This is where some of our DHS money went. Granted, supposedly it has really paid off for patrolling cops in reducing vandalism, though I don't know what benefit they have over bicycles that offset the steep cost difference.
dictionary.com: 3. a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.
I'd say that Islamic extremism probably qualify as extreme right-wing. It also doesn't hurt that at least one significant leader in the extremist Islamic movements (at least IIRC, al-queda's #2 man) have gone on record as saying that all non-believers in Islam are acceptable targets, that no tears should be shed for their deaths.
Still, I don't think giving up our freedoms to stop their violent acts is going to solve anything or really slow them down enough to merit any loss of freedoms. I think the US curtailing freedoms is exactly what they want to happen.
I can imagine that maybe Chinese designers considered just making a copy, but then deciding to work around applicable IP just in case they come up with something worth exporting.
I know it's not happening this year or next year, but I would expect that the real solution is going to be moving away from hard discs for storing important data.
It may be a decade before most people switch to some form of non volatile memory for new purchases, but I would expect it to be reliable enough, and hopefully by then issues of Windows writing too often to drive will be fixed, as well as hopefully eliminating the need for a swap file.
This is all hypothetical. It's hard to know for sure when hard drive tech will run out of steam, right now, flash is uneconomical for mass storage, but I think it will become a major player in the notebook market in a few years, and a few years later in the desktop market, if that still exists. For all I know, save for gamers and certain power users, desktops as we know them may go away in ten years as the computer market is swinging towards notebooks pretty heavily.
Anyone serious enough about mirroring would do it on a separate drive. As others said, there are so many failure points in a drive that internal mirroring isn't going to work, especially if the spindle motor or bearings bust, or if the head controller or head arm motor goes bust. May as well have a second module. The price-conscious consumer market probably won't tolerate standardizing on a mirroring system even if it only adds $50 to the cost.
I've gone through several Windows machines this decade, but the Mac I bought my wife in 2000 is still kicking, and still quite useful.
I've got a useful computer that was made in 1998. Granted, it's a Xeon workstation that run Windows and it's one of the best-built computers I've ever seen. I did get it relatively cheap, but that's because the machines depreciate properly.
Who? Maybe the real target market of this machine? This really isn't a consumer computer. I would think the fact that it uses workstation CPUs should be an indicator right there.
I'm not really tracking with the opening statement. In both cases, the respective industries do have a product. Whether or not you like or others like the given is a different matter. On a related note, I don't really understand how a product being rubbish being a justification of making copies of it, if it's not worth the money, it's probably not worth the time listening to it either.
Laptop is a misnomer for most mobile computers, mostly because they tend to run very hot. The manuals generally say to not use them on laps or any soft surface. This is why most advertising, manuals and other text says they are notebooks. The misnomer is doubly so for this thing, though probably because of the weight. It's more like a luggable.
The thing being discussed is not the iPod on its own as a product but its market and its popularity and how Apple's stock will fare as a result if sales dropped.
Why did you insert pretexting into your post? Is that the word of the week?
If anyone has used "quarter-over-quarter" before, I heard of it. There's a reason that analysts don't use it, and that is because a lot of spending is seasonal, depending on the type of product. I would suggest that in statistics terms, 1Q06 was probably an outlier, and that the "decline" for 3Q06 was because it's due for an update. Maybe we'll see another spike like that, maybe not. I don't expect to see a major growth over last year's holiday quarter but there is market saturation to consider. We will see in the next few days and maybe next few months if they have a significant product update that will boost sales again.
That and it's about due for an update. Some people think that it will be this Tuesday when they have a big media event planned, but it's probably within the month.
You can turn off the update checks in OS X and Firefox, so the user doesn't have to deal with that.
Personally, I would choose the iMac G4. i-Opener is a flat panel unit and I think the G4 version would be a better successor, not only will it take more memory, run faster, it's more compact and I think looks a lot nicer than the G3.
I would say that the line, "Ubuntu could not exist without Debian," is not an opinion. It is fact.
A fact, maybe, but I think only from a limited perspective. Maybe it could not exist exactly as it is in its current form without Debian. If Debian didn't exist, they might have used another distribution as its base.
