I have an IBM Thinkpad with a 900 MHz processor. It's a work laptop and is always plugged in at the office. When I'm at home, I access the Internet wirelessly. Because I had an old USB adapter laying around, I use it instead of a PC Card. I literally cannot finish a bowl of cereal from a fully charged battery without it giving me a low power warning. I'm not joking. When the USB adapter is plugged in, I don't even get 10 minutes of battery life. Luckily, my employer is supposed to be replacing my laptop soon. Hopefully with a Centrino. (The laptop is fairly old, which is probably why the battery is so bad.) Without the wireless adapter, I can get a little bit less than an hour.
It pissed me off when a friend visited me with his powerbook. He charged it overnight, then was using it on and off the entire day without ever having to plug it back in. And he had built-in wifi, no stupid USB adapter.
I remember reading about the guy who was the Q3 champ (or maybe it was the Starcraft champ?). He would practice 8-10 hours a day.
I don't play CS. But I used to play Q3 a lot. I would download the replays of the championship matches. The champ knew the maps down cold. Knew all of the spawn points and had absolutely incredible rail gun accuracy.
As an aside, Starcraft replays are also available. The champs have an amazing ability to multitask, being able to micromanage their base and their attack at the same time. And, of course, they knew the maps like the back of their hand.
Want a real settlement? Should have made the terms such that they only give away Top 100 stuff or something like that (or better yet, cash!); otherwise there are no grounds for complaint.
Who's to judge quality? Will Smith and Whitney Houston were pretty damn popular at one time so RIAA would respond, "it did reach the top 100, top 10 in fact."
If the public library has a complete and total music collection and sued publishers to provide them with books, only to recieve 593 copies of "Martha Stewart's: 'Cooking with the Neighbors", 1,989 copies of "Maxim: The Uncensored Cut", 184 copies of "Pete Rose: How I Gambled and Stuff", and 8,948 copies of "A Year of Baseball Cards: The 1947 Digest", NO ONE WOULD USE THE SERVICE.
I think that's the point. Dump enough bad CDs on libraries, no one will go to libraries and people will be forced to buy CDs instead of checking them out.
I realize that they are comparing only 1GB services. But come on! They have to include the two most well known web mail services, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail.
I use Icdsoft to host my domain. It has a webmail feature, so I can check my email from any browser. Plus I can download mail to my home computer using Mozilla. Plus, I can use any username I want. 333MB of storage accessible using any FTP client. And you can host web pages also. All for $60/year.
And here is a $2600 Dell laptop. What's your point?
That Dells are cheaper. Yes, you CAN get a $2600 Dell, just like you can get a $2600 Apple. But you can't get a $600 Apple while you can get a $600 Dell. OP said that there was only a $50 difference. It's not $50. It's a lot more. Maybe the TCO of an Apple is less, I don't know. (Some say yes, some say no). But the initial cost of Macs is much higher. E.g., I don't buy Dell and I'm planning on building my own machine. Pricing everything out, I get to about $1000 for a 3 GHz machine with 1GB RAM and a 160 GB hard drive. Even less for an AMD processor. The cheapest G5 is $2000. And don't tell me that a $1000 iBook or eMac will give me the same performance as a 3Ghz processor.
I think it's $199, but it's payable over a few months. There is no option for just one team. That's $50 a month overall for the 4 month football season. About the same as one boxing PPV per month. Expensive, yes, but I would buy it if I could (I don't have a southern exposure, so I can't point a DirecTV satellite). It's the NFL that doesn't want me to buy it.
But most football fans like football no matter who's playing. Even if you're a Steelers fan and want to see their 4:15 game doesn't mean you don't want to be able to choose which 1:00 game to watch.
The NFL, the largest and most popular sport league in the US, is concerned that someone might TiVo a game and send it to someone else. Why? A game is only useful if it is live. Even a 1 hour delay makes the game's value nearly nil.
