downloading a song over wi-fi will kill your battery life faster than you can say my battery's dead. So you download a song or two while at the local wifi cafe. big deal, but you just lost a couple of hours of play back on already weak batteries.
Tablet PC's haven't failed due to bad design, or lack of innovation, but because they need to be recharged two to three times in a typical 8 hour work day, and more when the person s on their 10th or 12th hour.
damn it that sounds like a reason to install Vista. Tis a shame I spent a couple of years converting everything I had over to open file formats, and Now I can switch systems with general ease.
China has a billion Chinese getting ready to buy a computer. Would you turn away a billion customers to gain a few million more? even if half are running illegal copies, that's still many times more than you can find elsewhere.
You don't even realize you killed your own argument. You just stated that huge numbers of people are buying lo def tv's today every hour. so a few more buy HD, but that still means those people who just bought a lo def tv won't be upgrading it again in 5 years.
10 years from now, when HD and DRm idiots finally settle down, the HDtv will be more commonplace. people who spent $2000 for an HD set 2-3 years ago are going to have to upgrade to the newest standards or else they are stuck with the same lo def signal. any HD tv without HDMI soon won't be able to decode HD signals. while most have HDMI now, a year ago that wasn't the case.
this years new hard to find but coming out slowly item, is dual HDMI inputs, so you can connect that $1200 blue ray dvd player to your tv, and the cable box at the same time(what a concept huh?). Since soon both, HD cable, and HD DVD/Blueray, will require the HDMI or else you can't play back the HD content anyways.
In the end it's better to wait, stick with your lo def tv that's been fine for the past 20 years, and see what stabilizes. YYou save time, headaches, and money.
apparently you haven't gotten a recent catalog. The front cover is a train and the back is a chess set. while it has star wars/batman/and other sets, trains, and cityscapes are featured just as strongly. what get's the smallest amount of space though is mindstorms, and technic. oh well.
The average person can barely pilot on a 2 dimensional grid. Flying cars are always going to be unrealistic for the average person. The current reasons why you don't see more of the ones that do exist, is fuel. They haven't made them fuel efficient enough to be practical. burning 10-20% of your fuel just for take-off, and then again on landing doesn't help when your only carring a couple of gallons to start with.
And depending on the head position when it is pushed away means that it could hit the next platter in line relatively easily. What we need to do is get away from spinning media. though that will take many advancements that haven't even been though of yet.
Funny I have just that setup at home. I have an encrypted disk image(Yes I run OSX that's why this works and is easy for any idiot to implement)
as I was saying, I have an ecrypted disk image, which stores my sensitive files. Tax file documents, and other such documents. Also on that image are the data files, and configuration files for an application. The data files are encrypted by the application, so that I can have my passwords secured(twice).
When i double click on the app it tries to load it's configuration but the files aren't on the volume as it's not mounted. OS X tries to auto mount the encrypted disk image only to stop to require a password. The image decrypts and mounts allowing the App to finish loading. Another password in the app and I can access my password. Total access time 20 seconds. Knowing my passwords are protected by two different passwords with two different types of encryption. Priceless.
actually they do. First generation of any line usually has a bug that desn't show up in limited testing but only becomes a problem after it is exposed to thousands of testers. You shouldn't be a brand new model of a brand new car line either. Doesn't matter whether it's a ford, chevy, BMW, or mercedes. They all have little technical errors. Things that the engineers didn't think of or thought would work better than they do.
real world hardware always has those kinds of bugs.
Just for the record, never buy a first generation apple. I will wait till they do a complete line update on the macbooks before buying one. Every new design has bugs. Even from Apple. But the story is always revision a models tend to need more TLC(with/without a hammer) than later versions.
My 12" powerbook G4 acted up once. I finially figured out that several of the fonts had gotten corrupted on the HD, ncreasing their size by an order of magnitude.(yea 3 gigs of fonts when it's supposed to be less than 200 megs) and it was doing random things to the OS. I was upgrading to 10.4 at the time so I wasn't too upset. But I also waited until the second or third revision came through of the hardware.
