Now, as I work most of my time as an AV-tech, I'd have to say that this is truth with modifications. Projectors at conferences are usually vga only. I've never encountered a DVI cable in static systems at conferences. Sure, when we set it up ourselves and go for high quality HD projectors @ 10k ansilumens we will use our nice fiberoptic dvi cables or hd-sdi, but most of the time it is vga/rgb-hv.
That means one(1) adapter, if you bring your own laptop. Even peecees come with DVI these days. For us techs, it means 3 adapters, one dvi-vga, one minidvi-vga and one DisplayPort-vga. This will not make much of a difference in our flight cases...
Apart from that, I agree. Apple pulled a bit of a stunt with the DisplayPort. While I like the new port, I think it's way too arrogant to assume that people will ditch a 6 months old machine just like that.:-) H
Opera is based on Qt, which already does a great job maintaining cross-platform compatibility.
Uhrrr... Nope. The linux port was QT(i don't think I can quote the story about the reasons, but those who where there knows how hilarious the first stab at Opera for Linux was), but that has been mostly phased out, iirc. The other platforms not QT.:-) Best regards Former Opera emplyee
There is also the point of ram. XP32 simply can't use 4 gigs of ram, neither can Vista32. I won't even get into XP64, as it was largely useless. Vista64 is slightly better, but not much.
What about disconnecting? IsnÂt that the point of vacation? One of the things I love about our cottage is that there is no power, no running water and hardly any cellphone coverage. If it is dead important I can read mail on my phone down the road.
Oh, and by the way, they DO filter their waste water, just not good enough. Some compounds are let through, as taking them out is more expensive. Sorry about the "directly", just pushing the point.
Allow is stretching it a bit, but what can one do? Money talks. We have stupidity among politicians here in Europe too. Even in Norway the degree of stupidity can be impressive. But that's beside the point. I was merely suggesting that some openness towards problems that may not yet have been classified as "valid" by science and medicine, as it could very well prove to be a genuine disease. And some reflection on how we live.
Moron, I know England is not part of Norway. I even know where it is. Do you? Obviously not. Look it up, then see if you find sellafield. Or even better, have a look here, so you don't have to have two thoughts going at once: http://www.bellona.no/en/energy/nuclear/sellafield/
So I'll suggest once more that some americans are quite stupid, based on recent discoveries.
Looking at the various comments, it seems to be a genereal groove going "It's in your head, get th fuck outside. Houses are made of bricks and wood. Can't be nothin' wrong with that?".
I must admit that being from Norway, Europe, I often lean to the statistics saying that quite a large portion of the US have very low education. Now, I have family over there, and I know there are smart people there, but come on?
Concrete gives out huge amounts of fumes, wood is soaked in chemicals to withstand water etc, insulation is a whole book in itself on chemical hell. Are you aware of how much NASTY stuff is in everything we surround ourselves with? NJ sounds like a really shitty place to live, and the way this guy's been treated doesn't surprise me one bit. If the easiest way to handle a problem is to resign, then people will very often do that! As seems to be the case with the whole of NJ.
I hope you guys don't consider general pollution a figment of imagination too? Go suck on the tailpipe of your car for an hour or so after a good run in the park!
I think we will see an increase in these illnesses in the coming years, as things start to backfire. Here in Europe at least more and more people are reacting to electromagnetic radiation. A cellphone nearby can be enough to cause illness! Schools has actually been shut down for a period of time here in Norway because of chemical fumes in the building.
It's just plain scary when you start to realise what steps people are willing to take just to make money. Killing a few people is low on the list. Mass Pollution is a picnic in the park. We're currently strugling with The Sellafield Nuclear plant in England, as they dump their waste directly out in the sea, killing our coastline.
I'm not really sure where I'm going with all this, but please, sit down and think!! Just because you can't see it doesn't indicate that it's not real...
I have an old 486 thinkpad, 75 mhz thingie, can't remember the model. Mostly a piece of trash, but I had some fun with it. Anyway, my sister had been fooling around with it, and managed to set a password on the harddrive. Not a bios password as in a normal pc, but stil set through the bios. On the old thinkpad you had 3 passwords that could be set. Two of them can be reset by removing batteries and stuff, but the one on harddrive access is a no go. And replacing the drive didn't help. So, what to do, what to do...? Not willing to give up on it, I stuffed in an older drive I had, set it to slave by accident(this was one of the old 2,5" drives with a separate switch for it), and when it started up the machine gave me an errormessage. I looked at it, flicked the switch(the power was still on), and did a ctrl-alt-del reboot. Tadaa, it booted. It didn't remedy my problem with the password, but I was actually able to use as long as I went through that little ritual every time. So much for IBM's servicemanual(not user manual, you could find the service manual on their pages back then) saying very clear that it was not possible to bypass this password...:-)
Come on, it's a joke!! "The Bork Edition" A special edition with a built in joke. Clearly marked with the intention spelled out. It's not the "production" version, that would've been a bit much.:-)
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Now, as I work most of my time as an AV-tech, I'd have to say that this is truth with modifications.