There are two reasons a fan would want a TiVo'd game. (1) the game isn't broadcast in their area. E.g., a Steelers fan who lives in Nebraska might not get the Steelers on their TV. The solution: NFL Sunday Ticket. "But that's exclusive to DirecTV?" says the NFL. Well whose fucking fault is that. There are plenty of people who would be willing to pay for NFL Sunday Ticket if it were available through Cable companies. They can't because the greedy NFL signs a multi-billion dollar contract with DirecTV. (I want Sunday Ticket, but my apartment faces north. I can't get DirecTV.)
(2) the game is blacked out. A Steelers fan might not see the Steelers because the game is blacked out. Actually, the Steelers are a bad example because they haven't been blacked out in 30 years. So let's use the Cardinals. Their home games are never broadcast in Phoenix because they never come close to selling out. The whole purpose of the blackout policy is to force fans to buy tickets to prevent the blackout. It obviously doesn't work because the Cards still only get 30,000 fans per game. So why do they still use this outdated, policy that doesn't work? None of the other major sports black out home game.
The NFL can end the market for Tivo'd games by merely offering NFL Sunday Ticket to all cable companies and ending the blackout policy that doesn't work.
Funny, that. I've heard somewhere that my 1000eur box was not more powerful than an imac, but sensibly equivalent.
I don't know about Europe. But in the US, $1000 will get you a 2.8 GHz system with 512 MB RAM. No iMac can touch it. The G5 may be faster than an equivalent Pentium or AMD, but no one has ever suggested that a G4 is faster.
The longest life I saw for a PC (win/linux) without reintalling the system was about 1 year and a half.
I said it before, but I'll say it again. At my previous job, my computer was running since Fall 99 without a reinstall. At home, my computer is running Win 98SE without a reinstall since April 2000. It replaced another computer, which had been running since 1997 without a reinstall. It worked perfectly until 2003, when I got rid of it.
The difference in price is a lot more than $50. Go to the Dell site, and you can see a bunch of models for less than $1000. For Apple, only the eMac is under $1000. The G5 starts at $2000. Laptops are even worse, a Powerbook costs $2000. You can easily find a Dell or HP for just a little over $1k.
Second, even Macs fail. And not all PCs fail. At my job, I have a 4 year old PC that never had a problem. At home, I have a 5 year old PC that has never had a problem.
I was given an old computer, a 700 MHz P3 with 128 MB RAM. I wiped the hard drive and did a clean install of XP. Literally, the computer couldn't do anything. The start menu took forever to start. I couldn't run IE. I couldn't run Windows Update. Remember, this was a bare installation. No software installed. And it still couldn't run. I upgraded to 256 MB Ram and the computer ran fine.
The Sony VX2100. The Canon GL2 is also highly rated. You should try to look at the dvinfo site for more info.
Of more importance is lighting. If you have bad lighting, the video will look bad no matter what kind of camera you have. This book is highly recommended for learning how to light.
"Windows" is not generic now. (If you don't agree, tell someone that you a particular program is a Windows program and see if there is even the slightest question of what you're talking about).
The question is whether windows was generic in 1985. (Which it probably was.) If it was generic in 1985, it can't be trademarked now.
Some will keep the negatives indefinitely, some will destroy them after a certain time period. If the latter, ask for the negatives at that time.
As stated here, the reason wedding photographers retain copyright is to force people to buy prints from them. However, if you agree to buy the negatives from him in, e.g., one year, he'll get all the initial print orders. Because very few people will be buying prints a year from the wedding anyway, he isn't losing anything.
So try that tactic: offer to buy prints from him as normal and buy the negatives (and copyright) from him in a year.
1) Resources. I'm running Windows XP and from what I understand, there is no way I can remove Internet Explorer from my computer. Call me a space hog, but I don't like having un-used aps on my computer. I figure better to have an inferior browser on my computer, a little extra space, and less confusion then to load both of them. Can anyone solve that problem?
In the days of 256+ MB RAM and 40+ GB HD space, having an extra 10 MB app doesn't hurt you. I have both Firefox (0.8 because I can't get TabBrowser Extensions to work on 0.9) and IE on my work computer, for the increasingly rare site that requires IE to work.
Just this year, both Citibank and Soutwest Airlines (or maybe it was USAir) forced me to use IE to use their services. About a month later, I can use Firefox with it.
