Why would you need routine inspection? Very few damage profiles will fail to affect the output of the PVs, so you ought to be able to do the inspection every day by simply polling each cell.
It's a literature class. The whole point is the controversy. Or at least, the point of many of the books was. You can't avoid it and still have a meaningful class.
Your Wall-e example is pretty poor. It's pretty shallow entertainment, the moral is fairly shallow as well, in addition to being a moral, which is itself a shallow literary tool.
A lot of the time, the author really did intend to write just an adventure novel (The Lord of the Flies...) but more profound themes just kind of popped up completely by accident.
Wall*E was just an Aesop Hammer designed to feed the flames of class envy and promote progressivism.
Yeah, that quote made no sense. Of course customers will try for the lowest priced option, but if any customers are paying more than the least amount MS offers, it's the customers that pay more that are getting screwed, by MS. Not the customers that avail themselves of MS's lowest offer.
If they don't want to offer their lowest offer, then make something else the lowest offer. If they offer it, surely they think that it's a fair price!
Why should I have to defend Apple's prices when I just wanted to advocate considering that a glossy screen might not be all that bad, and might actually have some desirable properties, and that it really comes down to personal preference?
There are a slew of glossy-screened notebook computers that come in under $1200. Some of them are even made by Apple.
Yeah, but how much does that cost, really. I mean.. if Ubuntu can afford to send out pressed CDs of the the current LTS for no charge at all (that come in a nice, glossy sleeve with Ubuntu artwork, btw), why does it cost MS and/or the OEMs so much do do something that should have been folded into the asking price of the products to begin with.
The part where there are two macbook models that come in below that price before you even consider refurbs, and countless otherwise perfectly serviceable PC notebooks with glossy screens not in any way associated with apple.
Except that now gnome desktop manager needs something in a library provided by the Evolution package, and you're stuck downloading and installing a half-gig email client because you want to run GIMP.
Static linking might very well be worth it in these days of improperly re-factored libraries. Or stuff should be severable. Or the libraries should be sanely provide with in the correct packages.
You should only change if you like the difference. Besides, it's not like Macs are the only notebooks with glossy screens.
There's also the power benefit. You can get away with slightly lower brightness settings with a glossy screen, which ought to have direct benefits in the battery life area.
Speaking of which, one of the other requirements was a removable battery, so he could match his old laptop's two-battery-total of 5--6 hours. But there are a number of notebooks on the market today that can exceed 6 hour runtime without swapping batteries.
The Ask Slashdot is full of assumptions based on older machines that may or may not be valid any more. It would be irresponsible not to suggest reviewing the assumptions as part of the decision process.
Incorrect. "whom" is only not a word for intensive purposes. There are intents and/or purposes for which "whom" is a valid word, although modern English (or at least American English) now allows the use of "who" for those purposes (and intents!) as well, because most of us are too stupid or just too busy to ever bother figuring out where "whom" was supposed to be used.
But if you have a really intensive purpose, the chance that you might use "whom" incorrectly and mess up the intent contraindicates its use there.
If you buy it with a Visa credit card, you may get up to an extra year of ordinary warranty. Check your cardholder agreement. The 3-year warranty doesn't look so good any more when you have that.
Glossy v. Matte is not a definitive advantage either way, IMO.
Glossy has some very interesting advantages offsetting the reflection problem. Reduced glare for one, which lets glossy screens have darker blacks. They also are easier to clean, although they are quicker to show the need.
I have a Macbook and an old Toshiba with a matte screen, and the screen on the macbook is much more useful when, say, outdoors as long as I don't have the sun directly at my back and I don't wear a bright shirt.
If I were looking at a new notebook, I wouldn't rule one out off the bat just because of the screen. They simply require different habits and have different advantages. For me, the change was not onerous, so I would definitely recommend actually trying out the two screen types for a little while first. That goes for Macs or PCs with glossy screens.
Money not spent by a government is either not taxed or not borrowed. Either way, it benefits the people who it isn't taken from. By not being taken from them.
Well, if they pick an old enough model, eventually it will be computationally affordable to simply emulate an entire virtual iPod right down to the firmware....
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Art bell is still alive?
Which also are known to explode.
Why would you need routine inspection? Very few damage profiles will fail to affect the output of the PVs, so you ought to be able to do the inspection every day by simply polling each cell.
It's a literature class. The whole point is the controversy. Or at least, the point of many of the books was. You can't avoid it and still have a meaningful class.
