLRs that have a plastic enclosure, does that mean it's bad? I don't think so because plastic in itself isn't bad, there are different types of plastic. Plastic doesn't always mean cheap. Some plastics are more expensive than aluminum by weight or volume. Sometimes you don't want metal, plastics can often take shocks better and more often than metal. To make a good argument, it's best to not appeal to some sort of ignorant bias with repsect to materials.
My 3MP point and shoot and my dad's 8MP point and shoot can record video, so I doubt it's a processing issue. They do apparently have some means of scaling down and only record at VGA resolution though. For some reason, mine takes absolutely stunning video given that it's really only a still camera.
I'm not sure why you are suggesting a DV camcorder with AV in. I really haven't had a need for that, which is fine, because my HDV camcorders don't have AV in.
I think that a comparison to digital point and shoots would be more apt. The people still doing film SLRs are basically holdouts, but when they convert, it's likely to be to a DSLR anyway.
They do stop AIDS if used. The problem is that they are too expensive to be practical. Last I heard, the annual cost of the drugs is something like $65k in the US.
To add to that, a bullet would spray too much blood anyway, possibly help spread it even farther.
Unfortunately, the best way to fix this crisis is to change personal behavior and cultures but that doesn't happen because those don't change quickly or often. Personal behavior in not sharing needles, and in using protection during sex. Men in many cultures refuse to use protection, and in many cultures, women are in no position to insist on using protection.
I think it's pretty lame to "camp out" for a game console or for any product or event. Is it to reaffirm the nerd identity?
As eager as I am to rally behind censorship, I'm not too keen on gay shirtless men popping up on my monitor as I eat my lunch. My Christian coworker might think odd things of me.
I'm not sure why what someone else thinks of you is that important though. Does said person worry about what you think of him/her?
Your Christian coworker probably already thinks odd things of you, now that person will see that and think it's a confirmation of their suspicions.
That's cherry picking.
In the scriptures, there is a difference between a government meting out justice based on deliberation and an individual doing the same thing, because generally the individual is generally out for vengeance. It is because of the same practice of cherry-picking that the law was interpreted to allow for individuals exacting vengeance in the first place. Careful reading of the original text containing the "eye for an eye" wording would show this, I think pretty clearly.
Jesus wasn't talking about Rome, Herod or the local authorities. He wasn't talking to them either. Not that the governments at the time were nice, but there are scriptures that justice must be done, but that should only be done by people that have the proper authority to do so and the wisdom to know what is best.
And yes, those scriptures do allow for death as a penalty for murder. The old law isn't automatically abolished just because of Jesus, he made his life of interpreting and reaffirming a lot the Torah to show how individuals should live.
I don't consider 8% growth as "flat" or even close to "flattening". No market can grow double digits forever. Eight percent growth isn't enough to start going chicken little on us.
I know what you mean, no biggie.
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Is it necessary to write out someone's full name twice in a post? It looks a bit too much like a kiss-up or having an air of pretentiousness.
Take the unit in for repairs on the whine. Some people's problems are issues with an inverter.
For the heat, use smcFanControl and step it up to 1500, if that's not cool enough, 2000 RPM. With that, mine is a lot nicer, barely warm to the touch. Mine is now cool and still very quiet, the fans are barely audible to me.
Speaking of Napster... how are they getting along?
I thought I read rumors of them shutting down yet another time, but they were probably unfounded. They are still alive, but I wonder if they are viable. I would have tried their service but I had technological issues, wrong OS (XP only) and they had trouble with my ISP.
Maybe Boeing would say that Airbus's A380 just plane sucks.
Or "plane sucks" is an in-flight vacuum cleaner.
In "buy the show", do you mean buy an episode, a la carté?
I really don't think iTunes is really a threat to the DVD buying model. The DVD format is a threat in itself and to itself. I think DVD has been fading since Spring of 2005 when Shrek DVD sales slumped quicker than anyone expected. And that was the best selling DVD ever. It may have meant that analysts and the industry was overeager, thinking DVD would continue to grow, but there's a point where there is market saturation and so many other options. I still buy DVDs but with PVRs and Netflix, there's almost no reason to even buy the heavily discounted stuff that's now $6 from $20 when they were first released. I think the reason I just stated should be considered as a reason why the buy-the-movie services may not work so well.
I think it's at least a mild misuse of the word 'force' anyway. I think it's only fair for me to say that in a crowd where some people complain about the misuse of 'piracy'.
I managed to use the equivalent of three cores for quite a bit this week. I was playing an HD stream, recording another and the system was encoding to iPod, while I was editing or encoding a video from the video editing software. I can use the fourth if I wanted to participate in those distributed computing initiatives. I'm not going to do that until I get a good number on what that's going to cost me to run my computer at full blast all the time.
It really depends on what you want out of the computer. I've got a dual 500MHz Xeon /w 1GB RAM in my care that's still doing fine. I have no idea what it would have costed when it was new, but $4000 might be a low-ball estimate. It's eight years old now and even now has no reliability issues or system crashes. It's a little sluggish but still quite useful.
If you don't need the latest wizz-bang software, then any computer made now should easily serve five years. Not everybody gives a damn about Vista, they'll get it when they replace the computer. It's not that hard to come across people still using Windows 98 because it still works fine for them. When the computer dies, they will get a new one. I just upgraded my Grandparents to Windows 2000 because their Windows 98 computer died.
It is being marketed to the enterprise in the form of Clovertown and Tigerton chips. I think the consumer variant is inappropriate because it will only connect to consumer boards, losing out on the features that enterprise markets demand.
You can buy pretty nice HDTVs for $500 now. Heck, the Dell 24" LCD monitor can be used as an HDTV. HD video looks fantastic on just about every display I've seen it on. Even on an XGA projector it looks a lot nicer than any DVD can possibly look.
You don't supercharge something and get something that is 1000x faster than without the "supercharging". Unless you mean that you have a 486 PC.
I have not had a single instance of PayPal screwing me over the way you describe, and I've done over 500 transactions. I haven't had anyone I know complain about PayPal or had problems with them. Even on the forums that I use, when there is a mention of PayPal, I haven't seen anyone complain of losing money themselves or people they personally know. Anyone that mentions problems only refer to some web site or repeat what they heard third hand from someone they don't personally know losing money, which usually tracks back to the small collection of web sites.
In short, I've not heard what I would consider to be a credible, bankable reason to believe that PayPal is out defrauding millions of people. I chalk it up to the "Internet Bullhorn Effect", where one person out of a million has a problem and of course it's percieved to be one out of ten.
Buy a $100 for $300, who on earth would sign up for that ?
You missed one subtle point:
buy one at three times the cost and thus contribute to supplying two to the proposed users.
Basically it's a donation to help serve the intentions of the OLPC initiative.
Look on ebay...
That's not the point. Used notebooks aren't a sustainable plan in large volumes. It's not very maintainable, either, with replacement parts also being over seas. If you do this, you get an unsupportable mess of different notebook models, the steps to repairing each one is different, with different replacement parts needed to fix different models.
The point that is often missed is that the education could have significantly reduced the social ills you described. In fact, in my area, there is apparently a statistic that a kid that can't read by the seventh grade will end up in prison as an adult.