I was disappointed in the integrated graphics at first, but I'm impressed by the benchmarks. I've been happy playing WoW on my Powerbook G4 1.0GHz, which should compare almost identically to the iBook G4 1.0GHz... and the MacBook's graphics performance blew that out of the water.
Umm, no. Local phone service from Verizon is sold as a package-- you pay $x for local phone service. There are no per-minute charges.
If Verizon wants to charge by the minute, they should have to do it for ALL local calls. Billing local calls differently (some by the minute, some unlimited) based on what is on the other end (a computer v. a person) is BS.
Look around-- do those laws do any good? Health inspectors have to check restaurants out all the time, and guess what? They all have violations. The law doesn't keep it from happening.
If someone's going to sell you a glass of arsenic, is the law really going to stop them? There's a law about murder, so you don't need a law to cover something that is, in effect, murder.
The free market can handle all those things. Don't believe me? Let's look at something we all use every day, household electricial devices. Take a look at your cell phone charger. See that little "UL" logo? That is a non-government product certification organization. They've been around for more than 100 years. Does the government regulate the quality of these things? No, because private industry does it for them.
The law has no place regulating the temperature of beverages sold by businesses. The biggest problem with this country is the attitude that we need the government to save us from ourselves.
The existence of a law does not make the law correct.
She spilled it and burned her cookie through no fault of her own.
You just said it. She spilled it. If I boil water in a teapot and then spill it on myself, causing burns, should I be able to sue the manufacturer of the teapot? How about the stove?
Of course not. She ordered a product that is known to be served HOT, and she spilled it on herself. Awarding her money was irresponsible.
The point is, if you don't trust your employees with cash, you won't have them working the cash register.
Along the same lines, if you don't trust an employee having access to certain data, that employee should never have read access to that data. If you can't read it, you can't copy it to an iPod. If you can read it, you can steal it... via iPod, floppy disk, e-mail, or even by printing it. This software is just a tool, and the biggest lesson here is that corporate networks are often not secured properly.
Well, outside the discussion about whether or not they should be doing the edits, there is the fact that we are paying their salaries for them to go to Washington and do a job for us (which they rarely do anyhow), not to sit in their offices and edit Wikipedia articles.
When will companies learn that suing into oblivion things that increase interest in the company is a bad idea?
Fantasy baseball increases fan interest. Many of us play in free leagues because it's fun and it makes watching the games more interesting. In their quest to make a buck, MLB would lose fans-- many of us, myself included, have no interest in paying for fantasy baseball and would watch much less baseball if the fantasy league didn't exist.
Yeah, that's what I get for using slashdot's wonderful URL tag instead of doing it myself. And am I supposed to be insulted by your message when the only words you got right were "link" and "or"?
ahref=http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalo grel=url2html-11000http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Appl icationCatalog> catalogs applications that are "installer ready," meaning that.deb files suitable for the 770's application installer exist. There are other pages in the Wiki listing projects that aren't ready yet, but are working (in other words, they might require compilation or manual installation).
They won't put a SIM card slot in it because the second you make it a mobile phone you open it up to all the requirements and regulations that go along with being a mobile phone.
2.4GHz cordless phones have been around for a long time now (non-2.4GHz even longer). Do we need regulation to ensure that your neighbors can't tap into your phone line? No, the cordless phone manufacturers have dealt with it. The wireless manufacturers will do the same. It's still new technology and it'll take time, but it'll be dealt with.
I've been running Linux as a desktop OS on a Pentium 200MHz for about 5 years now, and it works beautifully. I run KDE 1.x (old, I know), because newer releases do make it sluggish. But performance in Linux is all about choosing the components that work with your configuration-- obviously, a heavy GUI designed for today's processors is going to be slow, but there are plenty of options out there.
First off, it's not a "next generation" title. That will be the XBox 360 and PS3 versions, probably not until next year (although we may see 2006 for 360 this winter).
Second, the graphics are significantly better than 2005. There are a ton of new animations and things look much more smooth and realistic.
Third, the QB vision is complicated, but it makes the game more realistic. It was too easy to make circus passes for big gains, and the new system makes it much more real. Yes, it can increase sacks, but that's the way the real game works.
I think you hit the nail on the head. The deer population in this country is the highest it's been in at least 40 years, probably much longer. Deer are venturing into neighborhoods because there's nowhere else for them to go, and it's not because we're crowding them, it's because they're crowding themselves.
Exactly! Saying it's an evolution in IE design would be true, saying it's an evolution in user-centric design as a whole is blatantly false.
"evolution of user-centric design"?
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Oh come on. There was not a single revolutionary thing in that entire review. Safari shares its stop and refresh buttons, a feature which is extremely annoying. Half the time you want stop you end up hitting it right when it changes to refresh and now you're reloading the page you were trying to stop.
The only thing that could be called truly new is the combined dropdown box for Back and Forward. Interesting idea, but it's certainly not "a clear step in the evolution of user-centric design."
