Yes, but the cheapest MacBook is $1100 (in the US). You can get plenty of PC notebooks for less, and for many people the cheaper PC notebook is all they need and are willing to pay for.
It doesn't even have to be that complex. There is no reason that Knoppix can't be rooted if you put it on a network. The only advantage to CD based distrobutions here is that you can get the computer back into a known clean state just by rebooting it.
The problem is that the cameras are not usually placed at places where they would make the most sense, such as a blind intersection, or near schools and playgrounds, or on a dangerous section of road. Rather, the cameras are placed where they will bring in the most revenue, to the point where speed limits are modified and yellow lights are shortened to increase the number of tickets (with the result that more accidents occur as people will suddenly brake when they realize they are driving into a trap). If the camera were actually used in a reasonable manner to increase safety, people wouldn't have such a problem with them.
What do you mean they all do it? Other than Apple, with its propriety Fairplay, you have the Zune, with it's propriety DRM. Everyone else (Archos, Creative, iRiver, Samsung, Sandisk, dozens of others, etc.) either supports "Plays for sure", or no DRM at all.
The reason that Apple slaps DRM on files that are sold DRM elsewhere is likely the same reason that Apple doesn't license their DRM scheme so that other parties can work with iTunes/iPods - it's all about vendor lock in.
Opera lets you move the tabs toolbar to either the left or right. I tried it, and I didn't like it much (or atleast Opera's implementation). The reason being that you end up with the tabs still horizontal, so now you have a bar on the side of the screen that's something like 120 pixels wide, and it's mostly blank, except for the tabs stacked up on the top of it. Though if you are accustomed to having 40 tabs open at once, then it won't look so bad. What they really need to do is make the tabs the same way they are now, except on the side. Now the text is rotated 90 degrees, but I can still read it just fine (and for the most part, if the site has a favicon.ico on it, I can just go by that anyway).
Probably for the reason that most people aren't going to bother with the cost of buying a Mac just for testing with Safari, especially since a website that already works right in Firefox, Konquerer, and Opera almost certainly will work in Safari too. On the other hand, IE6 and IE7 are different enough that you pretty much have to figure out a way to test your website with those browsers.
Apparently Acer's are huge over in Asia. Over here in the US, Acer was big in the 1990's, but I think I might have only seen 3-4 Acers faster than a Pentium MMX.
Is this really true? Anecdotal pronouncements like this never seem to come with any references. Everyone says the sky is firmly in place, but how many have looked up recently? It's falling at an amazing speed!
I don't know about exploits, but as the built-in pop up blockers go, I have found that with IE6SP2 a lot of them get through - almost to the point that it seems like a bad joke. With Firefox 1.5, a few seem to still get through, and with Opera 9, very rarely does one get ever through. Is it that Opera has the best pop up blocker, followed by Firefox, with IE6 a distant third? Or is it that advertisers spend a lot of time trying to break the pop up blocker in IE6 since its very popular, some time trying to break Firefox's since there is enough people to make it worthwhile, and almost no time trying to break Opera's because only a few people use it?
If I was GM, I would make the onboard computer smart enough to kick in the gasoline motor for a few minutes every couple of weeks just to make sure things stay lubricated. Though I do like the idea of an electric-only version.
Even if we have to run from coal-fired plants, it will still be cleaner than millions of little fossil fuel burning engines running around everywhere in various states of repair. If we can run them from something else (nuclear, wind, solar, ???) it will be even better.
A car that can only go 40 miles on a charge is nearly useless. Oh, you can run the generator - great, but it pisses through fuel. A whole whopping 71bhp from its one litre engine at *fifty miles per gallon* - wow! Do you have really tiny gallons there, or really long miles, or both? Most European cars have electric window motors more powerful than that.
Buy a diesel. Save yourself a lot of pain and expense.
At 40 miles per charge, I could drive it to work, run short errands during lunch, and still only have to charge it every other day. I have considered doing something like the various electric conversions I have seen people do (which give a 20-40 mile range, typically), but doing so would pretty much require me to keep a gasoline vehicle around for weekend driving and longer trips. The cost of having two vehicles, and the associated insurance, licensing, etc. would pretty much eat up the savings from going electric for my commute.
However, if GM is going to make an electric vehicle that can get me to work on the battery, but still allow me to make longer trips with a gasoline generator, its definently something worth looking into.
