Oh-- and let's not forget how you restart a PC (not that you have to do it much)! Click "start." Select "shut down." Now select "restart." Yeah, I would have found that.
Lets not forget how to eject a disk in MacOS. Drag it to the trash can - yeah I would of thought of that!
I thought you were going to try and carjack someone, which could be a bad move. If I was in the same situation though, random car parked on street = mine.
In a nuclear holocaust allot of people would initially be fighting for their own survival, I always figured that if a nuke went off in my city (and I was far away enough to survive) The first thing I would do is go on to my street and nick a car and knock out the owner
If a nuclear bomb just went off, and someone tried to nick my car - I would kill the bastard. You wouldn't want to leave your family without a dad, would you?
Look at it this way: With this card, I have the ability to transfer photos to just about any computer out there, and I don't have to have anything in addition to just having my camera. No cables, no SD card reader, no laptop, etc. This would be great for those times when someone asks me if they can have a copy of a picture I just took - I can simply take out my card, plug it into their machine's USB, and it will just work.
I'd buy one, if my camera used SD cards and not Memory sticks.
What does this have to do with Dell's $500 monitors? I thought it had to do with the prices of Apple's all-in-one computers vs. their standalone displays?
Empirical evidence shows that LCD screens give far worse eye strain than CRT screens
Dump the lousy analog VGA connection to your flat panel, and get a DVI connection. I have a flat panel with both VGA in and DVI in, and the quality difference between the two inputs is very dramatic, even when using the best VGA cable I can find.
Windows XP must have some linux advocacy code built in or something and crash more often. Then again - how come I'd had no problems? I can literally count the number of bluescreens I've had on my home computer, laptop and my work computer on one hand.
It's just that Linux users like to tinker with stuff, play around with settings, hack the registry, mess around with various pieces of hardware, etc. On my everyday Windows computer, it takes about a year before I've completely made a mess out Windows XP and have to reinstall. Other Windows computers that I don't touch that often last for years without major problems (even some Win9x machines).
You can disable the DIVX logo in the "Quality Settings" tab in the "Decoder Configuration Utility" (check the start menu group the DIVX install creates).
The thing that would worry me most about a DVD player like that Phillips is the internal codecs would get out of date, and I would have to keep some archaic version of Xvid and Divx around to encode (and reencode) disks for it.
Hit up a good garage sale, and I can get a few months worth of reading for an hour's worth of pay. Going rate is $.25-.50 per paperback, though good luck finding things other than romance novels, self-help books, and Tom Clancy.
The whole wide screen thing on a computer just doesn't make sense to me. For most things like web browsing, coding, and word processing - I want more vertical space.
I don't know how many times I visit a website with my 1600x1200 screen and have huge bars of white space surrounding a column of text. I've used a wide screen iMac and the wasted space on the screen seemed to be even worse. I could see a wide computer screen if you like to watch DVDs, and maybe for some games, but otherwise they just seem pointless.
Actually you have to tick a box to install IE. So therefore it is installed with the user's consent.
On what, Windows 95? Nowadays, IE is installed whether you like it or not. All that tick box determines is whether or not Windows makes shortcuts to it.
If you install Windows XP then install SP2 right away - which it sounds like you have done, it usually works fine. If you try to install SP2 on a XP system that has been used, configured, and has various pieces of software installed (no, not spyware), SP2 may or may not work. Atleast that's what I have seen.
I would compare Win9x to MacOS 9 and before. Both are steaming piles of crap, but atleast Win9x is somewhat useful. Both Microsoft and Apple (and Linux) have come a long way the last few years.
I thought the Macintosh mentality was to reduce clutter and cables, and now you suggest getting a stack of external firewire drives in order to upgrade?
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Naw... all the fanboys will buy it.
Oh-- and let's not forget how you restart a PC (not that you have to do it much)! Click "start." Select "shut down." Now select "restart." Yeah, I would have found that.
Lets not forget how to eject a disk in MacOS. Drag it to the trash can - yeah I would of thought of that!
I thought you were going to try and carjack someone, which could be a bad move. If I was in the same situation though, random car parked on street = mine.
In a nuclear holocaust allot of people would initially be fighting for their own survival, I always figured that if a nuke went off in my city (and I was far away enough to survive) The first thing I would do is go on to my street and nick a car and knock out the owner
If a nuclear bomb just went off, and someone tried to nick my car - I would kill the bastard. You wouldn't want to leave your family without a dad, would you?
