But... this guy is writing an article for BusinessWeek... isn't he supposed to know this stuff? He's not some random guy being interviewed on a sidewalk somewhere. The author just doesn't know his subject material, and doesn't seem to have researched very thoroughly.
Well you forget that the new Doctor was pretty bad ass and threw his orange at that button and killed the leader after he got back up again. "No second chances" he's that kind of Doctor. That was very intentional. In Star Trek they would probably keep giving second chances and third chances, etc, until the enemy finally meets its demise because of its own fault. Keep in mind though all the Star Trek I've seen is the movies, all of TNG, some of TOS, maybe 2 episodes of DS9 or Enterprise, and the first 2 seasons or so of Voyager. So maybe there are some episodes which do demonstrate that kind of intentional killing, but overall that's not the theme of Star Trek I think.
I do think that the 9th Doctor is probably the darkest one... for instance the way he was trying to zap the hell out of the Dalek in the museum and had to be pulled away... he was crazy with revenge and hate... (although he WAS unable to blow up all of the earth and the daleks in his last episode)...
I don't know... every Doctor is always so good, I can't wait to see what direction the role goes with Tennant.
I wonder if the partition tables may be incompatible... from what I understand, Windows uses the old MBR - and OS X with EFI uses the GUID Parition Table system.
I just finished watching all the Eccleston Doctor Who episodes and the first Tennant episode. I really like them. I think these new episodes are a lot more human-focused. They basically travel through time a lot, but not space. And there's a lot more human issues going on, like when Rose tries to stop her dad from dying, or all the issues her mom and Mickey have with her being away for an entire year. It's definitely not bland story writing, like Star Trek. And Eccleston as the Doctor can be pretty harsh when it comes to things (Daleks in particular), very not diplomatic at all, which is interesting to see. Compare Doctor Who to the "always do the right thing" story lines of Star Trek.
Plus Tennant looks like he will be an awesome Doctor in his own right. I can't wait for more.
I honestly don't think a merger would have worked before with Apple's previous CEOs who basically sucked pretty bad. Apple would have just stopped being "Apple."
Maybe now with Steve Jobs and a healthy Apple brand it could work and Apple could use some of Sun's technology and strengths for something interesting. But not prior to Steve Jobs joining, he steered the company back to good health.
I also think an Apple transition to x86 wouldn't have worked before Jobs for similar reasons. Under previous management at Apple, I can imagine Apple transitioning to x86, and then asking itself why they bother making a different operating system for their hardware, and abandoning MacOS entirely. The previous Apple CEOs were really dragging Apple down and almost killed it.
I second that... I have a PowerBook and its soft aluminum casing is really bad at bending. I've dropped the PowerBook twice in its lifetime, and the connecter and the metal around the plug got badly bent. I had to take a screwdriver to try and bend the hole back into shape (the aluminum was covering the power connector) and now it looks pretty bad in that corner. I also had to take pliers and try and bend the plug back into shape. Now the plug works but the lights dont always show the right colors for charging and charged... and I have to twist the plug around to get it to connect right.
The only other problem I've had with the PowerBook is the hinge on the display. It's at a 90 degree angle and I think it puts a lot of strain right there when I open and close it. Now sometimes the display gets a little garbled up if I bump the display, but it fixes itself right away. I'm just worried it will get worse.
And yet if it had not said anything about Intelligent Design, however unrelated, it would not have gotten any coverage and no one would have read about bees flying.
I think any research I ever do the rest of my life is going to need a mention or two about how it disproves Intelligent Design... that should assure that it receives a much larger audience.
"1UP: What stood out about the casting of Kristanna Loken? In the latest issue of FHM (an American men's magazine), she's quoted on the cover as saying "I love being naked." C'mon, tell us, that must be it.
UB: yes. and she is in the movie naked"
"1UP: It's understandable Meatloaf had fun working with the prostitutes during filming, but how did you even come up with the idea of casting Meatloaf? How did you track him down?
"Griffin and Kensington (among others) sell FM transmitters for the iPod. Just tune your radio to the proper frequency and out comes your music collection."
Those FM broadcasters usually sound pretty bad. I have a standard Sony CD deck in my car, and on the back it has an "AUX" input for a CD changer I guess. I bought one of those cables that has RCA plugs on one end and a mini-headphone jack on the other from Radio Shack. So now I have a cable that just kind of comes out of my glove box which is plugged into the back side of my Sony CD deck. I get perfect sound from my iPod while in the car.
