The prefix em- means to "put into". Therefore to "emplane" means to "put into a plane". Deplaning? Sorry I just can't bring myself to use that word. Disemplane, maybe...
This E911 red herring is pointless and stupid regulation. For
instance, I moved from California to Canada a couple months
ago. I kept my Vonage VOIP line so that I can have a US phone
number. Because I no longer live in the US, I tried to delete my
E911 address in vonage.com. However, due to this regulation I
couldn't delete it, so I entered text like "THIS IS NOT A REAL
ADDRESS'.
I kept getting harassed by Vonage to enter a real address. I told
them I lived out of the country so E911 service was moot.
However, I HAD to give an address. Completely (*&# stupid.
Do American politicians and lawmakers think Americans are SO
stupid that they can't figure out that the VOIP phone they're
paying for won't work for E911 service even after they're given
warning after disclaimer after warning? I guess so.
5 minutes before noticing this article on/. I ordered a new 15" Powerbook. The default drive is a 5400rpm 80GB drive. I was also offered the following choices:
100GB 5400rpm for $100 extra
100GB 7200rpm for $200 extra
120GB 5400rpm for $200 extra
I know that Apple isn't "most of the time" but if you're buying an Apple it's "all the time";-) I opted for the 7200rpm 100GB drive and after reading this article I'm glad I did.
I just ordered a new 15" Powerbook this evening. After spending a couple hours agonizing over whether to get the 5400rpm 120GB drive or the 7200rpm 100GB drive, and searching for objective reviews on the actual merits of the faster drive, I decided to go with the 100GB 7200rpm drive. Then 5 minutes later I looked on/. and saw this review. It looks like I made a good decision anyway.
From TFA: Those in the market for an upgraded notebook hard drive seek more capacity and/or speed. At a rather steep price ($230 at the time of this writing), Hitachi's Travelstar 7K100 offers gobs of both. Though it overall remains a far cry from that of the typical desktop unit, the 7K100 nonetheless delivers the best performance around when it comes both to office/productivity applications and games.
Hopefully it will be a step up from the 4200rpm 40GB drive in my current 12" Powerbook!
Perhaps my powerbook could have "unofficially" had 1.25GB of RAM. I sure would have loved to know that a year or so ago, if true:-( I did read that there was some memory in Japan or something I could have used at the time but that seemed like too much hassle and then I forgot about it after that.
There are all sorts of portable computers available in the world because there are all sorts of people. Different people have different needs. I'm typing this on a 12" powerbook but I'm in the process of buying a 15" or 17" to replace it. How much do you travel? Is your computer mostly plugged into an external monitor on a desk, or do you use it on an airplane? How tall/strong are you? Do you need features like a PCMCIA slot? How much computing power do you need?
As for me, I'm usually just taking my computer between my home office and my clients' offices. 80% of the time I have it plugged into an external monitor. I only need to use it on an airplane every 3-4 months but I need all the power I can get. The 12" doesn't have a PCMCIA slot, and mine's maxed out at 640MB of RAM and I need at least a gigabyte. I'm about 6'4 so carrying a larger laptop is less of a deal for me than if I was 5'4.
What kind of computer you buy depends on what you want it for, which is why Apple makes 5 different models. And why there's more than one manufacturer.
I don't have anything against Arkansas. I lived in Russellville for 4 months. It was the summer, and it was very hot and humid. I didn't say anything about rednecks, just about weather.
Actually I'd never been to the south before going to Arkansas. All I knew about the American south I'd learned from Dukes of Hazard and Deliverance. I had long hair, earrings and pink combat boots and I was scared of what I'd find. I got there and was pleasantly surprised and had a great time.
Sounds familiar. I just moved from southern California to Ontario, Canada a little over a month ago. I took an almost 50% pay cut but with housing being less than 25% here what it is in socal, I'm still way ahead. Plus my "commute" is now a 6 minute walk vs. a 30 minute drive and I'm saving more money than I was in California.
