It really isn't that extra. We have no problem printing 20k pixels wide images. Our now rather old HP printer only print 106 cm but prints can be as long as the paper rolls allow. At 200 px/inch the print will be 2,5 meters - really nothing fancy. I do a couple of prints like that every month.
However, the cost of black ink for a picture of the night sky, that will hurt a bit.
There isn't anything called Soviet Russia let anlone Soviet Union anymore.
The union ended in 1991, that's 17 years ago. Even AC's should've learnt that by now.
>Finally, if you do have rigorous IT lockdown designed to protect your worst 10% of users from themselves, in all probability
>you're impinging on the other 90% of competent users from doing their many and varied jobs in the most effective way possible.
The only problem I have with this is that many times the lockdown is constructed to serve the it-service dept. firstly, not the actual tasks the company staff is set to do.
I don't understand why parent is modded down. These are all valid answers to the issues listed. Unless of course if a certain group of it-service workers (yes, that's what we are) are afraid that the "users" gets to much power.
I got that aswell, I simply had to pay 1000 for various fees and services. Then this very nice african banker would pay me the heritage from my unknown relative. Come to think of it, I haven't heard from that banker in a while now.
You (along with many many others) are missing out on what a tax is.
Firstly what your talking about; a transaction tax is drawn on certain transactions like when beeing paid sallary, buying and selling of gods etc. So you pay a certain amount of tax for each transaction. It's common misconception that "once I've paid tax on this pile of money taxpaying should be done with". That's not how it works.
Then there are of course other types of taxes aswell.
Taxes are good for all of us, rich or poor but only as long as every paying instance, person or company, pay. If everyone paid there tax then the taxes actually could be reduced. But I doubt they would;)
However I do believe that in many countries in northen europe transaction taxes are way too high. Sales taxes at 20-25% are imho ridicoulus.
I know little about Windows programming but ActiveX seems to be the source for many of the problems with IE and Windows security. Why is it still used so much by commercial actors like Facebook, or not secured by MS?
"The point is many consumers feel no loyalty to carriers and resent being forced to choose one."
I would phrase it differently. I am loyal to my carrier, that's why I prefer not to change just because I buy a new phone.
Why I would need to switch to a new carrier just because I want use a certain phone make little or no sense to me.
Also, my employer pays my mobil phone bills but only as long as I use SIM-card they provide. The SIM-card is tied to a certain carrier using a company deal. So selecting what company should provide phone services isn't always something done by the individual.
Damn, that preview button got stuck....
>Mr. President, we must not allow a gravitationally slingshotted asteroid cave society gap!
wait-a-minnit, are you trying to patent something here...
here some prior art.
>Mr. President, we must not allow a gravitationally slingshotted asteroid cave society gap!
wait-a-minnit, are you trying to patent something here...
here some prior art.
Exactly - and coders who try to run their own code on their own hardware are the worst kind.
If Apple truely were interested in security they've could have fixed the security problems and at the same time opened up for anyone to make and install apps on the iPhone/Touch platform. But that's obvious to anyone, right?
What's next, an iPod which you can't upload your own music to?
>This means my cell phone in 2009 will finally be able to read those QR graphics on >Japanese web pages written in 2004!
[rant] Yes but that probably only because you haven't botherd to DL the QR-reader to your phone. Try www.quickmark.com.tw or reader.kaywa.com as starters. [/rant]
More importantly; now that we westerns hopefully will caught up using 2D-barcodes, about five years late, we can start to PUBLISH and USE codes in ads, displays etc. Remember that Denso with their QR-code are only one of several manufacturers of 2D-codes. However QR are the defacto standard in Japan.
Good luck trying to delete it. You will not be able to login again using the very same id & pass but your account - and probably your social data aswell - will happily remain live in the FB database. They even call it a service.
We buy lots of drives (university). We've never - yeah, really - had a hardware failure on individual storage drives. Raidchassis has failed but never drives. However, we replace the drives approx. each 36 months simply beacuse that's when the warranty expires = we would live on borrowed time if we would continue to use them. Also we have properly fan-cooled enclosures to reduce heat.
>Why does everyone assume digital means better? Mod parent up! However since digital is cheaper it will be preferred by the distributors regardless of quality.
It's not unlike those digital thermometers, most people assumes they're more exact since they have numerical readout - wrong wrong wrong......
>Can you imagine how difficult it would be to read a newspaper that spanned articles across the entire page?
True. Even a webpage that has text lines these long can slow down reading...
On a side note, CSS styles really could honor a few more known typographical rules and functions. It appears we get flowing columns with CSS3 but ligatures, selection of words or chars - 'first three words in UPPERCHAR bold style' - choice of quote style depending on page language etc etc is missed by the same fraternity your speaking of. Much of this can achieved with scripting but if it were a part of styles the life of any one working with screen typography would be easier.
Yes we do have 'first-letter' 'first-line' selectors but that only handles a few cases.
If you can live with an external box here's an 8 input HDMI switcher.
Since many highend A/V-receivers (where have all the A/V preamps gone???) can execute commands over RS232 it should be breeze to make the units work together.
The newer 360 Elite atleast has an HDMI port.
And while a 360 can be used to watch movies and other media it's the hires games we're after.
Also, unless XBMC comes for the 360 I'll use my old Xbox as a mediacenter. It's such a good combo that I've bought a second Xbox as a spare.
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It really isn't that extra.
We have no problem printing 20k pixels wide images. Our now rather old HP printer only print 106 cm but prints can be as long as the paper rolls allow.
At 200 px/inch the print will be 2,5 meters - really nothing fancy.
I do a couple of prints like that every month.
However, the cost of black ink for a picture of the night sky, that will hurt a bit.
(Obligatory: You must as american right?)
