I like OS X. I generally like my old MacBook Pro. But when Apple won't make and sell the hardware I want, I have to decide if I really want to go to all the trouble of making a Hackintosh or if I'd rather just go buy a Dell and deal with Windows. So far, just dealing with Windows has won out. If Apple would start making hardware I want to buy, I'd start buying their computers again.
When I finally bought a laptop in 2006, I got myself a MacBook. Used it successfully for seven or eight years until I decided to get myself a used 2011 MacBook Pro, because by this time Apple had already made both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro into systems I didn't want. Since then, I've had to replace the logic board on the 2011 Pro once due to the graphics card failure and it recently started showing signs of the problem again. I got into the configuration and disabled the discrete graphics card to make sure I can keep using the laptop for a while longer. Which, of course, means that it's even less useful for games and other graphic-intensive work than it was before. So when I finally decided to buy myself a desktop as well, I didn't even consider Apple. When I finally replace that laptop, I'm not going to buy Apple. I don't use a iPhone or an iPad. I can't buy an iPod Classic anymore. Once I replace that laptop, I have no reason to deal with Apple again. It might not be much of a financial loss, but it's still the loss of one more customer and the creation of someone who will no longer recommend Apple to others.
Sierra, which is where TorC is, Dona Ana, which is where Las Cruces and New Mexico State is, and at one point Otero, which has Alamogordo and both part of White Sands and Holloman AFB. The increase of a gross receipts tax increase (effectively a sales tax, but on services as well as goods) was required to be approved by the voters and was, back in 2008. The biggest economic drivers in those counties are NMSU/Las Cruces and the various Federal installations like Holloman AFB, White Sands Missile Range, Ft. Bliss (though that's more in El Paso), and so on.
I had no problem with the idea and voted for it at the time. I still don't think it's a terrible idea if launches actually get started--outside money from Virgin Galactic, outside money from tourists and passengers, and possible use of it for other launches. There is simply not much of an economic driver in TorC or all of Sierra County, unless you want to spend the night in a little hotel with a hot spring fed directly into your bathtub. There's some beautiful country in the county, but that's not going to drive lots of tourism. I'm sure I've driven past TorC on I-25 far more than I ever stopped there.
I have no problem with more state funding going to it. Eventually, the plug might have to be pulled if it really never happens, but big ideas are a risk and governmental funds should be used.
Stereo controls on the steering wheel is nice. The two cars I've had with them are simple enough--volume, cycle presets up/down, change input, and one has a mute button. The volume gets used a lot, the presets get used when I'm listening to the radio, and I can do it all with my left thumb without having to look away from the road.
I've actually turned down cars (and other features I'd like) because of the touch screen controls. I like physical buttons and dials for things so that I don't have to look.
I bought myself a Kindle Keyboard and have gotten great use out of it over the years. It's handy having a physical keyboard for when I do want to do text entry, whether that's using the Silk browser or looking to buy a book directly through the device interface. Amazon has gone all-touch with the Kindle line these days which I think is a shame. I'd definitely buy a Paperwhite with a keyboard.
There's the idea (to some degree) in Allen Steele's "Coyote" series as well. The initial colonists weren't beat to the planet (actually an inhabitable moon of a gas giant) by later colonists with FTL but still only arrived about a year before the second wave. It's what sets up the conflicts for the second and third books. And the first two books are mostly just the short fiction published in Asimov's.
I'm a chemist in the US, and I routinely use about five different taper sizes. Then again, I'm also a process chemist, so I routinely work on anything from 25 mL to 22 L or more.
My family had a computer for years (the first was a 286 around 1987) and about 1992 bought a fancy new 486 from Gateway. It was an even bigger day when Dad got us a 4X CD-ROM drive to replace the 1X that the computer came with. About the time we switched to Windows 95, Dad bought a copy of Encarta. Over the next few years, one or two more versions were purchased. We also got a copy of Encyclopaedia Britannica (don't ask me when) and one of something made by Grolier before the acquistion by Scholastic.