I guess the only downides are that in Arkansas you have to battle crazy heat and 99% humidity, and here I have snow (which isn't such a bad thing);-)
1. There is no country in Europe that does not struggle with immigrants and children from immigrants from African origin. France has the largest number of them, hence the biggest problems
This is just not true. You talk like only immigrants of African origin are a problem. This is completely wrong, and the population of poor suburbs are not limited to immigrants of African origin. Your last sentence is racist at best. Poor families of any nationalities live in poor suburbs. You already forgot the poor people thet died burnt in Paris some months ago, and there was no riot.
I don't know the original poster, but FWIW that isn't how I understood the comment at all. The fact is that there is a conflict between the traditional/white/European inhabitants of Europe and many of the newer immigrants, many of whom are from north Africa. The poster did not explicitly state that the "immigrants and children of African origin" were CAUSING the problems; he or she simply stated there WERE problems.
If a comment like this is racist, it could just as easily be motivated by a racism against white Europeans for causing problems for immigrants from Africa. Like I said at the beginning though, I don't know lovebyte from a hole in the wall but am simply providing my take on what he or she wrote.
Reference here: The first generation Aluminium 12" Powerbooks did not have this feature, although it was added later. I have an 867MHz 12" Powerbook, ergo I do not have this feature. So RTFM right back at you and fuck the moron who modded me flamebait.
Quite a few, as it turns out. For instance, I currently have 2 linux servers at my house and in the next month or two plan to build another one. It would be nice to have the option of putting them on my wireless network just for simplicity, but I only have 1 802.11 PCI card and as it so happens it's one of the Linksys cards that doesn't use the chipset supported by Linux. There's no way of knowing that though without buying it and trying.
So I suppose I could go out and buy two more cards at $50 each or whatever retail and return them if they don't work, but that's a lot of money. I could buy them on eBay but again if they don't work I'd have to resell them and then I may as well buy them retail and have a warranty, and have less hassle. Sure if I only have 1 computer I only have to do it once, but most of us here (you included, probably) aren't in that camp. It sure would be nice to be able to buy 85% of the cards and have them reliably work, rather than 15% of them and then wonder if the vendor switched chipsets on you but didn't switch model numbers.
Well you're incredibly lucky. I THOUGHT I could do that, and then every time I switched the battery on my 12" Powerbook it would shut me down. I went into the Apple store thinking I needed a new CMOS battery or something, and they told me that this is NOT a feature of the Powerbook. They said that occasionally if you're really lucky it might happen, but if so it was more a fluke than anything.
I love my Powerbook, but I don't want people to get the idea that they should expect to have this particular feature if they buy one.
It's not a double standard because in the "switch to linux to us LaTeX" scenario, someone is ostensibly switching FROM Windows TO Linux because they want a specific feature that they feel is missing from Windows. If this feature is in fact available in Windows, then they have lost their reason to switch.
In your scenario, a user is sticking with what they ALREADY have because they have the tools they need. What incentive do they have to switch to Linux in this scenario? None. They're already happy with what they have and have no reason to switch.
The point is that if people are happy where they are (either through ignorance or actual contentment) then they need a reason to SWITCH, not a reason to stay where they are.
I'm happy for you. I've been using it on Mac OS X 10.3.x and XP Pro for the last couple weeks, and my empirical observation has been that 1.5b1 crashes more on both platforms than the older version I'd been using before.
You seem to be approaching the situation with the mindset that database portability is of primary importance across all projects. Why would I add 10% of overhead in abstracting my SQL out when I know there's only a 2% chance that the product will have to move to another DBMS? Then there's the added issue of relying on someone else's decision of how my SQL should be written. I haven't used all the query builder tools in the world but I haven't yet found one that can help me write SQL as fast as I can on my own, or write better SQL than I can on my own, and I'm not even that great a SQL developer really.
