Don't know if the specs are good for you, but Apple has a couple of larger size monitors. From my experience they seem to be pretty good at multiple resolutions with decent clarity. Not sure if this is helpful, but it might be worth a look.
Actually, an intelligent, reasonably educated "normal" person would be able to do a fine job in balancing a national budget, with some help of course. The problem with government spending is all of the CongressCritters and Parliament (sorry if it's not Parliament, it's been a time since I studied Britain's government structure) folks that have to approve everything. A single person with unilateral money spending discretion could make all the cuts that do not get made because the politicians are paying for political favors, lobbyist money, making their constituents happy.
Would a single person be better? Overall, probably, but of course there will be problems. Give me the power with a 30 person senior staff, with say a 1,000 underlings to go through all of the budget. I'd screw up a bunch of stuff, but I think I could save money overall.
But then we are avoiding money involved with policy decisions (foreign aid, wars, etc). Whole other bag of peanuts, right there.
I get you on the school dreams after I graduated. I think I have had every type you mentioned. Kinda neat was that my high school campus and Penn State's campus were interleaved, leaving for a weird geography/architecture mix. Oddly, when I later went back for my masters those dreams went away. Though over this past summer (no classes) I did have one dream about not studying for a test. Really bizarre part was that I could actually see and read all my notes about DB mathematical analysis (earlier class) but I was missing a chapter. These are my worst nightmares, since whenever I dream about vampires, ghosts, etc. I'm always fighting them and having a good time.
Yes, it really does not make much sense, except for the 17 people in the country that have the massively over-priced unlimited data package (OK, I don't know exactly how much it costs now, but 2 years ago it was pretty pricey.) For everyone else, they are going to wipe out their data quota in about 5 minutes and start paying the equally massive overage costs. You would think that the cell companies would even encourage such behavior.
I remember sometime back in the dark ages when I upgraded Netscape to 64 or 128 bit encryption and you had to do a song and dance saying "Yes, I live in America" to download the new version. Does the government really think that only the US can come up with tough-to-break encryption schemes?
Netflix also streams to Macs now. Or as the other guy said pick up the $100 Roku box. The number of streamed content on Netflix seems to be going up exponentially; at first it was just a few movies. A couple of nights ago I added the first 10 seasons of South Park to my list just to watch 1 or 2 episodes per season (spooky vision!). Very good value.
Too much crazy stuff happens when crossing countries (well the US and anyone else) now. I'm just going to stay in my nice little suburb for the next 5 or so years. The mid-atlantic seaboard has enough stuff that I haven't seen yet to last me for about that long. And before you all get fussy, I have written to my federal representatives about a bunch of this stuff. I get very nice, mostly form, letters back. At least they spell my name correctly, as opposed to my states reps; "Dear Brian,". "Dear Moron..."
Never read the Niven stories about Gil the Arm? Where wealthy people kept pushing laws to make more crimes punishable by death? To the point where sneezing on a poodle would put you in the organ bank (ok, made that last one up). Once organ harvesting is legal for death sentences, just a slippery slope to what constitutes a death sentence.
I just find it funny that people around the world still like to argue about 'soccer' vs. 'football'. If the British want to call 'American soccer' football, let them.
I'm going with the "a bunch of fraternity aliens pulling a practical joke" theory.
To be serious, hasn't science had a history of finding "impossible" things, then turned out to be 1) a mistake 2) something new that changed some thinking 3) a weird-ass anomaly 4) the platypus? Let's all just calm down until we find the platypus alien pranksters!
Oh, you'll lose this argument here./.'s actually made fun of me for spending my own money on getting a MIS degree. Not to mention my BSEE degree. Apparently having any knowledge outside of a niche (or a few niches) of information is blase or frowned upon nowadays.
It is one thing to switch to a new processor (say Macs from Motorola to PPC to Intel), which is a good thing in the long run, and another in letting interconnects be backwards compatible. Remember the furor of phasing out ADB, PS/2, serial, and parallel for USB? If USB 3 is not back-compatible, yikes. As for PCI, I'm not a graphics guy, so I don't know if back-compat is a big deal performance wise or not.
