The poor who watch TV should get off of their asses and work harder to make more money -- that's why they're poor, they don't have money.
(Is a sarcasm tag really necessary?)
Anyhow, KB, I agree with you. There should be some cheap, subsidised way of getting OTA digital tuners to people who cannot afford a new TV just because there is some new fangled thing. While that may sound a bit socialist, it's more of the fair or right thing to do.
There is nothing wrong with analog TV -- it works, it gets information to the masses. 95% of TV watchers out there DON'T CARE about digital and HDTV. They want TV. If they cared, they wouldn't be watching Everybody Loves Raymond in stretch mode on their 56" widescreen HTDVs while using the 45x split coax cable for basic cable.
Back in 2000 or 2001 a man by the name of Mucko took a couple of guns to work and killed 7, I think, of his co-workers. A couple of days later, the Boston Herald had a story about the investigation and what police found at his apartment:
Books on depression Medication for various mental disorders............and Dungeons and Dragons books.
They didn't go so far as to SAY there was a connection to the killings, but they were kind of pulling you in that direction.
Don't think for a moment that Apple doesn't have an army of left-handed, creative Ninjas armed with exploding hockey-puck mice, waiting in the wings to be dispatched by Jobs on the unsuspecting fools who embarrass him.
Jef raskin didn't die of pancreatic cancer--you're all just victims of a Jobs-ian snow job!
Uh-oh, they're here. I must hide under my desk with my tinfoil h................
Let's assume an 8 oz glass of water. Water bills are paid quarterly. You REALLY have to be delinquent for a while for the water to be cutoff. 8 oz of water will have evaporated before the city cuts off the water--and most likely before the next water bill is due.
I second the Boston observation. Everyone and their mother has an iPod in Boston--except me. Well, I had one, and it broke (1.7 years. HD issues.) My credit card company was nice enough to give me ALL of my money back on it ($418.95) so I could go buy myself a new one.
Upgraded to an iPod Photo which is somewhere between Shanghai and Anchorage right now...
If I, as a MA resident, were to purchase a car in NH, a state w/o sales tax, and I drive it back to MA and register it there, I would have to pay the sales tax in MA. In theory, if I were to purchase a computer in NH I would have to pay MA sales tax.
"The goal is that apps written against the documented Win32 APIs and the.NET Framework will absolutely run well without any modifications under Longhorn when it ships."
So I guess MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will break?
F: Wie sagt man "Slashdotted" auf Deutsche? A: Schadenfreude.
(The German (and possibly English) grammar may be wrong, but Safari's built-in, multi-language dictionary picked up my original misspelling of 'Schadenfreude')
"When my wife asks for the 'cute little Mac', what PC can I buy instead that will take up as little space and do as much for the same price (or less)?"
Get her the damn Mac min! Then when you ask for sex or a blow-job you'll me more likely to get one. Just pray she doesn't start calling your junk her "cute little mini."
This is classic geek stupidity. The wife, or anyone, wants a particular thing and the geek says they can do it better with blah.
Totally reminds me of the Eddie Murphy "Welfare Burger" skit. "Better than McDonalds!"
...or right-click with two-button mouse. I was amazed at that. It's not turned on by default, but a quick trip to the Edit->Spelling menu lets you turn it on.
Pretty sweet. I really wish Windows had this, or at least Lotus Notes had spell-check as you type.
My company maintains a full Production, Disaster Recovery, UAT, Systems Test, and Development environment.
There are plenty of issues however, the breakdown is as such:
Dev: Development only. New code, new app, etc. Systems Test: Dev+/Integration testing UAT: Pre-production. Used for 'User Acceptence Testing' (Prod with stale data) DR: Full mirror of production located 50 miles away. PROD: Full production environment.
I was trying to find some info on the development of ADB. I thought I read somewhere that, like ADC (apple display connector), it was a written standard that Apple (and only Apple) used and rebranded with their name.
I could've sworn that Intel or TI developed the ADB standard and didn't use it. Intel settled on PS/2 instead.
