I would first suggest dual booting or virtualizing Windows on the Mac. Boot Camp, Parallels, and Virtualbox are all good solutions.
If the goal is to run Windows, with a real two or three-button touch pad or trackpointer, I would look for a notebook which is solidly built, for which you can get decent customer service, and parts are available well out of warranty.
Build quality limits you to Dell (Latitude and Precision lines only), HP, Lenovo, and Sony. Customer service limits you to Dell, HP, and to a lesser extent, Lenovo, Long-term (post-warranty) parts availability limits you to Dell and HP, and to a lesser extent, Lenovo.
What are her requirements? If she needs massive storage or wants mirrored storage, look for a notebook with internal RAID - like the Dell Precision M6500 (I have the M6400, which is the M6500's predecessor, and I love it - desktop chipset, RGB-LED backlit display, it's built like a tank, and is uber-serviceable so easy to upgrade and maintain) or if you don't want to spend that much on a notebook, consider the Latitude line, which generally use the same chassis as the Precision line (so they are also built like tanks) but with mobile chipsets and tend to be slightly lighter. Another option to save money is to call the Dell Outlet and see if they have the model you want as an "open box" return. It would still be marked with a refurb SKU but would be in perfect, as-new condition, and you can save up to $3K on the notebook like I did. Availability from the outlet can be spotty though - I had to call to get the configuration I wanted. They could have 20 of the exact config you want on hand today, and zero tomorrow, and three the next day. People often scour the outlet and flip them on feeBay and at computer fairs.
The items you want to check:
* How solid is the chassis? Will the screen hinges hold up?
On consumer models if you are not careful opening and closing the screen by grasping it at the sides near the hinges you will flex and eventually break the frame. On business models, you can just press down at the top of the screen and it won't flex, and it will close properly. I actually dropped my M6400 at a customer site, and it fell 3' to the tiled-covered concrete floor. It didn't damage it at all but for a consumer chassis I would have had to buy a whole new screen/lid/hinge assembly
* How serviceable is it? Download the service manuals of the model you are looking at. Are you going to hate the tedium of the four-hour project of upgrading the processor and hard drives, or will it be a 15 minute task? How accessible are the SO-DIMM slots?
* Does it offer all the connectivity you need?
* How easily can you get at the heat sinks to clean out the inevitable dust and lint?
You really didn't mention her needs in detail other than "it needs to run Windows" so if she is happy with the virtual second button and no middle button, just install Windows on the Mac (see first paragraph above). My next notebook will most likely be another Precision mobile workstation (but will check out Lenovo again), and my next desktop an iMac (why no macbook pro? I have one and never use it - I like the three-button layout, numeric keypad, screen, performance, and trackpointer + touchpad on the Precision)
How about a driver stability shootout? Include the major platforms (Windows, OS X, and Linux) and compare:
* Stability in desktop environments (Windows Aero/OS X/KDE/Gnome)
* Stability in the major productivity apps (Office suites, Photoshop/Gimp/etc., Lightroom/Aperture/etc, Final Cut/Premiere, AutoCAD)
* Stability in games
* Ease of installation
THAT is a shootout I would like to see. Even entry-level cards are "good enough" for casual gaming, and mid-range cards are great for even newer games at high resolution.
Most people do not own light meters, and most that do have meters that only measure down to.1 or.01 lux. Besides, ground-level light is not a good measurement of what the sky looks like.
The problem is poorly designed nighttime illumination. Why are parking lot lights often aimed at a 30* angle, emitting much or most of their light skyward? Why are huge flood lights used to illuminate flags and signs, when a small spotlight would be more environmentally friendly and more efficient? Why are most street lamps still convex rather than concave or flat? Sure, even if nighttime lighting were properly designed as a general rule some light would be scattered by the atmosphere, and some would be reflected but if you ever visit a gated community with proper lighting you can see that traffic areas (walkways, streets, etc) are well lit and very safe, but the sky is still quite dark.
