My bad. Was trying to shortly say "new iMac with Intel Core Duo processor, not an older G5." Considering it was only out for a little while at that point, I was impressed with how much they knew. They'd obviously researched the matter (or were at least well-trained).
Very true except in most states, you can be fired for being gay. Well you can be fired for being gay in Michigan at least.
Ah, the joy of at-will-hiring states </sarcasm>
It's not so much that people can be fired for being gay, but can be fired for whatever reason they employer wants (within those states).
You're too fat
you wear blue too often
I don't like you
you have bad breath
I don't like the Polish, scram
etc
I find that really troubling. I think it's wrong to fire someone "because you feel like it." I don' think the answer is making a law saying "you can't fire someone for being gay," because then you run into the whole "what makes it worse to fire someone for being gay than firing someone who's fat, or Polish, or...... "
They should just do away with the AT-WILL laws and ask the employers provide some justification. Fair all-around.
Apple Retail employees get trained? On what? How to walk to the back of the store and ask someone else every single question? The people that work there are clueless.
I guess it depends on the store. The one by me is filled with people that know what they're talking about. The only time they have to "go to the back" is when I ask if they have something in stock.
When I was thinking about getting an iMac Duo I went on 3 seperate days. Each day I was talking to someone completely different, each time they knew what they were talking about (and their info meshed with the other people's). I guess my store just has more knowledgable people working there.
Early 90's... Quake CD. You could go out, buy the quake demo for $10 and unlock EVERY id game there was at the time. I think tehy deserved it though, $10 for a DEMO CD?
Eh, while a ripoff you have to remember that back then broadband wasn't really in unless you had connections. I think the most I could get in my town at the time was ISDN. On top of which, a large percentage of "internet users" were still AOL users and many of them were still paying for x hours per month (ie, not unlimited).
So for some, paying $10 was worth it. The Quake demo was probably the largest demo at the time (which took a WHILE to download on a 28.8 modem) and you'd use up some of your "minutes." All you had to do was drive to a nearby store and pay for the CD.
Even when I was like 10 I hated it when the kids were loud and throwing gummy bears at the screen.
When I got older and cellphones became smaller-than-bricks and people started carrying them everywhere, I got sick of listening to some jack-hole describing the scenes to his pal on his phone.
I was a senior in high school when laser pointers were "all the rage" at the theater. Young pricks bringing them in to put fake nipples on some character, or trying to draw a mustache on some duchebag.
And I HATED going to see a late movie, because then all of the selfish/dead-beat parents would bring their babies and 4-year-olds to an 10:30PM Rated R (or PG-13) movie. And the whole time I had to hear them cry "Why is he bleeding daddy!"
Sure, seeing a comedy and laughing outloud with the theater (as well as friends) is priceless. But unless it's something I REALLY want to see, forget it. I'll wait for the DVD.
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Nice dissection of a quote and idea from a movie, but I don't see how that works at all. How successful a war is or how long it takes isn't really up to the soldiers but to the commanders planning things out. Look up the chain of command if you have a problem. A soldier or squad is sent out to do a task. For example: protect location A, or go to location B and kill any faction C you find. They accomplish their task and get sent out on another one. Maybe they should have stayed longer and setup a presence in location B and killing the enemy. Maybe another squad should come in and lock that place down before they left. Maybe this task would have been better off with Marines than Army. Etc
Think of it like project management on a big project (let's say a system for a large company). Your team could be comprised of the most talented and devoted programmers, DBA's, and network guys ever conceived. They could fly through each of their tasks in their sleep. But if you have a poor manager over-seeing everything (scheduling, delegating responsiblities, planning, gathering requirements, etc) then the project is going to tank. The team will get their tasks done but everything will be a disorganized mess.
Today's wars are more complicated than "2 parties on opposite sides of the field ready to have a water gun fight." Sure, in that scenario if the other side is winning you can complain "man, our guys are lazy or aren't nearly as good enough." It's more like a game of chess (only the pieces can think and a pawn might be more "powerful" than a rook). Command has to send the right pieces to the right locations and keep their eyes on the goal. If they cannot plan well then it all goes to hell.
Whether or not a soldier is relaxing back at camp listening to some iTunes won't improve command's strategic skills.
DLP isn't nearly as bad as ordinary projection. The only major contrast change you'll see if vertical (like standing up and walking towards the TV). The horizontal viewing angle (ie, sitting towards the sides) on many models is quite superb.
