A projector capable of 30.000 to 1 contrast ratio, 1080p and 2500x2000 pc resolution, simply cannot be beat by any of the other formats.
What's the maintenance cost on that projector? As I recall, projectors tend to eat 1-2 $250 bulbs per year. Unless I had a really big budget, I would stick with the bigass CRT/rear-projector. Once I can dedicate a room as a theater, then I'll get a projector.
Now, someone commented that CRT's are dead. Not if you have a budget, they're not! I've owned an HD set for over three years now, and it only ran me $700. It is a CRT. It has a beautiful picture.
I have a rear projection HDTV set from 2001 - it cost $1500 and does 1080i. It's bright (almost too bright), the color and picture are excellent, and it weighs about half of what the equivalent CRT would weigh. The only drawback is the software - make sore that, when you buy your set, it has an easy way to switch inputs.
4. "A few months later, a Pearl Harbor scale event occurs" An event that, of course, we now know had been planned and organized during the reign of the *previous* administration.
Guess what? Clinton's parting memo to GW specifically mentioned Al Queda as a major threat and the CIA had repeatedly warned him of the risk of terrorists using hijacked planes as guided bombs. Fact is, GW ignored all this. He then invaded Iraq and everything that is daddy's book predicted as fallout from that came to pass.
5. In fact, the official U.S. policy of regime change in Iraq was put forth by that previous administration, in 1998.
I don't recall Clinton ever proposing that we invade Iraq (why?). I do recall that Newt and his pals screamed bloody murder when Clinton lobbed a few cruise missiles at binLaden.
We had free free sodas as well. There were even free tampons in the ladies bathroom.
I remember the free sodas. Hell, I still have the 15 lbs I got from them. Thankfully, there's a gym down the street where I can work on getting rid of the weight, but it, alas, is not free. I've also cut back my soda intake, so it's no longer really a perk.
management and investors look at the $500,000 a month you spend on your cafeteria, so its either axe that benefit or lay some people off. Either way, now as an employee I feel ripped off that I can no longer get free lunch. So morale and productivity plummet to rediculously low levels.
Well duh - you just chopped out a major benefit. At $500k/mo if you are serving 2500 employees, then that works out to $200/head. How much are they making? If it's anywhere near $100k (Sill Vally and all), then that's chickenshit compared their salaries and the cost of increased turnover that losing it will cost.
Free cafeterias may look like a waste of time, but it's worth it if you get top talent with it.
Maybe it is just my experience, but I have found the problems are more likely associated with the sign-in process. I've only tried this once but it DID happen: Girlfriend couldn't sign into MSN from her place on cable internet. I COULD sign into MSN at my place (ADSL which surprisingly works faster than her cable most of the time). Though it might be a problem with the cable ISP, so tried to sign in under HER account at MY place. It did NOT work using HER account on either machine from two different ISPs, BUT...MY sign-in worked form BOTH places.
Sounds like MS partitions its users, and one of the servers was down at the time.
But as I said originally, it's "a performance gap (real or perceived, it matters not in the marketplace)."
I really would prefer that Mac not fall to the whole flash over substance sort of thing that seems to pervade the intel side of things. 2.5G dual processor computers are much better than RDRAM or marketing-driven 3.8G P4s any day of the week.
Even disregarding that, the sad fact is that PCs far outnumber Macs in the world, and their transition to PCI-E is well underway. Once that's done, graphics card makers like ATI or nVidia will be even more reluctant to sink money into Mac graphics card development.[...] neither of those are good signs for a machine that is meant to "likely last 5+ years" as you said. A machine that is meant to last a long time needs to be designed with an eye toward future expandability, not just current needs.
I am confident that it will be at least a year or three before AGP8x starts to show its age - aren't the current games using about 10% of the available bandwidth? With the current large graphics card memories, I expect that the bulk of the bandwidth is consumed by render data, and not texture data. As for your worries over obsolesence, keep in mind that there are a raft of computers out there that still use AGP4x - they aren't going away anytime soon.
What would entice one of those owners to buy a new G5? Perhaps moving to PCI-Express graphics. Perhaps moving to DDR2 RAM
PCI-E isn't really necessary - you'd be hard-pressed to fully use the available bandwidth on graphics cards - AGP 8x is damn fast. As for memory, the G5 can fully saturate both CPUs - what more do you want? Seriously, what would you add to make the G5 more enticing? it's arguably faster than any dell available, and will likely last 5+ years, so what's missing?
Even though it is usually a pleasure to see Cleese, even he can't breath life into this clinker. The only positive thing I can say is that it had nice production values. I want my seven minutes back.
I dunno, it was a nice way to pass time while WoW finished patching.
