Gotta agree. I bought dual 20" 1600x1200 LCDs a few years ago and I'm terrified one will go bad; there's just not enough vertical space on most modern displays.
Further, at the resolution I'm getting it's nearly impossible to make out individual pixels. I don't believe more resolution would help me very much, even with graphics work. An intelligent antialiasing system takes less CPU than having to render still more pixels.
Cholesterol may have a bad name, but it's what insulates neurons from each other. The human body is capable of making its own cholesterol, but as always there's a metabolic expense.
It's surprisingly important to feed your head when you code. Ratiocination takes a lot of energy and expends certain nutrients. Make sure you're getting an ample diet, with a significant amount of animal fat, beef or pork preferred. Take a multivitamin every day. Dieting while coding may not work well, with the possible exception of a low-carb style diet.
...you don't want all sorts of bulges and ports and doors on the device just to support getting at a component 99.999% of the users will never want or need to access.
Considering the battery has a life span of only a few years, I think that's a major exception.
"There are 10 types of people... Those who understand binary, and those who do not."
Seriously, there are two kinds of spendy gamers out there. There are the non-technical types, who will go out there and buy a console, buy a bunch of games, buy new controllers... They have no desire for a true PC, don't want a desk to put the keyboard and mouse on, just want a little machine in their entertainment center.
Then there are the technical types, who want to upgrade their video card, processor, boot off a SSD... They want to be able to push the edge, and may get as much fun out of tinkering as they do from the gaming.
IMO *both* markets are worth pursuing, even if they diverge. Don't shove everything into one niche.
Amazon was to some extent using its pricing power to push the Kindle platform, and indeed to their credit, despite the monopoly this handed them, without their effort the ebook market may have continued to flounder. Now, as their monopoly collapses, they have the choice of seeing publishers vacate the platform possibly moving competing devices to the fore, or letting the prices rise.
The rise in prices, however, IMO cannot stand, and I don't think even the $10 price point can be maintained for long. Self-publishing is going to undermine that, and the result should be much lower costs for us readers.
There's inevitably some noise that creeps in with a line-level jack on your PC. It's not much, but it drives audiophiles to distraction. Moving it to a USB device helps reduce the noise by an order of magnitude or so. That may be one thing driving the change.
TFA is mainly about the iPad, but TSA is talking about tablets in general - and so am I. I think the iPad is too heavily locked down to meet its full potential, and am waiting for sub-$200 Linux-based devices to take the fore.
More powerful = lower battery life. Yes, tablets are niche devices, but if you think about it there are a LOT of niches a tablet with some flexibility and a good amount of battery life can fill. Book reader, obviously. Notepad replacement, somewhat. Inventory control, yup. It's all been a matter of expense, durability, communications and operating life.
The only problem with this ruling is that, after a few incidents like this one occur, there will be a hew and outcry, and harsher and more encompassing laws passed, which will inevitably result in more arrests and convictions of people who oughtn't be bothered.
BitTornado, an application I administer, was once available via ZDNet, a site which distributed freeware and shareware apps much like Download.com. At some point someone began offering download mirrors for BitTornado and other apps, with installers that were modified and apparently contaminated with malware. I complained twice; the second time, they nastily asked whether I wanted them to remove BitTornado from their site. I told them yes.
Just because software is available via some popular gateway, you can't be 100% certain what you download will be perfect and free from malware.
I don't see why they need to hire such an illustrious researcher for such a simple task. I've prepared an accurate IMO data visualization of the results of the Federal stimulus spending. It can be viewed at:
With the technologies currently used for self-timing data writes on hard drives, it's likely that no hard drive spindle motor will maintain a perfect rotation rate, making your job even more difficult.
I don't understand the hubbub about expired patent markings. (1) It costs $ to create new dies for production, so such a requirement just costs companies more, which they have to pass along to customers. (2) Someone looking up the patent can see that it's expired, or is going to expire soon, and hey, here's a large part of the engineering behind the product, we can copy this instead of re-engineering it. That's part of why patents exist, to make that information public.
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Gotta agree. I bought dual 20" 1600x1200 LCDs a few years ago and I'm terrified one will go bad; there's just not enough vertical space on most modern displays.
Further, at the resolution I'm getting it's nearly impossible to make out individual pixels. I don't believe more resolution would help me very much, even with graphics work. An intelligent antialiasing system takes less CPU than having to render still more pixels.
I always forward a block of 100 ports to each active intranet IP on my network, with the first digits being the last octet of the IP.
eg: 192.168.x.101 gets ports 10100-10199.
