Also, if you want something more "concrete" you can burn from apple's lossless format to a CD, and then put the CD in your rack.
Wha? I'm pretty sure that the music they sell you is NOT lossless. Their.m4p AAC format is NOT Apple Lossless. In order to use Apple Lossless and make it worthwhile, you have to have a CD in the first place, then encode to Apple Lossless.
Besides, buying the music from iTunes doesn't get a nice printed booklet or the lyrics.
I too think external hard drives are the way to go. Frankly, I haven't had a hard drive fail on me in the last decade, so I think it's unlikely that the computer's hard drive and the drive that stores the backup will go at the same time or in a succession that's too quick to get replacements before the remaining drive goes. If you are that afraid, get a second backup drive. If your data really is valuable, I bet that the extra hard drives are cheaper than replacing the data. At any rate, the external should be disconnected from power and data cables, placed some place else that is safe.
I used to be gung-ho about CD and DVD backups, but frankly, the capacity just can't keep up. With an external hard drive, I can start back up the entire hard drive and walk away or do other things with the computer in the mean time.
If it's not, the non-gaming SOs should just take it as a hint that they need to move on. It's not their responsibility to force their gaming SOs to pay attention to them. The potential problem I see is that it would taint their ability to tolerate a SO that has any hobby they dislike as the result of one person that didn't have self control.
Each of those companies are primarily technology providers in some form.
I think the article pertains mostly to companies whose primary market isn't technology, where they use tech, but don't sell that tech as a product to itself.
I would suggest that the expansion in RAM sizes available to new computers is in part due to cost cutting to minimize the unnecessary expense and the fact that not many users need that much RAM because most programs have been needing it.
I managed to score an off-lease computer for dirt cheap decked out to 4GB of RAM, then realized that I have absolutely no need or use for that much memory. On a Windows 2000 computer, I rarely use more than 500MB.
At first, I thought so, but I just looked at my memory usage and Firefox is the top hog, beating the next two with more combined memory use. I don't mind a program taking 50MB, but it's at 116MB right now.
The latest 15" and 17" Powerbooks supposedly use a brighter screen and are offered in higher resolutions than previous models.
My current issue with Powerbooks is that they are still hobbled with a very slow front side bus, about a third that of a Pentium-M, with a much smaller cache to boot, 512k vs 1 or 2megs. I don't know how fast the bus on the Turion64 is, but I think those might be faster still.
Some of us never made it out of the '70s when it comes to computer interfaces.
Which ones? I thought the ~80 key terminal keyboard and text interface is quite a bit older. I thought the general idea of what we use know for GUI mostly dates to the 70's. At any rate, I do appreciate almost all of the 20 additional keys that PC keyboards have spawned, otherwise using keycombos for current programs would be too annoying.
A lot of states have similar clauses in their constitutions, there might be a clause in the US constitution where states and municipalities may not infringe on that.
I'd like to know what the legislation does to stifle free speech. Does the restriction of sales and play of "NC-17" and "R" movies from youth also stifle free speech? The linked article seemed to be a lot more about catch phrases, sound bites and jingoism that it's hard to decipher as anything but vapid propaganda.
I doubt aluminum is necessarily cheaper than plastic as a manufacturing process, except in very specific unusual cases. If it were, I don't think so many cheap devices would use plastic.
I think aluminum looks and feels nicer in many cases, and anodizing helps it maintain its appearance and gives it pretty colors in a shiny part.
"Flexion" doesn't seem to be a term that applies to this, so I don't know what you mean.
I would think that if you want a part to survive a hit with a hammer, polycarbonate would be the material you want because it doesn't shatter, even with a bullet, it just flexes. However, polycarbonate scuffs readily.
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For all we know, it could be just bad game programming.
The biggest problem I have with Microsoft OSs is the security, maintainability and usability.
Under no circumstance do I believe that the NT line is unstable except for third party crap. Since 1998, I've had fewer BSODs with the NT-derived OSs than one every two years. The ones that I did get were actually because of bad hardware or a bad driver.
Besides, no.0.00 release should be trusted to be stable, wait for an update.
As for the amount of music, I haven't seen any concrete figures released, but assuming 3 minutes per song (typical for BNL judging by a quick iTMS search), it comes out to 87 minutes total. That's barely more than one CD's worth.
That reasoning doesn't reflect how things are done. Most commercial CD releases don't try to fill up the CD, ~50 minutes is pretty common. Without a track list or run time, it's hard to make an argument either way of whether it is comparable to two average CDs or not.
Making an audio CD from MP3s is pretty trivial. I would think it can be done in three to five clicks if your music management program is reasonably well designed, add a couple minutes for the actual writing and it's done. That alone doesn't seem like a big setback, though there are other concerns with the format aired by others.
The actual data isn't that much space, so it could be copied to a folder on the computer's main drive with little trouble.