It's also a medication. Has anyone ever determined how easy it is to concentrate Nitroglycerine from a medical prescription into something that can bring down a plane?
MacGuyver did that once. To break out of a European medical center (asylum perhaps?) he ground up nitro tablets, mixed them with something, and blew a hole in a cement wall. Then again, this is Macguyver we're talking here so I'm sure the writers could have had him create an explosion out of contact-lense solution if they wanted.
The "article" is pretty light on details. My guess is that they are looking to the past to forecast the future. While not a bad strategy I can't see that leading to much accuracy in the current scenario.
In the past, the PS2 was in a class by itself (after destroying the Dreamcast). For a long time it was THE console to have, and by the time the others (GC and XBox) came into play it was too well entrenched and had a huge library of games.
Now it will be competing with the XBox 360 (say what you want about it, but at least it's out already) and a newly released Wii. Unless there's a lot more going on than I'm aware of, I can't see how it will dominate for the next 5 years when:
- it's entering a market already saturated with similar hardware specs (even if slightly weaker) - price entry
Had they beaten the 360 and Wii to market, then I could see it. But this isn't the past.
I don't get it... won't the plane explode equally well if the explosive is in the hold vs. carry-on?
I guess one of 3 reasons:
They can detonate it themselves without a complicated timer or receiver. The more devices they tack on for this, the easier it is to spot in a scan.
A friend once told me they are more careful when they scan/examine cargo luggage. They have more time to look at it, as opposed to the carry on where some wage-slaves are trying to balance security with the long lines. He also said the cargo guys are a little better trained and have better equipment.
If it's carry-on and it's obvious you're about to get picked up, you have a chance to take out a section of the airport and many civilians. If it's in cargo, then you have little way to know if they found it.
Mabye you should not only kick them out, but find new and innovative ways to intentionally lower the values of your homes so you can... er, wait, where were you going with this?
I'm not a home owner, but wouldn't a situation like the grandparent described lead to increased property taxes and such? In which case, that DOES suck.
The whole "Evolution vs Creationism" has been going on forever, so if the grandparent is only noticing the friction now then he's just not very aware. Sure it's been in the news more lately but that's because we now have an openly religious president that apparently believe in Creationism as well.
To say that as a country we're more religious isn't accurate. Sure, our government bodies may be filled with a higher percentage of religious folk but we're in a very Republican government right now. It's to be expected that with more Republicans come more bible thumpers.
Plus if they do simultaneous releases then the PC version will become consolified: over-simplified UI, smaller areas (if they exist in Spore), etc. Think "Invisible War" all over again.
Yeh, but you only see a sillouete for like 0.5 seconds before the camera cuts out. For all you know that could be something a CGI threw together without any real source materia.
I remember back when I'd leav my discman on the passenger seat (as it was too big for the cup holder). That thing was always falling into the footwell on sharp turns and such. But I never-ever-ever attempted to reach down and pick it up while driving: that would be insane (and possibly fatal).
It could have simply been the guy wasn't thinking clearly that one time. It's happened to me dozens of times where I won't be thinking and will do something incredibly stupid that I'd never do under normal circumstances. But I like to think that this is limited to putting the organge-juice carton in the dish washer and not doing something that could lead to my death.
I love my Albook but would love to buy a new Intel Mac. However I upgraded my PC for work and gaming so my computer spending is shut down for now.
I'll probably wait to see if Apple is going to use the Core 2 Duos in any of their machines (iMac, Mac Pro, etc) and wait for a second revision of those before making the plunge. By then I'll have more money saved up, more apps will be native/universal, and I'll have the new chip as well.
I'd have to guess being uniform. It's pretty obvious that they're going with the Intel route for everything else as the Core Duo is a decent chip (and the Core 2 chips are supposedly quite nice). Having their pro line be the black sheep might cause more headaches than they'd want: different motherboard, different chipset, different CPU, different drivers, etc. Might as well "go with what's working" for them.
That being said, considering their already buying bulk from Intel, adding another line of chips to their order is probably fairly cost efficient. So now instead of buying x chips from Intel at a bulk-order discount of y, they'd be buying 1.2x for perhaps an even larger discount-per-chip (0.98y). After all, you can get lower than a standard OEM price if you buy large-enough bulks.
