Dammit Apple! I want a thin laptop, 15" screen, 30GB (minimum) HD, 1Ghz speed (or greater), superdrive, 256 (minimum) ram, for around $1500!
Dell can give me all that except a 1" thickness (1.4") and the dell 4150 is.2lbs heavier so I know it can be done.
I don't need glowing keyboards. I don't need built in wireless (although built in antennas are nice). I don't need gigabit ethernet. And I don't need proprietary video out connectors.
OSX may be 'da bomb' but the hardware is still horribly overpriced.
"Given the choice between 12 hours of play time on a screen that requires an external light source and 2 hours of play time on a screen that has an internal light source, I'd choose 12 hours."
Or you can choose a GBA that gives you 10 hours of play time with the light on. Try reading the article next time...
It was my understanding from a few weeks ago that they only reached an agreement to put the digital tv decoders in the tv, not the HDTV decoders. Or am I mistaken about what was actually agreed upon?
It gives a 4:3 viewing image of 20 something inches? No thanks. Too small. Why spend 6k when you can spend 2k and get a really nice 50 some inch 4:3 hd ready tv?
Says who? Its not even done yet and therefore hasn't even been submitted to the ratings board yet. Its a pretty safe bet it comes out being R. The site says "This film has not yet been rated"
People who always say "well IDE drives are cheap, just buy a cheap computer and stack it with drives" proves they have never put together or been around real servers. That may be fine for your little box sitting in your apartment that you use for ftp and telnet when you are away or serving the occasional web page, but for real life servers that actual need high performance and long uptime that just won't cut it.
"If it takes as much as 10 megabytes per user (and that's a hell of a lot of space to store character data, and probably isn't anywhere near that much), you can host 48,000 customers with mirrored disk drives for a one-time cost of about $2K."
Again, obviously not understanding how a real life server works. If you want quality and something that will scale really well you need to pay for it, Linux ain't it. Database tables can get rather large when you add in indexes and linking all the tables together. Its not just a text file list.
With all these homegrown tivo like PVR's is that if you have digital cable or a satellite you are going to miss out on recording a ton of stuff. With satellite at least you can get a box with the decoders built in. For cable I just recently got the new Scientific Atlanta 8000 box for time warner and it works pretty well, but it is Tivo-lite and has some problems sometimes. But its still WAY better than using a VCR. All it needs is a network jack so I can get 2 boxes and share their recordings. Oh it doesn't do hdtv either.
Answering simple questions is one thing, but when asked to actually come into the old office and spend some time fixing or working on something you are under NO obligation to do it for free. There are ways to politely decline if they don't want to pay you, it is a business afterall. When they call you give them your hourly rate. When the job is finished tell them they will be receiving a bill in the mail and will have 2 weeks to pay it. Send it registered so you get a record they got it and put the date due on the bill. If they don't pay you by the due date take them to small claims or submit it to the local work force commission for the state as lost wages. You've got a bill as paperwork and you got the record from the postoffice indicating the date they got the bill. In this crappy job market don't do anything for free. I had my mom ask me today why I don't just come down to where she works and fix their network for them. I told her because your boss is already paying someone to screw it up and they aren't going to pay me to fix it.
Games - duh Ease of use - Linux is NOWHERE near ready for prime time, it takes too much to set it all up to be runable. Sure you can just install it and (if the install works) just use it, but it is not as simple as windows to setup. Cost - just for the mac side though. I would love to run OSX but the cost for mac hardware is rediculous. Opensource in general - sure there are some great apps out there that you can just download and either install or compile yourself, but I don't want to have to go out and hunt for what I need, the OS should come with everything I need or it should be extremely easy to find it.
If I pay for a cd and a dvd comes with it with extra video footage I sure as hell don't want that dvd to expire, afterall I paid for it already. Doesn't make any sense, even as an experiment.
Your kidding right? Comparing cable tv to tabacco companies? If they don't want to advertise what you can buy they don't have to. If you ask about it they shouldn't deny your right to purchase it, but they don't have to advertise it. Why should the cable company be responsible for telling you what rights you have? As a consumer the gov't should be telling you or you should be aware of what you can and cannot do on your own. Does the law as its written right now specify that the cable company has to TELL you that you can purchase stations individually or does it just say that they must ALLOW you to do it?
Do you complain to the car company when you buy a car that they didn't offer you floor mats even though if you would bother to investigate it a little you would find out that you can purchase them separately from the other options?
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You should be able to just add HBO. You wouldn't get the multiplex stations though, just normal HBO. My parents did this with just basic cable and just HBO so they could watch sopranos.
So whats to stop someone with a home cd player with an optical output routing it to their computer with an optical input and grabbing the wav files and then burning their own copy and ripping to mp3?
Tell me when they start doing this in the US and I might care a little more. All of you overseas just import the US versions, I'm sure you can find them cheap on amazon.
Maybe the bigger question should be: Why are you just starting to worry about this now? You should have started a year ago. I've worked with customers who have been working their way toward compliance and talking about compliance for a long time now.
As a movie it is a very well done movie. After I saw it I asked the same question to a friend of mine. I told him the movie was really good, but I don't understand the crazy devotion people have toward the story.
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Dammit Apple! I want a thin laptop, 15" screen, 30GB (minimum) HD, 1Ghz speed (or greater), superdrive, 256 (minimum) ram, for around $1500!
.2lbs heavier so I know it can be done.
Dell can give me all that except a 1" thickness (1.4") and the dell 4150 is
I don't need glowing keyboards. I don't need built in wireless (although built in antennas are nice). I don't need gigabit ethernet. And I don't need proprietary video out connectors.
