While not first hand information, should you check into it you'll find out how true it is... If you do decide to lease systems from a company such as IBM, shen the lease is up you have to return all the machines and start over or buy out the lease. Now if you are in charge of purchasing a large number of systems for many employees and some of these systems go missing (it happens, I know it does) and you want to return the machines you will have to pay large penalties, or depending on the naturn of the lease agreement you may not have a choice but to buy out the machines. Buying out a lease is not cheap once you do all the math involved. Bottom line is leasing can be a good and viable option but read the fine print of the leasing agreement and evaluate what the chances are of machines or components going missing. Good luck!
I own an old Sony Vaio 505TS (slimtop) and have dropped it... Too many times. From as high as 4-5ft, no problems. I don't have any bad blocks, and it has weathered a couple of coffee and water spills (nothing major). The magnesium alloy case does tend to wear in spots but so far it's not all the way through.
I own a Sony cell phone with one of these jog-wheels, and personally I see this as a great input method. You can easily go up to 8 clicks with an easy roll, so going from the (abc) to (pqr) is easy. I also own a Palm, and I still have to look at it while writing in grafity because it's so easy to mess up a character. So what we have here is a solution that only uses one hand, even if it no easier to input text. Any of you out there that drive/talk on the phone/smoke/use palm/drink coffee will be able to appreciate that!
When ever me and my friends see a new anime pron we rent it and watch it, I'm a guy, but all my friends are girls. These movies are just so funny! Our favorite is the Cool Devices series, the first tape is by far the funniest!
Does anyone else think they might have been better off if they had included a firewire port?
USB is all fine and good, but unless it's v2 there isn't much bandwidth available for data transfers. I wouldn't want to wait hours...
Are you seriouse? I'm sorry, but prior to posting anything else please make yourself a little more knowledgeable on the subject. I've been there and done that in record time, and I still consider myself only adequate with Linux.
Maybe I'm just on crack, but 2 weeks ago I ditched the Gnome desktop. I've always run Enlightenment as my window manager, and for a very long time now have run Gkrellm. So I looked at things and said, what am I running all this extra stuff for? Enlightenment has menus for apps, gkrellms holds any and all applet style things I need, and buttons for frequently used apps. Don't get me wrong, I love Gnome/GTK. All the apps I use use the Gnome and GTK libs, but there was no real reason to use the desktop environment. Plus my memory usage dropped about 20MB. Maybe this is off topic, but do we really need a desktop "environment"? I don't.
Single spin cd players tranfer data at 150KB/s so let's go out on a limb and say that this thing is a 4x burner, that's a whole 600KB/s. I think USB will hold up just fine under that...
Out of curiosity when did Sony start making PIIIs?
Sorry had to...
Oh and here is the url for the Imation site...
http://www.imation.com/en_US/products/product_ge ne ric_1.jhtml?Id=IM_PRD341
"Mitsubishi works this magic by buffering each frame in the controller's memory. The shade of each sub-pixel is compared to that of the current frame, and these pairs are then applied to as lookup table stored in ROM that provides the correct voltage required for that change."
I can see this improving visual quality, but the gaming improvement should be negligable all things concidered.
Sounds good, except they said the controller can do this because it buffers... So there would still be some lag between what it going on and what you see. Not much, just about as much as if you were using a regular LCD with the poor pixel color change rate, I assume.
Someone please correct me if I got that one wrong.
With how small Apple makes machines these days, I'd think that an Imac with a flat panel would be about the same as an Ibook... Maybe it's just me thought.
Checkinstall is a script that uses installwatch and rpm to build rpms from a source install. Do a search on freshmeat.net for checkinstall, the author also maintains installwatch. You only need to run installwatch as a wrapper to the install program and it will give you a listing of the files that it creates.
Maybe it's just me, but I can't imagine trying to get along without ICQ or my collection of MP3s...(the kind that I ripped from cd's I own.)
I think that these are two technologies that have significantly changed the online world, and or pushed more people to use computers and the Internet.
Look, I live on the East coast of Canada, and I can honestly say that I have had two DSL and one cable services all of them at 1.5/0.5 Mb/sec for less than 50$ a month. Never any problems, and great service. The CRTC will impose a regulation that will force companies to offer a high speed service for under 50$, but extras will cost extra, if I want a static IP it's 30$ more/month. If I want 7/1.5 Mb/sec with 5 static IPs it's 200$/month, and yes that is exactly how much it costs, all in Canadian funds. So seeing as how my service is already pretty cheap already, I don't see anything wrong with the new guidelines.
It may not look like an iBook, but it sure as hell reminds me of an Apple PowerBook! Comming from a Vaio 505TS owner I do think this is good thing, I am jeolous of my friends PowerBook...
