Well, if the price was ever anything other than $x.xx9, then maybe they can make some kind of argument that they need such a fine grain for the price of gasoline. But they never change it, so to me it's just a gimmick.
Depends on the car. I'm guessing a 1931 Bugatti Royale would be cheaper to 3D print since there are only three on the planet. The last time one was sold was in 1987 for $8.7 million.
Yeah, but once your 3D car printing technology becomes mainstream, how long do you think before there are well more than 3 examples of the 1931 Bugatti Royale?
It was part of their contract with the big labels.
Your paranoia and pre-judgement is clouding the issue, that somehow Steve Jobs is some sort of Machiavellian character with a villainous moustache, an evil laugh with echo sound effect and a long black cape.
As soon as the contract was renegotiated, the DRM was gone - from everyone.
If the major record labels tried that, it would be a pretty blatant antitrust violation. That's not to say that they didn't do exactly that, as we don't know the details of the deal Apple struck with the record labels. However, if that's the case, then Apple knowingly went along with something that their lawyers almost certainly told them was illegal and blatantly anti-consumer.
If Apple really was truly DRM-free from the start, why did they force DRM on independent artists and labels music if they wanted to sell on the iTunes music store, even if the artists and labels didn't want DRM on their music? Apple only changed their stance on this when the big labels allowed Apple to sell music DRM-free. Asn far as I'm concerned, Steve Jobs is full of shit. He was very pro-DRM and pro-lockin, and only changed his mind when he realized he could make more money by going DRM-free.
only worked with win2k and winxp, demanded a special "sync" application, installed a whole bunch of drivers and crashed the machine it connected to roughly 20-25% of the times I connected it.
Hey, that sounds just like Apple, though eventually they did manage to get iTunes to work properly on Vista.
You might want to keep in mind that a good business model doesn't necessarily mean good for the consumer or the marketplace, only that it's generating a nice profit for somebody.
What might be even more interesting is that old Spock should know about all of those things already, which means that they could be dealt with in the new Universe in an entirely different manner. I'd really like to know more about who built the Doomsday machine, where the whale probe came from, and what Voyager (V'ger) ran into myself.
The only problem with headphones that I have is people can then sneak up on you. Not intentionally, of course, but it can be a bit jarring to realize that someone is behind you and you had no idea they were there and how long they've been there. Especially if it's your boss. It would be great though if you can arrange things so that you can always see if someone is coming, which may or may not be possible in an open layout.
The iPad is great so long as it does what you want it to do. However, once you find something it doesn't do, then you run up against the various walls and artificial barriers set up by Apple, DRM, etc., and the frustration of not being able to do something you want to do with a device you own.
That's on of the main reasons a regular computer is like it is, as the complexity is a result of the incredible flexibility they offer.
Well, the big mistake was to start him out in some remote outpost in the middle of nowhere. Rather, they could have had him as a master technician or something like that working on the construction of the Enterprise. Then they could have had him included in the crew of the Enterprise when they suddenly needed a crew for her, as he would have been one of the few people who really knew the ship at that time and a logical choice. It could have nicely set Scotty up as a technical whiz who really knew the Enterprise's systems and who already had a strong connection to the ship.
The problem I have with the 1920x1200 displays is that they are too big. The smallest ones on the market are 24" and have a sub-100 DPI. They really should be 22" to match the 1600x1200 at 20" LCDs that were common a few years back. Yes, I am aware that there are a few 22" 1920x1200 screens, but they are rare and possibly all out of production by now. The new 1080p 21.5" monitors out there are more like it, but I'm not too crazy about the 16:9 aspect ratio.
I guess for now I'll stick with the 2 1600x1200 20" LCDs I have, unless I decide to spring for a 30" or someone comes up with something else interesting in the meantime (how about putting a bezel and a DVI port around some of those high DPI laptop screens and selling them as regular monitors???).
The vertical viewing angle on the ubiquitous cheap TN panels is terrible. Usually you won't notice it, but rotate the monitor, and that becomes the horizontal viewing angle and very noticeable. Of course, you can always spend some more money and get a better quality panel.
I like dollar coins, as it's rather nice to be able to make a small purchase without digging around in your wallet for some $1's. Though on the other hand, most "small purchases" nowadays seem to involve a $5 so we're pretty much right back where we started.