OSX may be 'da bomb' but the hardware is still horribly overpriced.
"Given the choice between 12 hours of play time on a screen that requires an external light source and 2 hours of play time on a screen that has an internal light source, I'd choose 12 hours."
Or you can choose a GBA that gives you 10 hours of play time with the light on. Try reading the article next time...
some people with mod points 'just don't get it'. And this is proof...
Thats why I didn't get one. I knew they would eventually come out with a new one this year. Your old one still works you know.
That is extremely gay. How 'apple-ish' of them.
It was my understanding from a few weeks ago that they only reached an agreement to put the digital tv decoders in the tv, not the HDTV decoders. Or am I mistaken about what was actually agreed upon?
Dolby Digital does not mean 5.1. You are getting dolby digital on the digital channels (which is not all of them).
It gives a 4:3 viewing image of 20 something inches? No thanks. Too small. Why spend 6k when you can spend 2k and get a really nice 50 some inch 4:3 hd ready tv?
If the dvd group doesn't approve it for use noone will be able to use it anyways...can you say vapor ware???
Says who? Its not even done yet and therefore hasn't even been submitted to the ratings board yet. Its a pretty safe bet it comes out being R. The site says "This film has not yet been rated"
Bobbleheads are so 90's.
Geez...just goes to show how behind the times HR departments are.
People who always say "well IDE drives are cheap, just buy a cheap computer and stack it with drives" proves they have never put together or been around real servers. That may be fine for your little box sitting in your apartment that you use for ftp and telnet when you are away or serving the occasional web page, but for real life servers that actual need high performance and long uptime that just won't cut it.
"If it takes as much as 10 megabytes per user (and that's a hell of a lot of space to store character data, and probably isn't anywhere near that much), you can host 48,000 customers with mirrored disk drives for a one-time cost of about $2K."
Again, obviously not understanding how a real life server works. If you want quality and something that will scale really well you need to pay for it, Linux ain't it. Database tables can get rather large when you add in indexes and linking all the tables together. Its not just a text file list.
With all these homegrown tivo like PVR's is that if you have digital cable or a satellite you are going to miss out on recording a ton of stuff. With satellite at least you can get a box with the decoders built in. For cable I just recently got the new Scientific Atlanta 8000 box for time warner and it works pretty well, but it is Tivo-lite and has some problems sometimes. But its still WAY better than using a VCR. All it needs is a network jack so I can get 2 boxes and share their recordings. Oh it doesn't do hdtv either.
What is this Fark? This has gotta be some kind of record
Pete and Repeat went into a bar, Pete came out, who was left?
Answering simple questions is one thing, but when asked to actually come into the old office and spend some time fixing or working on something you are under NO obligation to do it for free. There are ways to politely decline if they don't want to pay you, it is a business afterall. When they call you give them your hourly rate. When the job is finished tell them they will be receiving a bill in the mail and will have 2 weeks to pay it. Send it registered so you get a record they got it and put the date due on the bill. If they don't pay you by the due date take them to small claims or submit it to the local work force commission for the state as lost wages. You've got a bill as paperwork and you got the record from the postoffice indicating the date they got the bill. In this crappy job market don't do anything for free. I had my mom ask me today why I don't just come down to where she works and fix their network for them. I told her because your boss is already paying someone to screw it up and they aren't going to pay me to fix it.
In no particular order:
Games - duh
Ease of use - Linux is NOWHERE near ready for prime time, it takes too much to set it all up to be runable. Sure you can just install it and (if the install works) just use it, but it is not as simple as windows to setup.
Cost - just for the mac side though. I would love to run OSX but the cost for mac hardware is rediculous.
Opensource in general - sure there are some great apps out there that you can just download and either install or compile yourself, but I don't want to have to go out and hunt for what I need, the OS should come with everything I need or it should be extremely easy to find it.
If I pay for a cd and a dvd comes with it with extra video footage I sure as hell don't want that dvd to expire, afterall I paid for it already. Doesn't make any sense, even as an experiment.
Your kidding right? Comparing cable tv to tabacco companies? If they don't want to advertise what you can buy they don't have to. If you ask about it they shouldn't deny your right to purchase it, but they don't have to advertise it. Why should the cable company be responsible for telling you what rights you have? As a consumer the gov't should be telling you or you should be aware of what you can and cannot do on your own. Does the law as its written right now specify that the cable company has to TELL you that you can purchase stations individually or does it just say that they must ALLOW you to do it?
Do you complain to the car company when you buy a car that they didn't offer you floor mats even though if you would bother to investigate it a little you would find out that you can purchase them separately from the other options?
You should be able to just add HBO. You wouldn't get the multiplex stations though, just normal HBO. My parents did this with just basic cable and just HBO so they could watch sopranos.
So whats to stop someone with a home cd player with an optical output routing it to their computer with an optical input and grabbing the wav files and then burning their own copy and ripping to mp3?
Tell me when they start doing this in the US and I might care a little more. All of you overseas just import the US versions, I'm sure you can find them cheap on amazon.
Well except for you and your other admin buddies...
Maybe the bigger question should be: Why are you just starting to worry about this now? You should have started a year ago. I've worked with customers who have been working their way toward compliance and talking about compliance for a long time now.
As a movie it is a very well done movie. After I saw it I asked the same question to a friend of mine. I told him the movie was really good, but I don't understand the crazy devotion people have toward the story.
Hahaha...yup, its gets many points for style, but its not 3 grand cool.