That does look like a nice screen. My Westinghouse is nice, has an MVA panel, but is now only being sold with a TN (at first I felt ripped off, when I saw it go from $700 to $399... but then I checked out forums, so at least I know why).
Yeah... a lot of people are unimpressed - DVI-DVI is fine, VGA too... but as soon as it detects HDMI, it only offers the comparable HDTV resolutions (if that) - my Westinghouse L2410NM 1920x1200 screen with 10.5.6 was happy at 1920x1200@60. 10.5.7, would only let it go to 1920x1080@30, interlacing. Pretty ugly bug.
Agreed, but Apple chooses to sell only a few well-tested configurations which ensure fewer bugs creeping in than in a PC/MS environment (or even a PC/Linux environment).
They're simply nailing down the variables (such as fewer supports GPUs) to offer their "user experience". I hate that term, but I do like OS X and the fact that I have had almost no trouble with it.
10.5.7 came out, and fucked everyone who was using a DVI-HDMI connector. 3 weeks later, they're still fucked, unable to use their monitors at full resolution. That's the latest in my long run of OS X bugs.
Apple's negotiating power with the members of the RIAA cartel is very close to that, only we don't mind so much because Apple is actually the lesser evil.
You mean the same negotiating power that introduced "variable pricing", which meant that "pretty much any vaguely popular or contemporary song" immediately jumped 30% in price, from 99c to $1.29, whilst Apple fanboys tried to spin it as "well, most tracks are going to go DOWN to 69c!", where "most tracks" was a synonym for "obscure low selling acts that you're lucky to have heard of, let alone desire to purchase" (seriously, did anyone but the most deranged Apple fan honestly believe that Apple and the record labels were going to voluntarily offer up a 30% reduction in revenue?)?
Who won out of that? Apple got a nice kick, and so did the labels. You and I didn't.
I'm not exactly sure why you're trumpeting that as a testament to "Apple's negotiating power", but okay...
Do you actually bother to look beyond the surface?
Or as soon as you find something that seems like it might match your so-called point, you jump up and down, yelling "FAIL" at people?
Dispatched from and sold by Digital Components Ltd.
Digital Components Ltd is a specialized supplier of computer components and consumer electronics such as LCD Monitors, Digital Camera, Laptops, CPU, Graphics, Hard Drive, Motherboard, Web Cam, etc. around the whole UK.
With significant service and good reputation, we have won a great support from customers, and become stronger and more powerful.
Specifically, we provide a very cheapest price for computer components and peripherals to our customer. In addition, we also provide a full range of computer components and peripherals.
We have established long term, stable and good business relationships with many manufacturers and wholesalers around the world.
The seller provides the product description, not the manufacturer. Read the above. Does it sound at all professional?
is a specialized supplier of computer components... such as... Web Cam... around the whole UK.
With significant service and good reputation, we have won...
Ahhh fuck it. If you can't read the above and realize that there's not a snowball's chance in hell all that came forth from the mouth of a UK-based marketing arm of a multinational electronics manufacturer, you're a lost cause.
Why does every other page on asus.co.uk redirect to uk.asus.com, except this one? And why is asus.co.uk have a different registrar (and registered to a "UK Individual") than every other Asus site out there?
There are many people with Clearwire in Seattle would beg to differ... plenty of my friends live on Lake Washington, etc, etc, and Clearwire, not so good I am afraid.
I didn't get to check any AM HD radio stations, but if they're claiming FM HD is like CD and AM HD is like the old FM, then to me the AM HD stations must sound like ass.
Radio stations, car audio places are the ones claiming that. They'll hint at, if not at least outright advertise (The Mountain in Seattle, I'm looking at you), "listen to us in HIGH DEF". Until you read more and discover that HD is actually "Hybrid Digital", not High Definition at all. And while it can be bumped up in quality, that reduces the number of channels that can be broadcast on the frequency. (The Mountain broadcasts its regular programming, and a second channel, The Delta, in HD).
Wow. What a clusterfuck that bug is. The simplest of problems, but "no", it's closed as "wontfix", then opened, and then "eh. there are workarounds. rename the folder on disk, making sure you don't break any filters or prefs, while the app is closed" is presented as a viable solution, even after someone points out "things like this are what separates professional software from amateur"
In case you're wondering what the bug is, in TB, say you create a folder "mozilla", and decide you want to call it "Mozilla". Nope. You have to rename it to something else, then rename it back to what it should be. Eww.
So your programmers wrote shitty code that failed to follow standards. Other people can write software which runs on Windows 95 through Windows 7 - the fact that your programmers didn't/couldn't is hardly a failing of Vista.
