I found the last of the 4.0x series (4.08 if I recall correctly) was a lot more stable than any of the later 4.x releases. Though that's not saying much, it still crashed a fair amount. I stuck with it though, because atleast when Netscape crashed it genernally didn't take the OS down with it like IE did. Then I found Opera 4 and switched to that.
And having a toothpaste tube with a chunk of higher density material inside it is certainly going to raise suspicion, don't you think?
Just pack it next to a bottle of water as a decoy. You'll have about a 95% chance they'll spot the harmless bottle of water, confiscate it, and totally ignore the toothpaste in the process.
You have meetings to decide wether to buy something that cost two fucking dollars??? You must work for the government!
No, they probably had a meeting about what to name their website. First step, of course, is for someone to do some searches to see what is available, Oops.
The thing they should have done, such as come up with 20 names first and then register all of them on the spot that were still available isn't exactly the most obvious solution.
Generally, the trail period software is smart enough to permanently expire the software once the trail date has passed, meaning you can't set the date in the past and have your software work again. However, it has no way to tell if you keep setting your clock back before the expiration date though.
However, I don't expect this to be an issue. Most likely the DRM will check in with the mothership before letting you play the file, the system time will be irrelevant to the whole thing.
Well, you can certainly build a white box PC and weld the case shut like a Mac, so I don't really see how the Mac is inherently any better in that regards. You'll find the hardware will be just reliable so long as you stick to good parts and don't mess with it. Besides, it's not like Macs don't have some of the same problems in regards to things changing, especially when an upgrade generally means replacing the entire machine. Got a 3 year old PPC Mac (far more obsolete than AMD 754 or 939 boards) and want to upgrade? Well that's a whole new computer, as opposed to a new CPU/motherboard and possibly memory/video card for the PC. Same thing with repairs. A 3 year old Mac that breaks is a doorstop. A 3 year whitebox PC that breaks can be repaired easily, with just the broken part will end up being trashed, and the PC will probably end up faster as a result.
Also, it's not like the upgrade treadmill is creating piles of waste. I usually end up performing trickle-down upgrades, with the parts being pushed out at the bottom is generally high-end PII/PIII hardware (in other words, stuff that's 6-9 years old at this point).
Choose the best tool for the job. If you'll be more productive with OS X, and you're only choosing between these two systems, then obviously choose the iMac.
That may be 3.1416% for Apple's share of the entire market. But the iMac has got something like 90% of the all-in-one market.
Things would be a lot different if Apple sold something else between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro. All-in-ones are niche products in the PC world (I don't expect this new Dell to be any different) because most people reject them as inferior, costlier machines. I would guess most Mac users would do the same, given a choice.
How long does a computer last you? I typically find myself looking for a new monitor when I want a new computer too (which is about every 4 years).
I like the flexibility myself. Sometimes an older PC gets a new monitor, sometimes the older monitor gets a new PC. I like to get a the most out of my hardware, so the same computer may through a few configurations, possibly ending up without a monitor as a server at some point. And there is always the advantage of being able to more easily replace a broken screen (or to salvage a good screen from a hopelessly broken computer), and the ability to use a KVM too.
The summary is pretty bad. The article just claims that 36.4% of computers have Limewire installed (which seems pretty high to me, but whatever).
If you ask me, the number is still really low. Most people have probably infringed on IP without knowing it. Sure, people know about downloading MP3's or movies, but still think nothing of saving that cool/funny picture they found on the internet when they don't have explicit permission to do so. Considering that these kind of things get emailed around all the time, you would have to be pretty proactive at deleting those from your email just to keep your Inbox from infringing on someone's IP. You could probably claim that almost 100% of Internet connected computers infringe on IP considering that your browser caches copyrighted material all of the time to your harddrive, and a browser's cache probably a big legal grey area when it comes to copyright.
Sorry, but you don't get to be on the top 20 most wanted in the county lists for a speeding ticket, or failure to appear. Usually it's only for a robbery or a crime committed with violence involved, aka armed robbery, or some other financial crime like fraud or bank robbery.
Why not? If it's a relatively quiet community, they may get down to the speeders and jaywalkers when compiling a list of the 20 most wanted criminals at large.
That would, I think, require even more stupidity then normal, considering the number of ways one could achieve a similar level of publicity without the risk of going to jail for a great many years.
So, how long before you think it's going to happen?
Honestly, it looks pretty much like the Chevy Aveo, Kia Spectra, Nissan Vectra, and a bit like the Mazda5. None of those cars are particularly good looking (IMHO), but the Mazda is by far the ugliest. Not that I'm bashing the Fit - if I had to buy a new car tomorrow it would be high on the list of canidates.
They probably just haven't learned to filter them out mentally yet. I'm sure banner ads will catch their attention too, whereas any image 468×60 pixels in size pretty much automatically gets ignored by more experienced web users.