They can't take away the license to the code, but the GPL, etc doesn't give you a trademark license, so you are now infringing unless you rename everything in your product from Linux to something else.
I would dispute that - the product you're distributing is in fact Linux. therefore, calling it Linux is not going to dilute anybody's trademark. It'd be different if you made another unix clone and called that Linux.
And I have heard of a linux company telling people they can't use their trademark recently.
I would imagine that this claim centered around that company's trademark and not the Linux name.
Next time some mother sobs to the press about how she didn't know Grand Theft Auto was about stealing cars and wasn't for little kids, everyone can slap her and point to this software that would have done the job for idiots like her.
Why can't we slap her now? Any idiot that reads the game box can figure this stuff out.
I'm intrigued by your unsupported assertion that GMOs carry 'genetic baggage' that puts them at a disadvantage to wild type crops. It's a lovely theory, but I'm not sure how you can assert it holds true for ALL GMO phenotypes.
The general argument is that GM crops contain genes that serve our needs, but don't really help the plant survive longer, or consume a disproportionate amount of energy. This puts it at a disadvantage, so over time, these genes will disappear.
That "insult" of a salary you refer to is still more than people in other countries are making doing similar work.
Yeah right. Adjust for the bigmac index and tell me that Sanjay is being paid less than me to code in Bangalore. That said, outsourcing a project to India is iffy at best and, if it succeeds, has the side effect of training our future competitors.
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A projector capable of 30.000 to 1 contrast ratio, 1080p and 2500x2000 pc resolution, simply cannot be beat by any of the other formats.
What's the maintenance cost on that projector? As I recall, projectors tend to eat 1-2 $250 bulbs per year. Unless I had a really big budget, I would stick with the bigass CRT/rear-projector. Once I can dedicate a room as a theater, then I'll get a projector.
Now, someone commented that CRT's are dead. Not if you have a budget, they're not! I've owned an HD set for over three years now, and it only ran me $700. It is a CRT. It has a beautiful picture.
I have a rear projection HDTV set from 2001 - it cost $1500 and does 1080i. It's bright (almost too bright), the color and picture are excellent, and it weighs about half of what the equivalent CRT would weigh. The only drawback is the software - make sore that, when you buy your set, it has an easy way to switch inputs.
Or research minor cellular telephone concepts like how AT&T and Verizon signal quality has no (positive) effect on Sprint signal quality.
Why is that? If ATT has good coverage in an area, why wouldn't sprint just sign a cross-use agreement?
4. "A few months later, a Pearl Harbor scale event occurs" An event that, of course, we now know had been planned and organized during the reign of the *previous* administration.
Guess what? Clinton's parting memo to GW specifically mentioned Al Queda as a major threat and the CIA had repeatedly warned him of the risk of terrorists using hijacked planes as guided bombs. Fact is, GW ignored all this. He then invaded Iraq and everything that is daddy's book predicted as fallout from that came to pass.
5. In fact, the official U.S. policy of regime change in Iraq was put forth by that previous administration, in 1998.
I don't recall Clinton ever proposing that we invade Iraq (why?). I do recall that Newt and his pals screamed bloody murder when Clinton lobbed a few cruise missiles at binLaden.
We had free free sodas as well. There were even free tampons in the ladies bathroom.
I remember the free sodas. Hell, I still have the 15 lbs I got from them. Thankfully, there's a gym down the street where I can work on getting rid of the weight, but it, alas, is not free. I've also cut back my soda intake, so it's no longer really a perk.
management and investors look at the $500,000 a month you spend on your cafeteria, so its either axe that benefit or lay some people off. Either way, now as an employee I feel ripped off that I can no longer get free lunch. So morale and productivity plummet to rediculously low levels.
Well duh - you just chopped out a major benefit. At $500k/mo if you are serving 2500 employees, then that works out to $200/head. How much are they making? If it's anywhere near $100k (Sill Vally and all), then that's chickenshit compared their salaries and the cost of increased turnover that losing it will cost.
Free cafeterias may look like a waste of time, but it's worth it if you get top talent with it.
We did not see the code, it was not ours to to start with, and it was allowed any way?
Try this: We did not see the [SysV] code, it was not ours to to start with, and [the BSD code] was allowed.
Now, how is this at all fallacious?
Maybe it is just my experience, but I have found the problems are more likely associated with the sign-in process. I've only tried this once but it DID happen: Girlfriend couldn't sign into MSN from her place on cable internet. I COULD sign into MSN at my place (ADSL which surprisingly works faster than her cable most of the time). Though it might be a problem with the cable ISP, so tried to sign in under HER account at MY place. It did NOT work using HER account on either machine from two different ISPs, BUT...MY sign-in worked form BOTH places.
