If you can afford to pay $500 for a phone, spending another $80 probably isn't that big of a deal for you.
Replacement batteries for cheaper phones are STILL quite expensive. Many batteries are $45 or $50, which is often more than many people pay for the phones! (Which is why when the batteries die, people toss the phones.)
Why is anyone even remotely familiar with Apple surprised by this? I remember the dreaded vendor lock-in when I had to put a new power supply into an aging Mac Performa 575 many moons ago. I swore back then that I would never buy a Mac again because of their obnoxious business model that requires you to get expensive service and parts from Apple.
I remember having to put an expensive proprietary power supply into a Compaq 386. Yikes!
Something that people seem to forget is that using Web-based applications is not free because it comes with increased bandwidth needs when you are talking about it on a business-scale (which is usally payed for on a month-to-month basis).
Your scenario assumes that the web-based apps are hosted by an external third party. A better option would be for the company to host the web apps on its own internal servers. Then there are no bandwidth charges because all of the traffic is on internal networks. (OK, there will probably be some bandwidth used by traveling and remote employees using the app server from external machines, but that's the case even with current non-web apps, if those employees need to remotely access company servers.)
I mean, all these guys were doing was planning to blow up a grade school in their home country and then ambushing the American invaders when they showed up to help save the Muslim children. How dare we treat them so rough!
Were they CONVICTED of the crime of planning a terrorist attack? Is there any PROOF that they were engaged in such planning?
Of course not. That's why your argument (which is basically the neocon argument) is just plain wrong.
If the detainees were tried in a real court (not one of the secret military tribunal/star chambers) and convicted on the charges, then by all means, throw them in jail. But to hold them in limbo indefinitely goes against everything in our Constitution and "the American Way."
And, of course, holding the detainees like this, or "trying" them in a secret tribunal, now gives license to ANY other government to indefinitely detain American troops or citizens and hold them indefinitely, without trial, while torturing them.
Does that make crystal clear why the whole Gitmo thing is just WRONG on so many levels?
Black and White original HP Deskjet 500... About 500€ and the cartridges were about 10€ (I remember vaguely) and lasted forever. Not only that: the printer was in use for over 5 years.
I still have my DeskJet 500C, which was fairly expensive. It still lives on, though, working as a simple network printer off of a LinkSys NSLU2 running Debian. I haven't put a color cartridge into it in ages.
Most printing, though, goes to my CP1700 (four ink tanks and four print heads). The trick with this guy is to simply pull the battery out so it "forgets" the ink cartridge install date and you can print until the tank goes dry.
By "simply pull the battery out," I mean, "completely disassemble the whole damn thing, carefully remove the battery, and good f'in luck getting it all back together again."
If a Linux Quickbooks client ever surfaces, prepare to wait for version parity. We just tried to switch our accountant over to the Mac version of QB 2007 from Windows 2006 and within a couple of days he had a page-long list of missing features and deal-breaking bugs. Thank the lord for Parallels.
Quicken for Mac has fewer features than Quicken for Windows, too. First, the Quicken "Home and Business" edition doesn't exist for Mac, which I can live with as I don't do "business" stuff any more (no more freelance). The real dealbreaker, though, is that the database formats between Quicken Mac and the Windows Quicken Premier are not compatible and when you try to do their conversion, your categories and such all get trashed. There's really no good reason for the databases to be incompatible.
I'm not saying this is retailatory... But this wouldn't be the first time Apple has gone out of it's way to punish partners for making preemptive announcements about Apples products. One may recall not too many years ago ATI making a show about Apple using their video cards just before another WWDC (maybe it was Macworld, I forget). Apple proceeded to spend the night pulling ATI's cards from their ready to ship Macs.
This really doesn't make any sense. Why would Apple have had tens of thousands of nVidia cards, something that otherwise they wouldn't be using, just sitting around?
3) Have a javascript popup message which lets people opt out when they click on the message to view it. (this depends on what sort of mail reading software they use, so it's not a great universal solution, but it does target the kind of clueless people who don't know much about email). Oh, great.. javascript in e-mail. I've got that crap disabled.
I used to have a high-quality Epson flatbed scanner (ES-600C I believe it was?), purchased for over $800 in the late 90's. When Microsoft released Windows 2000, it was deemed "no longer supported" by both Epson and Microsoft, because it used a parallel port, and they didn't feel like developing an updated driver for it. My only solution? Purchase a whole new scanner, and relegate this one to the junk pile.
Along these exact lines, ages ago my dad bought an Olympus slide scanner (we're big Olympus fans, he has two OM4s and I still have my OM1Ns!) and it worked well with the Win98 box he had at the time. Then he got a new computer with Win2K... and Olympus didn't have new drivers for the scanner. It had been EOLed and their response was simply, "buy our new scanner."
phooey. So he keeps the Win98 box running, just for the scanner, and it's a simple matter to send the files over the network to his main machine.
