How expensive are these video cables you made a point to mention twice? I have 2 DVI cables and a VGA cable or two in a box out in my shed. I don't even quite know where I got them from. Seems like a pretty thin argument to justify the purchase of an imac by the fact you don't need to buy a video cable. I think there's much more than the cost of a video cable in the typical premium for apple hardware...
Or would a mac require a special mac-only video cable? I recall years ago Macs had special video cables, is that still the case?
Regardless, I do like macs, and they are the "standard" for A/V or graphics work and hold their value for a reason!
Won't there eventually be a way to run VOIP on the iPhone, making it an ipod, wifi browser, PDA, and VOIP phone? Now that would be good, dontcha think?
10% cost per month and that buys you health care? So you pay your taxes and 10% of that goes towards the state health coverage?
And then, when you need something, you go and get it, and it is of no additional cost? You are in, get it done, and then leave, and that's it?
Ok, I would call that a winning scenario.
I saw moore's sicko movie a couple weeks ago. His true point of the movie, which he makes clear in the fist 5 minutes, is the problem for those who HAVE health insurance in the US. His movie is not about those who do NOT have health insurance.
The problem with health insurance in the US is THIS: You can be paying a lot of money each month for the privilege of having insurance, but if you are unfortunate enough to ever need to USE it, you find that with things called "copays" and "deductibles" and "minimum out-of-pocket" charges, you STILL HAVE TO PAY large percentages of the bills yourself.
A European guy and an American guy might both be paying $200 per month for health coverage. But if the European guy only ever has to pay that $200 and everything else is included, but the American guy has to pay that each month and then, say, 30% of a huge medical procedure when he gets injured or something, who wins? The European guy wins, in this example, hands down.
Like "Sorny" or "Panaphonic" or whatever they had in Simpson's land. Is it wrong if it's CALLED Sorny? Well, you wouldn't get very far. Could you start a software company and call it "micorsoft" or "microhard" or "softmicro"? What about sunglasses and call them "jokeleys"? A soda drink and call it "poopsi"?
Aha, that brings something interesting to mind. Pepsico has "mountain dew" but another soda entity (I think it's coke) created a yellowish-clear soda with citrus in it and called it Sierra Mist. That's pretty similar all the way around.... I'm sure the lawyers talked on that one. Could I create a clothing line and call it Timmy?
I've heard of the cops raiding flea markets to bust people selling counterfeit clothes (think fake Tommy Hilfiger stuff - non-Tommy stuff with the Tommy logo on it). In my book, selling knockoffs, bootlegs, etc, as the real thing is Piracy. Downloading an MP3? Not piracy. Piracy involves money. Copyright infringement can be piracy if you sell it.
Copyright infringement can also involve fair use, depending on who you ask, LOL.
rabid koala bear. lol. Made me laugh. all cute and fuzzy, then it jumps at you like a brain spider on half life. lol. still laughing. Anyway, continue on!
Very insightful, and correct. EQ's are really to compensate for room and/or equipment shortcomings. Not an artificial way to make the bass louder.
I'm not a professional sound engineer, but I've worked A/V next to one, and IIRC you gotta have "special" equipment to know which frequencies to cut or boost with the EQ. Frequency analyzers, white noise generators, etc.
Four years isn't enough time to go from wild fantasy sci-fi idea to feasible goal. Especially if you screw up the stock offering (I didn't RTFA) and lose funding.
x2 on the conduit. So if you're not sure on the fiber now, skip it. Fiber becomes a necessity later? Pull it. Technology XYZ becomes hot, not invented yet? Pull it.
At my last Silicon Valley layoff, the HR guy was part of the first wave. So he had to handle his own layoff. Over the beer that night he said that was pretty typical for his job "we're usually the first to go, when you want to cut costs." So your view of the heartless scheming HR uberdrone may say more about you than the work market.
Or, the companies where I've worked. I would imagine a silicon valley company would have different priorities than a somewhat stodgey midwest corporation. They probably would cut HR first.
You've got some great points, and your descriptions could also apply to the stereotypical employee of the BMV.
Regardless, I've had dealings with HR too and some of the most basic qualifications (aside from physical attributes and dress which you described) are that you must be a heartless, patronizing, bureaucratic brown-noser.
The typical HR drone is easily identified by the perpetual smug grin, because they KNOW they are the last ones to go.
