I really don't know about this more natural / less natural argument. It's actually a logical fallacy, because there are plenty of natural chemicals can kill you more efficiently than any artificial chemical could.
That said, I am suspicious of HFCS but it doesn't appear that there is something resembling a scientific consensus on its negative impacts.
I don't think corn ethanol created a nation of alcoholics, at least I'm skeptical of your claim. That's just one product and I don't really know of anyone that drinks corn alcohol products.
Sony could have crippled a 80GB hard drive and sold them as 60GB with drive firmware that only uses the first 3/4ths of the drive. Sony would have kept the same model number and marketing, gotten a lower price, and few people would be any wiser about it.. It probably helps them better to standardize the machines though, dropping the EE chip harmonizes the US model to be more in line with the rest of the world.
Comparing PATA to MFM makes no sense, they are polar opposite It's actually a significant disadvantage to using MFM, but using a PATA drive will get you 99% the SATA performance in a device that already exists and is paid for.
I don't think commerce and an idea of utopia are necessarily contradictory. I know everyone has somewhat different ideas of utopia, but a utopia that doesn't have some form of trading doesn't really make much sense to me.
I think defacing a commercial virtual presense is just as immature as a real one, even if the damage done really isn't. I know people get childish on the Internet, but that's pretty lame.
I think it's a fine price though, that would be the cheapest HD player and it's an upscaling DVD player too. I have a native 1080p display (as in, it really is 1920x1080 with progressive inputs), but it's a video projector, showing a very large image. There is a minimum distance to screen width ratio before it's worth going 1080p over 720p or 1080i. I think it's between 2.0 to 1 and 1.5 to 1. A person with a 42" diagonal screen would be OK with 720p unless they sit closer than 6ft from the screen, then there may be a clear difference.
I don't know if I would buy it though, as I said, I have a display arrangement where 1080i/p is clearly distinguisable from each other.
If it's that hard to get it "right", then it doesn't seem to be very worthwhile, does it?
The definition of a "real" seafood place is pretty nebulous as it is, I've been to a few nice places, chain and non-chain, and quite frankly, I don't care to ever try another one again. Maybe calamari lovers would be better off just admitting that maybe a lot of people are just never going to like it, even if it's done right, it's a heck of a lot easier on everyone.
This probably applies to anything that's subjective, don't assume that the person that doesn't like it didn't experience the proper circumstances, or that they don't understand it or that they aren't enlightened enough. Just live and let live.
It's not that bad if you can route them properly. I don't see the point in paying a significant premium for a SATA optical drive. The reason that there aren't a whole lot of boards without a PATA port is because not many people have that sort of ideological bent. It costs almost nothing to install the socket, and it costs almost nothing to just not use the socket, and turning away people that want the port would cost more in sales than leaving the socket off saves. I certainly don't think it's worth buying an ASUS board just so you only get one socket. It's better to have a more upstanding brand behind it and have an extra port you won't use.
Sometimes, I'm tempted to call the boards "fatherboards" just to see if it upsets someone.
In some fairness to the naming, the first two thirds of the model number describes the chipset and main feature. I have no idea what "DQ6" is, maybe that's the type of Dairy Queen building that goes with the board.
I am averse to concerts, I really din't think I've enjoyed any concert, the sound levels are just too uncomfortable.
I really don't like the idea of devaluing a work just because it's easy to copy. The idea of buying presence may work for musicians, but it won't work for film makers and book authors, both require a lot of work and money to make, but once made, is easy to copy. Under the suggested regime of no copyright, I just don't see how there's sufficient money to be made to make it worth making. I don't know if you'll recall, but a movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon only made money in countries with decent copyright. It effectively made no money at all in homeland China because the movie was bootlegged immediately and it was basically only the bootlegs that sold.
Yeah, but's -not- a mugger, is it? It's the government. Maybe they don't have a -whole- lot of choice about their government in Japan, but here in the US we -do- and we end up with just as many (and probably more) bullshit taxes and regulations.
Japan hasn't been Imperial since the end of WWII, they are a democracy now, though a little different than the US model, they are still a democracy.
Huh? I think it's a tired argument that one shouldn't get recurring income from a work. No one gets enough money from one song, or one book or any single work to live off it for the rest of their lives. It shouldn't be that way anyway, but pretending such a situation exists right now is ludicrous. Usually, the up-front payment for a published work only makes for a barely higher than livable wage anyway, and in exchange, they get royalties for their work investment if it continues to sell.
I'm fine with a 14 year copyright, I think that sounds pretty fair. I think that's a lot fairer than no copyright and a lot fairer than indefinite copyright as well
It doesn't matter what was done in the past. Seriously. I think we need to get over who did it before.
Ill planned design? Sometimes it takes a less common solution to solve a problem. I don't know what the problem would be, but then, I am not well versed in problems that need unusual solutions. I think airports are one use though, if you think about it. I've seen video displays for departures and arrivals at airports out in the open, away from walls, and you can't really fit a computer there without looking stupid. I don't see how wireless networking would solve the problem. Fiber networking is very expensive. I'd really have to see the relative costs, but the Extio seems relatively inexpensive.