6. Activation process fails ~1/3 of the time, even when trying to use an in-house key server.
One third of the time? I've watched Vista computers take memory, graphics cards, CPU upgrades and activate and reactivate without issue. If activation was failing 33% of the time on any kind of scale, there would be outrage (of the real kind, not the angry-geek-at-Slashdot kind). "Using your in-house key server" points a bit differently, too. My guess? You're doing something the wrong way. Very much the wrong way.
Unless they wanted to choke... as stated earlier, an important side-effect of bankruptcy is the disruption of all outstanding litigation... Maybe Apple was getting too close to finding the money behind PsyStar?
Ooh, conspiracy theory. Of course, Apple had requested the freezing of assets, and the blocking of sales, and were granted. So Psystar had no income, and was pouring money down the sink on legal fees. If Apple (or its fanboys) felt that there was "someone nefarious behind the money", they should perhaps have considered bankrupting Psystar as a possible outcome, much akin to shooting oneself in the foot.
I don't think there was anyone big behind Psystar. That's why they went bankrupt with $250,000 in debt, not the (claimed by some) millions upon millions in bankrolling from [MSFT/IBM/Dick Cheney/The Boogeyman] that was speculated on.
When I was part of an IBM sales team in The Old Days... Finally we'd ask why the most important part of the network (the end user)
I call BS. The most important part of the network to an IBM sales team was a small army of consultants, racking up hundreds, if not thousands of billable hours, whilst a PM or Sales Manager held the customer by the balls.
So far US, UK, Russia, France, China, and maybe Israel all have nuclear weapons capability.
Maybe? The US gives nearly $10M a day in aid to Israel in direct cash, and billions a year in military equipment/assistance/discounting. It gives more aid to the average Israeli citizen than it does the average US citizen. I think the "neither confirm or deny" stance of Israel on nuclear weaponry is stretching even the most avid Michael Bay movie fan's sense of plausible and credible deniability at this point.
Seriously, who appointed the USA the world wide stopper of mass murderers?
Seriously, the US seems to be living under the belief that -it- did, or that the world did.
Hence its mission to "liberate" Iraq, and so on and so forth. Remember how Saddam was murdering his people? I don't recall the people of the world calling for "someone, anyone" to step up to the plate.
You say in a sibling post "how many Americans are you willing to part with for nice TVs" and how American car companies are more important to you than the lives of 70 million people, on the basis that "that affects your life". That your life is being adversely affected by other companies "dumping" cars on America, putting poor GM and Chrysler out of business.
I'm not sure whether it's astonishing, amusing, or just makes me want to cry that you somehow believe that what's best for you and America as a whole is somehow a "priority" or goal on the mission statement of m/any American companies. But yet you've no objection to the concept of foreign nuclear war to advance it, anyway.
It would be interesting to see an America that was solely focused on/required to be self-sufficient. Interesting, like a train wreck is - I don't think it'd do half as well as you seem to think it would.
Yup. "/WE/ can be trusted with them. a) because we say so, and b) from our cold dead hands. You, on the other hand, cannot be trusted with them, a) because we say so, and b) because it runs contrary to our interests".
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That does look like a nice screen. My Westinghouse is nice, has an MVA panel, but is now only being sold with a TN (at first I felt ripped off, when I saw it go from $700 to $399... but then I checked out forums, so at least I know why).
Yeah... a lot of people are unimpressed - DVI-DVI is fine, VGA too... but as soon as it detects HDMI, it only offers the comparable HDTV resolutions (if that) - my Westinghouse L2410NM 1920x1200 screen with 10.5.6 was happy at 1920x1200@60. 10.5.7, would only let it go to 1920x1080@30, interlacing. Pretty ugly bug.
RAID5! (x-1)*size, where x is number of devices. :P
No, MS would say IE was paid for as part of the cost of Windows, so you paid for it.
No different really from those who say their Mac paid for part of the cost of OS X.
Unless of course he's thinking in binary, in which case an order of two would be an order of magnitude...
10.5.7 came out, and fucked everyone who was using a DVI-HDMI connector. 3 weeks later, they're still fucked, unable to use their monitors at full resolution. That's the latest in my long run of OS X bugs.
Where's my mod points?
Free? Hahaha. Why voluntarily miss out on a revenue opportunity? You can unlock your tunes, for 30c a track.
You mean the same negotiating power that introduced "variable pricing", which meant that "pretty much any vaguely popular or contemporary song" immediately jumped 30% in price, from 99c to $1.29, whilst Apple fanboys tried to spin it as "well, most tracks are going to go DOWN to 69c!", where "most tracks" was a synonym for "obscure low selling acts that you're lucky to have heard of, let alone desire to purchase" (seriously, did anyone but the most deranged Apple fan honestly believe that Apple and the record labels were going to voluntarily offer up a 30% reduction in revenue?)?
