I mean, if you're selling support, then it doesn't make sense to create an intuitive product that needs no support, right?
The way I see it, if you're selling support *plans*, guaranteeing everything will work smoothly and that you'll do everything to help if any help is required, instead of charging by the hour, then making your product better and minimizing necessary support resources is absolutely beneficial.
As for web browsers, you might want to try Opera for web browsing. Ever since I got a monitor that could display 1600x1200, I've been using its zoom function all the time; using 200% zoom gives me an excellent view for sites designed for 800x600 resolution, and 150% is great for sites designed for 1025x768. I'm not aware of a similar FireFox extension, as it didn't exist the last time I tried use it with the intent to switch from Opera (three times and counting), but I'm sure someone will point one out now. Just make sure it also resizes images and Flash objects before posting. Someone might also point out that my website (using a modified also doesn't use more than 800 width on most of the pages. Er, think of it as a "frame".:P (In fact I've been wondering how to center it vertically... oh well).
And it's still WRONG because when you combine the kanji for "ookii" and "katana" you should use the on-yomi for BOTH kanji; it thus becomes "daitou" (perhaps "taitou"[1]). Yes, this is a Japanese (and Chinese[2]) word. If they absolutely wanted to use the word "katana" it should have been "oogatana" (or ookatana?); combining on-yomi and kun-yomi just sounds awkward.
That's a strange definition. Propaganda doesn't have to be untrue. I wonder where Answers.com gets their dictionary definitions from; neither dict.org, wiktionary nor dictionary.com seem to support the claim that it does. Neither does the Wikipedia article on propaganda.
Here's a Danish site, at 7 DKK per month (around one euro?) http://starthotel.dk/. I'm uncertain, however, whether Denmark is the best place; IIRC they have legislated the "EU-DMCA". http://web10.nu/ is a Norwegian host with a marginally higher cost (9 NOK, a little over an euro). 1 GB space, unlimited traffic. I'd contact them asking if they'd be okay with the content first, though. Norway is not in the EU. I'm going to move over to web10.nu once my dynamic DNS redirection agreement expires and I've had my fun hosting my own website on my ADSL connection (admittedly I've learned a bit about Linux in the proccess).
www.prq.se is the host that The Pirate Bay is using, though they cost 100 SEK (a bit over 10 euro?) a month for 1 GB space and 30 GB transfer. They also have colocation plans.
And I'm from Sweden. Fuck that; I may have been born in Sweden, and lived there for 6 years of my life, but I'm still Norwegian. Bush only lived in Connecticut for 2 years.
Except the highest-ranking and the lowest-ranking displays were both by the same company, so the brand bias issue can be ruled out in this case. And introducing fake detail to make an image look sharper is not good, no matter how many displays it might sell.
33. Microsoft enjoys so much power in the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems that if it wished to exercise this power solely in terms of price, it could charge a price for Windows substantially above that which could be charged in a competitive market. Moreover, it could do so for a significant period of time without losing an unacceptable amount of business to competitors. In other words, Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market.
Wow! I never knew U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was a Slashbot! THANK YOU for your VERY ORIGINAL contribution to this discussion.
While this is mostly true, the price points do change sometimes. I remember the iBook price dropping (by $100 IIRC) not that long a after I bought one. That might have been last summer, or the summer before that. In any case it happened. Looking at archive.org, a 12" iBook cost $1299 in 2001, $999 in 2002 and 2003, and $1099 in 2004. Now it's $999 again. At some point in 2002 it was also $1099. In 2000 it was $1599. It goes both up and down, but mostly down.
This is a good point. What I've heard about Nigeria (which is admittedly in west-Africa, but still...) is that when someone commits suicide, the family says that they "went away" or "disappeared"; apparently there's quite a bit stigma against it.
Well, new software that forces people to buy new hardware to make spreadsheets and text documents might not be that bad, honestly. Encourages hardware development, and drives prices down for those of us who need the hardware for more demanding tasks like image and video processing. Just thinking pragmatically here.
