Sure they were. People may not have been using floppies to backup their hard drives anymore, but in 1998 a floppy was absolutely the standard way to transfer and store small files. It was totally normal still to type up a school paper and save it only to "your floppy" and put it in a stack of other floppies, and it was the only way to transfer a file to someone and know they'd be able to access it. Plenty of people didn't have internet, and nobody had CD-R's yet. Even USB 1 was fast enough to get the job done with the (then 16MB-ish) thumb drives that were about to become ubiquitous because they were certainly faster than floppies.
At least the airlines have to advertise the full cost of a ticket (minus luggage which is legitimately an optional expense). If I go to United.com and their ad or search engine says I can fly to SF for $292 then it's going to be $292, with a base fare of maybe $240 plus fees and taxes. The phone bills are so much more frustrating because the advertised rate might be $39/mo but then you have no clue what will be added on top of that, and then they can add even more down the road.
It's not a shot at Apple but he means having a dedicated "guest" machine also implies that it wasn't sanitized between guests, so while you're creating a machine whose security you don't care about, you're also exposing the next guest to an unknown and perhaps compromised state.
I'm red/green colorblind and cannot see the red laser pointers at all unless I'm looking at the exact spot where the beam is. I can't follow it around the screen at all. The green ones, on the other hand, I can see just fine. I suspect I'm not the only one who much prefers green for this reason.
It's reasonable to assume that a year ago they simply didn't have retina displays in the 7.9" size with sufficient yields and low enough prices yet. Are you suggesting that the better alternative was to wait a year and then release the mini? Why is an upgraded apple model always treated as though they're ripping off customers by forcing them to upgrade? Yes, many "fanboys" do, but that's their choice. I don't hear anybody complaining that Dell released a new PC with a 3.6GHz processor, so now I have to upgrade last year's model and Dell should have just waited until this year to sell computers....
Outside of a community of techies, I'll bet they're absolutely right that there's no demand for it. I have Verizon FiOS right now, and pay $75 for basic TV and 25Mbps internet. I could upgrade to 50Mbps for maybe $10 a month more, but I just don't see why. I do stream a lot of Netflix, rent TV shows from iTunes, and watch MLB.tv during the summer. I've even been known to DL the occasional multi-GB torrent. I'm sure that puts me in the top 10% of bandwidth users in the USA, if not the top 1%. The extra $10/mo would not be an issue. But... why? I just don't see that it would be useful or even noticeable.
I get the whole "640k should be enough for anyone" argument here, but I don't see it coming imminently. What REALISTIC application is there for Gigabit internet for the average consumer that would drive a telco to install it at the present?
Wrong device I'm sure. There's an M9000 that was available for $89 this year (that one you linked is from 2011). The newer one has Android 4.0 and 512MB RAM (same as iPad 2, for comparison). No idea if it's any good, but definitely not the same as the M80003 you found.
Yeah, I doubt there's 200 email attachments being sent for every human being on the planet every day. Or maybe my spam filter is a lot better than I thought....
There's been virtually no inflation since 2005 in the US, so that's not a factor here. Prices for some things have gone up, but there hasn't been any real inflation, at least not based on any official numbers.
Seriously, what is the reason for having a desktop ARM computer? Power consumption? I don't think there's a very large market for people who will settle for tablet-like performance in order to save a few dollars a month at most on electricity compared to existing low power processors. People with power grid problems will want something that runs on a battery anyway, and a tablet/netbook makes more sense there.
Is it just for something fun to play with? Something small and portable? You can always get a small ARM tablet and hook up the HDMI to a monitor if it's the full size display and keyboard you're missing.
Not sure what touch interface has to do with anything. That could be just as easily implemented with any architecture, and it's maybe the ONE thing I agree with Steve Jobs about -- touch does NOT work as a viable input method for a desktop.
He's not getting around the estate tax. He's giving it away instead, so it in no way benefits him.
He's said he would enact a 100% estate tax if he was president because he doesn't like for children to grow up millionaires who never have to work. He doesn't support the estate tax so that the government will increase revenues, but instead he supports it to keep people from inheriting the wealth.
