Verizon is significantly more expensive than most other US-based providers.
Yeah...everyone other than Nextel. Who I've been using for years, as do most of my business associates and friends, and, more importantly, my fire department. LNP or not, Nextel has their customers who actually use direct connect by the balls, and thay know it.
They could double the price, and I'd still pay it. Any more than that and I'd carry a phone for calls and a Nextel for just durect connect. I suspect others feel the same.
How is it that, because it's digital it cost nothing to produce?
If it cost nothing then why don't you just make your own music?
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Of course it costs money to produce. That has nothing to do with this dicussion. I'm not arguing that the copyright isn't worth anything....it certianly is.
Now please try to pay attention:
Every illegal copy of a copyright work in the hands of someone who have otherwise paid for it lowers the value.
Every illegal copy of a song lowers the songs value, so by obtaining a free copy from an illegitimate source, instead of paying for it, you are taking something from the producers.
Every illegal copy of a copyright work in the hands of someone who have otherwise paid for it lowers the value.
He now owns something that a person (or group of people) produced and expected payment for.
He sure as hell does NOT own it. He has a digital copy of it, which costs the producers NOTHING. It's not a physical thing. Breaching a license/copyright is NOT traditional theft or stealing.
It's exactly this "old economy" logic that makes our current law ineffective, unfair, and completely unsuited to modern issues such as this.
The problem with the Pronto, and all other remotes like that, is that they are mostly touch screen. It's nice that the newer ones have more hard buttions, but I want ALL hard buttons. I don't want to have to look at the remote to use it for most things.
Oh, I should have been more specific...the 32 is for a picture buffer. I don't know what it has to run it's own OS, etc. You get 21 frames buffered shooting as high quality JPEG mode, and about 12 (I thik ) shooting NEFs (raw mode).
Add in another four or five hundred dollars for a negative scanner, and I can do pretty much everything the D2H can do with less than half the cash.
Yes you can. And I've been doing that with my F3 for a few years now. But I've grown very tired of how long it takes to scan and spot negatives (well, chromes in my case...I always used to shoot Velvia). I wen out and picked up a used D1 fairly cheap. I'll get a D1x when the D2x comes out and I can pick one up cheap.
But it's only 2.7 Megapixels! My (insert shitty newish point and click here) is 6 MP.
Yeah...I know. And this D1 still runs circles around it. It's not just the glass, the image sensor is a completely different animal from thises consumer jobs. I shoot NEFs (raw format) and can tweak everything you can image after the fact if I need to. I can print 8x10 with moderate cropping with no problem at all. I can print much larger using Genuine Fractals. It all looks great.
Those who bitch that it's not enough resolution just dont know the digial imagina process well enough to turn out a good product. D1's were getting cover shots of magazines when they came out. Magazines have not gotten any larger or higher resolution, and D1's certianly haven't changed. Depending on your shooting needs and habits, it's a great choice.
If would have been nice if the article explained why it costs so much to maintain and why we have to periodically spacewalk to it. Does it need new batteries? Does it have to get cleaned? Can it not correct it's own orbital decay?
What's the deal? Anyone know? Seems like if it was mostly self-maintaining, it should cose a whole lot to just keep it up there.
How the hell did that get modded informative? Have any of you geeks ever even opened the hood of a car? Any of you ever heard of electronic ignition? Distributors without points?
The only kind of non-RAM ROM I can think of off the top of my head (which isn't part of a copy protection scheme) would by vinyl LPs and tapes with the read-only tag set.
I think far too many people assumed that the telco/networking companies had this all figured out...
Those of us in the networking business know that's not the case. If you ever have the opporunity to order a couple of circuits, ask to have diversity and get it proven and get a circuit diagram. The telcos rarely even know how the circuits they sell will route, because the get handed off to other telcos, who won't talk to each other about their routing.
It's amazingly frustrating to try to gather this information at a detailed level (I'm talking for one or two interstate circuits). The carrierd either don't know or don't want you to know, because they're aware of their choke points and areas of least/no redundancy. It gets worse in/through larger metro areas.
Just try to get that information from your ISP or colo facility. The standard line is "three diverse routes over our own fiber", when many of these carriers are on the same damn bundle as everyone else (who also claim the same thing). Why can they do this? Because the information to disprove the claim is simply unavailable.
Its good to know that this guy is getting what appears to be some reasonably accurate reasonably detailed information that could be used as a starting point for finding out this kind of detailed circuit path information. Too bad it will probably be considerd "too dangerous to publish".
Wow, that's astonishingly insightful! I guess we should believe your off-the-cuff opinion rather the 1.4C temperature rise and 6.8dBa noise dop actually quoted in the article, right? I am so turned on right now.
That's my whole point, troll. It's amazing that so much time and effort was wasted to write this article. I could show you the same numbers if I wrap a blanket around my case and spend the next 6 hours measuring, photographing, and making a web page about it.