Funny Firefox story: it's pop-up blocker is too strong. I have a gmail account and there was a link at top where I could send an invite. But it wouldn't do anything. Because the site is in Beta and isn't the most responsive in the world, I assumed the problem was on their end. But then I loaded up IE and found out that the invite is in a pop-up (one that IE+Google ToolBar didn't block).
1. Here's a list of guides and software that will allow you to batch resize in Windows.
2. You can find a boatload of tutorials for creating a resizing action under Photoshop, the preeminent photo editing program for both Mac and Windows. Where's the tutorials for Photoshop for Linux? Oh that's right, like many major programs--it's not available in Linux.
I only regularly read Sports Illustrated. I subscribe to several boating magazines and to EGM, but those were all free subscriptions that I don't plan on renewing.
Because it is very light weight and revs freely (the rev limiter is at 9300 rpm.) They aren't *that* enamored with it. The RX8 is the first car in 8 years they sold with a rotary engine.
The Mazda RX-8 is rated at 18/24. If message boards are right, hardly anyone is getting that. I've only filled my tank 3 times, and have gotten 15-16 MPG. Of course, I floor the car at every possible opportunity.
My previous cars generally followed EPA estimates. I had a 24/30 Honda Accord and generally got about 25 mpg.
I don't want to be reminded about the 80s and how bad the games were back then. The simple fact is, those games were repetitive and got boring quickly.
When I rent retro titles, it's cool for about an hour when I remember how much I used to like the games. Then the banality of the games get to me and I can't play it anymore.
If people want games that don't take 20 hours to play, try sports games. (IMO, that's one of the reasons sports games are so popular, you can play an entire game in half hour or so, yet there is great replayablity at the "elite" levels of the game.)
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It pissed me off when a friend visited me with his powerbook. He charged it overnight, then was using it on and off the entire day without ever having to plug it back in. And he had built-in wifi, no stupid USB adapter.
I don't play CS. But I used to play Q3 a lot. I would download the replays of the championship matches. The champ knew the maps down cold. Knew all of the spawn points and had absolutely incredible rail gun accuracy.
As an aside, Starcraft replays are also available. The champs have an amazing ability to multitask, being able to micromanage their base and their attack at the same time. And, of course, they knew the maps like the back of their hand.
Who's to judge quality? Will Smith and Whitney Houston were pretty damn popular at one time so RIAA would respond, "it did reach the top 100, top 10 in fact."
I think that's the point. Dump enough bad CDs on libraries, no one will go to libraries and people will be forced to buy CDs instead of checking them out.
I realize that they are comparing only 1GB services. But come on! They have to include the two most well known web mail services, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail.
I use Icdsoft to host my domain. It has a webmail feature, so I can check my email from any browser. Plus I can download mail to my home computer using Mozilla. Plus, I can use any username I want. 333MB of storage accessible using any FTP client. And you can host web pages also. All for $60/year.
Parent just mentioned something you can do with folders that you can't do with labels--nest. Hotmail doesn't allow you to nest folders either, FWIW.
That Dells are cheaper. Yes, you CAN get a $2600 Dell, just like you can get a $2600 Apple. But you can't get a $600 Apple while you can get a $600 Dell. OP said that there was only a $50 difference. It's not $50. It's a lot more. Maybe the TCO of an Apple is less, I don't know. (Some say yes, some say no). But the initial cost of Macs is much higher. E.g., I don't buy Dell and I'm planning on building my own machine. Pricing everything out, I get to about $1000 for a 3 GHz machine with 1GB RAM and a 160 GB hard drive. Even less for an AMD processor. The cheapest G5 is $2000. And don't tell me that a $1000 iBook or eMac will give me the same performance as a 3Ghz processor.
But most football fans like football no matter who's playing. Even if you're a Steelers fan and want to see their 4:15 game doesn't mean you don't want to be able to choose which 1:00 game to watch.
There are two reasons a fan would want a TiVo'd game. (1) the game isn't broadcast in their area. E.g., a Steelers fan who lives in Nebraska might not get the Steelers on their TV. The solution: NFL Sunday Ticket. "But that's exclusive to DirecTV?" says the NFL. Well whose fucking fault is that. There are plenty of people who would be willing to pay for NFL Sunday Ticket if it were available through Cable companies. They can't because the greedy NFL signs a multi-billion dollar contract with DirecTV. (I want Sunday Ticket, but my apartment faces north. I can't get DirecTV.)