Then there is the radio revenue, but I don't think that helps much.
Actually, I don't think there is any radio revenue in the US, at least not from terrestrial radio, due to some law in the late 30's. The RIAA is trying to get radio revenue, but I don't think that has any chance of happening, because NAB has a significant lobbying force too.
What if the remote site goes down? There comes a point that finding it on the web may become not worth the time, you might just store a local copy if you think you ever want to see a certain file again.
I've never paid for.Mac. It does bother me that they can't see fit to be more compatible with basic stuff like third party web hosting services for iWeb, but I don't feel stuck with it because iWeb stinks anyway.
I don't know why that one poster said that it was a collection of open standards, it really doesn't matter because it's about as closed as one can get, I think. I've never heard of a non-Apple program being able to take advantage of.Mac services.
"Software as a Service" died back in 2000... why does MSFT keep insisting on bringing it back up?
Then tell me why Google bothered with their Google doc service. It's still far from being a replacement for local document apps, but I think it would be stupid to ignore the potential. It sounds like they are trying to make their own infrastructure for web apps & services.
Tablets (okay, "tables" now)
No, tablets and Surface are separate product types, filling different niches.
It would be damned interesting to see MSFT come up with a new idea that folks actually like, instead of chasing others' successes
That would be nice, but it seems like they are too big and bureaucratic of a company. Anything resembling something different and interesting probably gets lost in the maze.
Wasn't "rumble" almost always a feature that can be disabled? I don't miss it. I guess doing decent rumble in a compact controller is too hard to do well on a reasonable budget, so they just do a half-assed cop-out and pretend it's a desirable feature.
I think servers are a pretty small portion of the hardware ecosystem. Most people don't have fancy video cards, I don't think the minority of people with fancy video cards are a significant problem. RAM and hard drives don't seem to take much power, I think desktop drives take about 10W each. I don't know about RAM, but most RAM doesn't even get very warm, which suggests that they aren't a significant power consumer.
I think the browser backspace is just a mistake in the original browser design that should not have propagated. It should have been ctrl-backspace.
Tabbing over to the appropriate field is sometimes the best and quickest method. I don't think mousing or tabbing should be used in exclusion of each other. Mousing between adjacent fields is a lot slower for most people, and tabbing to different regions of the screen is slower than mousing.
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Storage? How often do you store things on the surface where you use your computer?
I really don't know about this more natural / less natural argument. It's actually a logical fallacy, because there are plenty of natural chemicals can kill you more efficiently than any artificial chemical could.
That said, I am suspicious of HFCS but it doesn't appear that there is something resembling a scientific consensus on its negative impacts.
I don't think corn ethanol created a nation of alcoholics, at least I'm skeptical of your claim. That's just one product and I don't really know of anyone that drinks corn alcohol products.
Sony could have crippled a 80GB hard drive and sold them as 60GB with drive firmware that only uses the first 3/4ths of the drive. Sony would have kept the same model number and marketing, gotten a lower price, and few people would be any wiser about it.. It probably helps them better to standardize the machines though, dropping the EE chip harmonizes the US model to be more in line with the rest of the world.
Comparing PATA to MFM makes no sense, they are polar opposite It's actually a significant disadvantage to using MFM, but using a PATA drive will get you 99% the SATA performance in a device that already exists and is paid for.
I don't think commerce and an idea of utopia are necessarily contradictory. I know everyone has somewhat different ideas of utopia, but a utopia that doesn't have some form of trading doesn't really make much sense to me.
I think defacing a commercial virtual presense is just as immature as a real one, even if the damage done really isn't. I know people get childish on the Internet, but that's pretty lame.
I think it's a fine price though, that would be the cheapest HD player and it's an upscaling DVD player too. I have a native 1080p display (as in, it really is 1920x1080 with progressive inputs), but it's a video projector, showing a very large image. There is a minimum distance to screen width ratio before it's worth going 1080p over 720p or 1080i. I think it's between 2.0 to 1 and 1.5 to 1. A person with a 42" diagonal screen would be OK with 720p unless they sit closer than 6ft from the screen, then there may be a clear difference.
I don't know if I would buy it though, as I said, I have a display arrangement where 1080i/p is clearly distinguisable from each other.
If it's that hard to get it "right", then it doesn't seem to be very worthwhile, does it?
The definition of a "real" seafood place is pretty nebulous as it is, I've been to a few nice places, chain and non-chain, and quite frankly, I don't care to ever try another one again. Maybe calamari lovers would be better off just admitting that maybe a lot of people are just never going to like it, even if it's done right, it's a heck of a lot easier on everyone.
This probably applies to anything that's subjective, don't assume that the person that doesn't like it didn't experience the proper circumstances, or that they don't understand it or that they aren't enlightened enough. Just live and let live.
It's not that bad if you can route them properly. I don't see the point in paying a significant premium for a SATA optical drive. The reason that there aren't a whole lot of boards without a PATA port is because not many people have that sort of ideological bent. It costs almost nothing to install the socket, and it costs almost nothing to just not use the socket, and turning away people that want the port would cost more in sales than leaving the socket off saves. I certainly don't think it's worth buying an ASUS board just so you only get one socket. It's better to have a more upstanding brand behind it and have an extra port you won't use.
