In addition, in a market like that movies and music and games actually tend to be barely profitable, serving more to attract people to the store than to actually move dollars. Movies not being sold at Costco hurts Disney a lot more than it does Costco.
This is news? Seriously, have you gone laptop shopping lately? How many of the models did you see with floppies? My Toshiba from 2001 didn't have a floppy drive (just an external DVD). My new Gateway doesn't have a floppy drive. My tower has a floppy drive that I installed for the sole purpose of disaster recovery back in the Win2k-to-XP transition days.
Most new computers don't have floppy drives. They were obsolete when I was A+ certified in '03 and they're obsolete now. Let's grow up and move on.
this is pretty tangential, but try the RAZR v3i keypad sometime -- much improved. I bought mine unlocked on eBay about a year ago -- I think it's only finally being officially introduced in the states. It's nothing world-changing, but it's a solid phone (figuratively and literally -- dropped mine while rock climbing and it's barely scratched).
Tell that to anyone who wants their iTunes tracks to be their ringer on an iTunes phone, or who wants to play audiobooks on their iTunes phone, or who wants to exceed the 50 song limit on the RAZR v3i...
Curious: Absent religion, where do you find any reason at all to believe that such a thing as a soul even exists?
(yes, that makes the precarious assumption that by "I don't look to the Bible for spiritual enlightenment" you meant "I don't purport to believe in any sort of textual religion)
Heck, my TV is older than my house (almost 20 years), smaller than 30 inches, and does just fine for DVDs. Since I moved off to college I'm watching everything on a 19-inch widescreen monitor which is technically HD-resolution, and the experience is slightly better because it's crisper and has the right aspect ration, but at the same time worse because of tearing.
Most people don't want to spend thousands of dollars for a TV so they can spend half a grand for a player so they can spend $40 on each movie they stick in said player. Is HD the future? Probably, but not at these prices.
Why in the world would they give anywhere near 40% of the units to Gamestop/EB? Most of them are going to the Best Buys, Wal Marts, and Costcos of the world, where most of them will sit in distribution centers for online sales. The number that appears on a gamestop shelf is likely one of the SMALLEST pieces of the pie; even Gamestop is going to hold on to them and sell them online instead.
My work computers run XP SP2 with a 733mhz processor and 256mb RAM. Sure, it's not blazingly fast, but it gets the job done.
My old Tablet PC had a P3 1.3ghz and 512 RAM and was more than sufficent for all but HD video and gaming (due to the crappy integrated Intel shared video).
1GB is nowhere NEAR a baseline requirement except for power users and gamers. I have a gig in my desktop and with an AMD64 3200+ and a GeForce 6800 it can play anything on the market at max (slows down a bit on CS:S with the HDR on, although curiously not so much in DoD or Episode 1...). Explain to me how that's "baseline". I played HL2 on 512mb for a long time and yeah, I had to turn the texture resolution down to Medium, but that hardly means my computer was below consumer minimums, especially since the majority of computers out there will never do anything as intensive as running HL2.
Gotchya. It's worth noting, though, that even general aviation pilots are trained in a good deal of basic meteorology, and not at all in cohort analysis. Yes, the goal is 'merely' to obtain a functional knowledge of what it will be like, but you will frequently see pilots checking temperature/dewpoint spreads, looking at doppler images, keeping eyes on fronts and whatnot; you won't see them with a hundred printed pages of cohort analysis.
It may be what the METARs are made from, but the average private pilot is more likely making barely educated guesses based on elementary meteorology than on cohort analysis.
Such "models" often beat physical models in predictive ability, but don't give any insight into why. If you want to fly a plane, they're fine. If you want to do science, see (1) or (2).
Ironically, though this was meant as sarcasm, I really don't mind if the government knows most of those things about me (OK, maybe not 'every thought I've ever had,' but most of the rest would be pretty much fine by me.)
However, I object in principle for two reasons:
Because someday the government may become actually oppressive (as in "take arms" oppressive), and it is at that point that the infrastructure which our rights to privacy currently prevent would be a serious liability to all interested in life, liberty, et al.
Because while I don't have anything I would object horribly to the government knowing about me, I am not willing to cast my vote to allow them to, because to do so would be taking on the authority to decide that neither would anyone else.
So no, I have nothing to hide, and don't really object to some at least mostly impartial body knowing my 'secrets' as a matter of pragmatism, but in principle and because I can't speak for those around me, I object.
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Any device with an active digitizer does just fine in this regard.
