I'm not a US citizen so maybe this is some kind of no-brainer, but I've heard a lot of off-the-cuff criticism of HRC and virtually no real evidence to back this up. Seems to me the worst thing she did was get the shit kicked out of her by medical industry lobbyists for suggesting universal health care. What's the problem with her? She might just be the first vaguely attractive president the US had.
She voted for the Iraqi war and she voted for the USA PATRIOT Act, which is pretty much why some consider her Cheney-lite right there.
I would like to know where you buy your screens, as I would love to get my hands on some high DPI LCD panels for my desktop. I'm only aware of one screen that has a higher DPI than 100dpi, and that's the discontinued and very pricey IBM T221. Even laptops seem to be moving backwards, as the only thing anyone seems to care about is whether it's widescreen and how big it is, nevermind it's a crappy 1280x800 resolution. What happened to the 1600x1200 15" laptops from yesteryear?
Most of the time that Memtest catches a problem, it'll usually catch it within the first 1-2 minutes, as Memtest does a bunch of quick tests right away that'll catch most of the obvious problems before moving onto the long tests to catch more rare problems. Though I did once deal with a computer that would make it about 60% of the way through before barfing once, you do have to let it complete to be sure.
Men usually end up paying child support because it's virtually impossible for them to get custody of their children, even when it's obvious that the kids are way better off with Dad. In the rare case that the Dad actually gets custody, I've never heard of the Mom paying any kind of child support, ever.
Why microsoft shipped XP install without the ability to mount and read a USB thumb drive is mindboggling. Vista installer is the same way. god help you if you are using a unsupported raid card for your install/OS disk.
The worst part is, XP's installer *will* recognize USB devices! Try running the install disk with a thumbdrive plugged in. When you get to the step where you choose the install location, you'll see the thumbdrive listed as one of the devices you can install to! Further proof that the installer can talk to USB devices is that it will accept a USB floppy disk drive for the driver disk (though it's fussy, and will not recognize all drives). There really isn't a good reason for needing the floppy that I can tell.
*it will even work, provided the drive is big enough and the computer can boot from it.
The thing about needing a floppy and only a floppy for the drivers was retarded back in 2001. It's only stupider in 2007 when a majority of new PCs do not have a floppy drive at all. Sure, some random distrobution from 2001 also won't recognize SATA and most RAID cards, but atlesat I can install it without busting out some floppy disks.
I've never understood why Windows wouldn't just install anyway by talking to the drive through the BIOS. Of course, the performance would be terrible, but once you got it up and running you could install the drivers then. It worked for Windows 95 and 98.
So far, everything that comes down through Automatic Updates hasn't required WGA. Things like.NET and the latest Windows Media Player that you have to get by going through Microsoft's site do require WGA.
On the other hand, in a civil court, the bar for things like that are a bit lower. I'm pretty sure that taking pictures with a film camera of the damaged areas of interest with the date feature turned on would probably go a long ways towards proving that the damage was there when you moved in, so long as you kept the original negatives and prints (which typically have a time stamp on them from the processor).
I think he meant physical buttons when he added the word "real", as opposed the psuedo-multibutton thing they have going on the Mighty Mouse which I find to be pretty much unusable.
Well, you could always be sneaky and run a search for new domains submitted through MSN and Yahoo, and then only run the followup visit if MSN and Yahoo also know about you.
How they plan to charge $1,740 for 11 inches is beyond me. I know Japanese people like things small and dainty, and need small stuff for small apartments, but aren't they exaggerating here?
It's the first OLED display available, so I would expect it to be expensive and a bit cumbersome. I remember back when a 15" LCD (for a desktop PC) was $1800. They'll come down in price I'm sure.
I would expect that if I hacked the firmware, that the update would simply blow all those modifications away, and I would end up with a stock device again. If I modded the hardware, then all bets are off - of course. What Apple seems to do is intentionally brick the iPhone when it finds it has been modified. All of the unlock hacks that I'm aware of don't require hardware modifications, only software. That's the difference.
If you want a MacBook, then get the MacBook. The point of this is that you can take the $250 PC, and load it up with all the software that most people would need, and it would add $0 to the cost if you went with Free software like Linux. That's a lot cheaper than the computer running propriety software from Microsoft or Apple.
Besides, what's the comparison with the iTouch? They do different things. The iTouch would make a horrible desktop computer, just like a desktop computer would make a horrible portable music player.
Microsoft made a product so appealing to the users that they don't want to switch. Not even to a newer version.
Sooner or later this was gonna happen.
