Almost all our problems could be solved by changing the state's constitution so that citizens don't directly vote on taxes and spending. It's a classic case of the individual doing what's best for themselves, but when everyone does that it hurts the entire society because no one is looking at the big picture and how individual decisions aggregate to the detriment of everyone.
It is absurd. We also voted to require that chickens have enough room to walk around when they're being raised to be killed and eaten, but we voted against allowing same sex marriage. We care more about animals than gay people, strangely enough.
It's amazing that the problems of having the population vote directly for tax increases and spending wasn't immediately apparent. The average person is pretty ignorant and shouldn't be allowed that much direct control.
I almost always vote for raising taxes and against spending increases, but I can't do much against the masses of idiots who think the money will just appear from somewhere else.
I live in California, Sacramento no less, and one of two things is going to happen eventually. Taxes are going to have to be raised, or massive cuts to services will happen. The problem is that there is no political will to do either because people want the government to do all this wonderful stuff for them, but they don't want to pay for it. There's an incredible entitlement complex in California but there's also this idea that no matter how much money you make it should always be the MORE wealthy who should have to pay for everything.
You can set your client to block anyone you don't have on your list from contacting you or seeing your status. The only people on my IM list are people I know and trust not to rob me...well some of them do like to come over and mooch off my food and beer, but that's a different matter.
I think "casual" office users would be more than happy with something like Open Office, or Google Docs. There are free alternatives that don't have ads, why would someone use this? If it gets put on PCs automatically it will get used by users too lazy or uninformed to find something better, but doesn't MS already have a product they've been putting on new PCs called MS Works?
I'm 176cm tall and weigh 60kg, hardly an athlete of any kind;)
Anyway, the weight difference of the base systems (15" MBP and Latitude E6400) is negligible. You could even use that cinema display with your Dell if you like it so much, although I think there are more reasonably priced options that are just as high quality. Apple's displays are certainly very nice though. There's nothing else you talked about that the Mac does that can't be said about the Dell too.
Just the structure of the new MBPs makes me envious, although not enough to actually buy one. Machining the entire case from a solid billet of aluminium and using a piece of glass for the display makes the MBP incredibly solid, and it just looks better. This needs to become the industry standard. Multitouch is nice too, I just haven't used it enough. I'm sure if I spent a lot of time with it I'd learn to love it. Thankfully for my wallet I don't have the time or inclination to do that.
And all that isn't to say that I'm not extremely satisfied with my new Dell Latitude. It does everything I need, has higher specs than the MBP, and was cheaper.
A lot of it personal preference. I like Windows 7/Vista and Linux more than OSX, so a mac is a non-starter. You can get a 500GB HDD and 7+ hours of battery life on a PC too, it's not unheard of. There are also a lot more hardware options available to configure a PC. I think the only internal hardware you can customize on a MBP after you pick the model with the screen size and processor you want (non-customizable independently) is the amount of RAM and HDD space.
With my university discount, a MBP actually ended up being cheaper than a slightly more powerful Dell Latitude E6400, and it was admittedly a tough choice, I almost caved and bought the MBP but in the end I went with the Latitude.
For the umpteenth time, a Mac doesn't fit what he needs. There are no Macbooks which offer hot-swappable drive bays or docking ports. And a Dell Latitude with a 9-cell can also use a slice battery and bay drive battery which will get you well over a Macbook's 7 hours. With a solid state drive you can be into double digits of battery life easily.
A Mac fits some needs, some very well in fact, but the submitter is not going to find what he needs from Apple.
I just ordered a Latitude E6400 to replace my personal laptop. I plan on putting Windows 7 on it when I get it, which usually improves battery life over Vista I've found.
It was either that or a Thinkpad T400 and after getting my hands on both to try out the Dell just felt better. It felt more durable, and I really liked the backlit keyboard. I've been reading that with a 9-cell the T400 gets better battery life, but as you mentioned you can get the slice battery (at the cost of extra weight of course) if 5 hours isn't enough.
Isohunt usually has a comparable or better selection depending on what you're looking for, they largely mirror each other anyway. If TPB ever dies for good the community might splinter, but there will be replacements and word will get around what they are.
The US has never made any claims of ownership of any part of the moon. There are small Soviet markers made of metal up there too that were placed by their various unmanned probes, so the US is still the only country with a real flag on the moon. The US and Russia also have a treaty that says both will treat the moon the same way we handle international waters, and forbids military use.