Personally I would deal with it for a couple more months and upgrade to the "new" macbooks when they come out in a few more months. Then sell the old one on ebay for as much as you can.
there is a sucker out there who wll pay you good money and at least underwrite part of the replacement costs.
They basically only do it for ram and Hard drive problems, anything else and you still have to send the machine in, plus you wasted extra time in dealing with getting a support person out there.
How do I know this. My mother recently bought her first new computer(she was getting hand me downs from myself and my sister). Oddly enough the HP laptop had a backlight problem she spent the better part of 8 weeks trying to get HP to admit it. Finally they did and the machine needed to be mailed(on HP's tab at least) to them repaired, and sent back. Are HP's total crap? Nope I don't think so. It was just a defect. But that On site warrenty isn't as good as you think it is.
I much perfer Apples. I take it to one of the many apple stores, and they deal with it, if they can, if not I too have to deal with the same hassle of sending it in.
Service wise Apple comes out slightly better. Hence why Apple is Consumer Reports best tech company for such things.
The only "good" dells are the the expensive ones, like what you have at work. the cheap $495 models are just that cheap.
oddly enough the expensive dells are the same price as Apple's. So go figure you pay for quality and Apple won't sell below a certian level of quality.
No WGA in Vista has an Auto off feature. if you don't authenticate within 30 days You can only use the machine one hour a day, and you can only use IE during that hour.
I personaly hope MSFT gets widespread distribution of Vista before someone pulls out that virus that disables WGA from authenticating properly. Maybe twith 30-50 million users calling in complaining will MSFT stop being so greedy.
Why would they make it affordable? this way they can rape you for more money. Notice how every cell phone company in the US is pulling an AOL/compuserv/prodigy, where you have to use their service, their MP3's, their email, or they charge you more? That's what net neutrality should be about. making sure all net access is equal. of course with cell phone companies over selling and under powering their networks they have to limit the traffic some how.
The problem in the US is the fact the a large percentage of copper is in bad shape. I have seen cases where as much as 50% of a bundle is worthless it's so badly damaged. Yet the phone companies won't replace it as it's not profitable enough in a city. Heck my company is on it's own bundle as the rest of the bundle has failed so completely. We found this out when we lost only phone lines for 30 hours, only to find out a tech disconnected the rest of the bundle as he figured no one else was on it. We learned the truth only because the technicians sent out to us are occasional customers as well.
copper lines will eventually fail completely. Fiber will last longer with better signal strength.
So just how can DSL companies provide everyone with telephone and DSL service when they have whole bundles of cables sitting underground that are useless?
No sources only need to be available if the end person asks for them. under the GPl Nintedo could release the source code only if you filled out a card asking for it and then paid a few for the creation and mailing of a cd with the source. So $5-$10 depending on where thy are mailing it from.
Granted the first person to do that then has a right to post the complete source code minus Nintedo's trade marks on any website they choose.
It just makes more sense to hook it up to your web site and alllow people to download it. cheaper, easier, and less hassle and your in complaince.
but source code only has to be released if requested.
Well it's not so much content that's mediocre but the price. a basic data plan from cingular will set you back $20 a month. That's just for data and on top of your regular phone bill. I have always wanted to hook my cell phone up to my laptop for quicky net access, but there is no way in hell I am paying that much three times for occasional net access. Once for your land connection, once for your mobile phone and once again for your datalink over the mobile phone.
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It's a two way street. google may be able to easily take others customers, but it means google can lose customers just as easily.
It's why you will have to wait a long time to see MSFT do something similar.
maybe he is planning on working for Fox news or Forbes?
They can spew BS like that.
downloading a song over wi-fi will kill your battery life faster than you can say my battery's dead. So you download a song or two while at the local wifi cafe. big deal, but you just lost a couple of hours of play back on already weak batteries.
