I have been using UPSs since about 1998 and haven't regretted it. If a file is worth $50 in time to replace, then the UPS possibly paid for itself the first blackout. If a computer takes a couple evenings to reinstall and restore from backup, then it's well worth the $50. If you have to pay someone to come out and fix your computer, the UPS might pay for itself twice over or more from the first blackout. I have been buying APC BackUPS ES500 models for a while now, and they only cost $50.
This isn't to say that computers crap themselves every or even every other blackout, but I'm not taking that risk anymore.
What an odd idea, I wish the idea of consuming media would go away in terms of play and playback. Maybe when tapes and LPs would wear or degrade very slightly with every use, playing new media, when treated properly, won't degrade with each use.
people here might be forced to buy new TVs when the FCC forces broadcasters to transmit in high definition only
No one will have to buy an entire new TV when analog broadcasts end. There have been digital tuner boxes that can output 480i for maybe five years now, and their prices continue to go down. They can rescale HD, ED and SD to any currently used TV resolution from 480i to 1080i and everything between. And in my experience, the picture will generally be better. The stations I couldn't get had very a snowy picture anyway.
In the end, all they will need is a new TV tuner and their existing TV should be fine.
Something I forgot to mention, was that PVRs really aren't broadly accepted, so TiVo seems to be a bit of a red herring. I don't see a 10% installed base of PVRs (if it is that, I think last I heard, it was 6-8%) as sufficient justification of inserting ads as part of the shows themselves.
I will say I'm setting up a Myth system in part because of the ads, there are way too many and way too lame. Using tapes is getting annoying.
Somehow, it doesn't seem to be working that way. From what I've seen of Big Entertainment(TM), they'll likely keep taking their regular ads and be happy to take any placement ads on top of that. Like with movies, ticket prices, leader ads and DVD income wasn't enough, they had to do Coke placement too.
Heck, at least one entire episode of American Chopper was more or less a product placement ad, the one I remember was one for Gillette where they made a "theme bike" in the style of the M3 razor they were launching. The results were actually pretty cool looking, but it still looked like a huge placement ad.
I agree with the others that responded to you, Konfabulator predates Dashboard, the only spin Apple added was to show and hide them with a keystroke. In fact, Konfabulator didn't try to hide apps that some users might want to see, though Amnesty takes third party widgets and allows them to be used on the standard desktop space, I don't understand specifically why Apple branded widgets didn't work.
That said, I don't think renaming it to "Widget Engine" does justice to its history, I don't think it makes sense for businesses to rename, relogo and rebrand things so often. Besides, Yahoo Konfabulator seems to be more interesting sounding, despite the name being vague.
Doesn't HP have two sets of 16M addresses, or did they give one up? My understanding is that both HP and Compaq had an A domain each, then they merged.
While reallocating IP addresses only delays the inevitable, I think it would help ease the transition by not having to force new hardware purchases only for the sake of v6, but simply becase that hardware would need to be bought eventually to replace aging or outgrown hardware.
Maybe it depends on the region or varies by store, Best Buy hasn't been that bad for me. The customer service didn't give me crap the few times I've returned things or had an issue. Sometimes their prices aren't that great, which is unfortunate.
you can't get any closer than 13 inches.... I'd go with the Nikon D-series or a Canon Digital Rebel for a lot less with a few lenses and be able to actually get near some of my subjects.
Those tubes are pretty long life, how often do they fail on average? I thought it was something like 50,000 hours, so something that fails in the first three years or so of average use (40 hours a week * 50 weeks of use a year = 2000 hours a year) should be pretty rare. If the display is too old, it might not be worth that much anyway as older LCDs can get pretty bad for colors, contrast ratio, viewing angle and such.
They do dim with age though, which isn't a problem for me, I try to reduce the brightness anyway.
Is high fructose corn syrup not sugar? There is no single "real" sugar anyway, there are lots of different real sugars.
Glass is nice, but not enough people really care about it to pay the extra amount, I think it's only worth the rare occasional novelty, I don't think it is worth the extra weight either.
I think this is a pretty sensible route. I happen to have some decommissioned servers and workstations from a couple of the big brands and what's inside shows no hint of anything being an afterthought, and that sort of reliability engineering is what is needed for servers and certain workstation tasks.