They covered that in the video of the Google I/O 2009 presentation. It's long though, I can't blame people for not having seen it. There's a small check box right by the input area to disable that feature.
I now have two boxes to uncheck every time iTunes updates, one for Safari and one for this iPhone configuration utility. Safari I can understand somewhat. I use firefox, but OK, conceivably I could use Safari, I have an internet connection and need a browser so it's a product that could apply to me. I don't even own an iPhone though, and I don't plan on getting one. So why they feel that I need to have this installed is beyond me.
It's no more extreme than Ubuntu, and easier to handle because you don't have to type a password (this isn't necessarily more secure, however). Actually, I run into more privilege escalation screens when I am first setting up Ubuntu than I do after I install Vista or Windows 7. I've done each probably hundreds of times now with various configurations.
The most secure OS in the world, not even Linux nor OSX, isn't going to be able to protect you when you decide to authorize and run an.exe file you downloaded.
I've spent hours and hours playing Hearts of Iron 2. Can't play HoI3 because the graphics engine is too bloated and won't run on my laptop. I like the depth they added, but in this case increasing graphical quality actually makes the game unplayable. And I'm not alone, a lot of people complained about the system reqs.
The last time I saw F-Secure was my high school. From what I could tell all it did was increase the boot time, they school still had virus and malware problems. Although maybe the problem would have been worse without it.
Doctors in England and France do quite well, and their entire health care system is run not-for-profit. In Europe doctors don't have to deal with insurance reimbursement troubles, can focus entirely on treating patients and making them well, get paid more for improving the health of their patients, and still make enough money to be considered upper class. There is a good way and a bad way to run health care and education, a free market/capitalistic approach is a bad way. It's non-optimal. Solutions that are good for organizing the general economy aren't always great for solving social problems.
Almost all new fighter jets (and indeed most military vehicles) incorporate stealth elements. It's one of the considerations you have when designing a combat aircraft these days. It would be unusual for an aircraft to be designed that WASN'T stealthy. "Stealth Fighter" is really just a term used by the media.
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Almost all our problems could be solved by changing the state's constitution so that citizens don't directly vote on taxes and spending. It's a classic case of the individual doing what's best for themselves, but when everyone does that it hurts the entire society because no one is looking at the big picture and how individual decisions aggregate to the detriment of everyone.
It is absurd. We also voted to require that chickens have enough room to walk around when they're being raised to be killed and eaten, but we voted against allowing same sex marriage. We care more about animals than gay people, strangely enough.
It's amazing that the problems of having the population vote directly for tax increases and spending wasn't immediately apparent. The average person is pretty ignorant and shouldn't be allowed that much direct control.
I almost always vote for raising taxes and against spending increases, but I can't do much against the masses of idiots who think the money will just appear from somewhere else.
I live in California, Sacramento no less, and one of two things is going to happen eventually. Taxes are going to have to be raised, or massive cuts to services will happen. The problem is that there is no political will to do either because people want the government to do all this wonderful stuff for them, but they don't want to pay for it. There's an incredible entitlement complex in California but there's also this idea that no matter how much money you make it should always be the MORE wealthy who should have to pay for everything.
You can set your client to block anyone you don't have on your list from contacting you or seeing your status. The only people on my IM list are people I know and trust not to rob me...well some of them do like to come over and mooch off my food and beer, but that's a different matter.
We're trying to SAVE money here
I think "casual" office users would be more than happy with something like Open Office, or Google Docs. There are free alternatives that don't have ads, why would someone use this? If it gets put on PCs automatically it will get used by users too lazy or uninformed to find something better, but doesn't MS already have a product they've been putting on new PCs called MS Works?
I'm 176cm tall and weigh 60kg, hardly an athlete of any kind ;)
Anyway, the weight difference of the base systems (15" MBP and Latitude E6400) is negligible. You could even use that cinema display with your Dell if you like it so much, although I think there are more reasonably priced options that are just as high quality. Apple's displays are certainly very nice though. There's nothing else you talked about that the Mac does that can't be said about the Dell too.
Just the structure of the new MBPs makes me envious, although not enough to actually buy one. Machining the entire case from a solid billet of aluminium and using a piece of glass for the display makes the MBP incredibly solid, and it just looks better. This needs to become the industry standard. Multitouch is nice too, I just haven't used it enough. I'm sure if I spent a lot of time with it I'd learn to love it. Thankfully for my wallet I don't have the time or inclination to do that.
