Only those consumers who are smart enough to have bought a TRUE HD DLP projector can feel confident displaying art (if they don't care about bulb cost, that is)
LCD and especially Plasmas suffer TERRIBLE burn-in problems.
Also, 95% of the Plasma sets on the market are NOT high-definition; they can't even display the 720x1280 format used by HD 720P. For example NONE of the plasmas at my local "CostCo" are more han 820 pixels accros, yet consumer buy them thinking they're getting HD!
..the emergency vehicle's "traffic light" device makes the light RED in all directions. This way it can't possibly be abused, and makes the intersection safer to get through.
I suspect they all work this way, and any talk about a device that makes lights green is PURE NONSENSE.
Here's why the books are cheaper in other countries:
If they weren't the US companies with overseas sweatshop professional workers would have to pay them higher salaries so they could afford to go to school.
I once had the "Microsoft Script Engine" fail when I was on the road. So none of the fancy dialogs would work INCLUDING the window to set/restore and run Windows Update!
It would have been nice to run Windows Update from LYNX to get my system back!
Let me see! The super-intelligent Apple engineers decided to pop up a dialog that says "OUT OF MEMORY" if there's a "Norton Firewall" running "as a proxy server".
I have a Pentium 4HT with 3 GB of Ram (faster than a single G5, btw!).
Task manager reports that there are 2.6GB of memory free. No other application has trouble starting. But iTunes says
there's not enough memory!
My guess: it's a signed/unsigned problem with measuring the amount of ram: mor than 2GB and it's going negative.
I'm also a bit worried about the server it puts up if you enable sharing. I suspect that the port (3389 IIRC) will start getting portscanned a lot. Good thing my firewall blocks it.
Apple only started shipping its dual G5s about 10 DAYS AGO!
When they announced the G5 they were comparing a computer that WOULDN'T SHIP FOR ANOTHER 4 MONTHS to a 6-MONTH OLD DELL CONFIGURATION. They tested it against a dell with no serial-ATA and turned HYPERTHREADING OFF.
Recently, I've had to do some development on a g5. I had one (single processor) sitting right next to a 3.2GHz hyperthreaded P4 (Dell) with two serial-ATA drives. Nevermind that the list price of the Dell is 1000 less (with a bigger--taller--screen), THE DELL TROUNCED THE APPLE.
I'm completely unbiased. I'm a contractor and will work for anyone. My hardware is supplied by my customers. I paid for neither Dell nor G5. I have no ax to grind.
But you do, don't you? You're an Apple zealot, with some need to justify his purchase. Either quit bitching, or go to a psychiatrist and see why you get so passionate about defending a closed, proprietary, overpriced box.
I don't hear anyone here praising Exxon! Yet they're clearly a better company (as were nearly all DOW companies over the same period.)
Apple wasn't the first with a portable music player (think Sony Walkman) and Apple wasn't the first with a portable MP3 player (think Rio). And just because they've hyped the iPod (and yes, I own one!) doesn't mean they "invented" it or that they're better than anyone else.
...they should also sue apple for the "World's Fastest Personal Computer" and "First 64-bit Personal Computer" claims.
The dual-processor G5s STILL haven't arrived yet. Apple's announcement several months ago really compared a computer that would (maybe) ship in 6 months, to a 6-month old PC.
Anyway, back to disk drives. Remember the time when companies were bundling disk doubler software and advertising the capacity as 2X? I'm glad those days are over!
There was a hacker who got busted and Lamo was his Name-o (CLAP!) L A M O (CLAP!) L A M O (CLAP!) L A M O and Lamo was his Name-o
He's out on $250 Thousand Bail and Lamo was his Name-o (CLAP! CLAP!) A M O (CLAP! CLAP!) A M O (CLAP! CLAP!) A M O and Lamo was his Name-o
He's not as cool as Kevin was and Lamo was his Name-o (CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) M O (CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) M O (CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) M O and Lamo was his Name-o
He found his name in Nexus and Lamo was his Name-o (CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) O (CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) O (CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) O and Lamo was his Name-o
So if you are a computer guy and Lamo is your Name-o Don't get busted, or you'll fry! Hacking is no Game-o (CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) (CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) (CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) and Lamo was his Name-o
Let me get this straight: This famile doesn't believe they should pay for rent (us honest taxpayers have to do it) *or* for music!
