No thanks, Bush has already spent $200 billion on the war in Iraq; consider my share of that to be what would have been my donation.
Heck, we don't even have to give money, just stop supporting horrible people and overthrowing governments (like the Iraqi gov't in the 50's) when they start doing things we don't like, and repair the damage where we've done these horrible things already.
Zips were meant to replace floppys, not hard drives.
They were marketed for both purposes. They were a hit initially because the relatively low cost/megabyte.
A Zip disk is more "disposable" than the more costly flash media that's now in vogue.
Why do you switch from floppies to flash drives? Zips could never replace floppies as the disposable medium, given their substantially higher price/disk.
Over time, the Zip remained a reasonable transfer medium -- if you had zip drives on both machines -- but too expensive to replace floppies or hard drive storage. The flash drives now beat Zips for size and not needing a reader.
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Sexual reproduction doesn't help nor hinder the longevity of an organism.
Zip's death was self-inflicted. When the Zip drive came out, the price/megabyte of Zip disk was less than the equivalent for hard disks. But then the Zip disk prices never dropped. A $10 disk is too expensive for disposable media.
#2? BS. The deficit is over $400 billion this past year, so my family's share is ~$6000. My taxes certainly weren't cut by that amount. Cutting taxes without cutting spending is just buying on the national credit card, which is no better for the gov't than it is for me.
#1? No doubt it'll become a wonderful democracy like Afghanistan, Haiti, and so many other countries where we've intervened.
Bluto : Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! Otter : Germans? Boon : Forget it, he's rolling.
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He didn't say heat, he said "waste." If your machine is sitting idle most of the time (which is true for most computers), most of what it does is waste.
It really is premature to talk of a hi def movie format when the vast majority of people don't have televisions capable of exploiting them to their full potential.
I think you would be surprised at how many already do have such TVs, and I expect substantially more would upgrade if even more content was available.
Generally it's adults who are unwilling to read subtitles.
I have some definite experience here, as my wife is hearing-impaired, and *loves* CC. After we turned it on on a TV at my brother's house once, he and his family ended up leaving it on all the time, and they think it has helped the kids' reading. My parents, on the other hand, ask that we turn it off when we leave their house.
I do occasionally turn off CC, since unfortunately it tends to obscure banner-type info at the bottom (ESPN sports scrolls and the like), so that may be part of the issue. (I wish I could find a TV that displays CC text without the solid black background, perhaps in some nice outlined font -- or even an output and an external displayer.)
Maybe you could have tear-offs like they have for windscreens in NASCAR and other racing. Once the dirt builds up too much, you tear off the top layer of clear plastic.
I made a CD a while ago to back up some digital photos. When I copied them to a new computer, my virus checker reported that one of the JPGs was a virus in disguise.
With most U.S. independent films, the producer sells the right to distribute his film in the U.S. at a loss to a distributer like Sony, but keeps the rights to sell the movie internationally.
Why? If you're going to sell at a loss, why sell at all?
I do, however, have a problem when this griping becomes the gross, slanderous, racist mischaracterization of the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent.
Can you point to anywhere on/. this has occurred and has not been moderated down, flamed, etc.?
Making it a unique color would simply upset the opinionated in both countries. The only thing MS can do to minimize the impact of the dispute on their sales is distribute different versions to each country, with each country's favored interpretation of reality in their version.
I recall a similar situation with the Saudi border and timezones at some point in the past, so now they don't display the areas for a given timezone.
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Tell you what, clown: You go first.
No thanks, Bush has already spent $200 billion on the war in Iraq; consider my share of that to be what would have been my donation.
Heck, we don't even have to give money, just stop supporting horrible people and overthrowing governments (like the Iraqi gov't in the 50's) when they start doing things we don't like, and repair the damage where we've done these horrible things already.
Good for Americans, less good for the Iraqis.
Unless you happen to be an American (or coalition) soldier, >1000 dead and counting...
Surely you mean Tim Conway.
He doesn't, and don't call him Shirley.
Zips were meant to replace floppys, not hard drives.
They were marketed for both purposes. They were a hit initially because the relatively low cost/megabyte.
A Zip disk is more "disposable" than the more costly flash media that's now in vogue.