The term seems more than a bit outdated. Will there be any cool graphics on the USB stick itself? Could be quite a collectible if the edition is truly limited.
As a digital file or in the package design? It would seem they could do both. Anyway, the size of the average memory fob these days would seem to limit the options and potential detail.
It doesn't seem to be too bad of a deal, but some people do like chosing the encoding format and parameters from a non-lossy source. On the up side, if it's MP3, it probably won't have DRM, and that gets kudos from me. I might consider it for the nifty-ness of it though it's not my format of choice, and 128MB isn't much to work with anymore.
You are correct. Smaller boards seem to be in less demand, so those that need them sometimes end up paying more. Most boards throw every feature on that they can, even if few used any one particular feature, simply because adding features can be pretty cheap when done in rediculously high volume. It's tough to know who will want any particular feature, thankfully, providing a lot of them drives the costs down. This is why it doesn't make sense for people to complain that they don't need a particular set of features on a board, because it probably only costs $0.05 US to put it there.
That now makes me a bit wary of the WSJ, it seems as if someone is merely trying to push some traffic. I wouldn't say that the actions of one persom necessarily reflects the whole organization, but it's something to watch.
SRP doesn't mean jack to me, it's a made-up price point to help people think they got a good deal when they pay less than that. "Street price" is the significant number.
It's unfortunate, but Macs are very much a niche that's not always worth supporting. Much of the reason that Macs are supported despite having 1/20th of the potential market is that it's easier to program for (or seemed so when I tried, pretty cool stuff) and tech support isn't such a pain because the behind-the-scenes stuff in OS X isn't nearly as shoddy as their counterparts in Windows, especially when it comes to third-party add-ins that seem to be another source of headaches in Windows.
Disclaimer: I use a Powermac running Tiger, and a workstation running Windows 2000, and am happy with both.
China has also signed numerous treaties as well. China has to comply with those treaties in order to remain in various global organizations, such as the UN, WTO, among others.
One treaty China has signed is the Berne convention, making copyright infringement illegal in China. The only reason it remains rampant is the is little enforcement other than token displays to appease other treaty signatories.
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Also, if you want something more "concrete" you can burn from apple's lossless format to a CD, and then put the CD in your rack.
.m4p AAC format is NOT Apple Lossless. In order to use Apple Lossless and make it worthwhile, you have to have a CD in the first place, then encode to Apple Lossless.
Wha? I'm pretty sure that the music they sell you is NOT lossless. Their
Besides, buying the music from iTunes doesn't get a nice printed booklet or the lyrics.
I too think external hard drives are the way to go. Frankly, I haven't had a hard drive fail on me in the last decade, so I think it's unlikely that the computer's hard drive and the drive that stores the backup will go at the same time or in a succession that's too quick to get replacements before the remaining drive goes. If you are that afraid, get a second backup drive. If your data really is valuable, I bet that the extra hard drives are cheaper than replacing the data. At any rate, the external should be disconnected from power and data cables, placed some place else that is safe.
I used to be gung-ho about CD and DVD backups, but frankly, the capacity just can't keep up. With an external hard drive, I can start back up the entire hard drive and walk away or do other things with the computer in the mean time.
But why NFS? Just use Samba.
I think maybe because NFS uses the available bandwidth more efficiently? I'm not really sure. I don't do enough big data transfers to really care.
If it's not, the non-gaming SOs should just take it as a hint that they need to move on. It's not their responsibility to force their gaming SOs to pay attention to them. The potential problem I see is that it would taint their ability to tolerate a SO that has any hobby they dislike as the result of one person that didn't have self control.
Each of those companies are primarily technology providers in some form.
I think the article pertains mostly to companies whose primary market isn't technology, where they use tech, but don't sell that tech as a product to itself.
I would suggest that the expansion in RAM sizes available to new computers is in part due to cost cutting to minimize the unnecessary expense and the fact that not many users need that much RAM because most programs have been needing it.
I managed to score an off-lease computer for dirt cheap decked out to 4GB of RAM, then realized that I have absolutely no need or use for that much memory. On a Windows 2000 computer, I rarely use more than 500MB.
At first, I thought so, but I just looked at my memory usage and Firefox is the top hog, beating the next two with more combined memory use. I don't mind a program taking 50MB, but it's at 116MB right now.
The latest 15" and 17" Powerbooks supposedly use a brighter screen and are offered in higher resolutions than previous models.
My current issue with Powerbooks is that they are still hobbled with a very slow front side bus, about a third that of a Pentium-M, with a much smaller cache to boot, 512k vs 1 or 2megs. I don't know how fast the bus on the Turion64 is, but I think those might be faster still.
Some of us never made it out of the '70s when it comes to computer interfaces.
Which ones? I thought the ~80 key terminal keyboard and text interface is quite a bit older. I thought the general idea of what we use know for GUI mostly dates to the 70's. At any rate, I do appreciate almost all of the 20 additional keys that PC keyboards have spawned, otherwise using keycombos for current programs would be too annoying.