That's not the same. That is ridiculous. Web pages may seem like an inherently visual medium, but a lot of the actual "meat" of most web sites is text. That text can be rendered to speech or to an electromechanical braille device. It can be a little cumbersome but it is the way the blind get around web sites.
That label shows up in the US too. I've even seen that notice at some restaurants and ice cream parlors too. It seems like people are contracting weird allergies, I mean, there's an allergy to latex such that at least some hospitals have banned deliveries of latex balloons.
I'm lost. Granted, going to the B&M can be inconvenient. I get that part, and I do agree. But that doesn't explain why there isn't discussion of other alternatives, such as other online DVD stores. Amazon isn't the only one. If you can pay at Amazon, you likely have the means to pay at any of the several dozen DVD sellers, many of them beat Amazon's prices for DVDs. And you get to keep the DVDs that play on seemingly nearly any entertainment device and nearly any computer without any intrusive software.
In consideration of all that, what is the value of UnBox?
This might be the biggest corporate privacy scandal ever. Given that the proper consequences of the government privacy scandal have yet to unfold, I wonder if this corporate one will have sufficient consequences.
My dad is very mechanically resourceful in many ways, a lot more than I am, but he does not understand technology.
He complains about the speed of the computer when he's really complaining about the speed of the internet connection. Granted, his computer is slow by today's standard but IMO, still very useful. I've had to tell him several times that buying a faster computer won't make web pages load faster.
I thought "g" was supposed to allow meshing too. Heck, that's what I did with the Linksys WRT54G routers, I have set up WDS links to extend the range of a wireless network.
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This is where some of our DHS money went. Granted, supposedly it has really paid off for patrolling cops in reducing vandalism, though I don't know what benefit they have over bicycles that offset the steep cost difference.
dictionary.com:
3. a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.
I'd say that Islamic extremism probably qualify as extreme right-wing. It also doesn't hurt that at least one significant leader in the extremist Islamic movements (at least IIRC, al-queda's #2 man) have gone on record as saying that all non-believers in Islam are acceptable targets, that no tears should be shed for their deaths.
Still, I don't think giving up our freedoms to stop their violent acts is going to solve anything or really slow them down enough to merit any loss of freedoms. I think the US curtailing freedoms is exactly what they want to happen.
I can imagine that maybe Chinese designers considered just making a copy, but then deciding to work around applicable IP just in case they come up with something worth exporting.
I know it's not happening this year or next year, but I would expect that the real solution is going to be moving away from hard discs for storing important data.
It may be a decade before most people switch to some form of non volatile memory for new purchases, but I would expect it to be reliable enough, and hopefully by then issues of Windows writing too often to drive will be fixed, as well as hopefully eliminating the need for a swap file.
This is all hypothetical. It's hard to know for sure when hard drive tech will run out of steam, right now, flash is uneconomical for mass storage, but I think it will become a major player in the notebook market in a few years, and a few years later in the desktop market, if that still exists. For all I know, save for gamers and certain power users, desktops as we know them may go away in ten years as the computer market is swinging towards notebooks pretty heavily.
Anyone serious enough about mirroring would do it on a separate drive. As others said, there are so many failure points in a drive that internal mirroring isn't going to work, especially if the spindle motor or bearings bust, or if the head controller or head arm motor goes bust. May as well have a second module. The price-conscious consumer market probably won't tolerate standardizing on a mirroring system even if it only adds $50 to the cost.
...at least I understand it. Servers aren't consumer products so I don't see how this gets consumers any closer to a Cell or any sooner.
I don't think current digital cameras use CCDs, they are largely CMOS-based. That's still in a great many camcorders though.
I've gone through several Windows machines this decade, but the Mac I bought my wife in 2000 is still kicking, and still quite useful.
I've got a useful computer that was made in 1998. Granted, it's a Xeon workstation that run Windows and it's one of the best-built computers I've ever seen. I did get it relatively cheap, but that's because the machines depreciate properly.
Who? Maybe the real target market of this machine? This really isn't a consumer computer. I would think the fact that it uses workstation CPUs should be an indicator right there.
