Liquidity in the stock market is as undesirable as it is in a Southern California hillside. Stability is the key to generating wealth, liquidity only serves to redistribute it more quickly, and frequently catastrophically.
I was running DOS 3.3 and 3.3.1, respectively, when I got Windows 2 and 3.0 and I always had the current version of DOS, though I skipped 4.X because it was buggy as hell (possibly due to the IBM bits of code). I had a 10 MB HD on my svelte 14 lb. 10.4" screen CGA Monochrome laptop, 40MB with 32 and 8 MB partitions on the desk. DOS 5.0 came out between Windows 3.0 and 3.1
Windows in its secondary meaning refers to a graphic element on a computer screen displaying a subprogram such as a word processor, drawing program or spreadsheet. Xerox PARC, Apple LISA and Mac, Digital Research GEM, and Atari ST all used the term prior to its use by Microsoft. Also Windows was not an OS when it was trademarked, it was a stand alone program that ran under MS-DOS.
How many people called applications, "apps" before they heard, "There's an app for that"? Yes, I know there were some computer nerds who did. There were people talking about windows interfaces in computers before MS Windows arrived too. MS bullied anybody using windows to describe their software to the point where Windows means MS Windows, but that doesn't make it intrinsically less generic than "spreadsheet". Apple is attempting to do the same with App Store. Anyone criticizing one of these companies while defending the other on this matter is influenced more by the names Microsoft and Apple than by the facts.
Apple does not lock all of their devices to their own App Store, Macintoshes are not (yet).
The first part of your statement is true, the second part is not. MS did not prevail in getting the injunction they sought. It did not get to trial. Since they did not lose they can still sue anybody who uses windows. The judges opinion has little weight since it was not the result of a trial.
So you are good with kiddie porn? This is not freedom of press or speech, this is commerce. Defending gratuitous violence is a bit like defending one's right to yell, "Fire!" in a movie theater, the only negative consequences of such a ban are slippery slopes.
Linux users run Firefox because they are so smart, Mac users run Safari because they are brainwashed, Windows users still run IE6 since their IT department won't let them upgrade, and there's that guy who runs Opera.
OK, you are an asshole. You are also a racist, unrealistic, nationalist scumbag, but you do know how to do a good self assessment. ; )
Adopting English as the official language of the US, a proposal which I have advocated, will not accomplish what you want which is obviously to "send them all back where they belong." Are you too timid to state your true thoughts?
Dell does NOT sell the Zino with Blu-Ray is that clear enough? You may have three, but you can't buy them now. If you do not believe the statement, go to their website and try to configure one. Do a Google search for Zino and Blu-Ray and you will find numerous articles stating the same. You said, "I can buy a Dell Zino that does HDMI and Bluray for half the price of a Mac mini." Your statement is twice wrong, even if you had been able to refute my statement, your argument would still be wrong.
I did not use the word obsolete. Are you seriously arguing that Apple does not support existing infrastructure because they introduced a new port AND that they are slow to introduce new technology? It can't be both. Clearly you believe Apple can do nothing right and will misconstrue anything as a negative.
BTW, what laptop are you using that has a serial port? I actually am interested.
Since decent doesn't have a definition, it would be hard to argue that you are wrong. Can we safely assume that the color of the case is an important consideration since performance clearly isn't?
Buying as far behind the leading edge as you suggest is seldom good economics, unless you are paid minimum wage.
Please provide the make/model/price and the results of the PCMark Vantage, 3DMark06, Crysis, Lost Planet 2 and Handbrake tests. Then tell us about your battery life and weight.
I always love when someone introduces facts that contradict his argument. Why do your co-workers need an adapter? Is it because they are trying to use an obsolescent technology? Sure, VGA is obsolescent and Apple adopted DisplayPort before other manufacturers. As for serial ports, I venture to guess that the vast majority of laptop users are using USB to serial adapters, not built-in ports. You cite that Apple was late in abandoning floppies, how can their early abandonment of serial ports not be an example of the contrary? Only fanbois and haters try that kind of lame arguments
Blu-Ray is not available on the Zino; it was supposed to be available for as little as $599, but apparently Blu-Ray isn't ready for prime time, and 85% is a lot more than half of the Mini's $699. If you want Blu-Ray playback a $100 player will do a better job than Windows Media Player, or Quicktime would if Apple supported Blu-Ray.
