You can claim that accident's 'aren't your fault' all you want. You can also try avoiding dangerous situations. Or if you accept that you are willing to risk an accident to drive on a certain road, at a certain time of day, on a certain day, you have put yourself into a situation where accidents will happen.
You're a dumbass. Last month, I was driving down a residential road when a woman ran a stop sign and pulled out 20 feet in front of me. I tried to swerve and stop, but wasn't able to avoid hitting her truck. Your idea of me having even partial responsibility for this is as meaningless as if I claimed it was your fault for being struck by a meteorite because you chose to sit in the living room chair where it landed.
You then share responsibility for the accident when it happens.
Fortunately for me, the policeman who took the accident report was not a dumbass and cited the other driver, certifying them as the responsible party and absolving me of fault.
I know one Very Large company that just upgraded its internal users from IE4 to IE6. IE7 isn't feasible, and IE8 even less so.
Vista ships with IE7. So how long will Very Large Company be able to buy XP site licenses, and how long will XP continue to support new hardware? I could imagine "legacy-free" machines coming out that no longer boot anything older than Vista.
we wouldn't want an article on every person ever lived
Why? Say that's 10 billion people, and each article is 10KB. That comes out to 100TB and a modest database to reference it all. In 2010 technology, I could afford to buy and run that hardware out of my basement if I really wanted to. Keep in mind that hosting 10G articles is a lot different from serving that many.
As long as it doesn't bog down the search engine, is there any practical reason to care? Especially when instead of 10G articles, we're talking about something on the order of 1 million.
It does, though. Stanza has its own built-in bookstore that works about as well as the app store. But if you want something other than those offerings, you have to have some way of getting it to the iPod. In this case, installing a single desktop app is about as streamlined as you can make that process.
Be warned -- JWASM's Wikipedia article was nominated for deletion
And that right there's why I won't donate a penny to that project. Honestly, WTF? That article's source is about 13KB long. At $100/TB, it costs about 1/7800th of a penny to store. "But what if it clutters up the site!", say the Deletionists. Apparently there's an alternate front page to Wikipedia that lists every single article and it's critical that it be kept tidy and short.
Actually, I take that back: can I send Wikipedia a penny and sponsor a few thousand articles of my choosing, starting with this one?
Of course, for most companies, given the choice between free OO and paying for MS Office, they'll still choose MS Office for a number of reasons.
That really depends on the business. Most of the people at my company fill revenue-producing positions that have nothing to do with word processing or spreadsheet editing. The choice for us was between everyone in the company getting OpenOffice on their PC, or only 3-4 people in the company getting Microsoft Office. That's how we ended up with OOo on all desktops.
You've never had a good cup of coffee until you've tried one made from the on-site deep sea thermal vent water. The trip is a little pricey, but the barista is cute.
I've seen various estimates of the return on investment of the space program. A 10-fold return is a fairly conservative figure among those. With deference to Dr. King, I'd much rather invest twenty billion in the space program so that I get 200 billion to invest on God's children and more space exploration.
Sacrificing even a few lives for private space flight at this point in time would be irresponsible (and might turn off many people to privitization) and it stinks of the old Robber Baron's lives for profit attitude (sounds Ferengi, no?).
I'm glad that European settlers didn't feel that way about America. If Britain, France, and Spain waited for Atlantic crossing to become safe and efficient before allowing anyone to try, it never would've become safe and efficient.
As a free market libertarian, I think this move sucks, and anyone with half a brain should too.
As a free market Libertarian, I think you'd be well advised to learn why a group would choose an open standard that multiple vendors can compete for, rather than a closed (ISO can kiss my ass), single-vendor product.
The display resolution of a digital television or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.
When dealing with display screens, "resolution" almost always refers to "display resolution", or number of pixels in each dimension. In fact, in 30 years of working on computers, I've never seen "resolution" refer to anything else. Even Apple's spec sheet says "1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)".
Dude, just admit that you called someone out incorrectly and move on. We all know you did, and arguing your point just makes you look silly.
To my surprise, one of the most important functions I wanted in a book reader was not there -- I could not import my own documents.
You can't? That's news to me. Just last week I downloaded a text file ("Leiningen Versus The Ants"), used Calibre (GPL) to convert it to epub, launched Calibre's built-in webserver, opened Stanza on my iPod, pressed the "Get Books" button, looked under "Computers Sharing Books", and downloaded the file.
