You might want to be careful with that technique, because if someone recognizes it as a fax machine and puts you onto a junk faxer's list, you could end up getting a whole lot of calls at all hours of the day and night.
You realize that the Democrats expect to win the next election and want the same powers that Bush et al. have had.
Best I can tell, the Democrats are doing everything they possibly can to lose the next election. Luckily for them, the Republicans seem to be doing exactly the same thing.
A standard, off-the-shelf board to me is ATX (or BTX, ITX, whatever). Unless there has been a sudden change to the Mac line up, all of Apple's boards are custom as far as I know.
For a server though, I wouldn't count on it. Sure, you could do something like that, but you'll likely be bringing a whole lot of attention to yourself the second that server goes offline.
However, the same could be said for listening to the radio, talking to another passenger in the car, looking at the beautiful foliage, day-dreaming about that girl from accounts-receivable, looking in your rear-view mirrors, or any of the other countless things we do to break up the mind-achingly dull monotony of driving.
So, because we can't eliminate all the reason for a driver to be distracted, we shouldn't do anything about one of the biggest causes? That's some great logic there.
On the other hand, he is a Republican and chooses to associate with them. If he really has little in common with them, why does he choose to be a Republican? (and for that matter, why do the Republicans tolerate him?
I would expect a higher count on a lot of Thinkpads, due to the active HDD protection they use (forgot the name exactly). Basically how it works is if the computer senses a shock/drop, it quickly parks the heads so that they can't crash into into the platters, hence a lot of load/unload counts (however, several million seems rather extreme). Depending on how sensitive it's set, you can probably activate it by just picking up the computer and walking around with it powered on. In Windows, by default you'll have a little icon showing a play/pause icon showing the status of the active protection.
On the other hand, home built PCs can also have a time advantage to them. It's much easier to diagnose and repair a PC built with off-the-shelf parts available anywhere, versus a Mac with more specialized parts that would likely need to be mail ordered.
Besides, many of my homebuilt PCs have been very reliable besides. Spend a day or two assembling and setting up exactly the way I like it, and then use them for years with little to no issues.
Well, obviously if you're in the market for an ultra-tiny computer, the Mac Mini is a strong contender.
Now consider that a lot of people would rather have a cheaper computer rather than a smaller computer. Then the Mac Mini isn't a very strong competitor, especially when people start counting its lack of expandibility against it.
is what makes Macs look more expensive at first glance.
Well, that first glance may be all that Apple gets. The computer buyer walks into the store, and sees the base model complete PC systems for $300-$500, and compares to the Mac Mini starting at $600 without a keyboard, monitor, and mouse. Or they look at the nicely equipped PC systems for $1000-$1200, and compares to the rather spartan looking iMac. Sure, you can argue until your face turns blue that those systems aren't "comparable", but there is also a reason why Chevy sells more cars than Mercedes.
The problem with used PCs is that when the hardware gets about 3 years old, ex-corporate PCs of about that age flood the used computer market, driving the value of used PCs down nothing. It's not that the hardware is of any less quality (virtually every PC I have ever bothered to pull from the trash works just fine), or less useful (notice that Vista and 10.5 have very similar minimum requirements?), it's just that you can't fetch the insane prices for a 3 year old PC like you can with a Mac, and people are more inclined to replace a PC when the cost of doing so is much lower. As a matter of fact, I would argue that used older PCs are more useful - you can more easily upgrade them - it's just that people don't bother with them as much.
Generally speaking, expansion cards help prolong the life of the system by letting the user add in support for new hardware down the line. For example, my current desktop computer started it's life with no expansion cards (other than video in the AGP slot), and over the years now has 3 of the 5 slots filled. Older systems of mine sport things like:
-SATA cards -Gigabit ethernet cards -Wireless cards -USB 2.0 cards (I bet a bunch of older iMac users wish they could put one of those in their Macs since Apple dropped Firewire on the iPod) -Firewire cards -2nd video card, for 2+ monitors (my favorite)
I'm still seeing things like Radeon 9600's and GeForce 7300's at around $50-$60. So the low end is still there. As someone with a Radeon 9600 (had it for several years now), I would still consider the 9600 a pretty decent dedicated card for $50.
Microsoft was able to weather the ME flop because they had the NT line that was going to replace the 95/98/ME line anyway. With Vista however, Microsoft doesn't have another version of Windows up their sleeves[*] that they can use to replace Vista. So in other words, Vista is all they got. If Vista really does turn out to be a dead end, Microsoft could be looking at either basing the next version of Windows off of the old XP code base, a totally new code base, or even BSD/Linux - any of which would be a huge undertaking.