Don't get me wrong, the city has great advantages: public transportation being "key" in my opinion. Another is being able to walk anywhere you need (like the grocery store down the block). But your argument fails to take in the complexity involved in delivering the food across a major city (like NYC) as compared to delivering food across a couple of suburbs.
Sure, getting into and around New York (state) fairly easy, but once you get into New York City it becomes complex and time consuming. I'd say that it takes more time and energy (per person) to ship food into the city than the suburb. While the number of people in a major city dwarfs the number of people in a suburb, each grocery store probably serves close to the same number of people as in the city they are scattered around.
Take my suburb, the edge of the town is about 1/2-1 mile from the highway. A transport truck merely hops off the highway, delivers to the 2 or 3 grocery stores in our streets with no traffic and very few lights. Then drives to the next town via the highway again or a main road (again, no traffic and few/no lights). So a couple of transport trucks can cover x grocery stores supplying y people fairly easy: less gas, less planning, less time.
Try to do that in the city. Driving into the city is enough of a pain for a truck, but then getting to each store on the route is also tricky. You have the traffic, the lights, the parking, etc. Besides the gas it takes to drive around it becomes a logistics nightmare. Sure, you have multiple stores closer together in the city, but it probably takes longer to get to them.
It was never going to be big, but the PSP movie thing had a little promise. For example if I go on a business trip and I have to pack light (or leave stuff in the overhead compartment) a PSP movie would be nice. But NOT at that price point: that was just really poor planning.
Not any time soon, but not too far off if you're into the latest games.
They're not going to release new versions of Direct X for Windows XP and Direct X 10 is coming either with Vista or soon after. Supposedly there are a bunch of new shiny changes in it.
The problem is game companies will start including support the Direct-X 10 features and will probably eventuall require it to run.
I'll get it eventually, my current rig is beefy enough to run it with Aero, but I'd rather wait until SP1.
The best way to prevent accidental firing of a gun is to outlaw them completely, like here in the UK.
I appreciate the sentiment, but it's too late for us to even think about that. There are just too many flippin' guns over here. Had we done something earlier (like 100 yrs ago) it would be a different story. But between the sheer number of guns over here and the big industry it creates it will never go away. Unless you can magically "beam" every gun on the continent into a blast furnace (a la Star Trek) there's no way you'll even get a fraction of them.
And face it, if you're already a criminal then what's one more law to disobey. Why would you change your tune now and actually follow the rules, especially when now you've got a gun and you're pretty sure your (innocent) victims might not. Such is the problem with gun control: only law-abiding citizens will participate, but the problem is mostly with those that disobey the law.
HD is not significantly better than standard TV. _Fact_. Sit from a decent viewing distance from both and... guess what... they both look about the same. HD is slightly clearer, but it's not a significant enough improvement to justify the increased cost.
Actually no, that's _Opinion_
I notice the difference quite a bit even on a 42" HDTV which has close to the same "height" as my 27" regular TV. Even my parents with their glasses can tell the difference. Of course, I'm talking about broadcast which has a lot variables, one of which is if the show was actually being shown as HD, or if it was up-converted by the network (like That 70's Show or Smallville reruns).
You are correct to say viewing distance comes into play. If you're way-way back relative to the screen size then you won't notice as much but it's still there.
However this does not invalidate your argument about HD discs vs regular DVDs. While I can tell the "difference," it isn't great enough for me to rush-out and buy an expensive unit. DVD's 480p is decent enough for me. I'll probably get a HD DVD (or BluRay) player down the line but not for a WHILE.
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My bad. Was trying to shortly say "new iMac with Intel Core Duo processor, not an older G5." Considering it was only out for a little while at that point, I was impressed with how much they knew. They'd obviously researched the matter (or were at least well-trained).
It's not so much that people can be fired for being gay, but can be fired for whatever reason they employer wants (within those states).
- You're too fat
- you wear blue too often
- I don't like you
- you have bad breath
- I don't like the Polish, scram
- etc
I find that really troubling. I think it's wrong to fire someone "because you feel like it." I don' think the answer is making a law saying "you can't fire someone for being gay," because then you run into the whole "what makes it worse to fire someone for being gay than firing someone who's fat, or Polish, orThey should just do away with the AT-WILL laws and ask the employers provide some justification. Fair all-around.
When I was thinking about getting an iMac Duo I went on 3 seperate days. Each day I was talking to someone completely different, each time they knew what they were talking about (and their info meshed with the other people's). I guess my store just has more knowledgable people working there.