Who won out of that? Apple got a nice kick, and so did the labels. You and I didn't.
I'm not exactly sure why you're trumpeting that as a testament to "Apple's negotiating power", but okay...
Or as soon as you find something that seems like it might match your so-called point, you jump up and down, yelling "FAIL" at people?
The seller provides the product description, not the manufacturer. Read the above. Does it sound at all professional?
Ahhh fuck it. If you can't read the above and realize that there's not a snowball's chance in hell all that came forth from the mouth of a UK-based marketing arm of a multinational electronics manufacturer, you're a lost cause.
FAIL.
There are many people with Clearwire in Seattle would beg to differ... plenty of my friends live on Lake Washington, etc, etc, and Clearwire, not so good I am afraid.
Radio stations, car audio places are the ones claiming that. They'll hint at, if not at least outright advertise (The Mountain in Seattle, I'm looking at you), "listen to us in HIGH DEF". Until you read more and discover that HD is actually "Hybrid Digital", not High Definition at all. And while it can be bumped up in quality, that reduces the number of channels that can be broadcast on the frequency. (The Mountain broadcasts its regular programming, and a second channel, The Delta, in HD).
In case you're wondering what the bug is, in TB, say you create a folder "mozilla", and decide you want to call it "Mozilla". Nope. You have to rename it to something else, then rename it back to what it should be. Eww.
So your programmers wrote shitty code that failed to follow standards. Other people can write software which runs on Windows 95 through Windows 7 - the fact that your programmers didn't/couldn't is hardly a failing of Vista.
One third of the time? I've watched Vista computers take memory, graphics cards, CPU upgrades and activate and reactivate without issue. If activation was failing 33% of the time on any kind of scale, there would be outrage (of the real kind, not the angry-geek-at-Slashdot kind). "Using your in-house key server" points a bit differently, too. My guess? You're doing something the wrong way. Very much the wrong way.
Crazy. You might want to check this out.
Ooh, conspiracy theory. Of course, Apple had requested the freezing of assets, and the blocking of sales, and were granted. So Psystar had no income, and was pouring money down the sink on legal fees. If Apple (or its fanboys) felt that there was "someone nefarious behind the money", they should perhaps have considered bankrupting Psystar as a possible outcome, much akin to shooting oneself in the foot.
I don't think there was anyone big behind Psystar. That's why they went bankrupt with $250,000 in debt, not the (claimed by some) millions upon millions in bankrolling from [MSFT/IBM/Dick Cheney/The Boogeyman] that was speculated on.
I call BS. The most important part of the network to an IBM sales team was a small army of consultants, racking up hundreds, if not thousands of billable hours, whilst a PM or Sales Manager held the customer by the balls.
I actually live in Seattle, WA.
Although I can hear you now, except you'll replace the refrain with "bleeding heart liberal" or something similar.
Maybe? The US gives nearly $10M a day in aid to Israel in direct cash, and billions a year in military equipment/assistance/discounting. It gives more aid to the average Israeli citizen than it does the average US citizen. I think the "neither confirm or deny" stance of Israel on nuclear weaponry is stretching even the most avid Michael Bay movie fan's sense of plausible and credible deniability at this point.
Seriously, the US seems to be living under the belief that -it- did, or that the world did.
Hence its mission to "liberate" Iraq, and so on and so forth. Remember how Saddam was murdering his people? I don't recall the people of the world calling for "someone, anyone" to step up to the plate.
You say in a sibling post "how many Americans are you willing to part with for nice TVs" and how American car companies are more important to you than the lives of 70 million people, on the basis that "that affects your life". That your life is being adversely affected by other companies "dumping" cars on America, putting poor GM and Chrysler out of business.
I'm not sure whether it's astonishing, amusing, or just makes me want to cry that you somehow believe that what's best for you and America as a whole is somehow a "priority" or goal on the mission statement of m/any American companies. But yet you've no objection to the concept of foreign nuclear war to advance it, anyway.
It would be interesting to see an America that was solely focused on/required to be self-sufficient. Interesting, like a train wreck is - I don't think it'd do half as well as you seem to think it would.
Yup. "/WE/ can be trusted with them. a) because we say so, and b) from our cold dead hands. You, on the other hand, cannot be trusted with them, a) because we say so, and b) because it runs contrary to our interests".
Good to see you've swallowed the propoganda whole.
http://search.cnn.com/search?query=afghanistan&type=news&sortBy=date&intl=false - there are some who might disagree with you.
As opposed to, say, beer that comes in plastic bottles?!? WTF?
Citation? Do a search for anything on TPB. I count 5 separate ads on each results page.