A few years ago (when RAM wasn't quite so cheap) I decided it was time to upgrade my memory from 64MB to a whopping 192. I called a few stores, priced it out, and picked the cheapest vendor.
I went to the counter to pay for it and the guy asked where my computer was so he could install it.
"It's ok," I replied, "I can do it myself."
"We have to install it, sir. Most people don't know how and end up breaking something. It's just easier if we do it." Ok, fine. My computer was only a 5-minute drive away and even with the $10 install fee it was still less than the memory at the next cheapest store.
Half an hour later I'm back home with my newly upgraded computer. I plug it in, hit the button, and hear a "pop". Then the distinct smell of burning electronics.
Fifteen minutes later I'm back at the shop. This time I go into the back with the tech. We open the case and survey the damage. The motherboard, video card, memory (both the 64 and 128MB sticks)and CPU are all toast. The sound card and CD-ROM and floppy drives were all that survived. The cause? Memory installed backwards.
They ended up giving me a brand new system (and one 133 MHz faster, at that). Much better than the memory upgrade I had wanted.
Apple occasionally dumps old stock (some refurbished, some new) at Dovebid.com, an online industry liquidation auction house (they're the uys that handled the Enron liquidation).
When Apple dropped the CRT iMacs I managed to pick up a new, fully loaded 600MHz iMac for $600 US. The same machine (refurbished) at the Apple store was $900.
the pattern of circles (the EURion Constellation) appears rotated at various angles all over the bill. Rotating the banknote shouldn't have any affect on recognising this pattern.
Changes may not be that great. Late last year Rogers AT&T announced they were dropping AT&T from their name so the two aren't as closely linked as they once were.
AT&T currently holds a 34% stake in Rogers Wireless. Cingular will either keep that share or sell it back to Rogers (or the open market).
The most obvious change will be that roaming in the US will now cover a larger area (assuming they keep their roaming agreements).
As far as I know, making a personal copy of your own CD is still legal in the US. In Canada, however, you are allowed to make a personal copy of an album that you don't own.
In other words, I can borrow a friend's new CD and make a copy with no laws being broken.
Of course, you could make the whole argument moot by jumping straight to 1080p. As far as I know, the only screen with this capability is Sumsung's newly announced 57" LCD. And you just know this isn't going to be cheap.
No US availability because it won't work there. Since it's only 900/1800 dual-band (in GSM mode) this won't work with North America's 1900MHz GSM networks. Widespread North American WCDMA coverage is also a ways off.
If the 7600 takes off in the rest of the world, perhaps they'll introduce a tri-band 7610.
I moved from the UK to Canada in Grade 2 and had similar problems with spelling tests. They consistantly marked my perfectly correct "tyre" and "kerb" as wrong. My grudge, however, was aimed at the narrow-minded teacher and not my beloved homeland.
"PNG" is always spelled "PNG" (or "Portable Network Graphics") and always pronounced "ping" in English, not "pinj" or "pee en gee" or any other multi-syllabic disaster.
I think most managers could handle that. Easier than the hard-g, soft-g question we had with GIF.
Sorry to fight anecdote with anecdote, but in my neck of the woods the opposite is almost exactly true.
Our basic cable service gives you two static addresses, caps both directions to 1Mbps, and lets you run any service you want. And while in theory the shared line should bog down at peak times, they've got enough bandwidth to give the advertised speeds even when 90% of users are on simultaneously.
Our DSL service charges an arm and a leg for static IP, caps uploads to 128kbps (downstream, however is 1.8Mbps), and bans services.
Of course, that's the problem with blanket reviews such as this one. There are so many exceptions that general statements rarely work.
I still use DSL, though, as it meets all my needs and offers far better customer service. Then again I also get my tv from the phone company and my phone from a tv company, so I've been known to do things a little backwards.
For some reason, punctuation characters are apparently turned into Unicode HTML elements, such as ’ for single-quote. I'd love to know why that's good standards.
The standard single and double quote characters are actually prime and double prime characters. They're used for linear measurements such as feet and inches or angular measurements such as minutes and seconds. The Unicode characters Joe used are "real" quotations marks. Some old typewriters and type setting machines had separate keys for all these characters, but to reduce key-count they were overloaded onto the prime and double prime keys. (Some "hyper-efficient" keyboards went as far as overloading the zero and o.)
Web standards and accessibilty rely on proper semantic structure. Real punctuation marks are semantically different from the "fake" version. When a screen-reader runs across a "normal" quotation mark, should it read it as an inch sign or a quoatation mark? When Unicode characters are used, there is no confusion.
The better solution for quoted matterial would be to use the <q> tag. The user agent is supposed to add the apropriate quotation mark (depending on nesting and language). For example, French quotes would be delimited by guillemets; English nested quotes would switch between double and single quotation marks.
A few years ago I read a report how the super-duper-sonic Aurora spy plane was spotted flying between Groom Lake and Scotland. Aparently a bunch of geologist tracked it using seismographs and pegged its speed at Mach 12 or something crazy like that.
Maybe Scotland is being used for experimental aircraft testing. That would explain these sightings.
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A few years ago (when RAM wasn't quite so cheap) I decided it was time to upgrade my memory from 64MB to a whopping 192. I called a few stores, priced it out, and picked the cheapest vendor.
I went to the counter to pay for it and the guy asked where my computer was so he could install it.
"It's ok," I replied, "I can do it myself."
"We have to install it, sir. Most people don't know how and end up breaking something. It's just easier if we do it." Ok, fine. My computer was only a 5-minute drive away and even with the $10 install fee it was still less than the memory at the next cheapest store.
