Yea. If you print less than 400 pages before the printer breaks, then you're better off with HP. But personally, I print about 400 pages in two weeks. If it's breakin' that fast, I AM getting a refund.
Ahh, but that is assuming you only have one centralized server. If you used a P2P approach, you could probably cut it down to a few thousand years. Of course, you still have to get everyone a connection first....
My $200 phone has a camera on it. It's 1.3 MP. But with the image quality, you'd think it was around 0.5. it's horrible. My digital camera however, which was around $80, has GREAT quality 5MP images.
If you have $1000 to spend on a phone, it might be better than a digital camera. But then again, if you have $1000 to spend on a phone, you probably have enough money for a top of the line camera, which will most likely still be better than your phone.
From what I hear it pays for itself in 8 years and you can usually (in the US at least) get a government grant to cover half of that. Only problem is it's not normal yet. It takes a long time for people to start doing things differently.
No, the local governments grant the ISPs a monopoly usually, so they should be held to the same standards as a government service would be. I dunno where you live, but where I am, we have one choice for broadband and one choice only. And lemme tell ya, it sucks. I recently discovered they charge an extra $60 a month for the EXACT same service, just without the 'you are not allowed to run a server' clause in the TOS. But yea, unless I want dial-up, that's my only option.
Germany didn't directly attack us, but Japan did. They were allies. Can't go to war with one without the other. Who'd we go to war with that led to Iraq? In Vietnam we were helping the French. I seem to forget, which one of our allies was at war in Iraq and asked for our help? The Spanish-American war was started by what was at the time believed to be Spanish sabotage. What did Iraq blow up? War of 1812 was caused by Britain blocking our trade ships with Spain and imprisoning thousands of sailors. Who did Iraq capture?
Fact: Iraq was a preemptive strike. America has never done that before. There's a reason. Yes, we were attacked, but it wasn't by Iraq. It's like France sunk an aircraft carrier and we retaliated against England.
I switched over last christmas. Got an IBM Model M, switched around all the keycaps, and love it. Only problem is I can no longer type in QWERTY. At all. Took me a while to get good at Dvorak, but if you switch around the keycaps, it's a LOT easier. I tried learning it before but couldn't until I did that. IMO, the best way to learn is to look. But anyways, I'm surviving just fine without using QWERTY. I do switch every computer I use over to Dvorak first. Only takes about half a minute to set up keyboard shortcuts so you can switch back and forth. Hell, even at school where they have control panel locked, I just go into gpedit, unlock it, and set up the hotkeys. It's really not that much of a problem for me. As for hotkeys...I've re-learned copy/paste, and that's all I really use.
I dunno about you, but where I go to school, we are always required to list our sources. And we are told wikipedia isn't an 'authoritative' source and we can't use it. However, that in no way prevents us from using it as a source of sources. There are many uses of wikipedia other than just for research. Blocking sites that they deem bad sources simply shows that the teachers are too lazy to actually check the work.
I have Comcast. It pisses me off to no end, because whenever my brother's home, my service goes to shit because he's ALWAYS torrenting something. But yea, we've never been cut off or throttled down. I've heard stories, but ours is downloading solid 24/7 for some months and I've never had a problem.
Not at all. I woulda spent the $700 for Photoshop, but I decided to pirate it instead. But then I decided that was too much trouble, so I just got The Gimp. Then I actually used Photoshop in school, and I'm soo glad I didn't bother to pirate it. You couldn't pay me to use that over Gimp.
Is it just me, or is this just saying you'd probably get worse punishment if it's for-profit? I mean, I'm not sure how these things go down in Europe, but in the US, I believe they're generally civil lawsuits. Not criminal. I don't see how this law makes it 'legal'. It just says it's not a criminal action.
Well, since the land is sold at set prices by LL, supply and demand doesn't really matter. As long as there's free land, it's gonna cost the same amount. Doesn't matter how much of it there is.
Um...they looked at the number of patches released? I don't see how that says Windows is more secure. It just says Windows doesn't patch as much. Which could quite possibly mean it's less secure.
Yea, except NVidia is crap and too expensive. I can't afford that. But then again, I've never had any problems with ATI's drivers from their website in Linux, so....
What address exactly did he use to contact them about this? I figure I might as well voice my opinion as well, but I can't seem to find an appropriate contact location on their website.