I wonder why more car stereo manufacturers don't put auxiliary inputs on the front of the deck, that'd be convenient.
I've got a 486 laptop with 8MB RAM that runs Windows95 very decently (including Firefox)... you just need to make sure you're installing the first version of Windows95, and not OSR2 or any of the service packs.
It's funny because just today I was installing software on my mom's PC. This is what I loaded:
TextPad WinAmp 2.95 from oldversion.com Acrobat Reader OpenOffice.org Audacity (+ LAME encoder) Ad-Aware Gmail Notifier Google Toolbar for IE Mozilla SeaMonkey beta (I still like the suite better than Firefox) Java 1.5 Developer Kit Google Earth Trillian WinRAR The GIMP iTunes + Quicktime AVG Antivirus MS Word Viewer, Excel Viewer, PPT Viewer
If you do find a good AGP card, and decide to keep your current MB, RAM, and CPU for a little while longer... then your new AGP graphics card will only be good until you get rid of your current equipment, because your next MB will likely have PCI-express.
Might as well stick with what you have now for as long as you can... and then upgrade your MB, CPU, RAM, and graphics card all at the same time when you can afford it. Then at least your new graphics card could theoretically last you through a few motherboard upgrades.
I think it's a really nice looking page and it's comfortable to read. I had to go check out the page to see if it was really as bad as you say... I can't figure out how it took you forever to find the link to the next page, it's not like it's hidden in a mess of text and images. It's exactly where I would expect it to be and exactly in the first place I looked. I wish more sited were designed this way. What's distracting is messy graphics and columns of ads on either side of the text... like Tomshardware.
Slashdot Mirror
lol, I'll pass on that, thanks...
get them to spend money? Gmail is free.
Unless you mean it's to give insecure, but ultimately empty and shallow advertisers a smug feeling of superiority. But I don't think that's the case.
When has country ever been cool?
Hanging with a different crowd, I guess....
...but this time they really, super mean it!
But... this guy is writing an article for BusinessWeek... isn't he supposed to know this stuff? He's not some random guy being interviewed on a sidewalk somewhere. The author just doesn't know his subject material, and doesn't seem to have researched very thoroughly.
Well you forget that the new Doctor was pretty bad ass and threw his orange at that button and killed the leader after he got back up again. "No second chances" he's that kind of Doctor. That was very intentional. In Star Trek they would probably keep giving second chances and third chances, etc, until the enemy finally meets its demise because of its own fault. Keep in mind though all the Star Trek I've seen is the movies, all of TNG, some of TOS, maybe 2 episodes of DS9 or Enterprise, and the first 2 seasons or so of Voyager. So maybe there are some episodes which do demonstrate that kind of intentional killing, but overall that's not the theme of Star Trek I think.
I do think that the 9th Doctor is probably the darkest one... for instance the way he was trying to zap the hell out of the Dalek in the museum and had to be pulled away... he was crazy with revenge and hate... (although he WAS unable to blow up all of the earth and the daleks in his last episode)...
I don't know... every Doctor is always so good, I can't wait to see what direction the role goes with Tennant.
I wonder if the partition tables may be incompatible... from what I understand, Windows uses the old MBR - and OS X with EFI uses the GUID Parition Table system.
That article and all its comments deserve a place in the hall of fame. Wow, that's a fun read.
I just finished watching all the Eccleston Doctor Who episodes and the first Tennant episode. I really like them. I think these new episodes are a lot more human-focused. They basically travel through time a lot, but not space. And there's a lot more human issues going on, like when Rose tries to stop her dad from dying, or all the issues her mom and Mickey have with her being away for an entire year. It's definitely not bland story writing, like Star Trek. And Eccleston as the Doctor can be pretty harsh when it comes to things (Daleks in particular), very not diplomatic at all, which is interesting to see. Compare Doctor Who to the "always do the right thing" story lines of Star Trek.
Plus Tennant looks like he will be an awesome Doctor in his own right. I can't wait for more.
No...
If the merger happened back then? It would be called... Sun
If the merger happened now? Apple.
I honestly don't think a merger would have worked before with Apple's previous CEOs who basically sucked pretty bad. Apple would have just stopped being "Apple."