In a related story, AT&T is claiming their acquisition of T-Mobile is good for America and helps to consolidate spectrum usage (as if AT&T doesn't have enough of the spectrum already). Check it out!
I would rather see Google acquire both T-Mobile and Sprint and offer services more like an ISP - a flat rate for X bandwidth (tiered based on allocated speed like any other ISP), regardless of whether you use it only for voice, or watch netflix 24/7, or decide to do something really boneheaded and use it as the Internet connection for your entire corporate LAN. That would result in a shakeout of the cellphone industry and cause AT&T and Verizon to improve their networks (and make good on the subsidies they've already been paid to make things happen) and correct their inflated pricing structures.
Oh yes, because it's written in that holy book from an ancient goat-herders culture that we somehow think still applies to live in a world that is so radically different.
Nope, according to that book polygamy is A-OK. All the great prophets and kings had multiple wives, and yet YHVH considered them righteous. And, since according to Christians God is eternal and unchanging, if it was okay then, it has to be okay now.
Now, while "all things are permissible" not all things are for gain, which is why for rabbis/pastors/elders/etc. the limitation is a single wife (but has to have one) and his family is to be in order - because if he cannot lead a family, how can he lead the body of Christ?
Christian (n): one who often takes the word of a bigoted evangelist rather than reading the word for his or her own self.
I am a Christian and I actually bothered to read the book. It's very informative and it shows just how full of hot air and bullshit most evangelists/preachers are.
Lastly: government should get the fuck out of the business of marriage since it is first and foremost an expression of faith, and by dictating who can or cannot marry whom, government is restricting the free expression of religion. It is a first amendment issue.
Most Christians don't bother to read the Bible though; they usually just take a bigoted preacher's word for it.
"derp, derp, polygamy is prohibited, derp derp," ignoring that almost every prophet and king had at least two wives - in some cases (Solomon, and the greatest of kings, David) hundreds, plus concubines. And yet, YHVH considered them righteous. Now, Christians say God never changes, so if the greatest of kings and prophets had multiple wives and were described as "righteous" and having a "heart after God" then why the fuck is it viewed as sin today?
Hint: it's not sin. It may not be beneficial (can lead to chaos and unrest in the home) but it isn't sin.
What I don't get is why Christians get so frigging bent out of shape over polygamy saying "ZOMG if we allow gay marriage then polygamy is next." Do they even bother to read the frigging bible? Practically every single prophet and great king (including King David, the greatest of the kings) had multiple wives. What the fuck is the big deal with it?
I have a better idea: Get government out of the business of marriage and deciding who can and cannot marry. After all, marriage is first and foremost an expression of religion. Just get. the. fuck. out. of. personal. lives.
(disclaimer: I personally am not poly and think poly only leads to complications, but YMMV. I have friends who are poly and it seems to work for them so whatever.)
However there is also graf_chokolo, who has been thoroughly deconstructing the hypervisor and (unlike geo) publishing his work in a very community-oriented way.
I fail to see how this is a problem - last I checked, the DMCA explicitly allows for reverse engineering and for interoperability, which is what this is about - not to mention first sale doctrine issues.
Even if you do live in such a place, if you eat any amount of seaweed, iodized salt, deep sea fish, or meat regularly you have enough iodine to protect your thyroid. Heck, if you have any sort of well-balanced diet and eat whole foods instead of just doritos, twinkies, and Mt Dew, you'd have nothing to worry about.
Besides, the amount of iodine you would need even if the worst case were to occur is minisule and easily absorbed through a balanced diet. Check out the radiation emergency section of the following article:
Why not spend the trivial amount for potassium iodide? Because unless you really, really need to take it (because you were within range of a criticality event, are working in a damaged reactor, are within fallout from a severe Chernobyle-scale accident which cannot happen with these Japanese reactors, etc) the risk to your liver is much higher than the risk of incidental radiation. Besides, you get exposed to more radiation from the TSA's crappy full body scanners than you would from the fallout from the reactors.
