Obama is the most inexperienced candidate running. He doesn't have a chance. He may be a good Democrat candidate, but there's no way he can get support outside of the Democrat party.
I would say quite the opposite. Obama has pretty wide support amonst swing voters, and quite a few Republicans think he is "alright for a Democrat". I would say the opposite is Hilary, she has decent support within her party, but a lot of swing voters don't like her, and she causes the Republicans to foam at the mouth. If anything, Obama has a lot better chance than Hilary or even Edwards to win the election.
On the other hand, I really wish that some company would buck the trend and make some high DPI screens, as they simply do not exist at this time. I would really like to buy a 1400x1050 14.1" screen, or a 1600x1200 16" screen, or a 2048x1536 19" screen (or similar). Things really look much nicer when you can't see the individual pixels all the time, and the subpixel rendering of fonts start to look really nice. And judging by how I see other people use their LCDs, there would also be some good money in making a 1024x768 native 20" screen too.
It's a 2.5" drive, which gives it a few advantages in the context that it will be used in a laptop:
1. Lower power consumption. 2. Much increased shock resistance. 3. Massive amount of storage space. The largest spinning platters laptop drive I see on the market now is 320GB, or less than half the size. Even if you bought one of those laptops that support 2 drives, you would still only have 640GB (which ought to be enough for anyone, etc...)
For a desktop, I don't see any real big advantages. It would be completely silent, but a newer low noise harddrive in a good case is pretty near silent anyway.
Here's my thought. You're already putting a ton of expensive stuff into this device, so why not divide the space into two or four internal channels and use RAID 0 on them?
How do you know they aren't doing this already? 100MB/s from a flash drive is pretty fast by my standards.
While I own neither a PS3 nor an XBox 360, I find it funny, how the PS3 is usually getting slammed for being too expensive, having no cool exclusive titles and generally not seilling well - however as soon as we're talking about BluRay, it's suddenly supposed to be this Juggernaut driving out the other HD format. Could all the fanboys please decide whether they want to bah it for being a failure or for being too successful?
Or it could be that the PS3's numbers in the context of a next generation gaming console are poor, but the same numbers in the context of a next generation movie format/player, they are pretty good?
I highly doubt you could get a shoulder fired rocket in the vicinity of a US commercial airport for $150.
Why not? You can pretty much walk right up to the fences surrounding most airports I've seen. The Minneapolis/St. Paul airport has a freeway running along all four sides of it. You could pretty much pull over next to the end of a runway, whip out your missle launcher, jump into the ditch, and down a plane before anyone could do anything about it.
Also, the President and VP can choose their Deputy President and and Deputy VP in case one of them dies or is hospitalized so that the Presidency or Vice Presidency stays within the same party until the next election.
I could agree with the reasons you give, but should the need arise to remove a corrupt President (or VP) from office, the President should not be allowed to name their (likely corrupt) replacement. Much like the situation now, one of the main arguements against impeaching Bush can be summed up as President Dick Cheney.
Higher DPI is the reason why I use a 20" 1600x1200 screen, which has a DPI only slightly lower than the 30" 2560x1600 screen. I find the 1400x1050 14.1" screen in my laptop a bit more to my liking though, as at that DPI the sub-pixel rendering of fonts start looking good, whereas the sub-pixel rendering on a 19" desktop LCD looks terrible.
ENTIRELY WRONG. What you've described is what the supplier *WANTS YOU* to think, but it does not reflect the reality of copyright law whatsoever. If you have purchased a copy of the software through legal channels, you have full rights to run it without agreeing to any further terms. Full stop.
Most software I have experience with either presents you with a EULA when you install the software, or when you try to run it for the first time. If you decline, the software won't install or run. So how are you supposed to exercise this "right" to run the software without being bound by the EULA, if one accepts that EULA's are valid in the first place?
That can also be played cooperatively too, with the same goal as regular solitiare (have everyone clear their deck and all their columns). That's a favorite amonst some Grandma's I know.
