"Killing the format" no sir, I think not, I've little doubt that just like the Compact Cassette the VHS will remain as at least a viable format (and probably the dominant format) in markets from Eastern Europe to China and probably a vast majority of Africa and South America for many many years after the western markets abandon it.
I only by from local (same city) sellers and pay direct deposit of cash so this is just useless interference from the stupid suits upstairs.
I think I'll be buying through the Quokka(local classified ads paper) from now on
Working at a university I look after 60 or so Macs most of them with important and/or confidential stuff like exams and research data on them. When ever an Apple computer starts to display signs of a dying hard drive I make sure it's backed up before it goes in for warranty work and if I have time I'll do a 7 pass erase and install a new OS (though I've had drives die during the install, the erase, and even during the backup (in which case we fall back to our backups system)).
Unfortunately many of my academics and researchers decide to bypass their IT department and take their machines straight to the on campus Apple service center (not helped by the fact that they are closer than the IT department (the Apple center is about 30 meters from their building we're about 100 meters) . Of course they never get their disks back, I don't know how many hours I've spent on the phone to Apple trying to get them to send the disks back or to guaranty secure destruction, in every case with out success. For some reason it's us that the academics get shirty at! Buh sorry bud, but we're not Apple so not our fault.
what? you meen like American TV does.... please that's truly low insult... I mean as bad as Japanese TV is at least the only thing only remotely as bad as "everybody loves raymond" is the dubbed version of "everybody loves raymond"
The Boy: See, if you don't defragment your hard drive once in a while the computer....
Old Ivor: THE WHAT?
The Boy: The... magic thinky box will start to run slower because data....
Old Ivor: "DATA"? YOU SEEK TO TRICK OLD IVOR!
The Boy: The... thought honey starts to thicken in its veins and it can't move so fast.
Old Ivor: Wow! It is like a new magic thinky box!
The Boy: So what do you use the magic thinky box for?
Old Ivor: I note down the colour and shape of every toadstool I see!!
Old Ivor: Then I save my ideas on the memory square.
The Boy: Where does it get its power from?
Old Ivor: I place the monkey's paw between the fetlocks of a sleeping beast!
The Boy: It's possible that might invalidate your warranty.
I took my house to all CFL's about 3 1/2 or 4 years ago... I will never go back to incandescent.. never ever...
OK it took about a week or two to psychologically adjust to the colour change but honestly I find it more comfortable now - going to places with incandescent lights.. they just look like gloomy, dingy caves.
The lag time for light to come on is a fraction of a second to turn on - very acceptable
no oscillation visible
no interference detected in wireless or HiFi audio... some old vintage guitar effect units I own do seem to pick it up but that's their design "flaw" (non shielded 60's 70's construction)..
not one single globe has needed to be replaced in that entire time - not one, prior to the move the master bedroom used to needed around 5 globes a year on it's multi globe fitting.
power consumption I can't speak for that as my monthly power bills probably fluctuate more depending on other things like if I'm binge playing on my old Marshall, Vox or Fender valve amps or not than how much time the lights are on....
"...nearly 100% chance of visiting a dangerous site during 30 days of typical online searching and browsing activity."
where's the "wouldn't touch any of them with someone else's barge pole" option?
honestly I wouldn't go to to any of those sites or ones similar... well maybe the lyrics ones... maybe, but probably not.
be that as it may a typical case of marketing parading as a survey, full of loaded and leading questions to give the result most desirable to gain sales through installing fear, confusion and anxiety in to your average computer user (of course not that that something that shouldn't be done occasionally:P ) and a perfect piece of low hanging fruit for hack journalists everywhere.
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In economics, the exam questions are the same every year. They just change the answers.
classic ...
and even if not true should be...
Q1: "is sub prime lending viable as a business model?"