In addition, in a market like that movies and music and games actually tend to be barely profitable, serving more to attract people to the store than to actually move dollars. Movies not being sold at Costco hurts Disney a lot more than it does Costco.
You almost got me. Ironically, my college network's internet filter saved me. It IS good for something...
So if you kill an animal painlessly, it's OK?
Good sir,
the brake is most certainly NOT for the left foot. Please stop driving that way.
This is news? Seriously, have you gone laptop shopping lately? How many of the models did you see with floppies? My Toshiba from 2001 didn't have a floppy drive (just an external DVD). My new Gateway doesn't have a floppy drive. My tower has a floppy drive that I installed for the sole purpose of disaster recovery back in the Win2k-to-XP transition days.
Most new computers don't have floppy drives. They were obsolete when I was A+ certified in '03 and they're obsolete now. Let's grow up and move on.
Wikipedia has a strict "No Original Research" policy, so your hypothetical should be impossible. Cite Personal Publishing Magazine's article.
this is pretty tangential, but try the RAZR v3i keypad sometime -- much improved. I bought mine unlocked on eBay about a year ago -- I think it's only finally being officially introduced in the states. It's nothing world-changing, but it's a solid phone (figuratively and literally -- dropped mine while rock climbing and it's barely scratched).
Tell that to anyone who wants their iTunes tracks to be their ringer on an iTunes phone, or who wants to play audiobooks on their iTunes phone, or who wants to exceed the 50 song limit on the RAZR v3i...
Curious: Absent religion, where do you find any reason at all to believe that such a thing as a soul even exists? (yes, that makes the precarious assumption that by "I don't look to the Bible for spiritual enlightenment" you meant "I don't purport to believe in any sort of textual religion)
Someone once told me there is no such thing as a stupid question.
I win.
Heck, my TV is older than my house (almost 20 years), smaller than 30 inches, and does just fine for DVDs. Since I moved off to college I'm watching everything on a 19-inch widescreen monitor which is technically HD-resolution, and the experience is slightly better because it's crisper and has the right aspect ration, but at the same time worse because of tearing. Most people don't want to spend thousands of dollars for a TV so they can spend half a grand for a player so they can spend $40 on each movie they stick in said player. Is HD the future? Probably, but not at these prices.
err... whoops... that's cite.
Wait, did two people in a row just site MySpace as exemplative of the "clean/slim" design aesthetic? And call it FAST?
*dies*
Why in the world would they give anywhere near 40% of the units to Gamestop/EB? Most of them are going to the Best Buys, Wal Marts, and Costcos of the world, where most of them will sit in distribution centers for online sales. The number that appears on a gamestop shelf is likely one of the SMALLEST pieces of the pie; even Gamestop is going to hold on to them and sell them online instead.
My work computers run XP SP2 with a 733mhz processor and 256mb RAM. Sure, it's not blazingly fast, but it gets the job done.
My old Tablet PC had a P3 1.3ghz and 512 RAM and was more than sufficent for all but HD video and gaming (due to the crappy integrated Intel shared video).
1GB is nowhere NEAR a baseline requirement except for power users and gamers. I have a gig in my desktop and with an AMD64 3200+ and a GeForce 6800 it can play anything on the market at max (slows down a bit on CS:S with the HDR on, although curiously not so much in DoD or Episode 1...). Explain to me how that's "baseline". I played HL2 on 512mb for a long time and yeah, I had to turn the texture resolution down to Medium, but that hardly means my computer was below consumer minimums, especially since the majority of computers out there will never do anything as intensive as running HL2.
Gotchya. It's worth noting, though, that even general aviation pilots are trained in a good deal of basic meteorology, and not at all in cohort analysis. Yes, the goal is 'merely' to obtain a functional knowledge of what it will be like, but you will frequently see pilots checking temperature/dewpoint spreads, looking at doppler images, keeping eyes on fronts and whatnot; you won't see them with a hundred printed pages of cohort analysis.
It may be what the METARs are made from, but the average private pilot is more likely making barely educated guesses based on elementary meteorology than on cohort analysis.
Is it still 4th grade where you are?
February
RSS?
I'm a pilot, and I'm confused...
Care to elaborate?
Erm. Bush has been pushing for a new drive to put men back on the moon and mars for a while now.
Real nerds thought of Dune.
However, I object in principle for two reasons:
So no, I have nothing to hide, and don't really object to some at least mostly impartial body knowing my 'secrets' as a matter of pragmatism, but in principle and because I can't speak for those around me, I object.
I believe they're Jigawatts you're after.