Why keep the Old Testament at all, then, if it's so horrible? It must be convenient to answer to a criticism of the bible by saying that Jesus didn't say it, so it's outdated.
There are lots of 360s lying around in stores here in Norway. Both Core Systems and the, er, bigger packs. The first Xbox also did it better in the US than Europe (IIRC the GC sold better? At least they were very close), though.
As for the Revolution, I think it'll be great. I'm not rich, so I won't be getting a 360 or PS3 anyway. Not going to buy that many games either, so being able to choose between 500 different titles won't really matter. As long as Nintendo can deliver fun games that won't cost a fortune, that's all that matters as far as I'm concerned.
Cheap camera phones usually don't focus; they have fixed-focus lenses. Try focusing and then shooting with your camera, and see how much time it takes to actually take the picture. If you want good low-light performance, you need a big sensor. As tfa says, though, they're working on IS for compact cameras. Eh. Will be interesting to see what the future has in store.
A Slashdot story posted earlier had some benchmark numbers comparing Photoshop on the Intel iMac to a G5 model. IIRC they were surprisingly "acceptable". Some operations took a very long time - such as resizing I think was one - but overall I think you could live with it. Drawing from this, I'd imagine a MacBook Pro wouldn't do very badly compared to a PowerBook G4.
None of the systems you linked had innovative controllers, and can therefore be ignored. Of course, some of the newer consoles that were mentioned (Xbox... Playstation...) don't have innovative controllers either, and could also have been left out.
Hey, I'm late in the discussion, but my mobo has what it calls SATA2--I assume this to be 300 MB/s--and it's even a cheap ASRock card (the 939Dual-SATA2).... Reading up on it, though, it's on a PCIe bus (same as the PCIe and PCIe x1 slots?), meaning the highest throughput would be 250 MB/s. And it's not supported by libata yet, so no Linux. So, meh. Still, I think we'll see a lot more of 300 MB/s SATA from now on. Love my SATA drive: no more ATA cables for me.:)
It's funny how Internet Explorer now actually takes more time to open for me than Opera, because explorer isn't running; I use Directory Opus instead.
On the topic at hand, the main reason I prefer Azureus is because of the RSS feed scanner; are there other clients that support plugins? Would be nice.
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The way I see it, if you're selling support *plans*, guaranteeing everything will work smoothly and that you'll do everything to help if any help is required, instead of charging by the hour, then making your product better and minimizing necessary support resources is absolutely beneficial.
As for web browsers, you might want to try Opera for web browsing. Ever since I got a monitor that could display 1600x1200, I've been using its zoom function all the time; using 200% zoom gives me an excellent view for sites designed for 800x600 resolution, and 150% is great for sites designed for 1025x768. I'm not aware of a similar FireFox extension, as it didn't exist the last time I tried use it with the intent to switch from Opera (three times and counting), but I'm sure someone will point one out now. Just make sure it also resizes images and Flash objects before posting. Someone might also point out that my website (using a modified also doesn't use more than 800 width on most of the pages. Er, think of it as a "frame". :P (In fact I've been wondering how to center it vertically... oh well).
[1]WWWJDIC gives "taitou" as the main reading (http://jp.msmobiles.com/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1MDJtaito u), but my IME (Microsoft IME 2002) only converts the "daitou" reading.
[2]In Mandarin it's pronounced Guan Dao according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwan_dao)
Footnotes in a Slashdot post might seem a bit extreme, but I need to back up my claims after all.
That's a strange definition. Propaganda doesn't have to be untrue. I wonder where Answers.com gets their dictionary definitions from; neither dict.org, wiktionary nor dictionary.com seem to support the claim that it does. Neither does the Wikipedia article on propaganda.
Mod parent up! Horrible grammar, but very good points.
www.prq.se is the host that The Pirate Bay is using, though they cost 100 SEK (a bit over 10 euro?) a month for 1 GB space and 30 GB transfer. They also have colocation plans.
And I'm from Sweden. Fuck that; I may have been born in Sweden, and lived there for 6 years of my life, but I'm still Norwegian. Bush only lived in Connecticut for 2 years.
