I'm confused. It seems to me that emissive displays would have the advantage over reflective in most situations. Reflective would only be superior in brightly lit environments (like outside).
And the need to shine a lamp on my TV screen doesn't sound too appealing. 1) If the lighting isn't even then there'll be dark areas and 2) having a bright lamp illuminating the screen sort of detracts from the experience of watching a movie in a darkened room.
I'd like to join in on the effort of pointing out the irrelevance of WinZIP by mentioning my favorite free compression utility: TUGZip (http://www.tugzip.com/) (not open source).
I figured the word "ego" would be mentioned in this discussion somewhere but a search turned up nothing.
I did, however, notice a few people listing their certifications...
A parabolic antenna made from a $5 wok strainer and a $30 USB 802.11 adapter would allow an eavesdropper to sit a little further away than your front lawn.
Unless your surrounded by a couple of miles of front lawn.
Mommy: So, Jimmy. Now that you're finally recovered after months of painful rehabilitation after losing your arms and legs in that awful car accident, what would you like to do to celebrate?
Jimmy: Yay! I want to go to Disney World and see Micky!!
Mommy: Oh, ah...hrmmm. I hate to tell you this, Jimmy...
You won't find many fat geeks in a place like Akihabara. I spent a day wandering around there this past January looking for a part to fix a customer's machine. Most of the stores are stacked up many stories high and since I can't read Japanese I was forced to explore most of them hoping they had what I needed. I easily walked more vertical miles than horizontal.
That's the first thing I noticed. So far I've never had to install a driver for an LCD or any monitor for that matter. It's never even occured to me that it might be necessary.
It could have its own hinge attaching it to the laptop lid so you can adjust the angle to catch as much light as possible. Even better, if it was designed properly, it could double as a sun screen to provide some shade to make the LCD easier to view in the bright sunlight.
My past favorite genre, flight simulators, is already pretty much dead. Four years ago people laughed at the idea of it dying, but that's just what happened.
I'd call it a cycle rather than a "dying". When hardware reaches the point where truly realistic terrain can be rendered then I'm betting flight simulators will see a rebirth. I think many people (like myself) get bored flying over pixelated bitmaps with a few bland 3D blocks jutting out of it to serve as buildings. When I can skim over the tops of trees and watch their branches shake in my wash as I maneuver down a narrow valley with rocky peaks looming over me on both sides, then maybe I'll be turned on by a flight simulator again. How long do you think I'll have to wait?
I have a complaint about the first three links you list. If I'm going to start buying music from sites like those they damn well better include samples of the music. Do people really buy CDs based on a one or two paragraph description?
Or are those sites intended to be final destinations for purchases after you've tasted the band's music elsewhere?
Unfortunately, IGES support is inconsistently implemented in CAD systems. We certainly prefer to avoid it and luckily the customer who sends us our most complicated models also has a Parasolid exporter which plays nice with our Solidworks.
Everyone's talking about Linux for the most part in this thread. What about other products?
Ever open the door to the soda fridge at your local convenience store looking for a nice, cold bottle of Diet Coke only to discover that they are out of Diet Coke while the 8 rows next to where they should be are occupied by Lemon Diet Coke, Lime Diet Coke, Cherry Diet Coke, Vanilla Diet Coke, etc.? Enough, Coca Cola!
And I deal with the same frustration with toothpaste. 25 different flavors of Crest are fighting for 6 feet of shelf space.
Yes, some choice is good. Hooray for having a choice between Pepsi and Coke, Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke, etc. but once a company's own products are struggling for room on the shelves then it's time to recalculate the benefits of such product saturation.
This doesn't seem like much of an advantage over simply using different ports for services on those other machines. In either case the client will need to be aware of special conditions for connecting to a different host on the private network (i.e. a different port-knocking pattern or an alternative port number).
That style has been adopted by a host of shows. The Critic, Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, and probably plenty of others that I haven't seen (what's the one with the skinny lawyer chick?).
Maybe it's derivative but it's funny and it works. The Simpsons started it but now the masses have it.
Actually that would tend to boost IIS server market share since it is clients who are annoyed by pop-ups, not the site mongers who decide what server to use.
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As long as they don't skimp on the chainsaws.
I'm confused. It seems to me that emissive displays would have the advantage over reflective in most situations. Reflective would only be superior in brightly lit environments (like outside).
