The fact that anyone would be willing to kill a fellow human being for money, no matter how much, is apalling to me.
What if I then donated the money to a charity that would save rather more than one life with it? Odds are a donation to Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, etc. would do just that.
Within a year I built my own PC. Ikea furniture, on the other hand, still eludes me at times.
Perhaps we could work out a trade.
When I tried to put together a system, I fried a $250 motherboard/CPU. I've had a 128 MB stick of memory sitting around for a year because my machine wouldn't boot after I tried installing it. I tried to add a hard drive to my system. My first step was to switch which cable connection the current drive is using (just because it would make the wiring reach easier.) It wouldn't boot (and yes it was connected securely, and no it wasn't using cable select), and after I reconnected to the original connector, my machine now sits for a minute or so before it deigns to boot.
On the other hand, I haven't had a problem with graphics card upgrades with this same machine. Go figure.
Lose to the citizens of Ghana who are being paid less than their services are really worth and lose to the American/Canadians who are unemployed.
So how come with all this outsourcing, unemployment in the U.S. has been at a consistently fairly low level? If your job can and will be outsourced, get trained in something else.
Profit pocketed by a large corporation in lieu of the workers in the US who are now jobless.
Typically it lowers the cost. Check out the price of cheapo t-shirts at Target and the like. There's no way they could be made in the U.S. for that money, even if the corporation took 0 profit. Most of the savings get passed on to us consumers.
But if you think the Ghanans deserve more, why don't YOU give more? It's pretty easy to claim someone ELSE should be more generous...
What is "miniscule" in a probabilistic sense? Care to define it? Or give me a reference to a work that does?
The earth. Billions of years of history, relatively few globally-catastophic impacts. There's no reason we know of to expect more impacts now than there have been earlier in earth's history.
Other than Tanguska, is there evidence of a significant asteroid hit in the last thousand years? Even if it hit an unpopulated area, there would probably still be plenty of evidence of it today.
Even if he does mean extensions, come one guys, you really need a phone in every bedroom and all that too?
Yes, if you want your choice of which one to use as a home office, home theater (for your TiVo connection), etc., or if you have a very talkative teenager. $10 for cables and outlet covers is a pretty trivial expense for adding the flexibility.
In future perhaps this would be handled by having a WiFi hub for the internal connections, but for now cable is still the way to go.
Sounds like those people who want RJ45 sockets in their bathrooms.
Using a computer in the bathroom can lead to hemorrhoids. I strongly advise against it, from related personal experience...
I'd say that Toshiba definitely has the advantage here because[...]
I'd say many people are missing something that in retrospect may seem obvious.
The iPod contains a Toshiba drive (the same drive, or one twice the capacity.) Apple made a large purchase from Toshiba. There's probably more to that relationship than just one cash order. Apple may have given Toshiba cash to hold off selling the drives for other companies to put in other players, with a clause allowing Toshiba to sell their own version starting at some specified time, but holding off on the larger drive. I'm sure there's a relationship between the two companies we're not privy to.
Nope. Not if the signal being processed has noise already introduced.
But when would that noise be introduced? Noise implies you're working with analog at some point, but the only point you're normally doing that is at the output (or audio input, which again could come via a digital input from an external source.) RF noise doesn't distort digital signals, or else memory read from RAM would be corrupted.
P.S. yes I think Joe is overapplying the idea especially if he thinks SUN is "complementing" it self away.
Exactly, I thought that was the weakest part of the article. Sun is in the hardware market, sure, but not in the end-user commodity desktop hardware market. Java makes it easier to create thin clients that work with the web, or to have the net still work on "specialty" hardware like Unix workstations.
For example, you can't sell a car and say that you are not liable for design defects.
A car is expressly sold for driving on roads at specified speeds. If it fails to do so properly, people can die, and that's what the carmakers are liable for. If Windows or Linux crashes, typically people don't die, and generally Microsoft et al aren't targeting a market where death is a consequence of software failure. (If, on the other hand, the car's embedded computer software caused a crash, you can bet your sweet bippy there would be lawsuits, and victorious ones at that.)
Thus, generally, I can't see liability for most consumer software going beyond a refund. For markets where higher reliability is paramount, people should either do their testing/debugging or get a vendor guarantee, in which case liability can be much higher.
