The backward compatibility is one thing I do like about Windows. I still use a version of CAD software written for Windows 3.1 under the Win32S API, it works fine under XP. The program is about 13 years old now, and I haven't come across any major bugs that I remember, and the platform is perfectly stable. The only limitation is that that drawing names are only allowed the old 8.3 character naming convention.
I think the difference is that if a bug fix for the OS breaks the software, you are more likely to get a fix for said software to maintain compatibility. If it's not certified, then I think they are likely to tell you to either go away or buy the upgrade.
I don't blame any of the enterprise software companies for dedicating themselves to a small number of distributions. With so many variations on Linux, I think they have to cut their support losses and specify what distribution that they will provide operational support. I'm sure the software will work on many other distributions, but fixing bugs with the ever-changing distribution landscape is an unending game of wack-a-mole.
I've been using rabbit ears for several months. For some reason, it actually worked better than one outdoor antenna that I bought. I did replace it with an in-attic installation because the CBS affiliate was too far away (IIRC, 40+ miles). The one that didn't work well was an "amplified" antenna. I think amplified antenae are rubbish, I was only willing to try one because that's all a local Radio Shack had that was good for UHF+VHF. I suggest just getting a large passive antenna and put it in the roof.
All the HD tuners I've seen offer downconversion to composite, S-video, 480i Component, 480p component, as well as the HD resolutions. Most of the current digitally broadcast content is 480i/480p, save for prime-time and high profile shows, so usually there's no scaling needed.
I really don't know where the set-top HD tuners are. I do agree they need to be made and made affordably. I would hope that they would be made available for $50-$100, I don't see why that can't be done. Given that most or all broadcasters are transmitting digitally, I'd think there would be a market for them to improve picture quality. I don't even bother tuning to analog channels because of the snow, static and other analog issues that aren't present on the digital signal.
I just use an HTPC to record over the air HD. There are a lot of PCI cards that capture ATSC. There is even one that's about the size of a large USB flash drive, two if you count the rebranded version, so you can use it with a notebook computer too. With a good roof-top antenna, I get good video with better pickup of more stations than I can get with an analog tuner with the same antenna.
When I checked, satellite set-top boxes have HD tuners too.
I think the whole thing about DX10 could have been better presented, better yet, not included at all. It seems as if it's included to add to the word count.
Linux has often been an OS for the discerning and technically capable crowd. I really don't have a problem with it being sold under their business line-up. I think you must also understand that the user base of Linux as a desktop OS has often been found to be under 1%. That's not a very much, and I think bolsters the fact that there's not much market for it. I think you should be very careful to try not to foist Linux onto computer vendors because you want them to promote it - it's not Dell's job to cater to the niches, neither is it HP's job, or Walmart's. Changes don't happen that way.
Dell's system does seem to be pretty erratic though. I could have sworn that their Precision workstations and mobile workstations were offered with Linux last week.
It might be fair use if you post a short clip on your own web site, but YouTube is not your own Web site. Also, most of the clips on YouTube are just wholesale reposts of someone else's work, not works containing your own work plus a few bits of other people's works. They do re-use other network's material, but usually it's only in segments of a few seconds.
I'd think that Microsoft is too big to bother with Linux in the first place. The fact that they are saying anything and trying to make deals, such as the one with Novell, tells me that they do think it's a real competitor.
There are quite a few unjustly granted patent applications, so I can see Linux infringing on a lot of supposedly legal patents.
Europeans should not be taxed by a US seller, but they are responsible for customs and duties which is roughly equivalent to the VAT/GST and such that Europeans pay for domestic purchases.
A Michigan resident is required to report and pay use taxes for out-of-state purchases on their 1040-MI form. Use tax is basically a renamed sales tax on items purchased out of state. You can dodge it by lying about it on your tax form, but it might become an issue if you get audited. Thankfully there is an inexpensive & honest way out of it by paying a few dollars, amount based on your income. No US resident is required to charge sales tax for out-of-state buyers. I don't know if in-state buyers have to be charged sales tax.
The commonly made argument against mandatory vaccination is that it supposedly undermines the abstinence education that some parents prefer, but I haven't heard of anything that suggests that behavior is altered because of a vaccine. From what I hear, the Hepatitis B vaccine hasn't increased risky behavior.
I have not heard of an economic reason before. I don't know what the costs of the alternative tests are, or of the treatments should treatment be found needed. I have heard that the current pap tests are very uncomfortable.
