I work at Circuit City. I'd say 80-90% of the cell phones we sell (Nokia, Motorola, Sanyo, Samsung) with a service plan come back broken within the first year. No data on ones without service plan.
I work at Circuit City and I just sold a lady a higher end Sony 1MP MiniDV camcorder today for $799. The memory stick that was included was 8 MB, so this would be a bit of a step up. Still, if you're buying something for stills, you don't want a 1 MP camera.
So, yeah, with 14fps and 1MP each, you're looking at about 3 minutes and 15 seconds of record time, if I didn't drop a zero somewhere. Not too great, is it?
"Palladium may actually make... piracy more widespread."
Yeah, piracy of Windows XP when no one wants to buy Windows Palladium Edition. It astounds me that the population in general is so ignorant and apathetic toward the loss of their rights.
Well, by "high-end system" I was thinking more in the range of $600-$800 which, these days, will buy you a pretty sweet box. And no, the cell phone is not for the "bling factor," it's for the social life.
And, like many students, I too am broke, which is why I only spend any money during the summer. (Upgrading is cheap since I hand down my old components to my family and they will sometimes pay some of my upgrade cost. i.e. just bought a new 2500+ for $90 and they paid $50 but I gave them my 1.33gHz, which is a nice upgrade from their 500mhz k6)
Well, I didn't say, "and a cell phone, which you will leave on during every class." But if any type of social life is part of your college experience, you're gonna want one.
As both a CS student and a geek, I spend a lot of time in computer related tasks, and I just finished my sophomore year. Before I went to college, I built what was, at the time, a really nice desktop system that I've been very happy with, mostly for one reason: Desktops are very upgradeable (what was top of the line then is still top of the line now thanks to upgrades of ram and processor and such), and suffer fewer problems than laptops. There are always deadlines and due dates, and there's nothing worse than an out of commission computer.
Now, for that desktop, I highly recommend a flat panel monitor, because dorm rooms can be pretty tiny. I have a single dorm room, and with my CRT monitor, keyboard, and mouse on my desk, I literally cannot fit a sheet of paper on my desk surface. This summer, I'm gonna get a flat panel to remedy the problem, since they've come down in cost.
Now, recommendations about having a desktop aside, lately I've really been hankering for a portable machine, especially since my school (Vanderbilt) now has 802.11b access all over campus, so I think I'm gonna purchase a laptop. As far as the laptop is concerned, I don't need the latest Centrino or anything like that, I'm interested in a cheap system that will be portable and that I can use an office suite, a development environment, and to browse the internet, all during class and maybe extracurricular meetings. No gaming or heavy graphical work necessary.
So, to sum up, if you've got the funds, desktop is essential, flat panel is more or less essential, laptop is very, very nice to have (many schools even require having them now, and CS professors sometimes assume their students will have one) but isn't essential. PDAs aren't that great cause laptops are much more robust and powerful, and you're carrying around a bookbag usually anyway, so it's not necessary to have something fit in your pocket. I could see maybe owning a PDA strictly for scheduling, but thats about it.
Oh, and a cell phone. Every college student needs a cell phone, and you'll be left out if you do't get one.
Film is almost always at 24 frames per second. TV/video is at 30 frames per second. Low-end cameras do not allow one to change the framerate, and I'm not even sure if any middle-end would allow that. Nevertheless, if that is what people want, within 6 months, there will be plenty of consumer-level cameras on the market that will have this feature.
Yes, but the military keeping journalism on their terms is not a positive thing. It makes the public blind to what really goes on in the war. It is propaganda by proxy, and keeping a people ignorant is never a justifiable means of retaining control.
Substitute for Harry Potter: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Catcher In The Rye, Brave New World, or The Lord Of The Rings. All beloved books that have been censored at times. The story repeats itself because people continue to hold to belief systems that demand blind, ignorant devotion. Faith is fine, devotion is fine. But not blindly. Not without thought.