Writing code to the "lowest common denominator" of SQL is not the best utilization of the $150k your company just spent on Oracle, for instance. An ORM tool is not likely to be a substitute for a database developer experienced with a specific DBMS. I realize that SQL code only represents a portion of why one would choose a specific database product (scalability, reliability, etc. being other factors) but it is an important factor nonetheless.
Additionally, not all languages support prepared statements. On top of that, prepared statements are generally not as efficient as stored procedures, so again there's a reason to use stored procedures. Writing stored procedures doesn't really mean that the SQL code has to stay "in the database". The SQL to create the stored procedures can stay in a code repository, as I'm sure you know.
I'm not saying your ideas are bad or wrong, per se, but that you are making broad statements about how things are supposed to be and what should never happen. Your point of view represents only a portion of projects out there with solid architecture, and as such are misleading.
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Of course you can, including with Apple's lossless format. No you can't use ogg but then again I personally don't really care.
You just choose the format you want if you don't like the default, stick your CD into your computer and it automagically puts the songs into iTunes. Then you plug your iPod into your computer and it automagically puts the songs onto your iPod. I'm not really sure how it could be more clear or easy.
Haha, I hope you're right. I just quit my job and in 2 weeks will start another one where I'll make 40-45% less to start off with, but the cost of living is less than half what it is here in southern California. My commute will go from over an hour a day to... well I'll work at home and then go into the office if I need to.
Dropping somewhat out of the earn earn earn buy buy buy mentality is a little scary, but I've been weaning myself off it for the last year or so. I guess it's different for everybody, but just things like having no car payment give me an IMMENSE feeling of relief. I highly recommend it.
I suppose if we had effectively unlimited power sources we could mine other planets and asteroids and we'd eventually have unlimited resources as well.
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Very very cool. I have it running on my computer right now. Runs great on my 1.67 powerbook. AWESOME, thanks!
The prefix em- means to "put into". Therefore to "emplane" means to "put into a plane". Deplaning? Sorry I just can't bring myself to use that word. Disemplane, maybe...
Oh, perhaps you are referring to depopulating the airplane. Sorry, one of my pet peeves :-)
I kept getting harassed by Vonage to enter a real address. I told them I lived out of the country so E911 service was moot. However, I HAD to give an address. Completely (*&# stupid.
Do American politicians and lawmakers think Americans are SO stupid that they can't figure out that the VOIP phone they're paying for won't work for E911 service even after they're given warning after disclaimer after warning? I guess so.
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I know that Apple isn't "most of the time" but if you're buying an Apple it's "all the time"
From TFA: Those in the market for an upgraded notebook hard drive seek more capacity and/or speed. At a rather steep price ($230 at the time of this writing), Hitachi's Travelstar 7K100 offers gobs of both. Though it overall remains a far cry from that of the typical desktop unit, the 7K100 nonetheless delivers the best performance around when it comes both to office/productivity applications and games.
Hopefully it will be a step up from the 4200rpm 40GB drive in my current 12" Powerbook!
Perhaps my powerbook could have "unofficially" had 1.25GB of RAM. I sure would have loved to know that a year or so ago, if true :-( I did read that there was some memory in Japan or something I could have used at the time but that seemed like too much hassle and then I forgot about it after that.
As for me, I'm usually just taking my computer between my home office and my clients' offices. 80% of the time I have it plugged into an external monitor. I only need to use it on an airplane every 3-4 months but I need all the power I can get. The 12" doesn't have a PCMCIA slot, and mine's maxed out at 640MB of RAM and I need at least a gigabyte. I'm about 6'4 so carrying a larger laptop is less of a deal for me than if I was 5'4.
What kind of computer you buy depends on what you want it for, which is why Apple makes 5 different models. And why there's more than one manufacturer.