Tablet PC's haven't failed due to bad design, or lack of innovation, but because they need to be recharged two to three times in a typical 8 hour work day, and more when the person s on their 10th or 12th hour.
damn it that sounds like a reason to install Vista. Tis a shame I spent a couple of years converting everything I had over to open file formats, and Now I can switch systems with general ease.
I don't know about him, but I watch it on one of the following.
my 18"LCD
my 19" CRT
or my new 23" widescreen LCD.
at the resolution supported it's as good as regular lo def TV. so nothing spectacular for the wide screen, but as good as regular TV.
Maybe in the UK,but the USA has .3 billion people It was a census milestone that the 300 million person should of been born a few weeks ago.
China has a billion Chinese getting ready to buy a computer. Would you turn away a billion customers to gain a few million more? even if half are running illegal copies, that's still many times more than you can find elsewhere.
You don't even realize you killed your own argument. You just stated that huge numbers of people are buying lo def tv's today every hour. so a few more buy HD, but that still means those people who just bought a lo def tv won't be upgrading it again in 5 years.
10 years from now, when HD and DRm idiots finally settle down, the HDtv will be more commonplace. people who spent $2000 for an HD set 2-3 years ago are going to have to upgrade to the newest standards or else they are stuck with the same lo def signal. any HD tv without HDMI soon won't be able to decode HD signals. while most have HDMI now, a year ago that wasn't the case.
this years new hard to find but coming out slowly item, is dual HDMI inputs, so you can connect that $1200 blue ray dvd player to your tv, and the cable box at the same time(what a concept huh?). Since soon both, HD cable, and HD DVD/Blueray, will require the HDMI or else you can't play back the HD content anyways.
In the end it's better to wait, stick with your lo def tv that's been fine for the past 20 years, and see what stabilizes. YYou save time, headaches, and money.
apparently you haven't gotten a recent catalog. The front cover is a train and the back is a chess set. while it has star wars/batman/and other sets, trains, and cityscapes are featured just as strongly. what get's the smallest amount of space though is mindstorms, and technic. oh well.
The average person can barely pilot on a 2 dimensional grid. Flying cars are always going to be unrealistic for the average person. The current reasons why you don't see more of the ones that do exist, is fuel. They haven't made them fuel efficient enough to be practical. burning 10-20% of your fuel just for take-off, and then again on landing doesn't help when your only carring a couple of gallons to start with.
And depending on the head position when it is pushed away means that it could hit the next platter in line relatively easily. What we need to do is get away from spinning media. though that will take many advancements that haven't even been though of yet.
Funny I have just that setup at home. I have an encrypted disk image(Yes I run OSX that's why this works and is easy for any idiot to implement)
as I was saying, I have an ecrypted disk image, which stores my sensitive files. Tax file documents, and other such documents. Also on that image are the data files, and configuration files for an application. The data files are encrypted by the application, so that I can have my passwords secured(twice).
When i double click on the app it tries to load it's configuration but the files aren't on the volume as it's not mounted. OS X tries to auto mount the encrypted disk image only to stop to require a password. The image decrypts and mounts allowing the App to finish loading. Another password in the app and I can access my password. Total access time 20 seconds. Knowing my passwords are protected by two different passwords with two different types of encryption. Priceless.
well Ananova is British, and therefore it doesn't count until the Americans do it. Caus our president says we be better.
Note I love ananova. The selection of news stories there is the simply the best. You can read about the strangest stuff on there.
actually they do. First generation of any line usually has a bug that desn't show up in limited testing but only becomes a problem after it is exposed to thousands of testers. You shouldn't be a brand new model of a brand new car line either. Doesn't matter whether it's a ford, chevy, BMW, or mercedes. They all have little technical errors. Things that the engineers didn't think of or thought would work better than they do.
real world hardware always has those kinds of bugs.
You forgot that OS X does it on a third of the hardware.(except ram then only half)
Just for the record, never buy a first generation apple. I will wait till they do a complete line update on the macbooks before buying one. Every new design has bugs. Even from Apple. But the story is always revision a models tend to need more TLC(with /without a hammer) than later versions.
