In my sample, I find not one single person actually using a TV receiver and an antenna to receive broadcast TV.
My sample has been going up the past couple of years. People are getting tired of the excessive cable bills coupled with the fact they don't watch it as much as they used to and have been canceling cable/satellite.
No it isn't crap. BMWs are more expensive and more reliable than Fords. But I suppose they're both just cars so it doesn't matter if one employer will give you a free beamer and the other a Ford? That wouldn't influence your decision despite the tens of thousands of dollars it represents. I picked Sony, because they are the only company that even comes close to Apple for laptop hardware reliability. Do you really consider a machine that is twice or three times as likely to fail as some other machine to be equivalent? A lot of that depends upon what quality of hardware you put in it. Is it whoever is selling the cheapest lots of 120Gb hard drives today (like Dell has done in the past) or is it the same model of higher quality drives, from a vendor that does more extensive testing and, hence, charges more?
Are you sure you aren't picking on Sony because they tend to be on the higher end of the price range for PCs? Sony's are average for reliability, though perhaps still better than Apple. If you were serious about reliability you would probably be pricing out a Lenovo.
You're damn straight they don't compare. Ford was rated the 19th best automobile for reliability in 2006, while Lexus was ranked first. You wouldn't rather have the most reliable car in the world instead of one of the worst? That truly has no value to you at all?
I wasn't talking about value, I was talking price. A Ford is still cheaper than a Lexus, just as a PC is cheaper than a Mac. But whatever, you can substitute Honda or Toyota for Ford if you want in this lousy analogy.
Ahh, but you can't because strangely Apple doesn't make a machine that is comparable to every model produced by every other OEM in the world. And guess what, not many OEMs produce machines that are easily comparable to Apple's offerings. That is why you try to find other companies that make machines that are very similar and compare hardware and prices. I suppose you're one of those people that buys government grade meat in a can because it is "the same thing" as a nice, hanger steak from Whole Foods because "they're both beef" right? Reliability is a valuable feature and it can be objectively measured and it has been by several research companies and consumer advocacy companies. Ignoring it makes anything else in your comparison moot.
I'm just pointing out the comparison fallacy Mac fanboys love to use. They always start out with a Mac and then try to make the PC like the Mac. Well of course the Mac is going to be the best at being a Mac, so the PC's price gets inflated. To use a car analogy it really is like saying Lexus is no more expensive than Ford because once you take the top of the line Ford, add all the upgrades, then add even more stuff aftermarket to make it the same as the Lexus, you've spent around the same amount of money.
No, I'm saying that your comparison is not useful, because you fish around until your "comparable PC" costs the same amount as the Mac. Even going so far as to dismiss all other vendors other than Sony, and specifying the brand of harddrives that the laptop maker must put into the computer. It's crap.
To use a car analogy, it's like arguing that a Lexus automobile is not expensive, as Mercedes automobiles cost about the same. If I was to say, "What about a Ford automobile?" you would make up some mumbo-jumbo about how they don't compare, despite them both being automobiles and they both serve the same purpose, unlike Peterbilts and Volvos.
Besides, if you really want to play that game, start picking out random PCs and then pricing out the comparable Mac. You'll find that the Mac is going to be more expensive in every case, if Apple even makes a comparable computer.
Actually if you compare just hardware, from other vendors with similar reliability ratings, Macs are about the same price as other PC hardware. The last study I saw put them at about 20% above average in price, which is about the same as Sony (who also sells mostly mid and high end machines with top end reliability ratings). Apple systems are about the same cost as any other PC, assuming you're looking at all the hardware criteria, not just bullet points. And by all the criteria i.e. a system with a 120 Gb, Fujitsu drive is not the same as a system with a 120 Gb, Western Digital drive. They cost different amounts and one is clearly more reliable.
It's says a lot that you have to make the specifications that narrow just to get the prices to match up. I would say it's true that in general, PCs are cheaper than the Mac.
Assuming that the Army didn't just dump their entire current system, it means that they just had to double their own efforts (they now have to secure OSes/networks instead of one), and the enemy only has to hack into one of them to get in. Doesn't sound worthwhile to me.