Of course, back in the old days we used to have $1, $2.50, $5, $10, and $20 coins. The $20 coin contains almost an ounce of gold, so that would be like a $1000 coin (actually more like $1100) today.
You don't even have to go to the bank if you're lazy, as the US Mint will ship a box of $250 of them right to your door at cost if you intend to spend them.
Nearly every panel on the market is a cheap TN panel, and while they play all kinds of games to get contrast ratios and color saturation up, have fun trying to properly calibrate one. And where are all the high resolution panels? Everything now is pretty much 1080p at best - maybe that's fine for TVs but why can't we push the pixel count higher for PCs, especially since 16:9 really doesn't work that great on a PC anyway? And where have all the good laptop screens gone? A few years ago you could get a 1600x1200 IPS screen at 15" - nothing like that today even comes close.
Windows 7 with VS2010 will run on that hardware. It won't be the fastest setup, but still serviceable. I don't know about using a virtual machine though - VS2010 requires 1024MB. It might run on a 512MB virtual machine, though I wouldn't count on it. If you can boost the machine to 2-3GB so you can give the victual machine 1GB then it should be fine.
If they really wanted to know, they would just wait for you to pay with a credit card, debit card, or check when you use the card, then they can link it to your real information. Of course you could make a point to always use cash no exceptions, but few people probably do that.
That's looking at things from a completely human perspective. Our lifetimes are around 70-80 years (on average). What if an alien species measured their lifetimes in thousands of years? Then a trip to another star might be like boarding a trans-oceanic liner to go to another continent. If they lived for millions of years, then it would be no different than when we hop on an airplane. It's even feasible that we can extend our lifespans that far or longer given sufficiently advanced technology.
The problem is that with almost 7 billion mouths to feed, we can't afford to have drastic changes to the biosphere. Any drastic changes would likely lead to less food production, which would lead to mass starvation. This inevitably would lead to wars over the remaining resources, which would result in more people being killed and further changes (most would call it damage) to the biosphere. Sure, life on Earth would continue on, new species will fill in the gaps, and likely humans would still be around. However, it's not going be pleasant for anyone alive today or their immediate descendants. I don't see why you don't get this.
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Actually more like $5 and change ($5.32 in my local) once tax is added to the price.
Well, if the price was ever anything other than $x.xx9, then maybe they can make some kind of argument that they need such a fine grain for the price of gasoline. But they never change it, so to me it's just a gimmick.
Yeah, but once your 3D car printing technology becomes mainstream, how long do you think before there are well more than 3 examples of the 1931 Bugatti Royale?
If the major record labels tried that, it would be a pretty blatant antitrust violation. That's not to say that they didn't do exactly that, as we don't know the details of the deal Apple struck with the record labels. However, if that's the case, then Apple knowingly went along with something that their lawyers almost certainly told them was illegal and blatantly anti-consumer.
http://omgtru.com/925/descent-is-the-highest-form-of-patriotic
Admittedly, Descent was a pretty good game.
If Apple really was truly DRM-free from the start, why did they force DRM on independent artists and labels music if they wanted to sell on the iTunes music store, even if the artists and labels didn't want DRM on their music? Apple only changed their stance on this when the big labels allowed Apple to sell music DRM-free. Asn far as I'm concerned, Steve Jobs is full of shit. He was very pro-DRM and pro-lockin, and only changed his mind when he realized he could make more money by going DRM-free.
Hey, that sounds just like Apple, though eventually they did manage to get iTunes to work properly on Vista.
You might want to keep in mind that a good business model doesn't necessarily mean good for the consumer or the marketplace, only that it's generating a nice profit for somebody.
What might be even more interesting is that old Spock should know about all of those things already, which means that they could be dealt with in the new Universe in an entirely different manner. I'd really like to know more about who built the Doomsday machine, where the whale probe came from, and what Voyager (V'ger) ran into myself.
The only problem with headphones that I have is people can then sneak up on you. Not intentionally, of course, but it can be a bit jarring to realize that someone is behind you and you had no idea they were there and how long they've been there. Especially if it's your boss. It would be great though if you can arrange things so that you can always see if someone is coming, which may or may not be possible in an open layout.
The iPad is great so long as it does what you want it to do. However, once you find something it doesn't do, then you run up against the various walls and artificial barriers set up by Apple, DRM, etc., and the frustration of not being able to do something you want to do with a device you own.
