From 1991-1993 I worked for a large PC builder. While there, I learned we had signed a contract that paid M$ a fee for pre-installing a M$ OS on every machine we shipped...including the ones shipped with Novell, SCO Unix, Banyon Vines, and no OS at all. When I asked "Why the hell did we sign a contract like that???", the answer was: "Because they told us to take it or leave it." We couldn't have been competitive w/o being able to ship with M$ OS's pre-installed, and M$ knew it. So obviously, nothing has changed in M$'s behavior in the last 15 years.
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(Me to caller): "The terrorists, they hate our freedoms. We can't pull out our troops now because that would be a cut-and-run. I know the American people are with me on this."
The article also talks about the surprising applications this new technology may evolve into
Like making your dog's head explode. I usually just use a Slim Whitman album for that.
Uhh, bullshit. We haven't been able to buy affordable digital receivers, ever. In fact, there's still no affordable digital receivers - they're all built into expensive HDTV's.
And I must say "Bullshit!". Just last week bought a Samsung DTB-H260F HDTV receiver from a local Circuit City for $180. And it has both analog and digital outputs.
I think thats "May you live in interesting times."...
However, the popularity of this "Chinese curse" puzzles Chinese scholars, who have only heard it from Americans.
Ah! So it falls into the same category as the "Chinese" food served in American Chinese restaurants which bears no resemblance to any food served in China.
The laptop loaded with Windows XP [dell.com] costs $699, while the same laptop and configuration loaded with no operating system [dell.com] costs $747.
So it seems that Windows has a negative price tag as far as Dell is concerned!
So Dell is saying that the presence of Windows degrades the value of a computer? I can't argue with that.
WTF you talking about??? As I stated in my original post, I sold my iBook for 40% of what I paid for it. It cost me $850 to go from a 3.5yo iBook to a MacBook. Perhaps you should actually look at the prices.
Question- what do you mean by the external and internal screens not mirroring? Different pictures or different resolutions? And how do you do that- I haven't tried yet but either sounds like it could be useful.
On the iBook, the external display could only mirror the internal display, and could only run the same resolution as the internal. On the MacBook, you can set the external display to mirror the internal display, *OR* you can use it as a second screen above, below, or to one side of the primary display. In this second mode you can run the external display at a different resolution.
They HAD a very small and wonderful little laptop - I'm using one right now - a 12" G4 iBook.
So did I, and I recently sold it for 40% of what I paid for it (3.5 yrs ago), and bought a 13.3" MacBook. Remember that the MacBook has a 16:10 screen vs the 4:3 screen of the iBook. That is why the MacBook is *thinner* and *shorter* front-to-back. The only dimension that is a little larger is the width. And I now have: faster 64-bit CPU, 3x RAM, GigE, Toslink audio in/out, 802.11a/b/g/n, built-in iSight, Bluetooth, higher-resolution internal LCD, external video resolution greater than internal (including 1920x1200 & 1920x1080), external video that does not need to mirror internal screen, DVD-burner. There is *nothing* I miss from the old iBook
I used to know two people who worked as assistants to a PhD in a corporate research lab. They told me they had a sign hanging in their lab that read:
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research."
Verizon wants to disable EVERYTHING on the phone that isn't pay-per-use. If you were thinking the iPhone was restrictive, think again.
Exactly! When my old StarTac gave out, Verizon wanted to sell me a Razr that was so crippled, the only thing Bluetooth could do was operate a headset. So I canceled my service and went to Sprint where I got the same phone, for the same price, but *fully* functional.
These systems blind the missile by painting it with a laser, disrupting the sensor at the tip of the missile. It doesn't seem like such a system will work unless the missile and laser are pointing at each other so a ground based system might be pointless.
So who is the moron that modded the parent down to 0??? I used to work in the defense industry, and I can tell you this guy is absolutely right!!!
rom big Singapore, where the LRT "just missed it" to Denver, to here in Calgary, where there is even not a decent public bus going to the airport. It's all because of the taxi rackets. Not the cab drivers themselves, but the owners of the cab licenses.
Just a week ago I was sharing a ski chairlift with a guy who had been a consultant for Mayor Webb in Denver. He told me about the pressure that had been put on the administration to not run the LRT to DIA. Asinine that they caved into that.
b) Do you have your PC in the living room connected to a big screen? Does anybody you know?
Yes, I do. My MacBook spends most of it's time on the coffee table in the den. I have an Apple DVI adapter connected to a DVI cable that runs to my 37" Westinghouse LVM-37W3 monitor. The Mac recognizes it and sends a a 1920x1080 picture to it.
This is not usually the case on high traction surfaces especially with average drivers. In most scenarios they deliver shorter stops with better control.
The insurance industry has a couple decades of data showing that ABS does not reduce accident rates. It is also established fact that ABS *increases* braking distances on gravel, snow, and ice. I do a *lot* of winter mountain driving, and snow and ice are the last places I want my stopping distances increased. After driving an ABS-equipped Jeep for the last 13 years, I just traded it in a year ago for a new one *without* ABS. I would pay extra to delete ABS on a new car purchase.
That being said, I feel that their disabling of their phones is ridiculous.
EXACTLY! And that is why after being a Verizon customer for six years, I switched to Sprint last month. The old StarTac finally gave up the ghost, and I decided on a Razr V3m. Problem was Verizon wanted to sell it to me so crippled that the only thing Bluetooth could do was operate a headset. So I went to Sprint and got the same phone fully functional, with OBEX working perfectly with my Mac. Funny thing was when I went to the Verizon store to cancel my service, the guys working there not only understood my reason for canceling, but were completely sympathetic!
...that Apple adopted the Intel platform; But to now start supporting functionality in Windows without supporting those same features in Mac OS X, is just unacceptable!:-(
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From 1991-1993 I worked for a large PC builder. While there, I learned we had signed a contract that paid M$ a fee for pre-installing a M$ OS on every machine we shipped...including the ones shipped with Novell, SCO Unix, Banyon Vines, and no OS at all. When I asked "Why the hell did we sign a contract like that???", the answer was: "Because they told us to take it or leave it." We couldn't have been competitive w/o being able to ship with M$ OS's pre-installed, and M$ knew it. So obviously, nothing has changed in M$'s behavior in the last 15 years.
Dvorak is making sense.
Like making your dog's head explode. I usually just use a Slim Whitman album for that.
...maintain communication and navigation while crossing the International Date Line?
Clippy popping up asking: "It looks like you are trying to launch a missile?"
I used to know two people who worked as assistants to a PhD in a corporate research lab. They told me they had a sign hanging in their lab that read: "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research."
64 cores should be enough for anybody.
Women are too smart to fall into that rathole!!!
...that Apple adopted the Intel platform; But to now start supporting functionality in Windows without supporting those same features in Mac OS X, is just unacceptable! :-(