Only because it was based on Windows 2000 (with service packs). Remember 2000 is Windows version 5.0 and XP is Windows version 5.1.
Exactly, but that was in response to "Windows 9x, 2k, and XP were all turds when they were first released" - I guess "2000/XP was a turd when it was first released" would be accurate, though. I'd also argue that 9X (and ME, of course) never stopped being turds.:-D
Days? No. But they don't buy crates of stuff and have them sit around gathering dust for half a decade, either. In the last two years, the American dollar has been 20% higher than the Canadian dollar at its highest. And new products - for example, anything that wasn't available for them to buy more than a few months ago, so it would have been very difficult to have paid a higher price to stock such goods.
I first bought a laptop, a used Toshiba Portege, in 2001... it was "designed for Windows 95" and it still runs today. The battery was long-dead when I got it, of course. But that's entirely dependent on how much the battery has been used - I recently gave away a three year old Toshiba Satellite that still got almost two hours of battery life per charge, but it was almost always run on AC.
Yeah, it says it has a touchpad suitable for finger or stylus use, and nothing about a touchscreen. But, since it can convert into a tablet formfactor (if not an actual tablet), and has a directional pad and buttons in the bezel, it should be great for reading ebooks.
Strange... my post disappeared. Anyway, that second one is a decent deal - but the monitor would be too dim to read comfortably outside and it's very heavy (though indestructable). Not really comparable (either good or bad) to the XO-1. People are interested in the XO-1 because it's a neat fanless gadget...the same people aren't interested in the cheapest used laptop they can find. And the rest of those are a joke:
Manufacturer: Panasonic
Model: CF-47
osmetics: Parts/Repair
Test Results: Tested and does NOT power on. Offered AS-IS, with NO warranty.
Accessories: None - sold as pictured.
Screen Size: 13"
Hard Drive: NOT Included
Processor Type: PIII
Processor Speed: Unknown
Memory Type: NOT Included
Drives: CD-ROM Drive, Floppy Drive
All things very trivially easy to find in an older, normal laptop.
You've gotta be kidding me. An "older, normal laptop" is over twice the size and twice the weight. Only a used ultraportable (or the Asus eee) could compare to the XO as far as size and portability goes - but the screen definitely wouldn't look very nice under direct sunlight (and if it were usable at all, it'd be at full brightness and power consumption, not with the backlight off for minimum power use), and it would still cost more than this, unless you bought it from a crack addict who stole it. (Wireless is common even for used computers, and what can't run Linux?)
It has very low power consumption, but also a tiny battery due to cost, so battery life isn't significantly better than common notebooks, unless you plan on spending more money, and upgrading the battery yourself.
4 to 6 hours per charge isn't significantly better than common notebooks? Are you joking? Not to mention the >8 hours of use as for minimal tasks such as reading e-books, or the manual generator.
Enzymes, being proteins, aren't normally absorbed by the body. (Which is why insulin, for example, can't be taken in tablet form.) Also, these enzymes aren't supposed to be floating around in the blood (which is where they'd be if they were absorbed) - Liver function tests measure the presence of these enzymes in the blood, since they show that liver cells have been damaged/lysed, releasing their contents.
A bit holier-than-thou, sure, but the grandparent post is insane. Foie gras is comparable to chopping up an animal into serving size pieces - while it's still alive. Any slaughterhouse performing such obviously unnecessary cruelty (instead of the usual instant killing blow) would be shut down immediately.
The grandparent was complaining that "medical procedures are insanely expensive and the equipment and medicine costs are through the roof" before making the laughable statement that "it's not like medicine got any better in the last 30 years".
Monopoly power allows sellers to raise prices above those they would obtain in perfectly competitive markets. In the jargon of economics, they are thus able to earn "rents," defined as the excess of the prices actually received by sellers above the minimum prices the sellers would have to be paid to sell into the market. Countries differ in the degree to which they try to whittle away at the rent earned on the supply side through the creation of market power on the buy (monopsony) side of the market. A single-payer system would be called a "pure monopsony."
In the U.S. health system, for example, money flows from households to the providers of health care through a vast network of relatively uncoordinated pipes and capillaries of various sizes. Although the huge federal Medicare program and the federal-state Medicaid programs do possess some monopsonistic purchasing power, and large private insurers may enjoy some degree of monopsony power as well in some localities, the highly fragmented buy side of the U.S. health system is relatively weak by international standards. It is one factor, among others, that could explain the relatively high prices paid for health care and for health professionals in the United States.
In comparison, the government-controlled health systems of Canada, Europe, and Japan allocate considerably more market power to the buy side. In each of the Canadian provinces, for example, the health insurance plans operated by the provincial governments constitute pure monopsonies: They purchase (pay for) all of the health services that are covered by the provincial health plan and used by the province's residents.
A lot more people have type I diabetes, it was discovered hundreds of years ago, and we still don't know what causes the immune system to attack the pancreas. Autoimmune diseases (heck, most things involving living organisms) are a lot more complicated than your PC.