Moral of the story: never assume new drivers will be available for old hardware. Vista, anyone? Signed drivers? G-d help us.
You believe that Fred Thompson is just a "flashy actor" even though he has been a lawyer for 40 years, worked as a lobbyist in DC for almost 20 years, and became a senator in a landslide victory. You believe that 9/11 was America's fault. And you think that you're qualified to talk about what normal Americans want?
Yeah, but the vast majority of Americans don't know anything about him other than that he plays the District Attorney on a television show.
As for 9/11, well, Osama DID say that he attacked us because we were meddling in Saudi affairs...
I know it can handle binaries, but I cannot think why I would want to. Can anyone help? I use Subversion for my FPGA sources. When I go to release a version of a design, I include the binary build results (.bit files from the place and route tools, and the.mcs file used to program the config EPROM) in my release tag. This is so checksums and such match exactly, and this is important because the production people put stickers on the EPROMs that display the version, part number and checksum. While I can certainly rebuild from the source, if the toolchain changes then the resulting bit file may change too (even though the result is functionally correct and meets timing). Tagging with the build result makes things simple.
The summary should have said "...x86 compatible 64-bit CPUs". The DEC Alpha was a great chip but it couldn't run x86 software (which is pretty much what killed it).
Don't forget that NT ran rather well (as well as one could expect it to run, anyway) on Alpha boxes. There were a handful of non-DEC companies selling Alpha workstations and they all pretty much died when NT on Alpha was killed.
. Nothing below 22kHz is misrepresented in CD-quality audio.
Bullshit. A 22kHz sine wave will be a 22kHz square wave when recorded onto a CD. They don't sound the same. Of course, humans can't hear that high, but the point is that if you're quantizing a wave you won't get the exact same thing out at any frequency. However, 22kHz is far enough above the limits of our hearing and even moreso above the limits of what is interesting to record that the effects are limited.
But the higher the frequency, the more it's going to look like a square wave after it't digitized.
I have to call bullshit on your call of bullshit.
You, and many other people, seem to forget exactly how sampling and reconstruction actually works. You do NOT draw a straight line between the samples!
Dan Lavry has an excellent paper that clearly explains how sampling and reconstruction work.
What's also interesting is that many audio editing programs, including ProTools, don't properly display waveforms. If you load a delta function (the sample at time t=0 is infinite, all other samples zero, but we represent infinite as full-scale after digitization) and display it in your favorite audio editor/DAW, it'll probably show a straight line drawn between the full-scale sample at time t=0 and the zero sample at time t=1/fs (the second sample). The one program that does this correctly is the old Cool Edit 2000, which displays a sinc function.
What I do try to do, and what I'm getting better at recognizing, is that I try not to 'waist' energy by having the car do more than it needs to do, particularly in braking.
It's good that you put the word 'waist' in quotes, because it's the wrong word. perhaps you mean "waste?"
I don't think it will work, but for different reasons. I think a majority of people will be willing to put up with commercials for TV, rather than pay for it. 99 Cents for a song that has at least a little bit of replay capability is ok. 1.99 for something that 99% of the time has no replay value I think is kinda steep. So, by your logic, nobody should go to a theatre and pay nine bucks to see a movie.
Sorry, but there is more to it than "keep the engine RPM low". There is a "too low" point also.
Very true -- you really don't want to lug the engine, unless you like fouling your plugs and spitting gasoline out of your tailpipe (which also destroys the catalytic converter). Talk about wasting gas!
Every car I've bought has had a manual transmission. My '88 Mustang GT, my '92 Saturn SC2 and my '96 Cherokee all had (have, in the case of the Cherokee, which I still own) a little up-arrow indicator on the dash, which means "shift now for best mileage. The arrow lights up as you accelerate. It does come on at what I consider a fairly low engine speed, which of course limits performance, but if I pay attention, my gas mileage is much better than if I just run the motor out.
What's interesting is that the Cherokee, with the 4.0L inline six, gets fairly lousy around-town mileage (16 mpg) but is pretty respectable on highways (over 25 mpg), because at the speed limit (here it's 75 mph on the interstate) the motor's turning at only 2,000 rpm in fifth gear. By comparison, my 2005 Honda S2000, with a bit more than half the Cherokee's displacement (2.2L vs 4.0L) spins at 4,000 rpm in sixth gear at 75 mph, and gets about the same highway mileage as the Cherokee as a result. If I keep the S2000 at 65 mph on the highway, the mileage improves to almost 30 mpg.
Of course you don't buy an S2000 for its mileage rating...
MacWorld is an awful magazine and has been for years.
Indeed. Their yearly roundup of Mac security and anti-virus software cracks me up. They ran an article that basically said, "there are no Mac viruses," and then two pages later, gave a glowing review of two $60 anti-virus software packages that "no Mac user should be without."
