13" lightweight laptops are more expensive than the big bulky 15.4" laptops of the same specs.
This is true across the board.
The Macbook actually compares very well with current offerings from Dell. Compare it to the Vostro 1310 and XPS 1330. The Macbook specs are getting slightly dated in comparison to Dell's frequent updates, but when the new Macbook comes out expect the specs to be as good or better for the price than similarly-equipped laptops from other manufacturers.
The "crystal" in this cave isn't super-exquisite, fragile crystal glass. It's not the Fortress of Solitude or anything. It's just white calcite. There's calcite all over caves all over the world. The stuff is essentially rock.
The distinguishing features here are that there's so much of it on the floor, as opposed to the wall and ceiling, and that it was mostly unadulterated by sediment during its formation and is therefore a snowy white instead of brown.
The stuff isn't exactly fragile. Bacteria from shoes aren't going to ruin it, but hundreds or thousands of feet walking upon it will physically erode it.
The term "spelunker" is indeed reserved for yahoos who don't know what they're doing and cave without regard for safety and/or any respect for the cave.
You don't need to drive 150 miles every day to need a car that has more than a 150 mile range. Just two days ago I drove 350 miles in one day while driving back from Canada.
I'd sure as heck rather own a car that has the capability of taking me where I want to go than own a car that can take me some places but be useless for other trips.
Hybrid cars are economically viable and relatively practical.
Electric cars? Not so much.
You don't need a conspiracy theory to explain the lack of electric cars on the market. People don't want them. Very, very few people will pay new-car prices for a car that will go 150 miles then require a 3-hour recharge.
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That is a backronym. The word Geek predates the "computer/technology" thing by quite a bit.
It's non-standard because no camera sensor or standard print size uses that ratio.
I don't care if he dislikes any Apple products. In fact, he seems to be quite fond of Apple products, since he uses them.
No halfway decent photographer shoehorns absolutely all of his work into ONE nonstandard aspect ratio. Different compositions require different aspect ratios.
The only reason to use one aspect ratio on all of your compositions is that you're simply not good or talented enough to know any better.
Lots of places already use gravity as a form of energy storage.
During the night at some hydro plants, where energy demand is low but supply is relatively consistent, they use the excess energy to pump water to a reservoir at the top of a hill.
Then, during the day, they let that water flow down the hill and spin a turbine.
The thing is that Tom measured battery life with the hard drives constantly working.
He glosses over this with the following statement:
Keep in mind that this benchmark keeps the system busy in several disciplines, and the results would of course be different if we measured the runtime in idle. However, this wouldnâ(TM)t quite reflect user behavior, as no one turns the notebook on just to wait around until the battery runs empty.
No, Tom, no one turns on their computer and simply waits for the battery to die. However, no one turns on their computer and has their hard drive constantly thrashing either.
Typical usage patterns include document editing, movie watching, music listening, etc, which involve very, very small amounts of hard drive access.
Use a better battery benchmark that leaves the hard drive idle most of the time, then come back and let us know how these drives fare.
I'm not "blaming" Mozilla, but the only extensions I have installed are AdBlock Plus, the Filterset, and FxIF.
Before trying to blame ME, I'm doing the exact same things I was doing on Firefox 2, with the same "compatible" plugins from Mozilla.com, and Firefox 3 crashes much more often.
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This is probably the least silly American politics have been since the 19th century.
13" lightweight laptops are more expensive than the big bulky 15.4" laptops of the same specs.
This is true across the board.
The Macbook actually compares very well with current offerings from Dell. Compare it to the Vostro 1310 and XPS 1330. The Macbook specs are getting slightly dated in comparison to Dell's frequent updates, but when the new Macbook comes out expect the specs to be as good or better for the price than similarly-equipped laptops from other manufacturers.
You have it transposed.
Not horizontal resolution - number of horizontal lines. Just like the 1080 in 1080p refers to the number of horizontal lines. 1080p is 1920x1080.
8K refers to 8000 lines of resolution, so that it makes it the vertical resolution.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinematography
K = thousand, and they're referring to lines of resolution.