If he ruled that the calibration issue was the reason, he would , as an officer of the court, need to void all tickets on the radar gun in the interest of justice. Since he is part of the revenue generating scheme, he would not do the right thing, leaving it to each individual charged to bring up the issue. Such is the state of our justice system.
Your efficiency claim is not correct as it does not include the efficiency of the power plant. If I burn a gallon of heating oil to heat my home, the power plant burns three to get the same result in my home using "100% efficient" electrical resistance heating. Every watt of heat from light bulbs means an additional watt + during the cooling season for removal of the additional heat load.
Since people buy incandescent lightbulbs primarily because the initial cost is so low compared to CFL/LED lights the idea of taxing until the price is equalized sounds reasonable, but do we tax both incandescents and CFL's until they cost as much as LED's? Doing less would be, in your words, "half assed".
I wish we could skip CFL's and jump directly to LED's but that requirea a change in the socket and fixtures if they are are to deliver the efficiency and extended lifespans they are capable of. I would support the government taking actions to encourage and standardize new fixtures, power supplies, and dimming solutions for LED lighting instead of relying on a socket design from a century ago.
The existing law is based on efficiency requirement for the product and is ultimately the least intrusive means for the government to accomplish a goal which economics and a free market could not.
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Info on soda and beer in space from the horse's mouth here: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast21sep_1/
In space they can't hear you burp.
Liquidity in the stock market is as undesirable as it is in a Southern California hillside. Stability is the key to generating wealth, liquidity only serves to redistribute it more quickly, and frequently catastrophically.
I was running DOS 3.3 and 3.3.1, respectively, when I got Windows 2 and 3.0 and I always had the current version of DOS, though I skipped 4.X because it was buggy as hell (possibly due to the IBM bits of code). I had a 10 MB HD on my svelte 14 lb. 10.4" screen CGA Monochrome laptop, 40MB with 32 and 8 MB partitions on the desk. DOS 5.0 came out between Windows 3.0 and 3.1
ME MTBF 30minutes? Predictable isn't always good.
Like this?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzgjpmvYGCU
Windows in its secondary meaning refers to a graphic element on a computer screen displaying a subprogram such as a word processor, drawing program or spreadsheet. Xerox PARC, Apple LISA and Mac, Digital Research GEM, and Atari ST all used the term prior to its use by Microsoft. Also Windows was not an OS when it was trademarked, it was a stand alone program that ran under MS-DOS.
How many people called applications, "apps" before they heard, "There's an app for that"? Yes, I know there were some computer nerds who did. There were people talking about windows interfaces in computers before MS Windows arrived too. MS bullied anybody using windows to describe their software to the point where Windows means MS Windows, but that doesn't make it intrinsically less generic than "spreadsheet". Apple is attempting to do the same with App Store. Anyone criticizing one of these companies while defending the other on this matter is influenced more by the names Microsoft and Apple than by the facts.
Apple does not lock all of their devices to their own App Store, Macintoshes are not (yet).
The first part of your statement is true, the second part is not. MS did not prevail in getting the injunction they sought. It did not get to trial. Since they did not lose they can still sue anybody who uses windows. The judges opinion has little weight since it was not the result of a trial.
So you are good with kiddie porn? This is not freedom of press or speech, this is commerce. Defending gratuitous violence is a bit like defending one's right to yell, "Fire!" in a movie theater, the only negative consequences of such a ban are slippery slopes.
... As long as you hold it in your left hand. ; )
This will be enforced rigorously until about two years before the end of Obama's current term.
Linux users run Firefox because they are so smart, Mac users run Safari because they are brainwashed, Windows users still run IE6 since their IT department won't let them upgrade, and there's that guy who runs Opera.
Perhaps if they were more subtle as they are on TV's 30 Rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36wUmJGzvA&NR=1 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aniS3HaLwEY
I thought quantum computing would have to fulfill suggested applications before they were suggested.