But no - I don't see how slowing down to create a larger gap in front of you and delaying the people behind you will ease traffic unless you are doing it ahead of a merge point for the purpose of easing the merging traffic's congestion.
It's pretty easy. If there is no gap between the cars, and one car slows down, then the car behind them has to slow down, and the car behind it has to slow down, and the car behind that has to slow down, etc. That's why something like a bend a road can cause a huge traffic jam, because when one car slows down to go around the bend, all the cars behind them have to slow down too so they don't hit the car in front of them.
If you have larger gaps between the cars, and one car slows down a bit, the car behind it doesn't have to slow down either, rather, they can just close the gap. If everyone did this, then a bend in the road wouldn't cause a traffic jam because the cars would just get closer together as they slow down to go around the bend, having no affect on the cars approaching the bend in the road.
Something to keep in mind is that not everyone is going to the stop light like you are. They may be making a turn beforehand. Or they could be turning left, and where I live the left turn arrow turns green before the light turns green, so if the light is red and someone wants to turn left, they do want to get there before it changes.
I still do as you do, but I do try to gauge the intentions of cars behind me. If they have their signal on I won't block their way, but if they are one of those that don't signal, well, screw them.
I used to do that all the time when I drove a manual. Much easier to cruise along in 1st or 2nd gear at a relatively constant speed than to have to continously start, stop, and shift gears to match how the binary drivers like to do. Also a lot less hard on the mechanicals in your car.
I always wonder about adding more lanes. It's true that more lanes allow for more cars to be on the road at once, but the more lanes you have, the more the idiots like to weave between them, ultimately slowing down the traffic.
What i would like to see is Microsoft shipping a Windows version thats fairly secure out of the box. Then and only then Antivirus becomes something useful as a second added security layer. As it is now when it is the only security layer it doesnt work. Shipping Antivirus with Windows as Microsoft does is not a good solution but rather a recognition that they are not capable of delivering a fairly secure OS at all.
Where have you been for the past year? Microsoft has been shipping a version of Windows that's fairly secure out of the box. It's called Vista. You may argue that the implementation may suck in the sense that it annoys the user, but it's basically doing the same thing that other OSes do.
Apparently this place had a faster turn around. Instead of keeping your computer around, they instead burned anything of interest to a DVD to browse later.
Retro-reflectors are perfect enough to shine the light only back at the source. If they were, they'd be useless anyway because they would just shine the light back at a car's headlights. So you could still dazzle people shining signs while standing on the side of the road.
A green laser pointer isn't for you, dumbass. It's so you can point out objects of interest to people that would not otherwise be able to find them easily. It works because you can see the beam with your eye leading to the object.
Utter nonsense. There are nuclear-powered wristwatches. The nuclear-powered pacemaker, which was safe enough to IMPLANT IN PEOPLE'S CHESTS, has been around for 40 years. Yes, they require relatively expensive fuel. Weighed against it's power density and longevity, enriched uranium is fairly cheap. Plutonium, like they used in the pacemakers, *IS* quite expensive. But even plutonium isn't that expensive given it's power density. The lithium-oxide batteries that replaced plutonium in pacemakers cost nearly 10X as much in adjusted dollars.
You should go and reread what he said. He's talking about nuclear reactors, not RTGs like what you are talking about.
The market would likely see that there is no short-term financial reward for going into space, and we would sit here on Earth for all eternity. Sometimes you do have to have government programs in order to keep moving forward (not that I'm endorsing NASA's way of going about it).
It would have been true as of about 8 years ago. Back in the days of Redhat 6 (IIRC), a fresh default install of Redhat would be rooted on the open internet within minutes. On the other hand, a Windows 98 install could last a bit longer on the open Internet, and most of the exploits (like the ping of death) would just crash the computer instead of taking it over. That all changed with 2000/XP with a gazillion open ports and services ripe for the exploiting listening on every install.
Furthermore, Automatic Updates works regardless and always has. You can't get the optional updates like the latest DirectX, Media Player, or.NET*, but you'll get all the security updates to keep the system patched.