*There is the CE line, but I don't think it would scale up well to a full desktop OS. Though if it happened, it would be kind of ironic, as CE has it's roots in the 9x/ME line.
I once had a bad video card that worked (mostly) fine in VGA mode, but took a dump if you tried SVGA mode. So I guess in a few cases, booting into VGA mode might be better than SVGA.
I've never seen this problem before. The left mouse button is still on the left side of the mouse if it's on the other side of the keyboard, so I don't see how it would be confusing in that matter. I know you can switch the action of the button if you want to, but I've never seen anyone actually do this no matter which side of the keyboard they put their mouse. It seems that the lefties don't seem to have any problems left clicking with their middle finger.
On the other hand, it seems that so many things in OSX have to be tweaked in this manner. I wouldn't expect the typical user to be able to figure that one out, or how to undo it should they decide they want the 3D dock back for that matter. Atleast if you direct the user to some panel, there is some hope that they might remember how to get there in the futere.
Given that the prices of flash drives have been plummetting and the availability of cheap, no-name drives from overseas companies that don't give a shit about patents, I wouldn't buy flash drives to stock up, only if you need one.
Unless you know "most Americans" or run a polling company, you probably shouldn't be making such claims. Maybe you should know the facts before you spout off....
Only 29% answered "remove all". This was before the news that violence has been reduced 70% since the surge. If that gets reported, who knows what that number will be.
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. From your own link, 27% of Americans favor keeping troop levels the same or increasing them, while 68% of Americans favor reducing troop levels or pulling out entirely. Gee, sure sounds people want to the troops brought home to me. Glancing at the rest of the responses, I would put ratio of Iraqi war opposers to supporters at about 2:1, perhaps a tad higher, which seems about right.
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You might want to be careful with that technique, because if someone recognizes it as a fax machine and puts you onto a junk faxer's list, you could end up getting a whole lot of calls at all hours of the day and night.
No, he's voting Democrat, using the same logic that by voting Green he's throwing away his chance to vote Republican.
You realize that the Democrats expect to win the next election and want the same powers that Bush et al. have had.
Best I can tell, the Democrats are doing everything they possibly can to lose the next election. Luckily for them, the Republicans seem to be doing exactly the same thing.
A standard, off-the-shelf board to me is ATX (or BTX, ITX, whatever). Unless there has been a sudden change to the Mac line up, all of Apple's boards are custom as far as I know.
For a server though, I wouldn't count on it. Sure, you could do something like that, but you'll likely be bringing a whole lot of attention to yourself the second that server goes offline.
Considering that the Q6600 costs $200 more than the X2 4000+, I would expect it to be better.
Maybe he just brought it over from the old PC that died, just like how he brought over the case, monitor, etc.
However, the same could be said for listening to the radio, talking to another passenger in the car, looking at the beautiful foliage, day-dreaming about that girl from accounts-receivable, looking in your rear-view mirrors, or any of the other countless things we do to break up the mind-achingly dull monotony of driving.
So, because we can't eliminate all the reason for a driver to be distracted, we shouldn't do anything about one of the biggest causes? That's some great logic there.
On the other hand, he is a Republican and chooses to associate with them. If he really has little in common with them, why does he choose to be a Republican? (and for that matter, why do the Republicans tolerate him?
I would expect a higher count on a lot of Thinkpads, due to the active HDD protection they use (forgot the name exactly). Basically how it works is if the computer senses a shock/drop, it quickly parks the heads so that they can't crash into into the platters, hence a lot of load/unload counts (however, several million seems rather extreme). Depending on how sensitive it's set, you can probably activate it by just picking up the computer and walking around with it powered on. In Windows, by default you'll have a little icon showing a play/pause icon showing the status of the active protection.
If you're IBM computers at work run IBM Deskstars for hard drives, I would say a 20% failure rate in 4 years is remarkably good.
On the other hand, home built PCs can also have a time advantage to them. It's much easier to diagnose and repair a PC built with off-the-shelf parts available anywhere, versus a Mac with more specialized parts that would likely need to be mail ordered.
Besides, many of my homebuilt PCs have been very reliable besides. Spend a day or two assembling and setting up exactly the way I like it, and then use them for years with little to no issues.
Well, obviously if you're in the market for an ultra-tiny computer, the Mac Mini is a strong contender.