I have an educational site that gets a ton of people who don't know a whole lot about computers and probably just use the default "Internet" that comes with their computer... instead of some "new Internet."
Nonetheless I have seen Firefox usage rise from 8.3% to 11.8% over the last 6 months. Things are looking good concerning average users switching to Firefox.
They are near the ocean, sure, but still aren't vulnerable like a southern city. Storms that hit from North Carolina and farther north are usually moving along the coast and hit at an angle. While this actually sounds like the storm would maintain its strength and devastate the entire coast, the opposite is true. The same forces that pull storms to the north cause a pretty good amount of shear that weaken the storm or simply won't allow it past a certain strength. Furthermore, the cold waters of the North Atlantic also dampen any storm's strength near DC or NY.
Flooding is still a concern due to rainfall in these cities, but any city within a few hundred miles of the coast is vulnerable from that. Fortunately these cities are above sea level and will drain eventually. Any loss of life would be tragic, but nothing like Katrina.
These cities have been hit before and will be hit again, so we should have plans in place to evacuate them of course. What I'm saying is that Katrina is a once in a lifetime event that could only happen in the Gulf of Mexico where waters were exceptionally warm and atmospheric conditions perfect a couple weeks ago. In my mind there is no reason whatsoever to fear that a massive Cat 5 could do this amount of destruction anywhere but the Gulf Coast, Florida, and maybe the Georgia/SC area of the SE Coast.
1) A kilowatt is an amount of potential energy, or power. A kilowatt-hour is a rate of energy over time. Sorry chief - a kilowatt is a measure of power. Power = Work / Time 2) On your criteria, most of/. has zero credibility. Probably true by any criteria.
It was one of the Auxilliary Power Units (APUs) that power Discovery's systems during re-entry and landing. These generators are powered by rocket fuel, so what you saw (and I saw as well) was the steady pulsing of exhaust from one of the APUs. They power things like the ailerons, rudder, and other vital systems for the orbiter.
Geeze, I go to Tech too and I gotta say that this sounds about right from my classmates.
I do agree with all of the bulleted points though. This system sucks mainly because the receivers are so friggin slow to record every answer and the professors don't really use it for anything useful anyway.
This is a very important thing to know. The price of a single share of Google is irrelevent. You may only be able to buy 4 or 5 shares, but it represents a greater percentage of the company than 4 or 5 shares would of, say, Dell.
I don't really feel a need to argue with you here, but I should point out that while at any one time there are ~110,000 troops, they are being continually rotated home. I have no idea what the total number is... but I would *guess* that 300,000 to 400,000 different soldiers and marines have been deployed. That brings the number down to only a few times the crime rate in DC. Obviously not a safe place to be... but still deaths are really few and far between as a whole.
If you look online you can find a decent 128mb USB drive for $13, and a good 256mb for just over $20.
Also, are you serious about the floppy drive? Floppy drives are the slowest, most unreliable and generally worst form of storage I have ever used. In the late 90's there were numerous different replacements for the floppy, like Zips, Superdisks (something like that) etc. None of these caught on because nobody had a drive to read it. Now we have a system where 99.5% of all users can read your files from a USB key at far faster speeds than a floppy could offer, but you want to go back to an 11.52mb floppy drive?
Some USB drives are flimsy, yes, but I remember putting floppy disks in my backpack, and almost every time the damn metal thingy would bend or get yanked off. I feel far more confident about tossing a solid state USB key into a backpack, pocket, cupholder, etc.
There is such a thing called Make Your Ownopoly -- I think my brother or somebody got it for Christmas one year. http://store.thetech.org/mak.html Let's you make your own monopoly board, print out pieces and logos, etc.
If they give a scholarship to every student, then how do they make money, and how do they value the scholarships? I could say that my public high school gives away ten billion dollar full tuition scholarships to every student...
It seems to me that there might be a little bit of a privacy issue here. Imagine if everyone in the church knows that you only put a $1 in the plate by its color, or if somebody knows you tip poorly by the colors you leave on the table.
