Supposedly the 24" iMac uses the MXM card slot, so you do get modular graphics.
The problem is, I think that's the least of the problems. There isn't much driver support for third party add-in cards, and there aren't (m)any add-in cards available that have EFI firmware.
The 17" MacBook pro is no lightweight system either.
I think that unit weighs about 7lb.
If weight is a concern for a semi-mobile system, keep an eye on the tech specs. The Dell 2010 weighs nearly 19 pounds. That's getting pretty close to the weight of standard desktop, even though it is only using notebook chips - the T-series C2D Merom. So really, it's more competition for the iMac, not a Mac Book Pro. Dell sells far cheaper notebooks, I don't see the point in paying 2x-3x for a Dell desktop as a large Dell notebook.
That is a good point, but I really don't think the Kentsfield being two Woodcrests "glued" together really is a big problem. People have been raising a big stink about it as simply being bad. The problem is that other than for gaming, the benchmarks seemed to show that there is a marked performance advantage over Kentsfield over Conroe, especially for media work, rendering and CAD.
I think your answer fundementally means changing human nature. There will always be those that thirst for power, while least deserving of power, will generally do anything to get it.
What is different about nuclear weapons is the swiftness. Chemical agents aren't anywhere nearly so effective, that would require spreading chemical agents over a very wide area simultaneously. Biological agents might be effective at destroying civilization because the diseases can self-replicate though I think that's a lot easier to manage and control than nuclear weapons. Destroying key parts of the Internet might really hurt economies on a global scale, though I don't think that would kill anyone directly.
There were a few games that I had to buy the guide because I was stuck. Maybe it was a bug in the game, but for one game, it turns out I did something in the wrong order so a door wouldn't open. Some games just get too tedious if there's a hidden passage and you have to test every square foot.
I heard LA doesn't have anything worthwhile for mass transit either. Minneapolis-St Paul didn't seem to have anything when I was there, but that was a few years ago.
You can say that users should never be delving into the registry, but the plain fact is that sometimes it is necessary because software screws things up. Even Microsoft's knowledge base says that certain registry changes need to be made to make repairs.
I can see your explanation for the creation of the registry, but no explanation as to why Microsoft hasn't seen fit to deprecate its use over a better method.
In comparison to what Linux and OS X has, the registry system simply makes Windows look bad, and indeed, in my opinion, it severely hurts the maintainability of Windows. It is also one of the things that make program installation and removal potentially far more problematic than it needs to be. Heck, there doesn't even seem to be a validation system to test or correct the registry.
My understanding is that a lot of people have problems with sleep and hybernate in Linux too.
Personally, I've never had a problem with Windows not sleeping or hybernating properly. I think it's odd that your notebook doesn't do it right, Thinkpads are generally business notebooks and as such, generally are better made with better drivers. I suppose something has to fall through the cracks, I would think it would have less blatant issues with a common task.
Frankly, that's probably Adobe's fault. It sounds like the program is probably asking the OS not to shut down because it is waiting for user confirmation to prevent lost files, and the OS rightly obliges. Adobe is apparently misflagging it.
I do have a third party program/service on one of my computers that prevents the activation of hybernation. I can select hybernate but I'm back at the desktop. That itself isn't a problem on Microsoft's part, but it may very well be Window's fault for not telling me why it didn't happen.
It does look suspiciously like the broken window fallacy. I would not argue that Microsoft delaying Vista would be a benefit to the economy either in the guise that money is better spent elsewhere, that's the same fallacy applied in the reverse direction. I would suggest letting the market decide where their money should go. In a sense, an EU-forced delay may be restricting competitiveness in an excessive manner. As much as I don't like Microsoft's tactics, I am not convinced that the EU's judgements were proper punishment.
Microsoft should be arguing the benefits based on return on investment or productivity improvements over XP, minus the costs of upgrading. I'm not sure how anyone can calculate or measure the benefits. As yet, I'm not seeing anything that is worth the expense.
It would seem that much of the hardware upgrade costs would go to the Orient, and most of the price of the Vista licence would go to Microsoft, so how much of it would really stay in the EU? I also wouldn't want to see the cost of fixing the software for Vista compatibility listed as an economic benefit, but in all of these cases, delayed Vista would at worst mean a delayed expense.
I really don't think it even makes sense to upgrade to Vista except with a new computer. With a new computer, it's already pre-installed and all the setup and compatibility issues should be handled already. Upgrading a functioning XP-based computer would likely be a pointless expense given that there may be unforseen hardware and software compatibility issues.
Regardless of the OS, I wouldn't advise using Linksys, except for experimentation such as with the wireless routersm and I would not depend on those either. I spent too many hours troubleshooting their products.