Actually it has a WORSE resolution than the iPhone (132ppi Vs 163ppi), the screen is just bigger, but not as sharp.
Actually, it has a betterresolution than the iPhone (1024x768 vs 480x320) but a larger dot pitch. Don't try to correct someone unless you're sure of the terms being used.
Firefox can buy a license, or they can become irrelevant.
Or than can say, "hey, we can get our users switched over to your codec a lot faster than Microsoft can talk theirs into upgrading from IE6. Give us a free license so we can make your product the de facto standard?"
Im typing this on a 24" LCD with 1920x1200 resolution connected to my PC with a VGA cable. My second screen where I have my code is connected to the computer with a DVI cable. I dont see any difference when I compare text on both screens. And yes the DVI connection is digial and not analog.
You forgot to mention that you're legally blind. I'm typing this on a 24" LCD at 1680x1050, and it looked like absolute crap with (good) VGA cables. Pixels were ghosted and there was no such thing as a single-pixel-wide vertical line. I have astigmatism and even I could tell that it was artifacted all to hell. Swapping in a cheap DVI cable instantly fixed the fuzziness and I haven't looked back.
Very true, which would give him a lot of credibility. He'd rather sell you a $1,500 Macbook Pro than a $20 DVD, and all the better if he can sell you both. DRM does absolutely nothing to prevent piracy and he of all people should know it, and he already has a track record of fighting DRM on music.
...can't display motion pictures published by six American companies.
...until Steve Jobs explains that customers can't watch Avatar on a Mac because the MPAA bosses think they're all thieves, and that DRM is so awful that Apple fought The Man because they care about each customer as an individual. The difference is that people will believe him when he says it, when they'd write you and I off as paranoids.
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You can claim that accident's 'aren't your fault' all you want. You can also try avoiding dangerous situations. Or if you accept that you are willing to risk an accident to drive on a certain road, at a certain time of day, on a certain day, you have put yourself into a situation where accidents will happen.
You're a dumbass. Last month, I was driving down a residential road when a woman ran a stop sign and pulled out 20 feet in front of me. I tried to swerve and stop, but wasn't able to avoid hitting her truck. Your idea of me having even partial responsibility for this is as meaningless as if I claimed it was your fault for being struck by a meteorite because you chose to sit in the living room chair where it landed.
You then share responsibility for the accident when it happens.
Fortunately for me, the policeman who took the accident report was not a dumbass and cited the other driver, certifying them as the responsible party and absolving me of fault.
And does XP mode ship with IE6?
I know one Very Large company that just upgraded its internal users from IE4 to IE6. IE7 isn't feasible, and IE8 even less so.
Vista ships with IE7. So how long will Very Large Company be able to buy XP site licenses, and how long will XP continue to support new hardware? I could imagine "legacy-free" machines coming out that no longer boot anything older than Vista.
we wouldn't want an article on every person ever lived
Why? Say that's 10 billion people, and each article is 10KB. That comes out to 100TB and a modest database to reference it all. In 2010 technology, I could afford to buy and run that hardware out of my basement if I really wanted to. Keep in mind that hosting 10G articles is a lot different from serving that many.
As long as it doesn't bog down the search engine, is there any practical reason to care? Especially when instead of 10G articles, we're talking about something on the order of 1 million.
It does, though. Stanza has its own built-in bookstore that works about as well as the app store. But if you want something other than those offerings, you have to have some way of getting it to the iPod. In this case, installing a single desktop app is about as streamlined as you can make that process.
Be warned -- JWASM's Wikipedia article was nominated for deletion
And that right there's why I won't donate a penny to that project. Honestly, WTF? That article's source is about 13KB long. At $100/TB, it costs about 1/7800th of a penny to store. "But what if it clutters up the site!", say the Deletionists. Apparently there's an alternate front page to Wikipedia that lists every single article and it's critical that it be kept tidy and short.
Actually, I take that back: can I send Wikipedia a penny and sponsor a few thousand articles of my choosing, starting with this one?
Of course, for most companies, given the choice between free OO and paying for MS Office, they'll still choose MS Office for a number of reasons.
That really depends on the business. Most of the people at my company fill revenue-producing positions that have nothing to do with word processing or spreadsheet editing. The choice for us was between everyone in the company getting OpenOffice on their PC, or only 3-4 people in the company getting Microsoft Office. That's how we ended up with OOo on all desktops.
