100GB is really not that much space today for current breed of video games. Install GTA IV, Mass Effect II and Dragon Age (plus expansion pack or two) and you've got yourself 50-60GB filled. And that's only three games...
As for the rest, 1080p movies easily take about 20GB per movie (depending on the encoding type, of course). That equals about 50 movies per each TB of storage.
I don't think that it's that big of a deal to have 50-100 movies in your library, plus a a collection of a few multi-season series in HD.
My understanding was, that these machines were supposed to be used on a voluntary basis. I.E. that you will be able to refuse and go through a normal pat-down procedure instead. Is that not so?
For me, personally, there is at least one huge benefit in Office 2010: It is now possible to have multiple Power Point windows open side-by-side at the same time. I work as a trainer and it has been a pain that you had to switch between presentations in the same window as you were editing them in the previous versions.
Sadly, we're using Lotus Notes in our company, so I can't comment on the differences in Outlook, but other applications haven't changed that significantly for me.
In Slovenia local ISP, called T-2 is offering Gig FTTH for about two years now, if I'm not mistaken. It's a bit pricey (1000€ per month), but it's there. Here's price list (in Slovenian, but I think you'll make sense of the prices and speeds). http://www.t-2.net/?ctxID=000b68&funcID=1
I know he won Pulitzer and I wasn't referring to the particular cartoon. Rather, I intended to point out the fact that, every submitted body of work cannot possibly be accepted for publication. There will always be someone shifting through the submitted projects, deciding if they fit into the publishers concept or not and if they're of a high enough quality.
If that wasn't the case I could start sending whatever comes to my mind to publishers and cry "censorship!" when they don't publish me.
Point is: if the cartoons didn't win a Pulitzer, there probably wouldn't be much talk about censorship. But since it may be as simple as someone on Apple's team not recognizing a worthy piece of work, it's all bad.
And why exactly do you think the explosion was in any way related to your wi-fi?
Point 1 - I bet that a good percentage of people that use their electronic devices on airplanes do not consciously turn off wi-fi.So far I haven't heard of any plane accidents that were attributed to wi-fi transmissions. Point 2 - Lufhtansa for a while actually advertised wireless connectivity on their airplanes for web surfing during long-haul flights. At the time it was a bit expensive and extremely laggy so I only used it once. But they definitely didn't discourage it.
And you were aware of that fact, when you bought their product. As you were also aware of what kind of applications you can expect to get or not to get from them.
How comes that no one is crying their eyes out that there's no Pr0n app available for the iPhone? Oh... That's right. Terms and conditions require a "no nipple" approach from developers.
If you think racing cars isn't physically demanding, think again.
I invite you to go to your local go-cart track and drive 10 laps around it, as fast as you can. The first time you do that, I can guarantee, that your hands will hurt to the point where you might go slow on the last few laps, or risk crashing.
Now try doing this for two hours in heat, without any power steering, while still keeping track of guys around you who want to overtake you or not let you overtake them.
Car racing is probably at least on a par with running for the same amount of time.
Actually in the real world term PC pretty much never applies to anything else than an IBM-compatible desktop or laptop device that usually runs Windows or Linux.
Apple PCs will typically be referred to as "Apples" or "Macs". And I wish you good luck in getting someone to understand what you're saying (without an additional explanation) if you'll point to your Symbian Smartphone (or any other OS) and refer to it as a "PC".
While wanton violence and abuse has been around in videogames for quite a while, it's probably a bit unreasonable to call it dated. With few (not always notable) exceptions, pretty much every game targeted at audience over 14 has some level of violence in it. That makes the games at least partially attractive to gamers, since they can act out things that they can't do in real life.
Your suggestion is not your typical videogame. Rather it's an everyday simulator (yes, yes. I understand that simulators are videogames also:-)).
Not being fixated on money is not the same as not taking it when it's dangled in front of you... Especially if it's legitimately offered for something valuable and extraordinary that you did.