You got lucky. The HC model has nasty issues. I had one briefly. Even after calibration, the ghosting was incredibly distracting just dragging icons across my desktop, and games were all but unplayable.
Maybe he was using the DVI port? I skimmed that link and really couldn't tell if the ghosting was just over VGA or not. I've seen some pretty terrible artifacts when using the VGA input with a crappy video card, with probably the worst I've seen on a Radeon 7000 recently. Why anyone would spent the money on a 24" monitor and not buy a DVI capable graphics card is beyond me.
I'm waiting for someone, anyone to release a high DPI screen. 30" and only 2560 x 1600 resolution? I want that in a 20" screen. The only high resolution desktop screen I'm aware of is the really expensive and discontinued IBM T221, which is absolutely stunning.
Looks like the stance taken by the the media and mainstream Republicans was that if you ignore him, he'll go away. As I expected, it seems to be working pretty well so far.
That's the equilivent of the Windows 3.1 method of deleting the directory the application resides in. Many applications stick things all over the place and make changes when they are run (especially Adobe applications), and those things don't get undone when you delete the application by dragging it to the trash. Sure, many applications are self contained, but not all of them.
That only really works if you're looking for a computer that was a lot like the Mac in the first place. I bought a Thinkpad, because everything Apple has that's less than $2000 comes with a low-res screen and integrated video.
It's not that hard to estimate, just estimate the extra amount of electricity you use running SETI (a meter like the Kill-a-watt can be helpful here), and multiply by the rate you pay the electric company. I suspect for most people, the number is going to be pretty small, unless you're the type to computers running just to boost your SETI stats instead of turning them off. For a PC that draws an extra 20W when running SETI, and is left on 24/7, at $0.08 per KWH, you're looking at about $1.20 per month.
And a quick poll: How many of you think that the government issuing $40 coupons for converter boxes is going to raise the price of converter boxes by $40?
I kind of doubt it. In England, their equilivent digital converter boxes (which are unsubsidized) cost about 10 Pounds ($20). Someone will figure that there is good money to be made "giving away" converter boxes to consumers by collecting $40 from the government for a $20 part, and that means the price will settle right at $40 pretty quickly.
Why are they so expensive in the USA? You can buy one for £10 ($20-ish) in the UK, see this news article. Most are £20, still much less than your $100+.
Right now they are a low volume product which are mostly being sold with the early adopter fee. For the masses, their analog TV is still working, it's good enough, so they aren't interested. Once they become required to pick up a broadcast, the demand will shoot way up, economies of scale will kick in, and the price will probably settle right around $40 for a $20 box that the consumer will have to pay $0 for.
They EOLed Classic with the switch to Intel, actually.
Because Classic requires a Power PC (or a 68000). I guess they decided two layers of emulation (CPU and OS) was too much to keep synchronized.
Actually, he's right. You're right that they never bothered with Classic on the Intel machines, but it was still supported on Tiger for the PPC Macs. However, in Leopard there is no support for Classic on either platform.
From what I could see, this is one of those circumstances that have no real "right" answer that'll make you feel good.
In order to come up with the right answer, I think the question needs to be asked - what is so dangerous in these old file formats? I don't doubt that there are exploits in the older file formats as I still remember the days of macro viruses, but they are old exploits. To ban Office 2003 from opening them is basically saying that Office has a bunch of ten year old unpatched security holes in it, and Microsoft doesn't want to fix them. You would think you would be able to open them up safely, somehow.
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Obama is the most inexperienced candidate running. He doesn't have a chance. He may be a good Democrat candidate, but there's no way he can get support outside of the Democrat party.
I would say quite the opposite. Obama has pretty wide support amonst swing voters, and quite a few Republicans think he is "alright for a Democrat". I would say the opposite is Hilary, she has decent support within her party, but a lot of swing voters don't like her, and she causes the Republicans to foam at the mouth. If anything, Obama has a lot better chance than Hilary or even Edwards to win the election.