I don't know about where you live, but up here in Minnesota leaving your furnance on (atleast some minimal level above freezing) when you aren't around is pretty much a necessity during the winter. Otherwise, the temperature can drop below freezing and you'll arrive home to another kind of mess when your pipes burst. Furnances can certainly cause fires, but it doesn't seem to be a common occurance. I would be more concerned about something happening during the roughly 8 hours per day you're in the house and sleeping.
If a house is purchased, then by implication, it is to be sold at some point. certainly this is usually the case nowadays. Therefore any modification made to a house should ideally be done with its effect on resale value.
On the contrary, if you wanted to do a modification like this you would have to own the place. No landlord would allow you convert their rental to a batcave. That's the big benefit I see to owning a place, the ability to modify it however I want.
5 million sheets of A4 isn't unmanageable, though it would be a lot. It'd probably fit into a shipping container. Though I wouldn't want to be the poor sap who has to scan all those back into the computer shtould the worst case scenario happen.
The definition of a monopoly is not having 100% of the market. It is having enough (e.g. 25%) to distort the market and unfairly control your supplies or customers, e.g. to make prices rather than to take them, to dictate your own proprietary standards rather than open standards and so on.
No, a monopoly is a situation where you basically have only one provider in a marketplace. It has nothing at all to do with how abuse that company is.
While things have really gotten nasty in the loudness wars the past few years, I would be hardpressed to blame it on cheap computer speakers, MP3's, and iPods. Things were pretty well in full swing back in the early 90's.
The fact is, all those "inane" reality shows you deride are there because that's what the audience actually wants.
Actually, the "success" of a lot of reality TV shows comes from the fact that they are incredibly cheap to produce. Why pay the millions actors/actresses demand, when for next to nothing (a few grand to a few tens of grand, including travel and prize money) you can get a bunch of Joe Schmoes?
Though for MTV, I'm not quite sure how it works. Music videos are basically promotions for the artist, and MTV doesn't typcially produce them, so you would think running a 24/7 music video channel would be cheap. But it wouldn't surprise me that the RIAA demands a lot of money to air a music video, just because they can.
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I found the last of the 4.0x series (4.08 if I recall correctly) was a lot more stable than any of the later 4.x releases. Though that's not saying much, it still crashed a fair amount. I stuck with it though, because atleast when Netscape crashed it genernally didn't take the OS down with it like IE did. Then I found Opera 4 and switched to that.
And having a toothpaste tube with a chunk of higher density material inside it is certainly going to raise suspicion, don't you think?
Just pack it next to a bottle of water as a decoy. You'll have about a 95% chance they'll spot the harmless bottle of water, confiscate it, and totally ignore the toothpaste in the process.
You have meetings to decide wether to buy something that cost two fucking dollars??? You must work for the government!
No, they probably had a meeting about what to name their website. First step, of course, is for someone to do some searches to see what is available, Oops.
The thing they should have done, such as come up with 20 names first and then register all of them on the spot that were still available isn't exactly the most obvious solution.
Generally, the trail period software is smart enough to permanently expire the software once the trail date has passed, meaning you can't set the date in the past and have your software work again. However, it has no way to tell if you keep setting your clock back before the expiration date though.
However, I don't expect this to be an issue. Most likely the DRM will check in with the mothership before letting you play the file, the system time will be irrelevant to the whole thing.
Well, you can certainly build a white box PC and weld the case shut like a Mac, so I don't really see how the Mac is inherently any better in that regards. You'll find the hardware will be just reliable so long as you stick to good parts and don't mess with it. Besides, it's not like Macs don't have some of the same problems in regards to things changing, especially when an upgrade generally means replacing the entire machine. Got a 3 year old PPC Mac (far more obsolete than AMD 754 or 939 boards) and want to upgrade? Well that's a whole new computer, as opposed to a new CPU/motherboard and possibly memory/video card for the PC. Same thing with repairs. A 3 year old Mac that breaks is a doorstop. A 3 year whitebox PC that breaks can be repaired easily, with just the broken part will end up being trashed, and the PC will probably end up faster as a result.
Also, it's not like the upgrade treadmill is creating piles of waste. I usually end up performing trickle-down upgrades, with the parts being pushed out at the bottom is generally high-end PII/PIII hardware (in other words, stuff that's 6-9 years old at this point).
Choose the best tool for the job. If you'll be more productive with OS X, and you're only choosing between these two systems, then obviously choose the iMac.
And if you are more productive in Windows...?
That may be 3.1416% for Apple's share of the entire market. But the iMac has got something like 90% of the all-in-one market.
Things would be a lot different if Apple sold something else between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro. All-in-ones are niche products in the PC world (I don't expect this new Dell to be any different) because most people reject them as inferior, costlier machines. I would guess most Mac users would do the same, given a choice.
How long does a computer last you? I typically find myself looking for a new monitor when I want a new computer too (which is about every 4 years).