I can't think of a better person to go after.
We're taxed to death--up to 35%+ fed income tax, 9% state income tax, "Alternative Minimum Tax", 8.5% sales tax, and these po folk are living rent free and listenting to free music.
I know I'm going to get flamed for saying this, but it's true:
I like Microsoft's Visual Basic.NET. It's a fascinating development enviornment for certain types of apps. The language has been completely re-designed over prior VBs (and also has *no* relation to BASIC anymore.)
It has Syntax-directed-editing, edit and continue, true Object Orientation, support for threads, etc, and is based on the.NET framework.
Since the "barrier to entry" to VB programming is low (but getting higher), unfortunately there's a lot of crap-ware written in it. Don't let that make you think the language is bad.
If VB.NET came out of MIT's media lab instead of Microsoft, everyone in the/. community would say it rocked.
..started giving me a "Free" six-month subscription to their daily newspaper. Every morning, a newspaper would appear in my driveway, unsolicited.
I had to call them about 5 times, and send a FED-EX to the president of Knight-Ridder in order to get it to stop.
Can you imagine? To stop a newspaper I never wanted in the first place, I had to spend about an hour on the phone and $12 on FED-EX bills!
The local Police and City Hall (Palo Alto, CA), tell me there's nothing they can do about it. (I guess they're too busy hugging homeless people.)
The paper weighs about 6 oz, on average. For 6 months thats about 90 pounds of paper. WHat I don't understand is if I decided to deliver, say, 90 pounds of manure "free" to the Palo Alto Police chief, he'd have me arrested. WHY CAN THE SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS get away with this?
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LCD and especially Plasmas suffer TERRIBLE burn-in problems. Also, 95% of the Plasma sets on the market are NOT high-definition; they can't even display the 720x1280 format used by HD 720P. For example NONE of the plasmas at my local "CostCo" are more han 820 pixels accros, yet consumer buy them thinking they're getting HD!
...worth of energy each day are being used to generated a few measly KW hours of electricity on my home Photovoltaic system?
I suspect they all work this way, and any talk about a device that makes lights green is PURE NONSENSE.
a bit overzealous describes every Macintosh user I've ever met!
Smart's reporting that my disk drives are running at 37 degrees! Is SMART not accurate? Why did he use an external thermal sensor?
If they weren't the US companies with overseas sweatshop professional workers would have to pay them higher salaries so they could afford to go to school.
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It would have been nice to run Windows Update from LYNX to get my system back!
Makes sense to me!
Call me an apple-hater, but iTunes Windows SUCKS. I wish it didn't install quicktime.
The iTunes store doesn't work on my PC either--I get an "out of memory error" AND I HAVE 3GB of RAM!
Hey! I can't connect to the internet through the firewall!
Well, then, we'd better put up an OUT OF MEMORY MESSAGE.
That's THINKING DIFFERENT for you!
Task manager reports that there are 2.6GB of memory free. No other application has trouble starting. But iTunes says there's not enough memory!
My guess: it's a signed/unsigned problem with measuring the amount of ram: mor than 2GB and it's going negative.
I'm also a bit worried about the server it puts up if you enable sharing. I suspect that the port (3389 IIRC) will start getting portscanned a lot. Good thing my firewall blocks it.
2. Macs don't support Hebrews
THEREFORE G-D USES WINDOWS!
Apple only started shipping its dual G5s about 10 DAYS AGO!
When they announced the G5 they were comparing a computer that WOULDN'T SHIP FOR ANOTHER 4 MONTHS to a 6-MONTH OLD DELL CONFIGURATION. They tested it against a dell with no serial-ATA and turned HYPERTHREADING OFF.
Recently, I've had to do some development on a g5. I had one (single processor) sitting right next to a 3.2GHz hyperthreaded P4 (Dell) with two serial-ATA drives. Nevermind that the list price of the Dell is 1000 less (with a bigger--taller--screen), THE DELL TROUNCED THE APPLE.
