Agreed. Plus, even if the screen costs $400 to manufacture, you'll have to add in the electronics for tuning TV signals (maybe), sound handling, maybe speakers, remote control, a pretty cabinet, a nice cardboard box, glossy brochures, advertising, transport, market research (to determine how much we'll pay), markup along the supply chain plus federal, state and local taxes.
Hey presto! It will cost the same as a 40" LCD.
My general advice to anyone who'll listen: if you want a big LCD screen now, buy a big LCD screen now. These new ones will be out by about the time your LCD will need replacement.
You don't need a digital TV to display a digital TV signal. You need a digital TV set top box. It will plug in to any display you want: LCD, plasma, rear screen, HDLP or 15 year old CRT.
Given that Aussie programmers would be more likely to be out of work because of (a) PHB buying off-the-shelf software (usually made in US) or (b) having their job outsourced to another country, I'd say that the number put out of work by OSS would be less than one. At a guess.
1. There's stacks of iPods here already. Biggest selling MP3 player. Even Telstra (who owns BigPond) gives them away with phone plans. And, no, I don't have one.
2. If a consumer gets what they want (great music player + easily downloadable music from the world's largest catalogue) then this is indeed a good thing.
3. In what way has it (the iTMS) been a negative for any other country's economy? Any music sold here that is licenced here (through ARIA, APRA and AMCOS as required) generates money that stays here. Simple. Positive.
4. DRM is DRM. Apple's is less restrictive. Try and find any music service with that range with zero DRM. I'll take the one that I can use in iTunes and burn to CD as many times as I want.
5. BigPond music isn't better - it's $1.89 per track, uses DRM and requires Windows Media Player. BigPond is scum (says the loyal broadband customer of 4 years...)
What would be in an "atomic lab" that the laptop was exposed to that the people weren't, even if they do change their clothes?
Radiation doesn't just get on your clothes, it goes through them (and you). Unless they changed into full radiation suits to do a Powerpoint show, I think this story is untrue.
Besides, it would have been a little remiss of the lab workers not to warn the sales guys of the possibility of that happening...
By the way, if you're unable to put together a keyboard layout from memory, I suggest taking a couple of quick pictures of your keyboard with a digital camera - at least that way you won't be left wondering which key goes where.
Then we relegate Think Secret to the same pile as we do MacOS Rumors. Remember when they were the site - then it turned out they were just making stuff up...
During your month of testing, your systems are still vulnerable. MS can't make the patches any faster, therefore you having them a month earlier than everyone else can only mean that they are delayed to everyone else who needs them. How could that possibly be a good thing. Banks, powerstations, hospitals - they all can ill-afford downtime.
Finally, "released to the government" means what? They post them on their website? Like they do now...
I don't think that a "Prices are subject to change without notice" disclaimer would hold after a reasonable length of time* had elapsed for prices to be updated.
And why does it have to be in the fine print? Why not make it obvious rather than trying to hide it? Talk about trying to be deceptive.
Additionally, I don't see how a customer can be held responsible for the restaurant's failure to act. Regulations like this are in place to help boost consumer confidence in business which helps keep the whole mercantile thing rolling along, they're not there to punish some small business owner for not following section 8, subsection Q of the Obscure Act 1968.
*"reasonable" to be determined by a disinterested third party.
Who is it that comes up with this crap? People who don't have kids. People who don't realise that a kid wants parents and it's the parents job to read stories. Anything less and you may as well just dump your kid in a TV room with a bunch of Disney DVDs and a remote control. That's how to make storytelling interactive:-/
If anyone reading this article thinks that Creepy Ruxpin (good name BTW) is a good idea, remember that in the real world your kids want your time and they want you to read stories. If you answer "Yes, I'll do that" all will be good. If you answer "Yes, but..." then it's just not going to work.
And as for that washing machine shit mentioned earlier, is anyone's life that full and planned to the minute that they wouldn't have some idea when the damn washing machine is going to finish? And the toaster adjustment via computer? HAH! When will engineers learn: it's no use have remote control over something if you have to keep walking to the control to adjust something when it would have been quicker to walk to the machine (toaster) in the first place. Don't disconnect the user from the machine unless you have a damn good reason. It doesn't work otherwise.
I read The Trial a little after 9/11 but before the whole Guantanamo Bay thing.
After I read it I couldn't see why people thought Kafka was so great - it was a completely illogical story with boring people doing things that could only happen in Soviet Russia.
Then all this happened - and it was as if whoever was making these laws was reading it all from The Trial word for word.
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Agreed. Plus, even if the screen costs $400 to manufacture, you'll have to add in the electronics for tuning TV signals (maybe), sound handling, maybe speakers, remote control, a pretty cabinet, a nice cardboard box, glossy brochures, advertising, transport, market research (to determine how much we'll pay), markup along the supply chain plus federal, state and local taxes.
Hey presto! It will cost the same as a 40" LCD.
My general advice to anyone who'll listen: if you want a big LCD screen now, buy a big LCD screen now. These new ones will be out by about the time your LCD will need replacement.
You don't need a digital TV to display a digital TV signal. You need a digital TV set top box. It will plug in to any display you want: LCD, plasma, rear screen, HDLP or 15 year old CRT.
http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=18&so=7& sd=asc
Because they (the bosses) can see the quality of the work you've done for another project, so then they can pay you to do their project.
It's not like every possible piece of software in the world is an OSS project. Someone may want something different.
