What? I think you have that backwards. Aluminum rusting due to salt? That aluminum ladder that is at the shore house in salt water for the last 15 years must be really special. It is in the salt water when in use. It is in the salt air 24 hours a day every day year round. We hose it off from time to time if the salt builds up on it.
Steel rusts out much faster then aluminum does. Aluminum gets that protective layer on it that stops corrosion.
I remember seeing Jaws in 1977 at the movies (the movie theater showed it again). I was 5 at the time. Jaws was a bit bloody. Shark vs man bloody not man vs man bloody. That may be the difference.
Many gamers and people who wanted a 'faster' machine I knew in the mid 1990's had SCSI CD drives, SCSI disks and SCSI CDR drives. SCSI was faster then IDE at the time. Just about everyone had an adaptec 2940uw card installed. 68 pin for the hard drives, 50 pin for the CD drives. Plextor had a 68 pin CD drive. It loaded stuff a little faster then the IDE and the 50 pin SCSI drives.
I think your are off by a few years. My 486 that I got for college in 1991 had a CD drive in it. Every new computer that I saw had a CD drive by 1994. I remember getting a CD burner for less then $100 in 1996. I remember the pent II I got in late 1997 had a CD and 4x CD burner in it.
Apple owns the rights to the name firewire. Which would explain why so many companies call the port IEEE1394 or IEEE 1394b. They did not want to abide by apple's terms to use the term firewire.
The black cars I have owned were warmer in the winter then the lighter color cars. If you keep said car in a garage out of the sun light the car color does not matter. In the summer, I have cooked eggs in a pan on the dashboard, just saying.
Who ever said that a darker color car was easier to start in the winter? I have never heard that. I just asked some older (85, 72, 66, and 76) people who also never heard of that.
Old house or newer (less the 20 years) house? If it is older see if you can get insulation added. If you are due for a new roof shingles and wood, add insulation then. If they are taking off the wood, it is easy to add insulation at that time. Change the windows to better ones. Again if doing that see about getting more insulation added.
If you are building go with 2 X 6 construction for the exterior walls. The extra 2 inches means more insulation the the outside walls. Could go 2 X 8 for even more insulation in the walls. But then you would have some major window sills. Good or bad depending on your point of view. I know people in the mid Atlantic region. So not as cold as you, but I'll compare their costs to their neighbors. The 2 X 6 house with a lot of insulation burned 100 gallons of heating oil last year. The 2 X 4 house burned 500 gallons. The houses were the same design, in the same development. The differences were the outside wall construction and the house exposure. The 2 X 6 house faced south. while the other one faced east. Both are on the water. Between the construction and the sun heating the one house, their heating bills are a lot less. The cooling bills are less too, just not as much. Electric bills are $200-$250 vs $400-$450 a month for July and August.
But in colder climates, the darker roof will help heat the house and melt that snow off of the roof. Have you ever cleared a section down to the darker color and watched what happened? I remember as a kid clearing the blacktop driveway. Exposing the darker color in the morning lead to large sections (around the exposed dark ones) being clear of all ice and snow.
So maybe Clinton's plan is to paint all roofs white in the Spring then paint them dark in the Fall?
You also missed the point of them looking for a linux for a newbie to use. A VM of linux for a newbie to get their feet wet is not a bad idea. All the configuration that you so love is confusing to a newbie. If they had an extra computer, then fine install ubuntu on that extra computer. It appears they do not have an extra computer. The VM approach is a good for their needs. If they like it, they can switch a machine to linux and then have all the features of linux.
We get it that you love linux and Unix. Also that you hate all that is windows. Throwing non-linux people full into linux will only make them not want to use it. Then they tell all their friends to not use it.
Good point. If he is not caught uploading. They have a major issue proving that he did not rip the files himself. Or borrow a friends CD and rip that. If you really wanted to make sure you are in the clear, I would only keep the files for CDs I have and I have some soft of receipt for the digital download. For the remaining files, either delete them or look harder for how you got them. If you can prove you got them legally, keep them. If not, delete them. If they call you in to court, you show them your proof you are clear.
