Yeah or the small store was gouging people. Trust me, it does happen. Let's just acknowledge that Wal-Mart does outcompete some small businesses and some small businesses take advantage of their near-monopoly status to make loads of money.
After I upgraded my laptop to Vista, I noticed it constantly swapping, during which time the machine was completely unresponsive, and it took forever to resume from sleep. That was with the stock 1GB RAM, and this was mostly resolved by upgrading to 2GB.
So, while everyone's needs are different, I would highly recommend 2GB for anything with a slow hard drive.
I don't know about sound but the DRM protection that is activated by video does indeed show up as a process that uses CPU time, as does the process that updates your real-time thumbnails if you have Aero on.
I had a guy at circuit city tell me that Monster Crap was *more* important for HDMI than analogue. I tried to explain it to him, but he wasn't having it. I just returned the MC I "borrowed" and replaced it with my $20 no-name cable from NewEgg.
I've not yet tried HDDVD but movies on HBOHD look significantly better than DVD at 42" 720p but probably not worth it to most people or me actually. At larger screen sizes, esp. LCDs, DVDs are noticeably fuzzy.
I think the line of reasoning is that most (all?) 1080p TVs will support HDCP so, ideally, no one will notice. If you have TV good enough to notice the quality, you won't mind the HDCP. I sometimes have to reboot my TV to get HDCP to work with my cable box, though. Maybe the problems will deter people -- who knows?
Likely your cable company is selling its own DVR. Politically they don't want you using TiVo. Technically, the guide data formats for the cable box and TiVo are probably different.
Neither side seems to have incentive to help you out.
Man, it would be such ownage if it were though. They'd get it too, and everybody would be whining and moaning, threatening never to buy MS junk again. Even better over a million ppl would have a freakin' Spartan helmet.
Deflation creates its own very real problems. Ask a Japanese person. This whole gold standard thing is about having a stable currency, not that I'm convinced it would work.
I guess what I'm trying to say is the people who are otherwise sound of mind, I've found, can have some interesting ideas about 9/11. If there were somebody willing to roll back the post 9/11 damage to civil liberties and give us an exit from Iraq, I'd vote for him even if he was confused about 9/11.
Also I find the theory that the government knew about 9/11 before hand or some faction therein planned it with the hijackers totally plausible, although I am not convinced it was the case. It's nearly unprovable. I tend to apply Occam's razor in these cases, however it contradicts the cui bono principle in this case.
The conspiracy nuts seem harmless enough to me. There actually was a conspiracy that no one denies. U.S. gave weapons to the Taliban to fight the godless commie Russians. After they were done with that they turned on us and started harboring other religious nutcases. These guys then conspired together to attack the WTC.
After the event, politicans in the US conspired to use the public reaction to the event to gain support for eroding civil liberties, invading the Middle East, and printing tons of new money for Homeland Security, conveniently doled out to the states, thus reinforcing the Congress's power.
Does it really matter any more whether the official story about the attack is accurate?
Dateline NBC is best known for its controversial To Catch A Predator series, which uses hidden cameras to tape men who are allegedly seeking to have sex with minors they met online.' I used to like this show, but it has gone way down hill. The stories are no longer news, and the predator shows get old fast. Apparently they're the only thing that get ratings though, because they keep on making them.
I agree with you about the direction we should be moving, and I like the idea of the all-electric car, whether it has an engine to charge it or not. Today, however, we are stuck with hybrids and plug in hybrids are better.
If you really think there's a market for such a car then go build one and make it, or at least patent a key cost-reducing technology and charge someone else to use it.
Reminds me of the movie Who Killed the Electric Car?. The answer was the same people that created it -- the government.
If you only commute 3 miles to work, you're not spending very much money and gas anyways. The point of this car is that you can make short trips with no gas usage. This is more of an environmental thing rather than economic.
This is the whole point though. You have to make a trade off here between spending too much on batteries (Li-ions only last 2 years btw, dunno about lead-acid or whatever they're using) and gaining some efficiency. My guess is Toyota did their homework and figured out what would make the most people happy.
Yes, the Tesla is also 98k+. Toyota is not interested in making a car that only Jay Leno can afford.
So far Toyota has made the most marketable hybrids to date and is actively trying to reduce costs. I'd say their engineering is spot on, given their goals.
Leasing's not a bad deal compared to buying with interest on the loan. I'm waiting for them to get desperate and offer 0% again.
