3. You realize that after you buy both machines and even though you have a TV with HDMI, that it only has 1 HDMI port, and you have to switch the players back and forth every time you want to play a disc of a different format.
Exactly, the pirates don't care about getting the 1080p version anyway. It takes too long to transfer over the internet. pirates don't care about resolution. that's why you see tons of cam versions on the internet which are such bad quality that it's laughable. They'll just copy the low res signal coming out of the component cables, or stick to copying the DVD versions, which with the way this tech is going, will be available for a very long time to come.
Well then maybe you should have checked out a few more references. Ensure that the number they give you for that place they worked at is a real company, and make sure that the number actually corresponds to that company. Do you think the NSA just hires people without doing proper background checks, making sure as well they can that the person they are hiring is trust worthy? If the data you're dealing with at your company is that important, I think it would be well worth the company's money to do this kind of work ahead of time so you don't get screwed over later. It won't work perfectly, but it will probably work pretty well and give the company good peace of mind.
So your email system filters out MS Office documents and Zip Files? I think PDFs are binary too. OO.o files are binary too because they are zipped. I think a policy of denying emails based on whether or not they contain non-text characters is pretty bad idea. And you can't really base it on extension either. You can give a document any extension you want. Most of the time these filters cause more problem than they solve. You can't send a.js file to a coworker who needs it, but how many viruses really come enclosed in.js files? A better idea would be some way of blocking emails not sent by a real person, except from specific machines. I'm not sure how you would detect this, but i'm sure it could be done. Maybe everything going out on port 25 requires you to press a button on some box placed outside your computer.
I'm sure that there would be some way to get a router to send the same request to two (or more) identical (as far as the server and content goes) machines and have them both process it. Then, just return the first response, and throw out all the later ones. That way, you get complete machine redundancy.
Anyway, AGP is really too 3d graphics specific as to use it for something else. It's designed to let the machine pass enourmous ammounts of information in only one direction.
I'm pretty sure ISPs around the world are using AGP to link home users up to cable and DSL internet.
1. Apple doesnt really make much hardware, they buy hardware from others and assemble it in fancy boxes, and then sell it at an inflated price. The move to intel shows that people don't really care that much about apple's hardware, but what really matters is the software. If it was just the hardware, they'd be selling expensive computers with Linux and Windows on them too.
2. Apple doesn't have to support people who choose to install OSX on non-apple computers just like apple doesn't support the people who install linux on Apple hardware.
3. You can buy just about any third party hardware for apple and a lot of it will probably work. But if it doesn't then they'll give you about as much support as MS does when certain hardware doesn't work on their OS.
4. Why couldn't MS decide that all their future OSs are only going to run where they detect that they are running on non-apple hardware. If apple wants to play the game of deciding which platforms it's OS will run on, i'm sure microsoft would love to play too.
5. The margin on hardware is margin per item sold. With software, its a little different, because it costs a lot up front for development, but then the cost for each sale is minimal. For software the best way to make money is to sell as many copies as possible. With software, once your initial investment is reclaimed, profits on copies are extremely high. With hardware, once you reach a certain manufacturing level, not much is going to bring the profits up.
Although you can't but Mac OSX for Intel without buying a computer, it probably won't be long, probably when they release an upgrade version. The same way they do with the PowerPC versions. I guess the only difference is that if you run linux, you've still bought the OS and the hardware so they get the money. I'm pretty sure that Mac OSX is sold at a profit when you buy the new version for your old hardware. So I don't see what their problem is with buying the OS and running it on whichever hardware you want.
How come Apple has no problem with you buying a Mac and running Linux on it, but seems to have a problem with people buying Mac OSX and running it on other hardware? I'm sure the number of people who will actually run Mac OSX on a Dell machine are about the same number of people who would run Linux on a Mac. In the end, it really only helps them to get a few more bucks, from people who will buy the OS just to tinker on it. I'm sure there's a lot of web development shops who would love to run OSX just to test out their websites, but don't beacuse it requires buying an entire computer.