They don't unilaterally decide a damn thing. They tell me an update is available. Updates do not necessarily have the same functionlity as the existing software. If I don't choose to look at the changelog for the updates I install, it's my own fault.
This is a security update. In order to provide it, some functionality had to be temporarily removed. If the system automatically installed the update, you'd have a valid argument.
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The 12" Powerbook has nVidia, not Radeon. I believe the 12" 1GHz iBook had a Radeon.
I was disappointed in the integrated graphics at first, but I'm impressed by the benchmarks. I've been happy playing WoW on my Powerbook G4 1.0GHz, which should compare almost identically to the iBook G4 1.0GHz... and the MacBook's graphics performance blew that out of the water.
If Verizon wants to charge by the minute, they should have to do it for ALL local calls. Billing local calls differently (some by the minute, some unlimited) based on what is on the other end (a computer v. a person) is BS.
Look around-- do those laws do any good? Health inspectors have to check restaurants out all the time, and guess what? They all have violations. The law doesn't keep it from happening.
If someone's going to sell you a glass of arsenic, is the law really going to stop them? There's a law about murder, so you don't need a law to cover something that is, in effect, murder.
The free market can handle all those things. Don't believe me? Let's look at something we all use every day, household electricial devices. Take a look at your cell phone charger. See that little "UL" logo? That is a non-government product certification organization. They've been around for more than 100 years. Does the government regulate the quality of these things? No, because private industry does it for them.
The existence of a law does not make the law correct.
You just said it. She spilled it. If I boil water in a teapot and then spill it on myself, causing burns, should I be able to sue the manufacturer of the teapot? How about the stove?
Of course not. She ordered a product that is known to be served HOT, and she spilled it on herself. Awarding her money was irresponsible.
The foundation of the Internet is user-generated content. MySpace now is what Geocities was 10 years ago, only with aggregation.
Contact your Reps and tell them to kill this crap.
Along the same lines, if you don't trust an employee having access to certain data, that employee should never have read access to that data. If you can't read it, you can't copy it to an iPod. If you can read it, you can steal it... via iPod, floppy disk, e-mail, or even by printing it. This software is just a tool, and the biggest lesson here is that corporate networks are often not secured properly.
Well, outside the discussion about whether or not they should be doing the edits, there is the fact that we are paying their salaries for them to go to Washington and do a job for us (which they rarely do anyhow), not to sit in their offices and edit Wikipedia articles.
Fantasy baseball increases fan interest. Many of us play in free leagues because it's fun and it makes watching the games more interesting. In their quest to make a buck, MLB would lose fans-- many of us, myself included, have no interest in paying for fantasy baseball and would watch much less baseball if the fantasy league didn't exist.
Yeah, that's what I get for using slashdot's wonderful URL tag instead of doing it myself. And am I supposed to be insulted by your message when the only words you got right were "link" and "or"?
But there is plenty of software support.
They won't put a SIM card slot in it because the second you make it a mobile phone you open it up to all the requirements and regulations that go along with being a mobile phone.
Nope, if you buy from BN.com you pay sales tax if B&N has a presence in your state.
2.4GHz cordless phones have been around for a long time now (non-2.4GHz even longer). Do we need regulation to ensure that your neighbors can't tap into your phone line? No, the cordless phone manufacturers have dealt with it. The wireless manufacturers will do the same. It's still new technology and it'll take time, but it'll be dealt with.
In addition to the standalone RadRails, there are plugins for Eclipse to provide the functionality to a standard Eclipse installation.
I've been running Linux as a desktop OS on a Pentium 200MHz for about 5 years now, and it works beautifully. I run KDE 1.x (old, I know), because newer releases do make it sluggish. But performance in Linux is all about choosing the components that work with your configuration-- obviously, a heavy GUI designed for today's processors is going to be slow, but there are plenty of options out there.
Second, the graphics are significantly better than 2005. There are a ton of new animations and things look much more smooth and realistic.
Third, the QB vision is complicated, but it makes the game more realistic. It was too easy to make circus passes for big gains, and the new system makes it much more real. Yes, it can increase sacks, but that's the way the real game works.
I think you hit the nail on the head. The deer population in this country is the highest it's been in at least 40 years, probably much longer. Deer are venturing into neighborhoods because there's nowhere else for them to go, and it's not because we're crowding them, it's because they're crowding themselves.
Eliminate anonymous editing and ban the user accounts of vandals. Wikipedia would be a much better place.
Exactly! Saying it's an evolution in IE design would be true, saying it's an evolution in user-centric design as a whole is blatantly false.
The only thing that could be called truly new is the combined dropdown box for Back and Forward. Interesting idea, but it's certainly not "a clear step in the evolution of user-centric design."
This is a security update. In order to provide it, some functionality had to be temporarily removed. If the system automatically installed the update, you'd have a valid argument.