What would be really amusing (and cute too I might add) would be to see a Happy Mac boot-up icon on a Pocket PC (is everyone here too young to remember that PPC stands for Power PC? 15 and under?).
I've worked for tech support. It's not our fault per se (well, wasn't mine), but if you don't use the cue cards of the gods, you get fired. Also, they keep everyone in a state of constant paranoia by listening in on calls at random, not telling you when, and then firing you without reason, or worse, inventing a reason that is just totally untrue. If Kafka was still alive, he would have no doubt been writing about tech support. Now, we have Scott Adams.
I would be seriously interested in hearing what other people would use a 64-bit 6GHz processor with a terabyte harddisk and gigabyte of RAM for?
Doom 4, Half-Life 3, Office 13. And dancing hamsters.
"Are there any cars out there better than this?"
Yes, it's called a Lexus. The most reliable car brand out there, holds its value over time, excellent fit and finish, good engines, good mileage, smooth as silk transmissions, and while of course expensive, as it's a luxury brand, not astronomically so. Even has cargo space. Only improvements I could suggest are AWD, hybrid engines, and lower octane engine requirements, especially as gas prices go up, up, up. You want to pay over $250 per pound for an impractical race car that has no real use in the real world, be my guest. However, most millionares and multi-millionares don't drive these things. They drive large American cars, usually under 30K. People who have money generally know enough not to waste it on toys, but use it to grow their personal worth. To have money, one first has to conserve and use it as efficiently as possible to get there, not blow it.
Yes, except I don't have analog cable. I use an antenna. I watch "The Simpsons" and "MadTV" on Fox, and as much as I'd love to watch "Dennis Miller" on CNBC, "Hannity and Colmes" and "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel, and "The Daily Show" and "South Park" on Comedy Central, I'm not paying $43.00 dollars a month for basic cable. That's $14.33 per channel actually watched.
The only problem is, "Quality public broadcasting" is an oxymoron. Is commercial TV quality? I only watch an hour of it a week, tops, so draw your own conclusion. How many hours of public TV a week do I watch? Zero. The idea of having my money taxed away so that a small segment of the population who feel that they're tastes are superior to mine, and ergo, should be subsidized by the rest of us, is not an idea I can endorse. Primarily, those on public radio/television are there because no one will voluntarily pay for their services.
One huge factor, however, is that when the analog signals are dropped, many millions of television sets become scrap, and all will need HD or SD ready sets. That's still an economic spur the politicians salivate over.
Not true. You can purchase a HDTV tuner box, which will downconvert the signal to analog for your TV's receiver. You won't see any of the benefits to HDTV, but you can still recieve the HDTV signal on your old TV. The only problem is, the tuner's cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars currently, and there's no guarantee they will drop by the DTV-switchover. If not, might as well buy a new HDTV anyway.
I don't know if this is relevant, but often basic and standard cable channels aren't digital, only the premium channels. Although then again, analog doesn't have pixels...
The Newton runs a RISC StrongARM at 162 Mhz (compare to a 2003/Tungsten T2 running OMAP/ARM at 140 Mhz !!!)
Yes, but I'd be willing to bet that a OMAP at 140MHz is still faster than a StrongARM at 162MHz, due to architectural differences. Don't believe the megahurtz madness!
It's definitely misleading, and probably wouldn't stand up in court. They can't say that a lesser product, since it has no disadvantage in the current configuration, is the same as a superior product. They sold you a 9200, and what you got was a 9000. It doesn't matter if they function the same, what matters is you didn't get what you ordered. End of story.
The first bombshell to hit my project was that my client found out from another consultant that the GNU community has close
ties to former communist leaders. Furthermore, he found out that the 'x' in Linux was a tribute to the former Communist
philosopher, Karl Marx, whose name also ends in 'x'.
I'm as a hardline Cold War warrior as the next American, but you either have to be joking or writing agitprop. While it wouldn't surprise me if the Open Source community was riddled with Leftists, you can't seriously believe Linus Torvalds named it Linux because of Marx, and not because of the long line of "nixes" who ended in X. Unix, Xenix, Minix... Unless Microsoft Xenix you think was a Communist front group too.
Don't ever get Samsung products. Sure, if they work they work nicely, but chances are you're going to get a defective unit and then they will churn their "refurbished" (read other defective) units as a replacement. They will do this at least eight times and not give you a working unit. See http://www.trenton.bbb.org/nis/newsearch2.asp?ID=1 &ComID=0221000012001552. They don't do that for just one or two pissed off customers.