Projectors at conferences are usually vga only. I've never encountered a DVI cable in static systems at conferences. Sure, when we set it up ourselves and go for high quality HD projectors @ 10k ansilumens we will use our nice fiberoptic dvi cables or hd-sdi, but most of the time it is vga/rgb-hv.
That means one(1) adapter, if you bring your own laptop. Even peecees come with DVI these days.
For us techs, it means 3 adapters, one dvi-vga, one minidvi-vga and one DisplayPort-vga. This will not make much of a difference in our flight cases...
Apart from that, I agree. Apple pulled a bit of a stunt with the DisplayPort. While I like the new port, I think it's way too arrogant to assume that people will ditch a 6 months old machine just like that. :-)
H
Opera is based on Qt, which already does a great job maintaining cross-platform compatibility.
Uhrrr... Nope. :-)
The linux port was QT(i don't think I can quote the story about the reasons, but those who where there knows how hilarious the first stab at Opera for Linux was), but that has been mostly phased out, iirc.
The other platforms not QT.
Best regards
Former Opera emplyee
There is also the point of ram. XP32 simply can't use 4 gigs of ram, neither can Vista32. I won't even get into XP64, as it was largely useless. Vista64 is slightly better, but not much.
ItÂs worth pointing out that Psystar didnÂt pirate os x, they sold the machine with a genuine license, paid for and all.
In that respect they didnÂt really steal os x. :-)
What about disconnecting? IsnÂt that the point of vacation?
One of the things I love about our cottage is that there is no power, no running water and hardly any cellphone coverage.
If it is dead important I can read mail on my phone down the road.
bah! Back in MY days we only had a whopping 0.9 Mhz cpu.
C=)
Oh, and by the way, they DO filter their waste water, just not good enough. Some compounds are let through, as taking them out is more expensive. Sorry about the "directly", just pushing the point.
Allow is stretching it a bit, but what can one do? Money talks.
We have stupidity among politicians here in Europe too. Even in Norway the degree of stupidity can be impressive.
But that's beside the point. I was merely suggesting that some openness towards problems that may not yet have been classified as "valid" by science and medicine, as it could very well prove to be a genuine disease. And some reflection on how we live.
Moron, I know England is not part of Norway. I even know where it is. Do you? Obviously not. Look it up, then see if you find sellafield. Or even better, have a look here, so you don't have to have two thoughts going at once: http://www.bellona.no/en/energy/nuclear/sellafield /
So I'll suggest once more that some americans are quite stupid, based on recent discoveries.
Looking at the various comments, it seems to be a genereal groove going "It's in your head, get th fuck outside. Houses are made of bricks and wood. Can't be nothin' wrong with that?".
../~howard
I must admit that being from Norway, Europe, I often lean to the statistics saying that quite a large portion of the US have very low education. Now, I have family over there, and I know there are smart people there, but come on?
Concrete gives out huge amounts of fumes, wood is soaked in chemicals to withstand water etc, insulation is a whole book in itself on chemical hell. Are you aware of how much NASTY stuff is in everything we surround ourselves with?
NJ sounds like a really shitty place to live, and the way this guy's been treated doesn't surprise me one bit. If the easiest way to handle a problem is to resign, then people will very often do that! As seems to be the case with the whole of NJ.
I hope you guys don't consider general pollution a figment of imagination too? Go suck on the tailpipe of your car for an hour or so after a good run in the park!
I think we will see an increase in these illnesses in the coming years, as things start to backfire. Here in Europe at least more and more people are reacting to electromagnetic radiation. A cellphone nearby can be enough to cause illness! Schools has actually been shut down for a period of time here in Norway because of chemical fumes in the building.
It's just plain scary when you start to realise what steps people are willing to take just to make money. Killing a few people is low on the list. Mass Pollution is a picnic in the park. We're currently strugling with The Sellafield Nuclear plant in England, as they dump their waste directly out in the sea, killing our coastline.
I'm not really sure where I'm going with all this, but please, sit down and think!!
Just because you can't see it doesn't indicate that it's not real...
phew...
I have an old 486 thinkpad, 75 mhz thingie, can't remember the model. Mostly a piece of trash, but I had some fun with it. :-)
Anyway, my sister had been fooling around with it, and managed to set a password on the harddrive. Not a bios password as in a normal pc, but stil set through the bios. On the old thinkpad you had 3 passwords that could be set. Two of them can be reset by removing batteries and stuff, but the one on harddrive access is a no go. And replacing the drive didn't help. So, what to do, what to do...? Not willing to give up on it, I stuffed in an older drive I had, set it to slave by accident(this was one of the old 2,5" drives with a separate switch for it), and when it started up the machine gave me an errormessage. I looked at it, flicked the switch(the power was still on), and did a ctrl-alt-del reboot. Tadaa, it booted. It didn't remedy my problem with the password, but I was actually able to use as long as I went through that little ritual every time.
So much for IBM's servicemanual(not user manual, you could find the service manual on their pages back then) saying very clear that it was not possible to bypass this password...
Come on, it's a joke!! :-)
"The Bork Edition"
A special edition with a built in joke. Clearly marked with the intention spelled out. It's not the "production" version, that would've been a bit much.