And the need to shine a lamp on my TV screen doesn't sound too appealing. 1) If the lighting isn't even then there'll be dark areas and 2) having a bright lamp illuminating the screen sort of detracts from the experience of watching a movie in a darkened room.
Or maybe I'm envisioning it wrong.
I'd like to join in on the effort of pointing out the irrelevance of WinZIP by mentioning my favorite free compression utility: TUGZip (http://www.tugzip.com/) (not open source).
I figured the word "ego" would be mentioned in this discussion somewhere but a search turned up nothing. I did, however, notice a few people listing their certifications...
A parabolic antenna made from a $5 wok strainer and a $30 USB 802.11 adapter would allow an eavesdropper to sit a little further away than your front lawn. Unless your surrounded by a couple of miles of front lawn.
Mommy: So, Jimmy. Now that you're finally recovered after months of painful rehabilitation after losing your arms and legs in that awful car accident, what would you like to do to celebrate?
Jimmy: Yay! I want to go to Disney World and see Micky!!
Mommy: Oh, ah...hrmmm. I hate to tell you this, Jimmy...
And then pay again to see it? Or would a certain size contribution to the production guarantee you a ticket?
It'll never work.
You're right in this case but not for the reason you state. For example:
Correct: "My poker hand had three 4's and two 8's."
Incorrect: "My poker hand had three four's and two eight's."
But when talking about decades it's correct to leave the apostrophe off.
There's nothing logical about the evolution of grammar.
You won't find many fat geeks in a place like Akihabara. I spent a day wandering around there this past January looking for a part to fix a customer's machine. Most of the stores are stacked up many stories high and since I can't read Japanese I was forced to explore most of them hoping they had what I needed. I easily walked more vertical miles than horizontal.
I slept good that night.
That's the first thing I noticed. So far I've never had to install a driver for an LCD or any monitor for that matter. It's never even occured to me that it might be necessary.
Yes, there is.
It could have its own hinge attaching it to the laptop lid so you can adjust the angle to catch as much light as possible. Even better, if it was designed properly, it could double as a sun screen to provide some shade to make the LCD easier to view in the bright sunlight.
That's like saying "Mars has dirt...gophers like to burrow in dirt...so shouldn't Mars have gophers?"
If you put as much effort into wiping the drool off your chin as you put into that post then you must be soaked by 10 AM.
This counts as petty cash for Intel.
There's this: http://www.sipura.com/products/spa3000.htm
But I would certainly be interested to hear about others.
"long hours of darkness"
Well, bicycles may be impractical but under these conditions so are solar-powered vehicles.
I have a complaint about the first three links you list. If I'm going to start buying music from sites like those they damn well better include samples of the music. Do people really buy CDs based on a one or two paragraph description? Or are those sites intended to be final destinations for purchases after you've tasted the band's music elsewhere?
Unfortunately, IGES support is inconsistently implemented in CAD systems. We certainly prefer to avoid it and luckily the customer who sends us our most complicated models also has a Parasolid exporter which plays nice with our Solidworks.
Everyone's talking about Linux for the most part in this thread. What about other products? Ever open the door to the soda fridge at your local convenience store looking for a nice, cold bottle of Diet Coke only to discover that they are out of Diet Coke while the 8 rows next to where they should be are occupied by Lemon Diet Coke, Lime Diet Coke, Cherry Diet Coke, Vanilla Diet Coke, etc.? Enough, Coca Cola! And I deal with the same frustration with toothpaste. 25 different flavors of Crest are fighting for 6 feet of shelf space. Yes, some choice is good. Hooray for having a choice between Pepsi and Coke, Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke, etc. but once a company's own products are struggling for room on the shelves then it's time to recalculate the benefits of such product saturation.
This doesn't seem like much of an advantage over simply using different ports for services on those other machines. In either case the client will need to be aware of special conditions for connecting to a different host on the private network (i.e. a different port-knocking pattern or an alternative port number).
That style has been adopted by a host of shows. The Critic, Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, and probably plenty of others that I haven't seen (what's the one with the skinny lawyer chick?).
Maybe it's derivative but it's funny and it works. The Simpsons started it but now the masses have it.
Wow, that's so clever how you pointed out that GUI's and mice are for stupid, lazy people and command lines and vi are for smart, hard-working people.
HUR HUR!! I use Microsoft so I must be a drain on society.
Actually that would tend to boost IIS server market share since it is clients who are annoyed by pop-ups, not the site mongers who decide what server to use.