Are you really going to want to type a lot of emails on that tiny frustrating keyboard or atleast emails of any greater length than you tap out on your iPAQ?
When I'm in my office or at home, I'd plug it into an external display, keyboard, etc. But no matter where I am, I have all my data, all my apps, etc., and the small screen and keyboard is good enough for short-term access. I can use it in a plane, on a bus or in a cab if inspiration strikes. I can copy any reasonable amount of data onto it from wherever I am.
PDAs do have the advantages that they effectively don't need to boot, and the app when you start is the same one that was there when you last shut it down.
The first wave of Harry Potter video buyers are going to be parents driven crazy by their children to get the thing.
You called?
I then made a copy of the DVD on VHS and gave it to my parents, for the kids to watch when they are visiting and need some quiet time. I have an Apex with Macrovision disabling anyway, so I couldn't tell you whether it's Macrovisioned anyway.
That's good if all you care about is music. If you also want news, an MP3 player won't help much.
True, but if you get the in-dash music player as well, you can simplify your satellite decision. The number of 80's channels doesn't matter, Clear Channel's evil influence doesn't matter as much, etc.
You could make it: 667 The creepy neighbor across the street from the Beast or 667 The guy across the street from the Beast, who despite several complaints to the Homeowner's Association, still hasn't mowed his lawn to regulation height! or...
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The fact that anyone would be willing to kill a fellow human being for money, no matter how much, is apalling to me.
What if I then donated the money to a charity that would save rather more than one life with it? Odds are a donation to Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, etc. would do just that.
Also what happened to the US workforce that used to make your sneakers for a decent living wage?
Looking at recent unemployment rates, I'd say most of them got another job.
And you would never hear from Penna, Osborn and Smith... never again..
Interesting sequence of initials, by the way: POS...
For one thing, the passengers are intended to be kept in compartments close to the center of the aircraft, so no window seats.
:-)
How about a glass-bottom design, then?
(actually, 9.2 gigs, I hate gig == billion crap).
The giga prefix meant 10^9 long before computer people started to use it for 2^30. "gibi" would be the appropriate prefix for 2^30.
Within a year I built my own PC. Ikea furniture, on the other hand, still eludes me at times.
Perhaps we could work out a trade.
When I tried to put together a system, I fried a $250 motherboard/CPU. I've had a 128 MB stick of memory sitting around for a year because my machine wouldn't boot after I tried installing it. I tried to add a hard drive to my system. My first step was to switch which cable connection the current drive is using (just because it would make the wiring reach easier.) It wouldn't boot (and yes it was connected securely, and no it wasn't using cable select), and after I reconnected to the original connector, my machine now sits for a minute or so before it deigns to boot.
On the other hand, I haven't had a problem with graphics card upgrades with this same machine. Go figure.
Now, you might kill the terrorist, but it kinda defeats the purpose if a bullet ruptures the fuel tanks.
WW II fighters had self-sealing fuel tanks. I don't know exactly how it worked, but do modern airliners not have similar protection? I'm just curious.
Lose to the citizens of Ghana who are being paid less than their services are really worth and lose to the American/Canadians who are unemployed.
So how come with all this outsourcing, unemployment in the U.S. has been at a consistently fairly low level? If your job can and will be outsourced, get trained in something else.
Profit pocketed by a large corporation in lieu of the workers in the US who are now jobless.
Typically it lowers the cost. Check out the price of cheapo t-shirts at Target and the like. There's no way they could be made in the U.S. for that money, even if the corporation took 0 profit. Most of the savings get passed on to us consumers.
But if you think the Ghanans deserve more, why don't YOU give more? It's pretty easy to claim someone ELSE should be more generous...
What is "miniscule" in a probabilistic sense? Care to define it? Or give me a reference to a work that does?
The earth. Billions of years of history, relatively few globally-catastophic impacts. There's no reason we know of to expect more impacts now than there have been earlier in earth's history.
Other than Tanguska, is there evidence of a significant asteroid hit in the last thousand years? Even if it hit an unpopulated area, there would probably still be plenty of evidence of it today.
Even if he does mean extensions, come one guys, you really need a phone in every bedroom and all that too?
Yes, if you want your choice of which one to use as a home office, home theater (for your TiVo connection), etc., or if you have a very talkative teenager. $10 for cables and outlet covers is a pretty trivial expense for adding the flexibility.