They can also browse through the pictures in your digital camera, evidently. Happened to me on the way back from my last trip to Singapore.
I suppose that's one advantage to film right there.
On the other hand, I really wish that some company would buck the trend and make some high DPI screens, as they simply do not exist at this time. I would really like to buy a 1400x1050 14.1" screen, or a 1600x1200 16" screen, or a 2048x1536 19" screen (or similar). Things really look much nicer when you can't see the individual pixels all the time, and the subpixel rendering of fonts start to look really nice. And judging by how I see other people use their LCDs, there would also be some good money in making a 1024x768 native 20" screen too.
It's a 2.5" drive, which gives it a few advantages in the context that it will be used in a laptop:
1. Lower power consumption.
2. Much increased shock resistance.
3. Massive amount of storage space. The largest spinning platters laptop drive I see on the market now is 320GB, or less than half the size. Even if you bought one of those laptops that support 2 drives, you would still only have 640GB (which ought to be enough for anyone, etc...)
For a desktop, I don't see any real big advantages. It would be completely silent, but a newer low noise harddrive in a good case is pretty near silent anyway.
Here's my thought. You're already putting a ton of expensive stuff into this device, so why not divide the space into two or four internal channels and use RAID 0 on them?
How do you know they aren't doing this already? 100MB/s from a flash drive is pretty fast by my standards.
While I own neither a PS3 nor an XBox 360, I find it funny, how the PS3 is usually getting slammed for being too expensive, having no cool exclusive titles and generally not seilling well - however as soon as we're talking about BluRay, it's suddenly supposed to be this Juggernaut driving out the other HD format. Could all the fanboys please decide whether they want to bah it for being a failure or for being too successful?
Or it could be that the PS3's numbers in the context of a next generation gaming console are poor, but the same numbers in the context of a next generation movie format/player, they are pretty good?
I highly doubt you could get a shoulder fired rocket in the vicinity of a US commercial airport for $150.
Why not? You can pretty much walk right up to the fences surrounding most airports I've seen. The Minneapolis/St. Paul airport has a freeway running along all four sides of it. You could pretty much pull over next to the end of a runway, whip out your missle launcher, jump into the ditch, and down a plane before anyone could do anything about it.
Also, the President and VP can choose their Deputy President and and Deputy VP in case one of them dies or is hospitalized so that the Presidency or Vice Presidency stays within the same party until the next election.
I could agree with the reasons you give, but should the need arise to remove a corrupt President (or VP) from office, the President should not be allowed to name their (likely corrupt) replacement. Much like the situation now, one of the main arguements against impeaching Bush can be summed up as President Dick Cheney.
Higher DPI is the reason why I use a 20" 1600x1200 screen, which has a DPI only slightly lower than the 30" 2560x1600 screen. I find the 1400x1050 14.1" screen in my laptop a bit more to my liking though, as at that DPI the sub-pixel rendering of fonts start looking good, whereas the sub-pixel rendering on a 19" desktop LCD looks terrible.
ENTIRELY WRONG. What you've described is what the supplier *WANTS YOU* to think, but it does not reflect the reality of copyright law whatsoever. If you have purchased a copy of the software through legal channels, you have full rights to run it without agreeing to any further terms. Full stop.
Most software I have experience with either presents you with a EULA when you install the software, or when you try to run it for the first time. If you decline, the software won't install or run. So how are you supposed to exercise this "right" to run the software without being bound by the EULA, if one accepts that EULA's are valid in the first place?
That can also be played cooperatively too, with the same goal as regular solitiare (have everyone clear their deck and all their columns). That's a favorite amonst some Grandma's I know.
You got lucky. The HC model has nasty issues. I had one briefly. Even after calibration, the ghosting was incredibly distracting just dragging icons across my desktop, and games were all but unplayable.