This idiot didn't even use appropriate material to do the soundproofing, and when someone who knew what they were talking about nicely pointed that out, he took it as nothing more than a "good job" and included it in his article.
Lastly, since the front intake ports on this case are not used,
Yeah...all those fans blowing out in the back don't need to pull air from anywhere. And they won't get louder as they have to run harder to pull air through the cracks in between the drive bays and around the insulation you just put in from on the intake.
The really impressive thing about this article is that they guy managed to write an antire article about something as simple as chucking some industrial noise insulation material into a case.
Not to mention the fact that there's almost no upgrades you can do, besides maybe memory and the hard drive. Need a new computer? Gotta buy a whole new one!
Hey...this thread is about laptops, not Macs. Oh...nevermind.
A step? Oracle -> SQL Server 2000 is a step backwards. Oracle -> MySQL is like replacing your Ti80 with an abacus.
Remember....many (most) companies who only needed word processing were buying $2500+ machine to put on people's desks not too long ago. Maybe this guys company did the same thing with back ends and are finally coming to terms with that fact (and the fact that they can't just expect their cusomters to shell out for Oracle licenses on top of their software and need to cut costs to lower prices and/or increase margins).
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Based on your numbers, about 12% of the US lives in California. Are you saying that within that 12% of the population, there is somehow enough employed in a compujter-related field to equal 50% of the tech jobs in the world? Or even just in the US?
I don't think so. Maybe you don't understand what "most" means in the context you used it. It means a minimum of 50% + 1. Is that what you are clamiming?
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in California (where most of these technical people and jobs are)
This is ajust a reminder that you need to learn what goes on outside of the People's Republic of California. "Most" of the technical people and jobs most definitely are NOT in California. While I could agree that there is a high density of both there, you really need to get outside of that state a bit if you think the technical world revolves around your geography.
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Try I-95 near the North Carolina-Virginia border. Very bad to no coverage.
That probably because there's nothing there, other than that funky smell, probably from one of the Perdue rendering plants, but I'm not sure.
Verizon is significantly more expensive than most other US-based providers.
Yeah...everyone other than Nextel. Who I've been using for years, as do most of my business associates and friends, and, more importantly, my fire department. LNP or not, Nextel has their customers who actually use direct connect by the balls, and thay know it.
They could double the price, and I'd still pay it. Any more than that and I'd carry a phone for calls and a Nextel for just durect connect. I suspect others feel the same.
I hate that.
How is it that, because it's digital it cost nothing to produce?
If it cost nothing then why don't you just make your own music?
-1 MORON
Of course it costs money to produce. That has nothing to do with this dicussion. I'm not arguing that the copyright isn't worth anything....it certianly is.
Now please try to pay attention:
Every illegal copy of a copyright work in the hands of someone who have otherwise paid for it lowers the value.
Dear RIAA guy,
Every illegal copy of a song lowers the songs value, so by obtaining a free copy from an illegitimate source, instead of paying for it, you are taking something from the producers.
Every illegal copy of a copyright work in the hands of someone who have otherwise paid for it lowers the value.
He now owns something that a person (or group of people) produced and expected payment for.
He sure as hell does NOT own it. He has a digital copy of it, which costs the producers NOTHING. It's not a physical thing. Breaching a license/copyright is NOT traditional theft or stealing.
It's exactly this "old economy" logic that makes our current law ineffective, unfair, and completely unsuited to modern issues such as this.
(or tiny LCDs embedded in each button)
Now THAT's the killer universal remote.
The problem with the Pronto, and all other remotes like that, is that they are mostly touch screen. It's nice that the newer ones have more hard buttions, but I want ALL hard buttons. I don't want to have to look at the remote to use it for most things.
Oh, I should have been more specific...the 32 is for a picture buffer. I don't know what it has to run it's own OS, etc. You get 21 frames buffered shooting as high quality JPEG mode, and about 12 (I thik ) shooting NEFs (raw mode).
My D1 has a buffer for about of about 32 MB before it has to write to the CF card.
Add in another four or five hundred dollars for a negative scanner, and I can do pretty much everything the D2H can do with less than half the cash.
Yes you can. And I've been doing that with my F3 for a few years now. But I've grown very tired of how long it takes to scan and spot negatives (well, chromes in my case...I always used to shoot Velvia). I wen out and picked up a used D1 fairly cheap. I'll get a D1x when the D2x comes out and I can pick one up cheap.
But it's only 2.7 Megapixels! My (insert shitty newish point and click here) is 6 MP.
Yeah...I know. And this D1 still runs circles around it. It's not just the glass, the image sensor is a completely different animal from thises consumer jobs. I shoot NEFs (raw format) and can tweak everything you can image after the fact if I need to. I can print 8x10 with moderate cropping with no problem at all. I can print much larger using Genuine Fractals. It all looks great.