While a jailbroken iPhone, iPod, or iPad prevents people from using the App store while in broken mode,
No, it doesn't prevent people from using the app store. My iPhone is jailbroken and I use the App store (for both paid and free-as-in-beer free apps. I have exactly zero "pirated"[sic] software on my phone. I use the jailbreak for:
BSD userland OpenSSH SBSettings (and all the free plugins) Action Menu Nagios (no joke - I monitor servers on the go!)
NO pirated software. I use my phone a LOT, and my very highest 3G bandwidth usage to date (on my unlimited plan) is 1.8GB, when I used netflix a lot while on a trip.
There are reasons to jailbreak which have nothing to do with "piracy"[sic].
I wanted to read up on djvu but I went to the site and they didn't have the info posted in a PDF file, so I skipped it.;)
Seriously though, why isn't it more popular? Easy. It's for the same reasons opendoc isn't popular yet:
* like MS Office, Adobe Reader is already entrenched * Commerce has largely standardised on PDF * PDF is basically encapsulated postscript, which makes it ideal for proofing work that is going to press
Also, PDF is an open standard, and you can choose from a number of readers and print filters to generate the files in the first place. Why abandon one open press and printer-compatible format for a new open format that enjoys very little support, where you have to explain to everyone where to download the software to open it, and the current reader offerings are free to begin with (both free as in beer and free as in speech options are available)?
So, you're moving from an established corporate-originated (Adobe) "free/open" to corporate-originated (AT&T) "free/open" format, except the new format has less support and the file sizes are much larger. Where is the benefit again?
They are high end PDAs that include telephony as a feature, and you can choose to or not to use that feature.
There, does that make you happy?:-)
People like them. They're very powerful and can do a lot and industry leaders have been talking about "convergence" technologies for about 25 years but only now has it become reality.
You have a spacecraft flying through the rings at a minimum of several thousand miles per hour taking relatively low resolution photos (they don't have a Canon 1DS mk III or Nikon D3X with macro lens on board and can't stop the probe to take a perfect edge-on shot of the rings). Besides, I suspect that when you actually approach the rings up close enough to use a macro lens it would be very disperse, nebulous, much like when you walk up to a dense cloud bank on a mountain and as you approach it, it appears to vanish, even though when you are some distance away it may look opaque, and if the light is at your back, it will be very reflective.
By "video" he may be referring to 3d accelerated games maybe? To play a Windows game on Linux can take hours of config time, to find out that it a) doesnt work at all or b) has 50% the performance as if you were running Windows.
Oh hi, I see you are an ATI/AMD video card user trying to use the ATI/AMD drivers. Haven't you heard? Their drivers have been crap from the very beginning.
Want to be up and running playing games within an hour and a half of starting? Here is what you need:
(Prerequisites)
* PC utilizing NVIDIA video chipset
* Ubuntu or OpenSUSE install DVD (either one - if your interest is saving time these are the only two distros worth your time as an end user)
* Internet connection
(Procedure)
* Install your desired distro (it's stupid easy) - including kernel source packages
* Install NVIDIA drivers (slightly less easy; you have to shut down X and run one command line to install the drivers
* Download and install Crossover Games
Now, you can install many, many Windows games, including Rift
We will grant you that it did not explode if you will concede that it flared up into an fireball which rapidly expanded with what would be considered explosive force and speed. Fair enough?
huge customer demand? Really? I have never, ever seen even one single person ever make even the most offhanded comment "Gee, I'd like a camera that can apply makeup to the subject and automatically remove hideous blemishes." Not once. Even the most stupid camera users have figured out that's what the software that comes with the camera is for, even if they never heard the term "post processing."
In light of this, perhaps Apple's app store policies are not quite as evil as they appear? I like open systems, and I like open source, but if it is a choice between a free-for-all where the managers of the trusted repository won't examine submitted apps vs. Apple's where one can be reasonably sure that every app is going to be safe, the iPhone looks like a safer bet for folks who install lots of apps.
