I'm puzzled how XP is worse than '98 and who is saying that other than maybe a person that plays eight year old games. I suppose if you have a system on 98 that's working well enough for its task, then keep it with 98, but if you have a newer system, then XP is the way to go. Frankly, XP is a lot more stable such that most users don't encounter the BSOD very often, which is usually not the case with 98.
My sister once joined a site that required a mailing or faxing of a permission form. I don't know how they would verify that, as much as how they would verify that someone is over 13.
I think people said that when the 20" was introduced. iMacs often get a very good resale value, much better than the typical tower/monitor pair, so you aren't very badly off with the iMac and reselling it if you want to upgrade. It also makes a good hand-me-down computer or a TV replacement.
At any rate, I think the iMac has a very strong niche. However, I too wish they would offer a consumer tower. I don't mind getting the workstation tower, but for Apple's sake, I think they are missing a lot of sales volume by not offering a consumer tower.
The problem I see with that approach is that it's impossible to have complete accounting of the benefits of the patents, and it also doesn't account for the legal and developmental costs to society. All of that would still be subject to opinion and debate. Without knowing that, it's basically an unsolvable equation, too many variables, too many unknowns.
There was a Science Friday program where a former screener for El Al airlines use behavioral profiling because it works better for them than any other kind of profiling. I suggest you go over to NPR's site and listen to their "Behavior Profiling" segment, dated August 18.
I think it's probably a USB network part, not Express Card. There are not many ExpressCards available, and I don't remember seeing any of them for wireless networking.
Given that almost nobody will be using an external USB card on a Centrino or MacBook, I need to see that it's a bug that affects what's internal to to Centrino and MacBook families.
I don't understand how Intel's drivers have anything to do with it, it doesn't make sense that they will write drivers for OS X. I'm not totally certain that Intel's wireless chip is in the Apple notebooks. If Intel's firmware is a culprit, then saying "drivers" is disingenuous.
Then we aren't really sure that the Intel wireless chip is in the Apple product family. I think it's known that the iMac Core Duo uses a Broadcom chip. My system seems to indicate that it's using an Atheros chip, at least I don't see any other wireless driver on my MacBook Pro.
You would still be buying a PC, and even Apple's ad campaign is saying this. A Mac is now more or less a PC now, being based around the same chips and mostly the same wiring of those chips. It has a different firmware but at least any current x86 operating system can be installed on them.
And the only reason OSX is more secure is because of its significantly smaller user-base.
That is one reason. I really don't believe it is the only reason. I don't think anyone except a few of the more extreme Mac Zealots are claiming that OS X is perfectly secure. If Apple achieves 50% market share, of course there will be a few attacks made for it. Even Apple admits that OS X isn't perfectly secure. What they are saying is that OS X is more secure than Windows. Just the fact that pretty much any user program on OS X can run on a heavily restricted user account, provided the restricted user has perms to run that software, says a lot right there. Some Windows software practically requires you to use high-privilege accounts just to run software, and Windows by itself doesn't warn users if something is trying to be installed silently.
I imagine Apple's licensing policy for HFS.
Now something like that has been brought to the Windows world. What is Microsoft's NTFS licensing policy like?
With a credit card company, at least they have the argument that--until you pay them back--it's their money on the line.
Sorry, I really don't believe credit card companies don't work that way. They just take the money. The impressions one might get on the "Internet" gives the impression that credit card companies are these angels and PayPal are demons, but the only difference is that CC companies are regulated, otherwise they would be worse than Paypal.
If you are a merchant and there is a dispute, they can and will effectively remove money from your checking account and then they might be nice enough tell you they did it afterwards. It doesn't matter to them if you shipped a big item after you got an authorization, they can revoke the authorization anyway, even if you had the best intentions. This happened to my parents. Thankfully the buyer was honest and said that the transaction was legitimate, so they got their money.
Also, if they authorize a transaction and it turns out to be fraudulent on the part of the buyer where the merchant acts in good faith to verify the card. The credit card companies will still just take the money from the merchant. If you don't have the money, they can just sue you. I had a friend who basically had the CC companies basically sue him out of business because of one large transaction that went bad.