Does it strike anybody else as odd that all the features (maybe minus the eyecandy, although probably not) are not actual parts of the OS, but applications that should be completely separate from the OS. Doesn't microsoft have enough monopoly troubles without tieing more crap into the OS?
if it costs them $900 to make, and you pay $800, then they've lost $100. If you don't buy it, then they've lost $900. You tell me which one hurts sony more.
yeah. We all remember what happened to the NEO-GEO. It was a great system, but i remember it retailing at $700, and nobody wanted to spend that much on a gaming system. I don't think things have changed much since then.
You are right. You can't just look at something for 15 minutes, and expect that you'll solve it when you go to sleep. You have to really be concentrating on solving it for a period of at least an hour. This depends on the complexity of the problem. If the problem is really complex, you may have to spend 6 hours working on it for you to get any advantage out of sleeping on it.
I've seen this happen on more than one occasion. Mostly I notice it with video games. I'll try for 2 hours to complete a task and not even complete it. Then, the next day I'll get it first try. My opinion is that your brain works through a lot of stuff when you're sleeping. I think this is why babies need a lot of sleep. Everything is new to them, and their brain needs a lot of time to process all that new information. I also find it easier to learn something new if I do it over a longer period, than trying to cram everything in at once. Instead of working 3 hours, you work on something in 1 hour sessions for 3 days. You retain the information a lot better.
Corporations or people should not be able to give contributions such that it is large enough to constitute a bribe. First, corporations should not be able to give campaign contributions because they can't vote. Individuals on the other hand should be capped on how much they can contribute. Otherwise, what's the difference between a campaign contribution and a bribe. Politicians aren't supposed to take bribes, but what would you call a $100,000 campaign contribution? Why would anybody even bother offering a bribe when they could just offer a campaign contribution. I realize that the bribe would go to the person, while the contribution would probably go to the political party, but the effect is the same. Giving money to an politician in order to get your own way. If instead there was a cap of say $1000 then you might have to actually have a large number of voters to contribute to your campaign to get a large amount of money, instead of just 1 really rich person/corporation.
That's because a lot of people have no imagination. I remember Super Mario Bros. 2, which was the first game I had for nintendo because I didn't get it as soon as it came out. There was lots of ways to get creative. Beat it only with each character, without warping, without missing a mushroom, Always using the character least suited to the level, without dying (if you died, start over). A game doesn't have to provide you with much to make it have lots of playability. I'd rather play a game where I can make up my own quests, rather than have to follow the quests set out in the game.
Yes, for that reason, MAC on intel makes sense. However for mac to switch to windows, you'd have no final cut pro, because it doesn't run on windows (i presume). Why would you buy a MAC that ran windows. You wouldn't get the MAC look and feel, and you wouldn't be able to run the MAC Programs.
Sure, lets not even mention the fact that Apple switching to windows makes no sense at all. If the machine is running windows, then why even buy the machine? You might as well buy a Dell. Or if you're going to spend extra money, buy a Falcon Northwest or an Alienware PC. The reason that people buy macs is because they want a mac. I don't think very many people would buy a mac just for the way the box looks.
Yeah, but I use OO.Org Draw, and that works fine for my uses. Word is a pain because it's a word processing app, not a desktop publishing app. OO.Org Draw isn't the best but it's around CorelDraw 5, which is good enough for me.
Yeah, but they charge quite a lot for an instant messaging program. I don't know where businesses think that an instant messaging system is worth that much. If you want internal instant messaging, just use Jabber.
It does everything except open Office 2007 files. That's why I stick with OpenOffice. I have better chances of being able to read all the new formats. If you shell out for a copy of office, then it can't read any new formats when they come out.
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3. You realize that after you buy both machines and even though you have a TV with HDMI, that it only has 1 HDMI port, and you have to switch the players back and forth every time you want to play a disc of a different format.