I mean, I can relate to doing things that I like, rather than doing things that would bring me more money. However if all of a sudden someone would pop by and offer me twice the amount of money for exactly the same job as I'm doing right now, there's virtually no reason that I can think of to turn them down.
While there might be no law regarding that, in some countries, there are internal guidelines that require police officers to behave politely.
Specifically in Slovenian "codex of police ethics" there's a section that states that: "....within the scope of their work they should have a professional and polite attitude towards people..."
It's of course a different story if such guidelines are actually obeyed, but it's a start.
It has probably been quite a while then, since you checked.
For at least Windows 7 and Windows Vista you will get support for a full resolution (and I believe color depth) that your monitor supports. At least if you have an ATI or Nvidia card. Graphic performance will be poor, but you will be able to browse your web or work with your office apps.
If I remember properly Windows XP was quite OK in that department as well (at least installs with SP2 integrated).
You're completely right and I wasn't disagreeing with you at all.
I said that on the go powerful graphics are not a requirement and battery life is. While spending time in a hotel room in the middle of nowhere can be usefully spent with a nice game. And here battery life is irrelevant and graphics are not.
I also agree that the "seamlessly switching" part might be marketing, however let's give the thing a benefit of the doubt and see how it turns out in practice. We should have some faith in technology, right?:-)
Well, actually it seems here that I could have it both ways.
Qute from TFA: NVIDIA® Optimus Technology intelligently, automatically, and seamlessly transitions between the powerful NVIDIA® ION GPU, and battery-saving integrated graphics
To me this sounds optimal. While playing games I'm usually stationary and have an access to the power source. On the other hand, while I'm on the go I don't need high-end graphics. I need Powerpoint, Wword, Excel. If this thingy can go into low power mode for such applications and keep me running for a few hours, I'll be quite happy. Hell, my current laptop is so power hungry, I can't even use power sockets on airplanes, because it draws to much power, while it's running:-D
The only thing that I'm really waiting for now is for this chipset to appear in either HP or Lenovo laptops, since those are my company's preferred vendors. I'm due for a new laptop this year;-)
I travel a lot on business and for relatively extended periods of time (couple of weeks are not uncommon).
I also like to play "advanced" games. I just recently completed Dragon Age: Origins.
The problems is, that if I want a decent gaming performance I don't usually have a choice of a small laptop. I'm currently lugging around a 17" HP which works great, but is a bit heavy and eats batteries like candy:-)
Actually Darwin's evolution means that those best adapted to the environment survive, not necessarily the strongest.
So, theoretically, the fittest female mosquitoes in this case will be the ones with slightly different frequencies. As a result their genes would likely spawn more of the same.
Realistically, I don't see that sample size to be large enough to have a significant impact on the mosquito population overall. But even if it had, software update, like mentioned before, would solve that problem.
I didn't mean to imply that you can transfer the licence from PC to PC as you wish, but rather that as long as your PC stays the same (and I'm pretty sure that swapping out a motherboard doesn't mean I changed my PC), your licence will be valid. And I'm pretty sure that you can enforce that through your local consumer protection group, if necessary.
OEM copies of Windows are not bound to motherboards. They're tied into the original hardware. You can legally buy an OEM version of Windows even if you just buy a power supply;-)
So if you need to replace a motherboard, your OEM licence is still yours.
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100GB is really not that much space today for current breed of video games. Install GTA IV, Mass Effect II and Dragon Age (plus expansion pack or two) and you've got yourself 50-60GB filled. And that's only three games...
As for the rest, 1080p movies easily take about 20GB per movie (depending on the encoding type, of course). That equals about 50 movies per each TB of storage.
I don't think that it's that big of a deal to have 50-100 movies in your library, plus a a collection of a few multi-season series in HD.
My understanding was, that these machines were supposed to be used on a voluntary basis. I.E. that you will be able to refuse and go through a normal pat-down procedure instead.
Is that not so?