Not so much of an exaggeration. You can get a simple pda for $90. (checked on newegg for the cheapest pda) It would have a GUI, you can get spreadsheet palm apps, you can write documents, so on. 200 mhz and 32 megs of ram (palm Z22) vs 8 mhz and 1 mb ram.
So, they just compared a dual core athlon to something less powerful than a PDA.
What happens if you compare a dual core athlon to a PDA? What happens if you compare a PDA to a mac plus?
I did a few of these tweaks described in a lifehack article, and it DID provide an improvement in page load speed. But, I also coupled that with an increase in the windows TCP maximum connections. Either way, it seems to have helped.
The article I found didn't really hype the changes as hacks, more just taking advantage of broadband connections - as firefox is (apparently) by default configured for dialup.
I always get extremely nervous when someone at places like that (bb, cc, even office despot) starts telling me these amazing and wondrous new facts about electronics or other hardware that I've never even heard about before. Sure, I'm not an Electrical Engineer, but I'm at least VAGUELY familiar with stuff when I'm all "researched up" and out to buy it.
Routers are faster than switches? Windows is faster on intel? I need rechargeable batteries because THAT digital camera only takes 8 shots on NORMAL AA batteries and then they're dead? You can't hook a dvd player up to a TV more than 3 years old? This DVD player REQUIRES a "DVD" head cleaner, you know, because they COME FROM THE FACTORY with really dirty heads on them, and they can RUIN the disk immediately when you put it in there? No, a CD head cleaner won't do? I need to buy the warranty because these things just break all the time?
Run! Run quickly! The idiots are loose!
If they BREAK ALL THE TIME, maybe I just shouldn't buy it. From there. I put more stock in the reviews on newegg.com than a guy at best buy.
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There's movies out in Blu-Ray? First there'd have to be something worth pirating. The "other format" is already cracked, who cares?
Well, except for the implied challenge, that is.
When I was going to college, many of the CS guys would take like 2 extra math classes and get a "free" minor in mathematics.
How expensive are these video cables you made a point to mention twice? I have 2 DVI cables and a VGA cable or two in a box out in my shed. I don't even quite know where I got them from. Seems like a pretty thin argument to justify the purchase of an imac by the fact you don't need to buy a video cable. I think there's much more than the cost of a video cable in the typical premium for apple hardware...
Or would a mac require a special mac-only video cable? I recall years ago Macs had special video cables, is that still the case?
Regardless, I do like macs, and they are the "standard" for A/V or graphics work and hold their value for a reason!
Won't there eventually be a way to run VOIP on the iPhone, making it an ipod, wifi browser, PDA, and VOIP phone? Now that would be good, dontcha think?
10% cost per month and that buys you health care? So you pay your taxes and 10% of that goes towards the state health coverage?
And then, when you need something, you go and get it, and it is of no additional cost? You are in, get it done, and then leave, and that's it?
Ok, I would call that a winning scenario.
I saw moore's sicko movie a couple weeks ago. His true point of the movie, which he makes clear in the fist 5 minutes, is the problem for those who HAVE health insurance in the US. His movie is not about those who do NOT have health insurance.
The problem with health insurance in the US is THIS: You can be paying a lot of money each month for the privilege of having insurance, but if you are unfortunate enough to ever need to USE it, you find that with things called "copays" and "deductibles" and "minimum out-of-pocket" charges, you STILL HAVE TO PAY large percentages of the bills yourself.
A European guy and an American guy might both be paying $200 per month for health coverage. But if the European guy only ever has to pay that $200 and everything else is included, but the American guy has to pay that each month and then, say, 30% of a huge medical procedure when he gets injured or something, who wins? The European guy wins, in this example, hands down.
Hey, look, I think this guy is an answer person! hold on!
(making a note of it.... Diagramming...)
Ok, carry on!
Hey, on your list I've heard of Sigur Ros before. IIRC they are Icelandic? Very interesting sound!
yeah, but the only REAL problem with XP is the security issue, which I don't know that I'm convinced Vista can solve in a non-annoying way.
Besides, as a knowledgable user, I don't have security issues with XP.
I could be way off base, I honestly don't know, but what about TI? Are they any where near the fab size of these chips?
Maybe THAT'S where all the spam comes from NOW! All this spam is FUTURE spam, and it works!
Like "Sorny" or "Panaphonic" or whatever they had in Simpson's land. Is it wrong if it's CALLED Sorny? Well, you wouldn't get very far. Could you start a software company and call it "micorsoft" or "microhard" or "softmicro"? What about sunglasses and call them "jokeleys"? A soda drink and call it "poopsi"?