That's why interpretations of the Geneva convention suggest that it's a violation to use lasers. Of course, when we get leaders that intentionally play dumb when it suits them, they find ways around it. I've seen reports, I think in a couple AP stories, that the Soviets and Chinese have used lasers to try to interfere with pilots. I should say that haven't confirmed them with other sources.
Step 3: Sell defective products. When people are compelled to pirate on a larger scale because the Disney DVD they rented for the kids keeps fading in and out visually and audiably, or skips and dies on a particular scene...
Skips and dies on a scene? Do you have a source for that? I've never seen that as a problem except for very abused DVDs, and that's the problem of with the business renting it, not the company that made the original disc. The renting company should provide a non-scratched DVD in replacement.
Isn't that why crime happens as much as it does? We get some pansies to pass some laws that get us to depend on a government that can't or won't protect us anyway, and it looks like a feedback loop until we reach our police state.
From a legal standpoint, it's problematic. The problem is that I'm really not feeling any sympathy for the people that openly admit to copyright infringement to get a $20 program. Also, the software is free to try. It looks to me like a whiner that wants a free lunch to me.
The problem is, like with your drug example, takes a lot of money prove out with animal trials, varying levels of human trials and such. The drug approval process is anything but cheap, and even with all those expenses, there's no guarantees that it will be effective, approved or marketable. That's part of what the patent system is protecting. Even with the "first mover advantage", I don't see a point in paying for all that if it can be cloned in a few years. The generic drug makers don't pay for any of that.
Given how strict the the approval process is now, something seemingly as simple as aspirin wouldn't be approved for sale. Or maybe the drug makers would try to place the formula it under trade secret, meaning that it could be locked away for longer than patents.
If they couldn't have some restriction or charge some price for the service, then they have no incentive to build and maintain the towers, which is certainly not free. That much, I am fine with, but I don't like it that I have to buy the phone and the service from the same company, when such unreasonable demands were abolished with every other utility.
Where in the ars article does it say that the network service would be free? It looks to me that the customer would still pay that. The analogy in the article was that a third party phone that doesn't harm the network should be legal. The phone makers don't pay for that, all they do is provided a phone that can be used on the network. If I bought a GE phone made for a land line, GE doesn't pay ATT, I do. Why should a hypothetical Skype cellular phone be any different? Why shouldn't I legally be able to buy any phone I want with any service I want?
Burning it is better than letting the methane itself become a greehouse gas. IIRC, methane about 130x times worse than CO2 in terms of greenhouse gas potential. A lot of this stuff is naturally just bubbling out of the ocean floor. Our cattle are making some too, but I don't know if it's significant compared to other sources.
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The MacBook Pro may be marketed as pro-grade, but the MacBook isn't necessarily junk. Outside the graphics chip, the chips in both of them are nearly identical. If a photographer can save $800 (assuming light room costs the same) and get a program that's designed to work well with his/her copy of Photoshop, I don't see why that would be a more compelling option. Established pros can easily pay more, but may not necessarily want to if they don't have to, and the up-and-coming are where the market shifts come from. Very often, they will stay with the software that they learned to use unless there is a significant reason to change.
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In one sense, you are right, it seems as if a new major generation of video chips are released every year. In another sense, it's expensive to get a good video chip in a Mac, and expensive to get a machine that can get one. Lightroom would probably work far better on a regular MacBook than Aperture can.
I'm not buying your argument. It's not as if CFL is the only lighting technology available, by the time this ban takes effect, LEDs will be available. Also, CFLs can be made with high frequency balasts, and they can be made with a color spectrum that looks like an incandescent. It just takes a little trial and error to find which ones are good.
Photographers get better light from LEDs, they can be made broad spectrum, with adjustable color temperature. They aren't a fire hazard like photography incandescents can be, and they don't change color temperature when dimmed. LEDs are also a lot lighter and more compact, easier to haul and so on.
The problem with the idea of suggesting that the waste heat of light is being put to good use is that heating the ceiling is not a good idea because that's not where the heat is needed, yet that's where the heat is generated, and where it stays. From a cost perspective, there are usually better ways to heat a home than using electricity.