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Sure they were. People may not have been using floppies to backup their hard drives anymore, but in 1998 a floppy was absolutely the standard way to transfer and store small files. It was totally normal still to type up a school paper and save it only to "your floppy" and put it in a stack of other floppies, and it was the only way to transfer a file to someone and know they'd be able to access it. Plenty of people didn't have internet, and nobody had CD-R's yet. Even USB 1 was fast enough to get the job done with the (then 16MB-ish) thumb drives that were about to become ubiquitous because they were certainly faster than floppies.
At least the airlines have to advertise the full cost of a ticket (minus luggage which is legitimately an optional expense). If I go to United.com and their ad or search engine says I can fly to SF for $292 then it's going to be $292, with a base fare of maybe $240 plus fees and taxes. The phone bills are so much more frustrating because the advertised rate might be $39/mo but then you have no clue what will be added on top of that, and then they can add even more down the road.
It's not a shot at Apple but he means having a dedicated "guest" machine also implies that it wasn't sanitized between guests, so while you're creating a machine whose security you don't care about, you're also exposing the next guest to an unknown and perhaps compromised state.
I'm red/green colorblind and cannot see the red laser pointers at all unless I'm looking at the exact spot where the beam is. I can't follow it around the screen at all. The green ones, on the other hand, I can see just fine. I suspect I'm not the only one who much prefers green for this reason.
It's reasonable to assume that a year ago they simply didn't have retina displays in the 7.9" size with sufficient yields and low enough prices yet. Are you suggesting that the better alternative was to wait a year and then release the mini? Why is an upgraded apple model always treated as though they're ripping off customers by forcing them to upgrade? Yes, many "fanboys" do, but that's their choice. I don't hear anybody complaining that Dell released a new PC with a 3.6GHz processor, so now I have to upgrade last year's model and Dell should have just waited until this year to sell computers....
Outside of a community of techies, I'll bet they're absolutely right that there's no demand for it. I have Verizon FiOS right now, and pay $75 for basic TV and 25Mbps internet. I could upgrade to 50Mbps for maybe $10 a month more, but I just don't see why. I do stream a lot of Netflix, rent TV shows from iTunes, and watch MLB.tv during the summer. I've even been known to DL the occasional multi-GB torrent. I'm sure that puts me in the top 10% of bandwidth users in the USA, if not the top 1%. The extra $10/mo would not be an issue. But... why? I just don't see that it would be useful or even noticeable.
I get the whole "640k should be enough for anyone" argument here, but I don't see it coming imminently. What REALISTIC application is there for Gigabit internet for the average consumer that would drive a telco to install it at the present?
Wrong device I'm sure. There's an M9000 that was available for $89 this year (that one you linked is from 2011). The newer one has Android 4.0 and 512MB RAM (same as iPad 2, for comparison). No idea if it's any good, but definitely not the same as the M80003 you found.
Yeah, I doubt there's 200 email attachments being sent for every human being on the planet every day. Or maybe my spam filter is a lot better than I thought....
There's been virtually no inflation since 2005 in the US, so that's not a factor here. Prices for some things have gone up, but there hasn't been any real inflation, at least not based on any official numbers.
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Just login and click a few buttons. It was actually really quick and painless for me.
Seriously, what is the reason for having a desktop ARM computer? Power consumption? I don't think there's a very large market for people who will settle for tablet-like performance in order to save a few dollars a month at most on electricity compared to existing low power processors. People with power grid problems will want something that runs on a battery anyway, and a tablet/netbook makes more sense there.
Is it just for something fun to play with? Something small and portable? You can always get a small ARM tablet and hook up the HDMI to a monitor if it's the full size display and keyboard you're missing.
Not sure what touch interface has to do with anything. That could be just as easily implemented with any architecture, and it's maybe the ONE thing I agree with Steve Jobs about -- touch does NOT work as a viable input method for a desktop.
He's not getting around the estate tax. He's giving it away instead, so it in no way benefits him.
He's said he would enact a 100% estate tax if he was president because he doesn't like for children to grow up millionaires who never have to work. He doesn't support the estate tax so that the government will increase revenues, but instead he supports it to keep people from inheriting the wealth.
I have an educational site that gets a ton of people who don't know a whole lot about computers and probably just use the default "Internet" that comes with their computer... instead of some "new Internet."