Aha, that brings something interesting to mind. Pepsico has "mountain dew" but another soda entity (I think it's coke) created a yellowish-clear soda with citrus in it and called it Sierra Mist. That's pretty similar all the way around.... I'm sure the lawyers talked on that one. Could I create a clothing line and call it Timmy?
I've heard of the cops raiding flea markets to bust people selling counterfeit clothes (think fake Tommy Hilfiger stuff - non-Tommy stuff with the Tommy logo on it). In my book, selling knockoffs, bootlegs, etc, as the real thing is Piracy. Downloading an MP3? Not piracy. Piracy involves money. Copyright infringement can be piracy if you sell it.
Copyright infringement can also involve fair use, depending on who you ask, LOL.
Just my two cents worth.
rabid koala bear. lol. Made me laugh. all cute and fuzzy, then it jumps at you like a brain spider on half life. lol. still laughing. Anyway, continue on!
Very insightful, and correct. EQ's are really to compensate for room and/or equipment shortcomings. Not an artificial way to make the bass louder.
I'm not a professional sound engineer, but I've worked A/V next to one, and IIRC you gotta have "special" equipment to know which frequencies to cut or boost with the EQ. Frequency analyzers, white noise generators, etc.
That's what I thought too when I first saw the thing - "Hmmmm... Make it about 2-3 times as tall, fusion reactor, armor, missiles - Battlemech!"
Four years isn't enough time to go from wild fantasy sci-fi idea to feasible goal. Especially if you screw up the stock offering (I didn't RTFA) and lose funding.
x2 on the conduit. So if you're not sure on the fiber now, skip it. Fiber becomes a necessity later? Pull it. Technology XYZ becomes hot, not invented yet? Pull it.
Also, x2 on the stilts...
Or, the companies where I've worked. I would imagine a silicon valley company would have different priorities than a somewhat stodgey midwest corporation. They probably would cut HR first.
You've got some great points, and your descriptions could also apply to the stereotypical employee of the BMV.
Regardless, I've had dealings with HR too and some of the most basic qualifications (aside from physical attributes and dress which you described) are that you must be a heartless, patronizing, bureaucratic brown-noser.
The typical HR drone is easily identified by the perpetual smug grin, because they KNOW they are the last ones to go.
Not so much of an exaggeration. You can get a simple pda for $90. (checked on newegg for the cheapest pda) It would have a GUI, you can get spreadsheet palm apps, you can write documents, so on. 200 mhz and 32 megs of ram (palm Z22) vs 8 mhz and 1 mb ram.
So, they just compared a dual core athlon to something less powerful than a PDA.
What happens if you compare a dual core athlon to a PDA? What happens if you compare a PDA to a mac plus?
This is absolutely beautiful. Makes you wonder, though, did anyone really notice as much of the calling is automated?
I did a few of these tweaks described in a lifehack article, and it DID provide an improvement in page load speed. But, I also coupled that with an increase in the windows TCP maximum connections. Either way, it seems to have helped.
The article I found didn't really hype the changes as hacks, more just taking advantage of broadband connections - as firefox is (apparently) by default configured for dialup.
"I might not live any longer for it, but I FEEL much better for the time I am alive."
You'll probably live longer too.
I always get extremely nervous when someone at places like that (bb, cc, even office despot) starts telling me these amazing and wondrous new facts about electronics or other hardware that I've never even heard about before. Sure, I'm not an Electrical Engineer, but I'm at least VAGUELY familiar with stuff when I'm all "researched up" and out to buy it.
Routers are faster than switches? Windows is faster on intel? I need rechargeable batteries because THAT digital camera only takes 8 shots on NORMAL AA batteries and then they're dead? You can't hook a dvd player up to a TV more than 3 years old? This DVD player REQUIRES a "DVD" head cleaner, you know, because they COME FROM THE FACTORY with really dirty heads on them, and they can RUIN the disk immediately when you put it in there? No, a CD head cleaner won't do? I need to buy the warranty because these things just break all the time?
Run! Run quickly! The idiots are loose!
If they BREAK ALL THE TIME, maybe I just shouldn't buy it. From there. I put more stock in the reviews on newegg.com than a guy at best buy.
I had a pioneer receiver that was like that. It was great, but eventually I think it blew up (literally smoked some amps) but it was nice.