Given that Aussie programmers would be more likely to be out of work because of (a) PHB buying off-the-shelf software (usually made in US) or (b) having their job outsourced to another country, I'd say that the number put out of work by OSS would be less than one. At a guess.
I know several ID people who are strongly anti-Christian
I call bullshit. Name them (assuming they're published, on record as both pro-ID and anti-Christian).
Fox Mulder. He knows Aliens created earthlings.
Dana Scully might be another believer, too, but I think she's a waverer.
He also writes books on opera (the annoying stuff, not the browser), magic and music. And Windows XP.
And is a talented public speaker.
1. There's stacks of iPods here already. Biggest selling MP3 player. Even Telstra (who owns BigPond) gives them away with phone plans. And, no, I don't have one.
2. If a consumer gets what they want (great music player + easily downloadable music from the world's largest catalogue) then this is indeed a good thing.
3. In what way has it (the iTMS) been a negative for any other country's economy? Any music sold here that is licenced here (through ARIA, APRA and AMCOS as required) generates money that stays here. Simple. Positive.
4. DRM is DRM. Apple's is less restrictive. Try and find any music service with that range with zero DRM. I'll take the one that I can use in iTunes and burn to CD as many times as I want.
5. BigPond music isn't better - it's $1.89 per track, uses DRM and requires Windows Media Player. BigPond is scum (says the loyal broadband customer of 4 years...)
Yes. ElGato make some and so do Plextor.
Links to Maccentral reviews:n vertx/index.php n vertx/index.php
http://www.macworld.com/2005/03/reviews/plextorco
http://www.macworld.com/2005/03/reviews/plextorco
http://www.macworld.com/2004/06/reviews/eyetv200/
If he was truly blessed by the Apple gods he would be using a Mac. OK, a quiet one...
This just makes him a heretic.
Has the ring of urban legend about it.
What would be in an "atomic lab" that the laptop was exposed to that the people weren't, even if they do change their clothes?
Radiation doesn't just get on your clothes, it goes through them (and you). Unless they changed into full radiation suits to do a Powerpoint show, I think this story is untrue.
Besides, it would have been a little remiss of the lab workers not to warn the sales guys of the possibility of that happening...
If you put the keyboard in a ziplock bag you have probably just blocked the steam penetration necessary for autoclaving to do its work.
You need steam penetration for full heat transfer, and thus sterilisation, to occur.
Being a hyperthermophile, I really don't think that strain121 will be seen in hospital outbreaks any time soon. Except maybe in the boiler room.
And, no, heat tolerance of this nature is not something that can be "passed on" to another microbe that is virulent to humans.
By the way, if you're unable to put together a keyboard layout from memory, I suggest taking a couple of quick pictures of your keyboard with a digital camera - at least that way you won't be left wondering which key goes where.
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british billion or yankee billion?
Then that would be ironic self-deprecation and should be footnoted in your post as such.
She should look at the diesel version then.
Oh the pain...
And if the release date is false?
Then we relegate Think Secret to the same pile as we do MacOS Rumors. Remember when they were the site - then it turned out they were just making stuff up...
Mate, we're all descendants of convicts. EVERYTHING is legal here.
A small advantage over whom?
During your month of testing, your systems are still vulnerable. MS can't make the patches any faster, therefore you having them a month earlier than everyone else can only mean that they are delayed to everyone else who needs them. How could that possibly be a good thing. Banks, powerstations, hospitals - they all can ill-afford downtime.
Finally, "released to the government" means what? They post them on their website? Like they do now...
As far as I can see, this helps no-one.
Please explain.
Shhh. It's not something we like to talk about. Families hate the thought of that. Can't say I blame them. Gives me the heebees too.
I don't think that a "Prices are subject to change without notice" disclaimer would hold after a reasonable length of time* had elapsed for prices to be updated.
And why does it have to be in the fine print? Why not make it obvious rather than trying to hide it? Talk about trying to be deceptive.
Additionally, I don't see how a customer can be held responsible for the restaurant's failure to act. Regulations like this are in place to help boost consumer confidence in business which helps keep the whole mercantile thing rolling along, they're not there to punish some small business owner for not following section 8, subsection Q of the Obscure Act 1968.
*"reasonable" to be determined by a disinterested third party.
Who is it that comes up with this crap? People who don't have kids. People who don't realise that a kid wants parents and it's the parents job to read stories. Anything less and you may as well just dump your kid in a TV room with a bunch of Disney DVDs and a remote control. That's how to make storytelling interactive :-/
If anyone reading this article thinks that Creepy Ruxpin (good name BTW) is a good idea, remember that in the real world your kids want your time and they want you to read stories. If you answer "Yes, I'll do that" all will be good. If you answer "Yes, but..." then it's just not going to work.
And as for that washing machine shit mentioned earlier, is anyone's life that full and planned to the minute that they wouldn't have some idea when the damn washing machine is going to finish? And the toaster adjustment via computer? HAH! When will engineers learn: it's no use have remote control over something if you have to keep walking to the control to adjust something when it would have been quicker to walk to the machine (toaster) in the first place. Don't disconnect the user from the machine unless you have a damn good reason. It doesn't work otherwise.
I read The Trial a little after 9/11 but before the whole Guantanamo Bay thing.
After I read it I couldn't see why people thought Kafka was so great - it was a completely illogical story with boring people doing things that could only happen in Soviet Russia.
Then all this happened - and it was as if whoever was making these laws was reading it all from The Trial word for word.
Can I move in with you?