Now consider that a lot of people would rather have a cheaper computer rather than a smaller computer. Then the Mac Mini isn't a very strong competitor, especially when people start counting its lack of expandibility against it.
is what makes Macs look more expensive at first glance.
Well, that first glance may be all that Apple gets. The computer buyer walks into the store, and sees the base model complete PC systems for $300-$500, and compares to the Mac Mini starting at $600 without a keyboard, monitor, and mouse. Or they look at the nicely equipped PC systems for $1000-$1200, and compares to the rather spartan looking iMac. Sure, you can argue until your face turns blue that those systems aren't "comparable", but there is also a reason why Chevy sells more cars than Mercedes.
The problem with used PCs is that when the hardware gets about 3 years old, ex-corporate PCs of about that age flood the used computer market, driving the value of used PCs down nothing. It's not that the hardware is of any less quality (virtually every PC I have ever bothered to pull from the trash works just fine), or less useful (notice that Vista and 10.5 have very similar minimum requirements?), it's just that you can't fetch the insane prices for a 3 year old PC like you can with a Mac, and people are more inclined to replace a PC when the cost of doing so is much lower. As a matter of fact, I would argue that used older PCs are more useful - you can more easily upgrade them - it's just that people don't bother with them as much.
Generally speaking, expansion cards help prolong the life of the system by letting the user add in support for new hardware down the line. For example, my current desktop computer started it's life with no expansion cards (other than video in the AGP slot), and over the years now has 3 of the 5 slots filled. Older systems of mine sport things like:
-SATA cards
-Gigabit ethernet cards
-Wireless cards
-USB 2.0 cards (I bet a bunch of older iMac users wish they could put one of those in their Macs since Apple dropped Firewire on the iPod)
-Firewire cards
-2nd video card, for 2+ monitors (my favorite)
I'm still seeing things like Radeon 9600's and GeForce 7300's at around $50-$60. So the low end is still there. As someone with a Radeon 9600 (had it for several years now), I would still consider the 9600 a pretty decent dedicated card for $50.
Microsoft was able to weather the ME flop because they had the NT line that was going to replace the 95/98/ME line anyway. With Vista however, Microsoft doesn't have another version of Windows up their sleeves[*] that they can use to replace Vista. So in other words, Vista is all they got. If Vista really does turn out to be a dead end, Microsoft could be looking at either basing the next version of Windows off of the old XP code base, a totally new code base, or even BSD/Linux - any of which would be a huge undertaking.
*There is the CE line, but I don't think it would scale up well to a full desktop OS. Though if it happened, it would be kind of ironic, as CE has it's roots in the 9x/ME line.
I once had a bad video card that worked (mostly) fine in VGA mode, but took a dump if you tried SVGA mode. So I guess in a few cases, booting into VGA mode might be better than SVGA.
Maybe Aunt Tillie went to Best Buy and bought a Logitech peripheral to use on her Mac?
I've never seen this problem before. The left mouse button is still on the left side of the mouse if it's on the other side of the keyboard, so I don't see how it would be confusing in that matter. I know you can switch the action of the button if you want to, but I've never seen anyone actually do this no matter which side of the keyboard they put their mouse. It seems that the lefties don't seem to have any problems left clicking with their middle finger.
I'm quite sure that a Quad 2.66Ghz with 2GB of ram would be quite snappy in Vista too.
On the other hand, it seems that so many things in OSX have to be tweaked in this manner. I wouldn't expect the typical user to be able to figure that one out, or how to undo it should they decide they want the 3D dock back for that matter. Atleast if you direct the user to some panel, there is some hope that they might remember how to get there in the futere.
Given that the prices of flash drives have been plummetting and the availability of cheap, no-name drives from overseas companies that don't give a shit about patents, I wouldn't buy flash drives to stock up, only if you need one.
Unless you know "most Americans" or run a polling company, you probably shouldn't be making such claims. Maybe you should know the facts before you spout off. ...
Only 29% answered "remove all". This was before the news that violence has been reduced 70% since the surge. If that gets reported, who knows what that number will be.
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. From your own link, 27% of Americans favor keeping troop levels the same or increasing them, while 68% of Americans favor reducing troop levels or pulling out entirely. Gee, sure sounds people want to the troops brought home to me. Glancing at the rest of the responses, I would put ratio of Iraqi war opposers to supporters at about 2:1, perhaps a tad higher, which seems about right.