If true, that person is basically giving the sensationalist some more ammo. Before, there wasn't much to agree with his statements, but now he's got some concrete examples of "pixelantes".
I don't care what you think about a person, or how wrong they are, uncivil discourse only gives the target more ammunition and greater resolve. If you can't handle it civilly, ignore them.
In taking "all other parties off the ballots", doesn't that just mean taking them off the straight-ticket vote? I don't think it makes sense to straight-ticket vote Libertarian, Green or whatever simply because not all offices have canidates in that party, I think one is better off going line-by-line for that, otherwise, if you don't have a canidate for an office in that party, then the vote goes to noone.
I "reboot" but only because it is after the system has been shut down, because I turn off or sleep every computer if it's not going to be used for a while because powering an idle computer is a waste of electricity.
For the record, the only Windows program that I use that has a memory leak problem is.... Firefox. As I understand it, the Firefox memory leak problem is cross-platform. None of the Windows services, built-in or third party, really seem to have a significant leak issue either.
I will grant that Windows isn't all that great for maintainability, the number of problems I personally run into really aren't that significant.
I don't think what Jesus said necessarily contradicts the Torah, I do agree that he focused on the intents, so the contradiction is superficial at best. Basically, the Torah was misinterpreted and distorted by the time Jesus arrived, and he saved the worst of the curses for those groups that had distorted the meaning and intent of the old teachings. For example, the original "eye for an eye" passage was a figurative message regarding governments carrying out justice, NOT about personal vendettas, but people eventually distorted it to include personal grudges too. One interesting thing I've heard is that there was always a debate about what laws were more important than other laws, and it was these religious groups that had wickedly distorted ideas about what was more important.
One thing where certain groups of believers go on about the wife submitting to the husband is another one, they often conveniently ignore or leave out the passages in the same chapter regarding the husband needing to lead with love, even to the point of self-sacrifice. I think a husband that truly loves to that extent wouldn't need to quote a line about submission, because all decisions would be selfless.
Anyway, an interesting book is "Velvet Elvis" by Rob Bell, who discusses the sorts of issues that people need to wrestle with, and focuses on the layers of meaning and interpretation, and even the looks at the "larger picture" that are involved with the faith.
Just like the superior Beta Max rendered the VHS irrelevant...
Betamax wasn't necessarily superior at the time it was competing, even if it was, the TVs and media recording equipment at the time weren't necessarily good enough to show the difference. Also there was the issue of too-short tapes (all movies were two tapes) and higher cost of the deck.
Try how the superior Minidisk rendered the CD irrelevant...
MiniDisk is not superior to CD. It was simply more portable, though the cartridge did protect the discs very well.
The same happened with DVD, doesn't matter which is better, the one that invades the homes first and fastest will be the new standard for some time.
There really wasn't a competing "DVD" format unless VCD was considered competition, which was the case only in certain areas where VCDs took hold. There were competing proposals, but thankfully, at the time, everyone cooperated, except for the HP/Sony DVD+R debacle.
In one sense, I think it might be to protect the song writers as they don't perform or record songs, but I agree, this is stupid. I hate it when some CDs don't include the lyrics, I've grown accustomed to having them, not having them is anomaly that shouldn't happen. I too have used short phrases to find what the song name was to track down the CD.
If it takes $3000 USD to enjoy HDTV in the UK, then something is wrong. HD sets are far cheaper now, at least in the US, it's more than two thirds cheaper.
With HD sets starting at $500, my recommendation is to "jump onboard" to get a progressive scan picture. Walmart had a 42" plasma for $999 with an HD tuner built-in, though the display was technically EDTV, it's still better than interlaced and will look fantastic with digital broadcasts.
The old interlaced sets are starting to drive me nuts with their lower refresh rate.
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I have been using UPSs since about 1998 and haven't regretted it. If a file is worth $50 in time to replace, then the UPS possibly paid for itself the first blackout. If a computer takes a couple evenings to reinstall and restore from backup, then it's well worth the $50. If you have to pay someone to come out and fix your computer, the UPS might pay for itself twice over or more from the first blackout. I have been buying APC BackUPS ES500 models for a while now, and they only cost $50.
