Sure, kind of like a free society isn't free if it has "ifs, ands, or buts". You can't truly be free unless you are free to murder, rape, and enslave others, right? Absolute chaos is the only freedom, isn't it?
I think a jackass is someone who equates a discussion of 16/17 years olds with NAMBLA. Yes, an eight year old, hypothetically, should be able to have consensual sex with anyone regardless of age. Many societies, perhaps all, believe that someone of that age is incapable of giving consent. That's what "age of consent" is for. Your example is meaningless.
If you don't think 15 year olds are sexually active then you are naive. 15 year olds are old enough to consent in some countries.
If they are old enough and physically mature enough to be sexually active, then why would anyone be a "pervert" for being attracted? Just how old does someone need to be to cross the threshold into "perversion"?
If 16 year olds are old enough to consent then they are adults from a sexual standpoint and those that are attracted to them aren't "old perverts". If you don't see it that way then you're a hypocrite.
Given that the SPL of a a whisper is 20dB, the distance is irrelevant. The SPL of one whisper is 20dB. Furthermore, the incoherence of individual sound waves has no impact. Finally, the equation for a 1000 whispers is 20dB + (10 x log10(1000)) or 50dB.
Even if your unsubstantiated premise is true, which it's most likely close enough, there is no reason to believe, and you've offered no evidence to support, your conclusion. What it boils down to is that Dell is a tough negotiator with its suppliers, it not only gets favorable deals but it also gets favorable terms, and that's just good, hard-nosed business. It's suppliers are responsible for negotiating deals that are good for their businesses and if they don't do so it's their own fault. Dell won't have trouble finding suppliers to do business with.
Dell's slip has occurred because MD stepped down and Rollins was getting the job done. It has nothing to do with Dell having exhausted all the suppliers willing to business with them. For all those drawing Walmart comparisons, Michael Dell idolizes Sam Walton. It's probably as good a comparison as you'll find.
Not true. Not everything you might want to buy is sold in stores. Auctions aren't just for buyers hoping to buy things for less than fair market value.
If you are willing to pay $35, then $35 is a good price. After all, you said it was when you declared your willingness to pay it. What you are complaining about is not getting a better deal than you were willing to take.
RAID 0 doesn't automatically ensure that both/all drives will read/write at the same time. In fact, RAID 0 is typically configured NOT to optimize that. Large interleave sizes, the ones typically used, optimize for multiple concurrent requests, not parallel throughput. Furthermore, each drive in a SATA system will get its own SATA link, so unless you are attaching a RAID 0 box via a single SATA link, your entire point is specious. Even if you had 2 RAID 0 drives with a small interleave attached via a single SATA 150 link, you've proven that 150 MB/sec is fast enough.
MS first shipped a Windows product with TCP/IP integrated in July of 1993. PCs, up to that time, did not have TCP/IP unless they ran a UNIX flavor. MS was not behind the market wrt TCP/IP integration.
Have to agree. Apple is making a big deal over thier multitouch interface yet the on-screen keyboard doesn't utilize it. The soft keyboard itself is a sparce implementation that is relatively poor compared to others i've seen. Despite the claim that it's keys are wide, they are not since the iPhone is relatively narrow by smartphone standards and there's just no room to make them bigger than, say, a Blackjack. I'm pretty confident that the iPhone isn't going to make a good texting device. There's no way there's any magic in that keyboard implementation like Apple is claiming.
"...the average american student gets to university, goes to a party, has large (for them) amounts of beer for the first time and cann't handle it."
It may be a typical experience but it's hardly "the average american student" experience.
The funny thing is you speak like drinking ability is a measure of manhood. Who cares? There's a lot to be said for being a lightweight--it doesn't cost as much to have fun. Drinking isn't the ultimate in human experiences anyway, though when you start drinking at 12 perhaps it frequently becomes so.
BTW, a frat boy is hardly the measure of drinking prowess.
"Ultimately, what he is saying is this: it is up to the legislative process to determine whether or not the Writ of Habeas Corpus ought to extend to non-citizens held as enemy combatants who fail to qualify for POW status. He is certainly not saying (or implying) that the Bush adminstration can ignore the Writ of Habeas Corpus for random citizens snatched of the street."
I think you are seriously mistaken. He was not commenting specifically on non-citizens. Gonzales said "The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas corpus. It doesn't say that. It simply says the right shall not be suspended except in cases of rebellion or invasion." He specifically says that the privilege is not granted by the Constitution and that the administration could therefore potentially ignore writs for citizens. The suspicions of his motives are fully justified.
"We tried to impeach a president for questionable moral and sexual acts in the oval office."