I hope you're being sarcastic. Embedded journalism is designed specifically to limit what journalists can see and record to happy, ra-ra images like guns blazing in front of American flags. Embedded journalism is a means of direct control over what journalists see. Journalists aren't where the bombs drop, they aren't in the combat situations, they are only way back in the rear of the war where the big guns fire away at faceless targets. How anyone can feel like this is a good and open practice is beyond me.
An open source security program would be exceptionally easy to bypass, I'd think, since you'd have direct access to any encryption mechanism used.
Knowing the algorithm doesn't really help with any decent encryption since you also have to know any number of other keys in order to deencrypt the data. Of course, if you're still using "A=26,B=25,C=24..." encryption, then you may be on to something, there.
Actually, the Mandrake website says the new version supports "Re-sizing of Windows FAT partitions" but that NTFS support is strictly read-only, which sucks. You got my hopes up there for a while.
Actually, Departments at my school, Vanderbilt University, are forced to pay in the THOUSANDS to show a movie to a classroom or provide to the class a chapter of a book. I'm not sure about the legality of taking clips, but I know we are currently paying to do so.
Actually, I wrote a paper on this very topic in the field of robotics last year. Basically, the evidence I found is that although science fiction occasionally inspires people to enter a certain field, it rarely influences actual design, at least directly through the designer. But, in so far as sci-fi influences public's expectations, which drive the market, it does have an effect on the macro-direction of research.
So, Microsoft is freely letting China view the source code, but they fought and vehemently insisted that they could not let our own government view the source code? Yeah, seems like they're real interested in American security.
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Well, this is certainly a breakthrough: "Sites that are more popular get more hits, but sites that are less popular still get hits." Wow.
I work at Circuit City. I'd say 80-90% of the cell phones we sell (Nokia, Motorola, Sanyo, Samsung) with a service plan come back broken within the first year. No data on ones without service plan.
Did you buy it online or retail? From where? I've looked it up and everywhere I see it, it is over US $2000.
I work at Circuit City and I just sold a lady a higher end Sony 1MP MiniDV camcorder today for $799. The memory stick that was included was 8 MB, so this would be a bit of a step up. Still, if you're buying something for stills, you don't want a 1 MP camera.
So, yeah, with 14fps and 1MP each, you're looking at about 3 minutes and 15 seconds of record time, if I didn't drop a zero somewhere. Not too great, is it?
"Palladium may actually make... piracy more widespread."
Yeah, piracy of Windows XP when no one wants to buy Windows Palladium Edition. It astounds me that the population in general is so ignorant and apathetic toward the loss of their rights.
Well, by "high-end system" I was thinking more in the range of $600-$800 which, these days, will buy you a pretty sweet box. And no, the cell phone is not for the "bling factor," it's for the social life.
And, like many students, I too am broke, which is why I only spend any money during the summer. (Upgrading is cheap since I hand down my old components to my family and they will sometimes pay some of my upgrade cost. i.e. just bought a new 2500+ for $90 and they paid $50 but I gave them my 1.33gHz, which is a nice upgrade from their 500mhz k6)
Well, I didn't say, "and a cell phone, which you will leave on during every class." But if any type of social life is part of your college experience, you're gonna want one.
As both a CS student and a geek, I spend a lot of time in computer related tasks, and I just finished my sophomore year. Before I went to college, I built what was, at the time, a really nice desktop system that I've been very happy with, mostly for one reason: Desktops are very upgradeable (what was top of the line then is still top of the line now thanks to upgrades of ram and processor and such), and suffer fewer problems than laptops. There are always deadlines and due dates, and there's nothing worse than an out of commission computer.
Now, for that desktop, I highly recommend a flat panel monitor, because dorm rooms can be pretty tiny. I have a single dorm room, and with my CRT monitor, keyboard, and mouse on my desk, I literally cannot fit a sheet of paper on my desk surface. This summer, I'm gonna get a flat panel to remedy the problem, since they've come down in cost.