Of course, we have how many different drugs to help old men get it up?
...which was developed in an attempt to treat angina.
"The United States also continues to spend far more on a per capita basis for healthcare than any other country. It spent over $4,600 per capita on healthcare in 2000 - more than twice the average of almost $2,000 across OECD countries. Public spending per capita in the U.S. is also high (it follows Iceland and Germany), even though only about one-quarter of the population is insured through public programmes"
Curing many diseases is completely impossible without some sort of nanomachinery entering every cell in the body and checking/repairing its DNA. (Removing retrovirus code, restoring tumor suppressor genes, etc.) Not to mention that there are many disease for which, if anyone developed a real cure, they'd be instant trillionaires. And how is a pill supposed to repair the nerve cell damage causing this guy's Parkinson's? Stem cell therapy might help, but...
The worst part - game updates allowing half-finished games to be released - isn't gonna happen without a hard drive. And the web browser, while gimmicky, is an optional download.
Oh, and some Wiis are locked down, but not the modchipped ones.;)
Doesn't it mean that the Republican Party of South Carolina makes $35000x(# of people on ballot for primary)-$20000 for filing fee of the candidate selected in the primary?
And the Democratic Party makes $2500x(# of people on ballot for primary)-$20000, which is a loss if there are less than 8 candidates. (There aren't.)
So that means the Democrats are concerned with balancing their budget, and the Republicans are money-grubbing swindlers?;)
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see if some sort of dialysis-like device would be useful in some chronic viral diseases like AIDS... I guess it would depend on how long the viral particle stays viable in the blood, at what rate it is being replaced by infected cells, etc.
Since all the blood cells are removed from the donated plasma, it'd be much easier to make sure there was zero effect on what is left (normal blood proteins), and there wouldn't be any cells to make new virus.
There must be some new definition of "can't get" that I am not aware of. According to the article you can "get" all these items here in the US via specialty importers like Dynamism.
I'm guessing he means 1000 online at a time... I know a queue forms at some point, but I don't know if that's the right number. I've also heard that, while many people can be online at a time on EVE, large battles (100-1000s) can cause unplayable lag.
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Only because it was based on Windows 2000 (with service packs). Remember 2000 is Windows version 5.0 and XP is Windows version 5.1.
:-D
Exactly, but that was in response to "Windows 9x, 2k, and XP were all turds when they were first released" - I guess "2000/XP was a turd when it was first released" would be accurate, though. I'd also argue that 9X (and ME, of course) never stopped being turds.
Days? No. But they don't buy crates of stuff and have them sit around gathering dust for half a decade, either. In the last two years, the American dollar has been 20% higher than the Canadian dollar at its highest. And new products - for example, anything that wasn't available for them to buy more than a few months ago, so it would have been very difficult to have paid a higher price to stock such goods.
XP was a huge improvement compared to 98SE when it was released, even before any service packs.
New toys shouldn't be 50% more, especially since the value of the Canadian dollar hasn't been that low since before W took office.
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I first bought a laptop, a used Toshiba Portege, in 2001... it was "designed for Windows 95" and it still runs today. The battery was long-dead when I got it, of course. But that's entirely dependent on how much the battery has been used - I recently gave away a three year old Toshiba Satellite that still got almost two hours of battery life per charge, but it was almost always run on AC.
Yeah, it says it has a touchpad suitable for finger or stylus use, and nothing about a touchscreen. But, since it can convert into a tablet formfactor (if not an actual tablet), and has a directional pad and buttons in the bezel, it should be great for reading ebooks.
Manufacturer: Panasonic
Model: CF-47
osmetics: Parts/Repair
Test Results: Tested and does NOT power on. Offered AS-IS, with NO warranty.
Accessories: None - sold as pictured.
Screen Size: 13"
Hard Drive: NOT Included
Processor Type: PIII
Processor Speed: Unknown
Memory Type: NOT Included
Drives: CD-ROM Drive, Floppy Drive
A quick search showed most to be much more expensive. Only this one, for $270 - without a hard drive, operating system, or AC adapter. (Probably stolen, too, since the last part is one usually overlooked by thieves.)
There are tons of smaller notebooks out there. Of course you can't be bothered to spend 60 seconds searching eBay.
I did. Most are a lot more expensive than this, have moving parts, and their backlights have probably dimmed.
No. 3 hour battery life is quite common. And those are very optimistic figures.
I didn't say 3 hours. Maybe you are confusing it with the Asus Eee? The most pessismistic figure I could find was just over 4 hours.
All things very trivially easy to find in an older, normal laptop.
You've gotta be kidding me. An "older, normal laptop" is over twice the size and twice the weight. Only a used ultraportable (or the Asus eee) could compare to the XO as far as size and portability goes - but the screen definitely wouldn't look very nice under direct sunlight (and if it were usable at all, it'd be at full brightness and power consumption, not with the backlight off for minimum power use), and it would still cost more than this, unless you bought it from a crack addict who stole it. (Wireless is common even for used computers, and what can't run Linux?)