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The backward compatibility is one thing I do like about Windows. I still use a version of CAD software written for Windows 3.1 under the Win32S API, it works fine under XP. The program is about 13 years old now, and I haven't come across any major bugs that I remember, and the platform is perfectly stable. The only limitation is that that drawing names are only allowed the old 8.3 character naming convention.
I think the difference is that if a bug fix for the OS breaks the software, you are more likely to get a fix for said software to maintain compatibility. If it's not certified, then I think they are likely to tell you to either go away or buy the upgrade.
I don't blame any of the enterprise software companies for dedicating themselves to a small number of distributions. With so many variations on Linux, I think they have to cut their support losses and specify what distribution that they will provide operational support. I'm sure the software will work on many other distributions, but fixing bugs with the ever-changing distribution landscape is an unending game of wack-a-mole.
I've been using rabbit ears for several months. For some reason, it actually worked better than one outdoor antenna that I bought. I did replace it with an in-attic installation because the CBS affiliate was too far away (IIRC, 40+ miles). The one that didn't work well was an "amplified" antenna. I think amplified antenae are rubbish, I was only willing to try one because that's all a local Radio Shack had that was good for UHF+VHF. I suggest just getting a large passive antenna and put it in the roof.
All the HD tuners I've seen offer downconversion to composite, S-video, 480i Component, 480p component, as well as the HD resolutions. Most of the current digitally broadcast content is 480i/480p, save for prime-time and high profile shows, so usually there's no scaling needed.
I really don't know where the set-top HD tuners are. I do agree they need to be made and made affordably. I would hope that they would be made available for $50-$100, I don't see why that can't be done. Given that most or all broadcasters are transmitting digitally, I'd think there would be a market for them to improve picture quality. I don't even bother tuning to analog channels because of the snow, static and other analog issues that aren't present on the digital signal.
I just use an HTPC to record over the air HD. There are a lot of PCI cards that capture ATSC. There is even one that's about the size of a large USB flash drive, two if you count the rebranded version, so you can use it with a notebook computer too. With a good roof-top antenna, I get good video with better pickup of more stations than I can get with an analog tuner with the same antenna.
When I checked, satellite set-top boxes have HD tuners too.
I think the whole thing about DX10 could have been better presented, better yet, not included at all. It seems as if it's included to add to the word count.
Linux has often been an OS for the discerning and technically capable crowd. I really don't have a problem with it being sold under their business line-up. I think you must also understand that the user base of Linux as a desktop OS has often been found to be under 1%. That's not a very much, and I think bolsters the fact that there's not much market for it. I think you should be very careful to try not to foist Linux onto computer vendors because you want them to promote it - it's not Dell's job to cater to the niches, neither is it HP's job, or Walmart's. Changes don't happen that way.
Dell's system does seem to be pretty erratic though. I could have sworn that their Precision workstations and mobile workstations were offered with Linux last week.
It might be fair use if you post a short clip on your own web site, but YouTube is not your own Web site. Also, most of the clips on YouTube are just wholesale reposts of someone else's work, not works containing your own work plus a few bits of other people's works. They do re-use other network's material, but usually it's only in segments of a few seconds.
I'd think that Microsoft is too big to bother with Linux in the first place. The fact that they are saying anything and trying to make deals, such as the one with Novell, tells me that they do think it's a real competitor.
There are quite a few unjustly granted patent applications, so I can see Linux infringing on a lot of supposedly legal patents.
Europeans should not be taxed by a US seller, but they are responsible for customs and duties which is roughly equivalent to the VAT/GST and such that Europeans pay for domestic purchases.
A Michigan resident is required to report and pay use taxes for out-of-state purchases on their 1040-MI form. Use tax is basically a renamed sales tax on items purchased out of state. You can dodge it by lying about it on your tax form, but it might become an issue if you get audited. Thankfully there is an inexpensive & honest way out of it by paying a few dollars, amount based on your income. No US resident is required to charge sales tax for out-of-state buyers. I don't know if in-state buyers have to be charged sales tax.
I don't know if that would do it. Craigslist is partly owned by eBay. It is a minority stake, but it may be enough to get IRS attention.
The commonly made argument against mandatory vaccination is that it supposedly undermines the abstinence education that some parents prefer, but I haven't heard of anything that suggests that behavior is altered because of a vaccine. From what I hear, the Hepatitis B vaccine hasn't increased risky behavior.
I have not heard of an economic reason before. I don't know what the costs of the alternative tests are, or of the treatments should treatment be found needed. I have heard that the current pap tests are very uncomfortable.