For one, keep in mind that it's not a laptop, it's a notebook. Laptop is an unfortunate consumer-ism which the makers don't really bother correcting that usage, they just bury a warning in the manual that it's not designed for use on laps.
The current standard notebooks have the power consumption of consumer desktops that were made a decade ago, so it's not hard to imagine that battery technology had to change to keep up with the power hungry notebooks. If you are willing to take a somewhat slower notebook, you can get one that's lighter and run for eight hours on LiON batteries.
If you pay close attention, you probably won't find any documentation, or sales and marketing information for any of these calling them "laptops". They are very, very careful to not call them laptops. A lot of notebooks have air intakes in places off the center enough where clothing or skin would block them, which I think is almost malicious because they practically know that people will use them on their laps and block those intakes. Apple's notebooks don't have an intake at the bottom but those still run just as hot.
You'll probably find a warning hidden somewhere in the manual saying that they aren't designed to be used on laps or any other surface.
What is 1up's track record with this sort of reporting?
If this report is true, why not just make it a racing MMO? It seems like there are enough of that kind of player to justify it.
At any rate, I'm not interested in an MMO or any game where you must buy enhancements. It's really pretty odd, I know there's some development time in making upgrades and all that, but that's rediculous. If I pay for a game, I expect it to be fully useable out of the box.
The chances of being the "next" Jobs, etc. is very, very low, though if you are right, the owner of Facebook has a better shot than most people, a better shot than any Slashdot reader of course. Even for him, it is still very low. I can't even imagine that a Mark-note about where Facebook is headed would interest very many people, not nearly as many as a Steve-note.
It also really depends on whether the site can be constantly re-invented to keep up with what keeps its users interested. If they miss a trend and its users wander off elsewhere, that can really hurt.
That's just one of the things that bother me whenever I consider investing in or starting a technology company. One might say that for technology, fate and success are fickle mistresses. Product development cycles are often longer than fad cycles so it's hard to target of hold onto a technology fad. Far too many tech companies have simply died because they chose the wrong development path or simply lost its competitive edge at the wrong time.
I think anything that makes you happy that you can repeatedly do can be addictive. So the example of jumping off a cliff without a parachute doesn't count.
I'd like to know if there was a proper argument made such that they needed to haul around sensitive information on their person. In the VA situation, why a computer needed to have the entire database of veterans is beyond me. I don't know what type of jobs in the Census Bureau need a notebook computer, I can imagine that some of these employees don't.
That's quite true, though I didn't realize Bolton wasn't confirmed.
Now the conservative pundits are calling the torture as "strong interrogation techniques". Buh? So they are renaming something to make it sound good? I call it mild torture. If it's something that was illegal to do to Tim McVeigh, then I want it to be considered illegal to perform on anyone, even if they are convicted mass murderers. There are reasons we give criminals a certain set of rights that were given in the first ten amendments.
I'm also tired of this "War on Terror" when they can't even win the "War on Drugs". I doubt the "War on Terror" will ever be won, it certainly can't be won militarily, doubly so with the incompetency shown so far.
The administration is asking us to trust them, that the secrecy is necessary to protect the US, but they've done nothing to earn that trust. They certainly shouldn't go without congressional or judicial oversight, trusting them without that in place is dangerous. Heck, they were bypassing FISA at the very time they publicly said that they needed to comply with FISA.
The problem with the whole story is that David Maynor was saying it was the Intel drivers that was at fault, which is an interesting problem because Apple's current notebooks use Aetheros wireless chips.
I believe it's actually easier to use iTunes to sync. Manual file management is fine for small numbers of tracks, but gets unweildy for athousand. iTunes knows exactly where to put the files, so there is no accidental dropping them into the wrong drive or folder. It also knows how it needs to be organized, a file system heirarchy is not the only good means of "drilling" down to a particular file. You can even set it to drag and drop tracks from your library to the iPod in "manual" mode.
It is also considerably more powerful with advanced automation features that you can't get on a file-management system unless you write special scripts. I have set up conditional playlists ("smart" playlists) and it can automatically update any file that fits the criterion based in what's in the ID3 tags. Smart playlists can work from just one critiria or a dozen. For instance, I have it set such that all tracks rated as one or two stars to never be synced to the iPod, and if I mark them at one or two stars in the iPod, it automatically removes them and replaces those tracks with something that hasn't been played before. It's really neat. I have 40GB of audio files but "only" a 1GB nano, this method makes sure that I play through my entire library more quickly than "random" or "shuffle" can on a full size iPod.
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Supposedly the 24" iMac uses the MXM card slot, so you do get modular graphics.
The problem is, I think that's the least of the problems. There isn't much driver support for third party add-in cards, and there aren't (m)any add-in cards available that have EFI firmware.
The 17" MacBook pro is no lightweight system either.
I think that unit weighs about 7lb.