*Interestingly enough, IE7 is not considered optional so all the pirate editions will get it through Automatic Updates.
and my friend has a Mac that was given to him free by his IT department but is now back in the box because he had absolutely no idea what he was going to do with it and is happily (in his words) using Vista.
Well, he could put Vista on it, assuming it's a new Mac, instead of the "Here, have this, we're going to throw it out anyway" type of free that I get from my IT department.
Don't you also find it funny that Microsoft applications, like Office, get the privilege of being installed in the "root" of the start menu? (Perhaps that changes, I haven't installed MS Office in ages...)
Anyone can put their icons there, and you can move them there if you want to. It just seems that few installers put their icons there (which is a bit surprising, as installers tend to dump icons everywhere else). On this computer, I can see that Opera and Audacity seem to have placed their icons there.
How do you as a citizen know if some action is illegal. Most people manage to act lawfully without constant advice from lawyers. I'm sure soldiers are capable of the same thing.
Pretty much everyone is violating the law at some point or another as they go through their daily lives. A near certainty if they drive somewhere on public roads. Not to say what they are doing is wrong or harmful, morally or otherwise. But given the sheer number of laws regulating almost everything, it's pretty much impossible to follow them all.
I guess if I wanted to try and stop that technique I would just wire up the outlet to 230V, and of course not label it as such. The computer and accessories don't care and would still run fine. Of course, they could use the exact same technique as before, but I would be banking on them 1) not having the proper equipment handy, and 2) not realizing it's 230V before they try to hook up their equipment to the line (bang!).
If I really wanted to be mean, I would get one of those line frequency converters like we have at work to test products going to Europe, hide it in the basement, and run everything at 230V 50Hz.
I don't get the whole backup and format thing anyway. I would just move anything I wanted to save out of the Documents and Settings, Program Files, and Windows directories, nuke those directories, then proceed with installing the new OS on the drive. You get the same result with much less trouble. If the computer had a virus reformatting may not help then either if it's a boot sector virus. Best to zero the drive out in Linux in that case.
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In my sample, I find not one single person actually using a TV receiver and an antenna to receive broadcast TV.
My sample has been going up the past couple of years. People are getting tired of the excessive cable bills coupled with the fact they don't watch it as much as they used to and have been canceling cable/satellite.
No it isn't crap. BMWs are more expensive and more reliable than Fords. But I suppose they're both just cars so it doesn't matter if one employer will give you a free beamer and the other a Ford? That wouldn't influence your decision despite the tens of thousands of dollars it represents. I picked Sony, because they are the only company that even comes close to Apple for laptop hardware reliability. Do you really consider a machine that is twice or three times as likely to fail as some other machine to be equivalent? A lot of that depends upon what quality of hardware you put in it. Is it whoever is selling the cheapest lots of 120Gb hard drives today (like Dell has done in the past) or is it the same model of higher quality drives, from a vendor that does more extensive testing and, hence, charges more?
Are you sure you aren't picking on Sony because they tend to be on the higher end of the price range for PCs? Sony's are average for reliability, though perhaps still better than Apple. If you were serious about reliability you would probably be pricing out a Lenovo.
You're damn straight they don't compare. Ford was rated the 19th best automobile for reliability in 2006, while Lexus was ranked first. You wouldn't rather have the most reliable car in the world instead of one of the worst? That truly has no value to you at all?
I wasn't talking about value, I was talking price. A Ford is still cheaper than a Lexus, just as a PC is cheaper than a Mac. But whatever, you can substitute Honda or Toyota for Ford if you want in this lousy analogy.
Ahh, but you can't because strangely Apple doesn't make a machine that is comparable to every model produced by every other OEM in the world. And guess what, not many OEMs produce machines that are easily comparable to Apple's offerings. That is why you try to find other companies that make machines that are very similar and compare hardware and prices. I suppose you're one of those people that buys government grade meat in a can because it is "the same thing" as a nice, hanger steak from Whole Foods because "they're both beef" right? Reliability is a valuable feature and it can be objectively measured and it has been by several research companies and consumer advocacy companies. Ignoring it makes anything else in your comparison moot.