(2) the game is blacked out. A Steelers fan might not see the Steelers because the game is blacked out. Actually, the Steelers are a bad example because they haven't been blacked out in 30 years. So let's use the Cardinals. Their home games are never broadcast in Phoenix because they never come close to selling out. The whole purpose of the blackout policy is to force fans to buy tickets to prevent the blackout. It obviously doesn't work because the Cards still only get 30,000 fans per game. So why do they still use this outdated, policy that doesn't work? None of the other major sports black out home game.
The NFL can end the market for Tivo'd games by merely offering NFL Sunday Ticket to all cable companies and ending the blackout policy that doesn't work.
I don't know about Europe. But in the US, $1000 will get you a 2.8 GHz system with 512 MB RAM. No iMac can touch it. The G5 may be faster than an equivalent Pentium or AMD, but no one has ever suggested that a G4 is faster.
I said it before, but I'll say it again. At my previous job, my computer was running since Fall 99 without a reinstall. At home, my computer is running Win 98SE without a reinstall since April 2000. It replaced another computer, which had been running since 1997 without a reinstall. It worked perfectly until 2003, when I got rid of it.
Second, even Macs fail. And not all PCs fail. At my job, I have a 4 year old PC that never had a problem. At home, I have a 5 year old PC that has never had a problem.
I was given an old computer, a 700 MHz P3 with 128 MB RAM. I wiped the hard drive and did a clean install of XP. Literally, the computer couldn't do anything. The start menu took forever to start. I couldn't run IE. I couldn't run Windows Update. Remember, this was a bare installation. No software installed. And it still couldn't run. I upgraded to 256 MB Ram and the computer ran fine.
Of more importance is lighting. If you have bad lighting, the video will look bad no matter what kind of camera you have. This book is highly recommended for learning how to light.
The question is whether windows was generic in 1985. (Which it probably was.) If it was generic in 1985, it can't be trademarked now.
As stated here, the reason wedding photographers retain copyright is to force people to buy prints from them. However, if you agree to buy the negatives from him in, e.g., one year, he'll get all the initial print orders. Because very few people will be buying prints a year from the wedding anyway, he isn't losing anything.
So try that tactic: offer to buy prints from him as normal and buy the negatives (and copyright) from him in a year.
In the days of 256+ MB RAM and 40+ GB HD space, having an extra 10 MB app doesn't hurt you. I have both Firefox (0.8 because I can't get TabBrowser Extensions to work on 0.9) and IE on my work computer, for the increasingly rare site that requires IE to work.
Funny Firefox story: it's pop-up blocker is too strong. I have a gmail account and there was a link at top where I could send an invite. But it wouldn't do anything. Because the site is in Beta and isn't the most responsive in the world, I assumed the problem was on their end. But then I loaded up IE and found out that the invite is in a pop-up (one that IE+Google ToolBar didn't block).
2. You can find a boatload of tutorials for creating a resizing action under Photoshop, the preeminent photo editing program for both Mac and Windows. Where's the tutorials for Photoshop for Linux? Oh that's right, like many major programs--it's not available in Linux.
I only regularly read Sports Illustrated. I subscribe to several boating magazines and to EGM, but those were all free subscriptions that I don't plan on renewing.
Because it is very light weight and revs freely (the rev limiter is at 9300 rpm.) They aren't *that* enamored with it. The RX8 is the first car in 8 years they sold with a rotary engine.
My previous cars generally followed EPA estimates. I had a 24/30 Honda Accord and generally got about 25 mpg.
When I rent retro titles, it's cool for about an hour when I remember how much I used to like the games. Then the banality of the games get to me and I can't play it anymore.
If people want games that don't take 20 hours to play, try sports games. (IMO, that's one of the reasons sports games are so popular, you can play an entire game in half hour or so, yet there is great replayablity at the "elite" levels of the game.)
Oh, and here's a clickable version of the link.