there's a significant portion of the US population that will refuse to conserve energy because it requires effort on their part
Effort such as no longer mistaking animals for food. Their health would improve and they'd save energy and lots of greenhouse gas emissions, yet look at how many people can't be bothered to so much as drop a metal can in a recycling container.
Back in the early 80's I had a text-graphic (popularly but misleadingly known as "ASCII graphics") program for the IBM PC that played Silent Night. When the song was done, the grandfather clock's pendulum kept swinging, etc., and the clock's ticking was effected by toggling the cassette interface. Since almost no "compatibles" had cassette interfaces, I used this as an example of how they weren't 100% compatible.
Hell, I just want a phone that I can sync my Addresbook contacts and iCal calendars to without any loss of data. I've been looking for one for four years, and so far the iPhone is the *only* one I've found.
This is indeed true. I've heard very few new bands in the last 5-10 years that sounded even vaguely interesting.
The dearth of rock radio stations doesn't help either. There's a total of one in Seattle.
I am frustrated and depressed over how bad things are getting here. I talked about some of it including the marketing problem we are manufacturing for ourselves here after my last trip to Japan.... a country that routinely slaughters dolphins and flouts the international ban on whaling. The US hardly has a monopoly on barbarism.
I interviewed with American once, in Tulsa (gulp), for a Unix sysadmin position. Lots of odd stuff around the interview, then a week later they offered me a job that they could describe only as "working with make and SCCS". Yes, actually using SCCS in 1992. They had a corporate no-freeware policy.
Also factor in the cost of maintenance over the years, and the output drop over time if they're anything like conventional cells.
And, just how much Indium is available?
EE Guy #2: Exactly! We'll be able to blame the programmers for being lazy and not wanting to learn new complicated algorithms that require an additional 4 years of university.
In a Sun class, I encountered a Sun employee from a central-US state who did exactly this as a justification for the performance stagnation of SPARC cores.
I've occasionally read through CR's computer articles and indeed have found them to -- religious preferences aside -- display a fundamental lack of understanding what the heck they're talking about. I didn't expect otherwise, though.
I stopped subscribing years ago, though because their articles were increasingly useless for even commodity goods -- A/V equipment, appliances, etc. By the time they put together an article and print it, their top picks are often already discontinued. They also tended to review lots of crappy low-end models of things with no mention of the range that I'd actually buy, or are only available in the New Yuck region where they seem to purchase from gray-market dealers. With cars, the reliability figures are useful, at least, though I remember them having absurd practices, eg. downgrading a model for not having rotary climate controls.
I've occasionally picked up an issue since and browsed it, and nothing seems to have changed.
I've had similar experiences, though the boot disk on my desktop machine did come from there once when they had a fairly decent special going.
What I often also see in CompUSA, Circuit City, Best Buy, Office{Max, Depot}, Staples etc. as well is that they'll have lots of low-end / entry-level items but don't even stock the more-capable product I'm really after. I remember when I was shopping for an 802.11g AP/router a while back and all they had were 802.11b. "We can special order that for you". Yeah, and in half the time and without blowing another hour and a half for a round trip I could buy it online. Now, if Newegg would just fix their @#$@!#$#% broken credit card system.
Apple's existing Java 5 is a bit screwy - I'd been hoping that a Java 6 from Apple would fix eg. the Java Web Start hassles when trying to run Sun's Remote Console, which with a stock setting on OSX somehow tries to run Java 4 despite preferences to the contrary.
I'm "boggled" by how rude you are, and how completely you're missing my points. I never claimed that NZ is part of the EU or Europe, and that has nothing to do with the discussion.
GSM fanboys tout GSM as working everywhere, so country boundaries shouldn't matter. Perhaps your magic Dutch SIM card would work everywhere in NZ, but I've seen personally that a GSM phone from the US doesn't. Claiming that the phones work everywhere with GSM is sophistry, given that one apparently still has to rip them apart and pay for a collection of [fragile] SIM cards to get them to work across borders.
And, actually, my CDMA phone did work in many parts of NZ.
So, when traveling to, say, New Zealand, you're saying that it's entirely reasonable to have to pre-purchase a SIM card from every provider, and rotate them through one's phone looking for one that works every time one wants to make a call? How is this an advantage over the US, where for the most part CDMA phones work almost everwhere?
It's not clear that a GSM phone and GSM service are as independent as you indicate. I've seen a GSM phone work in only a very small area of a country that has GSM everywhere.
It's difficult to compete with Seagate's 5-Year Warranty
If the 1TB WD drives are actually reviewed and available, though, that would be a big advantage over Seagate and Samsung's vaporware.
Riding a scooter in the rain sucks pretty hard, which limits their appeal here. I also don't think they're quite up to highway speeds.
Carpools are great but egos limit the degree to which people will use them. And of course the average necrophage commuter's head would explode at the idea of not causing traffic jams by everyone starting and stopping work at the same time, or -- heaven forbid! -- telecommuting.
The summary seems to miss what seems to me to be the obvious motivation for something like TinyURL: MUA's on either end that wrap lines. I've found that most people can't understand it when this happens, or paste the URL back together even when told to.
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I would call them "populations"
there's a significant portion of the US population that will refuse to conserve energy because it requires effort on their part Effort such as no longer mistaking animals for food. Their health would improve and they'd save energy and lots of greenhouse gas emissions, yet look at how many people can't be bothered to so much as drop a metal can in a recycling container.