Unfortunately, while he stood as a model environmentalist, he now stands as an example of the dangers of directly interacting with wild animals.
Wild animals can be dangerous and there's no way around that. In combination with his intended message, his death is probably a good lesson to leave nature alone, and that's one of the best environmental messages one can give.
Well... Them and most of the gov seem to not know much about the internet.
That doesn't imply a lack of intelligence. A lot of the judiciary is pretty old and can handle legal issues that are far more complex than what it takes to operate a computer.
I think the contract fine print is there deliberately to screw over the users. I doubt that will be fixed unless there is some external pressure, like with disability protection laws or anti-discrimination laws. "The market" seems to tolerate it, allowing plenty of room for abuse so I think it would have to be fixed with consumer protection laws.
He's following company policy. He works there... it is not his problem, it's the companies.
Are you selectively reading the article? That's almost as bad as not reading it. The same article, a mere two sentences later, says it's up to the discretion of the agent.
How would this "protection" system work? How many major telephone and cable companies are there? Assuming regional or state monopolies, you probably have a couple companies that have a service monopoly that crosses state lines, and none of them are truly national. I just don't think getting companies to pay for "priority" access will work because, oddly enough, the monopolies are too many and small to piddle with.
Panasonic Toughbook, built like a tank, weighs like a tank...
Don't be a pussy. The "Rugged" series Toughbook-29 weighs 8lb. Sounds like you need the exercise anyway. That's about the weight of a standard 17" notebook (though TB-29 is 13.3") and it is still lighter than those desknotes and is rated to run 5-8 hours on batteries.
They also have their "Semi-Rugged" line which look more like consumer notebooks.
You can get an ultralight notebook that should last for about seven hours on batteries. That would currently max out at about 1.2GHz. They use ultra low voltage chips. Intel marks them with a "U" in front of the model number, such as U2400. The L series will still get you better than average battery life and 1.66GHz Core Duo.
I have a couple old ordinary business class notebooks, four and five years old and they still work fine, so I don't understand what your durability issues are. I would suggest that you would get a Toughbook-29. It uses a 1.66GHz chip and if you stuff to batteries into it, it is rated for 12 hours. It's tested for military toughness, which means that sand and water won't hurt it. It's 8lb.
I think generally cores 2-4 can probably be turned off or put to sleep most of the time. I have a dual processor system and only rarely do I see a need to have the second processor on at all.
For games, I can see core one doing the graphics and core two doing I/O, system overhead, network and audio. Cores 3 & 4 can probably go to sleep unless they are doing some video transcoding or something like that.
Honestly, I don't see the advantage here from the band's perspective. Selling a Vanilla mp3 is not hard for even the least qualified web tech using any e-commerce storefront.
Really? You don't think that an additional level exposure to millions of MySpace users wouldn't help? How is some random site going to make money if there's no one promoting it?
Quite a few movies look far better in HD. Take a look at Microsoft's WMV-HD galleries or Apple's Quicktime HD galleries. In my opinion, every single one of those clips look a LOT better than the DVD, especially when I take the time to transcode a 480p comparison clip, even with the best encoding, 480p simply doesn't have anywhere near the same amount of detail.
Unfortunately, something like T2 isn't going to benefit much because it's one of the few popular movies that have pretty poor film stock.
I'm surprised that a crowd that generally seems to demand that games run at UXGA or QUXGA resolution but are fully willing to accept VGA resolution movies.
I am not very impressed with the usability of any media center PC that I have used, regardless of OS. A good DVD player just works, doesn't crash, doesn't have fans and doesn't take more than a few seconds to start spinning a disc from power on. Doing that with an HTPC is not easy. HTPCs have their strengths but I'm not convinced that ease of setup and usability are among them.
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I'm puzzled how XP is worse than '98 and who is saying that other than maybe a person that plays eight year old games. I suppose if you have a system on 98 that's working well enough for its task, then keep it with 98, but if you have a newer system, then XP is the way to go. Frankly, XP is a lot more stable such that most users don't encounter the BSOD very often, which is usually not the case with 98.
