I very much doubt there is any conspiracy here. Take a look at all of the "This is dangerous! It should be recalled!" comments posted about the MagSafe power adapters in Apple's own online store. If Apple doesn't care about that, I don't think they'd be concerned with an obscure video driver bug.
Seriously though, imagine you had to buy a Dell without Windows and just had to figure out which drivers you needed for the hardware. You will spend hours with no assurance of success, trust me.
Hardly. Simply go to http://support.dell.com, enter the machine's service tag, select the desired OS, and get exactly the drivers you need. Sometimes there might be two different drives for a device category (e.g. two possible NICS), but hardly anything requiring hours of work. Dell is by far the best in this category - other vendors certainly do make it much harder to find all of the drivers needed for a given system.
The ISP doesn't need to sniff the traffic; IP addresses could be logged by the voting servers. That data could then be correlated with account information via ISP records.
Log the fault and report it when the system is up and running again. Most driver problems are intermittent - they'll run fine for hours or days, then suddenly BSOD the system. A NIC wouldn't be different from anything else in this regard.
Infortrend is crap! Stay far, far away from anything produced by them. I'd also warn against purchasing from one of their US distributors - Zzyzx - but that's not an issue since the company just went out of business.
Even the "enterprise" SATA drives are crappy. Out of more than 200 hard drives, I've replaced four times as many of the SATA disks vs. the SCSI disks (12 vs. 3).
There should be no GPL issue. What the GPL requires is distribution of source (or at least making it available) when you distribute binaries. If they aren't distributing GPL'ed binaries of the old versions, I can't see why there would be any GPL issue.
The trouble with that strategy is you have to keep track of which labels have already been used on a given sheet (or else toss out sheets with 29 labels remaining).
$2 per episode is still far too high for custom picked content IMO, even if you only watch one or two shows your iTune bill is going to quickly exceed whatever cable would be.
Where on earth can you get cable for $8 or $16 per month ($2 per episode, 4 episodes per show per month)? Any decent package seems to run at least $40 or $50/month.
The Vista IE 7 has a search box just like Safari and Firefox, and has a number of search engines available - including Google (though MSN is of course the default).
Easily. With a 36-mile commute (1-way), 30MPG car, and gas at $2.30/gal, that's $110/month just for getting to and from work. Add in after-work and weekend driving, and there's $150. Of course most people have shorter commutes so $100 is probably a closer total for a month.
I think public transit is often less expensive than owning a car (buying the car, gas, insurance, taxes, maintainence) but it gives you a lot more flexibility. Here (Boston), the train system is pretty limited. If you miss a train outside of rush hour, you'll be waiting 30 minutes or an hour for the next one. With a car, you can go whenever you want. The layout of the rail network is single-purposed: getting into and out of Boston. Getting from a suburb on one line to a suburb on another line means going through Boston, even if the locations are close by car.
iomega makes a combination USB/Firewire hard drive that's not too much bigger than the 2.5GB. It can be bus-powered by either USB or Firewire. I have a 40GB model and it works great with my iBook.
12 hours? That'd be quite a feat, seeing as the iBook gets 5, tops. Although they could use a much larger battery if they drop the optical drive (didn't see a slot in the drawings...), it'd probably add a bunch of weight.
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I very much doubt there is any conspiracy here. Take a look at all of the "This is dangerous! It should be recalled!" comments posted about the MagSafe power adapters in Apple's own online store. If Apple doesn't care about that, I don't think they'd be concerned with an obscure video driver bug.
Seriously though, imagine you had to buy a Dell without Windows and just had to figure out which drivers you needed for the hardware. You will spend hours with no assurance of success, trust me.
Hardly. Simply go to http://support.dell.com, enter the machine's service tag, select the desired OS, and get exactly the drivers you need. Sometimes there might be two different drives for a device category (e.g. two possible NICS), but hardly anything requiring hours of work. Dell is by far the best in this category - other vendors certainly do make it much harder to find all of the drivers needed for a given system.The ISP doesn't need to sniff the traffic; IP addresses could be logged by the voting servers. That data could then be correlated with account information via ISP records.
Log the fault and report it when the system is up and running again. Most driver problems are intermittent - they'll run fine for hours or days, then suddenly BSOD the system. A NIC wouldn't be different from anything else in this regard.
So, what's your policy on sensitive physical documents? What makes electronic media any different than physical documents?
you have to bribe people to use it instead of the competition.
Infortrend is crap! Stay far, far away from anything produced by them. I'd also warn against purchasing from one of their US distributors - Zzyzx - but that's not an issue since the company just went out of business.
Even the "enterprise" SATA drives are crappy. Out of more than 200 hard drives, I've replaced four times as many of the SATA disks vs. the SCSI disks (12 vs. 3).
Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #14727 of the 14727 IP's spotted so far.
I'm insulted!
There should be no GPL issue. What the GPL requires is distribution of source (or at least making it available) when you distribute binaries. If they aren't distributing GPL'ed binaries of the old versions, I can't see why there would be any GPL issue.
What type of buffer (8 & 16mb) is used in those 'fast' new hd's? Solid-state, of course.
No kidding? I thought they used vacuum tubes.
The trouble with that strategy is you have to keep track of which labels have already been used on a given sheet (or else toss out sheets with 29 labels remaining).
Sounds more like a service for "adult material", not music.
$2 per episode is still far too high for custom picked content IMO, even if you only watch one or two shows your iTune bill is going to quickly exceed whatever cable would be.
Where on earth can you get cable for $8 or $16 per month ($2 per episode, 4 episodes per show per month)? Any decent package seems to run at least $40 or $50/month.
Apple just controls the computer. They don't try to restrict third-party peripherals.
The Vista IE 7 has a search box just like Safari and Firefox, and has a number of search engines available - including Google (though MSN is of course the default).
Do people really pay $100 a month for gasoline?
Easily. With a 36-mile commute (1-way), 30MPG car, and gas at $2.30/gal, that's $110/month just for getting to and from work. Add in after-work and weekend driving, and there's $150. Of course most people have shorter commutes so $100 is probably a closer total for a month.
I think public transit is often less expensive than owning a car (buying the car, gas, insurance, taxes, maintainence) but it gives you a lot more flexibility. Here (Boston), the train system is pretty limited. If you miss a train outside of rush hour, you'll be waiting 30 minutes or an hour for the next one. With a car, you can go whenever you want. The layout of the rail network is single-purposed: getting into and out of Boston. Getting from a suburb on one line to a suburb on another line means going through Boston, even if the locations are close by car.
Doesn't really matter, it's still the same amount of power. Going to higher voltages just means smaller wires and less loss.
Everything except Airport Extreme wireless, that is.
iomega makes a combination USB/Firewire hard drive that's not too much bigger than the 2.5GB. It can be bus-powered by either USB or Firewire. I have a 40GB model and it works great with my iBook.
You've got it backwards. MPEG2 is lossy.
The point is the BSA would want to see proof of purchase/license certificates, not just serial numbers written on your CDs.
Of course, how the BSA would get in in the first place is another question (not being law enforcement..).
However, any email server
Surely you mean MUA, not MTA?
Most GUI mailreaders are smart enough to hyperlink URLs in plaintext emails so that you can just click on the URL to open it in a browser.
12 hours? That'd be quite a feat, seeing as the iBook gets 5, tops. Although they could use a much larger battery if they drop the optical drive (didn't see a slot in the drawings...), it'd probably add a bunch of weight.