One think I think people forget is just how crazy expensive those old high resolution displays were. They were a niche market and priced like one. These days you can pick up a 1080p display for like $125. That's why it's so hard to find higher resolution panels. They would be $600+ and only offer a modest increase in the number of pixels. That's why it took someone with massive clout like Apple to really push the boundaries on resolution again.
Then again, when my ancient Dell Inspiron 6000 with it's 1920x1200 display died on me, I was utterly disgusted with the offerings from every manufacturer. So many 1280x800 displays as the high end option it just made me sick. For reference, Dell's current version of my old laptop is the Inspiron 17R, which has exactly 1 option for resolution: 1600x900.
I wouldn't be surprised at all to discover that their domestic MIPS chips are basically just process shrunk Alphas. You can get some mileage out of just shrinking the transistors used, but I already shudder for the power bill this supercomputer is going to have.
Not everybody at Gitmo is innocent, some were caught red handed trying to blow up Americans. The idea of sending them back to try again seems kind of crazy.
Ok Microsoft, so you're Hardware and Services now, just like Apple. Now go and price your OS upgrades the same way Apple prices theirs. I can guarantee that you'll see much quicker uptake on new OSes if they're $20 and one purchase covers every device in your house.
Plus, some of the games were getting kind of borderline on the "Indie" part. Torchlight may not come from a AAA developer, but it's not exactly Indie either by some definitions.
Why can't it be both? You have your moral hysteria to appeal to the social conservatives, and the totalitarianism to appeal to the ranking government officials, it's a win-win.
I expect this law to be enforced in current Russian fashion: not at all unless it is to harass your political or social rivals.
I think the phrase "the interface must exist" flew over your head a bit there. That's certainly no pronouncement of quality, more like "There must be some way, no matter how arcane, to place a call this device." That's somewhat unfair though, because Nokias had number pads so dialing a number was always easy, it was everything else in the interface (address book, settings, SMS, or heaven forbid the "browser") that was an unintuitive mess.
Putting a case on an iPhone also reverses any gains Apple has made in keeping the phone thin. If you're willing to pay a premium for a phone that is 1.7mm thinner, it doesn't seem to make sense to toss a 3mm thick cover on it.
The tradeoff is that the hard glass on iPhones resists scratching and scuffing, so as long as it doesn't shatter your phone will look nearly new for a long time. Plastic Nokias tend to look pretty beat up after only a couple of months, but they never shatter. After year or two you might have to tape the battery case on because the crappy plastic latch broke. That's the tradeoff.
You could just self sign a cert for now. If it's just for you and your close buddies they can accept the self-signed cert, just warn them that their browser is going to call you a thieving lying scumbag before they go to your site.
I suspect there is a healthy grey market for Cisco parts from people who don't want to pay for a service contract. If the equipment is not mission critical and maybe a few years old this would seem to be a reasonable option. You don't get software updates, but if the device is doing its job it really doesn't need them. This is especially true if you're buying used hardware at a fraction of the price.
I wouldn't be so quick to go for the "dump money in some overseas numbered account and head off to some country with no extradition laws" approach. Have you seen the list of countries that don't extradite?
Bhutan
Botswana
Brunei
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
China
Comoros
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Indonesia
Iran
Ivory Coast
Jordan
Kuwait
Laos
Lebanon
Libya
Madagascar
Mali
Maldives
Mauritania
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Nepal
Niger
Oman
Qatar
Russia
Rwanda
Samoa
Sao Tome e Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
Vanuatu
Vietnam
Yemen
Yemen South
Zaire
It's daily machete fight or tiny tourist trap island for the most part. Your $2 million wont last long in some of the other options like the UAE or Saudi Arabia.
FYI, that study doesn't say half of college grads are out of work, many of them have jobs but are underemployed. People with philosophy degrees flipping burgers for example.
I'm having trouble feeling too sorry for the guy being labeled a criminal after he scammed 4.5 million dollars worth of equipment over a several year period. He's being labeled a criminal quite justly in this case. Maybe he'll reform in prison and deserve a second chance, but he's earned some extra scrutiny from whomever wants to hire him.
I'm amazed that this movie is actually coming out. It's been in development hell for at least a decade now.
That does make me concerned about the quality of the movie. Good movies don't tend to get stuck in development hell, usually what happens is someone with power notices the movie is shit and pulls the plug and leaves everybody else scrambling for resources.
Only one Zune was brown, as an optional color. Zune didn't die because it was brown, it died because they didn't build a huge ecosystem around it the way Apple did with the iPod. They didn't pull the Jedi mind trick that Jobs did with the record companies to release most everything on the platform. Plus, once the Zune came out they were an also-ran in an increasingly crowded marketplace. The biggest feature was the ability to bypass the DRM a little bit sometimes, whereas Steve was careful to mention DRM as little as possible with the iPod and keep people's attention centered on the parts of the device that they like. No consumer like DRM, it's inherently hostile to them, and the more they think about it the more they will dislike your product.