I'm just pointing out the comparison fallacy Mac fanboys love to use. They always start out with a Mac and then try to make the PC like the Mac. Well of course the Mac is going to be the best at being a Mac, so the PC's price gets inflated. To use a car analogy it really is like saying Lexus is no more expensive than Ford because once you take the top of the line Ford, add all the upgrades, then add even more stuff aftermarket to make it the same as the Lexus, you've spent around the same amount of money.
No, I'm saying that your comparison is not useful, because you fish around until your "comparable PC" costs the same amount as the Mac. Even going so far as to dismiss all other vendors other than Sony, and specifying the brand of harddrives that the laptop maker must put into the computer. It's crap.
To use a car analogy, it's like arguing that a Lexus automobile is not expensive, as Mercedes automobiles cost about the same. If I was to say, "What about a Ford automobile?" you would make up some mumbo-jumbo about how they don't compare, despite them both being automobiles and they both serve the same purpose, unlike Peterbilts and Volvos.
Besides, if you really want to play that game, start picking out random PCs and then pricing out the comparable Mac. You'll find that the Mac is going to be more expensive in every case, if Apple even makes a comparable computer.
Actually if you compare just hardware, from other vendors with similar reliability ratings, Macs are about the same price as other PC hardware. The last study I saw put them at about 20% above average in price, which is about the same as Sony (who also sells mostly mid and high end machines with top end reliability ratings). Apple systems are about the same cost as any other PC, assuming you're looking at all the hardware criteria, not just bullet points. And by all the criteria i.e. a system with a 120 Gb, Fujitsu drive is not the same as a system with a 120 Gb, Western Digital drive. They cost different amounts and one is clearly more reliable.
It's says a lot that you have to make the specifications that narrow just to get the prices to match up. I would say it's true that in general, PCs are cheaper than the Mac.
Assuming that the Army didn't just dump their entire current system, it means that they just had to double their own efforts (they now have to secure OSes/networks instead of one), and the enemy only has to hack into one of them to get in. Doesn't sound worthwhile to me.
But no - I don't see how slowing down to create a larger gap in front of you and delaying the people behind you will ease traffic unless you are doing it ahead of a merge point for the purpose of easing the merging traffic's congestion.
It's pretty easy. If there is no gap between the cars, and one car slows down, then the car behind them has to slow down, and the car behind it has to slow down, and the car behind that has to slow down, etc. That's why something like a bend a road can cause a huge traffic jam, because when one car slows down to go around the bend, all the cars behind them have to slow down too so they don't hit the car in front of them.
If you have larger gaps between the cars, and one car slows down a bit, the car behind it doesn't have to slow down either, rather, they can just close the gap. If everyone did this, then a bend in the road wouldn't cause a traffic jam because the cars would just get closer together as they slow down to go around the bend, having no affect on the cars approaching the bend in the road.
Something to keep in mind is that not everyone is going to the stop light like you are. They may be making a turn beforehand. Or they could be turning left, and where I live the left turn arrow turns green before the light turns green, so if the light is red and someone wants to turn left, they do want to get there before it changes.
I still do as you do, but I do try to gauge the intentions of cars behind me. If they have their signal on I won't block their way, but if they are one of those that don't signal, well, screw them.
I used to do that all the time when I drove a manual. Much easier to cruise along in 1st or 2nd gear at a relatively constant speed than to have to continously start, stop, and shift gears to match how the binary drivers like to do. Also a lot less hard on the mechanicals in your car.
I always wonder about adding more lanes. It's true that more lanes allow for more cars to be on the road at once, but the more lanes you have, the more the idiots like to weave between them, ultimately slowing down the traffic.
What i would like to see is Microsoft shipping a Windows version thats fairly secure out of the box. Then and only then Antivirus becomes something useful as a second added security layer. As it is now when it is the only security layer it doesnt work. Shipping Antivirus with Windows as Microsoft does is not a good solution but rather a recognition that they are not capable of delivering a fairly secure OS at all.
Where have you been for the past year? Microsoft has been shipping a version of Windows that's fairly secure out of the box. It's called Vista. You may argue that the implementation may suck in the sense that it annoys the user, but it's basically doing the same thing that other OSes do.