And all that isn't to say that I'm not extremely satisfied with my new Dell Latitude. It does everything I need, has higher specs than the MBP, and was cheaper.
A lot of it personal preference. I like Windows 7/Vista and Linux more than OSX, so a mac is a non-starter. You can get a 500GB HDD and 7+ hours of battery life on a PC too, it's not unheard of. There are also a lot more hardware options available to configure a PC. I think the only internal hardware you can customize on a MBP after you pick the model with the screen size and processor you want (non-customizable independently) is the amount of RAM and HDD space.
With my university discount, a MBP actually ended up being cheaper than a slightly more powerful Dell Latitude E6400, and it was admittedly a tough choice, I almost caved and bought the MBP but in the end I went with the Latitude.
For the umpteenth time, a Mac doesn't fit what he needs. There are no Macbooks which offer hot-swappable drive bays or docking ports. And a Dell Latitude with a 9-cell can also use a slice battery and bay drive battery which will get you well over a Macbook's 7 hours. With a solid state drive you can be into double digits of battery life easily.
A Mac fits some needs, some very well in fact, but the submitter is not going to find what he needs from Apple.
I just ordered a Latitude E6400 to replace my personal laptop. I plan on putting Windows 7 on it when I get it, which usually improves battery life over Vista I've found.
It was either that or a Thinkpad T400 and after getting my hands on both to try out the Dell just felt better. It felt more durable, and I really liked the backlit keyboard. I've been reading that with a 9-cell the T400 gets better battery life, but as you mentioned you can get the slice battery (at the cost of extra weight of course) if 5 hours isn't enough.
Isohunt usually has a comparable or better selection depending on what you're looking for, they largely mirror each other anyway. If TPB ever dies for good the community might splinter, but there will be replacements and word will get around what they are.
The legal department of the RIAA has to look like they are doing something. They have to try and make some accomplishments, even symbolic ones.
The US has never made any claims of ownership of any part of the moon. There are small Soviet markers made of metal up there too that were placed by their various unmanned probes, so the US is still the only country with a real flag on the moon. The US and Russia also have a treaty that says both will treat the moon the same way we handle international waters, and forbids military use.
They covered that in the video of the Google I/O 2009 presentation. It's long though, I can't blame people for not having seen it. There's a small check box right by the input area to disable that feature.
I now have two boxes to uncheck every time iTunes updates, one for Safari and one for this iPhone configuration utility. Safari I can understand somewhat. I use firefox, but OK, conceivably I could use Safari, I have an internet connection and need a browser so it's a product that could apply to me. I don't even own an iPhone though, and I don't plan on getting one. So why they feel that I need to have this installed is beyond me.
Like how Halo invented regenerating shield, and the FPS genre.
I'm pretty sure this has already been done. It's the entire point of the game Braid, and was probably done even before that.
It's no more extreme than Ubuntu, and easier to handle because you don't have to type a password (this isn't necessarily more secure, however). Actually, I run into more privilege escalation screens when I am first setting up Ubuntu than I do after I install Vista or Windows 7. I've done each probably hundreds of times now with various configurations.
The most secure OS in the world, not even Linux nor OSX, isn't going to be able to protect you when you decide to authorize and run an .exe file you downloaded.
I've spent hours and hours playing Hearts of Iron 2. Can't play HoI3 because the graphics engine is too bloated and won't run on my laptop. I like the depth they added, but in this case increasing graphical quality actually makes the game unplayable. And I'm not alone, a lot of people complained about the system reqs.
The last time I saw F-Secure was my high school. From what I could tell all it did was increase the boot time, they school still had virus and malware problems. Although maybe the problem would have been worse without it.
Doctors in England and France do quite well, and their entire health care system is run not-for-profit. In Europe doctors don't have to deal with insurance reimbursement troubles, can focus entirely on treating patients and making them well, get paid more for improving the health of their patients, and still make enough money to be considered upper class. There is a good way and a bad way to run health care and education, a free market/capitalistic approach is a bad way. It's non-optimal. Solutions that are good for organizing the general economy aren't always great for solving social problems.
Almost all new fighter jets (and indeed most military vehicles) incorporate stealth elements. It's one of the considerations you have when designing a combat aircraft these days. It would be unusual for an aircraft to be designed that WASN'T stealthy. "Stealth Fighter" is really just a term used by the media.
So when society DOESN'T collapse into anarchy, are they going to realize this law was idiotic and unnecessary and not pass it again?