My sister once joined a site that required a mailing or faxing of a permission form. I don't know how they would verify that, as much as how they would verify that someone is over 13.
I think people said that when the 20" was introduced. iMacs often get a very good resale value, much better than the typical tower/monitor pair, so you aren't very badly off with the iMac and reselling it if you want to upgrade. It also makes a good hand-me-down computer or a TV replacement.
At any rate, I think the iMac has a very strong niche. However, I too wish they would offer a consumer tower. I don't mind getting the workstation tower, but for Apple's sake, I think they are missing a lot of sales volume by not offering a consumer tower.
The problem I see with that approach is that it's impossible to have complete accounting of the benefits of the patents, and it also doesn't account for the legal and developmental costs to society. All of that would still be subject to opinion and debate. Without knowing that, it's basically an unsolvable equation, too many variables, too many unknowns.
There was a Science Friday program where a former screener for El Al airlines use behavioral profiling because it works better for them than any other kind of profiling. I suggest you go over to NPR's site and listen to their "Behavior Profiling" segment, dated August 18.
I think it's probably a USB network part, not Express Card. There are not many ExpressCards available, and I don't remember seeing any of them for wireless networking.
Given that almost nobody will be using an external USB card on a Centrino or MacBook, I need to see that it's a bug that affects what's internal to to Centrino and MacBook families.
I don't understand how Intel's drivers have anything to do with it, it doesn't make sense that they will write drivers for OS X. I'm not totally certain that Intel's wireless chip is in the Apple notebooks. If Intel's firmware is a culprit, then saying "drivers" is disingenuous.
Then we aren't really sure that the Intel wireless chip is in the Apple product family. I think it's known that the iMac Core Duo uses a Broadcom chip. My system seems to indicate that it's using an Atheros chip, at least I don't see any other wireless driver on my MacBook Pro.
You would still be buying a PC, and even Apple's ad campaign is saying this. A Mac is now more or less a PC now, being based around the same chips and mostly the same wiring of those chips. It has a different firmware but at least any current x86 operating system can be installed on them.
And the only reason OSX is more secure is because of its significantly smaller user-base.
That is one reason. I really don't believe it is the only reason. I don't think anyone except a few of the more extreme Mac Zealots are claiming that OS X is perfectly secure. If Apple achieves 50% market share, of course there will be a few attacks made for it. Even Apple admits that OS X isn't perfectly secure. What they are saying is that OS X is more secure than Windows. Just the fact that pretty much any user program on OS X can run on a heavily restricted user account, provided the restricted user has perms to run that software, says a lot right there. Some Windows software practically requires you to use high-privilege accounts just to run software, and Windows by itself doesn't warn users if something is trying to be installed silently.
I imagine Apple's licensing policy for HFS.
Now something like that has been brought to the Windows world. What is Microsoft's NTFS licensing policy like?
I made a mistake.
Sorry, I really don't believe credit card companies don't work that way.
Should be:
Sorry, I really don't believe credit card companies work that way.
Don't be cocky. You know what they mean when they say that.
With a credit card company, at least they have the argument that--until you pay them back--it's their money on the line.
Sorry, I really don't believe credit card companies don't work that way. They just take the money. The impressions one might get on the "Internet" gives the impression that credit card companies are these angels and PayPal are demons, but the only difference is that CC companies are regulated, otherwise they would be worse than Paypal.
If you are a merchant and there is a dispute, they can and will effectively remove money from your checking account and then they might be nice enough tell you they did it afterwards. It doesn't matter to them if you shipped a big item after you got an authorization, they can revoke the authorization anyway, even if you had the best intentions. This happened to my parents. Thankfully the buyer was honest and said that the transaction was legitimate, so they got their money.
Also, if they authorize a transaction and it turns out to be fraudulent on the part of the buyer where the merchant acts in good faith to verify the card. The credit card companies will still just take the money from the merchant. If you don't have the money, they can just sue you. I had a friend who basically had the CC companies basically sue him out of business because of one large transaction that went bad.