Actually I'd never been to the south before going to Arkansas. All I knew about the American south I'd learned from Dukes of Hazard and Deliverance. I had long hair, earrings and pink combat boots and I was scared of what I'd find. I got there and was pleasantly surprised and had a great time.
- Andrew.
I guess the only downides are that in Arkansas you have to battle crazy heat and 99% humidity, and here I have snow (which isn't such a bad thing) ;-)
This is just not true. You talk like only immigrants of African origin are a problem. This is completely wrong, and the population of poor suburbs are not limited to immigrants of African origin. Your last sentence is racist at best. Poor families of any nationalities live in poor suburbs. You already forgot the poor people thet died burnt in Paris some months ago, and there was no riot.
I don't know the original poster, but FWIW that isn't how I understood the comment at all. The fact is that there is a conflict between the traditional/white/European inhabitants of Europe and many of the newer immigrants, many of whom are from north Africa. The poster did not explicitly state that the "immigrants and children of African origin" were CAUSING the problems; he or she simply stated there WERE problems.
If a comment like this is racist, it could just as easily be motivated by a racism against white Europeans for causing problems for immigrants from Africa. Like I said at the beginning though, I don't know lovebyte from a hole in the wall but am simply providing my take on what he or she wrote.
Reference here: The first generation Aluminium 12" Powerbooks did not have this feature, although it was added later. I have an 867MHz 12" Powerbook, ergo I do not have this feature. So RTFM right back at you and fuck the moron who modded me flamebait.
So I suppose I could go out and buy two more cards at $50 each or whatever retail and return them if they don't work, but that's a lot of money. I could buy them on eBay but again if they don't work I'd have to resell them and then I may as well buy them retail and have a warranty, and have less hassle. Sure if I only have 1 computer I only have to do it once, but most of us here (you included, probably) aren't in that camp. It sure would be nice to be able to buy 85% of the cards and have them reliably work, rather than 15% of them and then wonder if the vendor switched chipsets on you but didn't switch model numbers.
I love my Powerbook, but I don't want people to get the idea that they should expect to have this particular feature if they buy one.
In your scenario, a user is sticking with what they ALREADY have because they have the tools they need. What incentive do they have to switch to Linux in this scenario? None. They're already happy with what they have and have no reason to switch.
The point is that if people are happy where they are (either through ignorance or actual contentment) then they need a reason to SWITCH, not a reason to stay where they are.
No kidding. For instance, here's an ideal one for the /. crowd...
- Andrew.
Writing code to the "lowest common denominator" of SQL is not the best utilization of the $150k your company just spent on Oracle, for instance. An ORM tool is not likely to be a substitute for a database developer experienced with a specific DBMS. I realize that SQL code only represents a portion of why one would choose a specific database product (scalability, reliability, etc. being other factors) but it is an important factor nonetheless.
Additionally, not all languages support prepared statements. On top of that, prepared statements are generally not as efficient as stored procedures, so again there's a reason to use stored procedures. Writing stored procedures doesn't really mean that the SQL code has to stay "in the database". The SQL to create the stored procedures can stay in a code repository, as I'm sure you know.
I'm not saying your ideas are bad or wrong, per se, but that you are making broad statements about how things are supposed to be and what should never happen. Your point of view represents only a portion of projects out there with solid architecture, and as such are misleading.
You just choose the format you want if you don't like the default, stick your CD into your computer and it automagically puts the songs into iTunes. Then you plug your iPod into your computer and it automagically puts the songs onto your iPod. I'm not really sure how it could be more clear or easy.
Dropping somewhat out of the earn earn earn buy buy buy mentality is a little scary, but I've been weaning myself off it for the last year or so. I guess it's different for everybody, but just things like having no car payment give me an IMMENSE feeling of relief. I highly recommend it.
I suppose if we had effectively unlimited power sources we could mine other planets and asteroids and we'd eventually have unlimited resources as well.
Sounds like your "friend" wants to be re-inserted into the Matrix...
Sorry, couldn't resist.