For me, personally, there is at least one huge benefit in Office 2010:
It is now possible to have multiple Power Point windows open side-by-side at the same time. I work as a trainer and it has been a pain that you had to switch between presentations in the same window as you were editing them in the previous versions.
Sadly, we're using Lotus Notes in our company, so I can't comment on the differences in Outlook, but other applications haven't changed that significantly for me.
It's not that rare in Europe at all.
In Slovenia local ISP, called T-2 is offering Gig FTTH for about two years now, if I'm not mistaken. It's a bit pricey (1000€ per month), but it's there.
Here's price list (in Slovenian, but I think you'll make sense of the prices and speeds).
http://www.t-2.net/?ctxID=000b68&funcID=1
Well that iPhone supposedly wasn't really bricked. It was just unusable as in: it didn't get past the "Connect to the iTunes" screen.
This is another example of current overuse of the term "bricked".
I know he won Pulitzer and I wasn't referring to the particular cartoon.
Rather, I intended to point out the fact that, every submitted body of work cannot possibly be accepted for publication. There will always be someone shifting through the submitted projects, deciding if they fit into the publishers concept or not and if they're of a high enough quality.
If that wasn't the case I could start sending whatever comes to my mind to publishers and cry "censorship!" when they don't publish me.
Point is: if the cartoons didn't win a Pulitzer, there probably wouldn't be much talk about censorship. But since it may be as simple as someone on Apple's team not recognizing a worthy piece of work, it's all bad.
They simply didn't like his work :-)
(On a personal note: I like the guys 'toons)
And why exactly do you think the explosion was in any way related to your wi-fi?
Point 1 - I bet that a good percentage of people that use their electronic devices on airplanes do not consciously turn off wi-fi.So far I haven't heard of any plane accidents that were attributed to wi-fi transmissions.
Point 2 - Lufhtansa for a while actually advertised wireless connectivity on their airplanes for web surfing during long-haul flights. At the time it was a bit expensive and extremely laggy so I only used it once. But they definitely didn't discourage it.
And you were aware of that fact, when you bought their product. As you were also aware of what kind of applications you can expect to get or not to get from them.
How comes that no one is crying their eyes out that there's no Pr0n app available for the iPhone? Oh... That's right. Terms and conditions require a "no nipple" approach from developers.
Well tough.
No, it is not. At least not necessarily so.
It may simply mean that the cartoon was crap.
If you think racing cars isn't physically demanding, think again.
I invite you to go to your local go-cart track and drive 10 laps around it, as fast as you can. The first time you do that, I can guarantee, that your hands will hurt to the point where you might go slow on the last few laps, or risk crashing.
Now try doing this for two hours in heat, without any power steering, while still keeping track of guys around you who want to overtake you or not let you overtake them.
Car racing is probably at least on a par with running for the same amount of time.
Actually in the real world term PC pretty much never applies to anything else than an IBM-compatible desktop or laptop device that usually runs Windows or Linux.
Apple PCs will typically be referred to as "Apples" or "Macs". And I wish you good luck in getting someone to understand what you're saying (without an additional explanation) if you'll point to your Symbian Smartphone (or any other OS) and refer to it as a "PC".
While wanton violence and abuse has been around in videogames for quite a while, it's probably a bit unreasonable to call it dated.
With few (not always notable) exceptions, pretty much every game targeted at audience over 14 has some level of violence in it. That makes the games at least partially attractive to gamers, since they can act out things that they can't do in real life.
Your suggestion is not your typical videogame. Rather it's an everyday simulator (yes, yes. I understand that simulators are videogames also :-)).
Not being fixated on money is not the same as not taking it when it's dangled in front of you...
Especially if it's legitimately offered for something valuable and extraordinary that you did.
I mean, I can relate to doing things that I like, rather than doing things that would bring me more money. However if all of a sudden someone would pop by and offer me twice the amount of money for exactly the same job as I'm doing right now, there's virtually no reason that I can think of to turn them down.
Can you operate iPhone "out of the box"?