A lot of states have similar clauses in their constitutions, there might be a clause in the US constitution where states and municipalities may not infringe on that.
I'd like to know what the legislation does to stifle free speech. Does the restriction of sales and play of "NC-17" and "R" movies from youth also stifle free speech? The linked article seemed to be a lot more about catch phrases, sound bites and jingoism that it's hard to decipher as anything but vapid propaganda.
I doubt aluminum is necessarily cheaper than plastic as a manufacturing process, except in very specific unusual cases. If it were, I don't think so many cheap devices would use plastic.
I think aluminum looks and feels nicer in many cases, and anodizing helps it maintain its appearance and gives it pretty colors in a shiny part.
"Flexion" doesn't seem to be a term that applies to this, so I don't know what you mean.
I would think that if you want a part to survive a hit with a hammer, polycarbonate would be the material you want because it doesn't shatter, even with a bullet, it just flexes. However, polycarbonate scuffs readily.
For all we know, it could be just bad game programming.
.0.00 release should be trusted to be stable, wait for an update.
The biggest problem I have with Microsoft OSs is the security, maintainability and usability.
Under no circumstance do I believe that the NT line is unstable except for third party crap. Since 1998, I've had fewer BSODs with the NT-derived OSs than one every two years. The ones that I did get were actually because of bad hardware or a bad driver.
Besides, no
Multiple CPU sockets gives an upgrade path, I don't see it as relevant to even a high-end desktop now that multicore CPUs are available.
I spew alpha-numeric soup, much like the story submission, until the salesman faints!
As for the amount of music, I haven't seen any concrete figures released, but assuming 3 minutes per song (typical for BNL judging by a quick iTMS search), it comes out to 87 minutes total. That's barely more than one CD's worth.
That reasoning doesn't reflect how things are done. Most commercial CD releases don't try to fill up the CD, ~50 minutes is pretty common. Without a track list or run time, it's hard to make an argument either way of whether it is comparable to two average CDs or not.
Making an audio CD from MP3s is pretty trivial. I would think it can be done in three to five clicks if your music management program is reasonably well designed, add a couple minutes for the actual writing and it's done. That alone doesn't seem like a big setback, though there are other concerns with the format aired by others.
The actual data isn't that much space, so it could be copied to a folder on the computer's main drive with little trouble.
The term seems more than a bit outdated. Will there be any cool graphics on the USB stick itself? Could be quite a collectible if the edition is truly limited.
As a digital file or in the package design? It would seem they could do both. Anyway, the size of the average memory fob these days would seem to limit the options and potential detail.
It doesn't seem to be too bad of a deal, but some people do like chosing the encoding format and parameters from a non-lossy source. On the up side, if it's MP3, it probably won't have DRM, and that gets kudos from me. I might consider it for the nifty-ness of it though it's not my format of choice, and 128MB isn't much to work with anymore.
Obviously I *need* a quad cpu machine to handle my recipes database.
Do people use their home theater PCs to handle recipes? I suppose it's possible, though a second-hand laptop would seem a better choice.
Initially, I thought it was a 4-cpu system review as well, assuming it would be for recipes is new for me.
You are correct. Smaller boards seem to be in less demand, so those that need them sometimes end up paying more. Most boards throw every feature on that they can, even if few used any one particular feature, simply because adding features can be pretty cheap when done in rediculously high volume. It's tough to know who will want any particular feature, thankfully, providing a lot of them drives the costs down. This is why it doesn't make sense for people to complain that they don't need a particular set of features on a board, because it probably only costs $0.05 US to put it there.
That now makes me a bit wary of the WSJ, it seems as if someone is merely trying to push some traffic. I wouldn't say that the actions of one persom necessarily reflects the whole organization, but it's something to watch.
SRP doesn't mean jack to me, it's a made-up price point to help people think they got a good deal when they pay less than that. "Street price" is the significant number.
It's unfortunate, but Macs are very much a niche that's not always worth supporting. Much of the reason that Macs are supported despite having 1/20th of the potential market is that it's easier to program for (or seemed so when I tried, pretty cool stuff) and tech support isn't such a pain because the behind-the-scenes stuff in OS X isn't nearly as shoddy as their counterparts in Windows, especially when it comes to third-party add-ins that seem to be another source of headaches in Windows.
Disclaimer: I use a Powermac running Tiger, and a workstation running Windows 2000, and am happy with both.
China has also signed numerous treaties as well. China has to comply with those treaties in order to remain in various global organizations, such as the UN, WTO, among others.
One treaty China has signed is the Berne convention, making copyright infringement illegal in China. The only reason it remains rampant is the is little enforcement other than token displays to appease other treaty signatories.
It means they'll provide licence keys that will allow you to play the song you downloaded on up to three computers of your choice.