Except the highest-ranking and the lowest-ranking displays were both by the same company, so the brand bias issue can be ruled out in this case. And introducing fake detail to make an image look sharper is not good, no matter how many displays it might sell.
Have you tried reducing the saturation on your LCD?
Wow! I never knew U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was a Slashbot! THANK YOU for your VERY ORIGINAL contribution to this discussion.
Wow, being upgraded from 1.83 GHz to 2.0 GHz for free constitutes being "screwed" now. That's some way to twist it!
While this is mostly true, the price points do change sometimes. I remember the iBook price dropping (by $100 IIRC) not that long a after I bought one. That might have been last summer, or the summer before that. In any case it happened. Looking at archive.org, a 12" iBook cost $1299 in 2001, $999 in 2002 and 2003, and $1099 in 2004. Now it's $999 again. At some point in 2002 it was also $1099. In 2000 it was $1599. It goes both up and down, but mostly down.
This is a good point. What I've heard about Nigeria (which is admittedly in west-Africa, but still...) is that when someone commits suicide, the family says that they "went away" or "disappeared"; apparently there's quite a bit stigma against it.
Well, new software that forces people to buy new hardware to make spreadsheets and text documents might not be that bad, honestly. Encourages hardware development, and drives prices down for those of us who need the hardware for more demanding tasks like image and video processing. Just thinking pragmatically here.
Why keep the Old Testament at all, then, if it's so horrible? It must be convenient to answer to a criticism of the bible by saying that Jesus didn't say it, so it's outdated.
There are lots of 360s lying around in stores here in Norway. Both Core Systems and the, er, bigger packs. The first Xbox also did it better in the US than Europe (IIRC the GC sold better? At least they were very close), though.
As for the Revolution, I think it'll be great. I'm not rich, so I won't be getting a 360 or PS3 anyway. Not going to buy that many games either, so being able to choose between 500 different titles won't really matter. As long as Nintendo can deliver fun games that won't cost a fortune, that's all that matters as far as I'm concerned.
Cheap camera phones usually don't focus; they have fixed-focus lenses. Try focusing and then shooting with your camera, and see how much time it takes to actually take the picture. If you want good low-light performance, you need a big sensor. As tfa says, though, they're working on IS for compact cameras. Eh. Will be interesting to see what the future has in store.
Hey, the OpenRAW group are currently having a survey. You might want to check it out.
A Slashdot story posted earlier had some benchmark numbers comparing Photoshop on the Intel iMac to a G5 model. IIRC they were surprisingly "acceptable". Some operations took a very long time - such as resizing I think was one - but overall I think you could live with it. Drawing from this, I'd imagine a MacBook Pro wouldn't do very badly compared to a PowerBook G4.
None of the systems you linked had innovative controllers, and can therefore be ignored. Of course, some of the newer consoles that were mentioned (Xbox... Playstation...) don't have innovative controllers either, and could also have been left out.
Hey, I'm late in the discussion, but my mobo has what it calls SATA2--I assume this to be 300 MB/s--and it's even a cheap ASRock card (the 939Dual-SATA2). ... Reading up on it, though, it's on a PCIe bus (same as the PCIe and PCIe x1 slots?), meaning the highest throughput would be 250 MB/s. And it's not supported by libata yet, so no Linux. So, meh. Still, I think we'll see a lot more of 300 MB/s SATA from now on. Love my SATA drive: no more ATA cables for me. :)
It's funny how Internet Explorer now actually takes more time to open for me than Opera, because explorer isn't running; I use Directory Opus instead. On the topic at hand, the main reason I prefer Azureus is because of the RSS feed scanner; are there other clients that support plugins? Would be nice.
A bit less than 20000 yen.
Humm.... Checking Wikipedia, it appears my CPU (Athlon 64 Venice) supports SSE3. How is OS X working on AMD CPUs?
Wow, it's 2006 now... Heh, that's kinda funny. You're probably aware, but XP did actually come out nearly 5 years ago. Funny how time passes, huh?