That is a hell of a lot of work to prove you have a right to have some music. They never bitched this much back when tapes were king. I guess they knew that tapes would wear out at some point. The biggest problem I see is borrowing a friend's CD and ripping it. Back in the old tape days coping a tape was what many people did. I usually copied tapes that I played a lot so I would wear out the copy. Many people ripped their friend's CDs to their collection. They did not buy the CD but they did not download it either. Ripping your friend's CD is against the law now even though people copies records and tape for years without any problem. This looks like a move to limit digital stored music. They want to increase CD sales.
I have been calling the software that does stuff applications (on any platform) since 1984. I believe 1984 predates the iphone by a few years. I know that the computer makers called them different things over the years, but I have been calling software "applications" or "apps" for years before the iphone came out. I can remember many people calling software apps in 1990-1991. This was by people who had to ask how to turn on the computer. They also used programs or applications. It did not matter what computer they were going to use. My sister used all three terms when referring to software on a mac or a pc. The pc was a new 486 and the mac was her mac she got for college in 1990. The term app has been used by people for years before the app store came out. The whole idea that only since the iphone do people call software "apps" is wrong.
Really? How many known diseases cause humans to turn and attack each other?
Greed.
Imagine what would happen if someone walking into a crowded mall, held up a lottery ticket and said "here is the $100,000,000 winning lottery ticket". I am willing to bet that some else will walk away with said ticket.
Seconded. Look for the professional or IPS panel screens. They cost more but have a better picture. The colors are more accurate with an IPS panel. So says everyone that sees my monitor at work. I have a 24 inch 1920X1200 model at home for about 6 months now. I paid $450 for it. I couldn't justify the $1000 for the 27 inch or $1300 for the 30 inch. I believe HP also makes a 16X10 24 inch monitor. They are in the professional section there as well.
Parent might have been referring to getting the end users to switch to linux. We are not talking about people who know how to install software or hardware here. The type of end user that can turn on the computer. The computer is the screen. The box on the floor is just the power button.
If the updates to windows didn't make assumptions about the hardware, I think windows would not slow down as much. Take XP. When XP first came out the average machine was a pIII 600? Say single core 1GHZ cpus just came out. Throw on service pack 1 then service pack 2. That 1GHZ machine is running XP but running it a lot slower then the same machine did with plain XP. I think when sp2 came out the average machine was more powerful. That is what the coders assumed people would have when writing sp2. If they used the same class of machine as when the OS first came out, maybe the OS would not have the noticeable slow down. I know people today have much faster computers then 2001. Updates to the OS should not force you to have to upgrade the hardware as well.
Only if you are thinking that 40% is way over the cost of the item. Not too many companies put a 100% market up on the product. Apple is taking 30% of the gross not net. If the book costs $50. They sell it for $70. Apple wants 30% of the $70. Not 30% of the $20 mark up.
Well, he hasn't 'risen' from the dead yet. Depending on the depth of the water and if they attached weights to the body I don't think bin laden's body will be rising anytime soon.
Are you really trying to say that the US killed thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or are you lumping the deaths from the terrorist groups as deaths caused by the US? Has the US killed civilian people? Yes the US has. Was it done on purpose, no. Are the bombs set off by terrorists trying to kill civilian people, yes. Was it done on purpose, yes. If you can't see that, you don't understand that your being irrational.
The explaining is only hard if you don't know it. If you were raised with the imperial system, that system is easier for you. If you were raised using metric, that system is easier. There is the "that is he way it is" sort of explanation. I.e. Fire is hot, liquid water is wet, a yard is three feet. That is just how it is. The understanding of it is something different.
It is the conversion costs that are one of the biggest issues. The second being, most older people do not understand or know metric. The metric wrench is not the issue, it is distance, and speed measurements. We need a generation (or 3) who uses both metric and imperial systems. Once we have people who can use either system without having to think much about it, we can switch. I do feel that cars and other serviceable things should go all metric. The gauges have both measures on them so that is good. Having cars with this mix of he two is annoying. I remember having to go out and get a 15MM wrench to change the oil in my car. Now I have sets of imperial and metric. Plus if the manufacturing plants went all metric, it would make parts simpler.
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What? I think you have that backwards. Aluminum rusting due to salt? That aluminum ladder that is at the shore house in salt water for the last 15 years must be really special. It is in the salt water when in use. It is in the salt air 24 hours a day every day year round. We hose it off from time to time if the salt builds up on it.
