Why are you smiling? Their stock is down over 20% from 3 months ago, and unless you timed one of the slight dips, is essentially unchanged since December 2005.
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(I suppose, ultimately, for power consumption purposes, you'll never have a projector built in, because it would take too much energy to run, but I can dream, right?)
Never is a really long time...advances in battery capability (or the replacement of what we call a battery by some other power source) coupled with advances in projector technology (ie http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2242734,00.asp ) may make this possible, perhaps sooner rather than later.
Any artist worth listening to is almost always both the songwriter and the performer.
Well, just about any classical musician wouldn't fall into this. A lot of Jazz musicians do their own renditions of jazz classics, and wouldn't fall under this statement.
Van Halen did a lot of covers of tunes that they didn't write (well at least during the Diamond Dave years).
so your telling me if I have 16GB of RAM in my system and am running an email program, and solitaire (to amuse myself while waiting for more email to arrive) that I will notice whether I have swap space or not?
Bzzztt wrong.
Given effectively unlimited RAM for the task at hand swap won't matter even a little bit.
The concern is that deals such as Linspire signed imply that Microsoft has some legitimate patent claims against free software included in Linspire's product - a claim Microsoft has made but has refused to verify.
And Linspire's concern is to cover their ass...so they are. How's that for clear and unemotional?
- chili - pizza - New York or Chicago Style (Pizza was never good in Italy until it came to America!) - Philly Cheesesteak - the Coney Island hot dog (hot dog "sausages" with chili, mustard and onion -- mmmmmm!) - 'french' fries (which are really an American invention) - Coney Fries -- french fries covered in chili and cheese sauce - the Ice Cream cone (invented at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Mo.
and people wonder why americans have issues with obesity...
I lock my car doors to prevent the crime of grand theft auto, and so far my car hasn't been stolen.
Yet I generally don't lock my car door to prevent 'grand window breaking' in the act of grand theft auto, and so far my car hasn't been stolen, nor have my windows been broken.
furthering your analogy, while an automatic is easier to drive than a standard transmission, there are things you acn do with a standard transmission that you can't do with an automatic. So yes there is a steeper learning curve to driving a standard and it is certainly 'harder' to drive a standard than an automatic at any given point in time, but when you need the features of a standard transmission and all you have is an automatic, then you are screwed.
Trying to defend bad UIs in OSS does no good for anyone. People don't want excuses and they certainly don't want to be told that it is their problem.
Denying that a UI is bad is not defending it. A UI that is hard to learn is not necessarily a bad UI. It might be if it were a telephone that grandma has to use, but Blender is not a telephone.
So unless you feel that history and archaeology are basically unimportant (probably not a uncommon opinion here), preservation of languages does have a rather important role in science.
Also, studying what is possible in real-world language syntax and grammar can teach us about the language faculties of our brain, and what its limits are.
So you are saying we should force people to learn these languages that are naturally dying out? How about we forbid the people speaking them to learn any other language and thus force them to live an isolated life that is unable to communicate with anyone else in the world? They are dying out because with new technology they can communicate with others, and choose to do so. They could have chosen differently but they didn't.
I think it's great that people are trying to record what they can of languages for academic reasons but the 'destruction' of a language is natural. Nature is cruel. Ask the salmon in the claws of the bear if you don't believe me. Wait - you probably don't speak salmon.
Universal's problem is making money - it has nothing to do with downloading, nor does it have anything to do with free. Do you think they care where you want to listen to music? They simply care that there exists a revenue stream for them. The upfront cost of developing this system would be relatively low (assuming they didn't have to negotiate with themselves to get the rights to the music to do this). If it works, they get money - if it doesn't, they don't lose that much, or even make just a little bit.
Besides, I have 2 "MP3" players that could play these files, as well as a laptop or two. I also have an iPod that can't and a PC or two that can't. I will probably be checking out the site to see what's up - after all, it won't cost me anything.
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($800+ per 4GB stick vs $200 for 2GB)
http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator_new/partsinfo.asp?root=us&LinkBack=http://www.kingston.com&ktcpartno=KTD-WS667/8G
two 4GB sticks for a Dell 2950 for $1050...WTF?
Did you buy stock? I did a while ago... :)
Why are you smiling? Their stock is down over 20% from 3 months ago, and unless you timed one of the slight dips, is essentially unchanged since December 2005.
Are you the same guy that said large flash based storage disks or wouldn't ever be available 7 years ago?
It's 2015 - why are we still typing????
(I suppose, ultimately, for power consumption purposes, you'll never have a projector built in, because it would take too much energy to run, but I can dream, right?)
Never is a really long time...advances in battery capability (or the replacement of what we call a battery by some other power source) coupled with advances in projector technology (ie http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2242734,00.asp ) may make this possible, perhaps sooner rather than later.
