I can't receive PayPal payments exactly because PayPal isn't legally a bank and/or financial institution in my country. It sucks.... At least I can use it for paying, that's not a problem (somehow...)
I know the problems of having 4Gig. I have that amount in my SMP workstation at home and it shows indeed 3.5Gig, but that's mainly a BIOS issue as far as I understood. (At least the behaviour is documented in the motherboard manual) My system is 32-bit, so I do not have another option anyway.
Microsoft is not dumb. What I think is that they will keep pushing the 32-bit version for a while. You have to realise that most consumer-end PCs come with 1Gig to 2Gig (or even 512Meg *sigh*) where the kernel/space user-space limitations do not have an effect. yet. It will probably be at least another year before 3Gig or 4Gig will become commonplace, mainly due to the influence of Vista. Now, the people that bought a new (64-bit, but they don't know) now and need more have a few options. Either buy a new PC, or upgrade the RAM. They won't upgrade it themselves and will bring it to a repair-shop. The guy behind the counter knows about the issue, will say, "no-can-do", unless you also buy a 64-bit version of Vista. The customer will of course find this natural, because it's "part of the upgrade". Netto result: for the same machine, two copies of Vista sold. The initial 32-bit one, and later the 64-bit one.
Uhm, pretty much all (new) AMD and Intel CPU are 64-bit these days. (Even Semprons are 64-bit, these days!) They come with a 32-bit version of Vista.... The consumer ain't gonna see a difference.
I must have been dreaming when my old laptop: a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg RAM, ran Windows XP Pro just fine, including iTunes 6, OpenOffice.org (2.0.1), Firefox 1.5.7, Thunderbird 1.5.7, and a whole bunch of Tools at the same time! Sure, the graphics card had its own memory, but an ATI Rage M4 isn't anything to write home about.
A correct XP install runs idle at 200Meg... With 512Meg RAM you've got plenty of space to work with. Heck, I could even run Eclipse, but that was something I avoided.
Low end Dells are waaaay more performant than my old laptop... The crapware they install can be removed, and you can bet that Vista will run the same crapware anyway.
Vista on that machine? I doubt it.... (Linux ran fine too, by the way...)
It is now, however, time to explain to your dad that sending a 1024x768 file is more than enough for on-screen viewing. That the 10 megapixel variety is good for printing billboards and that for normal snapshots a 2 or 3 megapixel picture will be enough to develop it on normal sized photos.
On the other hand, I know how hard it is to educate them. My father in law does the same crap.... *sigh*
Laptop keyboards cost 100€ and up. I'm not willing to pay that for my laptop that I got on sale. At work, there is an IT department and you can bet that I'll get trouble even coming close to my laptop with a screwdriver. Besides, my IBM Model M would mandate that I change to US layout. Not that I have a problem with that but they are very hard to come by in my country.
The switchover problem is mostly in the morning at work. So it hampers my productivity. That's their problem, not mine. At home, it ends up in emails and slashdot posts with plenty of typos... but that's personal stuff. Not the end of the world.
:-) That's why I don't have an house. I don't mind having debt, but having debt to the point that one single event (accident, loss of job, getting a child,.... take your pick) will make you lose your house immediately is too much of a risk for me.
My dear wife hasn't understood that yet, but she always caves in whenever I show her the hard numbers.
Of course, I have to assume that you live in some highly rural US State. I live in a very small country where the demand for living space (I say that because apartments, small ones, start at 250k€) is high, but available space is not. Sucks to leave your home country in order to raise a family. This happens more and more where I live:-(
I actually used the "Vista Capable Sticker" as an indication for the following: "This laptop is on sale and will not run Windows Vista correctly, but it will run XP fine". I doubt it will run Vista with Areo since it has a meager shared-memory ATI card (X1100 or so, I don't know). I upgraded the 1Gig (2x512Meg) RAM to faster 2x1024Meg RAM, because I need the memory. Price, including a carrier case was still below 1000€ and I might still recoup some costs by selling the RAM I replaced.
All, in all... The Vista Capable Sticker is a great indication for people that know what they want: a cheap laptop that won't run Vista. The long term goal is to migrate that laptop to Linux, but only after I finished playing Half Life 2;-) That said, HL2 sucks with that ATI chipset.