Steel rusts out much faster then aluminum does. Aluminum gets that protective layer on it that stops corrosion.
I remember seeing Jaws in 1977 at the movies (the movie theater showed it again). I was 5 at the time. Jaws was a bit bloody. Shark vs man bloody not man vs man bloody. That may be the difference.
And the Iranians do not consider this an act of war?
Many gamers and people who wanted a 'faster' machine I knew in the mid 1990's had SCSI CD drives, SCSI disks and SCSI CDR drives. SCSI was faster then IDE at the time. Just about everyone had an adaptec 2940uw card installed. 68 pin for the hard drives, 50 pin for the CD drives. Plextor had a 68 pin CD drive. It loaded stuff a little faster then the IDE and the 50 pin SCSI drives.
I think your are off by a few years. My 486 that I got for college in 1991 had a CD drive in it. Every new computer that I saw had a CD drive by 1994. I remember getting a CD burner for less then $100 in 1996. I remember the pent II I got in late 1997 had a CD and 4x CD burner in it.
The mac mini is not a low end device?
Your forgetting one thing (well maybe not) http://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/firewire.html
Apple owns the rights to the name firewire. Which would explain why so many companies call the port IEEE1394 or IEEE 1394b. They did not want to abide by apple's terms to use the term firewire.
Isn't there a Reason roofs are black?
Have you seen white tar? Most of the flat roofs are tar roofs.
The black cars I have owned were warmer in the winter then the lighter color cars. If you keep said car in a garage out of the sun light the car color does not matter. In the summer, I have cooked eggs in a pan on the dashboard, just saying.
Who ever said that a darker color car was easier to start in the winter? I have never heard that. I just asked some older (85, 72, 66, and 76) people who also never heard of that.
Old house or newer (less the 20 years) house? If it is older see if you can get insulation added. If you are due for a new roof shingles and wood, add insulation then. If they are taking off the wood, it is easy to add insulation at that time. Change the windows to better ones. Again if doing that see about getting more insulation added.
If you are building go with 2 X 6 construction for the exterior walls. The extra 2 inches means more insulation the the outside walls. Could go 2 X 8 for even more insulation in the walls. But then you would have some major window sills. Good or bad depending on your point of view. I know people in the mid Atlantic region. So not as cold as you, but I'll compare their costs to their neighbors. The 2 X 6 house with a lot of insulation burned 100 gallons of heating oil last year. The 2 X 4 house burned 500 gallons. The houses were the same design, in the same development. The differences were the outside wall construction and the house exposure. The 2 X 6 house faced south. while the other one faced east. Both are on the water. Between the construction and the sun heating the one house, their heating bills are a lot less. The cooling bills are less too, just not as much. Electric bills are $200-$250 vs $400-$450 a month for July and August.
But in colder climates, the darker roof will help heat the house and melt that snow off of the roof. Have you ever cleared a section down to the darker color and watched what happened? I remember as a kid clearing the blacktop driveway. Exposing the darker color in the morning lead to large sections (around the exposed dark ones) being clear of all ice and snow.
So maybe Clinton's plan is to paint all roofs white in the Spring then paint them dark in the Fall?
You also missed the point of them looking for a linux for a newbie to use. A VM of linux for a newbie to get their feet wet is not a bad idea. All the configuration that you so love is confusing to a newbie. If they had an extra computer, then fine install ubuntu on that extra computer. It appears they do not have an extra computer. The VM approach is a good for their needs. If they like it, they can switch a machine to linux and then have all the features of linux.
We get it that you love linux and Unix. Also that you hate all that is windows. Throwing non-linux people full into linux will only make them not want to use it. Then they tell all their friends to not use it.
Good point. If he is not caught uploading. They have a major issue proving that he did not rip the files himself. Or borrow a friends CD and rip that. If you really wanted to make sure you are in the clear, I would only keep the files for CDs I have and I have some soft of receipt for the digital download. For the remaining files, either delete them or look harder for how you got them. If you can prove you got them legally, keep them. If not, delete them. If they call you in to court, you show them your proof you are clear.
