I bought a fair number (20+) of CDs last year. It's just most of them were directly from the groups in question (or through http://cdbaby.com/. I only bought a few (3) from labels large enough to get store distribution. And even then, 2 weren't on US labels.
Maybe if the music indrustry/major labels started publishing better stuff they would sell more CDs again.
Is it two complete cores? Front Side Bus speed? Memroy Speed? etc.
The IBM 970MP that Apple is using for the dual core PowerMacs was designed right. And due to the cache snooping (among other things), a dual core 970MP can be slightly faster than a dual processor setu at the same clock and bus speeds.
Another multicore chip to look at for being done right is the Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor. Up to 8 cores with 4 threads per core. Sun's threading model in this processor doesn't have the faults that Intel's HyperThreading does.
Intel HT technology seems as bad a patch on the architecture much like Microsoft's updates to Windows.
4x6s may be more expensive, however if you just want a few at a time, the gas (or postage) will make using a photo lab the same price or more expensive. And remember going to a photo lab can be two trips and the time required for the trips.
Also, once you get into larger prints, an inklet printer become cost effetcive. Another way to reduce costs is to buy larger packages of paper and get the paper on sale.
And then there is print quality. I get much better prints at home than I do from the inexpensive labs. And as for the more expensive labs? Unless you have a profile for their printer, you can get better results at home. An example is something I had a lab print at 2 different times - the prints looked way different. At home the output is consistant.
And of course, at home I can get a choice of paper to use. Most print labs have at best one or two types of paper you can choose from.
Where will the RFID chips be? In the packaging? Or in the device itself? Clothing gets washed. People clip the tags in clothing. Where in clothing would be a good place for a tag other than packaging or the tags? And for a multipakc, they may only have one tag for the whole box and not for each item in a box.
And packaging is much easier to destroy an RFID tag in.
However, RFID tags in credit cards may be a very bad thing if they don't take full security cautions. I don't mind a smart card that has to be inserted into a reader. But a card that can be and then accepted without the clerk (or system) verifying something (PIN or signature) is a bad idea.
The odds of these "missing" scenes making a bad movie good are slim to not.
I can think of at least two cases where the director's cut of a movie made the movie much much better and in both cases it added length ot the movies. "Star Trek The Motion Picture" and "The Abyss".
In a lot of cases, the directors cut just makes a good movie a bit better. Peter Jackson did the director's cut of "The Lord of the Rings" right.
Of course a director's cut can foul up a movie as well.
I want a decent phone. I do not want it to be a digital camera as well. There are various places that ban cameras that make such a phone less useful. After all, how useful is a phone that you can't have with you?
You can still get 20GB laptop drives easily.
Also 1.8" drives come in 20GB size.
Also, for OEM purchases, a disk manufacturer will make whatever the OEM wants (if it is technically feasible).
I've seen many attempts to log in to my system via SSH. Oddly enough, since I never enabled SSH2, a lot of the attacks fail due to incompatible SSH versions.
Some of the IPs I'm seeing trying to log in (break in) are: 211.98.192.91 66.194.210.4 210.188.243.208 200.198.184.135 222.122.25.100 211.87.224.192 62.231.44.113 212.202.220.163 62.75.216.10 81. 172.160.19 82.127.73.97 82.76.47.40 206.170.12. 98 61.133.218.110 216.70.203.62 66.220.1.112 1 2.167.162.5 80.190.243.50 62.75.216.10 221.249. 246.34 152.92.7.212 210.118.193.95 82.76.47.40 61.135.134.238
I currently do not email anyone who has a hotmail account, so let hotmail go isolate themselves.
With Yahoo & Cisco proposing an alternative to Microsoft's suggestion for a standard there wil at least be some fighting over which design (if either) becomes a standard. Without the competition, the odds are that one might win by default. (Unfortunately.)
My mail servers do have SPF records and when I get a chance, I'm going to setup SPF record checking for incoming email, although initially I'm going to only have it add a header to emails.
At the very least, I recommend eveyone who can set up SPF records for their mail servers even if they can't take the time to set up checking SPF records for incoming email. This would help by enabling places that do check SPF records know if they're getting (possibly) forged return addresses.
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I bought a fair number (20+) of CDs last year. It's just most of them were directly from the groups in question (or through http://cdbaby.com/. I only bought a few (3) from labels large enough to get store distribution. And even then, 2 weren't on US labels.
Maybe if the music indrustry/major labels started publishing better stuff they would sell more CDs again.
For the Mac, try http://www.adiumx.com/.
You're thinking West Cheste in Pennsylvania and not Westchecter County in New York.
Also, if you hadn't noticed, Commodre is kinda dead.
With undergroung cables, you would only have to worry about:
1) Backhoes
2) Flooding and electrified ground water
3) Where to dig to run the cables
So restarting the computer to clear up the leaked memory (unless exiting and restarting IE7 actually does that.)
And clean up routines to clear up the disk space (cache and cookies).
Actually, the 1 GB iPod shuffle is available to order again.
Think about it, if Microsoft goes HD-DVD, the movie industry might just go BluRay to make it harder for Windows users to pirate movies.