Those SD cards look pretty fragile, I think USB thumbdrives will live on.
Look at it this way: With this card, I have the ability to transfer photos to just about any computer out there, and I don't have to have anything in addition to just having my camera. No cables, no SD card reader, no laptop, etc. This would be great for those times when someone asks me if they can have a copy of a picture I just took - I can simply take out my card, plug it into their machine's USB, and it will just work.
I'd buy one, if my camera used SD cards and not Memory sticks.
Well, there is Windows NT 4.0. Whatever that says about the NT line of products, I don't know.
What does this have to do with Dell's $500 monitors? I thought it had to do with the prices of Apple's all-in-one computers vs. their standalone displays?
Empirical evidence shows that LCD screens give far worse eye strain than CRT screens
Dump the lousy analog VGA connection to your flat panel, and get a DVI connection. I have a flat panel with both VGA in and DVI in, and the quality difference between the two inputs is very dramatic, even when using the best VGA cable I can find.
I was wondering how soon it would be until someone blamed Bush.
Looks like you were the one who brought up Bush, not the original poster.
It's not that the ThinkGeek laser pointer could do anything to an airplane, it's the fact that people (including the police) believe it can.
By the way, you are a moron.
Windows XP must have some linux advocacy code built in or something and crash more often. Then again - how come I'd had no problems? I can literally count the number of bluescreens I've had on my home computer, laptop and my work computer on one hand.
It's just that Linux users like to tinker with stuff, play around with settings, hack the registry, mess around with various pieces of hardware, etc. On my everyday Windows computer, it takes about a year before I've completely made a mess out Windows XP and have to reinstall. Other Windows computers that I don't touch that often last for years without major problems (even some Win9x machines).
Actually, the problem really lies with the Slashcode, not Firefox. But Slashcode is also open source, so I guess your point stands.
You can disable the DIVX logo in the "Quality Settings" tab in the "Decoder Configuration Utility" (check the start menu group the DIVX install creates).
The thing that would worry me most about a DVD player like that Phillips is the internal codecs would get out of date, and I would have to keep some archaic version of Xvid and Divx around to encode (and reencode) disks for it.
Hit up a good garage sale, and I can get a few months worth of reading for an hour's worth of pay. Going rate is $.25-.50 per paperback, though good luck finding things other than romance novels, self-help books, and Tom Clancy.
Yeah, I know I'm cheap.
This time when Maccholz comes closer to earth, we see tsunamis kill thousands of people. Is this still a coincidence?
Yes.
The whole wide screen thing on a computer just doesn't make sense to me. For most things like web browsing, coding, and word processing - I want more vertical space.
I don't know how many times I visit a website with my 1600x1200 screen and have huge bars of white space surrounding a column of text. I've used a wide screen iMac and the wasted space on the screen seemed to be even worse. I could see a wide computer screen if you like to watch DVDs, and maybe for some games, but otherwise they just seem pointless.
Actually you have to tick a box to install IE. So therefore it is installed with the user's consent.
On what, Windows 95? Nowadays, IE is installed whether you like it or not. All that tick box determines is whether or not Windows makes shortcuts to it.
If you install Windows XP then install SP2 right away - which it sounds like you have done, it usually works fine. If you try to install SP2 on a XP system that has been used, configured, and has various pieces of software installed (no, not spyware), SP2 may or may not work. Atleast that's what I have seen.
Netscape's the key. Stay off IE and you're fine, even in win 3.0.
I seriously doubt any of the exploits that are currently out there affect Windows 3.0, even if you use IE4 (last 16 bit version, IIRC).
Opera 7 is way faster than Opera 6, and overall a much more slick interface. Though the first few versions of Opera 7 were pretty buggy.
I'm looking forward to Opera 8.
Maybe the idea is to just create a whole lot of unimportant encrypted traffic as a distraction from the more important stuff?
Not only that, but Netscape also holds "4" and "7". Not bad!
I would compare Win9x to MacOS 9 and before. Both are steaming piles of crap, but atleast Win9x is somewhat useful. Both Microsoft and Apple (and Linux) have come a long way the last few years.
I thought the Macintosh mentality was to reduce clutter and cables, and now you suggest getting a stack of external firewire drives in order to upgrade?