I like the flexibility myself. Sometimes an older PC gets a new monitor, sometimes the older monitor gets a new PC. I like to get a the most out of my hardware, so the same computer may through a few configurations, possibly ending up without a monitor as a server at some point. And there is always the advantage of being able to more easily replace a broken screen (or to salvage a good screen from a hopelessly broken computer), and the ability to use a KVM too.
That's unlikely. A used 1 year old 24" iMac is worth about 1/2 of what it cost new.
The summary is pretty bad. The article just claims that 36.4% of computers have Limewire installed (which seems pretty high to me, but whatever).
If you ask me, the number is still really low. Most people have probably infringed on IP without knowing it. Sure, people know about downloading MP3's or movies, but still think nothing of saving that cool/funny picture they found on the internet when they don't have explicit permission to do so. Considering that these kind of things get emailed around all the time, you would have to be pretty proactive at deleting those from your email just to keep your Inbox from infringing on someone's IP. You could probably claim that almost 100% of Internet connected computers infringe on IP considering that your browser caches copyrighted material all of the time to your harddrive, and a browser's cache probably a big legal grey area when it comes to copyright.
What about the CDs I already have at home?
Most commercial CDs work out to around $1/song too.
Sorry, but you don't get to be on the top 20 most wanted in the county lists for a speeding ticket, or failure to appear. Usually it's only for a robbery or a crime committed with violence involved, aka armed robbery, or some other financial crime like fraud or bank robbery.
Why not? If it's a relatively quiet community, they may get down to the speeders and jaywalkers when compiling a list of the 20 most wanted criminals at large.
That would, I think, require even more stupidity then normal, considering the number of ways one could achieve a similar level of publicity without the risk of going to jail for a great many years.
So, how long before you think it's going to happen?
Honestly, it looks pretty much like the Chevy Aveo, Kia Spectra, Nissan Vectra, and a bit like the Mazda5. None of those cars are particularly good looking (IMHO), but the Mazda is by far the ugliest. Not that I'm bashing the Fit - if I had to buy a new car tomorrow it would be high on the list of canidates.
They probably just haven't learned to filter them out mentally yet. I'm sure banner ads will catch their attention too, whereas any image 468×60 pixels in size pretty much automatically gets ignored by more experienced web users.
Ummm yeah - IBM also was the one who was like "Oh there's no money in software, it's all in the hardware, let M$ have the software market" :-P
Ultimately, I think they are right here. Something that can so easily be copied wants to be free.
I don't know about where you live, but up here in Minnesota leaving your furnance on (atleast some minimal level above freezing) when you aren't around is pretty much a necessity during the winter. Otherwise, the temperature can drop below freezing and you'll arrive home to another kind of mess when your pipes burst. Furnances can certainly cause fires, but it doesn't seem to be a common occurance. I would be more concerned about something happening during the roughly 8 hours per day you're in the house and sleeping.
If a house is purchased, then by implication, it is to be sold at some point. certainly this is usually the case nowadays. Therefore any modification made to a house should ideally be done with its effect on resale value.
On the contrary, if you wanted to do a modification like this you would have to own the place. No landlord would allow you convert their rental to a batcave. That's the big benefit I see to owning a place, the ability to modify it however I want.
1) Separate your work area from the racks with a wall.
I would even go further. See if they will allow two doors into the hallway. If they will, then simply make two completely seperate rooms.
You forgot to generate 10% redundency PAR files, and upload to Usenet.
5 million sheets of A4 isn't unmanageable, though it would be a lot. It'd probably fit into a shipping container. Though I wouldn't want to be the poor sap who has to scan all those back into the computer shtould the worst case scenario happen.
The definition of a monopoly is not having 100% of the market. It is having enough (e.g. 25%) to distort the market and unfairly control your supplies or customers, e.g. to make prices rather than to take them, to dictate your own proprietary standards rather than open standards and so on.
No, a monopoly is a situation where you basically have only one provider in a marketplace. It has nothing at all to do with how abuse that company is.
While things have really gotten nasty in the loudness wars the past few years, I would be hardpressed to blame it on cheap computer speakers, MP3's, and iPods. Things were pretty well in full swing back in the early 90's.
The fact is, all those "inane" reality shows you deride are there because that's what the audience actually wants.
Actually, the "success" of a lot of reality TV shows comes from the fact that they are incredibly cheap to produce. Why pay the millions actors/actresses demand, when for next to nothing (a few grand to a few tens of grand, including travel and prize money) you can get a bunch of Joe Schmoes?
Though for MTV, I'm not quite sure how it works. Music videos are basically promotions for the artist, and MTV doesn't typcially produce them, so you would think running a 24/7 music video channel would be cheap. But it wouldn't surprise me that the RIAA demands a lot of money to air a music video, just because they can.
30,000 is nothing compared to the number of computers out there. Are you really that dense?