This isn't to say that computers crap themselves every or even every other blackout, but I'm not taking that risk anymore.
What an odd idea, I wish the idea of consuming media would go away in terms of play and playback. Maybe when tapes and LPs would wear or degrade very slightly with every use, playing new media, when treated properly, won't degrade with each use.
people here might be forced to buy new TVs when the FCC forces broadcasters to transmit in high definition only
No one will have to buy an entire new TV when analog broadcasts end. There have been digital tuner boxes that can output 480i for maybe five years now, and their prices continue to go down. They can rescale HD, ED and SD to any currently used TV resolution from 480i to 1080i and everything between. And in my experience, the picture will generally be better. The stations I couldn't get had very a snowy picture anyway.
In the end, all they will need is a new TV tuner and their existing TV should be fine.
Due to a ruling in the last decade, the subscription video companies give money to TV stations to uplink their shows.
Something I forgot to mention, was that PVRs really aren't broadly accepted, so TiVo seems to be a bit of a red herring. I don't see a 10% installed base of PVRs (if it is that, I think last I heard, it was 6-8%) as sufficient justification of inserting ads as part of the shows themselves.
I will say I'm setting up a Myth system in part because of the ads, there are way too many and way too lame. Using tapes is getting annoying.
It's offtopic I think, but I think T*Mobile's ads poking fun of Boost Moble was funny, I think it was Poser Moble.
Somehow, it doesn't seem to be working that way. From what I've seen of Big Entertainment(TM), they'll likely keep taking their regular ads and be happy to take any placement ads on top of that. Like with movies, ticket prices, leader ads and DVD income wasn't enough, they had to do Coke placement too.
Heck, at least one entire episode of American Chopper was more or less a product placement ad, the one I remember was one for Gillette where they made a "theme bike" in the style of the M3 razor they were launching. The results were actually pretty cool looking, but it still looked like a huge placement ad.
Active desktop did this? I had not seen any Active Desktop app that did what Konfabulator has done.
I agree with the others that responded to you, Konfabulator predates Dashboard, the only spin Apple added was to show and hide them with a keystroke. In fact, Konfabulator didn't try to hide apps that some users might want to see, though Amnesty takes third party widgets and allows them to be used on the standard desktop space, I don't understand specifically why Apple branded widgets didn't work.
That said, I don't think renaming it to "Widget Engine" does justice to its history, I don't think it makes sense for businesses to rename, relogo and rebrand things so often. Besides, Yahoo Konfabulator seems to be more interesting sounding, despite the name being vague.
Doesn't HP have two sets of 16M addresses, or did they give one up? My understanding is that both HP and Compaq had an A domain each, then they merged.
While reallocating IP addresses only delays the inevitable, I think it would help ease the transition by not having to force new hardware purchases only for the sake of v6, but simply becase that hardware would need to be bought eventually to replace aging or outgrown hardware.
Maybe it depends on the region or varies by store, Best Buy hasn't been that bad for me. The customer service didn't give me crap the few times I've returned things or had an issue. Sometimes their prices aren't that great, which is unfortunate.
AMEX takes about twice as much of a cut though, something like 6% or so of every sale goes to AMEX, which is a lot of money.
you can't get any closer than 13 inches. ...
I'd go with the Nikon D-series or a Canon Digital Rebel for a lot less with a few lenses and be able to actually get near some of my subjects.
What would that be, a microscope?
Those tubes are pretty long life, how often do they fail on average? I thought it was something like 50,000 hours, so something that fails in the first three years or so of average use (40 hours a week * 50 weeks of use a year = 2000 hours a year) should be pretty rare. If the display is too old, it might not be worth that much anyway as older LCDs can get pretty bad for colors, contrast ratio, viewing angle and such.
They do dim with age though, which isn't a problem for me, I try to reduce the brightness anyway.
Is high fructose corn syrup not sugar? There is no single "real" sugar anyway, there are lots of different real sugars.
Glass is nice, but not enough people really care about it to pay the extra amount, I think it's only worth the rare occasional novelty, I don't think it is worth the extra weight either.
I think this is a pretty sensible route. I happen to have some decommissioned servers and workstations from a couple of the big brands and what's inside shows no hint of anything being an afterthought, and that sort of reliability engineering is what is needed for servers and certain workstation tasks.