Some things are just more durable than others. Cars could go either way. If you must have a new one every 3-5 years, then they're totally disposable. If you're not into cars, it might make more sense to get the free maintenance with a lease.
Long term it depends on how good you are at selling your car. If you take dealer trade in prices, you were probably better off leasing. If you keep it in mint condition and are a good used car salesman you can probably sell it yourself for more.
Even now that there is a reasonably priced HD TiVo (300 bucks), it would still take 30 months of DVR rental to compensate. This is discounting the fact that the cable company DVR *actually costs less* to operate, because they are allowed to charge you for two cable cards. Yes, it blows nuts, and yes I'm thinking of upgrading now that there is a reasonably priced HD Tivo.
My Series 1 with lifetime sub is still operating though:)
I haven't used DirecTV in a while (no clear sky), but last I checked they were selling their own, inferior DVRs. My cable company offers a dual tuner DC box right off the shelf for about 2.50 a month if you also get HD service. Now that the equivalent TiVo is 300 bucks instead of 800, I'm considering switching back. I gave my lifetime subscription series 1 to my sister when I got HDTV.
Derailed. Getting multiple monitors to work with ATI cards/drivers is a pain. Use the ATI drivers. Make sure you're using MergedFB. The Xinerama stuff has never worked satisfactorily for me.
Out of the box == out of the question, but you might prefer restarting your X server while you're messing around with this stuff, as opposed to rebooting. I work from a separate virtual console usually. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, then startx usually does the trick.
If the distribution of income were linear, removing the top 1% would result in a.5% drop in median income.
It's not, as you pointed out. In a distribution with a middle that's quite flat, removing the top 1% will have very little affect on the result. This is why we use medians and not means.
One interesting thing about that graph. How come California is separated from the rest of US for median income but still gets 1.00 for PPP? I realize that PPP is generally calculated by country, but it hardly makes sense to assume that the cost of goods is the same in California as the average of the rest of the country.
Don't take flack from the other posters. You merely refuted the GPs statement, and Wikipedia's pretty accurate here, given what I've read from other sources.
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Yeah or the small store was gouging people. Trust me, it does happen. Let's just acknowledge that Wal-Mart does outcompete some small businesses and some small businesses take advantage of their near-monopoly status to make loads of money.
After I upgraded my laptop to Vista, I noticed it constantly swapping, during which time the machine was completely unresponsive, and it took forever to resume from sleep. That was with the stock 1GB RAM, and this was mostly resolved by upgrading to 2GB.
So, while everyone's needs are different, I would highly recommend 2GB for anything with a slow hard drive.
I don't know about sound but the DRM protection that is activated by video does indeed show up as a process that uses CPU time, as does the process that updates your real-time thumbnails if you have Aero on.
I had a guy at circuit city tell me that Monster Crap was *more* important for HDMI than analogue. I tried to explain it to him, but he wasn't having it. I just returned the MC I "borrowed" and replaced it with my $20 no-name cable from NewEgg.
I've not yet tried HDDVD but movies on HBOHD look significantly better than DVD at 42" 720p but probably not worth it to most people or me actually. At larger screen sizes, esp. LCDs, DVDs are noticeably fuzzy.
I think the line of reasoning is that most (all?) 1080p TVs will support HDCP so, ideally, no one will notice. If you have TV good enough to notice the quality, you won't mind the HDCP. I sometimes have to reboot my TV to get HDCP to work with my cable box, though. Maybe the problems will deter people -- who knows?
Likely your cable company is selling its own DVR. Politically they don't want you using TiVo. Technically, the guide data formats for the cable box and TiVo are probably different.
Neither side seems to have incentive to help you out.
Man, it would be such ownage if it were though. They'd get it too, and everybody would be whining and moaning, threatening never to buy MS junk again. Even better over a million ppl would have a freakin' Spartan helmet.
Looks like it's only cheaper at 100GB+ to me.
Seems like most people should be able to get their important documents into the 6GB drive.
Deflation creates its own very real problems. Ask a Japanese person. This whole gold standard thing is about having a stable currency, not that I'm convinced it would work.
I guess what I'm trying to say is the people who are otherwise sound of mind, I've found, can have some interesting ideas about 9/11. If there were somebody willing to roll back the post 9/11 damage to civil liberties and give us an exit from Iraq, I'd vote for him even if he was confused about 9/11.