Now, recommendations about having a desktop aside, lately I've really been hankering for a portable machine, especially since my school (Vanderbilt) now has 802.11b access all over campus, so I think I'm gonna purchase a laptop. As far as the laptop is concerned, I don't need the latest Centrino or anything like that, I'm interested in a cheap system that will be portable and that I can use an office suite, a development environment, and to browse the internet, all during class and maybe extracurricular meetings. No gaming or heavy graphical work necessary.
So, to sum up, if you've got the funds, desktop is essential, flat panel is more or less essential, laptop is very, very nice to have (many schools even require having them now, and CS professors sometimes assume their students will have one) but isn't essential. PDAs aren't that great cause laptops are much more robust and powerful, and you're carrying around a bookbag usually anyway, so it's not necessary to have something fit in your pocket. I could see maybe owning a PDA strictly for scheduling, but thats about it.
Oh, and a cell phone. Every college student needs a cell phone, and you'll be left out if you do't get one.
I am ashamed that the student's pussed out and settled just for indexing. For the sharing they themselves were doing, yes, but for the indexing, no.
Film is almost always at 24 frames per second. TV/video is at 30 frames per second. Low-end cameras do not allow one to change the framerate, and I'm not even sure if any middle-end would allow that. Nevertheless, if that is what people want, within 6 months, there will be plenty of consumer-level cameras on the market that will have this feature.
Yes, but the military keeping journalism on their terms is not a positive thing. It makes the public blind to what really goes on in the war. It is propaganda by proxy, and keeping a people ignorant is never a justifiable means of retaining control.
Substitute for Harry Potter: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Catcher In The Rye, Brave New World, or The Lord Of The Rings. All beloved books that have been censored at times. The story repeats itself because people continue to hold to belief systems that demand blind, ignorant devotion. Faith is fine, devotion is fine. But not blindly. Not without thought.
I hope you're being sarcastic. Embedded journalism is designed specifically to limit what journalists can see and record to happy, ra-ra images like guns blazing in front of American flags. Embedded journalism is a means of direct control over what journalists see. Journalists aren't where the bombs drop, they aren't in the combat situations, they are only way back in the rear of the war where the big guns fire away at faceless targets. How anyone can feel like this is a good and open practice is beyond me.
You mean the apparent 243769 current owners? Or perhaps he's sleeping with the penguins?
An open source security program would be exceptionally easy to bypass, I'd think, since you'd have direct access to any encryption mechanism used.
Knowing the algorithm doesn't really help with any decent encryption since you also have to know any number of other keys in order to deencrypt the data. Of course, if you're still using "A=26,B=25,C=24..." encryption, then you may be on to something, there.
Someone pirating a WINDOWS OS!?!?!?! But that's crazy.
Whether virtual threats constitute a real threat. Is it moral to threaten someone's persona online?
Search for ethics and MUDs, or MOO's.
Specifically, Julian Dibbell's A Rape In Cyberspace is a great topic.
OK, oops. I made a mistake. They haven't updated their Features page, so it still says only FAT re-partitioning is available.
Actually, the Mandrake website says the new version supports "Re-sizing of Windows FAT partitions" but that NTFS support is strictly read-only, which sucks. You got my hopes up there for a while.
Actually, Departments at my school, Vanderbilt University, are forced to pay in the THOUSANDS to show a movie to a classroom or provide to the class a chapter of a book. I'm not sure about the legality of taking clips, but I know we are currently paying to do so.
Actually, I wrote a paper on this very topic in the field of robotics last year. Basically, the evidence I found is that although science fiction occasionally inspires people to enter a certain field, it rarely influences actual design, at least directly through the designer. But, in so far as sci-fi influences public's expectations, which drive the market, it does have an effect on the macro-direction of research.
Yes, but can their mighty filters prevent me from searching for pr0n in l33tsp3@k?
So, Microsoft is freely letting China view the source code, but they fought and vehemently insisted that they could not let our own government view the source code? Yeah, seems like they're real interested in American security.
Or actually, that's "lets China see" source, not opens.
And not coincidental to their underclocking, the shortage of power also leads to lack of heat generation.
Silly metaphors and their subtle humor...