That is a hell of a lot of work to prove you have a right to have some music. They never bitched this much back when tapes were king. I guess they knew that tapes would wear out at some point. The biggest problem I see is borrowing a friend's CD and ripping it. Back in the old tape days coping a tape was what many people did. I usually copied tapes that I played a lot so I would wear out the copy. Many people ripped their friend's CDs to their collection. They did not buy the CD but they did not download it either. Ripping your friend's CD is against the law now even though people copies records and tape for years without any problem. This looks like a move to limit digital stored music. They want to increase CD sales.
You mean like the 27 inch Dell and Apple screens are? Those are nice monitors. But the $1000 price tag may keep some away for a monitor.
I have been calling the software that does stuff applications (on any platform) since 1984. I believe 1984 predates the iphone by a few years. I know that the computer makers called them different things over the years, but I have been calling software "applications" or "apps" for years before the iphone came out. I can remember many people calling software apps in 1990-1991. This was by people who had to ask how to turn on the computer. They also used programs or applications. It did not matter what computer they were going to use. My sister used all three terms when referring to software on a mac or a pc. The pc was a new 486 and the mac was her mac she got for college in 1990. The term app has been used by people for years before the app store came out. The whole idea that only since the iphone do people call software "apps" is wrong.
Apple wants to make sure that no other company calls there store an "app store". Or if they do, they had to pay apple for the right.
Really? How many known diseases cause humans to turn and attack each other?
Greed.
Imagine what would happen if someone walking into a crowded mall, held up a lottery ticket and said "here is the $100,000,000 winning lottery ticket".
I am willing to bet that some else will walk away with said ticket.
Seconded. Look for the professional or IPS panel screens. They cost more but have a better picture. The colors are more accurate with an IPS panel. So says everyone that sees my monitor at work. I have a 24 inch 1920X1200 model at home for about 6 months now. I paid $450 for it. I couldn't justify the $1000 for the 27 inch or $1300 for the 30 inch. I believe HP also makes a 16X10 24 inch monitor. They are in the professional section there as well.
The inevitable invasion of pink unicorns.
As long as it isn't the rainbow colored ones. Those ones are nasty.
Parent might have been referring to getting the end users to switch to linux. We are not talking about people who know how to install software or hardware here. The type of end user that can turn on the computer. The computer is the screen. The box on the floor is just the power button.
If the updates to windows didn't make assumptions about the hardware, I think windows would not slow down as much. Take XP. When XP first came out the average machine was a pIII 600? Say single core 1GHZ cpus just came out. Throw on service pack 1 then service pack 2. That 1GHZ machine is running XP but running it a lot slower then the same machine did with plain XP. I think when sp2 came out the average machine was more powerful. That is what the coders assumed people would have when writing sp2. If they used the same class of machine as when the OS first came out, maybe the OS would not have the noticeable slow down. I know people today have much faster computers then 2001. Updates to the OS should not force you to have to upgrade the hardware as well.
Only if you are thinking that 40% is way over the cost of the item. Not too many companies put a 100% market up on the product. Apple is taking 30% of the gross not net. If the book costs $50. They sell it for $70. Apple wants 30% of the $70. Not 30% of the $20 mark up.
Well, he hasn't 'risen' from the dead yet. Depending on the depth of the water and if they attached weights to the body I don't think bin laden's body will be rising anytime soon.
Are you really trying to say that the US killed thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or are you lumping the deaths from the terrorist groups as deaths caused by the US? Has the US killed civilian people? Yes the US has. Was it done on purpose, no. Are the bombs set off by terrorists trying to kill civilian people, yes. Was it done on purpose, yes. If you can't see that, you don't understand that your being irrational.
It's 6 feet per fathom.
The explaining is only hard if you don't know it. If you were raised with the imperial system, that system is easier for you. If you were raised using metric, that system is easier. There is the "that is he way it is" sort of explanation. I.e. Fire is hot, liquid water is wet, a yard is three feet. That is just how it is. The understanding of it is something different.
It is the conversion costs that are one of the biggest issues. The second being, most older people do not understand or know metric. The metric wrench is not the issue, it is distance, and speed measurements. We need a generation (or 3) who uses both metric and imperial systems. Once we have people who can use either system without having to think much about it, we can switch. I do feel that cars and other serviceable things should go all metric. The gauges have both measures on them so that is good. Having cars with this mix of he two is annoying. I remember having to go out and get a 15MM wrench to change the oil in my car. Now I have sets of imperial and metric. Plus if the manufacturing plants went all metric, it would make parts simpler.