Half an hour later I'm back home with my newly upgraded computer. I plug it in, hit the button, and hear a "pop". Then the distinct smell of burning electronics.
Fifteen minutes later I'm back at the shop. This time I go into the back with the tech. We open the case and survey the damage. The motherboard, video card, memory (both the 64 and 128MB sticks)and CPU are all toast. The sound card and CD-ROM and floppy drives were all that survived. The cause? Memory installed backwards.
They ended up giving me a brand new system (and one 133 MHz faster, at that). Much better than the memory upgrade I had wanted.
Apple occasionally dumps old stock (some refurbished, some new) at Dovebid.com, an online industry liquidation auction house (they're the uys that handled the Enron liquidation).
When Apple dropped the CRT iMacs I managed to pick up a new, fully loaded 600MHz iMac for $600 US. The same machine (refurbished) at the Apple store was $900.
> Can you imagine the restore times for a movie from tape
Psshaw. Even my old Betamax could restore a movie from tape in real time. Even faster if you watched it in fast-forward.
the pattern of circles (the EURion Constellation) appears rotated at various angles all over the bill. Rotating the banknote shouldn't have any affect on recognising this pattern.
Changes may not be that great. Late last year Rogers AT&T announced they were dropping AT&T from their name so the two aren't as closely linked as they once were.
AT&T currently holds a 34% stake in Rogers Wireless. Cingular will either keep that share or sell it back to Rogers (or the open market).
The most obvious change will be that roaming in the US will now cover a larger area (assuming they keep their roaming agreements).
As far as I know, making a personal copy of your own CD is still legal in the US. In Canada, however, you are allowed to make a personal copy of an album that you don't own.
In other words, I can borrow a friend's new CD and make a copy with no laws being broken.
A security net with tons of holes doesn't do any good.
All nets have holes. It's what makes them nets.
Of course, you could make the whole argument moot by jumping straight to 1080p. As far as I know, the only screen with this capability is Sumsung's newly announced 57" LCD. And you just know this isn't going to be cheap.
AT&T announced a $79.99/mo unlimited data plan along with the EDGE announcement.
No US availability because it won't work there. Since it's only 900/1800 dual-band (in GSM mode) this won't work with North America's 1900MHz GSM networks. Widespread North American WCDMA coverage is also a ways off.
If the 7600 takes off in the rest of the world, perhaps they'll introduce a tri-band 7610.
It's an extra 2MB of L3 cache, bringing the total to 2.5MB.
As much as I prefer the correct -our spelling, you have to go with the Cold Lamper for the final word.
I moved from the UK to Canada in Grade 2 and had similar problems with spelling tests. They consistantly marked my perfectly correct "tyre" and "kerb" as wrong. My grudge, however, was aimed at the narrow-minded teacher and not my beloved homeland.
June 31st?
From the official site:
"PNG" is always spelled "PNG" (or "Portable Network Graphics") and always pronounced "ping" in English, not "pinj" or "pee en gee" or any other multi-syllabic disaster.
I think most managers could handle that. Easier than the hard-g, soft-g question we had with GIF.
Elephants... tightropes... you didn't just visit a circus, did you?
Sorry to fight anecdote with anecdote, but in my neck of the woods the opposite is almost exactly true.
Our basic cable service gives you two static addresses, caps both directions to 1Mbps, and lets you run any service you want. And while in theory the shared line should bog down at peak times, they've got enough bandwidth to give the advertised speeds even when 90% of users are on simultaneously.
Our DSL service charges an arm and a leg for static IP, caps uploads to 128kbps (downstream, however is 1.8Mbps), and bans services.
Of course, that's the problem with blanket reviews such as this one. There are so many exceptions that general statements rarely work.
I still use DSL, though, as it meets all my needs and offers far better customer service. Then again I also get my tv from the phone company and my phone from a tv company, so I've been known to do things a little backwards.
For some reason, punctuation characters are apparently turned into Unicode HTML elements, such as ’ for single-quote. I'd love to know why that's good standards.
The standard single and double quote characters are actually prime and double prime characters. They're used for linear measurements such as feet and inches or angular measurements such as minutes and seconds. The Unicode characters Joe used are "real" quotations marks. Some old typewriters and type setting machines had separate keys for all these characters, but to reduce key-count they were overloaded onto the prime and double prime keys. (Some "hyper-efficient" keyboards went as far as overloading the zero and o.)
Web standards and accessibilty rely on proper semantic structure. Real punctuation marks are semantically different from the "fake" version. When a screen-reader runs across a "normal" quotation mark, should it read it as an inch sign or a quoatation mark? When Unicode characters are used, there is no confusion.
The better solution for quoted matterial would be to use the <q> tag. The user agent is supposed to add the apropriate quotation mark (depending on nesting and language). For example, French quotes would be delimited by guillemets; English nested quotes would switch between double and single quotation marks.
Seems rather exorbitant for a $20 movie.
Consumer video tapes may only cost $20 or so, but rental video tapes - which carry a different licence - usually cost between $100 and $200.
One of the benefits of DVD is that many studios charge the same $20 for both consumer and rental versions.
Wasn't it jiggawatts?
Oh wait... wrong movie.
I suppose you could always go follow the link and download the mp3.
Flashback?
It's called a hiptop device because it fits in your pocket (you know, where your hips are), not because you use it while resting it on your hip.
A few years ago I read a report how the super-duper-sonic Aurora spy plane was spotted flying between Groom Lake and Scotland. Aparently a bunch of geologist tracked it using seismographs and pegged its speed at Mach 12 or something crazy like that.
Maybe Scotland is being used for experimental aircraft testing. That would explain these sightings.
Guinness has two n's.