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I would first suggest dual booting or virtualizing Windows on the Mac. Boot Camp, Parallels, and Virtualbox are all good solutions.
If the goal is to run Windows, with a real two or three-button touch pad or trackpointer, I would look for a notebook which is solidly built, for which you can get decent customer service, and parts are available well out of warranty.
Build quality limits you to Dell (Latitude and Precision lines only), HP, Lenovo, and Sony.
Customer service limits you to Dell, HP, and to a lesser extent, Lenovo,
Long-term (post-warranty) parts availability limits you to Dell and HP, and to a lesser extent, Lenovo.
What are her requirements? If she needs massive storage or wants mirrored storage, look for a notebook with internal RAID - like the Dell Precision M6500 (I have the M6400, which is the M6500's predecessor, and I love it - desktop chipset, RGB-LED backlit display, it's built like a tank, and is uber-serviceable so easy to upgrade and maintain) or if you don't want to spend that much on a notebook, consider the Latitude line, which generally use the same chassis as the Precision line (so they are also built like tanks) but with mobile chipsets and tend to be slightly lighter. Another option to save money is to call the Dell Outlet and see if they have the model you want as an "open box" return. It would still be marked with a refurb SKU but would be in perfect, as-new condition, and you can save up to $3K on the notebook like I did. Availability from the outlet can be spotty though - I had to call to get the configuration I wanted. They could have 20 of the exact config you want on hand today, and zero tomorrow, and three the next day. People often scour the outlet and flip them on feeBay and at computer fairs.
The items you want to check:
* How solid is the chassis? Will the screen hinges hold up?
On consumer models if you are not careful opening and closing the screen by grasping it at the sides near the hinges you will flex and eventually break the frame. On business models, you can just press down at the top of the screen and it won't flex, and it will close properly. I actually dropped my M6400 at a customer site, and it fell 3' to the tiled-covered concrete floor. It didn't damage it at all but for a consumer chassis I would have had to buy a whole new screen/lid/hinge assembly
* How serviceable is it? Download the service manuals of the model you are looking at. Are you going to hate the tedium of the four-hour project of upgrading the processor and hard drives, or will it be a 15 minute task? How accessible are the SO-DIMM slots?
* Does it offer all the connectivity you need?
* How easily can you get at the heat sinks to clean out the inevitable dust and lint?
You really didn't mention her needs in detail other than "it needs to run Windows" so if she is happy with the virtual second button and no middle button, just install Windows on the Mac (see first paragraph above). My next notebook will most likely be another Precision mobile workstation (but will check out Lenovo again), and my next desktop an iMac (why no macbook pro? I have one and never use it - I like the three-button layout, numeric keypad, screen, performance, and trackpointer + touchpad on the Precision)
How about a driver stability shootout? Include the major platforms (Windows, OS X, and Linux) and compare:
* Stability in desktop environments (Windows Aero/OS X/KDE/Gnome)
* Stability in the major productivity apps (Office suites, Photoshop/Gimp/etc., Lightroom/Aperture/etc, Final Cut/Premiere, AutoCAD)
* Stability in games
* Ease of installation
THAT is a shootout I would like to see. Even entry-level cards are "good enough" for casual gaming, and mid-range cards are great for even newer games at high resolution.
No; that $.37 represents the 37 senators' dicks the MAFIAA lawyers sucked on the way to the parking lot.
Most people do not own light meters, and most that do have meters that only measure down to .1 or .01 lux. Besides, ground-level light is not a good measurement of what the sky looks like.
The problem isn't nighttime illumination.
The problem is poorly designed nighttime illumination. Why are parking lot lights often aimed at a 30* angle, emitting much or most of their light skyward? Why are huge flood lights used to illuminate flags and signs, when a small spotlight would be more environmentally friendly and more efficient? Why are most street lamps still convex rather than concave or flat? Sure, even if nighttime lighting were properly designed as a general rule some light would be scattered by the atmosphere, and some would be reflected but if you ever visit a gated community with proper lighting you can see that traffic areas (walkways, streets, etc) are well lit and very safe, but the sky is still quite dark.
