I bought UT2003 because I had installed linux and wanted some games for it, but it turned out ATI didn't code a certain feature into the driver for my video card. I killed linux and played UT2003 in Windows. Not interested in going back.
I dunno, you think the parent is likely to know roughly what the iPod looks like, but doesn't know its name? I'd think the only thing they know is "iPod" "iPod" "iPod". I suppose if they're particularly clueless they might just go by prices or "10,000 songs".
I guess if we boiled people and made soap out of that it would be OK too. I mean, 'it's healthy and it's been processed [boiled] to make it unoffensive', right?
And of course it's never IT's fault, because they can't be bothered to find out what promotions are coming up - after all, this is the first year ever with a busy holiday shopping season.
You would have IT poll the state of Amazon constantly rather than have them receive a message!? IT has other things to do.
Grandparent is a tool, but your attitude is wrong.
The health care system obviously has flaws, like wait time especially, but it's proportionally less costly than the American system. So to suggest that greater defense spending would destroy the health care system is silly. We spend it in taxes; you spend it out of pocket.
Where is the need for a larger Canadian military? Interestingly, we could barely come near to the American military, which is proportionally the biggest and most expensive in the world, and on top of that America is huge in every way. There is almost no need to bother, and country relations are much more friendly than before anyway. Besides, Canada is thankful for its 800-pound gorilla. However, you may want to remember Canada when it extended America's borders and acted as a buffer during the Cold War.
I would think immigrants largely segregate themselves. It's also hard to naturally mix when culture and language is different; the people just aren't interested in each other. I can't imagine America is any different. I know however that I would shop in a Chinese mall any chance I got—they are efficient and everything is very well-priced.
Naturally American companies will buy out Canadian ones because America is more populated and has a high GDP, so they have more wealth to leverage.
Lastly, States don't infight, eh? Every group ever will naturally try to get the best deal they can*, and the American Federal government is not that controlling. Oh, and Quebec is unique and stupid.
I'm sure someone has mentioned Canada's involvement in other wars already.
So let there be no American-Canadian animosity. It's dumb... except in the softwood lumber dispute. But that's largely politicians.
* Some exceptions in people trying to keep business in their community or country (although that is also selfishness within their group), and others spending their money partly as altruism.
Cordless phones specifically operate at 900MHz*, 1.9GHz, 2.4GHz, and 5.8Ghz. I know because I went shopping for one today and didn't buy one because they all sucked in some regard. (And I was surprised to find that 2.4GHz and maybe even 900MHz phones sometimes have FHSS, which calls into question all the advice I found online.)
* Even lower than this, but I doubt any sell in America.
I haven't thought this through and I don't know a lot about patenting... but what if the gov't changed the way companies argue about patents? Patents aren't granted because the state's lawyers and company's lawyers battle it out, so perhaps it'd be effective to treat disputes differently too: pay the patent office to review the facts and decide who's infringing. In that way giants wouldn't gain much advantage from having better lawyers—maybe they still get some chances to obfuscate things. The loser pays the patent office for its time, which would hopefully be a much cheaper rate than it is currently.
Iirc, both X chromosomes are active during gestation*, and although one is disabled in a Barr body later, about sixteen genes of it are still expressed.
This made me wonder, are there any quantum virtual machines? Surely nobody is waiting for a physical implementation. Well, apparently there are a few: Linear Al, libquantum, and a Java quantum circuit simulator. Now I wonder how difficult it's going to be to program something...
You do have to enable POP3 for all mails in your GMail settings to be able to download all of it. Alternately you can set it up to allow only mails since the day you set it up to be pop3 accessible, though I'm not sure what good that is.
I've gotten fed up with waiting for GMail to load all the time, so I'll be getting a client soon and doing what you're doing. Gmail has fast downloads, spam handling, a tonne of storage and a nice interface, so I'll be sticking with them (their disadvantage is privacy concerns). But I think a client will be generally faster for new mail even though it has to be downloaded.
Mainstream parties don't necessarily want to co-opt third party votes however. But I don't know how you're supposed to tell. It's a gamble between that and lesser-of-two-evils.
Killing him will send a slightly different message; whether that will be usful in the future or not I don't know. But more importantly it will save money.
(Sorry this turned out long. You can skim large paragraphs tho, except the first.)
"Apples" to apples is only relevant if one is considering the smaller set of OEM computers. Those who are like myself who builds his own computer does so to get a cheaper price and to allocate my money to specific quality parts and away from others (eg. spend $100CAD less on the video card and get nicer ram or the better Core 2 Duo). (I don't care much about overclocking and the act of putting things together.) But if I knew what OS X were like, I might want to get an Apple system for it, and I would hope they do choose quality parts given they are called "Premium" so often.