I'm not really tracking with the opening statement. In both cases, the respective industries do have a product. Whether or not you like or others like the given is a different matter. On a related note, I don't really understand how a product being rubbish being a justification of making copies of it, if it's not worth the money, it's probably not worth the time listening to it either.
Laptop is a misnomer for most mobile computers, mostly because they tend to run very hot. The manuals generally say to not use them on laps or any soft surface. This is why most advertising, manuals and other text says they are notebooks. The misnomer is doubly so for this thing, though probably because of the weight. It's more like a luggable.
The thing being discussed is not the iPod on its own as a product but its market and its popularity and how Apple's stock will fare as a result if sales dropped.
Why did you insert pretexting into your post? Is that the word of the week?
If anyone has used "quarter-over-quarter" before, I heard of it. There's a reason that analysts don't use it, and that is because a lot of spending is seasonal, depending on the type of product. I would suggest that in statistics terms, 1Q06 was probably an outlier, and that the "decline" for 3Q06 was because it's due for an update. Maybe we'll see another spike like that, maybe not. I don't expect to see a major growth over last year's holiday quarter but there is market saturation to consider. We will see in the next few days and maybe next few months if they have a significant product update that will boost sales again.
That and it's about due for an update. Some people think that it will be this Tuesday when they have a big media event planned, but it's probably within the month.
The older G4 iMacs are cheaper now, I think they can be had for $200 on eBay.
Intel always thought they'd be #1, eh?
Did they leave that spot from a market perspective? I mean, I don't remember seeing anything that said they had less than 80% of the CPU market.
You can turn off the update checks in OS X and Firefox, so the user doesn't have to deal with that.
Personally, I would choose the iMac G4. i-Opener is a flat panel unit and I think the G4 version would be a better successor, not only will it take more memory, run faster, it's more compact and I think looks a lot nicer than the G3.
I would say that the line, "Ubuntu could not exist without Debian," is not an opinion. It is fact.
A fact, maybe, but I think only from a limited perspective. Maybe it could not exist exactly as it is in its current form without Debian. If Debian didn't exist, they might have used another distribution as its base.
That's not the same. That is ridiculous. Web pages may seem like an inherently visual medium, but a lot of the actual "meat" of most web sites is text. That text can be rendered to speech or to an electromechanical braille device. It can be a little cumbersome but it is the way the blind get around web sites.
That label shows up in the US too. I've even seen that notice at some restaurants and ice cream parlors too. It seems like people are contracting weird allergies, I mean, there's an allergy to latex such that at least some hospitals have banned deliveries of latex balloons.
A lot of web sites still have a lot of text even if it seems like mostly graphic design.
There are text to speech programs for web sites. There are braille output devices, I think you might have seen one in the movie Sneakers.
So no, your comparisons don't apply. I don't understand your telephone comparison either, aren't you aware of TDD?
I'm lost. Granted, going to the B&M can be inconvenient. I get that part, and I do agree. But that doesn't explain why there isn't discussion of other alternatives, such as other online DVD stores. Amazon isn't the only one. If you can pay at Amazon, you likely have the means to pay at any of the several dozen DVD sellers, many of them beat Amazon's prices for DVDs. And you get to keep the DVDs that play on seemingly nearly any entertainment device and nearly any computer without any intrusive software.
In consideration of all that, what is the value of UnBox?
This might be the biggest corporate privacy scandal ever. Given that the proper consequences of the government privacy scandal have yet to unfold, I wonder if this corporate one will have sufficient consequences.
Or they may be referring to any planet that generates green-skinned alien hotties, like the ones Capt. Kirk tends to meet on most planetery missions.
My dad is very mechanically resourceful in many ways, a lot more than I am, but he does not understand technology.
He complains about the speed of the computer when he's really complaining about the speed of the internet connection. Granted, his computer is slow by today's standard but IMO, still very useful. I've had to tell him several times that buying a faster computer won't make web pages load faster.
I thought "g" was supposed to allow meshing too. Heck, that's what I did with the Linksys WRT54G routers, I have set up WDS links to extend the range of a wireless network.