Hm. that's actually quite interesting. Though it depends on how you define 'comparable'...for example, a 2GHz Intel is gonna cost about twice as much as a 2GHz AMD, though the specs will appear the same. But maybe apple is cheaper on the very high-end stuff, I dunno. But they don't have anything low-end. I know someone older who's looking into finally buying his first computer. His son is trying to talk him into getting a mac, because that's what he has so they can share the software, but he's currently leaning towards a Dell simply because the cheapest mac he could find was around $800 without any monitor, keyboard, or other peripherals. The dell is $400 with a 21" LCD widescreen monitor and printer. The specs leave a bit to be desired, running vista at only 512MB RAM, but how much do you really need for a browser and text editor (which is still all most people use. Hell, even my AMD64 very rarely gets more than seamonkey and gaim)
Man, my gf has a $3000 powerbook. Ya know what it's specs are? About the same as my brother's $800 Dell Inspiron. You're paying a few thousand bucks for slightly more rounded corners and silver instead of black. And personally, I prefer black. I mean, hell, if you have $3000 to blow on it, go for it, but most of us can't afford to waste that much of a computer. Especially one that won't run the majority of apps. I'm a Linux user myself, but it's nice to know that when I wanna game I can go to windoze without much effort...though I usually just use QEMU.
I agree. I just spent 9 hours yesterday on an english project. Two more this morning so far. Still have more to do. Yes, I procrastinated a bit, but she only gave us 3 weeks to do all this, I was about 3/4 of the way done coming into this weekend, and I only have about 3 hours of free time at night after school with which I have better things to do. But my crap's done printing so I gotta get back to work.
well yea, I was figuring just throw a voltage regulator in there. You can get one of them for $5 at radioshack though. Hell, get an adjustable one and throw a pot in there.
I don't see why that would be difficult or expensive at all. Buy a small DC motor and strap it on. Maybe have to extend the chain a bit to wrap around it or something...maybe just put a wheel on it and run it right up next to the tire. Either way, I doubt it'd cost more than $20 if you did it yourself.
*shudder* I've actually never managed to successfully install Ubuntu. Slackware, Mandriva, even Libranet all worked fine. Ubuntu wouldn't even boot into the main installer for some reason.
Mandriva, now there's a distro that 'just works'. Didn't even have to do anything for my wifi drivers. Installed it, and everything was fine. Hell, it was less work than Windoze.
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Yea. If you print less than 400 pages before the printer breaks, then you're better off with HP. But personally, I print about 400 pages in two weeks. If it's breakin' that fast, I AM getting a refund.
...my HP ink cartridges are rated at exactly 450 pages actually. Of course. the problem there is that they're closer to $50 each, not $15.
Ahh, but that is assuming you only have one centralized server. If you used a P2P approach, you could probably cut it down to a few thousand years. Of course, you still have to get everyone a connection first....
My $200 phone has a camera on it. It's 1.3 MP. But with the image quality, you'd think it was around 0.5. it's horrible. My digital camera however, which was around $80, has GREAT quality 5MP images.
If you have $1000 to spend on a phone, it might be better than a digital camera. But then again, if you have $1000 to spend on a phone, you probably have enough money for a top of the line camera, which will most likely still be better than your phone.
From what I hear it pays for itself in 8 years and you can usually (in the US at least) get a government grant to cover half of that. Only problem is it's not normal yet. It takes a long time for people to start doing things differently.
No, the local governments grant the ISPs a monopoly usually, so they should be held to the same standards as a government service would be. I dunno where you live, but where I am, we have one choice for broadband and one choice only. And lemme tell ya, it sucks. I recently discovered they charge an extra $60 a month for the EXACT same service, just without the 'you are not allowed to run a server' clause in the TOS. But yea, unless I want dial-up, that's my only option.
Germany didn't directly attack us, but Japan did. They were allies. Can't go to war with one without the other. Who'd we go to war with that led to Iraq?
In Vietnam we were helping the French. I seem to forget, which one of our allies was at war in Iraq and asked for our help?
The Spanish-American war was started by what was at the time believed to be Spanish sabotage. What did Iraq blow up?
War of 1812 was caused by Britain blocking our trade ships with Spain and imprisoning thousands of sailors. Who did Iraq capture?
One thing:
Fact: Iraq was a preemptive strike. America has never done that before. There's a reason. Yes, we were attacked, but it wasn't by Iraq. It's like France sunk an aircraft carrier and we retaliated against England.
I switched over last christmas. Got an IBM Model M, switched around all the keycaps, and love it. Only problem is I can no longer type in QWERTY. At all. Took me a while to get good at Dvorak, but if you switch around the keycaps, it's a LOT easier. I tried learning it before but couldn't until I did that. IMO, the best way to learn is to look. But anyways, I'm surviving just fine without using QWERTY. I do switch every computer I use over to Dvorak first. Only takes about half a minute to set up keyboard shortcuts so you can switch back and forth. Hell, even at school where they have control panel locked, I just go into gpedit, unlock it, and set up the hotkeys. It's really not that much of a problem for me. As for hotkeys...I've re-learned copy/paste, and that's all I really use.