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While not first hand information, should you check into it you'll find out how true it is... If you do decide to lease systems from a company such as IBM, shen the lease is up you have to return all the machines and start over or buy out the lease. Now if you are in charge of purchasing a large number of systems for many employees and some of these systems go missing (it happens, I know it does) and you want to return the machines you will have to pay large penalties, or depending on the naturn of the lease agreement you may not have a choice but to buy out the machines. Buying out a lease is not cheap once you do all the math involved. Bottom line is leasing can be a good and viable option but read the fine print of the leasing agreement and evaluate what the chances are of machines or components going missing. Good luck!
I own an old Sony Vaio 505TS (slimtop) and have dropped it... Too many times. From as high as 4-5ft, no problems. I don't have any bad blocks, and it has weathered a couple of coffee and water spills (nothing major). The magnesium alloy case does tend to wear in spots but so far it's not all the way through.
I own a Sony cell phone with one of these jog-wheels, and personally I see this as a great input method. You can easily go up to 8 clicks with an easy roll, so going from the (abc) to (pqr) is easy. I also own a Palm, and I still have to look at it while writing in grafity because it's so easy to mess up a character. So what we have here is a solution that only uses one hand, even if it no easier to input text. Any of you out there that drive/talk on the phone/smoke/use palm/drink coffee will be able to appreciate that!
When ever me and my friends see a new anime pron we rent it and watch it, I'm a guy, but all my friends are girls. These movies are just so funny! Our favorite is the Cool Devices series, the first tape is by far the funniest!
Does anyone else think they might have been better off if they had included a firewire port?
USB is all fine and good, but unless it's v2 there isn't much bandwidth available for data transfers. I wouldn't want to wait hours...
Are you seriouse? I'm sorry, but prior to posting anything else please make yourself a little more knowledgeable on the subject. I've been there and done that in record time, and I still consider myself only adequate with Linux.
Maybe I'm just on crack, but 2 weeks ago I ditched the Gnome desktop. I've always run Enlightenment as my window manager, and for a very long time now have run Gkrellm. So I looked at things and said, what am I running all this extra stuff for? Enlightenment has menus for apps, gkrellms holds any and all applet style things I need, and buttons for frequently used apps. Don't get me wrong, I love Gnome/GTK. All the apps I use use the Gnome and GTK libs, but there was no real reason to use the desktop environment. Plus my memory usage dropped about 20MB. Maybe this is off topic, but do we really need a desktop "environment"? I don't.
Single spin cd players tranfer data at 150KB/s so let's go out on a limb and say that this thing is a 4x burner, that's a whole 600KB/s. I think USB will hold up just fine under that...
e ne ric_1.jhtml?Id=IM_PRD341
Out of curiosity when did Sony start making PIIIs?
Sorry had to...
Oh and here is the url for the Imation site...
http://www.imation.com/en_US/products/product_g
Earth - Final Conflict just started a new season... I think the last, it is looking to be more interesting that the previous ones at that.
"Mitsubishi works this magic by buffering each frame in the controller's memory. The shade of each sub-pixel is compared to that of the current frame, and these pairs are then applied to as lookup table stored in ROM that provides the correct voltage required for that change."
I can see this improving visual quality, but the gaming improvement should be negligable all things concidered.
Sounds good, except they said the controller can do this because it buffers... So there would still be some lag between what it going on and what you see. Not much, just about as much as if you were using a regular LCD with the poor pixel color change rate, I assume.
Someone please correct me if I got that one wrong.
With how small Apple makes machines these days, I'd think that an Imac with a flat panel would be about the same as an Ibook... Maybe it's just me thought.
Checkinstall is a script that uses installwatch and rpm to build rpms from a source install. Do a search on freshmeat.net for checkinstall, the author also maintains installwatch. You only need to run installwatch as a wrapper to the install program and it will give you a listing of the files that it creates.
Maybe it's just me, but I can't imagine trying to get along without ICQ or my collection of MP3s...(the kind that I ripped from cd's I own.) I think that these are two technologies that have significantly changed the online world, and or pushed more people to use computers and the Internet.
Look, I live on the East coast of Canada, and I can honestly say that I have had two DSL and one cable services all of them at 1.5/0.5 Mb/sec for less than 50$ a month. Never any problems, and great service. The CRTC will impose a regulation that will force companies to offer a high speed service for under 50$, but extras will cost extra, if I want a static IP it's 30$ more/month. If I want 7/1.5 Mb/sec with 5 static IPs it's 200$/month, and yes that is exactly how much it costs, all in Canadian funds. So seeing as how my service is already pretty cheap already, I don't see anything wrong with the new guidelines.
It may not look like an iBook, but it sure as hell reminds me of an Apple PowerBook! Comming from a Vaio 505TS owner I do think this is good thing, I am jeolous of my friends PowerBook...