So, I sent a letter to the editor, basically asking, "So, what do I get for my $60 if there's nothing to protect against?"
As usual, the/. crowd knows nothing of which they speak, yet they shoot their mouths off anyways.
Seems to me that this sort of lease/service agreement is exactly what many medium and large businesses want, and already do for other large items (vehicles, etc).
Consider:
Why buy something that depreciates when it can be leased? The cost of the lease is a business expense and simply written off. No depreciation schedules, etc.
When the service agreement contract term expires, the business has the option of renewing for another term with the same printer, or replacing the printer with a newer model. Then, the onus is on HP to deal with the disposal of the old printer (can you say "RoHS?" I knew you could), not the business, who'd otherwise have to pay someone to get rid of the old printer, or pay to keep it in storage, or whatever.
-When a cop is tailgating, he is not enticing you to do wrong. He is pacing you. This is an approved method of speed determination in all states as radar is ineffective in the same direction you are traveling and within +/- 15 mph of your speed. Cop cars have certified calibration of their speedometers. They maintain an exact distance, usually 5 feet from your bumper and look down. This may seem inaccurate but it has been upheld many times and is virtually the only option. Most courts require you maintain this over some distance. Keep driving the speed limit and when he has an accurate speed he will pass.
So when I slam on my brakes because the guy in front of ME slammed on HIS brakes, and the cop rear-ends me, he will be cited for failure to keep a safe distance and failure to keep control of the vehicle. Right?
And as for maintaining an exact distance, what, they have laser rangefinders on their dashboards? Or are they just winging it?
Anyways, in most states, the person doing the rear-ending is ALWAYS 100% at-fault in the accident.
Maybe this will stop the asshole cops who come up to a red light, then turn on their siren and lights, rush through the red light, and turn off said sirens and lights as they turn into the donut store parking lot.
I guess...maybe in the same way a mail carrier "works for" George Dubya. But here's something that will blow your mind: Hitler was also a catholic in good standing (he was excommunicated, but only posthumously). So it's like he was working for the Pope... weird.
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Replacement batteries for cheaper phones are STILL quite expensive. Many batteries are $45 or $50, which is often more than many people pay for the phones! (Which is why when the batteries die, people toss the phones.)
I remember having to put an expensive proprietary power supply into a Compaq 386. Yikes!
Your scenario assumes that the web-based apps are hosted by an external third party. A better option would be for the company to host the web apps on its own internal servers. Then there are no bandwidth charges because all of the traffic is on internal networks. (OK, there will probably be some bandwidth used by traveling and remote employees using the app server from external machines, but that's the case even with current non-web apps, if those employees need to remotely access company servers.)
Were they CONVICTED of the crime of planning a terrorist attack? Is there any PROOF that they were engaged in such planning?
Of course not. That's why your argument (which is basically the neocon argument) is just plain wrong.
If the detainees were tried in a real court (not one of the secret military tribunal/star chambers) and convicted on the charges, then by all means, throw them in jail. But to hold them in limbo indefinitely goes against everything in our Constitution and "the American Way."
And, of course, holding the detainees like this, or "trying" them in a secret tribunal, now gives license to ANY other government to indefinitely detain American troops or citizens and hold them indefinitely, without trial, while torturing them.
Does that make crystal clear why the whole Gitmo thing is just WRONG on so many levels?
-aI still have my DeskJet 500C, which was fairly expensive. It still lives on, though, working as a simple network printer off of a LinkSys NSLU2 running Debian. I haven't put a color cartridge into it in ages.
Most printing, though, goes to my CP1700 (four ink tanks and four print heads). The trick with this guy is to simply pull the battery out so it "forgets" the ink cartridge install date and you can print until the tank goes dry.
By "simply pull the battery out," I mean, "completely disassemble the whole damn thing, carefully remove the battery, and good f'in luck getting it all back together again."
EXACTLY.
You deserve to lose all of your data if you stuff all of your files into My Documents. Or worse, C:\WP51\DOCS\
Quicken for Mac has fewer features than Quicken for Windows, too. First, the Quicken "Home and Business" edition doesn't exist for Mac, which I can live with as I don't do "business" stuff any more (no more freelance). The real dealbreaker, though, is that the database formats between Quicken Mac and the Windows Quicken Premier are not compatible and when you try to do their conversion, your categories and such all get trashed. There's really no good reason for the databases to be incompatible.
so, yeah, I'm doing the Parallels thing, too.
This really doesn't make any sense. Why would Apple have had tens of thousands of nVidia cards, something that otherwise they wouldn't be using, just sitting around?