My parents weren't against large volumes of printed references (they own a condensed OED) but Dad saw the potential of the CD format (DVD as well) right away. The fact that Encarta was much cheaper was a bonus.
I'm sorry, "tends to be" isn't what I really meant. There have been many deserving laureates, but the questionable ones stick out more in the Peace category.
I found that I enjoyed the old platforming side-scrollers more than Duke3D. How about getting rid of the FPS idea and making a 3D platformer instead? It can keep the humor and tone of Duke3D, but make it play like Ratchet and Clank. I'd be far more interested in that than DNF, which I have no interest in purchasing at all.
I've never really understood why I should get a smartphone. Sure, there are times it'd be nice to have the Internet capabilities, but I hate using a smartphone as, get this, a phone. I've got a 6-year old simple phone that just does that, making phone calls for the small amount I use my cell phone for. The plan is still dirt cheap for virtually unlimited calling. I don't use SMS of any kind, so why do I want any of that bundled in?
The only thing I want a smartphone for is mobile internet. But no carriers seem to want to just sell me a data plan, even if I come to them with an unlocked phone they can support. And now that even more caps are going into place, my desire to spend multiple hundreds of dollars on a phone and a plan drops even more.
It's partially a failure of connectivity on my part. The PS3 is hooked up through HDMI, but the TV then feeds the audio out through an optical connection through a Toslink-only switchbox into the receiver's single Toslink connection. The DVR hooks up the same way. This works fine when doing anything other than watching a Blu-Ray. I can't pass HDMI through the receiver as it only has a single Toslink and a single coax input.
For me, while I have a HDTV (32" 720p, definitely not the latest and greatest) and a Blu-Ray player (okay, it's a PS3), I have only bought two Blu-Ray discs. What has been stopping me--besides the fact that I buy very little physical media these days--is that my audio equipment doesn't work well with most Blu-Ray discs. I have a simple, but effective, 5.1 setup that works quite well for DVDs, video games, and anything broadcast or streamed in 5.1 as it has AC-3, DTS, and linear PCM support. But it doesn't support Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD, and it seemed like the only support I got for Dolby Digital was 2.0, as if the audio wasn't passing through correctly. I don't want to spend more money on a new surround system, especially when the TV I currently have doesn't really make Blu-Ray worth it.
I really enjoyed the movie. However, I didn't even know about it until I saw the director on the Colbert Report, when I decided I wanted to see it. I wound up seeing it as a double-feature with Inglorious Basterds at a drive-in. The Hurt Locker was premiered back in 2008 and didn't get wide release until the last weekend of July 2009. I think I saw them both the weekend Inglorious Basterds released, at which point The Hurt Locker had been premiered almost a year earlier. Seriously, why sit so long on a movie for release?
Does Guitar Hero: World Tour even use the original artist recordings or is it all sound-alikes? If that wasn't really the Eagles, sounds like there's a decent counter-claim to be made.
Yes, the latest Verizon CD supposedly works in OS X. I say supposedly because I couldn't get the whole setup to work in OS X and had to boot my MacBook into XP to get it to work and still can't get the software (some of which I do want--speed and line quality testing mostly) to install in OS X, but Verizon did place an.app on that CD. Of course, now that the connection is made with Verizon and the home wireless network set up, I don't need that CD to work. I'm currently using it as a coaster. Really, as I just moved and am still unpacking and haven't found the coasters yet.
Kinda reminds me of Winamp. Winamp went from a solid 2.x version to a new and awful 3.x version. They wound up going back to more of the 2.x version with some of the 3.x functionality and released it as Winamp 5, since 2+3=5.
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I like OS X. I generally like my old MacBook Pro. But when Apple won't make and sell the hardware I want, I have to decide if I really want to go to all the trouble of making a Hackintosh or if I'd rather just go buy a Dell and deal with Windows. So far, just dealing with Windows has won out. If Apple would start making hardware I want to buy, I'd start buying their computers again.
