Clearly you never tried to upgrade the ram in an early model Mac. It was extremely difficult and required special tools. Many configuration aspects were locked down too. You also couldn't define your own paper sizes for the printer drivers and many of the OS settings could not be altered without installing 3rd party tools.
There has always been some form of "walled garden" in apple products.
I've seen others with newer lumix cameras and they suffer from similar issues. Pictures in anything other than full sunlight with ISO 100 are grainy and horrible. My friends with much cheaper point and shoots were able to get better looking pictures.
There are plenty of cheap adapters for ps2 and serial that work over USB. For those of us without weird needs, more USB ports would be welcome. HDMI and DVI with a VGA adapter would be useful.
Plugins are tied to version in FF, but not Chrome
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From what I can tell, your plugin interface is still using version number to determine plugin compatibility, causing plugin authors to do a lot of extra work. The plugin interface should be frozen and versioned and changed infrequently, so plugins could go more than a month without updates. Yes, Chrome updates frequently, but it never disables half of my plugins on update every month and declares that they don't work like firefox did before I ditched it.
Why not stabilize the plugin interface for some long time period (more than a month) and version it?
It was updated to work in Firefox 4. The author hasn't had time to catch up yet on all platforms. So instead, I've switched to Chrome which doesn't have problems with all of my plugins breaking every 6 weeks. It's faster, anyways.
Get ahold of metal, make lock pick. Steal key from guard, wait, insert, turn. Make mold out of soap, melt metal into it, insert into lock and turn.
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I'm at a loss as to how illegal immigrants manage to avoid paying any property (through their landlord), gas, or sales taxes. It's a shame they work under the table, so we lose out on all the tax money that a legal resident making $10k a year would be paying. How much is that, again?
We should just eliminate the FDA entirely. Then we can save a lot of money because people will just attempt to regrow their bones by drinking oil from snakes as there will be no agency to stop anyone from marketing all medical techniques as 100% proven to work. The free market always works best!
Are you fine with getting rid of federal highway and bridge spending, subsidies for public schools, massive airport subsidies and bailouts, and other things that directly benefit you? Most tea partiers seem to just want to do away with the stuff that doesn't directly benefit them only.
A Dell T710 is $900 and can take 16 2.5" drives or 8 3.5". If you're not a fan of linux software raid, toss in a PERC controller ($599) and bump the ram up to 4GB ($65) and 8 1.5TB disks at $520 and you're at $2084 for 12TB of storage, in any type of RAID you want.
I agree, but I want to cut the military, farm subsidies, oil company tax rebates, and federal highway subsidies. Most "small government" types I've met are want to cut social programs instead and consider their entitlements to be absolutely necessary and worth everyone else paying for.
You mean to tell me that 98% accuracy when trying to spot terrorists in airports isn't good enough? That's only 200,000 false positives per year for a typical airport.
Do you have any idea how much support it requires to maintain multiple OS installers for a python runtime, the binary libraries, and everything else? Don't you think users will complain that the python app has a totally different UI than their native one such as if you use WxWidgets, Qt, etc? Have you thought about what happens when you need to synchronize an application update between your front end and back end? And step users through downloading, disabling anti-virus, and reinstalling your application when its local files get corrupt because their disk filled up or they get a virus or they decide to clean the delete key on their keyboard (yes, this happens). If you target small businesses without their own in house IT staff (or an incompetent IT staff as is often the case), you need a full time support staff, a QA team stocked up with virtual machine instances of every PC and Mac OS released in the last 5-7 years, and all releases better undergo a few weeks of QA.
Your best bet in this situation is to deploy a VM image because then at least you only have to worry about bugs in a single package. Alternately, you can have them use remote desktop to a whole bunch of client interface servers, which is going to cost you quite a bit extra in hardware.
Or you can target a web browser using html and javascript. And as long as they've updated their browser some time in the last 5 years, your application has a high probability of just working. The browser has been well tested against the OS they're running because its used by lots of other people.
Also, I have never seen perl code give good performance, as its type model basically prevents useful compilation.
Spyware/malware used to be much more of a pain because you had to download and trust a large number of applications to do much with your computer. Many user's needs are sandboxed into webapps these days, preventing a lot of issues.
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Clearly you never tried to upgrade the ram in an early model Mac. It was extremely difficult and required special tools. Many configuration aspects were locked down too. You also couldn't define your own paper sizes for the printer drivers and many of the OS settings could not be altered without installing 3rd party tools.
There has always been some form of "walled garden" in apple products.
The reason why we have so many airports, so many highways, and so few trains already is due to the current subsidy structure.
