The Koran isn't written in English, so one translation may lean more towards "fight", another translation may be leaning more towards "make an effort".
I'm not sure about the relevance of Big Mac pricing in different countries. I spent some time in Saudi Arabia back before the first Gulf War. You could eat a full, satisfying meal for the equivalent of under $1 if you ate "local" food, but go to a restaurant that serves pizza or hamburgers and you would pay easily 5-10 times that for the same amount of food.
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What makes it worse is that very few of Ubuntu's dialog boxes are designed to be used at 800x600 (buttons usually cut off at the bottom of the screen), so the theoretical "home user" would be screwed twice. yes, I know you can Alt-drag the dialog box, but the average newbie Ubuntu user doesn't know that.
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Sorry, you lost me because you didn't post a car analogy.
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Supporting color (well, beyond crappy CGA/EGA graphics) requires 3 or more times as much video memory and probably more processing power. The Lisa shipped with only 1MB of RAM and the first Mac had only 128K, so I can imagine that memory was at a premium in those days.
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Plus, you have a huge potential market of 500 users!
When my job gave me a Blackberry with internet access, I surfed the web on it maybe twice before giving it up for hopeless. I've used it maybe a handful more times after that because I had to. It's absolutely painfully slow and it looks horribly broken, especially for sites that were not designed to be viewed on a mobile device. If I tried to look up movie times via IMDB on my Blackberry, I would have to wait several minutes and then scroll down about 50 pages using that stupid trackball before I could get to the link. The Blackberry browser has since improved somewhat, but it was too late to save it for me.
The iPhone handles web browsing much better, even for sites that are not customized for mobiles. The ability to render the entire page in a thumbnail view and then zoom in on the spot in which you are actually interested was revolutionary in a phone.
City-owned utilities are great until the city starts to run out of money. Then, in order to pay for their short-sightedness, they sell off the utility and it all goes to hell. Witness Chicago's recent parking meter fiasco.
For the first time ever, scientists at the Slashdot institute have actually managed to produce an article summary that is longer than the article linked, as well as providing new information not available in the article itself! How is this possible?
I live *IN* a major city. The problem with Super Saver shipping isn't that it takes 2-4 days to arrive, but that it often takes them 4 days just to ship the damn thing. What is worse is that they always manage to ship on a Thursday or Friday, which means I also have to wait an extra 2 days because of the weekend.
You do if you're going to be using Microsoft's HyperV unless they've changed it recently.
But then again you get what you pay for (I believe Hyper-V is free with supported Server versions).
Occasionally when I'm on vacation for a week or more with nothing to do, I stay up as late as I want (usually a couple of hours later than usual) and wake up whenever I no longer feel sleepy. After a few days of this I will be up all night and sleeping pretty much all day. In order to get back into my normal sleeping pattern, I keep staying up late and getting up late until I'm back in the "normal" cycle.
It really aggravates me the way that Vista and now Windows 7 force patch installation at shutdown. Usually when I shut down, I'm taking my laptop somewhere else and often running late. When the patching happens I have no recourse but to let the damn thing finish running in my backpack, with my fingers crossed hoping the battery doesn't die and the laptop doesn't overheat while running full-tilt in a small enclosed space.
I was biking along the lake shore in Chicago when a big wave broke over me and drenched me from the waist down. My company-provided Blackberry was in its holster on my belt. I dried it off the best I could, but by the time I got home, half of the keys no longer worked.
So, yes, it is possible to destroy a phone through water damage without submerging it for several minutes.
I have been successfully running 64-bit Windows 7 on my late 2008 15" MacBook Pro since RC2 came out, using Vista drivers. I don't think I can switch between the two video cards and I wish I could adjust the sensitivity of the multi-touch trackpad, but everything works fine for the most part. Hell, it runs games almost as well as my home-built gaming PC.
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This. Very this.
Oh yeah, nothing sheep-like at all with running Windows...
The Koran isn't written in English, so one translation may lean more towards "fight", another translation may be leaning more towards "make an effort".