My memory is hazy. However, I do know the following:
Mac 128K came with keyboard (RJ-11 like connection) Mac SE that I purchased in 1989 did not. Perfomas did. High-end (9100, 9500, 8100, 8500) did not. 20th Anniversary did.
I remember buying keyboards separately for a number of business models. 7100s and the like.
Let's say this: the cosumer models probably came as a full package with keyboard. The business/pro models more than likely did not.
I was speaking in generalities which will get you hung (hanged?) on Slashdot!:)
Apple used to ship Macs without a keyboard on most machines. It wasn't until either the beige G3s or the iMac that every Mac included a keyboard.
This was, at the time, a point PC users would harp on. Then Apple includes one and people harp about no choice. Now we're back to no keyboard. Let's see.
This sounds like a question one would see from an avid Ask Marilyn reader.
Another favorite: In order to solve global warming, why doesn't everyone turn on their air conditioners and open their windows.
She didn't have an answer for that reader. I don't know if she didn't answer it because 1) it was a stupid question that any high-school physics student should be able to answer or 2) she had no clue.
Good idea. What happens two years down the road when apple changes the idock config of the iPod or makes a new iPod that requires FW 800? (vPod???)
See: original iPod vs Gen 3 See: ADC, DVI, ADC
It would be cool, though, to have a slot where you insert the iPod about 2/3 of the way and it does it's thing. Great place for your kids to put things like cookies, slices of cheese, and gooey fingers.
Slashdot Mirror
The poor who watch TV should get off of their asses and work harder to make more money -- that's why they're poor, they don't have money.
(Is a sarcasm tag really necessary?)
Anyhow, KB, I agree with you. There should be some cheap, subsidised way of getting OTA digital tuners to people who cannot afford a new TV just because there is some new fangled thing. While that may sound a bit socialist, it's more of the fair or right thing to do.
There is nothing wrong with analog TV -- it works, it gets information to the masses. 95% of TV watchers out there DON'T CARE about digital and HDTV. They want TV. If they cared, they wouldn't be watching Everybody Loves Raymond in stretch mode on their 56" widescreen HTDVs while using the 45x split coax cable for basic cable.
Good day.
Mike
New revenue stream for MS? Charge for each and every security patch? Even at $ 0.01 each * # PCs in the world needing the patch...
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-Forgive me, I am still asleep
Back in 2000 or 2001 a man by the name of Mucko took a couple of guns to work and killed 7, I think, of his co-workers. A couple of days later, the Boston Herald had a story about the investigation and what police found at his apartment:
... ... ... ...and Dungeons and Dragons books.
Books on depression
Medication for various mental disorders
They didn't go so far as to SAY there was a connection to the killings, but they were kind of pulling you in that direction.
THE MAN IS A NERD! OF COURSE HE HAD D&D STUFF.
--Mike
Don't think for a moment that Apple doesn't have an army of left-handed, creative Ninjas armed with exploding hockey-puck mice, waiting in the wings to be dispatched by Jobs on the unsuspecting fools who embarrass him.
Jef raskin didn't die of pancreatic cancer--you're all just victims of a Jobs-ian snow job!
Uh-oh, they're here. I must hide under my desk with my tinfoil h................
****END TRANSMISSION
In this case, the water is gone.
Let's assume an 8 oz glass of water. Water bills are paid quarterly. You REALLY have to be delinquent for a while for the water to be cutoff. 8 oz of water will have evaporated before the city cuts off the water--and most likely before the next water bill is due.
--Mike
I second the Boston observation. Everyone and their mother has an iPod in Boston--except me. Well, I had one, and it broke (1.7 years. HD issues.) My credit card company was nice enough to give me ALL of my money back on it ($418.95) so I could go buy myself a new one.
Upgraded to an iPod Photo which is somewhere between Shanghai and Anchorage right now...
Ouch. That is awful, awful, awful--yet funny.
Thanks for the laugh.
--Mike
What is the ceiling height? Telling us that it is not 9-10 feet doesn't really help a whole lot. Is it 8.5 feet or is it more like 6.5 feet?
