HP Pavilion zt3000. 1.4ghz Pentium-M, 30gb, 384MB, CD-RW. I bought it just before Christmas when they were having some pretty hefty rebate and coupon deals. I think there was a $150 mail-in rebate, $50 instant online rebate, and I had a 10% off coupon, plus 3% of from fatwallet.com, and free two day shipping (from Shanghai!)
I've always wondered why I could buy an entire laptop for less than what it would cost to buy a standalone LCD. For example, my laptop has a 1920x1200 15.4" widescreen display and I paid $950 for it. If you could find a standalone display with those specs (which you can't... or at least not the last time I checked) it would cost a couple grand.
Let's hope this is the beginning of high quality displays with high resolutions, and keep our fingers crossed about the price.:)
S-ATA seems to be the solution for the data transfers involved with 16x DVD recording and the fast 52x CD-RW drives.
Did we forget that CDs tend to explode when spun up faster than 56x? That seems like a bigger problem than not having enough bandwidth to transfer data...
I'm getting married soon and I looked up the laws about changing your name in a couple different states, Washington, Oregon, and Ohio, and every single one of the says that it's alright to have a number spelled out, but having a numeral isn't allowed. Granted, things may be different outside of the US.
Google plans to make money from the service by inserting advertisements into messages based in part on their content, effectively extending its AdWords program for presenting contextual ads in Web pages to e-mail.
So... if you get porn spam will it insert MORE porn spam into the email? Or more penis enlarging drugs? Sweet...
From what I've heard AOL had a fairly decent warez scene at one point with users emailing the files to each other... I can imagine that something like this would be heavily used for piracy. I wonder if they'll cap attachment sizes or put a max on file transfers.
Did I say ANYTHING about the original iPod release? No. At that time it was definitely the best device on the market, the size, the price, the features... there were no direct competitors to it back then, price-wise, sure, but nothing that compact and easily navigable.
My comments were reserved solely for the MiniPod, which is what they should have called it, instead of iPod Mini.
"I want to make sure (a user) can't get through... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad," he said.
X10 had this amazing new technology for years, didn't they? Let's hope Microsoft delves into this pursuit deeply and ends up with the same result as the X10 people did...
I'm not sure if it has anything to due with actually hitting a niche market or if it's just a way to be ultra-hip and spend $50 less. The vast majority of people that are buying these aren't techies, they are just average people that have very little product knowledge beyond knowing the iPod plays mp3s and that it's cool. If people shopped around, or if Apple's competitors did a better job of marketing I don't think it would sell nearly as well.
Ok... so I decided to try out RSS and downloaded SharpReader (for Windows, at sharpreader.ner). Wired is already set up as a subscribed feed (so is Slashdot!)...
So I let it download the feeds, then click on one... and... it's just a one sentence summary. What's the use of this? If I still have to click the link to read the article how is this any better/faster than just going to wired.com and quickly looking over the recent headlines?
Now if it actually downloaded the text of the article that would be useful.
Is this just my RSS aggregator? Is this just wired.com?
See, when I first heard about this, I assumed that it was going to be a specific number of free songs. Like 3-5 predetermined songs that Pepsi has been asked to promote by the record companies...
Maybe that's not the case, which makes the whole proposition seem a little crazy. This could massively increase the iTunes userbase, but it could also just be a huge drain on bandwidth.
Don't you mean YOU have never heard of any of these artists? Warp Records is, by far, the most influential and important electronic music label on earth. Autechre, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Plaid, Tortoise, Oval, Nightmares on Wax, are all on the top of the pile as far as really good electronic music is concerned. Just because YOU have never heard of them doesn't mean nobody else has... walk through the halls of the school I go to and you're just as likely to hear an Autechre track as you are Britney Spears.
There's a sculpture at a top of a small hill named Wright's Triangle, that consists of four steel planes 20-25 feet long and 8-10 feet tall, all of which angle inward toward each other, one of which is perpendicular to the hill. Well... last year SOMEBODY dumped about 4000 stolen golf driving range balls down the side perpendicular to the hill. There were golf balls all over campus and all over Bellingham for the next couple weeks.
I just moved to Cincinnati so I've been using map websites almost every day. Yahoo! has the big advantage of integrating the Yellow Pages with their mapping program, so you don't have to type in the address like you do with Mapquest...
I've found that Yahoo! has a tendency to map the the shortest distance as the crow flies, which almost inevitably turns out to be a long drive than Mapquest, which tends to get you to a freeway faster. Since I live next to a major freeway most trips are faster by using it instead of sticking to back roads.
But since I'm new to the area the Yahoo! routes teach me the geography better, so I choose Mapquest when I'm in a pinch and Yahoo! when I have time to explore.
TRON is obviously the most populous in terms of all electronic devices there are. In terms of PCs, which is what OS typically refers to, Windows would be the most populous, but in terms of popularity that could go two ways. If you are defining popularity as "suited to the means of the majority" or "frequently encountered or widely accepted" that would obviously be Windows. But, if you define popularity as "commonly liked or approved" that would be Linux for the simple reason that the Linux community is much more vociferous about their passion for the OS than Windows users are. Most Windows users use the OS by default and no because they prefer it to other systems.
They wouldn't even have to make up a name for his character in Star Wars... maybe Lucas could the extra creativity he'd be saving to actually write some decent dialog.
The user interface would be the whole point if it actually helped the user achieve something in a more efficient fashion... but it doesn't do anything that doesn't already exist.
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Anyone know how long these last? I'd love to get one, but don't want to spend $200 on a dud.
HP Pavilion zt3000. 1.4ghz Pentium-M, 30gb, 384MB, CD-RW. I bought it just before Christmas when they were having some pretty hefty rebate and coupon deals. I think there was a $150 mail-in rebate, $50 instant online rebate, and I had a 10% off coupon, plus 3% of from fatwallet.com, and free two day shipping (from Shanghai!)
