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The extra features can get in the way if the menus aren't designed properly. I don't know why phone makers generally can't design a good menu, but oh well. At least I can figure things out, but there seems to be a needless number of button clicks to do basic tasks.
If a US company is behind it, then it would be easy to prosecute. If a non-US company was behind it, I don't think it would be difficult to find some means to accidentally destroy it.
My problems with the ONE pressed DVD that went bad was just bad manufacturing. There's nothing wrong with the format. I haven't had seen a pressed CD go bad except through abuse.
CDs have a thinner protective layer against damaging the metal layer, which really isn't one at all, basically a clearcoat. TDK has also introduced an anti-scratch compound.
My suspicions on this matter is that if you manage to get a scratch deep enough to hit the metal layer on a BRD, a similarly deep scratch on an HD-DVD would still render it useless.
Technology marches on. Whether Google will be a viable product & service mix in five years, or whether iPod will still dominate its respective product categories depends more on their respective companies than what Microsoft will do. Both companies must stay ahead of the curve and adapt. These predictions of doom seem to assume that the respective companies are static, which if you are a competitor to either, that is a stupid mistake to make.
Both companies are survivors, Google of the dot bomb, and Apple has survived a decade of pundits claiming "Apple is dead". That does not guarantee future success but I think it helps.
I don't think the bases in the US are all that necessary. We aren't trying to protect ourselves from Canada, and the Feds really aren't trying to seal off the border with Mexico, which isn't a military problem.
As it is, it looks like states are fighting closures because they want the money they bring. It seems to be pretty rare that the Pentagon actually has liberties to determine what they need for the mandates they were given. It seems like they are often being told what to develop, what to buy, even if it doesn't align so well against their mission. I've heard of weapon systems, ships and other stuff gets chosen for them because a company in some particular congressman's district needs to build something.
I would keep a critical eye on any religion where it is holier to die than it is to live. That is a very dangerous situation to be in.
Besides, by any rule of sinning I am aware of, everyone has sinned. If a person had to die for such wrongdoing, I don't think there would be anyone left.
It's not that bad. I use a lot of open and closed software. Software is something that shouldn't be a religion. I think of free software as simply another development method.
I doubt it is marketed towards you or any hard core Linux user. I don't think it is only about hardware. Actually, the hardware is kind of irrelevant, though it needs some to do its job. From the description, it looks to be already set up for easy web-based remote administration. Then there's the support.
A Linux geek could set up remote administration and remote scripting, but if this thing is set up like I think it is, said geek probably wouldn't get it done under that cost and still have it be easy for a non-Linux person to use.
The weblog entry does look like they didn't get a manual or didn't bother to read it.
The funny thing is that supposedly my local newspaper says that the cover price doesn't pay for the cost of the paper & printing. The ads pay for the rest of the operations.
It is very well possible that these GPUs have more processing power than any desktop CPU currently sold, although it is somewhat specialized. This power is one reason why Apple made a developer-accessible API that taps into GPU processing power for image and video manipulation.
I thought both ATI and nVidia were supplying chips for the next gen consoles. They probably don't make as much money per console, but they won't be out that much business unless both console and PC gaming does out.
Keep in mind that the new consoles won't come out until late this year at the earliest, more likely some time in 2006.
If you are emulating all the libraries and API, it is probably going to be bad. Besides, for XBox 2, the emulation only needs to best the performance of the ~760MHz Pentium III that is in the original XBox. Porting the APIs to native code can greatly help, and three 3+GHz PowerPC cores should pull it off easily.
Several Slashdotters picked up on that idea some time last year. I agreed with that this would be very feasible. For one, a game that uses the system's API a lot would benefit more as the API could be ported and non-API sections could be emulated. A multiple core 3+ GHz CPU should be able to easily emulate a ~700MHz PIII this way.
Some have claimed something about nVidia IP rights would either prevent it or require costly licencing, but I really don't understand that. nVidia's IP shouldn't be in Microsoft's API but in the driver and chip.
We still use WordPerfect Office in our small business. I'd switch us all to Open Office but there is no import feature for WordPerfect or Quattro Pro files that I have found.
The thing is, with the Mozilla line, and with Safari and other tabbable browsers, the users that are easily confused don't even need to know they are there, and the power users can still take advantage of them. Currently IE requires an add-on to use tabs which shouldn't be necessary.
I think the mini is a fine unit. Using VLC, a 1.25GHz mini will actually play HDV camcorder footage samples I downloaded from the internet that footage is 1440x1080i MPEG2.
It is somewhat beside the point though, I think for power users, mini was meant to be an introduction to OS X, not an end in itself. For the average user, I think they can do very well with a base mini as a primary machine, I have.