Using this system, along with a domain server that will assign each machine a predictable IP, makes things a lot easier.
Once you've purchased it, the device isn't Apple's any more, it's yours.
Uh, basically...
Cholesterol may have a bad name, but it's what insulates neurons from each other. The human body is capable of making its own cholesterol, but as always there's a metabolic expense.
It's surprisingly important to feed your head when you code. Ratiocination takes a lot of energy and expends certain nutrients. Make sure you're getting an ample diet, with a significant amount of animal fat, beef or pork preferred. Take a multivitamin every day. Dieting while coding may not work well, with the possible exception of a low-carb style diet.
...you don't want all sorts of bulges and ports and doors on the device just to support getting at a component 99.999% of the users will never want or need to access.
Considering the battery has a life span of only a few years, I think that's a major exception.
"There are 10 types of people... Those who understand binary, and those who do not."
Seriously, there are two kinds of spendy gamers out there. There are the non-technical types, who will go out there and buy a console, buy a bunch of games, buy new controllers... They have no desire for a true PC, don't want a desk to put the keyboard and mouse on, just want a little machine in their entertainment center.
Then there are the technical types, who want to upgrade their video card, processor, boot off a SSD... They want to be able to push the edge, and may get as much fun out of tinkering as they do from the gaming.
IMO *both* markets are worth pursuing, even if they diverge. Don't shove everything into one niche.
Amazon was to some extent using its pricing power to push the Kindle platform, and indeed to their credit, despite the monopoly this handed them, without their effort the ebook market may have continued to flounder. Now, as their monopoly collapses, they have the choice of seeing publishers vacate the platform possibly moving competing devices to the fore, or letting the prices rise.
The rise in prices, however, IMO cannot stand, and I don't think even the $10 price point can be maintained for long. Self-publishing is going to undermine that, and the result should be much lower costs for us readers.
Yeah, it's neat and old fashioned... But requires Javascript to run.
Maybe he's trying to get the ones who modded it that way to respond, and therefore wipe out the moderation? ^__^
*shorter wavelength
[facepalms]
2.4 GHz is a lot lower frequency than visible light. UV is a higher frequency and longer wavelength than visible light.
There's inevitably some noise that creeps in with a line-level jack on your PC. It's not much, but it drives audiophiles to distraction. Moving it to a USB device helps reduce the noise by an order of magnitude or so. That may be one thing driving the change.
Yup. Further, machines of that age were typically able to take 1.2 MB floppy drives. Eight disks would cover that entire 10 MB drive.
TFA is mainly about the iPad, but TSA is talking about tablets in general - and so am I. I think the iPad is too heavily locked down to meet its full potential, and am waiting for sub-$200 Linux-based devices to take the fore.
More powerful = lower battery life. Yes, tablets are niche devices, but if you think about it there are a LOT of niches a tablet with some flexibility and a good amount of battery life can fill. Book reader, obviously. Notepad replacement, somewhat. Inventory control, yup. It's all been a matter of expense, durability, communications and operating life.
The only problem with this ruling is that, after a few incidents like this one occur, there will be a hew and outcry, and harsher and more encompassing laws passed, which will inevitably result in more arrests and convictions of people who oughtn't be bothered.
I vote for July 22nd.
Stop complaining, you! That 1000% mark-up is nothing compared to the cost of a Tylenol in a hospital! You should be grateful they are so cheap!
BitTornado, an application I administer, was once available via ZDNet, a site which distributed freeware and shareware apps much like Download.com. At some point someone began offering download mirrors for BitTornado and other apps, with installers that were modified and apparently contaminated with malware. I complained twice; the second time, they nastily asked whether I wanted them to remove BitTornado from their site. I told them yes.
Just because software is available via some popular gateway, you can't be 100% certain what you download will be perfect and free from malware.
Buh?
Yup, or fork it and take over administration of the fork.
I can't see how they could have been getting that much cred from SUSE anyway.
I don't see why they need to hire such an illustrious researcher for such a simple task. I've prepared an accurate IMO data visualization of the results of the Federal stimulus spending. It can be viewed at:
http://shambala.net/stimulusvisualization.jpg
With the technologies currently used for self-timing data writes on hard drives, it's likely that no hard drive spindle motor will maintain a perfect rotation rate, making your job even more difficult.
I don't understand the hubbub about expired patent markings. (1) It costs $ to create new dies for production, so such a requirement just costs companies more, which they have to pass along to customers. (2) Someone looking up the patent can see that it's expired, or is going to expire soon, and hey, here's a large part of the engineering behind the product, we can copy this instead of re-engineering it. That's part of why patents exist, to make that information public.