When I finally bought a laptop in 2006, I got myself a MacBook. Used it successfully for seven or eight years until I decided to get myself a used 2011 MacBook Pro, because by this time Apple had already made both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro into systems I didn't want. Since then, I've had to replace the logic board on the 2011 Pro once due to the graphics card failure and it recently started showing signs of the problem again. I got into the configuration and disabled the discrete graphics card to make sure I can keep using the laptop for a while longer. Which, of course, means that it's even less useful for games and other graphic-intensive work than it was before. So when I finally decided to buy myself a desktop as well, I didn't even consider Apple. When I finally replace that laptop, I'm not going to buy Apple. I don't use a iPhone or an iPad. I can't buy an iPod Classic anymore. Once I replace that laptop, I have no reason to deal with Apple again. It might not be much of a financial loss, but it's still the loss of one more customer and the creation of someone who will no longer recommend Apple to others.
Sierra, which is where TorC is, Dona Ana, which is where Las Cruces and New Mexico State is, and at one point Otero, which has Alamogordo and both part of White Sands and Holloman AFB. The increase of a gross receipts tax increase (effectively a sales tax, but on services as well as goods) was required to be approved by the voters and was, back in 2008. The biggest economic drivers in those counties are NMSU/Las Cruces and the various Federal installations like Holloman AFB, White Sands Missile Range, Ft. Bliss (though that's more in El Paso), and so on. I had no problem with the idea and voted for it at the time. I still don't think it's a terrible idea if launches actually get started--outside money from Virgin Galactic, outside money from tourists and passengers, and possible use of it for other launches. There is simply not much of an economic driver in TorC or all of Sierra County, unless you want to spend the night in a little hotel with a hot spring fed directly into your bathtub. There's some beautiful country in the county, but that's not going to drive lots of tourism. I'm sure I've driven past TorC on I-25 far more than I ever stopped there. I have no problem with more state funding going to it. Eventually, the plug might have to be pulled if it really never happens, but big ideas are a risk and governmental funds should be used.
Stereo controls on the steering wheel is nice. The two cars I've had with them are simple enough--volume, cycle presets up/down, change input, and one has a mute button. The volume gets used a lot, the presets get used when I'm listening to the radio, and I can do it all with my left thumb without having to look away from the road. I've actually turned down cars (and other features I'd like) because of the touch screen controls. I like physical buttons and dials for things so that I don't have to look.
We'll just put Donald Trump on it. He'll find a way to force Juan de Fuca to fix the problem and pay for all of it.
I bought myself a Kindle Keyboard and have gotten great use out of it over the years. It's handy having a physical keyboard for when I do want to do text entry, whether that's using the Silk browser or looking to buy a book directly through the device interface. Amazon has gone all-touch with the Kindle line these days which I think is a shame. I'd definitely buy a Paperwhite with a keyboard.
Remember, descent is the highest form of patriotic.
There's the idea (to some degree) in Allen Steele's "Coyote" series as well. The initial colonists weren't beat to the planet (actually an inhabitable moon of a gas giant) by later colonists with FTL but still only arrived about a year before the second wave. It's what sets up the conflicts for the second and third books. And the first two books are mostly just the short fiction published in Asimov's.
After all, if nobody wants it, the servers wouldn't be slammed and hard to get to.
Why not? Apparently it never needs maintenance, never runs out of gas, never takes any damage, and never gets dirty.
Can't happen. Animals like lobsters can't carry prion diseases.
I'm a chemist in the US, and I routinely use about five different taper sizes. Then again, I'm also a process chemist, so I routinely work on anything from 25 mL to 22 L or more.
My family had a computer for years (the first was a 286 around 1987) and about 1992 bought a fancy new 486 from Gateway. It was an even bigger day when Dad got us a 4X CD-ROM drive to replace the 1X that the computer came with. About the time we switched to Windows 95, Dad bought a copy of Encarta. Over the next few years, one or two more versions were purchased. We also got a copy of Encyclopaedia Britannica (don't ask me when) and one of something made by Grolier before the acquistion by Scholastic. My parents weren't against large volumes of printed references (they own a condensed OED) but Dad saw the potential of the CD format (DVD as well) right away. The fact that Encarta was much cheaper was a bonus.