"I am staring right now at a SFF 733Mhz Compaq where the PSU is shaped like a fricking triangle! "
Now that is truly awesome! What drugs was/were the engineer(s) taking when they designed that!
As for RAM, I've stuck different speeds together (not recommended) when Franken-building machines from old parts. It will work, if a bit quirky. Talking about 5-10 years ago; don't know how current machines and RAM will behave if you try that now.
Then there was the Amiga's floppy drive. Even though the disks were the same, there was some physical incompatibility with the drive that made them not readable by PCs (or vice versa, I can't remember). Ah, the fun old days, crafting IRQ settings and configuring Extended (Expanded?) RAM for games.
Or whatever it's called.The US people are now completely crispy fried when it comes to our debt. At this point I just laugh and cry a little every time I hear about a new 'program' or 'bill' or 'solution' that comes out of the administration's or Congress's mouth.
Companies need to implement a 'good' policy. I've seen policies that enforced only a 5 character password. I've seen one policy that was a minimum of 8 characters, at least 1 number, and at least 1 special character. Sure,/.'s could handle that, but I once knew an administrative assistant (I forget if secretary is PC or not any more) that kept forgetting how to cut and paste. Great lady, just wasn't computer friendly. Another thing- if you can't remember your passwords, at least stick the Post-It note in your drawer rather than on your monitor!
Yeah, this won't be great (at least at first), but it will surely be better than trying to have 5 people hunker around your 4 inch screen trying to look at a pic.
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Don't know if the specs are good for you, but Apple has a couple of larger size monitors. From my experience they seem to be pretty good at multiple resolutions with decent clarity. Not sure if this is helpful, but it might be worth a look.
Actually, an intelligent, reasonably educated "normal" person would be able to do a fine job in balancing a national budget, with some help of course. The problem with government spending is all of the CongressCritters and Parliament (sorry if it's not Parliament, it's been a time since I studied Britain's government structure) folks that have to approve everything. A single person with unilateral money spending discretion could make all the cuts that do not get made because the politicians are paying for political favors, lobbyist money, making their constituents happy.
Would a single person be better? Overall, probably, but of course there will be problems. Give me the power with a 30 person senior staff, with say a 1,000 underlings to go through all of the budget. I'd screw up a bunch of stuff, but I think I could save money overall.
But then we are avoiding money involved with policy decisions (foreign aid, wars, etc). Whole other bag of peanuts, right there.
I'd add Brin & Modesitt. They also have some nice socialogical themes to them.
I get you on the school dreams after I graduated. I think I have had every type you mentioned. Kinda neat was that my high school campus and Penn State's campus were interleaved, leaving for a weird geography/architecture mix. Oddly, when I later went back for my masters those dreams went away. Though over this past summer (no classes) I did have one dream about not studying for a test. Really bizarre part was that I could actually see and read all my notes about DB mathematical analysis (earlier class) but I was missing a chapter. These are my worst nightmares, since whenever I dream about vampires, ghosts, etc. I'm always fighting them and having a good time.
I may have issues. :)
Yes, it really does not make much sense, except for the 17 people in the country that have the massively over-priced unlimited data package (OK, I don't know exactly how much it costs now, but 2 years ago it was pretty pricey.) For everyone else, they are going to wipe out their data quota in about 5 minutes and start paying the equally massive overage costs. You would think that the cell companies would even encourage such behavior.
I remember sometime back in the dark ages when I upgraded Netscape to 64 or 128 bit encryption and you had to do a song and dance saying "Yes, I live in America" to download the new version. Does the government really think that only the US can come up with tough-to-break encryption schemes?
Does the Oort cloud count as part of the solar system, or is it beyond the heliosphere? Either way, it's gotta be a tad chilly out there.
Actually, I would take the monkey, also. Makes for a nice tag line to make fun of the government, though.
I measure my HDD space in farthings/micro-hectares, roughly 4.7 for my current drive.
But try explaining that to the Brits or Aussies...