So let's see what Apple offers at $1700 (dual core, 2x1GB fast ram, and high-end video card, expandability): The closest Mac Pro was $2600. But I had to go for the cheaper ram than what I wanted for price, and was forced to spend money on PC5300 instead of my choice of PC4200 (could be getting a deal there tho). I was forced to buy a second CPU so I got the cheapest one, again to help the price; I would guess the Xeon's are more expensive than the Core 2 Duo I wanted, but I couldn't find the price quickly so ignore this. I was forced to buy a hard-drive--I have one already at home. The video card isn't quite the one I wanted but I'll ignore that. Like with the hard-drive, I would gut my computer for its DVD writer, but I have to buy one again from Apple. $900 more for something that may be faster in some regards, but isn't even exactly what I want. The case looked to be pretty damn nice though.
So obviously, the Mac Pro is not for me.
The 20" iMac looks to be close feature-wise. In customization I was forced to buy a hdd again, I picked the better cpu which seemed overpriced compared to the prices floating around in my head from yesterdays shopping/research/planning of my next computer. Of course I must be paying more for the LCD I don't want, since I have a 19" CRT at home which is just fine. I couldn't pick the right video card, so I'm stuck paying for one to be replaced. How exactly do you install a video card into this thing though? I guess I'll choose the better but still poor one instead. Oh, and there is roughly zero expandability. OK, it comes to $2400 for a underpowered computer I don't want. $700 more than the one I'm planning to build/buy, which is faster in it seems every regard. Slower to hook up that video cable I suppose.
So obviously, the iMac is not for me.
IIRC, Dell lets you do very extensive customization. When going Apple there isn't much variation you can do. I guess Apple is missing the price-point that I hang out at.
And I don't even know if I would like OS X or not. But it's a bit moot when they don't make a computer for me.
How do you intend to consolidate your digital camera, Playstation 3, and Wii into a quad-core computer? The digital camera especially boggles the mind... So I'd say those devices aren't exactly relevant. Even if you could run them, it sounds like most won't be running at the same time so the quad-core would be redundant.
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I bought UT2003 because I had installed linux and wanted some games for it, but it turned out ATI didn't code a certain feature into the driver for my video card. I killed linux and played UT2003 in Windows. Not interested in going back.
I dunno, you think the parent is likely to know roughly what the iPod looks like, but doesn't know its name? I'd think the only thing they know is "iPod" "iPod" "iPod". I suppose if they're particularly clueless they might just go by prices or "10,000 songs".
Constitutional meritocracy?
Godwin's Law does not say someone loses an argument if the Nazi's come up. Comparisons may be apt.
Does greater data density generally mean faster read/write speeds?
Why not if it's healthy and it's been processed to make it unoffensive? You're just immature.
And of course it's never IT's fault, because they can't be bothered to find out what promotions are coming up - after all, this is the first year ever with a busy holiday shopping season.
You would have IT poll the state of Amazon constantly rather than have them receive a message!? IT has other things to do.
Grandparent is a tool, but your attitude is wrong.
The health care system obviously has flaws, like wait time especially, but it's proportionally less costly than the American system. So to suggest that greater defense spending would destroy the health care system is silly. We spend it in taxes; you spend it out of pocket.
Where is the need for a larger Canadian military? Interestingly, we could barely come near to the American military, which is proportionally the biggest and most expensive in the world, and on top of that America is huge in every way. There is almost no need to bother, and country relations are much more friendly than before anyway. Besides, Canada is thankful for its 800-pound gorilla. However, you may want to remember Canada when it extended America's borders and acted as a buffer during the Cold War.
I would think immigrants largely segregate themselves. It's also hard to naturally mix when culture and language is different; the people just aren't interested in each other. I can't imagine America is any different. I know however that I would shop in a Chinese mall any chance I got—they are efficient and everything is very well-priced.
Naturally American companies will buy out Canadian ones because America is more populated and has a high GDP, so they have more wealth to leverage.
Lastly, States don't infight, eh? Every group ever will naturally try to get the best deal they can*, and the American Federal government is not that controlling. Oh, and Quebec is unique and stupid.
I'm sure someone has mentioned Canada's involvement in other wars already.
So let there be no American-Canadian animosity. It's dumb... except in the softwood lumber dispute. But that's largely politicians.
* Some exceptions in people trying to keep business in their community or country (although that is also selfishness within their group), and others spending their money partly as altruism.
Cordless phones specifically operate at 900MHz*, 1.9GHz, 2.4GHz, and 5.8Ghz. I know because I went shopping for one today and didn't buy one because they all sucked in some regard. (And I was surprised to find that 2.4GHz and maybe even 900MHz phones sometimes have FHSS, which calls into question all the advice I found online.)