No, we DID impeach a president for comitting perjury.
"Yet we do nothing with this kind of crap going on?"
It's not "we" that can impeach the president. It's the House of Representatives who, for the first 6 years of the presidency, have been in the back pocket of the neocons.
"It amazes me that Clinton got impeached for telling some lies about a few off-side blowjobs and for getting a few laundry bills."
Clinton got impeached for comitting perjury. Telling a lie in a court of law is a serious offense.
"A few years later, a different president tells lies about so-called weapons of mass destruction, fabricates connections between Saddam and terror groups, and uses those lies as a means to justify a war that get tens of thousands of people killed. But y'all cool with that?"
"I was shocked at the statement that there are smart phones now that do more better. Name one?..."
Is that a trick question? The Samsung Blackjack. 3G data, WiFi, BT, smaller, lighter, full keyboard, mp3 video, web browsing, mature platform, large 3rd party software base, Windows platform support (and mac through Missing Sync). Same holds for the T-mobile Dash. Going a little larger you can have the same features along with integrated GPS. The Blackjack and Dash are $199 with contract.
"Name one that plays wide screen movies?"
All WM5 devices.
"Name one with a full web browser?"
WM5 devices. The Nokia E61 has a fantastic web browser. Apple's statement there was just a lie.
"Name one with a full desktop OS?"
What is that? Since when is a full desktop OS appropriate for a handheld? Since when is the iPhone OS any more "full desktop" than Symbian or WM5?
"Name a current one with a screen that size?"
There are cell phones with full VGA screens and with screens 3.5" or larger. None as small as the iPhone. It's clear, though, that your benchmark is being defined by the precise set of features that the iPhone offers. I'll note that the iPhone omits a full keyboard, making it worse for text communications than most all other devices.
"There are dozens of other features I've never seen in a cell phone."
Really? Dozens? I'd like to see that list. I count only a few and most have not proven their value.
"Look if you don't want one fine but knocking them sounds like sour grapes."
And parroting the Apple line sounds like fanboyism.
"People before Vista came out were claiming the Mac OSX was just a rip off of Vista."
Really? Never heard that. Sounds like more fanboyism. What does this have to do with the iPhone?
"Personally I'm a heretic and will use whatever works best."
I doubt it considering your fanboyish statements regarding Vista, Tiger and Leopard.
"The day it's anounced they start complaining about the phone itself inspite of it being a major innovation in phone, media and computer intergration."
So says Apple but I don't see any innovation at all.
"Given it has a full OS once the hardware catches up they can seamlessly turn it into a portable computer."
WM5 is a "full OS" and it's a portable computer now. It even includes a real keyboard on many models. Meanwhile, Apple has specifically said that it will not allow the iPhone to become a portable computer.
"I really question whether the detractors have done their homework..."
and I question whether you have done yours.
"...Apple is about to take the technical high ground and people are starting the king bashing early?"
Now there's a true fanboy comment. Apple isn't king of the cellphone market and the iPhone won't be changing that.
"What they have done is in a first generation smart phone set a very high mark for the other companies to hit."
Actually, it's a lower mark than others already in the market have achieved. You are in denial.
"The grapes may be sour but have the decency to taste them first, or at least wait until they are picked, to declare their shortcomings."
You are suggesting that the criticisms aren't valid. That isn't the case.
Then you aren't a smartphone user. Apple claims it's a computer that you put in your pocket then denies you the ability to use it as one by disallowing 3rd party software. If the excuse that you offer is that no one wants to do that anyway then who do you think wants a pocketable computer? Users of smartphones do and describing the iPhone as one is a misrepresentation.
The only thing unique about the iPhone's iPod features are its iPod dock connector and iTunes integration. There's a lot to be said for that but many devices on the market today have mp3 and video players integrated. It is possible to put 4GB or more of flash in those as well and they are all arguably better PDA and phone devices than the iPhone promises to be. What's unique about the iPhone is that you will be able to plug it into your iPod car kit.
As far as demand for music downloads to cellphones, I don't think it's interesting either. There are services, though, and I have a friend who uses them.
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Hard drives get bigger and faster all the time. Solid state drives become more and more viable as well.
Hard drives aren't the bottleneck in certain applications so it's irrelevant to those.
Finally, why not improve the system everywhere it's possible? Why blow off CPU improvements only become some apps don't benefit?
Enjoy going after the police when they make it your problem.
Once enough people say something, no matter how preposterous, it's believed to be true.
Trolling is a fishing technique and has nothing to do with trolls.
Sure, kind of like a free society isn't free if it has "ifs, ands, or buts". You can't truly be free unless you are free to murder, rape, and enslave others, right? Absolute chaos is the only freedom, isn't it?