For comparison, 1080p HDTV has 1080 lines of resolution. That IMAX camera records around 18,000 lines.
The "crystal" in this cave isn't super-exquisite, fragile crystal glass. It's not the Fortress of Solitude or anything. It's just white calcite. There's calcite all over caves all over the world. The stuff is essentially rock.
The distinguishing features here are that there's so much of it on the floor, as opposed to the wall and ceiling, and that it was mostly unadulterated by sediment during its formation and is therefore a snowy white instead of brown.
The stuff isn't exactly fragile. Bacteria from shoes aren't going to ruin it, but hundreds or thousands of feet walking upon it will physically erode it.
Ahh, a caver's favorite phrase...
"It goes!!"
The term "spelunker" is indeed reserved for yahoos who don't know what they're doing and cave without regard for safety and/or any respect for the cave.
Go read your Fourteenth Amendment.
The Bill of Rights applies to state governments as well. New York State is not allowed to abridge the freedom of speech of New York citizens.
What's an analog switch?
The 2600 controllers were digital. On or off. 1 or 0.
You don't need to drive 150 miles every day to need a car that has more than a 150 mile range. Just two days ago I drove 350 miles in one day while driving back from Canada.
I'd sure as heck rather own a car that has the capability of taking me where I want to go than own a car that can take me some places but be useless for other trips.
Hybrid cars are economically viable and relatively practical.
Electric cars? Not so much.
You don't need a conspiracy theory to explain the lack of electric cars on the market. People don't want them. Very, very few people will pay new-car prices for a car that will go 150 miles then require a 3-hour recharge.
That is a backronym. The word Geek predates the "computer/technology" thing by quite a bit.
See:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/0/G0070000.html
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=geek
5x gravity only if it were the same physical size.
"Geek" doesn't mean being into the latest gadgets and computers.
Comic books and tabletop gaming are, and always have bee, geek.
I think that's totally intentional. Obviously the man is trying to disguise his voice so no one can figure out his true identity.
Windows 2000 wasn't the "server" OS.
Windows 2000 was the business OS. It came in Professional desktop versions and various Server versions.
Please name one person who has said both of these things.
It's non-standard because no camera sensor or standard print size uses that ratio.
I don't care if he dislikes any Apple products. In fact, he seems to be quite fond of Apple products, since he uses them.
No halfway decent photographer shoehorns absolutely all of his work into ONE nonstandard aspect ratio. Different compositions require different aspect ratios.
The only reason to use one aspect ratio on all of your compositions is that you're simply not good or talented enough to know any better.
I stopped caring when the author said that he crops "all" his photos to the same (non-standard) ratio.
Closed, done. Sorry.
Methane is pretty flammable, explosive, and dangerous to work with, but I have a big pipe of it coming right into my apartment!
BitDefender is my AV of choice.
Spybot is my anti-malware of choice.
Lots of places already use gravity as a form of energy storage.
During the night at some hydro plants, where energy demand is low but supply is relatively consistent, they use the excess energy to pump water to a reservoir at the top of a hill.
Then, during the day, they let that water flow down the hill and spin a turbine.
The thing is that Tom measured battery life with the hard drives constantly working.
He glosses over this with the following statement:
No, Tom, no one turns on their computer and simply waits for the battery to die. However, no one turns on their computer and has their hard drive constantly thrashing either.
Typical usage patterns include document editing, movie watching, music listening, etc, which involve very, very small amounts of hard drive access.
Use a better battery benchmark that leaves the hard drive idle most of the time, then come back and let us know how these drives fare.
I'm not "blaming" Mozilla, but the only extensions I have installed are AdBlock Plus, the Filterset, and FxIF.
Before trying to blame ME, I'm doing the exact same things I was doing on Firefox 2, with the same "compatible" plugins from Mozilla.com, and Firefox 3 crashes much more often.
That's not a step in the right direction.
FF 3.0 crashes a lot more than FF 2.0 ever did for me.
It's not every 15 minutes, but it's at least once a day.