He's gone in 2012. Seriously, he's retiring. Almost manged to get rid of him in 2006.
I used to have a tiny application that was a leet translator. Could translate into or out of leet with three varying degrees of complexity.
I'm sorry, "tends to be" isn't what I really meant. There have been many deserving laureates, but the questionable ones stick out more in the Peace category.
The Peace Prize tends to be a joke anyway. I mean, it's not like Kissinger or Arafat or Rabin or Peres work really stood the test of time.
I found that I enjoyed the old platforming side-scrollers more than Duke3D. How about getting rid of the FPS idea and making a 3D platformer instead? It can keep the humor and tone of Duke3D, but make it play like Ratchet and Clank. I'd be far more interested in that than DNF, which I have no interest in purchasing at all.
I've never really understood why I should get a smartphone. Sure, there are times it'd be nice to have the Internet capabilities, but I hate using a smartphone as, get this, a phone. I've got a 6-year old simple phone that just does that, making phone calls for the small amount I use my cell phone for. The plan is still dirt cheap for virtually unlimited calling. I don't use SMS of any kind, so why do I want any of that bundled in? The only thing I want a smartphone for is mobile internet. But no carriers seem to want to just sell me a data plan, even if I come to them with an unlocked phone they can support. And now that even more caps are going into place, my desire to spend multiple hundreds of dollars on a phone and a plan drops even more.
It's partially a failure of connectivity on my part. The PS3 is hooked up through HDMI, but the TV then feeds the audio out through an optical connection through a Toslink-only switchbox into the receiver's single Toslink connection. The DVR hooks up the same way. This works fine when doing anything other than watching a Blu-Ray. I can't pass HDMI through the receiver as it only has a single Toslink and a single coax input.
For me, while I have a HDTV (32" 720p, definitely not the latest and greatest) and a Blu-Ray player (okay, it's a PS3), I have only bought two Blu-Ray discs. What has been stopping me--besides the fact that I buy very little physical media these days--is that my audio equipment doesn't work well with most Blu-Ray discs. I have a simple, but effective, 5.1 setup that works quite well for DVDs, video games, and anything broadcast or streamed in 5.1 as it has AC-3, DTS, and linear PCM support. But it doesn't support Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD, and it seemed like the only support I got for Dolby Digital was 2.0, as if the audio wasn't passing through correctly. I don't want to spend more money on a new surround system, especially when the TV I currently have doesn't really make Blu-Ray worth it.
I really enjoyed the movie. However, I didn't even know about it until I saw the director on the Colbert Report, when I decided I wanted to see it. I wound up seeing it as a double-feature with Inglorious Basterds at a drive-in. The Hurt Locker was premiered back in 2008 and didn't get wide release until the last weekend of July 2009. I think I saw them both the weekend Inglorious Basterds released, at which point The Hurt Locker had been premiered almost a year earlier. Seriously, why sit so long on a movie for release?
Does Guitar Hero: World Tour even use the original artist recordings or is it all sound-alikes? If that wasn't really the Eagles, sounds like there's a decent counter-claim to be made.
Yes, the latest Verizon CD supposedly works in OS X. I say supposedly because I couldn't get the whole setup to work in OS X and had to boot my MacBook into XP to get it to work and still can't get the software (some of which I do want--speed and line quality testing mostly) to install in OS X, but Verizon did place an .app on that CD. Of course, now that the connection is made with Verizon and the home wireless network set up, I don't need that CD to work. I'm currently using it as a coaster. Really, as I just moved and am still unpacking and haven't found the coasters yet.
Kinda reminds me of Winamp. Winamp went from a solid 2.x version to a new and awful 3.x version. They wound up going back to more of the 2.x version with some of the 3.x functionality and released it as Winamp 5, since 2+3=5.