My options seem to be fairly limited to a few cars that cost as much as a small house but sip gas, like the prius,
The price of a small house? Wow, when I think "small house" I start to think at about 500k€. A new car? 35k€ should give me a fine car. A base Prius is way below that.
True, but you never have to write technical documentation in French or German? I do. US International works fine there, but it sucks donkeys balls for coding.
I do realise that the operating system doesn't care. The thing is:
a) I cannot touch type. I need the visual feedback, especially for the non alpha-characters
b) It's impossible to settle for one. At work I do not have a choice: it is swiss-french (or swiss-german, which is the same layout, it just inverses the umlaut/accents that are present on the keyboard). If I change jobs, I might end up with an FR or BE keyboard. Nobody can tell... At home I can choose, but my laptop was on sale and it happened to be BE. Getting another keyboard for a laptop that was on sale, will probably bring it back to the prices of being not on sale. Bad, luck, but such is life. My workstation has an IBM Model M, and you can bet I'm not going to replace that one and such is is US.
The keyboard I know best is the US one (back from my DOS playing games... games were pretty much keyboard layout agnostic back in the day), but it lacks accentuated characters. US-International would be the best choice, but that one is annoying when coding.
The diversification in keyboard layouts is something that shouldn't have happened ever. My home workstation is US (qwerty), my home laptop is BE (azerty) and my work laptop is SF (qwertz). Adapting in between each layout take about 20 minutes. So, if yesterday I've been playing around with my home laptop and the next day I get at work, I'm doing about 20 minutes with typos to no end... *sigh*
Sorry, I just dumped it in Google and typed it over. Next time I'll do a copy/paste. 0 and 9 are next to each other on my keyboard, you know. Honest typo, I swear....
No, but they work remarkably well for hauling and freeway. My dad has an A2 which is a small car. We used it to drive 1000km to go to winter sports. We simply took out one rear seat and the rest was filled up with our luggage and two snowboards. Three adults were seated comfortably and we drove just nicely along with all other traffic.
Now, sure, the A2 doesn't like the freeway as my TT does, but it is most definately doable. Of course, my TT sucks donkeys balls to haul anything.
Where did you get that the Lupo was based on the A2 and made of aluminium? The Lupo was not made of aluminium, the A2 is. Both cars are fundamentally different.
My dad has an A2, and I can assure you that it is perfectly fine for day to day use... It works perfectly fine on freeways. It can easily do 150kmh...
That's about 1.98€ per litre. That sounds just like a slight increase to me. In Norway the current price is about 1.492€ per litre, in The Netherlands it's about 1.489€ per litre and in the United Kingdom it's about 1.398€ per litre.
I drive a small roadster, and it does about 9 litre per 100km (~26 MPG) if I drive without using its potential power (which I mostly do, since it would get expensive). It can do better on long drives, going below 8 litre per 100km (~20MPG), but I have to drive constantly at allowed speed (120kmh ~75mph)
They're going with the market leader. Doing anything else would be suicide. It's quite simple, by now most people associated "buying legal songs online" with the iTunes Music Store. EMI could launch its own online shop without DRM, but they have no chance against the steamroller that is iTMS.
The choice is: Apple or go under because they have no brand recognition... At least their current choice gives non-DRMed songs a real chance.
True, I expect that the AppleTV will be hacked sometime in the future... What I criticize is the day of announcement. If you have such a thing at hand, why not wait two days and come over with full credibility?
True, I don't think it's real either. The thing is: if you manage to do such a hack on or around Fools Day, I'd wait a few days before releasing the information. That way you're less likely to be considered a fake.
Many of the comments on that page were made on April 1st, including the one where the guy claims it's not an April Fools joke. I'm not buying it.
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I can't receive PayPal payments exactly because PayPal isn't legally a bank and/or financial institution in my country. It sucks.... At least I can use it for paying, that's not a problem (somehow...)
Or pretty much any European city...
Not all of them, some places were completely destroyed in World War II, but of couse that itself might be museum-worthy. Think Rotterdam or Dresden.