If weight is a concern for a semi-mobile system, keep an eye on the tech specs. The Dell 2010 weighs nearly 19 pounds. That's getting pretty close to the weight of standard desktop, even though it is only using notebook chips - the T-series C2D Merom. So really, it's more competition for the iMac, not a Mac Book Pro. Dell sells far cheaper notebooks, I don't see the point in paying 2x-3x for a Dell desktop as a large Dell notebook.
That is a good point, but I really don't think the Kentsfield being two Woodcrests "glued" together really is a big problem. People have been raising a big stink about it as simply being bad. The problem is that other than for gaming, the benchmarks seemed to show that there is a marked performance advantage over Kentsfield over Conroe, especially for media work, rendering and CAD.
I think your answer fundementally means changing human nature. There will always be those that thirst for power, while least deserving of power, will generally do anything to get it.
What is different about nuclear weapons is the swiftness. Chemical agents aren't anywhere nearly so effective, that would require spreading chemical agents over a very wide area simultaneously. Biological agents might be effective at destroying civilization because the diseases can self-replicate though I think that's a lot easier to manage and control than nuclear weapons. Destroying key parts of the Internet might really hurt economies on a global scale, though I don't think that would kill anyone directly.
There were a few games that I had to buy the guide because I was stuck. Maybe it was a bug in the game, but for one game, it turns out I did something in the wrong order so a door wouldn't open. Some games just get too tedious if there's a hidden passage and you have to test every square foot.
I heard LA doesn't have anything worthwhile for mass transit either. Minneapolis-St Paul didn't seem to have anything when I was there, but that was a few years ago.
You can say that users should never be delving into the registry, but the plain fact is that sometimes it is necessary because software screws things up. Even Microsoft's knowledge base says that certain registry changes need to be made to make repairs.
I can see your explanation for the creation of the registry, but no explanation as to why Microsoft hasn't seen fit to deprecate its use over a better method.
In comparison to what Linux and OS X has, the registry system simply makes Windows look bad, and indeed, in my opinion, it severely hurts the maintainability of Windows. It is also one of the things that make program installation and removal potentially far more problematic than it needs to be. Heck, there doesn't even seem to be a validation system to test or correct the registry.
My understanding is that a lot of people have problems with sleep and hybernate in Linux too.
Personally, I've never had a problem with Windows not sleeping or hybernating properly. I think it's odd that your notebook doesn't do it right, Thinkpads are generally business notebooks and as such, generally are better made with better drivers. I suppose something has to fall through the cracks, I would think it would have less blatant issues with a common task.
Frankly, that's probably Adobe's fault. It sounds like the program is probably asking the OS not to shut down because it is waiting for user confirmation to prevent lost files, and the OS rightly obliges. Adobe is apparently misflagging it.
I do have a third party program/service on one of my computers that prevents the activation of hybernation. I can select hybernate but I'm back at the desktop. That itself isn't a problem on Microsoft's part, but it may very well be Window's fault for not telling me why it didn't happen.
It does look suspiciously like the broken window fallacy. I would not argue that Microsoft delaying Vista would be a benefit to the economy either in the guise that money is better spent elsewhere, that's the same fallacy applied in the reverse direction. I would suggest letting the market decide where their money should go. In a sense, an EU-forced delay may be restricting competitiveness in an excessive manner. As much as I don't like Microsoft's tactics, I am not convinced that the EU's judgements were proper punishment.
Microsoft should be arguing the benefits based on return on investment or productivity improvements over XP, minus the costs of upgrading. I'm not sure how anyone can calculate or measure the benefits. As yet, I'm not seeing anything that is worth the expense.
It would seem that much of the hardware upgrade costs would go to the Orient, and most of the price of the Vista licence would go to Microsoft, so how much of it would really stay in the EU? I also wouldn't want to see the cost of fixing the software for Vista compatibility listed as an economic benefit, but in all of these cases, delayed Vista would at worst mean a delayed expense.
I really don't think it even makes sense to upgrade to Vista except with a new computer. With a new computer, it's already pre-installed and all the setup and compatibility issues should be handled already. Upgrading a functioning XP-based computer would likely be a pointless expense given that there may be unforseen hardware and software compatibility issues.
Regardless of the OS, I wouldn't advise using Linksys, except for experimentation such as with the wireless routersm and I would not depend on those either. I spent too many hours troubleshooting their products.
The difference is that the hypocrisy diminishes any moral high ground for them.
Besides, the school does own the works you do for them, the papers you turn in, etc. I really don't know by what means they do get it though.
It really depends on the job description. If what you do does fit your job description, then continue. Only drop what doesn't fit the description.
Anyway, it's time to move on.
For one, keep in mind that it's not a laptop, it's a notebook. Laptop is an unfortunate consumer-ism which the makers don't really bother correcting that usage, they just bury a warning in the manual that it's not designed for use on laps.