Sometimes, I'm tempted to call the boards "fatherboards" just to see if it upsets someone.
In some fairness to the naming, the first two thirds of the model number describes the chipset and main feature. I have no idea what "DQ6" is, maybe that's the type of Dairy Queen building that goes with the board.
I am averse to concerts, I really din't think I've enjoyed any concert, the sound levels are just too uncomfortable.
I really don't like the idea of devaluing a work just because it's easy to copy. The idea of buying presence may work for musicians, but it won't work for film makers and book authors, both require a lot of work and money to make, but once made, is easy to copy. Under the suggested regime of no copyright, I just don't see how there's sufficient money to be made to make it worth making. I don't know if you'll recall, but a movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon only made money in countries with decent copyright. It effectively made no money at all in homeland China because the movie was bootlegged immediately and it was basically only the bootlegs that sold.
Yeah, but's -not- a mugger, is it? It's the government. Maybe they don't have a -whole- lot of choice about their government in Japan, but here in the US we -do- and we end up with just as many (and probably more) bullshit taxes and regulations.
Japan hasn't been Imperial since the end of WWII, they are a democracy now, though a little different than the US model, they are still a democracy.
Huh? I think it's a tired argument that one shouldn't get recurring income from a work. No one gets enough money from one song, or one book or any single work to live off it for the rest of their lives. It shouldn't be that way anyway, but pretending such a situation exists right now is ludicrous. Usually, the up-front payment for a published work only makes for a barely higher than livable wage anyway, and in exchange, they get royalties for their work investment if it continues to sell.
I'm fine with a 14 year copyright, I think that sounds pretty fair. I think that's a lot fairer than no copyright and a lot fairer than indefinite copyright as well
It doesn't matter what was done in the past. Seriously. I think we need to get over who did it before.
Ill planned design? Sometimes it takes a less common solution to solve a problem. I don't know what the problem would be, but then, I am not well versed in problems that need unusual solutions. I think airports are one use though, if you think about it. I've seen video displays for departures and arrivals at airports out in the open, away from walls, and you can't really fit a computer there without looking stupid. I don't see how wireless networking would solve the problem. Fiber networking is very expensive. I'd really have to see the relative costs, but the Extio seems relatively inexpensive.
No, that story was invented by CowboyNeal detractors just to embarrass him.
Then there is the radio revenue, but I don't think that helps much.
Actually, I don't think there is any radio revenue in the US, at least not from terrestrial radio, due to some law in the late 30's. The RIAA is trying to get radio revenue, but I don't think that has any chance of happening, because NAB has a significant lobbying force too.
Here's a source:
http://tinyurl.com/yr484e
What if the remote site goes down? There comes a point that finding it on the web may become not worth the time, you might just store a local copy if you think you ever want to see a certain file again.
I've never paid for .Mac. It does bother me that they can't see fit to be more compatible with basic stuff like third party web hosting services for iWeb, but I don't feel stuck with it because iWeb stinks anyway.
.Mac services.
I don't know why that one poster said that it was a collection of open standards, it really doesn't matter because it's about as closed as one can get, I think. I've never heard of a non-Apple program being able to take advantage of
"Software as a Service" died back in 2000... why does MSFT keep insisting on bringing it back up?
Then tell me why Google bothered with their Google doc service. It's still far from being a replacement for local document apps, but I think it would be stupid to ignore the potential. It sounds like they are trying to make their own infrastructure for web apps & services.
Tablets (okay, "tables" now)
No, tablets and Surface are separate product types, filling different niches.
It would be damned interesting to see MSFT come up with a new idea that folks actually like, instead of chasing others' successes
That would be nice, but it seems like they are too big and bureaucratic of a company. Anything resembling something different and interesting probably gets lost in the maze.
Wasn't "rumble" almost always a feature that can be disabled? I don't miss it. I guess doing decent rumble in a compact controller is too hard to do well on a reasonable budget, so they just do a half-assed cop-out and pretend it's a desirable feature.
I think servers are a pretty small portion of the hardware ecosystem. Most people don't have fancy video cards, I don't think the minority of people with fancy video cards are a significant problem. RAM and hard drives don't seem to take much power, I think desktop drives take about 10W each. I don't know about RAM, but most RAM doesn't even get very warm, which suggests that they aren't a significant power consumer.
Why is it that you never learned shift-tab?
I think the browser backspace is just a mistake in the original browser design that should not have propagated. It should have been ctrl-backspace.
Tabbing over to the appropriate field is sometimes the best and quickest method. I don't think mousing or tabbing should be used in exclusion of each other. Mousing between adjacent fields is a lot slower for most people, and tabbing to different regions of the screen is slower than mousing.
Still, it's easy to get it back, it's not that hard to get a price adjustment or just return the machine. I don't like doing that through.
I called this last week, on the basis on that this track was taken with the last price drop with the previous unit.