2007 A: yes
2008 A:um maybe, maybe not.
2009 A: no
"Killing the format" no sir, I think not, I've little doubt that just like the Compact Cassette the VHS will remain as at least a viable format (and probably the dominant format) in markets from Eastern Europe to China and probably a vast majority of Africa and South America for many many years after the western markets abandon it.
some of mine even have high charisma!
slide 1, slide2, slidzzzzzzzz... zzz sn..gfffhk muh? wuh? good thing I needed a sleep anyway
not Japanese, Trung is a Vietnamese name ...
and he's a canadian resident/citizen,
so epic geography/ethnology fail on half the tags
I only by from local (same city) sellers and pay direct deposit of cash so this is just useless interference from the stupid suits upstairs. I think I'll be buying through the Quokka(local classified ads paper) from now on
Working at a university I look after 60 or so Macs most of them with important and/or confidential stuff like exams and research data on them.
When ever an Apple computer starts to display signs of a dying hard drive I make sure it's backed up before it goes in for warranty work and if I have time I'll do a 7 pass erase and install a new OS (though I've had drives die during the install, the erase, and even during the backup (in which case we fall back to our backups system)).
Unfortunately many of my academics and researchers decide to bypass their IT department and take their machines straight to the on campus Apple service center (not helped by the fact that they are closer than the IT department (the Apple center is about 30 meters from their building we're about 100 meters) . Of course they never get their disks back, I don't know how many hours I've spent on the phone to Apple trying to get them to send the disks back or to guaranty secure destruction, in every case with out success. For some reason it's us that the academics get shirty at! Buh sorry bud, but we're not Apple so not our fault.
what? you meen like American TV does.... please that's truly low insult... I mean as bad as Japanese TV is at least the only thing only remotely as bad as "everybody loves raymond" is the dubbed version of "everybody loves raymond"
The Boy: See, if you don't defragment your hard drive once in a while the computer....
Old Ivor: THE WHAT?
The Boy: The... magic thinky box will start to run slower because data....
Old Ivor: "DATA"? YOU SEEK TO TRICK OLD IVOR!
The Boy: The... thought honey starts to thicken in its veins and it can't move so fast.
Old Ivor: Wow! It is like a new magic thinky box!
The Boy: So what do you use the magic thinky box for?
Old Ivor: I note down the colour and shape of every toadstool I see!!
Old Ivor: Then I save my ideas on the memory square.
The Boy: Where does it get its power from?
Old Ivor: I place the monkey's paw between the fetlocks of a sleeping beast!
The Boy: It's possible that might invalidate your warranty.
http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20060911
I took my house to all CFL's about 3 1/2 or 4 years ago... I will never go back to incandescent.. never ever... OK it took about a week or two to psychologically adjust to the colour change but honestly I find it more comfortable now - going to places with incandescent lights .. they just look like gloomy, dingy caves.
The lag time for light to come on is a fraction of a second to turn on - very acceptable
no oscillation visible
no interference detected in wireless or HiFi audio... some old vintage guitar effect units I own do seem to pick it up but that's their design "flaw" (non shielded 60's 70's construction)..
not one single globe has needed to be replaced in that entire time - not one, prior to the move the master bedroom used to needed around 5 globes a year on it's multi globe fitting.
power consumption I can't speak for that as my monthly power bills probably fluctuate more depending on other things like if I'm binge playing on my old Marshall, Vox or Fender valve amps or not than how much time the lights are on....
"...nearly 100% chance of visiting a dangerous site during 30 days of typical online searching and browsing activity." where's the "wouldn't touch any of them with someone else's barge pole" option? honestly I wouldn't go to to any of those sites or ones similar... well maybe the lyrics ones... maybe, but probably not. be that as it may a typical case of marketing parading as a survey, full of loaded and leading questions to give the result most desirable to gain sales through installing fear, confusion and anxiety in to your average computer user (of course not that that something that shouldn't be done occasionally :P ) and a perfect piece of low hanging fruit for hack journalists everywhere.