Nonetheless I have seen Firefox usage rise from 8.3% to 11.8% over the last 6 months. Things are looking good concerning average users switching to Firefox.
They are near the ocean, sure, but still aren't vulnerable like a southern city. Storms that hit from North Carolina and farther north are usually moving along the coast and hit at an angle. While this actually sounds like the storm would maintain its strength and devastate the entire coast, the opposite is true. The same forces that pull storms to the north cause a pretty good amount of shear that weaken the storm or simply won't allow it past a certain strength. Furthermore, the cold waters of the North Atlantic also dampen any storm's strength near DC or NY.
Flooding is still a concern due to rainfall in these cities, but any city within a few hundred miles of the coast is vulnerable from that. Fortunately these cities are above sea level and will drain eventually. Any loss of life would be tragic, but nothing like Katrina.
These cities have been hit before and will be hit again, so we should have plans in place to evacuate them of course. What I'm saying is that Katrina is a once in a lifetime event that could only happen in the Gulf of Mexico where waters were exceptionally warm and atmospheric conditions perfect a couple weeks ago. In my mind there is no reason whatsoever to fear that a massive Cat 5 could do this amount of destruction anywhere but the Gulf Coast, Florida, and maybe the Georgia/SC area of the SE Coast.
1) A kilowatt is an amount of potential energy, or power. A kilowatt-hour is a rate of energy over time. /. has zero credibility.
Sorry chief - a kilowatt is a measure of power. Power = Work / Time 2) On your criteria, most of
Probably true by any criteria.
According to the astronaut on Fox News:
It was one of the Auxilliary Power Units (APUs) that power Discovery's systems during re-entry and landing. These generators are powered by rocket fuel, so what you saw (and I saw as well) was the steady pulsing of exhaust from one of the APUs. They power things like the ailerons, rudder, and other vital systems for the orbiter.
Geeze, I go to Tech too and I gotta say that this sounds about right from my classmates.
I do agree with all of the bulleted points though. This system sucks mainly because the receivers are so friggin slow to record every answer and the professors don't really use it for anything useful anyway.
This is a very important thing to know. The price of a single share of Google is irrelevent. You may only be able to buy 4 or 5 shares, but it represents a greater percentage of the company than 4 or 5 shares would of, say, Dell.
And why was six afraid of seven?
Because seven eight nine.
I don't really feel a need to argue with you here, but I should point out that while at any one time there are ~110,000 troops, they are being continually rotated home. I have no idea what the total number is... but I would *guess* that 300,000 to 400,000 different soldiers and marines have been deployed. That brings the number down to only a few times the crime rate in DC. Obviously not a safe place to be... but still deaths are really few and far between as a whole.
If you look online you can find a decent 128mb USB drive for $13, and a good 256mb for just over $20.
Also, are you serious about the floppy drive? Floppy drives are the slowest, most unreliable and generally worst form of storage I have ever used. In the late 90's there were numerous different replacements for the floppy, like Zips, Superdisks (something like that) etc. None of these caught on because nobody had a drive to read it. Now we have a system where 99.5% of all users can read your files from a USB key at far faster speeds than a floppy could offer, but you want to go back to an 11.52mb floppy drive?
Some USB drives are flimsy, yes, but I remember putting floppy disks in my backpack, and almost every time the damn metal thingy would bend or get yanked off. I feel far more confident about tossing a solid state USB key into a backpack, pocket, cupholder, etc.
There is such a thing called Make Your Ownopoly -- I think my brother or somebody got it for Christmas one year. http://store.thetech.org/mak.html Let's you make your own monopoly board, print out pieces and logos, etc.
If they give a scholarship to every student, then how do they make money, and how do they value the scholarships? I could say that my public high school gives away ten billion dollar full tuition scholarships to every student...
It seems to me that there might be a little bit of a privacy issue here. Imagine if everyone in the church knows that you only put a $1 in the plate by its color, or if somebody knows you tip poorly by the colors you leave on the table.
When Moz loads, it still has that old, ugly splash screen. I did a little googling and found some much better ones if anybody wants them:
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