I'm not sure about the relevance of Big Mac pricing in different countries. I spent some time in Saudi Arabia back before the first Gulf War. You could eat a full, satisfying meal for the equivalent of under $1 if you ate "local" food, but go to a restaurant that serves pizza or hamburgers and you would pay easily 5-10 times that for the same amount of food.
RIM (Research in Motion) is the company that makes the Blackberry.
Actually I believe it will be Opera Maxi for the iPad.
Zing!
What makes it worse is that very few of Ubuntu's dialog boxes are designed to be used at 800x600 (buttons usually cut off at the bottom of the screen), so the theoretical "home user" would be screwed twice. yes, I know you can Alt-drag the dialog box, but the average newbie Ubuntu user doesn't know that.
Sorry, you lost me because you didn't post a car analogy.
Supporting color (well, beyond crappy CGA/EGA graphics) requires 3 or more times as much video memory and probably more processing power. The Lisa shipped with only 1MB of RAM and the first Mac had only 128K, so I can imagine that memory was at a premium in those days.
Plus, you have a huge potential market of 500 users!
When my job gave me a Blackberry with internet access, I surfed the web on it maybe twice before giving it up for hopeless. I've used it maybe a handful more times after that because I had to. It's absolutely painfully slow and it looks horribly broken, especially for sites that were not designed to be viewed on a mobile device. If I tried to look up movie times via IMDB on my Blackberry, I would have to wait several minutes and then scroll down about 50 pages using that stupid trackball before I could get to the link. The Blackberry browser has since improved somewhat, but it was too late to save it for me. The iPhone handles web browsing much better, even for sites that are not customized for mobiles. The ability to render the entire page in a thumbnail view and then zoom in on the spot in which you are actually interested was revolutionary in a phone.
City-owned utilities are great until the city starts to run out of money. Then, in order to pay for their short-sightedness, they sell off the utility and it all goes to hell. Witness Chicago's recent parking meter fiasco.
One person's "Troll" is another person's "Insightful".
Not only that, but I actually read the article, or rather in this example, the caption.
For the first time ever, scientists at the Slashdot institute have actually managed to produce an article summary that is longer than the article linked, as well as providing new information not available in the article itself! How is this possible?
I live *IN* a major city. The problem with Super Saver shipping isn't that it takes 2-4 days to arrive, but that it often takes them 4 days just to ship the damn thing. What is worse is that they always manage to ship on a Thursday or Friday, which means I also have to wait an extra 2 days because of the weekend.
You do if you're going to be using Microsoft's HyperV unless they've changed it recently. But then again you get what you pay for (I believe Hyper-V is free with supported Server versions).
I'm guessing it's not the jewish gay black metal band from Germany.
Occasionally when I'm on vacation for a week or more with nothing to do, I stay up as late as I want (usually a couple of hours later than usual) and wake up whenever I no longer feel sleepy. After a few days of this I will be up all night and sleeping pretty much all day. In order to get back into my normal sleeping pattern, I keep staying up late and getting up late until I'm back in the "normal" cycle.
And why do antivirus updates require a 60mb download? Can't they just push out the changes and not the entire damn definitions database?
It really aggravates me the way that Vista and now Windows 7 force patch installation at shutdown. Usually when I shut down, I'm taking my laptop somewhere else and often running late. When the patching happens I have no recourse but to let the damn thing finish running in my backpack, with my fingers crossed hoping the battery doesn't die and the laptop doesn't overheat while running full-tilt in a small enclosed space.
I was biking along the lake shore in Chicago when a big wave broke over me and drenched me from the waist down. My company-provided Blackberry was in its holster on my belt. I dried it off the best I could, but by the time I got home, half of the keys no longer worked. So, yes, it is possible to destroy a phone through water damage without submerging it for several minutes.
Smaller screen than a Nomad. Lame.
I have been successfully running 64-bit Windows 7 on my late 2008 15" MacBook Pro since RC2 came out, using Vista drivers. I don't think I can switch between the two video cards and I wish I could adjust the sensitivity of the multi-touch trackpad, but everything works fine for the most part. Hell, it runs games almost as well as my home-built gaming PC.