The current standard notebooks have the power consumption of consumer desktops that were made a decade ago, so it's not hard to imagine that battery technology had to change to keep up with the power hungry notebooks. If you are willing to take a somewhat slower notebook, you can get one that's lighter and run for eight hours on LiON batteries.
If you pay close attention, you probably won't find any documentation, or sales and marketing information for any of these calling them "laptops". They are very, very careful to not call them laptops. A lot of notebooks have air intakes in places off the center enough where clothing or skin would block them, which I think is almost malicious because they practically know that people will use them on their laps and block those intakes. Apple's notebooks don't have an intake at the bottom but those still run just as hot.
You'll probably find a warning hidden somewhere in the manual saying that they aren't designed to be used on laps or any other surface.
What is 1up's track record with this sort of reporting?
If this report is true, why not just make it a racing MMO? It seems like there are enough of that kind of player to justify it.
At any rate, I'm not interested in an MMO or any game where you must buy enhancements. It's really pretty odd, I know there's some development time in making upgrades and all that, but that's rediculous. If I pay for a game, I expect it to be fully useable out of the box.
Well, Canada does have oil.
BTW: lebensraum - living space. I don't think many Americans want to live in Iraq or Canada.
If the Chinese were hungry, what would they do with Russian tundra and permafrost?
My understanding is that China has a lot of untapped resources as it is.
The chances of being the "next" Jobs, etc. is very, very low, though if you are right, the owner of Facebook has a better shot than most people, a better shot than any Slashdot reader of course. Even for him, it is still very low. I can't even imagine that a Mark-note about where Facebook is headed would interest very many people, not nearly as many as a Steve-note.
It also really depends on whether the site can be constantly re-invented to keep up with what keeps its users interested. If they miss a trend and its users wander off elsewhere, that can really hurt.
That's just one of the things that bother me whenever I consider investing in or starting a technology company. One might say that for technology, fate and success are fickle mistresses. Product development cycles are often longer than fad cycles so it's hard to target of hold onto a technology fad. Far too many tech companies have simply died because they chose the wrong development path or simply lost its competitive edge at the wrong time.
I think anything that makes you happy that you can repeatedly do can be addictive. So the example of jumping off a cliff without a parachute doesn't count.
I'd like to know if there was a proper argument made such that they needed to haul around sensitive information on their person. In the VA situation, why a computer needed to have the entire database of veterans is beyond me. I don't know what type of jobs in the Census Bureau need a notebook computer, I can imagine that some of these employees don't.
That's quite true, though I didn't realize Bolton wasn't confirmed.
Now the conservative pundits are calling the torture as "strong interrogation techniques". Buh? So they are renaming something to make it sound good? I call it mild torture. If it's something that was illegal to do to Tim McVeigh, then I want it to be considered illegal to perform on anyone, even if they are convicted mass murderers. There are reasons we give criminals a certain set of rights that were given in the first ten amendments.
I'm also tired of this "War on Terror" when they can't even win the "War on Drugs". I doubt the "War on Terror" will ever be won, it certainly can't be won militarily, doubly so with the incompetency shown so far.
The administration is asking us to trust them, that the secrecy is necessary to protect the US, but they've done nothing to earn that trust. They certainly shouldn't go without congressional or judicial oversight, trusting them without that in place is dangerous. Heck, they were bypassing FISA at the very time they publicly said that they needed to comply with FISA.
The problem with the whole story is that David Maynor was saying it was the Intel drivers that was at fault, which is an interesting problem because Apple's current notebooks use Aetheros wireless chips.
I believe it's actually easier to use iTunes to sync. Manual file management is fine for small numbers of tracks, but gets unweildy for athousand. iTunes knows exactly where to put the files, so there is no accidental dropping them into the wrong drive or folder. It also knows how it needs to be organized, a file system heirarchy is not the only good means of "drilling" down to a particular file. You can even set it to drag and drop tracks from your library to the iPod in "manual" mode.
It is also considerably more powerful with advanced automation features that you can't get on a file-management system unless you write special scripts. I have set up conditional playlists ("smart" playlists) and it can automatically update any file that fits the criterion based in what's in the ID3 tags. Smart playlists can work from just one critiria or a dozen. For instance, I have it set such that all tracks rated as one or two stars to never be synced to the iPod, and if I mark them at one or two stars in the iPod, it automatically removes them and replaces those tracks with something that hasn't been played before. It's really neat. I have 40GB of audio files but "only" a 1GB nano, this method makes sure that I play through my entire library more quickly than "random" or "shuffle" can on a full size iPod.
It's close enough for now. I think we'll get there in due time. Sometimes the demand has to be there to prompt ISPs to upgrade.
BTW: iTunes is now distributing all their paid videos in 640x480 resolution.