I was under the impression that he gave his daughter an iBook, and in addition some x86 box running Linux (and Windows 2000 through virtualization). But I could be wrong.
2. It would be downright inhumane and inconstitutional to differentiate between human beings. The second choice sounds like the ancient Caste system of the New Spain... You know, something of 400 years ago. I mean, aren't "all men supposed to be born equal and with the same rights" ?
We more or less have this system in place right now, though not officially, with US Citizen on the top, and "undocumented worker" on the bottom. Quite a few people seem to support keeping this system in place. So why not make it official?
The driver is trying to get someone critically ill to a hospital? Sure, the driver may be less than one could wish for navigatinging the roads, but what if the driver is just over the limit with someone that is dying?
Then call an ambulance. People trying to rush people to the hospital in their own cars all too often just end up sending more people to the hospital. Doing it while drunk is just plain stupid and irresponsible.
I don't know where you live, but I've always seen the Sony TVs mixed in with the other TVs, the Sony cameras mixed in with the other cameras, the Sony laptops mixed in with the other laptops, etc. Maybe its because I also live far away from a Sony store, I dunno. While its true that the PS3 got a place in the front of the store when it was launched, the X-Box and Wii also got the same treatment at their respective launches. The fact that most of the shelfspace for games is for the Playstation just reflects that there are a lot of Playstation 2 games, compared to what Microsoft and Nintendo have for their systems.
As others have pointed out, the hard drive manufacturers are following the proper convention, and in fact (if you look into the history), HD manufacturers have been using the "factor of 1000" convention since the very beginning (since the first magnetic platters, really).
I still have a 20MB hard drive that holds 20,9xx,xxx bytes on it. The switchover happened back in the 80's, and was a deliberate move by the harddrive manufacturers to deceive people. You can rattle on about standards all you want, but it all started because of a scummy marketing move.
Besides, they are still only one of the few playing that game. When was the last time you saw either a 528MB or a 512MiB memory module for sale?
Is a kilometer 1024 meters? Is a kilogram 1024 grams?
It is the software makers who do not understand these historic terms. Fight the redefining of words!
Historically, 1 kilobyte was 1024 bytes 1 megabyte was 1024 kilobytes
Sure, this flew in the face of how the kilo- and mega- prefixes were used elsewhere, but that was how it was done. It wasn't until the harddrive manufacturers decided to redefine the terms so they could sell their 95.37MB drive as a "100MB drive" and mislead customers did all this confusion start.
I was initially leary of Hitachi, as they basically took over IBM's hard disk division after it released a whole string of lemons. However, I have found that the Hitachi disks seem to be reliable, though some of the earlier ones were somewhat noisy.
On the other hand though, I have always found Seagate drives to be reliable too, though their entry level (often found in OEM computers) seemed to have pretty poor performance.
This also puts Apple in a good situation, AT NO POINT do they have computers that are inferior to their competition.
So long as Apple insists on sticking with Intel only, they could still be put into the inferior status if AMD comes out with something significantly better than what Intel has got. On the other hand, Apple could start pretty much start using AMD chips at any time if they wanted to.
The metric system was devised in the 18th century with the prefixes kilo, mega and giga. Just because some lazy asshat decided that 1024 was "close enough" to 1000 when talking about computer memory doesn't mean everyone else has to follow suit. Hard disks have been using K = 1000 since before processors standardized on binary arithmetic.
Which must have been sometime in the mid eighties, right around the time the 40MB drives came out? Because that's when all this nonsense started.
While it is possible, I wouldn't worry about it too much for now. It seems that the days of viruses that like to destroy your data or attempt to destroy your hardware have passed, even though such things are certainly still possible. It seems that the creators of viruses nowadays are mostly concerned with turning computers into spam bots and zombies.
The problem with image captcha is that you would be starting from a pre-defined set of images. All you would have to do is teach the bot which images are kittens, and you would be set. The other problem would be guessing - the bots could try to get in just by randomly clicking on the images. If you want to keep the chances of that low, you would have to display a lot of images, or have the user pick out the kittens multiple times.
Since the Mac won't be able to play the protected content either without the protected video/audio paths and heavy handed DRM, your time is coming too as I'm sure that the "media platform" won't want to miss out on HD. The only real solutions would be to stick with Windows XP or earlier, stick with the last version of OSX that doesn't have the DRM (probably 10.4.something), or switch to Linux.