Actually, they've had this problem with Office for quite some time. I'd say since atleast Office 2000, which is now 4 releases old. Many would say Office 97.
The current Lenovo's (except the small X series) have both the trackpoint, a trackpad, and no less than 3 mouse buttons. Superior to the Mac in every way possible.
The problem with a Mac is that it's as much a fashion statement as a computer. He's had his current laptop for 7 years. In 7 years, a the Macbook Pro's styling is going to be incredibly dated, and will look just as silly as a toilet seat iBook looks today. When was the last time you've seen one of those around?
The nice thing about the Thinkpads is that the design is both functional and timeless. You're not going to get both of those with a Mac. Actually, you're not going to get that with most non-Thinkpad PC laptops either, as the black/silver and blue LED laptops we have today will also end up looking just as dated as the Mac in a couple of years.
Seems to be fairly common at my office. I think the idea is that having your monitor off looks bad, like you took an excessively long break or you aren't working. Hence people seem to set them so they'll never go off during the work day, even over lunch - so it always looks you just stepped out.
Sources cited in TFA state that each PC uses an average of (588kW/365.25/24*1000) = 67 Watts, which seems reasonable enough. But that (67*5) means that 335 Watts worth of network infrastructure gear are present in a 20-PC office, which is absurd.
How so? Don't you have a file server? Email server? You throw one server into the mix at your office, and you're probably about halfway to 335W. Especially if the server has RAID and dual power supplies. Throw in a second server and you'll be about there.
It's been shown again and again that Macs are not that much more expensive than comparable PCs. This is a completely outdated opinion that, while once possibly true, no longer has any basis in reality. If you're going to break out Mac FUD, at least keep current.
The key word here is "comparable". You're limiting yourself to the small subset of PCs that are similar to a Mac. There are lot of PCs out there with no comparable Mac, or the comparable Mac costs a whole lot more.
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I'm not a US citizen so maybe this is some kind of no-brainer, but I've heard a lot of off-the-cuff criticism of HRC and virtually no real evidence to back this up. Seems to me the worst thing she did was get the shit kicked out of her by medical industry lobbyists for suggesting universal health care. What's the problem with her? She might just be the first vaguely attractive president the US had.
She voted for the Iraqi war and she voted for the USA PATRIOT Act, which is pretty much why some consider her Cheney-lite right there.
Translation: you've never actually seen one.
Have you? Instructions here for the Macbook Pro.
Short:
You have to remove the battery, the ram, no less than 23 screws, keyboard and trackpad, and bluetooth module to get the harddrive.
I would like to know where you buy your screens, as I would love to get my hands on some high DPI LCD panels for my desktop. I'm only aware of one screen that has a higher DPI than 100dpi, and that's the discontinued and very pricey IBM T221. Even laptops seem to be moving backwards, as the only thing anyone seems to care about is whether it's widescreen and how big it is, nevermind it's a crappy 1280x800 resolution. What happened to the 1600x1200 15" laptops from yesteryear?
Most of the time that Memtest catches a problem, it'll usually catch it within the first 1-2 minutes, as Memtest does a bunch of quick tests right away that'll catch most of the obvious problems before moving onto the long tests to catch more rare problems. Though I did once deal with a computer that would make it about 60% of the way through before barfing once, you do have to let it complete to be sure.
Men usually end up paying child support because it's virtually impossible for them to get custody of their children, even when it's obvious that the kids are way better off with Dad. In the rare case that the Dad actually gets custody, I've never heard of the Mom paying any kind of child support, ever.
Why not go the obvious route, and pump the other boats so full of water that they sink?
Why microsoft shipped XP install without the ability to mount and read a USB thumb drive is mindboggling. Vista installer is the same way. god help you if you are using a unsupported raid card for your install/OS disk.
The worst part is, XP's installer *will* recognize USB devices! Try running the install disk with a thumbdrive plugged in. When you get to the step where you choose the install location, you'll see the thumbdrive listed as one of the devices you can install to! Further proof that the installer can talk to USB devices is that it will accept a USB floppy disk drive for the driver disk (though it's fussy, and will not recognize all drives). There really isn't a good reason for needing the floppy that I can tell.
*it will even work, provided the drive is big enough and the computer can boot from it.
The thing about needing a floppy and only a floppy for the drivers was retarded back in 2001. It's only stupider in 2007 when a majority of new PCs do not have a floppy drive at all. Sure, some random distrobution from 2001 also won't recognize SATA and most RAID cards, but atlesat I can install it without busting out some floppy disks.