My 12" powerbook G4 acted up once. I finially figured out that several of the fonts had gotten corrupted on the HD, ncreasing their size by an order of magnitude.(yea 3 gigs of fonts when it's supposed to be less than 200 megs) and it was doing random things to the OS. I was upgrading to 10.4 at the time so I wasn't too upset. But I also waited until the second or third revision came through of the hardware.
Personally I would deal with it for a couple more months and upgrade to the "new" macbooks when they come out in a few more months. Then sell the old one on ebay for as much as you can.
there is a sucker out there who wll pay you good money and at least underwrite part of the replacement costs.
Just try to get on-site service work.
They basically only do it for ram and Hard drive problems, anything else and you still have to send the machine in, plus you wasted extra time in dealing with getting a support person out there.
How do I know this. My mother recently bought her first new computer(she was getting hand me downs from myself and my sister). Oddly enough the HP laptop had a backlight problem she spent the better part of 8 weeks trying to get HP to admit it. Finally they did and the machine needed to be mailed(on HP's tab at least) to them repaired, and sent back. Are HP's total crap? Nope I don't think so. It was just a defect. But that On site warrenty isn't as good as you think it is.
I much perfer Apples. I take it to one of the many apple stores, and they deal with it, if they can, if not I too have to deal with the same hassle of sending it in.
Service wise Apple comes out slightly better. Hence why Apple is Consumer Reports best tech company for such things.
The only "good" dells are the the expensive ones, like what you have at work. the cheap $495 models are just that cheap.
oddly enough the expensive dells are the same price as Apple's. So go figure you pay for quality and Apple won't sell below a certian level of quality.
No WGA in Vista has an Auto off feature. if you don't authenticate within 30 days You can only use the machine one hour a day, and you can only use IE during that hour.
I personaly hope MSFT gets widespread distribution of Vista before someone pulls out that virus that disables WGA from authenticating properly. Maybe twith 30-50 million users calling in complaining will MSFT stop being so greedy.
Damn my lack of mod points.
Why would they make it affordable? this way they can rape you for more money. Notice how every cell phone company in the US is pulling an AOL/compuserv/prodigy, where you have to use their service, their MP3's, their email, or they charge you more? That's what net neutrality should be about. making sure all net access is equal. of course with cell phone companies over selling and under powering their networks they have to limit the traffic some how.
of course do you really know that the planet they found wasn't a proto planet, in the process of being formed?
The onyl way to be certian is to go visit the planet.
Now where's my hyperspace drive.
The problem in the US is the fact the a large percentage of copper is in bad shape. I have seen cases where as much as 50% of a bundle is worthless it's so badly damaged. Yet the phone companies won't replace it as it's not profitable enough in a city. Heck my company is on it's own bundle as the rest of the bundle has failed so completely. We found this out when we lost only phone lines for 30 hours, only to find out a tech disconnected the rest of the bundle as he figured no one else was on it. We learned the truth only because the technicians sent out to us are occasional customers as well.
copper lines will eventually fail completely. Fiber will last longer with better signal strength.
So just how can DSL companies provide everyone with telephone and DSL service when they have whole bundles of cables sitting underground that are useless?
No sources only need to be available if the end person asks for them. under the GPl Nintedo could release the source code only if you filled out a card asking for it and then paid a few for the creation and mailing of a cd with the source. So $5-$10 depending on where thy are mailing it from.
Granted the first person to do that then has a right to post the complete source code minus Nintedo's trade marks on any website they choose.
It just makes more sense to hook it up to your web site and alllow people to download it. cheaper, easier, and less hassle and your in complaince.
but source code only has to be released if requested.
Well it's not so much content that's mediocre but the price. a basic data plan from cingular will set you back $20 a month. That's just for data and on top of your regular phone bill. I have always wanted to hook my cell phone up to my laptop for quicky net access, but there is no way in hell I am paying that much three times for occasional net access. Once for your land connection, once for your mobile phone and once again for your datalink over the mobile phone.