I think a jackass is someone who equates a discussion of 16/17 years olds with NAMBLA. Yes, an eight year old, hypothetically, should be able to have consensual sex with anyone regardless of age. Many societies, perhaps all, believe that someone of that age is incapable of giving consent. That's what "age of consent" is for. Your example is meaningless.
If you don't think 15 year olds are sexually active then you are naive. 15 year olds are old enough to consent in some countries.
If they are old enough and physically mature enough to be sexually active, then why would anyone be a "pervert" for being attracted? Just how old does someone need to be to cross the threshold into "perversion"?
If 16 year olds are old enough to consent then they are adults from a sexual standpoint and those that are attracted to them aren't "old perverts". If you don't see it that way then you're a hypocrite.
Given that the SPL of a a whisper is 20dB, the distance is irrelevant. The SPL of one whisper is 20dB. Furthermore, the incoherence of individual sound waves has no impact. Finally, the equation for a 1000 whispers is 20dB + (10 x log10(1000)) or 50dB.
Don't forget about the horrible UI (worst among smartphones) and the terrible instability. The E61 is the worst of breed.
A smartphone runs 3rd party apps. There are plenty of players besides Symbian in the smartphone market but the iPhone will not be one of them.
You are both wrong. DVD is 720x480. The original poster's claim that broadcast is 330 and VHS 240 are "lines od resolution", not pixel counts.
"Plus a "widescreen" HDTV and a blu-ray/hd-dvd simply translate the lines better."
Careful with your terminology. Lines and pixels are not the same thing.
Even if your unsubstantiated premise is true, which it's most likely close enough, there is no reason to believe, and you've offered no evidence to support, your conclusion. What it boils down to is that Dell is a tough negotiator with its suppliers, it not only gets favorable deals but it also gets favorable terms, and that's just good, hard-nosed business. It's suppliers are responsible for negotiating deals that are good for their businesses and if they don't do so it's their own fault. Dell won't have trouble finding suppliers to do business with.
Dell's slip has occurred because MD stepped down and Rollins was getting the job done. It has nothing to do with Dell having exhausted all the suppliers willing to business with them. For all those drawing Walmart comparisons, Michael Dell idolizes Sam Walton. It's probably as good a comparison as you'll find.
Not true. Not everything you might want to buy is sold in stores. Auctions aren't just for buyers hoping to buy things for less than fair market value.
If you are willing to pay $35, then $35 is a good price. After all, you said it was when you declared your willingness to pay it. What you are complaining about is not getting a better deal than you were willing to take.
Maybe it has something to do with the "Intel is all about FUD..." comment. That's pretty antagonistic.
RAID 0 doesn't automatically ensure that both/all drives will read/write at the same time. In fact, RAID 0 is typically configured NOT to optimize that. Large interleave sizes, the ones typically used, optimize for multiple concurrent requests, not parallel throughput. Furthermore, each drive in a SATA system will get its own SATA link, so unless you are attaching a RAID 0 box via a single SATA link, your entire point is specious. Even if you had 2 RAID 0 drives with a small interleave attached via a single SATA 150 link, you've proven that 150 MB/sec is fast enough.
MS first shipped a Windows product with TCP/IP integrated in July of 1993. PCs, up to that time, did not have TCP/IP unless they ran a UNIX flavor. MS was not behind the market wrt TCP/IP integration.
Have to agree. Apple is making a big deal over thier multitouch interface yet the on-screen keyboard doesn't utilize it. The soft keyboard itself is a sparce implementation that is relatively poor compared to others i've seen. Despite the claim that it's keys are wide, they are not since the iPhone is relatively narrow by smartphone standards and there's just no room to make them bigger than, say, a Blackjack. I'm pretty confident that the iPhone isn't going to make a good texting device. There's no way there's any magic in that keyboard implementation like Apple is claiming.
Parents can allow their 16 year olds to drink at home already.
"...the average american student gets to university, goes to a party, has large (for them) amounts of beer for the first time and cann't handle it."
It may be a typical experience but it's hardly "the average american student" experience.
The funny thing is you speak like drinking ability is a measure of manhood. Who cares? There's a lot to be said for being a lightweight--it doesn't cost as much to have fun. Drinking isn't the ultimate in human experiences anyway, though when you start drinking at 12 perhaps it frequently becomes so.
BTW, a frat boy is hardly the measure of drinking prowess.
"Ultimately, what he is saying is this: it is up to the legislative process to determine whether or not the Writ of Habeas Corpus ought to extend to non-citizens held as enemy combatants who fail to qualify for POW status. He is certainly not saying (or implying) that the Bush adminstration can ignore the Writ of Habeas Corpus for random citizens snatched of the street."