I dunno about you, but where I go to school, we are always required to list our sources. And we are told wikipedia isn't an 'authoritative' source and we can't use it. However, that in no way prevents us from using it as a source of sources. There are many uses of wikipedia other than just for research. Blocking sites that they deem bad sources simply shows that the teachers are too lazy to actually check the work.
No. MY service goes to shit because he's using up all our bandwidth. Our overall service remains the same.
I have Comcast. It pisses me off to no end, because whenever my brother's home, my service goes to shit because he's ALWAYS torrenting something. But yea, we've never been cut off or throttled down. I've heard stories, but ours is downloading solid 24/7 for some months and I've never had a problem.
Not at all.
I woulda spent the $700 for Photoshop, but I decided to pirate it instead. But then I decided that was too much trouble, so I just got The Gimp. Then I actually used Photoshop in school, and I'm soo glad I didn't bother to pirate it. You couldn't pay me to use that over Gimp.
Is it just me, or is this just saying you'd probably get worse punishment if it's for-profit? I mean, I'm not sure how these things go down in Europe, but in the US, I believe they're generally civil lawsuits. Not criminal. I don't see how this law makes it 'legal'. It just says it's not a criminal action.
Well, since the land is sold at set prices by LL, supply and demand doesn't really matter. As long as there's free land, it's gonna cost the same amount. Doesn't matter how much of it there is.
Um...they looked at the number of patches released? I don't see how that says Windows is more secure. It just says Windows doesn't patch as much. Which could quite possibly mean it's less secure.
Yea, except NVidia is crap and too expensive. I can't afford that. But then again, I've never had any problems with ATI's drivers from their website in Linux, so....
Uh, I'm pretty sure that the RIAA doesn't always act within the law either. They just pretend they do.
What address exactly did he use to contact them about this? I figure I might as well voice my opinion as well, but I can't seem to find an appropriate contact location on their website.
Hm. that's actually quite interesting. Though it depends on how you define 'comparable'...for example, a 2GHz Intel is gonna cost about twice as much as a 2GHz AMD, though the specs will appear the same. But maybe apple is cheaper on the very high-end stuff, I dunno. But they don't have anything low-end. I know someone older who's looking into finally buying his first computer. His son is trying to talk him into getting a mac, because that's what he has so they can share the software, but he's currently leaning towards a Dell simply because the cheapest mac he could find was around $800 without any monitor, keyboard, or other peripherals. The dell is $400 with a 21" LCD widescreen monitor and printer. The specs leave a bit to be desired, running vista at only 512MB RAM, but how much do you really need for a browser and text editor (which is still all most people use. Hell, even my AMD64 very rarely gets more than seamonkey and gaim)
Man, my gf has a $3000 powerbook. Ya know what it's specs are? About the same as my brother's $800 Dell Inspiron. You're paying a few thousand bucks for slightly more rounded corners and silver instead of black. And personally, I prefer black.
I mean, hell, if you have $3000 to blow on it, go for it, but most of us can't afford to waste that much of a computer. Especially one that won't run the majority of apps. I'm a Linux user myself, but it's nice to know that when I wanna game I can go to windoze without much effort...though I usually just use QEMU.
I agree.
I just spent 9 hours yesterday on an english project.
Two more this morning so far.
Still have more to do.
Yes, I procrastinated a bit, but she only gave us 3 weeks to do all this, I was about 3/4 of the way done coming into this weekend, and I only have about 3 hours of free time at night after school with which I have better things to do.
But my crap's done printing so I gotta get back to work.
well yea, I was figuring just throw a voltage regulator in there. You can get one of them for $5 at radioshack though. Hell, get an adjustable one and throw a pot in there.
I don't see why that would be difficult or expensive at all. Buy a small DC motor and strap it on. Maybe have to extend the chain a bit to wrap around it or something...maybe just put a wheel on it and run it right up next to the tire. Either way, I doubt it'd cost more than $20 if you did it yourself.
*shudder*
I've actually never managed to successfully install Ubuntu. Slackware, Mandriva, even Libranet all worked fine. Ubuntu wouldn't even boot into the main installer for some reason.
Mandriva, now there's a distro that 'just works'. Didn't even have to do anything for my wifi drivers. Installed it, and everything was fine. Hell, it was less work than Windoze.