So for some, paying $10 was worth it. The Quake demo was probably the largest demo at the time (which took a WHILE to download on a 28.8 modem) and you'd use up some of your "minutes." All you had to do was drive to a nearby store and pay for the CD.
- Even when I was like 10 I hated it when the kids were loud and throwing gummy bears at the screen.
- When I got older and cellphones became smaller-than-bricks and people started carrying them everywhere, I got sick of listening to some jack-hole describing the scenes to his pal on his phone.
- I was a senior in high school when laser pointers were "all the rage" at the theater. Young pricks bringing them in to put fake nipples on some character, or trying to draw a mustache on some duchebag.
- And I HATED going to see a late movie, because then all of the selfish/dead-beat parents would bring their babies and 4-year-olds to an 10:30PM Rated R (or PG-13) movie. And the whole time I had to hear them cry "Why is he bleeding daddy!"
Sure, seeing a comedy and laughing outloud with the theater (as well as friends) is priceless. But unless it's something I REALLY want to see, forget it. I'll wait for the DVD.Nice dissection of a quote and idea from a movie, but I don't see how that works at all. How successful a war is or how long it takes isn't really up to the soldiers but to the commanders planning things out. Look up the chain of command if you have a problem. A soldier or squad is sent out to do a task. For example: protect location A, or go to location B and kill any faction C you find. They accomplish their task and get sent out on another one. Maybe they should have stayed longer and setup a presence in location B and killing the enemy. Maybe another squad should come in and lock that place down before they left. Maybe this task would have been better off with Marines than Army. Etc
Think of it like project management on a big project (let's say a system for a large company). Your team could be comprised of the most talented and devoted programmers, DBA's, and network guys ever conceived. They could fly through each of their tasks in their sleep. But if you have a poor manager over-seeing everything (scheduling, delegating responsiblities, planning, gathering requirements, etc) then the project is going to tank. The team will get their tasks done but everything will be a disorganized mess.
Today's wars are more complicated than "2 parties on opposite sides of the field ready to have a water gun fight." Sure, in that scenario if the other side is winning you can complain "man, our guys are lazy or aren't nearly as good enough." It's more like a game of chess (only the pieces can think and a pawn might be more "powerful" than a rook). Command has to send the right pieces to the right locations and keep their eyes on the goal. If they cannot plan well then it all goes to hell.
Whether or not a soldier is relaxing back at camp listening to some iTunes won't improve command's strategic skills.
DLP isn't nearly as bad as ordinary projection. The only major contrast change you'll see if vertical (like standing up and walking towards the TV). The horizontal viewing angle (ie, sitting towards the sides) on many models is quite superb.
The "article" is pretty light on details. My guess is that they are looking to the past to forecast the future. While not a bad strategy I can't see that leading to much accuracy in the current scenario.
In the past, the PS2 was in a class by itself (after destroying the Dreamcast). For a long time it was THE console to have, and by the time the others (GC and XBox) came into play it was too well entrenched and had a huge library of games.
Now it will be competing with the XBox 360 (say what you want about it, but at least it's out already) and a newly released Wii. Unless there's a lot more going on than I'm aware of, I can't see how it will dominate for the next 5 years when:
- it's entering a market already saturated with similar hardware specs (even if slightly weaker)
- price entry
Had they beaten the 360 and Wii to market, then I could see it. But this isn't the past.
Agreed.
The whole "Evolution vs Creationism" has been going on forever, so if the grandparent is only noticing the friction now then he's just not very aware. Sure it's been in the news more lately but that's because we now have an openly religious president that apparently believe in Creationism as well.
To say that as a country we're more religious isn't accurate. Sure, our government bodies may be filled with a higher percentage of religious folk but we're in a very Republican government right now. It's to be expected that with more Republicans come more bible thumpers.
Hmm, I don't personally classify it as a console but a handheld. Then again I'm sure I'm wrong in the matter. Personally I'm waiting for the Wii.
Plus if they do simultaneous releases then the PC version will become consolified: over-simplified UI, smaller areas (if they exist in Spore), etc. Think "Invisible War" all over again.
Yeh, but you only see a sillouete for like 0.5 seconds before the camera cuts out. For all you know that could be something a CGI threw together without any real source materia.