The legal definition of fair use is far from black and white.
http://w2.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.php
Perhaps you should pull your head out of your...ahh nevermind.
Why is it that the media only covers the pro-"mercury is dangerous" side of the debate?
Maybe because the research shows that that mercury IS dangerous?
Do you have any links to scientifically valid papers that indicate that mercury isn't dangerous?
Any artist worth listening to is almost always both the songwriter and the performer.
Well, just about any classical musician wouldn't fall into this. A lot of Jazz musicians do their own renditions of jazz classics, and wouldn't fall under this statement.
Van Halen did a lot of covers of tunes that they didn't write (well at least during the Diamond Dave years).
What the hell is a diggity?
I'm sure the producers will take great stock in a comment from a true fan like you.
Condensation is "still" a problem because it's one of the big and tricky ones. To get rid of the condensation, you have to get rid of the people.
Apparently it isn't as tricky as first thought....
enable faster reboot
you must be running windows...
so your telling me if I have 16GB of RAM in my system and am running an email program, and solitaire (to amuse myself while waiting for more email to arrive) that I will notice whether I have swap space or not?
Bzzztt wrong.
Given effectively unlimited RAM for the task at hand swap won't matter even a little bit.
The concern is that deals such as Linspire signed imply that Microsoft has some legitimate patent claims against free software included in Linspire's product - a claim Microsoft has made but has refused to verify.
And Linspire's concern is to cover their ass...so they are. How's that for clear and unemotional?
require large donations for the privilege
I'm not sure I've heard a better oxymoron lately...
What it does condemn is murder
and yet crows freely gather in my yard all the time - I keep expecting the giant lightning strike, but alas, it never comes...
- chili
- pizza - New York or Chicago Style (Pizza was never good in Italy until it came to America!)
- Philly Cheesesteak
- the Coney Island hot dog (hot dog "sausages" with chili, mustard and onion -- mmmmmm!)
- 'french' fries (which are really an American invention)
- Coney Fries -- french fries covered in chili and cheese sauce
- the Ice Cream cone (invented at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Mo.
and people wonder why americans have issues with obesity...
I lock my car doors to prevent the crime of grand theft auto, and so far my car hasn't been stolen.
Yet I generally don't lock my car door to prevent 'grand window breaking' in the act of grand theft auto, and so far my car hasn't been stolen, nor have my windows been broken.
Many photographers are interested in those things...however 99% of the pictures taken out there are taken in jpg format which is 8 bit/channel.
And 60% of statistics are made up on the spot, but you get my point.
furthering your analogy, while an automatic is easier to drive than a standard transmission, there are things you acn do with a standard transmission that you can't do with an automatic. So yes there is a steeper learning curve to driving a standard and it is certainly 'harder' to drive a standard than an automatic at any given point in time, but when you need the features of a standard transmission and all you have is an automatic, then you are screwed.
Trying to defend bad UIs in OSS does no good for anyone. People don't want excuses and they certainly don't want to be told that it is their problem.
Denying that a UI is bad is not defending it. A UI that is hard to learn is not necessarily a bad UI. It might be if it were a telephone that grandma has to use, but Blender is not a telephone.
So unless you feel that history and archaeology are basically unimportant (probably not a uncommon opinion here), preservation of languages does have a rather important role in science.
Also, studying what is possible in real-world language syntax and grammar can teach us about the language faculties of our brain, and what its limits are.
So you are saying we should force people to learn these languages that are naturally dying out? How about we forbid the people speaking them to learn any other language and thus force them to live an isolated life that is unable to communicate with anyone else in the world? They are dying out because with new technology they can communicate with others, and choose to do so. They could have chosen differently but they didn't.
I think it's great that people are trying to record what they can of languages for academic reasons but the 'destruction' of a language is natural. Nature is cruel. Ask the salmon in the claws of the bear if you don't believe me. Wait - you probably don't speak salmon.
even though none of them are good speakers of English.
wow - you too speak english very goodly also as well.
perhaps you meant "...even though none of them speak English well?"
Little girls who can't sing dancing on stage with no cloths
Why is this a problem?
FireFox is not sold as some kind of "leet" hacker browser, it's sold as a browser for the people.
The last I heard it wasn't sold at all, but rather given away freely...
Universal's problem is making money - it has nothing to do with downloading, nor does it have anything to do with free. Do you think they care where you want to listen to music? They simply care that there exists a revenue stream for them. The upfront cost of developing this system would be relatively low (assuming they didn't have to negotiate with themselves to get the rights to the music to do this). If it works, they get money - if it doesn't, they don't lose that much, or even make just a little bit.
Besides, I have 2 "MP3" players that could play these files, as well as a laptop or two. I also have an iPod that can't and a PC or two that can't. I will probably be checking out the site to see what's up - after all, it won't cost me anything.
I'm guessing if you've soldered the phone to unlock it, soldering to change the battery won't be a big deal to you...