I've seen others with newer lumix cameras and they suffer from similar issues. Pictures in anything other than full sunlight with ISO 100 are grainy and horrible. My friends with much cheaper point and shoots were able to get better looking pictures.
The AF/AE lock on some point and shoots will do pretty much what you're asking for.
Why can't I sell it for the same price as a picasso?
Everyone knows that read-only is more secure.
Prevent your SSID from going outside of your property and you won't have a problem, then.
There are plenty of cheap adapters for ps2 and serial that work over USB. For those of us without weird needs, more USB ports would be welcome. HDMI and DVI with a VGA adapter would be useful.
It's great to hear that clearchannel hasn't dominated every station in every market yet.
So, wait until next week to upgrade.
From what I can tell, your plugin interface is still using version number to determine plugin compatibility, causing plugin authors to do a lot of extra work. The plugin interface should be frozen and versioned and changed infrequently, so plugins could go more than a month without updates. Yes, Chrome updates frequently, but it never disables half of my plugins on update every month and declares that they don't work like firefox did before I ditched it.
Why not stabilize the plugin interface for some long time period (more than a month) and version it?
It was updated to work in Firefox 4. The author hasn't had time to catch up yet on all platforms. So instead, I've switched to Chrome which doesn't have problems with all of my plugins breaking every 6 weeks. It's faster, anyways.
But...they do. Viruses do infect nuke plants from time to time due to sloppy practices.
Get ahold of metal, make lock pick. Steal key from guard, wait, insert, turn. Make mold out of soap, melt metal into it, insert into lock and turn.
I'm at a loss as to how illegal immigrants manage to avoid paying any property (through their landlord), gas, or sales taxes. It's a shame they work under the table, so we lose out on all the tax money that a legal resident making $10k a year would be paying. How much is that, again?
We should just eliminate the FDA entirely. Then we can save a lot of money because people will just attempt to regrow their bones by drinking oil from snakes as there will be no agency to stop anyone from marketing all medical techniques as 100% proven to work. The free market always works best!
Are you fine with getting rid of federal highway and bridge spending, subsidies for public schools, massive airport subsidies and bailouts, and other things that directly benefit you? Most tea partiers seem to just want to do away with the stuff that doesn't directly benefit them only.
A Dell T710 is $900 and can take 16 2.5" drives or 8 3.5". If you're not a fan of linux software raid, toss in a PERC controller ($599) and bump the ram up to 4GB ($65) and 8 1.5TB disks at $520 and you're at $2084 for 12TB of storage, in any type of RAID you want.
The touch screen appears to require calibration, just like an old Palm.
Those rights only apply when there aren't big scary terrorists killing a tiny fraction of a percentage of our population.
I agree, but I want to cut the military, farm subsidies, oil company tax rebates, and federal highway subsidies. Most "small government" types I've met are want to cut social programs instead and consider their entitlements to be absolutely necessary and worth everyone else paying for.
They have a website with lots of free course material:
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3a6d-4052-937d-cb017338d7b1
They tend to have very good professors giving the recorded lectures.
You mean to tell me that 98% accuracy when trying to spot terrorists in airports isn't good enough? That's only 200,000 false positives per year for a typical airport.
Do you have any idea how much support it requires to maintain multiple OS installers for a python runtime, the binary libraries, and everything else? Don't you think users will complain that the python app has a totally different UI than their native one such as if you use WxWidgets, Qt, etc? Have you thought about what happens when you need to synchronize an application update between your front end and back end? And step users through downloading, disabling anti-virus, and reinstalling your application when its local files get corrupt because their disk filled up or they get a virus or they decide to clean the delete key on their keyboard (yes, this happens). If you target small businesses without their own in house IT staff (or an incompetent IT staff as is often the case), you need a full time support staff, a QA team stocked up with virtual machine instances of every PC and Mac OS released in the last 5-7 years, and all releases better undergo a few weeks of QA.
Your best bet in this situation is to deploy a VM image because then at least you only have to worry about bugs in a single package. Alternately, you can have them use remote desktop to a whole bunch of client interface servers, which is going to cost you quite a bit extra in hardware.
Or you can target a web browser using html and javascript. And as long as they've updated their browser some time in the last 5 years, your application has a high probability of just working. The browser has been well tested against the OS they're running because its used by lots of other people.
Also, I have never seen perl code give good performance, as its type model basically prevents useful compilation.
Spyware/malware used to be much more of a pain because you had to download and trust a large number of applications to do much with your computer. Many user's needs are sandboxed into webapps these days, preventing a lot of issues.