Also I find the theory that the government knew about 9/11 before hand or some faction therein planned it with the hijackers totally plausible, although I am not convinced it was the case. It's nearly unprovable. I tend to apply Occam's razor in these cases, however it contradicts the cui bono principle in this case.
The conspiracy nuts seem harmless enough to me. There actually was a conspiracy that no one denies. U.S. gave weapons to the Taliban to fight the godless commie Russians. After they were done with that they turned on us and started harboring other religious nutcases. These guys then conspired together to attack the WTC.
After the event, politicans in the US conspired to use the public reaction to the event to gain support for eroding civil liberties, invading the Middle East, and printing tons of new money for Homeland Security, conveniently doled out to the states, thus reinforcing the Congress's power.
Does it really matter any more whether the official story about the attack is accurate?
Please stop.
Well they could patch XP too, but they're not gonna do it. I think they only purposefully screw over the users when they can make money on it.
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Damn. Owned. Cool car, though. I wish I could afford one.
I agree with you about the direction we should be moving, and I like the idea of the all-electric car, whether it has an engine to charge it or not. Today, however, we are stuck with hybrids and plug in hybrids are better.
If you really think there's a market for such a car then go build one and make it, or at least patent a key cost-reducing technology and charge someone else to use it.
Reminds me of the movie Who Killed the Electric Car?. The answer was the same people that created it -- the government.
If you only commute 3 miles to work, you're not spending very much money and gas anyways. The point of this car is that you can make short trips with no gas usage. This is more of an environmental thing rather than economic.
This is the whole point though. You have to make a trade off here between spending too much on batteries (Li-ions only last 2 years btw, dunno about lead-acid or whatever they're using) and gaining some efficiency. My guess is Toyota did their homework and figured out what would make the most people happy.
Yes, the Tesla is also 98k+. Toyota is not interested in making a car that only Jay Leno can afford.
So far Toyota has made the most marketable hybrids to date and is actively trying to reduce costs. I'd say their engineering is spot on, given their goals.
So because he accuses the New York times of harboring racists, he is himself a racist.
I say you are a racist for calling him a racist. OMGz now I'm racist. Where will it end?
Leasing's not a bad deal compared to buying with interest on the loan. I'm waiting for them to get desperate and offer 0% again.
Some things are just more durable than others. Cars could go either way. If you must have a new one every 3-5 years, then they're totally disposable. If you're not into cars, it might make more sense to get the free maintenance with a lease.
Long term it depends on how good you are at selling your car. If you take dealer trade in prices, you were probably better off leasing. If you keep it in mint condition and are a good used car salesman you can probably sell it yourself for more.
Even now that there is a reasonably priced HD TiVo (300 bucks), it would still take 30 months of DVR rental to compensate. This is discounting the fact that the cable company DVR *actually costs less* to operate, because they are allowed to charge you for two cable cards. Yes, it blows nuts, and yes I'm thinking of upgrading now that there is a reasonably priced HD Tivo.
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My Series 1 with lifetime sub is still operating though
I haven't used DirecTV in a while (no clear sky), but last I checked they were selling their own, inferior DVRs. My cable company offers a dual tuner DC box right off the shelf for about 2.50 a month if you also get HD service. Now that the equivalent TiVo is 300 bucks instead of 800, I'm considering switching back. I gave my lifetime subscription series 1 to my sister when I got HDTV.
I dunno what the GPs deal is; trolling I guess.
Derailed. Getting multiple monitors to work with ATI cards/drivers is a pain. Use the ATI drivers. Make sure you're using MergedFB. The Xinerama stuff has never worked satisfactorily for me.
Out of the box == out of the question, but you might prefer restarting your X server while you're messing around with this stuff, as opposed to rebooting. I work from a separate virtual console usually. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, then startx usually does the trick.
If the distribution of income were linear, removing the top 1% would result in a .5% drop in median income.
It's not, as you pointed out. In a distribution with a middle that's quite flat, removing the top 1% will have very little affect on the result. This is why we use medians and not means.
One interesting thing about that graph. How come California is separated from the rest of US for median income but still gets 1.00 for PPP? I realize that PPP is generally calculated by country, but it hardly makes sense to assume that the cost of goods is the same in California as the average of the rest of the country.
Don't take flack from the other posters. You merely refuted the GPs statement, and Wikipedia's pretty accurate here, given what I've read from other sources.