Exactly, the pirates don't care about getting the 1080p version anyway. It takes too long to transfer over the internet. pirates don't care about resolution. that's why you see tons of cam versions on the internet which are such bad quality that it's laughable. They'll just copy the low res signal coming out of the component cables, or stick to copying the DVD versions, which with the way this tech is going, will be available for a very long time to come.
Well then maybe you should have checked out a few more references. Ensure that the number they give you for that place they worked at is a real company, and make sure that the number actually corresponds to that company. Do you think the NSA just hires people without doing proper background checks, making sure as well they can that the person they are hiring is trust worthy? If the data you're dealing with at your company is that important, I think it would be well worth the company's money to do this kind of work ahead of time so you don't get screwed over later. It won't work perfectly, but it will probably work pretty well and give the company good peace of mind.
So your email system filters out MS Office documents and Zip Files? I think PDFs are binary too. OO.o files are binary too because they are zipped. I think a policy of denying emails based on whether or not they contain non-text characters is pretty bad idea. And you can't really base it on extension either. You can give a document any extension you want. Most of the time these filters cause more problem than they solve. You can't send a .js file to a coworker who needs it, but how many viruses really come enclosed in .js files? A better idea would be some way of blocking emails not sent by a real person, except from specific machines. I'm not sure how you would detect this, but i'm sure it could be done. Maybe everything going out on port 25 requires you to press a button on some box placed outside your computer.
I'm sure that there would be some way to get a router to send the same request to two (or more) identical (as far as the server and content goes) machines and have them both process it. Then, just return the first response, and throw out all the later ones. That way, you get complete machine redundancy.
Anyway, AGP is really too 3d graphics specific as to use it for something else. It's designed to let the machine pass enourmous ammounts of information in only one direction.
I'm pretty sure ISPs around the world are using AGP to link home users up to cable and DSL internet.
1. Apple doesnt really make much hardware, they buy hardware from others and assemble it in fancy boxes, and then sell it at an inflated price. The move to intel shows that people don't really care that much about apple's hardware, but what really matters is the software. If it was just the hardware, they'd be selling expensive computers with Linux and Windows on them too.
2. Apple doesn't have to support people who choose to install OSX on non-apple computers just like apple doesn't support the people who install linux on Apple hardware.
3. You can buy just about any third party hardware for apple and a lot of it will probably work. But if it doesn't then they'll give you about as much support as MS does when certain hardware doesn't work on their OS.
4. Why couldn't MS decide that all their future OSs are only going to run where they detect that they are running on non-apple hardware. If apple wants to play the game of deciding which platforms it's OS will run on, i'm sure microsoft would love to play too.
5. The margin on hardware is margin per item sold. With software, its a little different, because it costs a lot up front for development, but then the cost for each sale is minimal. For software the best way to make money is to sell as many copies as possible. With software, once your initial investment is reclaimed, profits on copies are extremely high. With hardware, once you reach a certain manufacturing level, not much is going to bring the profits up.
Although you can't but Mac OSX for Intel without buying a computer, it probably won't be long, probably when they release an upgrade version. The same way they do with the PowerPC versions. I guess the only difference is that if you run linux, you've still bought the OS and the hardware so they get the money. I'm pretty sure that Mac OSX is sold at a profit when you buy the new version for your old hardware. So I don't see what their problem is with buying the OS and running it on whichever hardware you want.
No, you've got it all wrong. It's only patentable once you create a warp drive on the internet.
How come Apple has no problem with you buying a Mac and running Linux on it, but seems to have a problem with people buying Mac OSX and running it on other hardware? I'm sure the number of people who will actually run Mac OSX on a Dell machine are about the same number of people who would run Linux on a Mac. In the end, it really only helps them to get a few more bucks, from people who will buy the OS just to tinker on it. I'm sure there's a lot of web development shops who would love to run OSX just to test out their websites, but don't beacuse it requires buying an entire computer.