I think it's more a case of copying Apple. I mean Apple is making money hand over fist with their cell phone business, and Microsoft is saying "Me too!"
The reason Intel's prices have not moved much is because AMD is failing as a competitor. Bulldozer has problems, and the Core iN models are just kicking their butt. Intel can afford to charge more because they've got a better product.
It was quite awhile ago, but I don't remember anything sinister about the logins. There was some pushback from the users of the site at the time that making a login was going to ruin the community and how it was a terrible invasion of privacy, but since the AC posting option was left they didn't really have a leg to stand on I thought. The biggest gripe was that you were assigned some/dev/random gibberish for the password and there was no way to change it.
It's important to remember just how small Slashdot was back in the day. A hot button issue with fearsome debate might get almost a hundred replies back then, and the site would struggle to serve it.
I think it's a side effect of trying to shave a mm off of the case. Apple went looking for something that could be as sturdy as the lens on the old camera, but slightly thinner and found it in sapphires. My guess is that they have firmware in the camera that is supposed to correct for the slight discoloration you get from using a sapphire lens, but it's only calibrate to work at "normal" light levels. Shine a really bright light at the camera and the discoloration will exceed what the firmware can correct for.
It's undoubtedly one of those tradeoffs where you don't want pictures to be all purple, but you also don't want a picture of Barney the Dinosaur to be weirdly desaturated.
Go to the support forums for pretty much any game and look at the people who are having issues. Intel Graphics users always make a strong showing, and support often says things like "this is a known issue with these cards."
The thing with AMD and nVidia is that they know their customers. When a new game comes out, especially if it is on a new engine, you'll often see driver updates a couple of days later that work around bugs or problems with that particular game or improve performance by some nontrivial amount.
For what its worth, my gaming rig is going on 6 years old now and still runs most games at high settings. For game playing these days, you can pretty much get away with upgrading your machine at the same time the most popular consoles get upgraded, because everybody targets the consoles anyway. You can build a rig that is orders of magnitude faster than a PS3 or a 360, but most of that power will be wasted because the games still ship with crappy low resolution textures, limited used of new graphics features, and smallish environments that fit in the limited memory budget of a console. There are a few exceptions (the new Battletech game for example), but even those typically only require a fairly modest increase over something you might have built 6 years ago.
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One think I think people forget is just how crazy expensive those old high resolution displays were. They were a niche market and priced like one. These days you can pick up a 1080p display for like $125. That's why it's so hard to find higher resolution panels. They would be $600+ and only offer a modest increase in the number of pixels. That's why it took someone with massive clout like Apple to really push the boundaries on resolution again.
Then again, when my ancient Dell Inspiron 6000 with it's 1920x1200 display died on me, I was utterly disgusted with the offerings from every manufacturer. So many 1280x800 displays as the high end option it just made me sick. For reference, Dell's current version of my old laptop is the Inspiron 17R, which has exactly 1 option for resolution: 1600x900.
I wouldn't be surprised at all to discover that their domestic MIPS chips are basically just process shrunk Alphas. You can get some mileage out of just shrinking the transistors used, but I already shudder for the power bill this supercomputer is going to have.
Not everybody at Gitmo is innocent, some were caught red handed trying to blow up Americans. The idea of sending them back to try again seems kind of crazy.
Ok Microsoft, so you're Hardware and Services now, just like Apple. Now go and price your OS upgrades the same way Apple prices theirs. I can guarantee that you'll see much quicker uptake on new OSes if they're $20 and one purchase covers every device in your house.
Plus, some of the games were getting kind of borderline on the "Indie" part. Torchlight may not come from a AAA developer, but it's not exactly Indie either by some definitions.
Why can't it be both? You have your moral hysteria to appeal to the social conservatives, and the totalitarianism to appeal to the ranking government officials, it's a win-win.
I expect this law to be enforced in current Russian fashion: not at all unless it is to harass your political or social rivals.
I think the phrase "the interface must exist" flew over your head a bit there. That's certainly no pronouncement of quality, more like "There must be some way, no matter how arcane, to place a call this device." That's somewhat unfair though, because Nokias had number pads so dialing a number was always easy, it was everything else in the interface (address book, settings, SMS, or heaven forbid the "browser") that was an unintuitive mess.
Putting a case on an iPhone also reverses any gains Apple has made in keeping the phone thin. If you're willing to pay a premium for a phone that is 1.7mm thinner, it doesn't seem to make sense to toss a 3mm thick cover on it.