* Even lower than this, but I doubt any sell in America.
Obviously anyone would go for the thousand Xboxes for only $100. You could make $400,000 easy.
I haven't thought this through and I don't know a lot about patenting... but what if the gov't changed the way companies argue about patents? Patents aren't granted because the state's lawyers and company's lawyers battle it out, so perhaps it'd be effective to treat disputes differently too: pay the patent office to review the facts and decide who's infringing. In that way giants wouldn't gain much advantage from having better lawyers—maybe they still get some chances to obfuscate things. The loser pays the patent office for its time, which would hopefully be a much cheaper rate than it is currently.
What about magnetic fields? Is it that temporary "autism" effect?
Iirc, both X chromosomes are active during gestation*, and although one is disabled in a Barr body later, about sixteen genes of it are still expressed.
* Not very confident on that point.
This made me wonder, are there any quantum virtual machines? Surely nobody is waiting for a physical implementation. Well, apparently there are a few: Linear Al, libquantum, and a Java quantum circuit simulator. Now I wonder how difficult it's going to be to program something...
I prefer goods to paper.
You do have to enable POP3 for all mails in your GMail settings to be able to download all of it. Alternately you can set it up to allow only mails since the day you set it up to be pop3 accessible, though I'm not sure what good that is.
I've gotten fed up with waiting for GMail to load all the time, so I'll be getting a client soon and doing what you're doing. Gmail has fast downloads, spam handling, a tonne of storage and a nice interface, so I'll be sticking with them (their disadvantage is privacy concerns). But I think a client will be generally faster for new mail even though it has to be downloaded.
Mainstream parties don't necessarily want to co-opt third party votes however. But I don't know how you're supposed to tell. It's a gamble between that and lesser-of-two-evils.
I guess this will be the first study of how many people really don't RTFA.
Killing him will send a slightly different message; whether that will be usful in the future or not I don't know. But more importantly it will save money.
I agree though that vengence is a poor reason.
(Sorry this turned out long. You can skim large paragraphs tho, except the first.)
"Apples" to apples is only relevant if one is considering the smaller set of OEM computers. Those who are like myself who builds his own computer does so to get a cheaper price and to allocate my money to specific quality parts and away from others (eg. spend $100CAD less on the video card and get nicer ram or the better Core 2 Duo). (I don't care much about overclocking and the act of putting things together.) But if I knew what OS X were like, I might want to get an Apple system for it, and I would hope they do choose quality parts given they are called "Premium" so often.
So let's see what Apple offers at $1700 (dual core, 2x1GB fast ram, and high-end video card, expandability): The closest Mac Pro was $2600. But I had to go for the cheaper ram than what I wanted for price, and was forced to spend money on PC5300 instead of my choice of PC4200 (could be getting a deal there tho). I was forced to buy a second CPU so I got the cheapest one, again to help the price; I would guess the Xeon's are more expensive than the Core 2 Duo I wanted, but I couldn't find the price quickly so ignore this. I was forced to buy a hard-drive--I have one already at home. The video card isn't quite the one I wanted but I'll ignore that. Like with the hard-drive, I would gut my computer for its DVD writer, but I have to buy one again from Apple. $900 more for something that may be faster in some regards, but isn't even exactly what I want. The case looked to be pretty damn nice though.
So obviously, the Mac Pro is not for me.
The 20" iMac looks to be close feature-wise. In customization I was forced to buy a hdd again, I picked the better cpu which seemed overpriced compared to the prices floating around in my head from yesterdays shopping/research/planning of my next computer. Of course I must be paying more for the LCD I don't want, since I have a 19" CRT at home which is just fine. I couldn't pick the right video card, so I'm stuck paying for one to be replaced. How exactly do you install a video card into this thing though? I guess I'll choose the better but still poor one instead. Oh, and there is roughly zero expandability. OK, it comes to $2400 for a underpowered computer I don't want. $700 more than the one I'm planning to build/buy, which is faster in it seems every regard. Slower to hook up that video cable I suppose.
So obviously, the iMac is not for me.
IIRC, Dell lets you do very extensive customization. When going Apple there isn't much variation you can do. I guess Apple is missing the price-point that I hang out at.
And I don't even know if I would like OS X or not. But it's a bit moot when they don't make a computer for me.
Sure it does. But it makes no claims about the aptness of the comparison. (Wikipedia:Godwin)
Sorry, I should have read the other replies first and avoided redundancy.
How do you intend to consolidate your digital camera, Playstation 3, and Wii into a quad-core computer? The digital camera especially boggles the mind... So I'd say those devices aren't exactly relevant. Even if you could run them, it sounds like most won't be running at the same time so the quad-core would be redundant.
The person who did 'sign' the EULA is probably responsible then.