Back in the early 80's I had a text-graphic (popularly but misleadingly known as "ASCII graphics") program for the IBM PC that played Silent Night. When the song was done, the grandfather clock's pendulum kept swinging, etc., and the clock's ticking was effected by toggling the cassette interface. Since almost no "compatibles" had cassette interfaces, I used this as an example of how they weren't 100% compatible.
Hell, I just want a phone that I can sync my Addresbook contacts and iCal calendars to without any loss of data. I've been looking for one for four years, and so far the iPhone is the *only* one I've found.
This is indeed true. I've heard very few new bands in the last 5-10 years that sounded even vaguely interesting. The dearth of rock radio stations doesn't help either. There's a total of one in Seattle.
I am frustrated and depressed over how bad things are getting here. I talked about some of it including the marketing problem we are manufacturing for ourselves here after my last trip to Japan. ... a country that routinely slaughters dolphins and flouts the international ban on whaling. The US hardly has a monopoly on barbarism.
... or those of you who mistake animals for food.
I interviewed with American once, in Tulsa (gulp), for a Unix sysadmin position. Lots of odd stuff around the interview, then a week later they offered me a job that they could describe only as "working with make and SCCS". Yes, actually using SCCS in 1992. They had a corporate no-freeware policy.
Also factor in the cost of maintenance over the years, and the output drop over time if they're anything like conventional cells. And, just how much Indium is available?
EE Guy #2: Exactly! We'll be able to blame the programmers for being lazy and not wanting to learn new complicated algorithms that require an additional 4 years of university. In a Sun class, I encountered a Sun employee from a central-US state who did exactly this as a justification for the performance stagnation of SPARC cores.
I only saw the first one, a free corporate outing. I consider myself to have overpaid :-/
Why on Earth would you buy USB instead of Firewire (or eSATA) anyway?
I've occasionally read through CR's computer articles and indeed have found them to -- religious preferences aside -- display a fundamental lack of understanding what the heck they're talking about. I didn't expect otherwise, though. I stopped subscribing years ago, though because their articles were increasingly useless for even commodity goods -- A/V equipment, appliances, etc. By the time they put together an article and print it, their top picks are often already discontinued. They also tended to review lots of crappy low-end models of things with no mention of the range that I'd actually buy, or are only available in the New Yuck region where they seem to purchase from gray-market dealers. With cars, the reliability figures are useful, at least, though I remember them having absurd practices, eg. downgrading a model for not having rotary climate controls. I've occasionally picked up an issue since and browsed it, and nothing seems to have changed.
People are not necessarily stupid Were that true, McDonald's and GM would not still be in business.
I've had similar experiences, though the boot disk on my desktop machine did come from there once when they had a fairly decent special going. What I often also see in CompUSA, Circuit City, Best Buy, Office{Max, Depot}, Staples etc. as well is that they'll have lots of low-end / entry-level items but don't even stock the more-capable product I'm really after. I remember when I was shopping for an 802.11g AP/router a while back and all they had were 802.11b. "We can special order that for you". Yeah, and in half the time and without blowing another hour and a half for a round trip I could buy it online. Now, if Newegg would just fix their @#$@!#$#% broken credit card system.
Chances are that your connectivity provider's terms that you agreed to prohibit running a server over the link anyway.
Apple's existing Java 5 is a bit screwy - I'd been hoping that a Java 6 from Apple would fix eg. the Java Web Start hassles when trying to run Sun's Remote Console, which with a stock setting on OSX somehow tries to run Java 4 despite preferences to the contrary.
Anyone who can afford to buy and hold can damn well afford to pay the taxes.
I'm "boggled" by how rude you are, and how completely you're missing my points. I never claimed that NZ is part of the EU or Europe, and that has nothing to do with the discussion. GSM fanboys tout GSM as working everywhere, so country boundaries shouldn't matter. Perhaps your magic Dutch SIM card would work everywhere in NZ, but I've seen personally that a GSM phone from the US doesn't. Claiming that the phones work everywhere with GSM is sophistry, given that one apparently still has to rip them apart and pay for a collection of [fragile] SIM cards to get them to work across borders. And, actually, my CDMA phone did work in many parts of NZ.
So, when traveling to, say, New Zealand, you're saying that it's entirely reasonable to have to pre-purchase a SIM card from every provider, and rotate them through one's phone looking for one that works every time one wants to make a call? How is this an advantage over the US, where for the most part CDMA phones work almost everwhere?
It's not clear that a GSM phone and GSM service are as independent as you indicate. I've seen a GSM phone work in only a very small area of a country that has GSM everywhere.
Why would one need to drive somewhere to reboot a server???
It's difficult to compete with Seagate's 5-Year Warranty If the 1TB WD drives are actually reviewed and available, though, that would be a big advantage over Seagate and Samsung's vaporware.
Riding a scooter in the rain sucks pretty hard, which limits their appeal here. I also don't think they're quite up to highway speeds. Carpools are great but egos limit the degree to which people will use them. And of course the average necrophage commuter's head would explode at the idea of not causing traffic jams by everyone starting and stopping work at the same time, or -- heaven forbid! -- telecommuting.
The summary seems to miss what seems to me to be the obvious motivation for something like TinyURL: MUA's on either end that wrap lines. I've found that most people can't understand it when this happens, or paste the URL back together even when told to.