If I, as a MA resident, were to purchase a car in NH, a state w/o sales tax, and I drive it back to MA and register it there, I would have to pay the sales tax in MA. In theory, if I were to purchase a computer in NH I would have to pay MA sales tax.
--Mike
3 news stories and none of them show the icon in question. OK, I'm extrapolating as I only looked at two of the stories.
"The goal is that apps written against the documented Win32 APIs and the .NET Framework will absolutely run well without any modifications under Longhorn when it ships."
So I guess MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will break?
--Mike
F: Wie sagt man "Slashdotted" auf Deutsche?
A: Schadenfreude.
(The German (and possibly English) grammar may be wrong, but Safari's built-in, multi-language dictionary picked up my original misspelling of 'Schadenfreude')
"When my wife asks for the 'cute little Mac', what PC can I buy instead that will take up as little space and do as much for the same price (or less)?"
Get her the damn Mac min! Then when you ask for sex or a blow-job you'll me more likely to get one. Just pray she doesn't start calling your junk her "cute little mini."
This is classic geek stupidity. The wife, or anyone, wants a particular thing and the geek says they can do it better with blah.
Totally reminds me of the Eddie Murphy "Welfare Burger" skit. "Better than McDonalds!"
--Mke
...or right-click with two-button mouse. I was amazed at that. It's not turned on by default, but a quick trip to the Edit->Spelling menu lets you turn it on.
Pretty sweet. I really wish Windows had this, or at least Lotus Notes had spell-check as you type.
--Mike
My company maintains a full Production, Disaster Recovery, UAT, Systems Test, and Development environment.
There are plenty of issues however, the breakdown is as such:
Dev: Development only. New code, new app, etc.
Systems Test: Dev+/Integration testing
UAT: Pre-production. Used for 'User Acceptence Testing' (Prod with stale data)
DR: Full mirror of production located 50 miles away.
PROD: Full production environment.
Where in the Boston area? I need to find said place to purchase my generic HDMI cables.
--Mike
I was trying to find some info on the development of ADB. I thought I read somewhere that, like ADC (apple display connector), it was a written standard that Apple (and only Apple) used and rebranded with their name.
I could've sworn that Intel or TI developed the ADB standard and didn't use it. Intel settled on PS/2 instead.
Please point me in the right direction.
--Mike
My memory is hazy. However, I do know the following:
:)
Mac 128K came with keyboard (RJ-11 like connection)
Mac SE that I purchased in 1989 did not.
Perfomas did.
High-end (9100, 9500, 8100, 8500) did not.
20th Anniversary did.
I remember buying keyboards separately for a number of business models. 7100s and the like.
Let's say this: the cosumer models probably came as a full package with keyboard. The business/pro models more than likely did not.
I was speaking in generalities which will get you hung (hanged?) on Slashdot!
--Mike
Apple used to ship Macs without a keyboard on most machines. It wasn't until either the beige G3s or the iMac that every Mac included a keyboard.
This was, at the time, a point PC users would harp on. Then Apple includes one and people harp about no choice. Now we're back to no keyboard. Let's see.
--Mike
This sounds like a question one would see from an avid Ask Marilyn reader.
Another favorite: In order to solve global warming, why doesn't everyone turn on their air conditioners and open their windows.
She didn't have an answer for that reader. I don't know if she didn't answer it because 1) it was a stupid question that any high-school physics student should be able to answer or 2) she had no clue.
--Mike
I cannot believe how badly Conan's "Bill Gates is a family man, wife, 2 kids, don't let the term Microsoft fool you!" joke failed.
I am still giggling.
--Paci
(Forgive spelling)
Slashdot is not a waste of my time.
True, but 25 years ago you were a primary site for thousands of Soviet war-heads.
--Mike
You run. You run so far away.
Good idea. What happens two years down the road when apple changes the idock config of the iPod or makes a new iPod that requires FW 800? (vPod???)
See: original iPod vs Gen 3
See: ADC, DVI, ADC
It would be cool, though, to have a slot where you insert the iPod about 2/3 of the way and it does it's thing. Great place for your kids to put things like cookies, slices of cheese, and gooey fingers.
--Mike