Perfect! - So when I as a swede set up the new Piratebay in new York I only has to worry about swedish laws? - Grrrrrrreat!
Come on, you follow the laws in the country you're in - it's that easy.
There isn't anything called Soviet Russia let anlone Soviet Union anymore. The union ended in 1991, that's 17 years ago.
Even AC's should've learnt that by now.
>Finally, if you do have rigorous IT lockdown designed to protect your worst 10% of users from themselves, in all probability
>you're impinging on the other 90% of competent users from doing their many and varied jobs in the most effective way possible.
The only problem I have with this is that many times the lockdown is constructed to serve the it-service dept. firstly, not the actual tasks the company staff is set to do.
I don't understand why parent is modded down. These are all valid answers to the issues listed. Unless of course if a certain group of it-service workers (yes, that's what we are) are afraid that the "users" gets to much power.
I got that aswell, I simply had to pay 1000 for various fees and services. Then this very nice african banker would pay me the heritage from my unknown relative. Come to think of it, I haven't heard from that banker in a while now.
You (along with many many others) are missing out on what a tax is.
;)
Firstly what your talking about; a transaction tax is drawn on certain transactions like when beeing paid sallary, buying and selling of gods etc. So you pay a certain amount of tax for each transaction. It's common misconception that "once I've paid tax on this pile of money taxpaying should be done with". That's not how it works.
Then there are of course other types of taxes aswell.
Taxes are good for all of us, rich or poor but only as long as every paying instance, person or company, pay. If everyone paid there tax then the taxes actually could be reduced. But I doubt they would
However I do believe that in many countries in northen europe transaction taxes are way too high. Sales taxes at 20-25% are imho ridicoulus.
What he says is that a free market is a threat to (his idea of) capitalism.
No news to any monopolist though...
I know little about Windows programming but ActiveX seems to be the source for many of the problems with IE and Windows security.
Why is it still used so much by commercial actors like Facebook, or not secured by MS?
A bus station is where the bus stops, a train station is where the train stops.
I shure know what a workstation is....
"The point is many consumers feel no loyalty to carriers and resent being forced to choose one."
I would phrase it differently.
I am loyal to my carrier, that's why I prefer not to change just because I buy a new phone.
Why I would need to switch to a new carrier just because I want use a certain phone make little or no sense to me.
Also, my employer pays my mobil phone bills but only as long as I use SIM-card they provide. The SIM-card is tied to a certain carrier using a company deal. So selecting what company should provide phone services isn't always something done by the individual.
This menas no iPhones at work as for now. Sad...
A brownshirt! I thought you guys disappeared with WW2.
Damn, that preview button got stuck....
>Mr. President, we must not allow a gravitationally slingshotted asteroid cave society gap!
wait-a-minnit, are you trying to patent something here...
here some prior art.
>Mr. President, we must not allow a gravitationally slingshotted asteroid cave society gap! wait-a-minnit, are you trying to patent something here... here some prior art.
Exactly - and coders who try to run their own code on their own hardware are the worst kind.
If Apple truely were interested in security they've could have fixed the security problems and at the same time opened up for anyone to make and install apps on the iPhone/Touch platform. But that's obvious to anyone, right?
What's next, an iPod which you can't upload your own music to?
I would prefer a RFC approved standard for 'IP over electricity' instead.
>This means my cell phone in 2009 will finally be able to read those QR graphics on
>Japanese web pages written in 2004!
[rant]
Yes but that probably only because you haven't botherd to DL the QR-reader to your phone.
Try www.quickmark.com.tw or reader.kaywa.com as starters.
[/rant]
More importantly; now that we westerns hopefully will caught up using 2D-barcodes, about five years late, we can start to PUBLISH and USE codes in ads, displays etc. Remember that Denso with their QR-code are only one of several manufacturers of 2D-codes. However QR are the defacto standard in Japan.
Good luck trying to delete it. You will not be able to login again using the very same id & pass but your account - and probably your social data aswell - will happily remain live in the FB database. They even call it a service.
Heat is one common factor that kills harddrives.
We buy lots of drives (university).
We've never - yeah, really - had a hardware failure on individual storage drives. Raidchassis has failed but never drives.
However, we replace the drives approx. each 36 months simply beacuse that's when the warranty expires = we would live on borrowed time if we would continue to use them. Also we have properly fan-cooled enclosures to reduce heat.
So while not understanding it you simply called it 'Commmunistic'?
Is there anything else you do not not understand, like what communism really was about?
Borrow a couple of books in economics history at the library, read'em and then we can have a discussion.
>Why does everyone assume digital means better?
Mod parent up!
However since digital is cheaper it will be preferred by the distributors regardless of quality.
It's not unlike those digital thermometers, most people assumes they're more exact since they have numerical readout - wrong wrong wrong......
>Can you imagine how difficult it would be to read a newspaper that spanned articles across the entire page?
True. Even a webpage that has text lines these long can slow down reading...
On a side note, CSS styles really could honor a few more known typographical rules and functions. It appears we get flowing columns with CSS3 but ligatures, selection of words or chars - 'first three words in UPPERCHAR bold style' - choice of quote style depending on page language etc etc is missed by the same fraternity your speaking of. Much of this can achieved with scripting but if it were a part of styles the life of any one working with screen typography would be easier. Yes we do have 'first-letter' 'first-line' selectors but that only handles a few cases.
Please, mod parent UP!
If you can live with an external box here's an 8 input HDMI switcher. Since many highend A/V-receivers (where have all the A/V preamps gone???) can execute commands over RS232 it should be breeze to make the units work together.
The newer 360 Elite atleast has an HDMI port. And while a 360 can be used to watch movies and other media it's the hires games we're after. Also, unless XBMC comes for the 360 I'll use my old Xbox as a mediacenter. It's such a good combo that I've bought a second Xbox as a spare.