Your Wall-e example is pretty poor. It's pretty shallow entertainment, the moral is fairly shallow as well, in addition to being a moral, which is itself a shallow literary tool.
A lot of the time, the author really did intend to write just an adventure novel (The Lord of the Flies...) but more profound themes just kind of popped up completely by accident.
Wall*E was just an Aesop Hammer designed to feed the flames of class envy and promote progressivism.
Yeah, that quote made no sense. Of course customers will try for the lowest priced option, but if any customers are paying more than the least amount MS offers, it's the customers that pay more that are getting screwed, by MS. Not the customers that avail themselves of MS's lowest offer.
If they don't want to offer their lowest offer, then make something else the lowest offer. If they offer it, surely they think that it's a fair price!
I didn't even know you could still get Monster video cards. Much less that a 3dfx Voodoo II would be competitive in todays game market.
Why should I have to defend Apple's prices when I just wanted to advocate considering that a glossy screen might not be all that bad, and might actually have some desirable properties, and that it really comes down to personal preference?
There are a slew of glossy-screened notebook computers that come in under $1200. Some of them are even made by Apple.
Charging fixed shipping for a variable customer cost IS outrageous.
Yeah, but how much does that cost, really. I mean.. if Ubuntu can afford to send out pressed CDs of the the current LTS for no charge at all (that come in a nice, glossy sleeve with Ubuntu artwork, btw), why does it cost MS and/or the OEMs so much do do something that should have been folded into the asking price of the products to begin with.
Well that's lame. Woolworths has to pay for its lawyers even if it's just a "friendly" case. What if they weren't a giant department store chain?
What exactly are you remembering "correctly" where you learned what people taste like?
Mercedes should sue all the protestors who keep getting the "Peace Symbol" wrong.
The part where there are two macbook models that come in below that price before you even consider refurbs, and countless otherwise perfectly serviceable PC notebooks with glossy screens not in any way associated with apple.
I knew I should have actually tried it before putting my ambulatory organs so close to my food intake port.
Except that now gnome desktop manager needs something in a library provided by the Evolution package, and you're stuck downloading and installing a half-gig email client because you want to run GIMP.
Static linking might very well be worth it in these days of improperly re-factored libraries. Or stuff should be severable. Or the libraries should be sanely provide with in the correct packages.
And after it tells iTunes that it's an iPod, then the transfer just happens magically, with no need for palm to interpret what it's being sent?
You should only change if you like the difference. Besides, it's not like Macs are the only notebooks with glossy screens.
There's also the power benefit. You can get away with slightly lower brightness settings with a glossy screen, which ought to have direct benefits in the battery life area.
Speaking of which, one of the other requirements was a removable battery, so he could match his old laptop's two-battery-total of 5--6 hours. But there are a number of notebooks on the market today that can exceed 6 hour runtime without swapping batteries.
The Ask Slashdot is full of assumptions based on older machines that may or may not be valid any more. It would be irresponsible not to suggest reviewing the assumptions as part of the decision process.
That's not a pipe its a file handle. It'll work just fine.
Incorrect. "whom" is only not a word for intensive purposes. There are intents and/or purposes for which "whom" is a valid word, although modern English (or at least American English) now allows the use of "who" for those purposes (and intents!) as well, because most of us are too stupid or just too busy to ever bother figuring out where "whom" was supposed to be used.
But if you have a really intensive purpose, the chance that you might use "whom" incorrectly and mess up the intent contraindicates its use there.
If you buy it with a Visa credit card, you may get up to an extra year of ordinary warranty. Check your cardholder agreement. The 3-year warranty doesn't look so good any more when you have that.
Glossy v. Matte is not a definitive advantage either way, IMO.
Glossy has some very interesting advantages offsetting the reflection problem. Reduced glare for one, which lets glossy screens have darker blacks. They also are easier to clean, although they are quicker to show the need.
I have a Macbook and an old Toshiba with a matte screen, and the screen on the macbook is much more useful when, say, outdoors as long as I don't have the sun directly at my back and I don't wear a bright shirt.
If I were looking at a new notebook, I wouldn't rule one out off the bat just because of the screen. They simply require different habits and have different advantages. For me, the change was not onerous, so I would definitely recommend actually trying out the two screen types for a little while first. That goes for Macs or PCs with glossy screens.
Is there something wrong with my name and address?
Money not spent by a government is either not taxed or not borrowed. Either way, it benefits the people who it isn't taken from. By not being taken from them.
Well, if they pick an old enough model, eventually it will be computationally affordable to simply emulate an entire virtual iPod right down to the firmware....