It sounds like you got FC Pro for professional reasons, but then switched careers and now use it as a hobby. To continue using it as a hobby, it would cost a lot more money. Makes sense to me.
When people say they want to make their house Mac centric (like my dad), I always cringe. It's not because it's a Mac, but because you're locked in to a specific vendor. Once an item dies, you *have* to buy a replacement from Apple (for example, Airport Express), there isn't a device that can do that same thing (i.e. communicate with iTunes wirelessly, that I know of) without the Apple brand (and price). That's the beauty of open-source software - the community makes ports for just about every platform./rant
It's funny because I see no obvious advantage of having wireless mice, unless you are sitting really far away from your computer. In fact, wireless has many disadvantages: lag, batteries, security (as the GP points out) and interference. To each his own I guess, but for me the deal-breaker is lag and the resulting loss of precision.
Bluetooth (the interface most mice use) has a transmission rate of 3Mbits/sec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth)
USB 1.1 has 12Mbits/sec, where USB 2.0 has 480 Mbits/sec. USB 3.0 has 5.0Gbits/sec
A mouse over a BT interface will be orders of magnitude laggier than the SAME mouse over a wired interface.
As for security, it's very simple. You need physical access to wired stuff (or a very close proximity to it), whereas someone can "see" your wireless data from their car.
Interesting take on the joke, but the question is posed in the present tense. The question should have been posed like this: "Is it possible for you to have married your widow's sister?" for your statement to be true
Ah, technicalities:)
By the way, the question on the site was "Is it *legal* to marry...", which would probably be a resounding "no", unless Britain has some really lax necrophiliac laws...
So, the last batch of suggestions: is it legal for a Scotsman to marry his widow's sister? Wouldn't that be kind of hard, you know, because he's DEAD? How else would he have a widow...?? (did the author's miss a joke?)
Yeah, he's left out some pretty important games, starting with Wolfenstein and Myst to, Grand Theft Auto and even Portal. Wolfenstein was pretty much the first widely-popular "3D" game, GTA was an awesome example of interaction with the environment and letting the player set the pace of the game and explore the world, while Portal (in my opinion) was the first to really explore a First Person Shooter game without giving the player guns (how awesome is that?!).
When i read TFS, it sounded like he installed passwords on computers. As in, they didn't have passwords before. Maybe he tried to get some time off In exchange for these passwords, though which certainly would be bad...
I already get charged $0.20 per text message, both incoming and outgoing. So that means, when I text my wife -- we share the same plan -- it costs us $0.40 to send one text message. I would love to see an anti-double billing practice put into legislation.
Average intelligence can be really high, and the dumbest people can still be really smart. Of course, they aren't, but as soon as the human race splits into two species, look out!
Actually, a sonar works by emitting a sound, and then listening how long it takes for the sound to return when it bounces off an object.
In the Dark Knight, unless the phones actually emitted some kind of audible noise (or if the phones were capable of producing sound >50Khz, which is probably not the case), it would be incorrect to call them sonars. Instead, they triangulated the sounds coming from the bad guys using multiple phones in order to produce an image, so, while actually much cooler than sonar, it's not a sonar.
Didn't they also do something like this in the Dark Knight? But I think there was a device inside the structure, not a bunch of them outside, which would make truth more exciting than fiction.
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I read that as "...slap my wireless remains in there..." and I thought to myself: "self, wouldn't it be cool if you could put a wireless router transmitter antenna in an urn full of ashes, so you can truly become the man in the middle?"
I guess another thing she taught people, outside of open-sourcing her remains, is that there will always be a-holes who try to capitalize on other people's misfortunes and/or good deeds (like the people who sued). I truly believe things happen to teach us important life lessons, it's just the matter of interpretation. Anyway, good on your great aunt, sounds like a good human being.
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It sounds like you got FC Pro for professional reasons, but then switched careers and now use it as a hobby. To continue using it as a hobby, it would cost a lot more money. Makes sense to me.
When people say they want to make their house Mac centric (like my dad), I always cringe. It's not because it's a Mac, but because you're locked in to a specific vendor. Once an item dies, you *have* to buy a replacement from Apple (for example, Airport Express), there isn't a device that can do that same thing (i.e. communicate with iTunes wirelessly, that I know of) without the Apple brand (and price). That's the beauty of open-source software - the community makes ports for just about every platform. /rant
By the way, awesome sig
There have been wars over people calling kilts dresses, you're lucky I'm not a redhead (or a longbeard)
Goddamn, now even wireless mice have fanbois?