Does it strike anybody else as odd that all the features (maybe minus the eyecandy, although probably not) are not actual parts of the OS, but applications that should be completely separate from the OS. Doesn't microsoft have enough monopoly troubles without tieing more crap into the OS?
But at $800, I don't imagine that they'll be flying off store shelves.
if it costs them $900 to make, and you pay $800, then they've lost $100. If you don't buy it, then they've lost $900. You tell me which one hurts sony more.
yeah. We all remember what happened to the NEO-GEO. It was a great system, but i remember it retailing at $700, and nobody wanted to spend that much on a gaming system. I don't think things have changed much since then.
You are right. You can't just look at something for 15 minutes, and expect that you'll solve it when you go to sleep. You have to really be concentrating on solving it for a period of at least an hour. This depends on the complexity of the problem. If the problem is really complex, you may have to spend 6 hours working on it for you to get any advantage out of sleeping on it.
I've seen this happen on more than one occasion. Mostly I notice it with video games. I'll try for 2 hours to complete a task and not even complete it. Then, the next day I'll get it first try. My opinion is that your brain works through a lot of stuff when you're sleeping. I think this is why babies need a lot of sleep. Everything is new to them, and their brain needs a lot of time to process all that new information. I also find it easier to learn something new if I do it over a longer period, than trying to cram everything in at once. Instead of working 3 hours, you work on something in 1 hour sessions for 3 days. You retain the information a lot better.
Corporations or people should not be able to give contributions such that it is large enough to constitute a bribe. First, corporations should not be able to give campaign contributions because they can't vote. Individuals on the other hand should be capped on how much they can contribute. Otherwise, what's the difference between a campaign contribution and a bribe. Politicians aren't supposed to take bribes, but what would you call a $100,000 campaign contribution? Why would anybody even bother offering a bribe when they could just offer a campaign contribution. I realize that the bribe would go to the person, while the contribution would probably go to the political party, but the effect is the same. Giving money to an politician in order to get your own way. If instead there was a cap of say $1000 then you might have to actually have a large number of voters to contribute to your campaign to get a large amount of money, instead of just 1 really rich person/corporation.
Why is a non-voting entity allowed to give political contributions?
That's because a lot of people have no imagination. I remember Super Mario Bros. 2, which was the first game I had for nintendo because I didn't get it as soon as it came out. There was lots of ways to get creative. Beat it only with each character, without warping, without missing a mushroom, Always using the character least suited to the level, without dying (if you died, start over). A game doesn't have to provide you with much to make it have lots of playability. I'd rather play a game where I can make up my own quests, rather than have to follow the quests set out in the game.
Yes, for that reason, MAC on intel makes sense. However for mac to switch to windows, you'd have no final cut pro, because it doesn't run on windows (i presume). Why would you buy a MAC that ran windows. You wouldn't get the MAC look and feel, and you wouldn't be able to run the MAC Programs.
Sure, lets not even mention the fact that Apple switching to windows makes no sense at all. If the machine is running windows, then why even buy the machine? You might as well buy a Dell. Or if you're going to spend extra money, buy a Falcon Northwest or an Alienware PC. The reason that people buy macs is because they want a mac. I don't think very many people would buy a mac just for the way the box looks.
Yeah, but I use OO.Org Draw, and that works fine for my uses. Word is a pain because it's a word processing app, not a desktop publishing app. OO.Org Draw isn't the best but it's around CorelDraw 5, which is good enough for me.
For something like this, you might want to take a look at Amarok. It's a pretty good program. I listen to all my music in it.
Yeah, but they charge quite a lot for an instant messaging program. I don't know where businesses think that an instant messaging system is worth that much. If you want internal instant messaging, just use Jabber.
It does everything except open Office 2007 files. That's why I stick with OpenOffice. I have better chances of being able to read all the new formats. If you shell out for a copy of office, then it can't read any new formats when they come out.