In future perhaps this would be handled by having a WiFi hub for the internal connections, but for now cable is still the way to go.
Sounds like those people who want RJ45 sockets in their bathrooms.
Using a computer in the bathroom can lead to hemorrhoids. I strongly advise against it, from related personal experience...
I don't know what the big deal is about honeymoons. Why go to all of the expense of going somewhere nice?
Well in truth, most newlyweds have been boinking for years already. And by tradition, the groom's parents pay for the trip, so it's seen as a freebie.
In retrospect I wish we'd eloped...
I'd say that Toshiba definitely has the advantage here because[...]
I'd say many people are missing something that in retrospect may seem obvious.
The iPod contains a Toshiba drive (the same drive, or one twice the capacity.) Apple made a large purchase from Toshiba. There's probably more to that relationship than just one cash order. Apple may have given Toshiba cash to hold off selling the drives for other companies to put in other players, with a clause allowing Toshiba to sell their own version starting at some specified time, but holding off on the larger drive. I'm sure there's a relationship between the two companies we're not privy to.
Nope. Not if the signal being processed has noise already introduced.
But when would that noise be introduced? Noise implies you're working with analog at some point, but the only point you're normally doing that is at the output (or audio input, which again could come via a digital input from an external source.) RF noise doesn't distort digital signals, or else memory read from RAM would be corrupted.
PC audio will forever suck, unless we can manage to shield our sound cards from all of the "noise" generated by the rest of the computer.
Wouldn't using a digital output take care of this?
because it couldn't buy someone suffering from extreme penis envy a jaguar that month
Ok, I guess I'm officially an old fogie.
What the HELL does that mean?
P.S. yes I think Joe is overapplying the idea especially if he thinks SUN is "complementing" it self away.
Exactly, I thought that was the weakest part of the article. Sun is in the hardware market, sure, but not in the end-user commodity desktop hardware market. Java makes it easier to create thin clients that work with the web, or to have the net still work on "specialty" hardware like Unix workstations.
You mean your girlfriend doesn't charge?
Not unless you count the cost of an occasional vinyl repair kit...
For example, you can't sell a car and say that you are not liable for design defects.
A car is expressly sold for driving on roads at specified speeds. If it fails to do so properly, people can die, and that's what the carmakers are liable for. If Windows or Linux crashes, typically people don't die, and generally Microsoft et al aren't targeting a market where death is a consequence of software failure. (If, on the other hand, the car's embedded computer software caused a crash, you can bet your sweet bippy there would be lawsuits, and victorious ones at that.)
Thus, generally, I can't see liability for most consumer software going beyond a refund. For markets where higher reliability is paramount, people should either do their testing/debugging or get a vendor guarantee, in which case liability can be much higher.
Are you really going to want to type a lot of emails on that tiny frustrating keyboard or atleast emails of any greater length than you tap out on your iPAQ?
When I'm in my office or at home, I'd plug it into an external display, keyboard, etc. But no matter where I am, I have all my data, all my apps, etc., and the small screen and keyboard is good enough for short-term access. I can use it in a plane, on a bus or in a cab if inspiration strikes. I can copy any reasonable amount of data onto it from wherever I am.
PDAs do have the advantages that they effectively don't need to boot, and the app when you start is the same one that was there when you last shut it down.
If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly.
:-)
In this case, apparently that refers to closing HTML italics tags?
It's time to declare the term "piracy" dead.
How about "leeching", instead?
The first wave of Harry Potter video buyers are going to be parents driven crazy by their children to get the thing.
You called?
I then made a copy of the DVD on VHS and gave it to my parents, for the kids to watch when they are visiting and need some quiet time. I have an Apex with Macrovision disabling anyway, so I couldn't tell you whether it's Macrovisioned anyway.
I assume you mean in-dash MP3 player?
Nah, if I'd said that, someone would say, "Why not OGG?"
That's good if all you care about is music. If you also want news, an MP3 player won't help much.
True, but if you get the in-dash music player as well, you can simplify your satellite decision. The number of 80's channels doesn't matter, Clear Channel's evil influence doesn't matter as much, etc.
(yeah, I know... the sig is wrong... so what?)
You could make it:
667 The creepy neighbor across the street from the Beast
or
667 The guy across the street from the Beast, who despite several complaints to the Homeowner's Association, still hasn't mowed his lawn to regulation height!
or...