I remember back when I'd leav my discman on the passenger seat (as it was too big for the cup holder). That thing was always falling into the footwell on sharp turns and such. But I never-ever-ever attempted to reach down and pick it up while driving: that would be insane (and possibly fatal).
It could have simply been the guy wasn't thinking clearly that one time. It's happened to me dozens of times where I won't be thinking and will do something incredibly stupid that I'd never do under normal circumstances. But I like to think that this is limited to putting the organge-juice carton in the dish washer and not doing something that could lead to my death.
I love my Albook but would love to buy a new Intel Mac. However I upgraded my PC for work and gaming so my computer spending is shut down for now.
I'll probably wait to see if Apple is going to use the Core 2 Duos in any of their machines (iMac, Mac Pro, etc) and wait for a second revision of those before making the plunge. By then I'll have more money saved up, more apps will be native/universal, and I'll have the new chip as well.
I'd have to guess being uniform. It's pretty obvious that they're going with the Intel route for everything else as the Core Duo is a decent chip (and the Core 2 chips are supposedly quite nice). Having their pro line be the black sheep might cause more headaches than they'd want: different motherboard, different chipset, different CPU, different drivers, etc. Might as well "go with what's working" for them.
That being said, considering their already buying bulk from Intel, adding another line of chips to their order is probably fairly cost efficient. So now instead of buying x chips from Intel at a bulk-order discount of y, they'd be buying 1.2x for perhaps an even larger discount-per-chip (0.98y). After all, you can get lower than a standard OEM price if you buy large-enough bulks.
Don't get me wrong, the city has great advantages: public transportation being "key" in my opinion. Another is being able to walk anywhere you need (like the grocery store down the block). But your argument fails to take in the complexity involved in delivering the food across a major city (like NYC) as compared to delivering food across a couple of suburbs.
Sure, getting into and around New York (state) fairly easy, but once you get into New York City it becomes complex and time consuming. I'd say that it takes more time and energy (per person) to ship food into the city than the suburb. While the number of people in a major city dwarfs the number of people in a suburb, each grocery store probably serves close to the same number of people as in the city they are scattered around.
Take my suburb, the edge of the town is about 1/2-1 mile from the highway. A transport truck merely hops off the highway, delivers to the 2 or 3 grocery stores in our streets with no traffic and very few lights. Then drives to the next town via the highway again or a main road (again, no traffic and few/no lights). So a couple of transport trucks can cover x grocery stores supplying y people fairly easy: less gas, less planning, less time.
Try to do that in the city. Driving into the city is enough of a pain for a truck, but then getting to each store on the route is also tricky. You have the traffic, the lights, the parking, etc. Besides the gas it takes to drive around it becomes a logistics nightmare. Sure, you have multiple stores closer together in the city, but it probably takes longer to get to them.
It was never going to be big, but the PSP movie thing had a little promise. For example if I go on a business trip and I have to pack light (or leave stuff in the overhead compartment) a PSP movie would be nice. But NOT at that price point: that was just really poor planning.
Not any time soon, but not too far off if you're into the latest games.
They're not going to release new versions of Direct X for Windows XP and Direct X 10 is coming either with Vista or soon after. Supposedly there are a bunch of new shiny changes in it.
The problem is game companies will start including support the Direct-X 10 features and will probably eventuall require it to run.
I'll get it eventually, my current rig is beefy enough to run it with Aero, but I'd rather wait until SP1.
And face it, if you're already a criminal then what's one more law to disobey. Why would you change your tune now and actually follow the rules, especially when now you've got a gun and you're pretty sure your (innocent) victims might not. Such is the problem with gun control: only law-abiding citizens will participate, but the problem is mostly with those that disobey the law.
I notice the difference quite a bit even on a 42" HDTV which has close to the same "height" as my 27" regular TV. Even my parents with their glasses can tell the difference. Of course, I'm talking about broadcast which has a lot variables, one of which is if the show was actually being shown as HD, or if it was up-converted by the network (like That 70's Show or Smallville reruns).
You are correct to say viewing distance comes into play. If you're way-way back relative to the screen size then you won't notice as much but it's still there.
However this does not invalidate your argument about HD discs vs regular DVDs. While I can tell the "difference," it isn't great enough for me to rush-out and buy an expensive unit. DVD's 480p is decent enough for me. I'll probably get a HD DVD (or BluRay) player down the line but not for a WHILE.