I'm not certain why people harp on the hard drive speed. I went from a 1CPU 2.2GHz Xeon/w a 15kRPM drive down to a base mini with a 5400RPM drive (some units were shipped with the slightly faster drive, mine was) and I was pretty happy, as I really didn't need that speed despite being a heavy multitasker and running apache/w php and mySQL servers.
I think there's a difference between a Micky Mouse animation and yesterday's TV episode.
I agree that the earliear Mickey stuff should be out of copyright, but those protections exist to protect newer shows so that they can make enough money to justify production.
I've been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix, but I don't really buy that argument.
While Internet Explorer is overly integrated into the operating system, the fact that your computer can access the internet means that your OS is on the internet too. Just that doing so with IE is believed to be more dangerious.
Another limitation is that humans in the industrialized nations have more or less driven out natural selection. For example, stupid people are protected, if anything, it is someone else's fault that a stupid person did something that could have killed them. Sometimes the brain dead are allowed to live for fifteen years.
The highly intellectual people become either smart enough to not reproduce (contraceptives), reproduce less by choice or don't reproduce often because of social factors. Stupid people reproduce like rabbits, some of them start before they leave highschool.
$25/mo is twice that of Sirius, 2.5 times that of XM.
Having Internet access is nice, but using it via a tiny phone screen is not my idea of fun, I think my phone is 150 pixels in each direction. I was given a two month's trial but cancelled it within a couple weeks.
Yeah, WiFi doesn't even do much for short haul people unless they spend most of their time within reach of a mesh.
XM sounds very nice but I'm really not ready for it, I have other priorities. Maybe when my iPod breaks, but I'm hoping to be able to use it for a long time. The current portable XM players are more than twice the bulk of an iPod, so there needs to be some improvement in that regard.
Maybe if there was a merge of the two, like it would switch to WiFi if inside a large steel building when reception gets bad, but I bet most of that sort of infrastructure may be for business use, too many people using WiFi might simply degrade the performance of the network too much.
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The extra features can get in the way if the menus aren't designed properly. I don't know why phone makers generally can't design a good menu, but oh well. At least I can figure things out, but there seems to be a needless number of button clicks to do basic tasks.
Face it, Microsoft is not really a software company -- software is only a minor part of their business. They are a marketing one.
Then pretty much every major company is a marketing company and there would be little point in distinguishing them.
How does such a person notice that a server hasn't been rebooted? Don't you have to know a little bit about UNIX to extract the uptime?
If a US company is behind it, then it would be easy to prosecute. If a non-US company was behind it, I don't think it would be difficult to find some means to accidentally destroy it.
If the VoIP companies are advertising that their service is just as good, only cheaper, then they should own up to it.
My problems with the ONE pressed DVD that went bad was just bad manufacturing. There's nothing wrong with the format. I haven't had seen a pressed CD go bad except through abuse.
CDs have a thinner protective layer against damaging the metal layer, which really isn't one at all, basically a clearcoat. TDK has also introduced an anti-scratch compound.
My suspicions on this matter is that if you manage to get a scratch deep enough to hit the metal layer on a BRD, a similarly deep scratch on an HD-DVD would still render it useless.
Technology marches on. Whether Google will be a viable product & service mix in five years, or whether iPod will still dominate its respective product categories depends more on their respective companies than what Microsoft will do. Both companies must stay ahead of the curve and adapt. These predictions of doom seem to assume that the respective companies are static, which if you are a competitor to either, that is a stupid mistake to make.
Both companies are survivors, Google of the dot bomb, and Apple has survived a decade of pundits claiming "Apple is dead". That does not guarantee future success but I think it helps.
I don't think the bases in the US are all that necessary. We aren't trying to protect ourselves from Canada, and the Feds really aren't trying to seal off the border with Mexico, which isn't a military problem.
As it is, it looks like states are fighting closures because they want the money they bring. It seems to be pretty rare that the Pentagon actually has liberties to determine what they need for the mandates they were given. It seems like they are often being told what to develop, what to buy, even if it doesn't align so well against their mission. I've heard of weapon systems, ships and other stuff gets chosen for them because a company in some particular congressman's district needs to build something.
I would keep a critical eye on any religion where it is holier to die than it is to live. That is a very dangerous situation to be in.
Besides, by any rule of sinning I am aware of, everyone has sinned. If a person had to die for such wrongdoing, I don't think there would be anyone left.
It's not that bad. I use a lot of open and closed software. Software is something that shouldn't be a religion. I think of free software as simply another development method.
I doubt it is marketed towards you or any hard core Linux user. I don't think it is only about hardware. Actually, the hardware is kind of irrelevant, though it needs some to do its job. From the description, it looks to be already set up for easy web-based remote administration. Then there's the support.