The tradeoff is that the hard glass on iPhones resists scratching and scuffing, so as long as it doesn't shatter your phone will look nearly new for a long time. Plastic Nokias tend to look pretty beat up after only a couple of months, but they never shatter. After year or two you might have to tape the battery case on because the crappy plastic latch broke. That's the tradeoff.
You could just self sign a cert for now. If it's just for you and your close buddies they can accept the self-signed cert, just warn them that their browser is going to call you a thieving lying scumbag before they go to your site.
I suspect there is a healthy grey market for Cisco parts from people who don't want to pay for a service contract. If the equipment is not mission critical and maybe a few years old this would seem to be a reasonable option. You don't get software updates, but if the device is doing its job it really doesn't need them. This is especially true if you're buying used hardware at a fraction of the price.
It's daily machete fight or tiny tourist trap island for the most part. Your $2 million wont last long in some of the other options like the UAE or Saudi Arabia.
FYI, that study doesn't say half of college grads are out of work, many of them have jobs but are underemployed. People with philosophy degrees flipping burgers for example.
I'm having trouble feeling too sorry for the guy being labeled a criminal after he scammed 4.5 million dollars worth of equipment over a several year period. He's being labeled a criminal quite justly in this case. Maybe he'll reform in prison and deserve a second chance, but he's earned some extra scrutiny from whomever wants to hire him.
I'm amazed that this movie is actually coming out. It's been in development hell for at least a decade now.
That does make me concerned about the quality of the movie. Good movies don't tend to get stuck in development hell, usually what happens is someone with power notices the movie is shit and pulls the plug and leaves everybody else scrambling for resources.
Only one Zune was brown, as an optional color. Zune didn't die because it was brown, it died because they didn't build a huge ecosystem around it the way Apple did with the iPod. They didn't pull the Jedi mind trick that Jobs did with the record companies to release most everything on the platform. Plus, once the Zune came out they were an also-ran in an increasingly crowded marketplace. The biggest feature was the ability to bypass the DRM a little bit sometimes, whereas Steve was careful to mention DRM as little as possible with the iPod and keep people's attention centered on the parts of the device that they like. No consumer like DRM, it's inherently hostile to them, and the more they think about it the more they will dislike your product.
I think it's more a case of copying Apple. I mean Apple is making money hand over fist with their cell phone business, and Microsoft is saying "Me too!"
The reason Intel's prices have not moved much is because AMD is failing as a competitor. Bulldozer has problems, and the Core iN models are just kicking their butt. Intel can afford to charge more because they've got a better product.
It was quite awhile ago, but I don't remember anything sinister about the logins. There was some pushback from the users of the site at the time that making a login was going to ruin the community and how it was a terrible invasion of privacy, but since the AC posting option was left they didn't really have a leg to stand on I thought. The biggest gripe was that you were assigned some /dev/random gibberish for the password and there was no way to change it.
It's important to remember just how small Slashdot was back in the day. A hot button issue with fearsome debate might get almost a hundred replies back then, and the site would struggle to serve it.
I think it's a side effect of trying to shave a mm off of the case. Apple went looking for something that could be as sturdy as the lens on the old camera, but slightly thinner and found it in sapphires. My guess is that they have firmware in the camera that is supposed to correct for the slight discoloration you get from using a sapphire lens, but it's only calibrate to work at "normal" light levels. Shine a really bright light at the camera and the discoloration will exceed what the firmware can correct for.
It's undoubtedly one of those tradeoffs where you don't want pictures to be all purple, but you also don't want a picture of Barney the Dinosaur to be weirdly desaturated.
I was busy on the morning that logins went live and ended up with this old thing.
Aren't telescopes already silent?
Go to the support forums for pretty much any game and look at the people who are having issues. Intel Graphics users always make a strong showing, and support often says things like "this is a known issue with these cards."
The thing with AMD and nVidia is that they know their customers. When a new game comes out, especially if it is on a new engine, you'll often see driver updates a couple of days later that work around bugs or problems with that particular game or improve performance by some nontrivial amount.
Intel is the leader in graphics drivers unless you actually try to play a game on them, then they're in dead last place, behind even AMD/ATI.
For what its worth, my gaming rig is going on 6 years old now and still runs most games at high settings. For game playing these days, you can pretty much get away with upgrading your machine at the same time the most popular consoles get upgraded, because everybody targets the consoles anyway. You can build a rig that is orders of magnitude faster than a PS3 or a 360, but most of that power will be wasted because the games still ship with crappy low resolution textures, limited used of new graphics features, and smallish environments that fit in the limited memory budget of a console. There are a few exceptions (the new Battletech game for example), but even those typically only require a fairly modest increase over something you might have built 6 years ago.