It's funny because I see no obvious advantage of having wireless mice, unless you are sitting really far away from your computer. In fact, wireless has many disadvantages: lag, batteries, security (as the GP points out) and interference. To each his own I guess, but for me the deal-breaker is lag and the resulting loss of precision.
Bluetooth (the interface most mice use) has a transmission rate of 3Mbits/sec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth)
USB 1.1 has 12Mbits/sec, where USB 2.0 has 480 Mbits/sec. USB 3.0 has 5.0Gbits/sec
A mouse over a BT interface will be orders of magnitude laggier than the SAME mouse over a wired interface.
As for security, it's very simple. You need physical access to wired stuff (or a very close proximity to it), whereas someone can "see" your wireless data from their car.
Didn't they already do that? It's called a Optimus Maximus keyboard (http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/)
If you need that much security, you're probably better off going with a wired mouse anyway. Besides, you also get better accuracy and less/no lag.
Interesting take on the joke, but the question is posed in the present tense. The question should have been posed like this: "Is it possible for you to have married your widow's sister?" for your statement to be true
Ah, technicalities :)
By the way, the question on the site was "Is it *legal* to marry...", which would probably be a resounding "no", unless Britain has some really lax necrophiliac laws...
So, the last batch of suggestions: is it legal for a Scotsman to marry his widow's sister? Wouldn't that be kind of hard, you know, because he's DEAD? How else would he have a widow...?? (did the author's miss a joke?)
Yeah, he's left out some pretty important games, starting with Wolfenstein and Myst to, Grand Theft Auto and even Portal. Wolfenstein was pretty much the first widely-popular "3D" game, GTA was an awesome example of interaction with the environment and letting the player set the pace of the game and explore the world, while Portal (in my opinion) was the first to really explore a First Person Shooter game without giving the player guns (how awesome is that?!).
Maybe he's saying every time you pirate his book, God kills a cancer cell. Hopefully, the slashdot effect will cure cancer.
So it's less useful than the Hello Kitty decal? Good to know.
When i read TFS, it sounded like he installed passwords on computers. As in, they didn't have passwords before. Maybe he tried to get some time off In exchange for these passwords, though which certainly would be bad...
I already get charged $0.20 per text message, both incoming and outgoing. So that means, when I text my wife -- we share the same plan -- it costs us $0.40 to send one text message. I would love to see an anti-double billing practice put into legislation.
I think there's something to be said for arty, too. I will be using both of those devices at my Windows 7 launch party.
Average intelligence can be really high, and the dumbest people can still be really smart. Of course, they aren't, but as soon as the human race splits into two species, look out!
Does that mean Google owns lower-case "g"?
There, fixed that for ya.
Actually, a sonar works by emitting a sound, and then listening how long it takes for the sound to return when it bounces off an object.
In the Dark Knight, unless the phones actually emitted some kind of audible noise (or if the phones were capable of producing sound >50Khz, which is probably not the case), it would be incorrect to call them sonars. Instead, they triangulated the sounds coming from the bad guys using multiple phones in order to produce an image, so, while actually much cooler than sonar, it's not a sonar.
And yeah, I got it, thanks.
I heard you can throw a party to install one of those.
You have to squint, kind of like in the days of analog TV with scrambled channels...
Didn't they also do something like this in the Dark Knight? But I think there was a device inside the structure, not a bunch of them outside, which would make truth more exciting than fiction.
I'm personally putting IDDQD on my tombstone.
I read that as "...slap my wireless remains in there..." and I thought to myself: "self, wouldn't it be cool if you could put a wireless router transmitter antenna in an urn full of ashes, so you can truly become the man in the middle?"
I guess another thing she taught people, outside of open-sourcing her remains, is that there will always be a-holes who try to capitalize on other people's misfortunes and/or good deeds (like the people who sued). I truly believe things happen to teach us important life lessons, it's just the matter of interpretation. Anyway, good on your great aunt, sounds like a good human being.
(Also, RIP SPARCy)
Open up Finder and try to find /etc or /bin or /usr/local