If true, that person is basically giving the sensationalist some more ammo. Before, there wasn't much to agree with his statements, but now he's got some concrete examples of "pixelantes".
I don't care what you think about a person, or how wrong they are, uncivil discourse only gives the target more ammunition and greater resolve. If you can't handle it civilly, ignore them.
The details of that letter are somewhat sparce.
In taking "all other parties off the ballots", doesn't that just mean taking them off the straight-ticket vote? I don't think it makes sense to straight-ticket vote Libertarian, Green or whatever simply because not all offices have canidates in that party, I think one is better off going line-by-line for that, otherwise, if you don't have a canidate for an office in that party, then the vote goes to noone.
I "reboot" but only because it is after the system has been shut down, because I turn off or sleep every computer if it's not going to be used for a while because powering an idle computer is a waste of electricity.
For the record, the only Windows program that I use that has a memory leak problem is.... Firefox. As I understand it, the Firefox memory leak problem is cross-platform. None of the Windows services, built-in or third party, really seem to have a significant leak issue either.
I will grant that Windows isn't all that great for maintainability, the number of problems I personally run into really aren't that significant.
I don't think what Jesus said necessarily contradicts the Torah, I do agree that he focused on the intents, so the contradiction is superficial at best. Basically, the Torah was misinterpreted and distorted by the time Jesus arrived, and he saved the worst of the curses for those groups that had distorted the meaning and intent of the old teachings. For example, the original "eye for an eye" passage was a figurative message regarding governments carrying out justice, NOT about personal vendettas, but people eventually distorted it to include personal grudges too. One interesting thing I've heard is that there was always a debate about what laws were more important than other laws, and it was these religious groups that had wickedly distorted ideas about what was more important.
One thing where certain groups of believers go on about the wife submitting to the husband is another one, they often conveniently ignore or leave out the passages in the same chapter regarding the husband needing to lead with love, even to the point of self-sacrifice. I think a husband that truly loves to that extent wouldn't need to quote a line about submission, because all decisions would be selfless.
Anyway, an interesting book is "Velvet Elvis" by Rob Bell, who discusses the sorts of issues that people need to wrestle with, and focuses on the layers of meaning and interpretation, and even the looks at the "larger picture" that are involved with the faith.
Just like the superior Beta Max rendered the VHS irrelevant...
Betamax wasn't necessarily superior at the time it was competing, even if it was, the TVs and media recording equipment at the time weren't necessarily good enough to show the difference. Also there was the issue of too-short tapes (all movies were two tapes) and higher cost of the deck.
Try how the superior Minidisk rendered the CD irrelevant...
MiniDisk is not superior to CD. It was simply more portable, though the cartridge did protect the discs very well.
The same happened with DVD, doesn't matter which is better, the one that invades the homes first and fastest will be the new standard for some time.
There really wasn't a competing "DVD" format unless VCD was considered competition, which was the case only in certain areas where VCDs took hold. There were competing proposals, but thankfully, at the time, everyone cooperated, except for the HP/Sony DVD+R debacle.
a) Freely download
Yeah, and but don't then turn around and complain if a company infringes on the GPL. I think that would be called hypocrisy.
b) Buy what you like (second hand if possible)
I already buy almost all of my music second hand.
c) Pay to see the artists live
That's usually stupidly expensive, I think most of the money probably goes to the property owners anyway.
In one sense, I think it might be to protect the song writers as they don't perform or record songs, but I agree, this is stupid. I hate it when some CDs don't include the lyrics, I've grown accustomed to having them, not having them is anomaly that shouldn't happen. I too have used short phrases to find what the song name was to track down the CD.
If it takes $3000 USD to enjoy HDTV in the UK, then something is wrong. HD sets are far cheaper now, at least in the US, it's more than two thirds cheaper.
Oops, I made a mistake in quoting.
This is my statement:
With HD sets starting at $500, my recommendation is to "jump onboard" to get a progressive scan picture. Walmart had a 42" plasma for $999 with an HD tuner built-in, though the display was technically EDTV, it's still better than interlaced and will look fantastic with digital broadcasts.
The old interlaced sets are starting to drive me nuts with their lower refresh rate.