In a related story, AT&T is claiming their acquisition of T-Mobile is good for America and helps to consolidate spectrum usage (as if AT&T doesn't have enough of the spectrum already). Check it out!
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/at-t-makes-its-t-mobile-case-patriotism-spectrum-crunch-mobile-broadband/46288?tag=nl.e539
I would rather see Google acquire both T-Mobile and Sprint and offer services more like an ISP - a flat rate for X bandwidth (tiered based on allocated speed like any other ISP), regardless of whether you use it only for voice, or watch netflix 24/7, or decide to do something really boneheaded and use it as the Internet connection for your entire corporate LAN. That would result in a shakeout of the cellphone industry and cause AT&T and Verizon to improve their networks (and make good on the subsidies they've already been paid to make things happen) and correct their inflated pricing structures.
Riiight.
Most Christians don't bother to read the Bible though; they usually just take a bigoted preacher's word for it.
"derp, derp, polygamy is prohibited, derp derp," ignoring that almost every prophet and king had at least two wives - in some cases (Solomon, and the greatest of kings, David) hundreds, plus concubines. And yet, YHVH considered them righteous. Now, Christians say God never changes, so if the greatest of kings and prophets had multiple wives and were described as "righteous" and having a "heart after God" then why the fuck is it viewed as sin today?
Hint: it's not sin. It may not be beneficial (can lead to chaos and unrest in the home) but it isn't sin.
What I don't get is why Christians get so frigging bent out of shape over polygamy saying "ZOMG if we allow gay marriage then polygamy is next." Do they even bother to read the frigging bible? Practically every single prophet and great king (including King David, the greatest of the kings) had multiple wives. What the fuck is the big deal with it?
I have a better idea: Get government out of the business of marriage and deciding who can and cannot marry. After all, marriage is first and foremost an expression of religion. Just get. the. fuck. out. of. personal. lives.
(disclaimer: I personally am not poly and think poly only leads to complications, but YMMV. I have friends who are poly and it seems to work for them so whatever.)
I fail to see how this is a problem - last I checked, the DMCA explicitly allows for reverse engineering and for interoperability, which is what this is about - not to mention first sale doctrine issues.
Even if you do live in such a place, if you eat any amount of seaweed, iodized salt, deep sea fish, or meat regularly you have enough iodine to protect your thyroid. Heck, if you have any sort of well-balanced diet and eat whole foods instead of just doritos, twinkies, and Mt Dew, you'd have nothing to worry about.
http://www.weightlossforall.com/foods-rich-iodine.htm
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=69
http://www.brighthub.com/health/diet-nutrition/articles/45140.aspx
Besides, the amount of iodine you would need even if the worst case were to occur is minisule and easily absorbed through a balanced diet. Check out the radiation emergency section of the following article:
http://www.drugs.com/mtm/potassium-iodide.html
Why not spend the trivial amount for potassium iodide? Because unless you really, really need to take it (because you were within range of a criticality event, are working in a damaged reactor, are within fallout from a severe Chernobyle-scale accident which cannot happen with these Japanese reactors, etc) the risk to your liver is much higher than the risk of incidental radiation. Besides, you get exposed to more radiation from the TSA's crappy full body scanners than you would from the fallout from the reactors.
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isj/news/118092749.html
http://www.9news.com/news/article/187711/188/Radiation-fears-Who-needs-nuke-pills-and-who-doesnt-
No, it doesn't prevent people from using the app store. My iPhone is jailbroken and I use the App store (for both paid and free-as-in-beer free apps. I have exactly zero "pirated"[sic] software on my phone. I use the jailbreak for:
BSD userland
OpenSSH
SBSettings (and all the free plugins)
Action Menu
Nagios (no joke - I monitor servers on the go!)