I know the problems of having 4Gig. I have that amount in my SMP workstation at home and it shows indeed 3.5Gig, but that's mainly a BIOS issue as far as I understood. (At least the behaviour is documented in the motherboard manual) My system is 32-bit, so I do not have another option anyway.
Microsoft is not dumb. What I think is that they will keep pushing the 32-bit version for a while. You have to realise that most consumer-end PCs come with 1Gig to 2Gig (or even 512Meg *sigh*) where the kernel/space user-space limitations do not have an effect. yet. It will probably be at least another year before 3Gig or 4Gig will become commonplace, mainly due to the influence of Vista. Now, the people that bought a new (64-bit, but they don't know) now and need more have a few options. Either buy a new PC, or upgrade the RAM. They won't upgrade it themselves and will bring it to a repair-shop. The guy behind the counter knows about the issue, will say, "no-can-do", unless you also buy a 64-bit version of Vista. The customer will of course find this natural, because it's "part of the upgrade". Netto result: for the same machine, two copies of Vista sold. The initial 32-bit one, and later the 64-bit one.
This is all planned...
Uhm, pretty much all (new) AMD and Intel CPU are 64-bit these days. (Even Semprons are 64-bit, these days!) They come with a 32-bit version of Vista.... The consumer ain't gonna see a difference.
I must have been dreaming when my old laptop: a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg RAM, ran Windows XP Pro just fine, including iTunes 6, OpenOffice.org (2.0.1), Firefox 1.5.7, Thunderbird 1.5.7, and a whole bunch of Tools at the same time! Sure, the graphics card had its own memory, but an ATI Rage M4 isn't anything to write home about.
A correct XP install runs idle at 200Meg... With 512Meg RAM you've got plenty of space to work with. Heck, I could even run Eclipse, but that was something I avoided.
Low end Dells are waaaay more performant than my old laptop... The crapware they install can be removed, and you can bet that Vista will run the same crapware anyway.
Vista on that machine? I doubt it.... (Linux ran fine too, by the way...)
I was thinking of the same usage pattern.
It is now, however, time to explain to your dad that sending a 1024x768 file is more than enough for on-screen viewing. That the 10 megapixel variety is good for printing billboards and that for normal snapshots a 2 or 3 megapixel picture will be enough to develop it on normal sized photos.
On the other hand, I know how hard it is to educate them. My father in law does the same crap.... *sigh*
Laptop keyboards cost 100€ and up. I'm not willing to pay that for my laptop that I got on sale. At work, there is an IT department and you can bet that I'll get trouble even coming close to my laptop with a screwdriver. Besides, my IBM Model M would mandate that I change to US layout. Not that I have a problem with that but they are very hard to come by in my country.
The switchover problem is mostly in the morning at work. So it hampers my productivity. That's their problem, not mine. At home, it ends up in emails and slashdot posts with plenty of typos... but that's personal stuff. Not the end of the world.
:-) That's why I don't have an house. I don't mind having debt, but having debt to the point that one single event (accident, loss of job, getting a child, .... take your pick) will make you lose your house immediately is too much of a risk for me.
My dear wife hasn't understood that yet, but she always caves in whenever I show her the hard numbers.
Of course, I have to assume that you live in some highly rural US State. I live in a very small country where the demand for living space (I say that because apartments, small ones, start at 250k€) is high, but available space is not. Sucks to leave your home country in order to raise a family. This happens more and more where I live :-(
I actually used the "Vista Capable Sticker" as an indication for the following: "This laptop is on sale and will not run Windows Vista correctly, but it will run XP fine". I doubt it will run Vista with Areo since it has a meager shared-memory ATI card (X1100 or so, I don't know). I upgraded the 1Gig (2x512Meg) RAM to faster 2x1024Meg RAM, because I need the memory. Price, including a carrier case was still below 1000€ and I might still recoup some costs by selling the RAM I replaced.
All, in all... The Vista Capable Sticker is a great indication for people that know what they want: a cheap laptop that won't run Vista. The long term goal is to migrate that laptop to Linux, but only after I finished playing Half Life 2 ;-) That said, HL2 sucks with that ATI chipset.