That's why interpretations of the Geneva convention suggest that it's a violation to use lasers. Of course, when we get leaders that intentionally play dumb when it suits them, they find ways around it. I've seen reports, I think in a couple AP stories, that the Soviets and Chinese have used lasers to try to interfere with pilots. I should say that haven't confirmed them with other sources.
Step 3: Sell defective products. When people are compelled to pirate on a larger scale because the Disney DVD they rented for the kids keeps fading in and out visually and audiably, or skips and dies on a particular scene...
Skips and dies on a scene? Do you have a source for that? I've never seen that as a problem except for very abused DVDs, and that's the problem of with the business renting it, not the company that made the original disc. The renting company should provide a non-scratched DVD in replacement.
I'm puzzled, how would the market solve the war on terrorism?
Isn't that why crime happens as much as it does? We get some pansies to pass some laws that get us to depend on a government that can't or won't protect us anyway, and it looks like a feedback loop until we reach our police state.
From a legal standpoint, it's problematic. The problem is that I'm really not feeling any sympathy for the people that openly admit to copyright infringement to get a $20 program. Also, the software is free to try. It looks to me like a whiner that wants a free lunch to me.
The problem is, like with your drug example, takes a lot of money prove out with animal trials, varying levels of human trials and such. The drug approval process is anything but cheap, and even with all those expenses, there's no guarantees that it will be effective, approved or marketable. That's part of what the patent system is protecting. Even with the "first mover advantage", I don't see a point in paying for all that if it can be cloned in a few years. The generic drug makers don't pay for any of that.
Given how strict the the approval process is now, something seemingly as simple as aspirin wouldn't be approved for sale. Or maybe the drug makers would try to place the formula it under trade secret, meaning that it could be locked away for longer than patents.
If they couldn't have some restriction or charge some price for the service, then they have no incentive to build and maintain the towers, which is certainly not free. That much, I am fine with, but I don't like it that I have to buy the phone and the service from the same company, when such unreasonable demands were abolished with every other utility.
Where in the ars article does it say that the network service would be free? It looks to me that the customer would still pay that. The analogy in the article was that a third party phone that doesn't harm the network should be legal. The phone makers don't pay for that, all they do is provided a phone that can be used on the network. If I bought a GE phone made for a land line, GE doesn't pay ATT, I do. Why should a hypothetical Skype cellular phone be any different? Why shouldn't I legally be able to buy any phone I want with any service I want?
Burning it is better than letting the methane itself become a greehouse gas. IIRC, methane about 130x times worse than CO2 in terms of greenhouse gas potential. A lot of this stuff is naturally just bubbling out of the ocean floor. Our cattle are making some too, but I don't know if it's significant compared to other sources.
The MacBook Pro may be marketed as pro-grade, but the MacBook isn't necessarily junk. Outside the graphics chip, the chips in both of them are nearly identical. If a photographer can save $800 (assuming light room costs the same) and get a program that's designed to work well with his/her copy of Photoshop, I don't see why that would be a more compelling option. Established pros can easily pay more, but may not necessarily want to if they don't have to, and the up-and-coming are where the market shifts come from. Very often, they will stay with the software that they learned to use unless there is a significant reason to change.
In one sense, you are right, it seems as if a new major generation of video chips are released every year. In another sense, it's expensive to get a good video chip in a Mac, and expensive to get a machine that can get one. Lightroom would probably work far better on a regular MacBook than Aperture can.
I suppose dupes are good!
So you tried just one brand? I haven't had a major reliability problem and I live in a fairly active area, electrically.
I'm not buying your argument. It's not as if CFL is the only lighting technology available, by the time this ban takes effect, LEDs will be available. Also, CFLs can be made with high frequency balasts, and they can be made with a color spectrum that looks like an incandescent. It just takes a little trial and error to find which ones are good.
Photographers get better light from LEDs, they can be made broad spectrum, with adjustable color temperature. They aren't a fire hazard like photography incandescents can be, and they don't change color temperature when dimmed. LEDs are also a lot lighter and more compact, easier to haul and so on.
The problem with the idea of suggesting that the waste heat of light is being put to good use is that heating the ceiling is not a good idea because that's not where the heat is needed, yet that's where the heat is generated, and where it stays. From a cost perspective, there are usually better ways to heat a home than using electricity.