1600x1200 on a 17" is more like it.
:)
I've always wondered why I could buy an entire laptop for less than what it would cost to buy a standalone LCD. For example, my laptop has a 1920x1200 15.4" widescreen display and I paid $950 for it. If you could find a standalone display with those specs (which you can't... or at least not the last time I checked) it would cost a couple grand.
Let's hope this is the beginning of high quality displays with high resolutions, and keep our fingers crossed about the price.
S-ATA seems to be the solution for the data transfers involved with 16x DVD recording and the fast 52x CD-RW drives. Did we forget that CDs tend to explode when spun up faster than 56x? That seems like a bigger problem than not having enough bandwidth to transfer data...
I'm getting married soon and I looked up the laws about changing your name in a couple different states, Washington, Oregon, and Ohio, and every single one of the says that it's alright to have a number spelled out, but having a numeral isn't allowed. Granted, things may be different outside of the US.
Google plans to make money from the service by inserting advertisements into messages based in part on their content, effectively extending its AdWords program for presenting contextual ads in Web pages to e-mail.
So... if you get porn spam will it insert MORE porn spam into the email? Or more penis enlarging drugs? Sweet...
From what I've heard AOL had a fairly decent warez scene at one point with users emailing the files to each other... I can imagine that something like this would be heavily used for piracy. I wonder if they'll cap attachment sizes or put a max on file transfers.
I to am interested in why you wouldn't use gentoo in a production environment... care to explain?
Did I say ANYTHING about the original iPod release? No. At that time it was definitely the best device on the market, the size, the price, the features... there were no direct competitors to it back then, price-wise, sure, but nothing that compact and easily navigable.
My comments were reserved solely for the MiniPod, which is what they should have called it, instead of iPod Mini.
Note: "The vast majority of people that are buying these aren't techies..."
I didn't say everyone, now did I?
"I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad," he said.
X10 had this amazing new technology for years, didn't they? Let's hope Microsoft delves into this pursuit deeply and ends up with the same result as the X10 people did...
I'm not sure if it has anything to due with actually hitting a niche market or if it's just a way to be ultra-hip and spend $50 less. The vast majority of people that are buying these aren't techies, they are just average people that have very little product knowledge beyond knowing the iPod plays mp3s and that it's cool. If people shopped around, or if Apple's competitors did a better job of marketing I don't think it would sell nearly as well.
Ok... so I decided to try out RSS and downloaded SharpReader (for Windows, at sharpreader.ner). Wired is already set up as a subscribed feed (so is Slashdot!)...
So I let it download the feeds, then click on one... and... it's just a one sentence summary. What's the use of this? If I still have to click the link to read the article how is this any better/faster than just going to wired.com and quickly looking over the recent headlines?
Now if it actually downloaded the text of the article that would be useful.
Is this just my RSS aggregator? Is this just wired.com?
I'm not impressed.
Which let's us assume they are making at least 33 cents on each bottle they are selling since the reported odds are 1 in 3.
I wonder who approached who in this promotion. How weird.
See, when I first heard about this, I assumed that it was going to be a specific number of free songs. Like 3-5 predetermined songs that Pepsi has been asked to promote by the record companies...
Maybe that's not the case, which makes the whole proposition seem a little crazy. This could massively increase the iTunes userbase, but it could also just be a huge drain on bandwidth.
Nobody has ever heard of most of these artists.
Don't you mean YOU have never heard of any of these artists? Warp Records is, by far, the most influential and important electronic music label on earth. Autechre, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Plaid, Tortoise, Oval, Nightmares on Wax, are all on the top of the pile as far as really good electronic music is concerned. Just because YOU have never heard of them doesn't mean nobody else has... walk through the halls of the school I go to and you're just as likely to hear an Autechre track as you are Britney Spears.
There's a sculpture at a top of a small hill named Wright's Triangle, that consists of four steel planes 20-25 feet long and 8-10 feet tall, all of which angle inward toward each other, one of which is perpendicular to the hill. Well... last year SOMEBODY dumped about 4000 stolen golf driving range balls down the side perpendicular to the hill. There were golf balls all over campus and all over Bellingham for the next couple weeks.
I think we've found our culprit...
9 days 13 hours left, and not a single one has sold...
I just moved to Cincinnati so I've been using map websites almost every day. Yahoo! has the big advantage of integrating the Yellow Pages with their mapping program, so you don't have to type in the address like you do with Mapquest...
I've found that Yahoo! has a tendency to map the the shortest distance as the crow flies, which almost inevitably turns out to be a long drive than Mapquest, which tends to get you to a freeway faster. Since I live next to a major freeway most trips are faster by using it instead of sticking to back roads.
But since I'm new to the area the Yahoo! routes teach me the geography better, so I choose Mapquest when I'm in a pinch and Yahoo! when I have time to explore.
TRON is obviously the most populous in terms of all electronic devices there are. In terms of PCs, which is what OS typically refers to, Windows would be the most populous, but in terms of popularity that could go two ways. If you are defining popularity as "suited to the means of the majority" or "frequently encountered or widely accepted" that would obviously be Windows. But, if you define popularity as "commonly liked or approved" that would be Linux for the simple reason that the Linux community is much more vociferous about their passion for the OS than Windows users are. Most Windows users use the OS by default and no because they prefer it to other systems.
They wouldn't even have to make up a name for his character in Star Wars... maybe Lucas could the extra creativity he'd be saving to actually write some decent dialog.
Oh... somebody can't take a joke...
ugh, sorry...
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The user interface would be the whole point if it actually helped the user achieve something in a more efficient fashion... but it doesn't do anything that doesn't already exist.