Along these exact lines, ages ago my dad bought an Olympus slide scanner (we're big Olympus fans, he has two OM4s and I still have my OM1Ns!) and it worked well with the Win98 box he had at the time. Then he got a new computer with Win2K ... and Olympus didn't have new drivers for the scanner. It had been EOLed and their response was simply, "buy our new scanner."
phooey. So he keeps the Win98 box running, just for the scanner, and it's a simple matter to send the files over the network to his main machine.
Moral of the story: never assume new drivers will be available for old hardware. Vista, anyone? Signed drivers? G-d help us.
Yeah, but the vast majority of Americans don't know anything about him other than that he plays the District Attorney on a television show.
As for 9/11, well, Osama DID say that he attacked us because we were meddling in Saudi affairs ...
Don't forget that NT ran rather well (as well as one could expect it to run, anyway) on Alpha boxes. There were a handful of non-DEC companies selling Alpha workstations and they all pretty much died when NT on Alpha was killed.
Bullshit. A 22kHz sine wave will be a 22kHz square wave when recorded onto a CD. They don't sound the same. Of course, humans can't hear that high, but the point is that if you're quantizing a wave you won't get the exact same thing out at any frequency. However, 22kHz is far enough above the limits of our hearing and even moreso above the limits of what is interesting to record that the effects are limited.
But the higher the frequency, the more it's going to look like a square wave after it't digitized.
I have to call bullshit on your call of bullshit.
You, and many other people, seem to forget exactly how sampling and reconstruction actually works. You do NOT draw a straight line between the samples!
Dan Lavry has an excellent paper that clearly explains how sampling and reconstruction work.
What's also interesting is that many audio editing programs, including ProTools, don't properly display waveforms. If you load a delta function (the sample at time t=0 is infinite, all other samples zero, but we represent infinite as full-scale after digitization) and display it in your favorite audio editor/DAW, it'll probably show a straight line drawn between the full-scale sample at time t=0 and the zero sample at time t=1/fs (the second sample). The one program that does this correctly is the old Cool Edit 2000, which displays a sinc function.
I though the headline read, "MILF Claims Free Software Movement Dead."
Methinks you mean "manual or automatic."
It's good that you put the word 'waist' in quotes, because it's the wrong word. perhaps you mean "waste?"
Very true -- you really don't want to lug the engine, unless you like fouling your plugs and spitting gasoline out of your tailpipe (which also destroys the catalytic converter). Talk about wasting gas!
Every car I've bought has had a manual transmission. My '88 Mustang GT, my '92 Saturn SC2 and my '96 Cherokee all had (have, in the case of the Cherokee, which I still own) a little up-arrow indicator on the dash, which means "shift now for best mileage. The arrow lights up as you accelerate. It does come on at what I consider a fairly low engine speed, which of course limits performance, but if I pay attention, my gas mileage is much better than if I just run the motor out.
What's interesting is that the Cherokee, with the 4.0L inline six, gets fairly lousy around-town mileage (16 mpg) but is pretty respectable on highways (over 25 mpg), because at the speed limit (here it's 75 mph on the interstate) the motor's turning at only 2,000 rpm in fifth gear. By comparison, my 2005 Honda S2000, with a bit more than half the Cherokee's displacement (2.2L vs 4.0L) spins at 4,000 rpm in sixth gear at 75 mph, and gets about the same highway mileage as the Cherokee as a result. If I keep the S2000 at 65 mph on the highway, the mileage improves to almost 30 mpg.
Of course you don't buy an S2000 for its mileage rating ...
Indeed. Their yearly roundup of Mac security and anti-virus software cracks me up. They ran an article that basically said, "there are no Mac viruses," and then two pages later, gave a glowing review of two $60 anti-virus software packages that "no Mac user should be without."
So, I sent a letter to the editor, basically asking, "So, what do I get for my $60 if there's nothing to protect against?"
Their answer was less than satisfying.
For just pure stupidity that's totally worthless, you can't beat MacHome.
By comparison, Nixon was a bleeding-heart liberal.
They already have: They talked to the competition and said "Fly, be free!"
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As usual, the /. crowd knows nothing of which they speak, yet they shoot their mouths off anyways.
Seems to me that this sort of lease/service agreement is exactly what many medium and large businesses want, and already do for other large items (vehicles, etc).
Consider:
So when I slam on my brakes because the guy in front of ME slammed on HIS brakes, and the cop rear-ends me, he will be cited for failure to keep a safe distance and failure to keep control of the vehicle. Right?
And as for maintaining an exact distance, what, they have laser rangefinders on their dashboards? Or are they just winging it?
Anyways, in most states, the person doing the rear-ending is ALWAYS 100% at-fault in the accident.
Maybe this will stop the asshole cops who come up to a red light, then turn on their siren and lights, rush through the red light, and turn off said sirens and lights as they turn into the donut store parking lot.
I've seen it happen ...
Hey, it's not like Pope Pius XII did anything to stop the Holocaust ... he just remained silent on the sidelines.