I'm completely unbiased. I'm a contractor and will work for anyone. My hardware is supplied by my customers. I paid for neither Dell nor G5. I have no ax to grind.
But you do, don't you? You're an Apple zealot, with some need to justify his purchase. Either quit bitching, or go to a psychiatrist and see why you get so passionate about defending a closed, proprietary, overpriced box.
Also, chek out their 3D Challah!
You can view the anaglyph images with the glasses you got from "Spy Kids 3D"
Sort of like the dual-processor G5 (which, AFAIK, is still not shipping!)
You know, if you bought EXXON stock and APPLE stock when apple went public back in 1982, you'd be WAY AHEAD with EXXON!
See this chart
I don't hear anyone here praising Exxon! Yet they're clearly a better company (as were nearly all DOW companies over the same period.)
Apple wasn't the first with a portable music player (think Sony Walkman) and Apple wasn't the first with a portable MP3 player (think Rio). And just because they've hyped the iPod (and yes, I own one!) doesn't mean they "invented" it or that they're better than anyone else.
The dual-processor G5s STILL haven't arrived yet. Apple's announcement several months ago really compared a computer that would (maybe) ship in 6 months, to a 6-month old PC.
Anyway, back to disk drives. Remember the time when companies were bundling disk doubler software and advertising the capacity as 2X? I'm glad those days are over!
There was a hacker who got busted
and Lamo was his Name-o
(CLAP!) L A M O
(CLAP!) L A M O
(CLAP!) L A M O
and Lamo was his Name-o
He's out on $250 Thousand Bail
and Lamo was his Name-o
(CLAP! CLAP!) A M O
(CLAP! CLAP!) A M O
(CLAP! CLAP!) A M O
and Lamo was his Name-o
He's not as cool as Kevin was
and Lamo was his Name-o
(CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) M O
(CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) M O
(CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) M O
and Lamo was his Name-o
He found his name in Nexus
and Lamo was his Name-o
(CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) O
(CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) O
(CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!) O
and Lamo was his Name-o
So if you are a computer guy
and Lamo is your Name-o
Don't get busted, or you'll fry!
Hacking is no Game-o
(CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!)
(CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!)
(CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!)
and Lamo was his Name-o
I can't think of a better person to go after.
We're taxed to death--up to 35%+ fed income tax, 9% state income tax, "Alternative Minimum Tax", 8.5% sales tax, and these po folk are living rent free and listenting to free music.
Throw them in jail and toss away the key!
...I saw it demonstrated at SIGGRAPH last week. They projected a keyboard on a surface, and you could go up to it and "type" on the projection.
It worked quite well.
I like Microsoft's Visual Basic .NET. It's a fascinating development enviornment for certain types of apps. The language has been completely re-designed over prior VBs (and also has *no* relation to BASIC anymore.)
It has Syntax-directed-editing, edit and continue, true Object Orientation, support for threads, etc, and is based on the .NET framework.
Since the "barrier to entry" to VB programming is low (but getting higher), unfortunately there's a lot of crap-ware written in it. Don't let that make you think the language is bad.
If VB .NET came out of MIT's media lab instead of Microsoft, everyone in the /. community would say it rocked.
Maybe it's hard to type with that squishy keyboard and the one-button mouse, but you'd be more credible if you got the name of the product right.
I'm sure it's not as loud as my G4 Macintosh!
I had to call them about 5 times, and send a FED-EX to the president of Knight-Ridder in order to get it to stop.
Can you imagine? To stop a newspaper I never wanted in the first place, I had to spend about an hour on the phone and $12 on FED-EX bills!
The local Police and City Hall (Palo Alto, CA), tell me there's nothing they can do about it. (I guess they're too busy hugging homeless people.)
The paper weighs about 6 oz, on average. For 6 months thats about 90 pounds of paper. WHat I don't understand is if I decided to deliver, say, 90 pounds of manure "free" to the Palo Alto Police chief, he'd have me arrested. WHY CAN THE SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS get away with this?
"absorbadent"
when he (I presume) meant to say "exorbitant"?
It took me about a minute to figure out what this guy meant. There's no excuse; we're all just a click away from m-w.com.
Thank goodness I have meta-moderator points, so I can nail the dumb-asses that modded him up!