Why do you switch from floppies to flash drives? Zips could never replace floppies as the disposable medium, given their substantially higher price/disk.
Over time, the Zip remained a reasonable transfer medium -- if you had zip drives on both machines -- but too expensive to replace floppies or hard drive storage. The flash drives now beat Zips for size and not needing a reader.
Sexual reproduction doesn't help nor hinder the longevity of an organism.
You mean asexual reproduction.
Call it an unfair generalization, but if you drive a car in Massachusetts then I hate you.
Damn! I drove about 20 miles in Massachusetts about a month ago. It was western Massachusetts only, could you ever forgive me?
Zip's death was self-inflicted. When the Zip drive came out, the price/megabyte of Zip disk was less than the equivalent for hard disks. But then the Zip disk prices never dropped. A $10 disk is too expensive for disposable media.
#2? BS. The deficit is over $400 billion this past year, so my family's share is ~$6000. My taxes certainly weren't cut by that amount. Cutting taxes without cutting spending is just buying on the national credit card, which is no better for the gov't than it is for me.
#1? No doubt it'll become a wonderful democracy like Afghanistan, Haiti, and so many other countries where we've intervened.
Bluto : Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter : Germans?
Boon : Forget it, he's rolling.
He didn't say heat, he said "waste." If your machine is sitting idle most of the time (which is true for most computers), most of what it does is waste.
It really is premature to talk of a hi def movie format when the vast majority of people don't have televisions capable of exploiting them to their full potential.
I think you would be surprised at how many already do have such TVs, and I expect substantially more would upgrade if even more content was available.
Generally it's adults who are unwilling to read subtitles.
I have some definite experience here, as my wife is hearing-impaired, and *loves* CC. After we turned it on on a TV at my brother's house once, he and his family ended up leaving it on all the time, and they think it has helped the kids' reading. My parents, on the other hand, ask that we turn it off when we leave their house.
I do occasionally turn off CC, since unfortunately it tends to obscure banner-type info at the bottom (ESPN sports scrolls and the like), so that may be part of the issue. (I wish I could find a TV that displays CC text without the solid black background, perhaps in some nice outlined font -- or even an output and an external displayer.)
There is a reason that people lobbied to get 80gig hard drive packs for their Neuros.
Yeah, it's called Napster, right?
Not sure why two of his most significant co-workers weren't present
They tried getting airline tickets via priceline, but...
How many laptops have 20" displays?
Also, Apple laptops do not have G5s yet, so this thing seriously outperforms even the best Apple laptop, at a substantially lower cost.
Maybe you could have tear-offs like they have for windscreens in NASCAR and other racing. Once the dirt builds up too much, you tear off the top layer of clear plastic.
But what do you do when dell ships one format? ...and Apple the other. They should drop the Superdrive label until they do +/- and dual layer.
Perhaps. But are you trying to tell me the purpose of region-coding is simply so independent movie makers can get better DVD distribution?
I made a CD a while ago to back up some digital photos. When I copied them to a new computer, my virus checker reported that one of the JPGs was a virus in disguise.
(No, the other images weren't porn...)
What do you think we're doing here? Smelling the f***ing articles?
Please don't tell me you think you're improving your English by reading slashdot articles...
Indeed. I take great comfort that the Bush administration compares favorably to the Soviet dictatorship.
I'd bet he'd win a head-to-head with Mussoulini too!
With most U.S. independent films, the producer sells the right to distribute his film in the U.S. at a loss to a distributer like Sony, but keeps the rights to sell the movie internationally.
Why? If you're going to sell at a loss, why sell at all?
I do, however, have a problem when this griping becomes the gross, slanderous, racist mischaracterization of the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent.
/. this has occurred and has not been moderated down, flamed, etc.?
Can you point to anywhere on
Making it a unique color would simply upset the opinionated in both countries. The only thing MS can do to minimize the impact of the dispute on their sales is distribute different versions to each country, with each country's favored interpretation of reality in their version.
I recall a similar situation with the Saudi border and timezones at some point in the past, so now they don't display the areas for a given timezone.
I remember a friend of mine being very startled while a student visitor to England, when one of his classmates asked if he had a rubber...
(rubber = rubber eraser in England, but = condom in the US)