A 20 year plan? If the Communists couldn't get their 5 year plans to work, how much success will a 20 year plan have? It is much more plausible that an independent college, research center or corporation will come up with such discoveries, not because it's interesting, but because they actually have a vested interest, and have to pay the bills. A 20 year plan will either fizzle out into nothing, or just grow into a larger and larger government bureaucracy while achieving less and less. Let's leave billions of dollars back with the people who earned them, the taxpayers, and there is no limit to what they may do.
'Counsel for the Commonwealth, Paul Roberts, SC, said Ng was well aware he was acting illegally. Not only was the site camouflaged - the web space had been let to him by a teenage boy in Perth - but Ng had co-written an essay for his information technology law course on "open source software licensing."' Not entirely sure what OS licensing has to do with music piracy."
Anyone who understands OSS licencing has a pretty good grasp of copyright law, especially as OSS is specifically designed to present an alternative to traditional copyright law. It would be impossible that this person didn't know he was breaking the law. His crime is made doubly worse by the fact that instead of simply trying to build an alternative to copyright law as with OSS, he decided to go out and break the law instead.
If the pilots/vetted passengers were armed, I think they could have disposed of the terrorists rather nicely.
No, the citizens could not stop a military attack by the federal government, but we could slow it down and create a citizen's resistance militia. This isn't likely to happen with an armed citzenry, as the government will think twice. All genicodial regimes start by confiscating the guns. Nazi Germany did it, and they were the most powerful military in the world for a couple of years. Even then, small groups of armed insurgents who were wise enough to keep their guns were able to hamper the Nazi war machine, sometimes severely.
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I'm gay, part Jewish and part Mexican. Guess who makes me feel more valued as a thinking individual with intrinsic merit? No, it's not NPR.
No, refresh is how many times a second the screen is refreshed by the CRT gun. This is done because the cathodes will fade from the moment they cease to be illuminated. LCDs, on the other hand, are just layers of pixels, which are either on or off. The backlight is the light source. What you are speaking of is response time. LCD pixels cannot switch instantaneously, or rather fast enough so that it appears to be instantaneous. This causes motion blur. So while both are temporal concerns that have to do with display technology, they are not the problem.
You'll have to find another example, that is simply a Google caching ghost of a now non-existent page. If you had taken the time to read my post, and the article referenced (link in news post), you would have known that I was simply pointing out the article did not contain any of the information that petard attributed to it.
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What would be really amusing (and cute too I might add) would be to see a Happy Mac boot-up icon on a Pocket PC (is everyone here too young to remember that PPC stands for Power PC? 15 and under?).
What type of oil is oil "number 4?" What is this type of oil used for? Is it usable in vehicles? And why does it sound like a French perfume?
I've worked for tech support. It's not our fault per se (well, wasn't mine), but if you don't use the cue cards of the gods, you get fired. Also, they keep everyone in a state of constant paranoia by listening in on calls at random, not telling you when, and then firing you without reason, or worse, inventing a reason that is just totally untrue. If Kafka was still alive, he would have no doubt been writing about tech support. Now, we have Scott Adams.
I would be seriously interested in hearing what other people would use a 64-bit 6GHz processor with a terabyte harddisk and gigabyte of RAM for? Doom 4, Half-Life 3, Office 13. And dancing hamsters.
"Are there any cars out there better than this?" Yes, it's called a Lexus. The most reliable car brand out there, holds its value over time, excellent fit and finish, good engines, good mileage, smooth as silk transmissions, and while of course expensive, as it's a luxury brand, not astronomically so. Even has cargo space. Only improvements I could suggest are AWD, hybrid engines, and lower octane engine requirements, especially as gas prices go up, up, up. You want to pay over $250 per pound for an impractical race car that has no real use in the real world, be my guest. However, most millionares and multi-millionares don't drive these things. They drive large American cars, usually under 30K. People who have money generally know enough not to waste it on toys, but use it to grow their personal worth. To have money, one first has to conserve and use it as efficiently as possible to get there, not blow it.
Yes, except I don't have analog cable. I use an antenna. I watch "The Simpsons" and "MadTV" on Fox, and as much as I'd love to watch "Dennis Miller" on CNBC, "Hannity and Colmes" and "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel, and "The Daily Show" and "South Park" on Comedy Central, I'm not paying $43.00 dollars a month for basic cable. That's $14.33 per channel actually watched.
The only problem is, "Quality public broadcasting" is an oxymoron. Is commercial TV quality? I only watch an hour of it a week, tops, so draw your own conclusion. How many hours of public TV a week do I watch? Zero. The idea of having my money taxed away so that a small segment of the population who feel that they're tastes are superior to mine, and ergo, should be subsidized by the rest of us, is not an idea I can endorse. Primarily, those on public radio/television are there because no one will voluntarily pay for their services.