And it's only 19" deep. so that's really a lot of processing power in a small footprint.
WHo needs a rackmount microBTX system to save space and energy?
...is always an alpha release. So it''s not surprising that the XBox 360 is crashing.
Is it two complete cores? Front Side Bus speed? Memroy Speed? etc.
The IBM 970MP that Apple is using for the dual core PowerMacs was designed right. And due to the cache snooping (among other things), a dual core 970MP can be slightly faster than a dual processor setu at the same clock and bus speeds.
Another multicore chip to look at for being done right is the Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor. Up to 8 cores with 4 threads per core. Sun's threading model in this processor doesn't have the faults that Intel's HyperThreading does.
Intel HT technology seems as bad a patch on the architecture much like Microsoft's updates to Windows.
Can you imagine the uproar if overturning this law also overturns the laws around movie ratings?
4x6s may be more expensive, however if you just want a few at a time, the gas (or postage) will make using a photo lab the same price or more expensive. And remember going to a photo lab can be two trips and the time required for the trips.
Also, once you get into larger prints, an inklet printer become cost effetcive. Another way to reduce costs is to buy larger packages of paper and get the paper on sale.
And then there is print quality. I get much better prints at home than I do from the inexpensive labs. And as for the more expensive labs? Unless you have a profile for their printer, you can get better results at home. An example is something I had a lab print at 2 different times - the prints looked way different. At home the output is consistant.
And of course, at home I can get a choice of paper to use. Most print labs have at best one or two types of paper you can choose from.
Where will the RFID chips be? In the packaging? Or in the device itself? Clothing gets washed. People clip the tags in clothing. Where in clothing would be a good place for a tag other than packaging or the tags? And for a multipakc, they may only have one tag for the whole box and not for each item in a box. And packaging is much easier to destroy an RFID tag in. However, RFID tags in credit cards may be a very bad thing if they don't take full security cautions. I don't mind a smart card that has to be inserted into a reader. But a card that can be and then accepted without the clerk (or system) verifying something (PIN or signature) is a bad idea.
It's the stupid movies!
I can think of at least two cases where the director's cut of a movie made the movie much much better and in both cases it added length ot the movies. "Star Trek The Motion Picture" and "The Abyss".
In a lot of cases, the directors cut just makes a good movie a bit better. Peter Jackson did the director's cut of "The Lord of the Rings" right.
Of course a director's cut can foul up a movie as well.
Shouldn't this raise lots of questions before regulatory approval is granted (or not grnated)?
I know those two together don't make a monopoly, but it sure seems like a start at Microsoft attempting to make [another] one.
I hadn't thought it was possibly for AOL to get that much worse.
I was wrong. This makes things much worse.
Buy a PCI based USB 2.0 card. The Adaptec ones work nicely with the USB 2 drivers that are part of Mac OS Panther & Tiger.
I want a decent phone. I do not want it to be a digital camera as well. There are various places that ban cameras that make such a phone less useful. After all, how useful is a phone that you can't have with you?
You can't sledge MS for taking longer than expected to release Vista, then in the next comment complain about the lack of features.
Funny, Apple is able to add lots of new features in Mac OS X in a much shorter timeframe than Microsoft has taken to produce Windows Vista.
And Microsoft probably has more people working on it as well.
So yes, it's quite reasonable to complain that Microsoft flubbed adding features to the next version of Windows.
You can still get 20GB laptop drives easily. Also 1.8" drives come in 20GB size. Also, for OEM purchases, a disk manufacturer will make whatever the OEM wants (if it is technically feasible).
When is Tech Support appreciation day?
True enough. However, another limiting factor in how secure a system is would be the strength of the passwords that the users use.
I've seen many attempts to log in to my system via SSH. Oddly enough, since I never enabled SSH2, a lot of the attacks fail due to incompatible SSH versions.
8 . 172.160.19. 98
1 2.167.162.5. 246.34
Some of the IPs I'm seeing trying to log in (break in) are:
211.98.192.91
66.194.210.4
210.188.243.20
200.198.184.135
222.122.25.100
211.87.224.192
62.231.44.113
212.202.220.163
62.75.216.10
81
82.127.73.97
82.76.47.40
206.170.12
61.133.218.110
216.70.203.62
66.220.1.112
80.190.243.50
62.75.216.10
221.249
152.92.7.212
210.118.193.95
82.76.47.40
61.135.134.238
I currently do not email anyone who has a hotmail account, so let hotmail go isolate themselves.
With Yahoo & Cisco proposing an alternative to Microsoft's suggestion for a standard there wil at least be some fighting over which design (if either) becomes a standard. Without the competition, the odds are that one might win by default. (Unfortunately.)
My mail servers do have SPF records and when I get a chance, I'm going to setup SPF record checking for incoming email, although initially I'm going to only have it add a header to emails.
At the very least, I recommend eveyone who can set up SPF records for their mail servers even if they can't take the time to set up checking SPF records for incoming email. This would help by enabling places that do check SPF records know if they're getting (possibly) forged return addresses.