I've never understood why Windows wouldn't just install anyway by talking to the drive through the BIOS. Of course, the performance would be terrible, but once you got it up and running you could install the drivers then. It worked for Windows 95 and 98.
Not really. Photoshop lists for about $699 USD. A base DSLR is at least a hundred or two hundred more than that brand new.
Digital SLRs have been coming down in price. $699 will get you a Digital SLR with some kind of lens attached nowadays, such as this one.
Naw, the other half would be complaining about the dupe since the exact same article was posted 5 years later.
After they send the BSA goons after you to do the required audit, you'd probably be wishing you had just bought a valid XP license in the first place.
So far, everything that comes down through Automatic Updates hasn't required WGA. Things like .NET and the latest Windows Media Player that you have to get by going through Microsoft's site do require WGA.
On the other hand, in a civil court, the bar for things like that are a bit lower. I'm pretty sure that taking pictures with a film camera of the damaged areas of interest with the date feature turned on would probably go a long ways towards proving that the damage was there when you moved in, so long as you kept the original negatives and prints (which typically have a time stamp on them from the processor).
I think he meant physical buttons when he added the word "real", as opposed the psuedo-multibutton thing they have going on the Mighty Mouse which I find to be pretty much unusable.
Well, you could always be sneaky and run a search for new domains submitted through MSN and Yahoo, and then only run the followup visit if MSN and Yahoo also know about you.
How they plan to charge $1,740 for 11 inches is beyond me. I know Japanese people like things small and dainty, and need small stuff for small apartments, but aren't they exaggerating here?
It's the first OLED display available, so I would expect it to be expensive and a bit cumbersome. I remember back when a 15" LCD (for a desktop PC) was $1800. They'll come down in price I'm sure.
I would expect that if I hacked the firmware, that the update would simply blow all those modifications away, and I would end up with a stock device again. If I modded the hardware, then all bets are off - of course. What Apple seems to do is intentionally brick the iPhone when it finds it has been modified. All of the unlock hacks that I'm aware of don't require hardware modifications, only software. That's the difference.
Then you have no idea how much energy it saving every year in the US alone.
As in, practically none?
Chances are, the lost productivity from screwing with everyone's schedules twice a year far outweighs any energy savings.
If you want a MacBook, then get the MacBook. The point of this is that you can take the $250 PC, and load it up with all the software that most people would need, and it would add $0 to the cost if you went with Free software like Linux. That's a lot cheaper than the computer running propriety software from Microsoft or Apple.
Besides, what's the comparison with the iTouch? They do different things. The iTouch would make a horrible desktop computer, just like a desktop computer would make a horrible portable music player.
Microsoft made a product so appealing to the users that they don't want to switch. Not even to a newer version.
Sooner or later this was gonna happen.
Actually, they've had this problem with Office for quite some time. I'd say since atleast Office 2000, which is now 4 releases old. Many would say Office 97.
The current Lenovo's (except the small X series) have both the trackpoint, a trackpad, and no less than 3 mouse buttons. Superior to the Mac in every way possible.
The problem with a Mac is that it's as much a fashion statement as a computer. He's had his current laptop for 7 years. In 7 years, a the Macbook Pro's styling is going to be incredibly dated, and will look just as silly as a toilet seat iBook looks today. When was the last time you've seen one of those around?
The nice thing about the Thinkpads is that the design is both functional and timeless. You're not going to get both of those with a Mac. Actually, you're not going to get that with most non-Thinkpad PC laptops either, as the black/silver and blue LED laptops we have today will also end up looking just as dated as the Mac in a couple of years.
Seems to be fairly common at my office. I think the idea is that having your monitor off looks bad, like you took an excessively long break or you aren't working. Hence people seem to set them so they'll never go off during the work day, even over lunch - so it always looks you just stepped out.
Sources cited in TFA state that each PC uses an average of (588kW/365.25/24*1000) = 67 Watts, which seems reasonable enough. But that (67*5) means that 335 Watts worth of network infrastructure gear are present in a 20-PC office, which is absurd.
How so? Don't you have a file server? Email server? You throw one server into the mix at your office, and you're probably about halfway to 335W. Especially if the server has RAID and dual power supplies. Throw in a second server and you'll be about there.
It's been shown again and again that Macs are not that much more expensive than comparable PCs. This is a completely outdated opinion that, while once possibly true, no longer has any basis in reality. If you're going to break out Mac FUD, at least keep current.
The key word here is "comparable". You're limiting yourself to the small subset of PCs that are similar to a Mac. There are lot of PCs out there with no comparable Mac, or the comparable Mac costs a whole lot more.