Those who bitch that it's not enough resolution just dont know the digial imagina process well enough to turn out a good product. D1's were getting cover shots of magazines when they came out. Magazines have not gotten any larger or higher resolution, and D1's certianly haven't changed. Depending on your shooting needs and habits, it's a great choice.
And you can use a CF GPS in some of the later Kodak DSLRs (they have 2 CF slots).
Oh, BTW, please copy this and spread it around as prior art in case some jerk tries to patent the very concept of doing this. It's so bloody obvious.
WAY too late, bud. This has been vaporwear for about three years now.
If would have been nice if the article explained why it costs so much to maintain and why we have to periodically spacewalk to it. Does it need new batteries? Does it have to get cleaned? Can it not correct it's own orbital decay?
What's the deal? Anyone know? Seems like if it was mostly self-maintaining, it should cose a whole lot to just keep it up there.
I don't know if it's just the county I'm in, the state, or the whole US, but we have the same thing. They're called "poll watchers".
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How the hell did that get modded informative? Have any of you geeks ever even opened the hood of a car? Any of you ever heard of electronic ignition? Distributors without points?
Whatever. It's just
The only kind of non-RAM ROM I can think of off the top of my head (which isn't part of a copy protection scheme) would by vinyl LPs and tapes with the read-only tag set.
Punch cards.
I think far too many people assumed that the telco/networking companies had this all figured out...
Those of us in the networking business know that's not the case. If you ever have the opporunity to order a couple of circuits, ask to have diversity and get it proven and get a circuit diagram. The telcos rarely even know how the circuits they sell will route, because the get handed off to other telcos, who won't talk to each other about their routing.
It's amazingly frustrating to try to gather this information at a detailed level (I'm talking for one or two interstate circuits). The carrierd either don't know or don't want you to know, because they're aware of their choke points and areas of least/no redundancy. It gets worse in/through larger metro areas.
Just try to get that information from your ISP or colo facility. The standard line is "three diverse routes over our own fiber", when many of these carriers are on the same damn bundle as everyone else (who also claim the same thing). Why can they do this? Because the information to disprove the claim is simply unavailable.
Its good to know that this guy is getting what appears to be some reasonably accurate reasonably detailed information that could be used as a starting point for finding out this kind of detailed circuit path information. Too bad it will probably be considerd "too dangerous to publish".
Wow, that's astonishingly insightful! I guess we should believe your off-the-cuff opinion rather the 1.4C temperature rise and 6.8dBa noise dop actually quoted in the article, right? I am so turned on right now.
That's my whole point, troll. It's amazing that so much time and effort was wasted to write this article. I could show you the same numbers if I wrap a blanket around my case and spend the next 6 hours measuring, photographing, and making a web page about it.
This idiot didn't even use appropriate material to do the soundproofing, and when someone who knew what they were talking about nicely pointed that out, he took it as nothing more than a "good job" and included it in his article.
You are both morons. Do not reproduce.
Lastly, since the front intake ports on this case are not used,
Yeah...all those fans blowing out in the back don't need to pull air from anywhere. And they won't get louder as they have to run harder to pull air through the cracks in between the drive bays and around the insulation you just put in from on the intake.
The really impressive thing about this article is that they guy managed to write an antire article about something as simple as chucking some industrial noise insulation material into a case.
Not to mention the fact that there's almost no upgrades you can do, besides maybe memory and the hard drive. Need a new computer? Gotta buy a whole new one!
Hey...this thread is about laptops, not Macs. Oh...nevermind.
standard CMYB
What standard is CMYB? Is B supposed to stand for Black? Try K. It's CMYK.
How does racist crap like this get modded insightful?
How is that racist?
Oh, I forgot...we're not supposed to recognize people even have ethnic backgrounds anymore.
A step? Oracle -> SQL Server 2000 is a step backwards. Oracle -> MySQL is like replacing your Ti80 with an abacus.
Remember....many (most) companies who only needed word processing were buying $2500+ machine to put on people's desks not too long ago. Maybe this guys company did the same thing with back ends and are finally coming to terms with that fact (and the fact that they can't just expect their cusomters to shell out for Oracle licenses on top of their software and need to cut costs to lower prices and/or increase margins).
Based on your numbers, about 12% of the US lives in California. Are you saying that within that 12% of the population, there is somehow enough employed in a compujter-related field to equal 50% of the tech jobs in the world? Or even just in the US?
I don't think so. Maybe you don't understand what "most" means in the context you used it. It means a minimum of 50% + 1. Is that what you are clamiming?
in California (where most of these technical people and jobs are)
This is ajust a reminder that you need to learn what goes on outside of the People's Republic of California. "Most" of the technical people and jobs most definitely are NOT in California. While I could agree that there is a high density of both there, you really need to get outside of that state a bit if you think the technical world revolves around your geography.