Not true. You can purchase a HDTV tuner box, which will downconvert the signal to analog for your TV's receiver. You won't see any of the benefits to HDTV, but you can still recieve the HDTV signal on your old TV. The only problem is, the tuner's cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars currently, and there's no guarantee they will drop by the DTV-switchover. If not, might as well buy a new HDTV anyway.
So the digitenne reciever is also a selective tuner?
I don't know if this is relevant, but often basic and standard cable channels aren't digital, only the premium channels. Although then again, analog doesn't have pixels...
Why can't you just hook the receiver to the VCR and then connect the VCR to the TV?
Yes, but I'd be willing to bet that a OMAP at 140MHz is still faster than a StrongARM at 162MHz, due to architectural differences. Don't believe the megahurtz madness!
That's why I always say that so and so in preventing or imepeding freedom, not democracy, as democracy can be such an unfree thing.
Hey, you do realize we are a representative republic, not a democracy, right?
It's definitely misleading, and probably wouldn't stand up in court. They can't say that a lesser product, since it has no disadvantage in the current configuration, is the same as a superior product. They sold you a 9200, and what you got was a 9000. It doesn't matter if they function the same, what matters is you didn't get what you ordered. End of story.
Has anyone else noticed that the iQue logo is virtually identical to Onstar's?
I'm as a hardline Cold War warrior as the next American, but you either have to be joking or writing agitprop. While it wouldn't surprise me if the Open Source community was riddled with Leftists, you can't seriously believe Linus Torvalds named it Linux because of Marx, and not because of the long line of "nixes" who ended in X. Unix, Xenix, Minix... Unless Microsoft Xenix you think was a Communist front group too.
Don't ever get Samsung products. Sure, if they work they work nicely, but chances are you're going to get a defective unit and then they will churn their "refurbished" (read other defective) units as a replacement. They will do this at least eight times and not give you a working unit. See http://www.trenton.bbb.org/nis/newsearch2.asp?ID=1 &ComID=0221000012001552. They don't do that for just one or two pissed off customers.
A 20 year plan? If the Communists couldn't get their 5 year plans to work, how much success will a 20 year plan have? It is much more plausible that an independent college, research center or corporation will come up with such discoveries, not because it's interesting, but because they actually have a vested interest, and have to pay the bills. A 20 year plan will either fizzle out into nothing, or just grow into a larger and larger government bureaucracy while achieving less and less. Let's leave billions of dollars back with the people who earned them, the taxpayers, and there is no limit to what they may do.
'Counsel for the Commonwealth, Paul Roberts, SC, said Ng was well aware he was acting illegally. Not only was the site camouflaged - the web space had been let to him by a teenage boy in Perth - but Ng had co-written an essay for his information technology law course on "open source software licensing."' Not entirely sure what OS licensing has to do with music piracy." Anyone who understands OSS licencing has a pretty good grasp of copyright law, especially as OSS is specifically designed to present an alternative to traditional copyright law. It would be impossible that this person didn't know he was breaking the law. His crime is made doubly worse by the fact that instead of simply trying to build an alternative to copyright law as with OSS, he decided to go out and break the law instead.
If the pilots/vetted passengers were armed, I think they could have disposed of the terrorists rather nicely. No, the citizens could not stop a military attack by the federal government, but we could slow it down and create a citizen's resistance militia. This isn't likely to happen with an armed citzenry, as the government will think twice. All genicodial regimes start by confiscating the guns. Nazi Germany did it, and they were the most powerful military in the world for a couple of years. Even then, small groups of armed insurgents who were wise enough to keep their guns were able to hamper the Nazi war machine, sometimes severely.
I'm gay, part Jewish and part Mexican. Guess who makes me feel more valued as a thinking individual with intrinsic merit? No, it's not NPR.
Pentium VI, you say? Well, at that point, hopefully it will have an IPC at least on level with the Athlon.
No, refresh is how many times a second the screen is refreshed by the CRT gun. This is done because the cathodes will fade from the moment they cease to be illuminated. LCDs, on the other hand, are just layers of pixels, which are either on or off. The backlight is the light source. What you are speaking of is response time. LCD pixels cannot switch instantaneously, or rather fast enough so that it appears to be instantaneous. This causes motion blur. So while both are temporal concerns that have to do with display technology, they are not the problem.
You'll have to find another example, that is simply a Google caching ghost of a now non-existent page. If you had taken the time to read my post, and the article referenced (link in news post), you would have known that I was simply pointing out the article did not contain any of the information that petard attributed to it.