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Yes, but the cheapest MacBook is $1100 (in the US). You can get plenty of PC notebooks for less, and for many people the cheaper PC notebook is all they need and are willing to pay for.
It doesn't even have to be that complex. There is no reason that Knoppix can't be rooted if you put it on a network. The only advantage to CD based distrobutions here is that you can get the computer back into a known clean state just by rebooting it.
The problem is that the cameras are not usually placed at places where they would make the most sense, such as a blind intersection, or near schools and playgrounds, or on a dangerous section of road. Rather, the cameras are placed where they will bring in the most revenue, to the point where speed limits are modified and yellow lights are shortened to increase the number of tickets (with the result that more accidents occur as people will suddenly brake when they realize they are driving into a trap). If the camera were actually used in a reasonable manner to increase safety, people wouldn't have such a problem with them.
What do you mean they all do it? Other than Apple, with its propriety Fairplay, you have the Zune, with it's propriety DRM. Everyone else (Archos, Creative, iRiver, Samsung, Sandisk, dozens of others, etc.) either supports "Plays for sure", or no DRM at all.
The reason that Apple slaps DRM on files that are sold DRM elsewhere is likely the same reason that Apple doesn't license their DRM scheme so that other parties can work with iTunes/iPods - it's all about vendor lock in.
Opera lets you move the tabs toolbar to either the left or right. I tried it, and I didn't like it much (or atleast Opera's implementation). The reason being that you end up with the tabs still horizontal, so now you have a bar on the side of the screen that's something like 120 pixels wide, and it's mostly blank, except for the tabs stacked up on the top of it. Though if you are accustomed to having 40 tabs open at once, then it won't look so bad. What they really need to do is make the tabs the same way they are now, except on the side. Now the text is rotated 90 degrees, but I can still read it just fine (and for the most part, if the site has a favicon.ico on it, I can just go by that anyway).
Probably for the reason that most people aren't going to bother with the cost of buying a Mac just for testing with Safari, especially since a website that already works right in Firefox, Konquerer, and Opera almost certainly will work in Safari too. On the other hand, IE6 and IE7 are different enough that you pretty much have to figure out a way to test your website with those browsers.
Apparently Acer's are huge over in Asia. Over here in the US, Acer was big in the 1990's, but I think I might have only seen 3-4 Acers faster than a Pentium MMX.
Is this really true? Anecdotal pronouncements like this never seem to come with any references. Everyone says the sky is firmly in place, but how many have looked up recently? It's falling at an amazing speed!
I don't know about exploits, but as the built-in pop up blockers go, I have found that with IE6SP2 a lot of them get through - almost to the point that it seems like a bad joke. With Firefox 1.5, a few seem to still get through, and with Opera 9, very rarely does one get ever through. Is it that Opera has the best pop up blocker, followed by Firefox, with IE6 a distant third? Or is it that advertisers spend a lot of time trying to break the pop up blocker in IE6 since its very popular, some time trying to break Firefox's since there is enough people to make it worthwhile, and almost no time trying to break Opera's because only a few people use it?
If I was GM, I would make the onboard computer smart enough to kick in the gasoline motor for a few minutes every couple of weeks just to make sure things stay lubricated. Though I do like the idea of an electric-only version.
Even if we have to run from coal-fired plants, it will still be cleaner than millions of little fossil fuel burning engines running around everywhere in various states of repair. If we can run them from something else (nuclear, wind, solar, ???) it will be even better.
A car that can only go 40 miles on a charge is nearly useless. Oh, you can run the generator - great, but it pisses through fuel. A whole whopping 71bhp from its one litre engine at *fifty miles per gallon* - wow! Do you have really tiny gallons there, or really long miles, or both? Most European cars have electric window motors more powerful than that.
Buy a diesel. Save yourself a lot of pain and expense.
At 40 miles per charge, I could drive it to work, run short errands during lunch, and still only have to charge it every other day. I have considered doing something like the various electric conversions I have seen people do (which give a 20-40 mile range, typically), but doing so would pretty much require me to keep a gasoline vehicle around for weekend driving and longer trips. The cost of having two vehicles, and the associated insurance, licensing, etc. would pretty much eat up the savings from going electric for my commute.
However, if GM is going to make an electric vehicle that can get me to work on the battery, but still allow me to make longer trips with a gasoline generator, its definently something worth looking into.
I was under the impression that he gave his daughter an iBook, and in addition some x86 box running Linux (and Windows 2000 through virtualization). But I could be wrong.