Also, Digitimes isn't very good with predictions either. It is best to ignore whatever they print, regardless of who they say their sources are.
My mother's in remission if anyone cares.
Ouch. I thought the state you want would be for the cancer to be in remission.
Unfortunately, while he stood as a model environmentalist, he now stands as an example of the dangers of directly interacting with wild animals.
Wild animals can be dangerous and there's no way around that. In combination with his intended message, his death is probably a good lesson to leave nature alone, and that's one of the best environmental messages one can give.
Heck, the naming seems odd (Browzar? Ick), more like some spammer or marketing nitwit invented it.
Well... Them and most of the gov seem to not know much about the internet.
That doesn't imply a lack of intelligence. A lot of the judiciary is pretty old and can handle legal issues that are far more complex than what it takes to operate a computer.
I think the contract fine print is there deliberately to screw over the users. I doubt that will be fixed unless there is some external pressure, like with disability protection laws or anti-discrimination laws. "The market" seems to tolerate it, allowing plenty of room for abuse so I think it would have to be fixed with consumer protection laws.
He's following company policy. He works there... it is not his problem, it's the companies.
Are you selectively reading the article? That's almost as bad as not reading it. The same article, a mere two sentences later, says it's up to the discretion of the agent.
How would this "protection" system work? How many major telephone and cable companies are there? Assuming regional or state monopolies, you probably have a couple companies that have a service monopoly that crosses state lines, and none of them are truly national. I just don't think getting companies to pay for "priority" access will work because, oddly enough, the monopolies are too many and small to piddle with.
Panasonic Toughbook, built like a tank, weighs like a tank...
Don't be a pussy. The "Rugged" series Toughbook-29 weighs 8lb. Sounds like you need the exercise anyway. That's about the weight of a standard 17" notebook (though TB-29 is 13.3") and it is still lighter than those desknotes and is rated to run 5-8 hours on batteries.
They also have their "Semi-Rugged" line which look more like consumer notebooks.
You can get an ultralight notebook that should last for about seven hours on batteries. That would currently max out at about 1.2GHz. They use ultra low voltage chips. Intel marks them with a "U" in front of the model number, such as U2400. The L series will still get you better than average battery life and 1.66GHz Core Duo.
I have a couple old ordinary business class notebooks, four and five years old and they still work fine, so I don't understand what your durability issues are. I would suggest that you would get a Toughbook-29. It uses a 1.66GHz chip and if you stuff to batteries into it, it is rated for 12 hours. It's tested for military toughness, which means that sand and water won't hurt it. It's 8lb.
I think generally cores 2-4 can probably be turned off or put to sleep most of the time. I have a dual processor system and only rarely do I see a need to have the second processor on at all.
For games, I can see core one doing the graphics and core two doing I/O, system overhead, network and audio. Cores 3 & 4 can probably go to sleep unless they are doing some video transcoding or something like that.
Honestly, I don't see the advantage here from the band's perspective. Selling a Vanilla mp3 is not hard for even the least qualified web tech using any e-commerce storefront.
Really? You don't think that an additional level exposure to millions of MySpace users wouldn't help? How is some random site going to make money if there's no one promoting it?
Quite a few movies look far better in HD. Take a look at Microsoft's WMV-HD galleries or Apple's Quicktime HD galleries. In my opinion, every single one of those clips look a LOT better than the DVD, especially when I take the time to transcode a 480p comparison clip, even with the best encoding, 480p simply doesn't have anywhere near the same amount of detail.
Unfortunately, something like T2 isn't going to benefit much because it's one of the few popular movies that have pretty poor film stock.
I'm surprised that a crowd that generally seems to demand that games run at UXGA or QUXGA resolution but are fully willing to accept VGA resolution movies.
I am not very impressed with the usability of any media center PC that I have used, regardless of OS. A good DVD player just works, doesn't crash, doesn't have fans and doesn't take more than a few seconds to start spinning a disc from power on. Doing that with an HTPC is not easy. HTPCs have their strengths but I'm not convinced that ease of setup and usability are among them.