You've never had a good cup of coffee until you've tried one made from the on-site deep sea thermal vent water. The trip is a little pricey, but the barista is cute.
I've seen various estimates of the return on investment of the space program. A 10-fold return is a fairly conservative figure among those. With deference to Dr. King, I'd much rather invest twenty billion in the space program so that I get 200 billion to invest on God's children and more space exploration.
Sacrificing even a few lives for private space flight at this point in time would be irresponsible (and might turn off many people to privitization) and it stinks of the old Robber Baron's lives for profit attitude (sounds Ferengi, no?).
I'm glad that European settlers didn't feel that way about America. If Britain, France, and Spain waited for Atlantic crossing to become safe and efficient before allowing anyone to try, it never would've become safe and efficient.
It really disrespectful to refer to our President that way, you racist.
Oh, wow. I forgot he was black.
As a free market libertarian, I think this move sucks, and anyone with half a brain should too.
As a free market Libertarian, I think you'd be well advised to learn why a group would choose an open standard that multiple vendors can compete for, rather than a closed (ISO can kiss my ass), single-vendor product.
They didn't say which nation they'd be igniting. I'm looking at you, Cyprus.
Why not just read the article you linked to?
OK. The very first sentence reads:
When dealing with display screens, "resolution" almost always refers to "display resolution", or number of pixels in each dimension. In fact, in 30 years of working on computers, I've never seen "resolution" refer to anything else. Even Apple's spec sheet says "1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)".
Dude, just admit that you called someone out incorrectly and move on. We all know you did, and arguing your point just makes you look silly.
To my surprise, one of the most important functions I wanted in a book reader was not there -- I could not import my own documents.
You can't? That's news to me. Just last week I downloaded a text file ("Leiningen Versus The Ants"), used Calibre (GPL) to convert it to epub, launched Calibre's built-in webserver, opened Stanza on my iPod, pressed the "Get Books" button, looked under "Computers Sharing Books", and downloaded the file.
Actually it has a WORSE resolution than the iPhone (132ppi Vs 163ppi), the screen is just bigger, but not as sharp.
Actually, it has a better resolution than the iPhone (1024x768 vs 480x320) but a larger dot pitch. Don't try to correct someone unless you're sure of the terms being used.
I'll be damned if I'm clicking a link called "Big Rip" on Slashdot.
Mostly what caught my eye is the absurdity of "D&D has a dungeonmaster who gives orders, which is like a gang" rationale.
Seconded. You could rephrase that as "D&D has a dungeonmaster who gives orders, which is like the job they'll have when they eventually get out".
Firefox can buy a license, or they can become irrelevant.
Or than can say, "hey, we can get our users switched over to your codec a lot faster than Microsoft can talk theirs into upgrading from IE6. Give us a free license so we can make your product the de facto standard?"
Fair enough, but at least you know now, right?
I rather live enjoying my time on my seat and sofa than force myself to write emails standing up.
How do you know this? I thought I'd hate a standing desk until I tried it.
Im typing this on a 24" LCD with 1920x1200 resolution connected to my PC with a VGA cable. My second screen where I have my code is connected to the computer with a DVI cable. I dont see any difference when I compare text on both screens. And yes the DVI connection is digial and not analog.
You forgot to mention that you're legally blind. I'm typing this on a 24" LCD at 1680x1050, and it looked like absolute crap with (good) VGA cables. Pixels were ghosted and there was no such thing as a single-pixel-wide vertical line. I have astigmatism and even I could tell that it was artifacted all to hell. Swapping in a cheap DVI cable instantly fixed the fuzziness and I haven't looked back.
Very true, which would give him a lot of credibility. He'd rather sell you a $1,500 Macbook Pro than a $20 DVD, and all the better if he can sell you both. DRM does absolutely nothing to prevent piracy and he of all people should know it, and he already has a track record of fighting DRM on music.
...can't display motion pictures published by six American companies.
...until Steve Jobs explains that customers can't watch Avatar on a Mac because the MPAA bosses think they're all thieves, and that DRM is so awful that Apple fought The Man because they care about each customer as an individual. The difference is that people will believe him when he says it, when they'd write you and I off as paranoids.
Yeah, but it carries more respect than becoming a senator to do the same thing.