My options seem to be fairly limited to a few cars that cost as much as a small house but sip gas, like the prius,
The price of a small house? Wow, when I think "small house" I start to think at about 500k€. A new car? 35k€ should give me a fine car. A base Prius is way below that.
True, but you never have to write technical documentation in French or German? I do. US International works fine there, but it sucks donkeys balls for coding.
I do realise that the operating system doesn't care. The thing is:
a) I cannot touch type. I need the visual feedback, especially for the non alpha-characters
b) It's impossible to settle for one. At work I do not have a choice: it is swiss-french (or swiss-german, which is the same layout, it just inverses the umlaut/accents that are present on the keyboard). If I change jobs, I might end up with an FR or BE keyboard. Nobody can tell...
At home I can choose, but my laptop was on sale and it happened to be BE. Getting another keyboard for a laptop that was on sale, will probably bring it back to the prices of being not on sale. Bad, luck, but such is life. My workstation has an IBM Model M, and you can bet I'm not going to replace that one and such is is US.
The keyboard I know best is the US one (back from my DOS playing games... games were pretty much keyboard layout agnostic back in the day), but it lacks accentuated characters. US-International would be the best choice, but that one is annoying when coding.
Yeah, and I'm using qwertz...
The diversification in keyboard layouts is something that shouldn't have happened ever. My home workstation is US (qwerty), my home laptop is BE (azerty) and my work laptop is SF (qwertz). Adapting in between each layout take about 20 minutes. So, if yesterday I've been playing around with my home laptop and the next day I get at work, I'm doing about 20 minutes with typos to no end... *sigh*
Sorry, I just dumped it in Google and typed it over. Next time I'll do a copy/paste. 0 and 9 are next to each other on my keyboard, you know. Honest typo, I swear....
Also, where's the Model M?
Exactly! Instead on place 50 they talk about some completely unknown keyboard to me.
That's normal: they are all fat and nobody goes out *at all*. ;-)
In that case, they should display the terms of use at each visit: plain in my face. Let's see how long I'll be visiting that site.
We never liked you guys anyway ;-) (Posting from mainland Europe...)
No, but they work remarkably well for hauling and freeway. My dad has an A2 which is a small car. We used it to drive 1000km to go to winter sports. We simply took out one rear seat and the rest was filled up with our luggage and two snowboards. Three adults were seated comfortably and we drove just nicely along with all other traffic.
Now, sure, the A2 doesn't like the freeway as my TT does, but it is most definately doable. Of course, my TT sucks donkeys balls to haul anything.
Where did you get that the Lupo was based on the A2 and made of aluminium? The Lupo was not made of aluminium, the A2 is. Both cars are fundamentally different.
My dad has an A2, and I can assure you that it is perfectly fine for day to day use... It works perfectly fine on freeways. It can easily do 150kmh...
That's about 1.98€ per litre. That sounds just like a slight increase to me. In Norway the current price is about 1.492€ per litre, in The Netherlands it's about 1.489€ per litre and in the United Kingdom it's about 1.398€ per litre.
I drive a small roadster, and it does about 9 litre per 100km (~26 MPG) if I drive without using its potential power (which I mostly do, since it would get expensive). It can do better on long drives, going below 8 litre per 100km (~20MPG), but I have to drive constantly at allowed speed (120kmh ~75mph)
They're going with the market leader. Doing anything else would be suicide. It's quite simple, by now most people associated "buying legal songs online" with the iTunes Music Store. EMI could launch its own online shop without DRM, but they have no chance against the steamroller that is iTMS.
The choice is: Apple or go under because they have no brand recognition... At least their current choice gives non-DRMed songs a real chance.
Funny, I just right now discovered that myself by poking around in iTunes.... Thanks for telling me anyway :-)
True, I expect that the AppleTV will be hacked sometime in the future... What I criticize is the day of announcement. If you have such a thing at hand, why not wait two days and come over with full credibility?
Just my opinion...
True, I don't think it's real either. The thing is: if you manage to do such a hack on or around Fools Day, I'd wait a few days before releasing the information. That way you're less likely to be considered a fake.
Many of the comments on that page were made on April 1st, including the one where the guy claims it's not an April Fools joke. I'm not buying it.