It has very low power consumption, but also a tiny battery due to cost, so battery life isn't significantly better than common notebooks, unless you plan on spending more money, and upgrading the battery yourself.
4 to 6 hours per charge isn't significantly better than common notebooks? Are you joking? Not to mention the >8 hours of use as for minimal tasks such as reading e-books, or the manual generator.
Enzymes, being proteins, aren't normally absorbed by the body. (Which is why insulin, for example, can't be taken in tablet form.) Also, these enzymes aren't supposed to be floating around in the blood (which is where they'd be if they were absorbed) - Liver function tests measure the presence of these enzymes in the blood, since they show that liver cells have been damaged/lysed, releasing their contents.
Vitamin A deficiency is still a big problem in developing countries, though, and liver is definitely the best source of it. Of course, too much of a good thing can also be a problem.
A bit holier-than-thou, sure, but the grandparent post is insane. Foie gras is comparable to chopping up an animal into serving size pieces - while it's still alive. Any slaughterhouse performing such obviously unnecessary cruelty (instead of the usual instant killing blow) would be shut down immediately.
From It's The Prices, Stupid: Why The United States Is So Different From Other Countries:
Monopoly power allows sellers to raise prices above those they would obtain in perfectly competitive markets. In the jargon of economics, they are thus able to earn "rents," defined as the excess of the prices actually received by sellers above the minimum prices the sellers would have to be paid to sell into the market. Countries differ in the degree to which they try to whittle away at the rent earned on the supply side through the creation of market power on the buy (monopsony) side of the market. A single-payer system would be called a "pure monopsony."
In the U.S. health system, for example, money flows from households to the providers of health care through a vast network of relatively uncoordinated pipes and capillaries of various sizes. Although the huge federal Medicare program and the federal-state Medicaid programs do possess some monopsonistic purchasing power, and large private insurers may enjoy some degree of monopsony power as well in some localities, the highly fragmented buy side of the U.S. health system is relatively weak by international standards. It is one factor, among others, that could explain the relatively high prices paid for health care and for health professionals in the United States.
In comparison, the government-controlled health systems of Canada, Europe, and Japan allocate considerably more market power to the buy side. In each of the Canadian provinces, for example, the health insurance plans operated by the provincial governments constitute pure monopsonies: They purchase (pay for) all of the health services that are covered by the provincial health plan and used by the province's residents.
Of course, Medicare is also forbidden from using its buying power to lower costs, anyway.
A lot more people have type I diabetes, it was discovered hundreds of years ago, and we still don't know what causes the immune system to attack the pancreas. Autoimmune diseases (heck, most things involving living organisms) are a lot more complicated than your PC.
Of course, we have how many different drugs to help old men get it up?
...which was developed in an attempt to treat angina.
"The United States also continues to spend far more on a per capita basis for healthcare than any other country. It spent over $4,600 per capita on healthcare in 2000 - more than twice the average of almost $2,000 across OECD countries. Public spending per capita in the U.S. is also high (it follows Iceland and Germany), even though only about one-quarter of the population is insured through public programmes"
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Curing many diseases is completely impossible without some sort of nanomachinery entering every cell in the body and checking/repairing its DNA. (Removing retrovirus code, restoring tumor suppressor genes, etc.) Not to mention that there are many disease for which, if anyone developed a real cure, they'd be instant trillionaires. And how is a pill supposed to repair the nerve cell damage causing this guy's Parkinson's? Stem cell therapy might help, but...
The worst part - game updates allowing half-finished games to be released - isn't gonna happen without a hard drive. And the web browser, while gimmicky, is an optional download.
;)
Oh, and some Wiis are locked down, but not the modchipped ones.
Yes. Also the picture will require at least one instance each of cross-hatching, scumbling, and stippling.
Doesn't it mean that the Republican Party of South Carolina makes $35000x(# of people on ballot for primary)-$20000 for filing fee of the candidate selected in the primary?
;)
And the Democratic Party makes $2500x(# of people on ballot for primary)-$20000, which is a loss if there are less than 8 candidates. (There aren't.)
So that means the Democrats are concerned with balancing their budget, and the Republicans are money-grubbing swindlers?
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see if some sort of dialysis-like device would be useful in some chronic viral diseases like AIDS... I guess it would depend on how long the viral particle stays viable in the blood, at what rate it is being replaced by infected cells, etc.
Since all the blood cells are removed from the donated plasma, it'd be much easier to make sure there was zero effect on what is left (normal blood proteins), and there wouldn't be any cells to make new virus.
Except for the 700 hours of battery life (versus up to 4 hours) and desktop-sized keyboard parts.
There must be some new definition of "can't get" that I am not aware of. According to the article you can "get" all these items here in the US via specialty importers like Dynamism.
Heck, even on their websites. Not to mention that most of them are just average-looking cellphones.
I'm guessing he means 1000 online at a time... I know a queue forms at some point, but I don't know if that's the right number. I've also heard that, while many people can be online at a time on EVE, large battles (100-1000s) can cause unplayable lag.