Sounds like MS partitions its users, and one of the servers was down at the time.
Where were you when the rest of the world was asking you for help?
In Africa, curing Malaria.
Is it a nation of warrior women or is it the biggest store on earth ;)
Nah, it's a bullseye. And stop pirating my referral bonuses ;)
we are located in Seattle (not about to change) and we are 100% willing to relocate new hires.
Amazon?
But I'm pretty sure I would have a hard time in Redmond, considering I am a PHP geek.
So go to eattle and work for amazon - they like php geeks.
Gimme you IP adress!!! I'm gonna hock your monitor and make it brake.
Yeah, my monitor's got air brakes. You got a problem with dat?
But as I said originally, it's "a performance gap (real or perceived, it matters not in the marketplace)."
I really would prefer that Mac not fall to the whole flash over substance sort of thing that seems to pervade the intel side of things. 2.5G dual processor computers are much better than RDRAM or marketing-driven 3.8G P4s any day of the week.
Even disregarding that, the sad fact is that PCs far outnumber Macs in the world, and their transition to PCI-E is well underway. Once that's done, graphics card makers like ATI or nVidia will be even more reluctant to sink money into Mac graphics card development .[...] neither of those are good signs for a machine that is meant to "likely last 5+ years" as you said. A machine that is meant to last a long time needs to be designed with an eye toward future expandability, not just current needs.
I am confident that it will be at least a year or three before AGP8x starts to show its age - aren't the current games using about 10% of the available bandwidth? With the current large graphics card memories, I expect that the bulk of the bandwidth is consumed by render data, and not texture data. As for your worries over obsolesence, keep in mind that there are a raft of computers out there that still use AGP4x - they aren't going away anytime soon.
They didn't raise the price to accommodate that $120 worth of hardware. Thank you Jesus! Ooh!
Well, the price of the 2Ghz version that I was looking at dropped $500. That's pretty cool.
What would entice one of those owners to buy a new G5? Perhaps moving to PCI-Express graphics. Perhaps moving to DDR2 RAM
PCI-E isn't really necessary - you'd be hard-pressed to fully use the available bandwidth on graphics cards - AGP 8x is damn fast. As for memory, the G5 can fully saturate both CPUs - what more do you want? Seriously, what would you add to make the G5 more enticing? it's arguably faster than any dell available, and will likely last 5+ years, so what's missing?
Even though it is usually a pleasure to see Cleese, even he can't breath life into this clinker. The only positive thing I can say is that it had nice production values. I want my seven minutes back.
I dunno, it was a nice way to pass time while WoW finished patching.
Oh, and turn off logging, since your server logs will be filled up with IIS vulnurability attacks within minutes.
What makes you think script kiddies distinguish between IIS and Apache?
They can't take away the license to the code, but the GPL, etc doesn't give you a trademark license, so you are now infringing unless you rename everything in your product from Linux to something else.
I would dispute that - the product you're distributing is in fact Linux. therefore, calling it Linux is not going to dilute anybody's trademark. It'd be different if you made another unix clone and called that Linux.
And I have heard of a linux company telling people they can't use their trademark recently.
I would imagine that this claim centered around that company's trademark and not the Linux name.
Next time some mother sobs to the press about how she didn't know Grand Theft Auto was about stealing cars and wasn't for little kids, everyone can slap her and point to this software that would have done the job for idiots like her.
Why can't we slap her now? Any idiot that reads the game box can figure this stuff out.
I'm intrigued by your unsupported assertion that GMOs carry 'genetic baggage' that puts them at a disadvantage to wild type crops. It's a lovely theory, but I'm not sure how you can assert it holds true for ALL GMO phenotypes.
The general argument is that GM crops contain genes that serve our needs, but don't really help the plant survive longer, or consume a disproportionate amount of energy. This puts it at a disadvantage, so over time, these genes will disappear.
Substitute a 50-mile, 50-90 minute commute with a 3 mile, 15 minute walk or ride to work.
Carl Lewis, is that you?
Ohh but if they sell in bulk they reduce profits because people shop less and are locked in.
Knowing them, they'd charge more per unit and count on the customer not to check, Sad thing is, they'd mostly get away with it.
Of course, if all the nerds leave, America will rapidly become irrelevant :)
We're headed that way anyways - may as well get out while our money's worth something.
That "insult" of a salary you refer to is still more than people in other countries are making doing similar work.
Yeah right. Adjust for the bigmac index and tell me that Sanjay is being paid less than me to code in Bangalore. That said, outsourcing a project to India is iffy at best and, if it succeeds, has the side effect of training our future competitors.