Netflix also streams to Macs now. Or as the other guy said pick up the $100 Roku box. The number of streamed content on Netflix seems to be going up exponentially; at first it was just a few movies. A couple of nights ago I added the first 10 seasons of South Park to my list just to watch 1 or 2 episodes per season (spooky vision!). Very good value.
Too much crazy stuff happens when crossing countries (well the US and anyone else) now. I'm just going to stay in my nice little suburb for the next 5 or so years. The mid-atlantic seaboard has enough stuff that I haven't seen yet to last me for about that long. And before you all get fussy, I have written to my federal representatives about a bunch of this stuff. I get very nice, mostly form, letters back. At least they spell my name correctly, as opposed to my states reps; "Dear Brian,". "Dear Moron..."
Never read the Niven stories about Gil the Arm? Where wealthy people kept pushing laws to make more crimes punishable by death? To the point where sneezing on a poodle would put you in the organ bank (ok, made that last one up). Once organ harvesting is legal for death sentences, just a slippery slope to what constitutes a death sentence.
I just find it funny that people around the world still like to argue about 'soccer' vs. 'football'. If the British want to call 'American soccer' football, let them.
Slightly different, the differences between rugby and American football. I don't know how well rugby players are paid across the world, but I would guess that American football pays better (well according to http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_income_of_a_professional_rugby_player is roughly US$120K, and http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_salary_of_an_NFL_football_player, US$770K.) So why not try and get a job in the NFL for such an 'easy job' at 6X the pay for a year or 2?
I'm going with the "a bunch of fraternity aliens pulling a practical joke" theory.
To be serious, hasn't science had a history of finding "impossible" things, then turned out to be 1) a mistake 2) something new that changed some thinking 3) a weird-ass anomaly 4) the platypus? Let's all just calm down until we find the platypus alien pranksters!
Oh, you'll lose this argument here. /.'s actually made fun of me for spending my own money on getting a MIS degree. Not to mention my BSEE degree. Apparently having any knowledge outside of a niche (or a few niches) of information is blase or frowned upon nowadays.
More civilized? Philadelphia just had some nice "security" recently.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/cityhall/46491137.html
What, no nuclear fusion reactors? I thought kids were supposed to be innovative these days....
It is one thing to switch to a new processor (say Macs from Motorola to PPC to Intel), which is a good thing in the long run, and another in letting interconnects be backwards compatible. Remember the furor of phasing out ADB, PS/2, serial, and parallel for USB? If USB 3 is not back-compatible, yikes. As for PCI, I'm not a graphics guy, so I don't know if back-compat is a big deal performance wise or not.
"I am staring right now at a SFF 733Mhz Compaq where the PSU is shaped like a fricking triangle! "
Now that is truly awesome! What drugs was/were the engineer(s) taking when they designed that!
As for RAM, I've stuck different speeds together (not recommended) when Franken-building machines from old parts. It will work, if a bit quirky. Talking about 5-10 years ago; don't know how current machines and RAM will behave if you try that now.
Then there was the Amiga's floppy drive. Even though the disks were the same, there was some physical incompatibility with the drive that made them not readable by PCs (or vice versa, I can't remember). Ah, the fun old days, crafting IRQ settings and configuring Extended (Expanded?) RAM for games.
Or whatever it's called.The US people are now completely crispy fried when it comes to our debt. At this point I just laugh and cry a little every time I hear about a new 'program' or 'bill' or 'solution' that comes out of the administration's or Congress's mouth.
Companies need to implement a 'good' policy. I've seen policies that enforced only a 5 character password. I've seen one policy that was a minimum of 8 characters, at least 1 number, and at least 1 special character. Sure, /.'s could handle that, but I once knew an administrative assistant (I forget if secretary is PC or not any more) that kept forgetting how to cut and paste. Great lady, just wasn't computer friendly. Another thing- if you can't remember your passwords, at least stick the Post-It note in your drawer rather than on your monitor!
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
Had to throw that out there.
Yeah, this won't be great (at least at first), but it will surely be better than trying to have 5 people hunker around your 4 inch screen trying to look at a pic.
See above.
And reduce your costs. Pretty simple, eh?
So why is a printer driver tied into formatting in Word? I would say that is a problem with Word. There is no need to tie the two together.