I think you are seriously mistaken. He was not commenting specifically on non-citizens. Gonzales said "The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas corpus. It doesn't say that. It simply says the right shall not be suspended except in cases of rebellion or invasion." He specifically says that the privilege is not granted by the Constitution and that the administration could therefore potentially ignore writs for citizens. The suspicions of his motives are fully justified.
"We tried to impeach a president for questionable moral and sexual acts in the oval office."
No, we DID impeach a president for comitting perjury.
"Yet we do nothing with this kind of crap going on?"
It's not "we" that can impeach the president. It's the House of Representatives who, for the first 6 years of the presidency, have been in the back pocket of the neocons.
"It amazes me that Clinton got impeached for telling some lies about a few off-side blowjobs and for getting a few laundry bills."
Clinton got impeached for comitting perjury. Telling a lie in a court of law is a serious offense.
"A few years later, a different president tells lies about so-called weapons of mass destruction, fabricates connections between Saddam and terror groups, and uses those lies as a means to justify a war that get tens of thousands of people killed. But y'all cool with that?"
What makes you think us "all" are cool with that?
"I was shocked at the statement that there are smart phones now that do more better. Name one?..."
Is that a trick question? The Samsung Blackjack. 3G data, WiFi, BT, smaller, lighter, full keyboard, mp3 video, web browsing, mature platform, large 3rd party software base, Windows platform support (and mac through Missing Sync). Same holds for the T-mobile Dash. Going a little larger you can have the same features along with integrated GPS. The Blackjack and Dash are $199 with contract.
"Name one that plays wide screen movies?"
All WM5 devices.
"Name one with a full web browser?"
WM5 devices. The Nokia E61 has a fantastic web browser. Apple's statement there was just a lie.
"Name one with a full desktop OS?"
What is that? Since when is a full desktop OS appropriate for a handheld? Since when is the iPhone OS any more "full desktop" than Symbian or WM5?
"Name a current one with a screen that size?"
There are cell phones with full VGA screens and with screens 3.5" or larger. None as small as the iPhone. It's clear, though, that your benchmark is being defined by the precise set of features that the iPhone offers. I'll note that the iPhone omits a full keyboard, making it worse for text communications than most all other devices.
"There are dozens of other features I've never seen in a cell phone."
Really? Dozens? I'd like to see that list. I count only a few and most have not proven their value.
"Look if you don't want one fine but knocking them sounds like sour grapes."
And parroting the Apple line sounds like fanboyism.
"People before Vista came out were claiming the Mac OSX was just a rip off of Vista."
Really? Never heard that. Sounds like more fanboyism. What does this have to do with the iPhone?
"Personally I'm a heretic and will use whatever works best."
I doubt it considering your fanboyish statements regarding Vista, Tiger and Leopard.
"The day it's anounced they start complaining about the phone itself inspite of it being a major innovation in phone, media and computer intergration."
So says Apple but I don't see any innovation at all.
"Given it has a full OS once the hardware catches up they can seamlessly turn it into a portable computer."
WM5 is a "full OS" and it's a portable computer now. It even includes a real keyboard on many models. Meanwhile, Apple has specifically said that it will not allow the iPhone to become a portable computer.
"I really question whether the detractors have done their homework..."
and I question whether you have done yours.
"...Apple is about to take the technical high ground and people are starting the king bashing early?"
Now there's a true fanboy comment. Apple isn't king of the cellphone market and the iPhone won't be changing that.
"What they have done is in a first generation smart phone set a very high mark for the other companies to hit."
Actually, it's a lower mark than others already in the market have achieved. You are in denial.
"The grapes may be sour but have the decency to taste them first, or at least wait until they are picked, to declare their shortcomings."
You are suggesting that the criticisms aren't valid. That isn't the case.
Then you aren't a smartphone user. Apple claims it's a computer that you put in your pocket then denies you the ability to use it as one by disallowing 3rd party software. If the excuse that you offer is that no one wants to do that anyway then who do you think wants a pocketable computer? Users of smartphones do and describing the iPhone as one is a misrepresentation.
The only thing unique about the iPhone's iPod features are its iPod dock connector and iTunes integration. There's a lot to be said for that but many devices on the market today have mp3 and video players integrated. It is possible to put 4GB or more of flash in those as well and they are all arguably better PDA and phone devices than the iPhone promises to be. What's unique about the iPhone is that you will be able to plug it into your iPod car kit.
As far as demand for music downloads to cellphones, I don't think it's interesting either. There are services, though, and I have a friend who uses them.