Apparently this place had a faster turn around. Instead of keeping your computer around, they instead burned anything of interest to a DVD to browse later.
Retro-reflectors are perfect enough to shine the light only back at the source. If they were, they'd be useless anyway because they would just shine the light back at a car's headlights. So you could still dazzle people shining signs while standing on the side of the road.
A green laser pointer isn't for you, dumbass. It's so you can point out objects of interest to people that would not otherwise be able to find them easily. It works because you can see the beam with your eye leading to the object.
Utter nonsense. There are nuclear-powered wristwatches. The nuclear-powered pacemaker, which was safe enough to IMPLANT IN PEOPLE'S CHESTS, has been around for 40 years. Yes, they require relatively expensive fuel. Weighed against it's power density and longevity, enriched uranium is fairly cheap. Plutonium, like they used in the pacemakers, *IS* quite expensive. But even plutonium isn't that expensive given it's power density. The lithium-oxide batteries that replaced plutonium in pacemakers cost nearly 10X as much in adjusted dollars.
You should go and reread what he said. He's talking about nuclear reactors, not RTGs like what you are talking about.
The market would likely see that there is no short-term financial reward for going into space, and we would sit here on Earth for all eternity. Sometimes you do have to have government programs in order to keep moving forward (not that I'm endorsing NASA's way of going about it).
It would have been true as of about 8 years ago. Back in the days of Redhat 6 (IIRC), a fresh default install of Redhat would be rooted on the open internet within minutes. On the other hand, a Windows 98 install could last a bit longer on the open Internet, and most of the exploits (like the ping of death) would just crash the computer instead of taking it over. That all changed with 2000/XP with a gazillion open ports and services ripe for the exploiting listening on every install.
On the other hand, some companies like to expire the gift cards after a while, in which case they do become free money for them.
Furthermore, Automatic Updates works regardless and always has. You can't get the optional updates like the latest DirectX, Media Player, or .NET*, but you'll get all the security updates to keep the system patched.
*Interestingly enough, IE7 is not considered optional so all the pirate editions will get it through Automatic Updates.
and my friend has a Mac that was given to him free by his IT department but is now back in the box because he had absolutely no idea what he was going to do with it and is happily (in his words) using Vista.
Well, he could put Vista on it, assuming it's a new Mac, instead of the "Here, have this, we're going to throw it out anyway" type of free that I get from my IT department.
Don't you also find it funny that Microsoft applications, like Office, get the privilege of being installed in the "root" of the start menu? (Perhaps that changes, I haven't installed MS Office in ages...)
Anyone can put their icons there, and you can move them there if you want to. It just seems that few installers put their icons there (which is a bit surprising, as installers tend to dump icons everywhere else). On this computer, I can see that Opera and Audacity seem to have placed their icons there.
How do you as a citizen know if some action is illegal. Most people manage to act lawfully without constant advice from lawyers. I'm sure soldiers are capable of the same thing.
Pretty much everyone is violating the law at some point or another as they go through their daily lives. A near certainty if they drive somewhere on public roads. Not to say what they are doing is wrong or harmful, morally or otherwise. But given the sheer number of laws regulating almost everything, it's pretty much impossible to follow them all.
I suppose that would work.
I guess if I wanted to try and stop that technique I would just wire up the outlet to 230V, and of course not label it as such. The computer and accessories don't care and would still run fine. Of course, they could use the exact same technique as before, but I would be banking on them 1) not having the proper equipment handy, and 2) not realizing it's 230V before they try to hook up their equipment to the line (bang!).
If I really wanted to be mean, I would get one of those line frequency converters like we have at work to test products going to Europe, hide it in the basement, and run everything at 230V 50Hz.
Obviously you did not read the article, as the issue here is said log out button doesn not work with iDisk.
I don't get the whole backup and format thing anyway. I would just move anything I wanted to save out of the Documents and Settings, Program Files, and Windows directories, nuke those directories, then proceed with installing the new OS on the drive. You get the same result with much less trouble. If the computer had a virus reformatting may not help then either if it's a boot sector virus. Best to zero the drive out in Linux in that case.
That will work if the hardware is the same, or extremely similar.