That's on of the main reasons a regular computer is like it is, as the complexity is a result of the incredible flexibility they offer.
Well, the big mistake was to start him out in some remote outpost in the middle of nowhere. Rather, they could have had him as a master technician or something like that working on the construction of the Enterprise. Then they could have had him included in the crew of the Enterprise when they suddenly needed a crew for her, as he would have been one of the few people who really knew the ship at that time and a logical choice. It could have nicely set Scotty up as a technical whiz who really knew the Enterprise's systems and who already had a strong connection to the ship.
The problem I have with the 1920x1200 displays is that they are too big. The smallest ones on the market are 24" and have a sub-100 DPI. They really should be 22" to match the 1600x1200 at 20" LCDs that were common a few years back. Yes, I am aware that there are a few 22" 1920x1200 screens, but they are rare and possibly all out of production by now. The new 1080p 21.5" monitors out there are more like it, but I'm not too crazy about the 16:9 aspect ratio.
I guess for now I'll stick with the 2 1600x1200 20" LCDs I have, unless I decide to spring for a 30" or someone comes up with something else interesting in the meantime (how about putting a bezel and a DVI port around some of those high DPI laptop screens and selling them as regular monitors???).
The vertical viewing angle on the ubiquitous cheap TN panels is terrible. Usually you won't notice it, but rotate the monitor, and that becomes the horizontal viewing angle and very noticeable. Of course, you can always spend some more money and get a better quality panel.
I like dollar coins, as it's rather nice to be able to make a small purchase without digging around in your wallet for some $1's. Though on the other hand, most "small purchases" nowadays seem to involve a $5 so we're pretty much right back where we started.
Of course, back in the old days we used to have $1, $2.50, $5, $10, and $20 coins. The $20 coin contains almost an ounce of gold, so that would be like a $1000 coin (actually more like $1100) today.
You don't even have to go to the bank if you're lazy, as the US Mint will ship a box of $250 of them right to your door at cost if you intend to spend them.
Linky:
http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&identifier=8100
Isn't this basically what Windows has been doing for 3 years now with ReadyBoost?
Nearly every panel on the market is a cheap TN panel, and while they play all kinds of games to get contrast ratios and color saturation up, have fun trying to properly calibrate one. And where are all the high resolution panels? Everything now is pretty much 1080p at best - maybe that's fine for TVs but why can't we push the pixel count higher for PCs, especially since 16:9 really doesn't work that great on a PC anyway? And where have all the good laptop screens gone? A few years ago you could get a 1600x1200 IPS screen at 15" - nothing like that today even comes close.
Windows 7 with VS2010 will run on that hardware. It won't be the fastest setup, but still serviceable. I don't know about using a virtual machine though - VS2010 requires 1024MB. It might run on a 512MB virtual machine, though I wouldn't count on it. If you can boost the machine to 2-3GB so you can give the victual machine 1GB then it should be fine.
Well, there's always the RMS Queen Mary 2, the last trans-Atlantic ocean liner still in service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary_2
Though if things continue on like this, they probably could put the Queen Elizabeth 2 back into service (retired in 2008) without too much trouble:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth_2
If they really wanted to know, they would just wait for you to pay with a credit card, debit card, or check when you use the card, then they can link it to your real information. Of course you could make a point to always use cash no exceptions, but few people probably do that.
They probably spelled "Winny" wrong, which is a P2P program supposedly like the old defunct WinMX. Very popular in Japan.
Would a tree that grows on their land after they buy it not be theirs?
That's looking at things from a completely human perspective. Our lifetimes are around 70-80 years (on average). What if an alien species measured their lifetimes in thousands of years? Then a trip to another star might be like boarding a trans-oceanic liner to go to another continent. If they lived for millions of years, then it would be no different than when we hop on an airplane. It's even feasible that we can extend our lifespans that far or longer given sufficiently advanced technology.
The problem is that with almost 7 billion mouths to feed, we can't afford to have drastic changes to the biosphere. Any drastic changes would likely lead to less food production, which would lead to mass starvation. This inevitably would lead to wars over the remaining resources, which would result in more people being killed and further changes (most would call it damage) to the biosphere. Sure, life on Earth would continue on, new species will fill in the gaps, and likely humans would still be around. However, it's not going be pleasant for anyone alive today or their immediate descendants. I don't see why you don't get this.