NO pirated software. I use my phone a LOT, and my very highest 3G bandwidth usage to date (on my unlimited plan) is 1.8GB, when I used netflix a lot while on a trip.
There are reasons to jailbreak which have nothing to do with "piracy"[sic].
I wanted to read up on djvu but I went to the site and they didn't have the info posted in a PDF file, so I skipped it. ;)
Seriously though, why isn't it more popular? Easy. It's for the same reasons opendoc isn't popular yet:
* like MS Office, Adobe Reader is already entrenched
* Commerce has largely standardised on PDF
* PDF is basically encapsulated postscript, which makes it ideal for proofing work that is going to press
Also, PDF is an open standard, and you can choose from a number of readers and print filters to generate the files in the first place. Why abandon one open press and printer-compatible format for a new open format that enjoys very little support, where you have to explain to everyone where to download the software to open it, and the current reader offerings are free to begin with (both free as in beer and free as in speech options are available)?
So, you're moving from an established corporate-originated (Adobe) "free/open" to corporate-originated (AT&T) "free/open" format, except the new format has less support and the file sizes are much larger. Where is the benefit again?
They are not phones.
They are high end PDAs that include telephony as a feature, and you can choose to or not to use that feature.
There, does that make you happy? :-)
People like them. They're very powerful and can do a lot and industry leaders have been talking about "convergence" technologies for about 25 years but only now has it become reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn
You have a spacecraft flying through the rings at a minimum of several thousand miles per hour taking relatively low resolution photos (they don't have a Canon 1DS mk III or Nikon D3X with macro lens on board and can't stop the probe to take a perfect edge-on shot of the rings). Besides, I suspect that when you actually approach the rings up close enough to use a macro lens it would be very disperse, nebulous, much like when you walk up to a dense cloud bank on a mountain and as you approach it, it appears to vanish, even though when you are some distance away it may look opaque, and if the light is at your back, it will be very reflective.
s/because Clay or SGI wouldn't lend them their name/because Clay or SGI wouldn't pony up the cash for product placement/
FTFY
Oh hi, I see you are an ATI/AMD video card user trying to use the ATI/AMD drivers. Haven't you heard? Their drivers have been crap from the very beginning.
Want to be up and running playing games within an hour and a half of starting? Here is what you need:
(Prerequisites)
* PC utilizing NVIDIA video chipset
* Ubuntu or OpenSUSE install DVD (either one - if your interest is saving time these are the only two distros worth your time as an end user)
* Internet connection
(Procedure)
* Install your desired distro (it's stupid easy) - including kernel source packages
* Install NVIDIA drivers (slightly less easy; you have to shut down X and run one command line to install the drivers
* Download and install Crossover Games
Now, you can install many, many Windows games, including Rift
We will grant you that it did not explode if you will concede that it flared up into an fireball which rapidly expanded with what would be considered explosive force and speed. Fair enough?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPYmSdyVZc&t=1m20s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDt2LxoeA_g&t=1m20s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE&t=1m35s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hQL0NWS1Rc&t=1m17s
Would you rather have to power a supercomputer sporting 1024 Intel CPUs? Which is going to be a bigger power hog? Which will scale better?
They dont stop that crap anyway because it is in the same browser window, just on a different layer.
Well, not that shocked! /fry
huge customer demand? Really? I have never, ever seen even one single person ever make even the most offhanded comment "Gee, I'd like a camera that can apply makeup to the subject and automatically remove hideous blemishes." Not once. Even the most stupid camera users have figured out that's what the software that comes with the camera is for, even if they never heard the term "post processing."
, except when that political figure is Barack Obama, in which case it will lighten the skin and apply a halo over his head.
In light of this, perhaps Apple's app store policies are not quite as evil as they appear? I like open systems, and I like open source, but if it is a choice between a free-for-all where the managers of the trusted repository won't examine submitted apps vs. Apple's where one can be reasonably sure that every app is going to be safe, the iPhone looks like a safer bet for folks who install lots of apps.