Maybe he was using the DVI port? I skimmed that link and really couldn't tell if the ghosting was just over VGA or not. I've seen some pretty terrible artifacts when using the VGA input with a crappy video card, with probably the worst I've seen on a Radeon 7000 recently. Why anyone would spent the money on a 24" monitor and not buy a DVI capable graphics card is beyond me.
I'm waiting for someone, anyone to release a high DPI screen. 30" and only 2560 x 1600 resolution? I want that in a 20" screen. The only high resolution desktop screen I'm aware of is the really expensive and discontinued IBM T221, which is absolutely stunning.
Looks like the stance taken by the the media and mainstream Republicans was that if you ignore him, he'll go away. As I expected, it seems to be working pretty well so far.
That's the equilivent of the Windows 3.1 method of deleting the directory the application resides in. Many applications stick things all over the place and make changes when they are run (especially Adobe applications), and those things don't get undone when you delete the application by dragging it to the trash. Sure, many applications are self contained, but not all of them.
That only really works if you're looking for a computer that was a lot like the Mac in the first place. I bought a Thinkpad, because everything Apple has that's less than $2000 comes with a low-res screen and integrated video.
It really amazes me everytime that this tired old troll is posted, dozens of people manage to act like they have never seen it before.
It wasn't a coincidence that Linux came with developer tools... bought a printer? Write your own damned driver.
It can work the same way for Macs. Got a Winprinter that doesn't have an OSX driver? You're just screwed.
I've never had any problems with BOINC crashing. Maybe you're running it on dodgy hardware?
It's not that hard to estimate, just estimate the extra amount of electricity you use running SETI (a meter like the Kill-a-watt can be helpful here), and multiply by the rate you pay the electric company. I suspect for most people, the number is going to be pretty small, unless you're the type to computers running just to boost your SETI stats instead of turning them off. For a PC that draws an extra 20W when running SETI, and is left on 24/7, at $0.08 per KWH, you're looking at about $1.20 per month.
I bet a little monkey king whispered in their ear that Apple is releasing something like this and they don't want to be a me-too.
Well, they are already a "me too", with the Asus eee already existing. But then again, around here nothing exists until Apple "invents" it.
And a quick poll: How many of you think that the government issuing $40 coupons for converter boxes is going to raise the price of converter boxes by $40?
I kind of doubt it. In England, their equilivent digital converter boxes (which are unsubsidized) cost about 10 Pounds ($20). Someone will figure that there is good money to be made "giving away" converter boxes to consumers by collecting $40 from the government for a $20 part, and that means the price will settle right at $40 pretty quickly.
Why are they so expensive in the USA? You can buy one for £10 ($20-ish) in the UK, see this news article. Most are £20, still much less than your $100+.
Right now they are a low volume product which are mostly being sold with the early adopter fee. For the masses, their analog TV is still working, it's good enough, so they aren't interested. Once they become required to pick up a broadcast, the demand will shoot way up, economies of scale will kick in, and the price will probably settle right around $40 for a $20 box that the consumer will have to pay $0 for.
They EOLed Classic with the switch to Intel, actually.
Because Classic requires a Power PC (or a 68000). I guess they decided two layers of emulation (CPU and OS) was too much to keep synchronized.
Actually, he's right. You're right that they never bothered with Classic on the Intel machines, but it was still supported on Tiger for the PPC Macs. However, in Leopard there is no support for Classic on either platform.
From what I could see, this is one of those circumstances that have no real "right" answer that'll make you feel good.
In order to come up with the right answer, I think the question needs to be asked - what is so dangerous in these old file formats? I don't doubt that there are exploits in the older file formats as I still remember the days of macro viruses, but they are old exploits. To ban Office 2003 from opening them is basically saying that Office has a bunch of ten year old unpatched security holes in it, and Microsoft doesn't want to fix them. You would think you would be able to open them up safely, somehow.