A Linux geek could set up remote administration and remote scripting, but if this thing is set up like I think it is, said geek probably wouldn't get it done under that cost and still have it be easy for a non-Linux person to use.
The weblog entry does look like they didn't get a manual or didn't bother to read it.
The funny thing is that supposedly my local newspaper says that the cover price doesn't pay for the cost of the paper & printing. The ads pay for the rest of the operations.
Most power transmission through commercial areas is three phase, I don't know if it is wired as three phase + neutral though.
I thought the point of twisting, twisting pairs at least, was to help reject incomming signals, not prevent signal emission.
It is very well possible that these GPUs have more processing power than any desktop CPU currently sold, although it is somewhat specialized. This power is one reason why Apple made a developer-accessible API that taps into GPU processing power for image and video manipulation.
I thought both ATI and nVidia were supplying chips for the next gen consoles. They probably don't make as much money per console, but they won't be out that much business unless both console and PC gaming does out.
Keep in mind that the new consoles won't come out until late this year at the earliest, more likely some time in 2006.
Putting in extra hardware is silly.
If you are emulating all the libraries and API, it is probably going to be bad. Besides, for XBox 2, the emulation only needs to best the performance of the ~760MHz Pentium III that is in the original XBox. Porting the APIs to native code can greatly help, and three 3+GHz PowerPC cores should pull it off easily.
Several Slashdotters picked up on that idea some time last year. I agreed with that this would be very feasible. For one, a game that uses the system's API a lot would benefit more as the API could be ported and non-API sections could be emulated. A multiple core 3+ GHz CPU should be able to easily emulate a ~700MHz PIII this way.
Some have claimed something about nVidia IP rights would either prevent it or require costly licencing, but I really don't understand that. nVidia's IP shouldn't be in Microsoft's API but in the driver and chip.
We still use WordPerfect Office in our small business. I'd switch us all to Open Office but there is no import feature for WordPerfect or Quattro Pro files that I have found.
I know it is funny.
The thing is, with the Mozilla line, and with Safari and other tabbable browsers, the users that are easily confused don't even need to know they are there, and the power users can still take advantage of them. Currently IE requires an add-on to use tabs which shouldn't be necessary.
I think the mini is a fine unit. Using VLC, a 1.25GHz mini will actually play HDV camcorder footage samples I downloaded from the internet that footage is 1440x1080i MPEG2.
/w a 15kRPM drive down to a base mini with a 5400RPM drive (some units were shipped with the slightly faster drive, mine was) and I was pretty happy, as I really didn't need that speed despite being a heavy multitasker and running apache /w php and mySQL servers.
It is somewhat beside the point though, I think for power users, mini was meant to be an introduction to OS X, not an end in itself. For the average user, I think they can do very well with a base mini as a primary machine, I have.
I'm not certain why people harp on the hard drive speed. I went from a 1CPU 2.2GHz Xeon
I think there's a difference between a Micky Mouse animation and yesterday's TV episode.
I agree that the earliear Mickey stuff should be out of copyright, but those protections exist to protect newer shows so that they can make enough money to justify production.
That's an odd claim, really.
I've been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix, but I don't really buy that argument.
While Internet Explorer is overly integrated into the operating system, the fact that your computer can access the internet means that your OS is on the internet too. Just that doing so with IE is believed to be more dangerious.
I agree.
Another limitation is that humans in the industrialized nations have more or less driven out natural selection. For example, stupid people are protected, if anything, it is someone else's fault that a stupid person did something that could have killed them. Sometimes the brain dead are allowed to live for fifteen years.
The highly intellectual people become either smart enough to not reproduce (contraceptives), reproduce less by choice or don't reproduce often because of social factors. Stupid people reproduce like rabbits, some of them start before they leave highschool.
$25/mo is twice that of Sirius, 2.5 times that of XM.
Having Internet access is nice, but using it via a tiny phone screen is not my idea of fun, I think my phone is 150 pixels in each direction. I was given a two month's trial but cancelled it within a couple weeks.
Yeah, WiFi doesn't even do much for short haul people unless they spend most of their time within reach of a mesh.
XM sounds very nice but I'm really not ready for it, I have other priorities. Maybe when my iPod breaks, but I'm hoping to be able to use it for a long time. The current portable XM players are more than twice the bulk of an iPod, so there needs to be some improvement in that regard.
Maybe if there was a merge of the two, like it would switch to WiFi if inside a large steel building when reception gets bad, but I bet most of that sort of infrastructure may be for business use, too many people using WiFi might simply degrade the performance of the network too much.