2. It would be downright inhumane and inconstitutional to differentiate between human beings. The second choice sounds like the ancient Caste system of the New Spain... You know, something of 400 years ago. I mean, aren't "all men supposed to be born equal and with the same rights" ?
We more or less have this system in place right now, though not officially, with US Citizen on the top, and "undocumented worker" on the bottom. Quite a few people seem to support keeping this system in place. So why not make it official?
The driver is trying to get someone critically ill to a hospital? Sure, the driver may be less than one could wish for navigatinging the roads, but what if the driver is just over the limit with someone that is dying?
Then call an ambulance. People trying to rush people to the hospital in their own cars all too often just end up sending more people to the hospital. Doing it while drunk is just plain stupid and irresponsible.
Wait, explain one more time why she couldn't run Virtual PC in OS X instead of Linux?
It's an iBook. Can you say SLOW?
I don't know where you live, but I've always seen the Sony TVs mixed in with the other TVs, the Sony cameras mixed in with the other cameras, the Sony laptops mixed in with the other laptops, etc. Maybe its because I also live far away from a Sony store, I dunno. While its true that the PS3 got a place in the front of the store when it was launched, the X-Box and Wii also got the same treatment at their respective launches. The fact that most of the shelfspace for games is for the Playstation just reflects that there are a lot of Playstation 2 games, compared to what Microsoft and Nintendo have for their systems.
As others have pointed out, the hard drive manufacturers are following the proper convention, and in fact (if you look into the history), HD manufacturers have been using the "factor of 1000" convention since the very beginning (since the first magnetic platters, really).
I still have a 20MB hard drive that holds 20,9xx,xxx bytes on it. The switchover happened back in the 80's, and was a deliberate move by the harddrive manufacturers to deceive people. You can rattle on about standards all you want, but it all started because of a scummy marketing move.
Besides, they are still only one of the few playing that game. When was the last time you saw either a 528MB or a 512MiB memory module for sale?
Is a kilometer 1024 meters?
Is a kilogram 1024 grams?
It is the software makers who do not understand these historic terms. Fight the redefining of words!
Historically,
1 kilobyte was 1024 bytes
1 megabyte was 1024 kilobytes
Sure, this flew in the face of how the kilo- and mega- prefixes were used elsewhere, but that was how it was done. It wasn't until the harddrive manufacturers decided to redefine the terms so they could sell their 95.37MB drive as a "100MB drive" and mislead customers did all this confusion start.
I was initially leary of Hitachi, as they basically took over IBM's hard disk division after it released a whole string of lemons. However, I have found that the Hitachi disks seem to be reliable, though some of the earlier ones were somewhat noisy.
On the other hand though, I have always found Seagate drives to be reliable too, though their entry level (often found in OEM computers) seemed to have pretty poor performance.
This also puts Apple in a good situation, AT NO POINT do they have computers that are inferior to their competition.
So long as Apple insists on sticking with Intel only, they could still be put into the inferior status if AMD comes out with something significantly better than what Intel has got. On the other hand, Apple could start pretty much start using AMD chips at any time if they wanted to.
The metric system was devised in the 18th century with the prefixes kilo, mega and giga. Just because some lazy asshat decided that 1024 was "close enough" to 1000 when talking about computer memory doesn't mean everyone else has to follow suit. Hard disks have been using K = 1000 since before processors standardized on binary arithmetic.
Which must have been sometime in the mid eighties, right around the time the 40MB drives came out? Because that's when all this nonsense started.
While it is possible, I wouldn't worry about it too much for now. It seems that the days of viruses that like to destroy your data or attempt to destroy your hardware have passed, even though such things are certainly still possible. It seems that the creators of viruses nowadays are mostly concerned with turning computers into spam bots and zombies.
The problem with image captcha is that you would be starting from a pre-defined set of images. All you would have to do is teach the bot which images are kittens, and you would be set. The other problem would be guessing - the bots could try to get in just by randomly clicking on the images. If you want to keep the chances of that low, you would have to display a lot of images, or have the user pick out the kittens multiple times.
Since the Mac won't be able to play the protected content either without the protected video/audio paths and heavy handed DRM, your time is coming too as I'm sure that the "media platform" won't want to miss out on HD. The only real solutions would be to stick with Windows XP or earlier, stick with the last version of OSX that doesn't have the DRM (probably 10.4.something), or switch to Linux.