Maybe now with Steve Jobs and a healthy Apple brand it could work and Apple could use some of Sun's technology and strengths for something interesting. But not prior to Steve Jobs joining, he steered the company back to good health.
I also think an Apple transition to x86 wouldn't have worked before Jobs for similar reasons. Under previous management at Apple, I can imagine Apple transitioning to x86, and then asking itself why they bother making a different operating system for their hardware, and abandoning MacOS entirely. The previous Apple CEOs were really dragging Apple down and almost killed it.
Then again, without sunlight the apple (nor the apple tree) could have grown at all.
If you remove all magnets from the vicinity of your hard drive platter, I think you'll find your hard drive doesn't work too well.
I second that... I have a PowerBook and its soft aluminum casing is really bad at bending. I've dropped the PowerBook twice in its lifetime, and the connecter and the metal around the plug got badly bent. I had to take a screwdriver to try and bend the hole back into shape (the aluminum was covering the power connector) and now it looks pretty bad in that corner. I also had to take pliers and try and bend the plug back into shape. Now the plug works but the lights dont always show the right colors for charging and charged... and I have to twist the plug around to get it to connect right.
The only other problem I've had with the PowerBook is the hinge on the display. It's at a 90 degree angle and I think it puts a lot of strain right there when I open and close it. Now sometimes the display gets a little garbled up if I bump the display, but it fixes itself right away. I'm just worried it will get worse.
And yet if it had not said anything about Intelligent Design, however unrelated, it would not have gotten any coverage and no one would have read about bees flying.
I think any research I ever do the rest of my life is going to need a mention or two about how it disproves Intelligent Design... that should assure that it receives a much larger audience.
But seriously...
Yes, THAT is how to cast a film!
#5: Listen to your mp3 collection in the car
"Griffin and Kensington (among others) sell FM transmitters for the iPod. Just tune your radio to the proper frequency and out comes your music collection."
Those FM broadcasters usually sound pretty bad. I have a standard Sony CD deck in my car, and on the back it has an "AUX" input for a CD changer I guess. I bought one of those cables that has RCA plugs on one end and a mini-headphone jack on the other from Radio Shack. So now I have a cable that just kind of comes out of my glove box which is plugged into the back side of my Sony CD deck. I get perfect sound from my iPod while in the car.
I wonder why more car stereo manufacturers don't put auxiliary inputs on the front of the deck, that'd be convenient.
I've got a 486 laptop with 8MB RAM that runs Windows95 very decently (including Firefox)... you just need to make sure you're installing the first version of Windows95, and not OSR2 or any of the service packs.
It's funny because just today I was installing software on my mom's PC. This is what I loaded:
TextPad
WinAmp 2.95 from oldversion.com
Acrobat Reader
OpenOffice.org
Audacity (+ LAME encoder)
Ad-Aware
Gmail Notifier
Google Toolbar for IE
Mozilla SeaMonkey beta (I still like the suite better than Firefox)
Java 1.5 Developer Kit
Google Earth
Trillian
WinRAR
The GIMP
iTunes + Quicktime
AVG Antivirus
MS Word Viewer, Excel Viewer, PPT Viewer
Not sure what else might be good...
If you do find a good AGP card, and decide to keep your current MB, RAM, and CPU for a little while longer... then your new AGP graphics card will only be good until you get rid of your current equipment, because your next MB will likely have PCI-express.
Might as well stick with what you have now for as long as you can... and then upgrade your MB, CPU, RAM, and graphics card all at the same time when you can afford it. Then at least your new graphics card could theoretically last you through a few motherboard upgrades.
what a boring story
I think it's a really nice looking page and it's comfortable to read. I had to go check out the page to see if it was really as bad as you say... I can't figure out how it took you forever to find the link to the next page, it's not like it's hidden in a mess of text and images. It's exactly where I would expect it to be and exactly in the first place I looked. I wish more sited were designed this way. What's distracting is messy graphics and columns of ads on either side of the text... like Tomshardware.
Because it's not good to stay indoors all day? And it's sometimes fun to go out and browse through a store physically.
My only reason for shopping online is the fact that a lot of stuff I can *NOT* find at local stores... like a lot of music or DVDs I like.
You feel very strongly about this, don't you?
I bought a Delldow the other day... it even vibrates.