I may be showing my age but when I was young antennae was more or less universal, I prefer the usage you stated, but it depends on whom you ask. The biological appendages are always antennae, but the electronic device may be either according to some sources: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/antenna http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/antenna
In a few years we can count on it becoming "antenna's"
OK, you are an asshole. You are also a racist, unrealistic, nationalist scumbag, but you do know how to do a good self assessment. ; )
Adopting English as the official language of the US, a proposal which I have advocated, will not accomplish what you want which is obviously to "send them all back where they belong." Are you too timid to state your true thoughts?
Dell does NOT sell the Zino with Blu-Ray is that clear enough? You may have three, but you can't buy them now. If you do not believe the statement, go to their website and try to configure one. Do a Google search for Zino and Blu-Ray and you will find numerous articles stating the same. You said, "I can buy a Dell Zino that does HDMI and Bluray for half the price of a Mac mini." Your statement is twice wrong, even if you had been able to refute my statement, your argument would still be wrong.
I did not use the word obsolete. Are you seriously arguing that Apple does not support existing infrastructure because they introduced a new port AND that they are slow to introduce new technology? It can't be both. Clearly you believe Apple can do nothing right and will misconstrue anything as a negative.
BTW, what laptop are you using that has a serial port? I actually am interested.
Since decent doesn't have a definition, it would be hard to argue that you are wrong. Can we safely assume that the color of the case is an important consideration since performance clearly isn't?
Buying as far behind the leading edge as you suggest is seldom good economics, unless you are paid minimum wage.
Your laptop might be faster, if it has a really good graphics and I/O systems, but your CPU benchmarks 7% slower http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7+960+%40+3.20GHz Suffice it to say that I am skeptical that the Apple isn't at least close.
Please provide the make/model/price and the results of the PCMark Vantage, 3DMark06, Crysis, Lost Planet 2 and Handbrake tests. Then tell us about your battery life and weight.
I always love when someone introduces facts that contradict his argument. Why do your co-workers need an adapter? Is it because they are trying to use an obsolescent technology? Sure, VGA is obsolescent and Apple adopted DisplayPort before other manufacturers. As for serial ports, I venture to guess that the vast majority of laptop users are using USB to serial adapters, not built-in ports. You cite that Apple was late in abandoning floppies, how can their early abandonment of serial ports not be an example of the contrary? Only fanbois and haters try that kind of lame arguments
Blu-Ray is not available on the Zino; it was supposed to be available for as little as $599, but apparently Blu-Ray isn't ready for prime time, and 85% is a lot more than half of the Mini's $699. If you want Blu-Ray playback a $100 player will do a better job than Windows Media Player, or Quicktime would if Apple supported Blu-Ray.
If he ruled that the calibration issue was the reason, he would , as an officer of the court, need to void all tickets on the radar gun in the interest of justice. Since he is part of the revenue generating scheme, he would not do the right thing, leaving it to each individual charged to bring up the issue. Such is the state of our justice system.
At least when you defraud the government you don't have to worry about being prosecuted: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/20/0228236/Feds-Pay-Millions-For-Bogus-Spy-Software
Your efficiency claim is not correct as it does not include the efficiency of the power plant. If I burn a gallon of heating oil to heat my home, the power plant burns three to get the same result in my home using "100% efficient" electrical resistance heating. Every watt of heat from light bulbs means an additional watt + during the cooling season for removal of the additional heat load.
Since people buy incandescent lightbulbs primarily because the initial cost is so low compared to CFL/LED lights the idea of taxing until the price is equalized sounds reasonable, but do we tax both incandescents and CFL's until they cost as much as LED's? Doing less would be, in your words, "half assed".
I wish we could skip CFL's and jump directly to LED's but that requirea a change in the socket and fixtures if they are are to deliver the efficiency and extended lifespans they are capable of. I would support the government taking actions to encourage and standardize new fixtures, power supplies, and dimming solutions for LED lighting instead of relying on a socket design from a century ago.
The existing law is based on efficiency requirement for the product and is ultimately the least intrusive means for the government to accomplish a goal which economics and a free market could not.
I am certain that the perception of the original audience was not a great demographic.
Viewers who are:
* Sufficiently intelligent that trying to sell them products using, "New and improved" was futile.
* Living in their mother's basement without disposable income or the decision making position of most purchases.
* Tech savvy, capable, and willing to pirate content.