Last time I checked you need to own a computer with a specific type of OS (Windows or MAC OS), load iTunes on it and then activate it.
After that you get a nice and cozy experience, yes. But you do need to have "3 other products" before that :-)
Practically any other phone on the market will work out of the box, provided batteries are charged.
While there might be no law regarding that, in some countries, there are internal guidelines that require police officers to behave politely.
Specifically in Slovenian "codex of police ethics" there's a section that states that: "....within the scope of their work they should have a professional and polite attitude towards people..."
It's of course a different story if such guidelines are actually obeyed, but it's a start.
It has probably been quite a while then, since you checked.
For at least Windows 7 and Windows Vista you will get support for a full resolution (and I believe color depth) that your monitor supports. At least if you have an ATI or Nvidia card. Graphic performance will be poor, but you will be able to browse your web or work with your office apps.
If I remember properly Windows XP was quite OK in that department as well (at least installs with SP2 integrated).
You're completely right and I wasn't disagreeing with you at all.
I said that on the go powerful graphics are not a requirement and battery life is. While spending time in a hotel room in the middle of nowhere can be usefully spent with a nice game. And here battery life is irrelevant and graphics are not.
I also agree that the "seamlessly switching" part might be marketing, however let's give the thing a benefit of the doubt and see how it turns out in practice. We should have some faith in technology, right? :-)
Well, actually it seems here that I could have it both ways.
Qute from TFA:
NVIDIA® Optimus Technology intelligently, automatically, and seamlessly transitions between the powerful NVIDIA® ION GPU, and battery-saving integrated graphics
To me this sounds optimal. While playing games I'm usually stationary and have an access to the power source. On the other hand, while I'm on the go I don't need high-end graphics. I need Powerpoint, Wword, Excel. If this thingy can go into low power mode for such applications and keep me running for a few hours, I'll be quite happy. :-D
Hell, my current laptop is so power hungry, I can't even use power sockets on airplanes, because it draws to much power, while it's running
The only thing that I'm really waiting for now is for this chipset to appear in either HP or Lenovo laptops, since those are my company's preferred vendors. I'm due for a new laptop this year ;-)
I travel a lot on business and for relatively extended periods of time (couple of weeks are not uncommon).
I also like to play "advanced" games. I just recently completed Dragon Age: Origins.
The problems is, that if I want a decent gaming performance I don't usually have a choice of a small laptop. I'm currently lugging around a 17" HP which works great, but is a bit heavy and eats batteries like candy :-)
Something smaller would be a nice change.
Actually Darwin's evolution means that those best adapted to the environment survive, not necessarily the strongest.
So, theoretically, the fittest female mosquitoes in this case will be the ones with slightly different frequencies. As a result their genes would likely spawn more of the same.
Realistically, I don't see that sample size to be large enough to have a significant impact on the mosquito population overall. But even if it had, software update, like mentioned before, would solve that problem.
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is a 3G phone.
You may only have a 2G subscrition or have turned 3G off, but the phone itself is fully capable of doing 3G.
Of course you're right.
I didn't mean to imply that you can transfer the licence from PC to PC as you wish, but rather that as long as your PC stays the same (and I'm pretty sure that swapping out a motherboard doesn't mean I changed my PC), your licence will be valid.
And I'm pretty sure that you can enforce that through your local consumer protection group, if necessary.
OEM copies of Windows are not bound to motherboards. They're tied into the original hardware. You can legally buy an OEM version of Windows even if you just buy a power supply ;-)
So if you need to replace a motherboard, your OEM licence is still yours.
Manual operated =! mechanical.
While you may have a lever for a parking brake (=! emergency brake) it can be under (electronic) control of car systems.
Example: Renault cars.
Imagine a country where you get thrown in jail for smuggling something like this. China, anywhere in middle east probably.
Would you like to spend a few days, weeks or even months in a jail in a place like that?
Since the guy didn't know he had explosives in his luggage, he could have easily traveled on to one of such places in the following days.
I very much would NOT want to be in his shoes if he did that.