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Or, possibly, it exists to satisfy retention policies for some segment of industry/government. Yeah, the Recoverable Items folder is actually used for retention policies. If you want to know way too much about Exchange, there's a 'great' diagram showing how messages move around inside a mailbox her...

peartart

My old backup is not the issue, it's that iTunes won't let me backup my new iPhone at all until I enter the encrypted password. I'm not losing too much without access to my old backup, and there isn't anything on my iPhone that I'd need to backup that I can't periodically transfer off manually , so...

peartart

They use it in large batches, then don't use the printer for long periods of time.

I agree with finding a print shop. They are perfect for this situation.

peartart

For people who aren't drooling sexists, the ads are equally ridiculous, and you should be able to see that even without prompting by "feminazis".

peartart

I also like your idea of shipping the monitors but in that case I might as well ship a desktop too ? Yes, you could, but putting a small form desktop in a suitcase isn't a big deal. Not to be a drag, but the problem isn't just that you need 12 monitors on site, you also need to have a space/mount t...

peartart

Why do you need to use 12 monitors for the demonstration? Nobody is going to have 12 monitors that are compatible wth whatever you come up with, but everyone has projectors.

peartart

Did you buy a new Windows 7 or Windows 8 computer and find that you cannot run WordPerfect for DOS on it?

Enough said.

peartart

This seems like a thing that shouldn't be a thing for those that live in first world countries. Last time I saw someone use a wood-burning stove was an Acadian historical village, it worked and they made real food but everyone in that town has either and electric or gas-powered stove, they were jus...

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iPhone revenue alone trounces Intels revenue: ... That is still really missing the point. The portion of that revenue going to ARM itself is trivial. Even if you added on a prorated amount of what Apple spends developing chips, it's small. On the other hand, when you or an OEM buy a $200 CPU from I...

peartart

Looking at unit volume is extremely misleading. Go redo those charts using revenue (or better, find someone else who has, since it would take a fair amount of work to be accurate).

Also, Intel, like Apple, has all the profit, so they have a lot more margin for error than any of their rivals.

peartart

You people had me hoping that she was actually ugly/weird looking. Instead she looks like a photoshopped model with too much makeup on.

peartart

The school will definitely have desktops/workstations available somewhere for actual rendering, and I would recommend using them even if you did have a high-end laptop. If you want to do the setup work on a laptop, you really need more information about the program and what they expect. So without m...

peartart

If they agree to it, sure. Realistically they won't willingly do that, and if they do it accidentally, whether or not a court will consider your modified contract a valid contract will depend on the details of the process and the whim of a judge.

peartart

Let's be honest, unless you are on a track, if you are having fun while driving either you are needlessly putting other people in danger or you have a very sad idea of fun.

peartart

I have to second Tropico 3/4. The game reminded me a lot of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, both in gameplay and sense of humor.

peartart

Given the weird things that people go "gotta catch them all" over, it's possible that those cards are more profitable (prorated for time and cost) than HL3.

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From TR's 8350 review, overall performance: http://techreport.com/r.x/amd-fx-8350/value-scatter.gif and gaming: http://techreport.com/r.x/amd-fx-8350/gaming-scatter.gif The 8350 is fine if you don't think there is such thing as gaming performance and need a processor at that specific price point (an...

peartart

That's an odd counterargument, since the "e" in "lane" is a trailing vowel that expressly modifies the primary vowel from short pronunciation to long. A better comparison would be "land," where the closing consonant contributes very little to the enunciation and does, ...

peartart

grantmeaname wrote:
Either of those definitions is systematic. Maybe you missed the point?

But they aren't in actual use. They were made up for this case to justify their preferred pronunciation of GIF.

peartart

Both of these are arbitrary justifications. I say "jif" because that's what occurred to me before I had heard anyone try to say it, but since GIF is an acronym that's read often and said rarely, I doubt there will ever be a single way to pronounce it. Arbitrary, adj: from randomness or wh...

peartart

Since the G in Graphics is hard, so is the G in the verbalized acronym. Then the developer should've had the good sense to invent an acronym that began with a J, instead of providing most of the word "gift." Both of these are arbitrary justifications. I say "jif" because that's ...

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DanZMan wrote:
Given the setting, I would have thought pronunciation-peeve topics would be more along the lines of the correct pronunciation of "GUI."

The correct pronunciation of GUI is "interface." It's ambiguous approximately never, but if you need to you can say graphical interface.

peartart

Yeah, I'd have to. I own a Ipad and honestly am not impressed with the OS in the slightest. Its really just takes the nuts out of a computer to work in their constrained environment. Simple basic fundamental functions are stripped out and require stupid levels of thought to work around. I never had...

peartart

Nec_V20 wrote:
There is no silent "H" in Latin.

Reality isn't that simple.

Nec_V20 wrote:
...one is just making a pretentious idiot of ones self.

But this is all that matters of what you wrote.

peartart

yeah, basically you want a fairly high end gaming machine (meaning an i7 Intel processor) without the graphics card. I would get a non-K part, personally, since overclocking is for toys not for work. The only catch might be if ECC memory is useful/needed for whatever data analysis you are doing. The...

peartart

There is no easy definition for good code, and that is why it can relate to poetry.

Everything depends on context, so on that theme, here is an amusing story about unit testing.

peartart

Stargazer wrote:
This is an ugly hack, but at least it seems to yield the desired results.

Ugly hack is the canonical way to use Excel.

peartart

Well and there's the fact that the entire impetus for the show, Walt's lung cancer, would not be a financial issue in a country with a single-payer healthcare system :wink: While medical bills play into it, the initial motivation is more about leaving money to his family after he's dead. His initia...

peartart

And if zero counted in dates then the year zero would have been the first year and thus it would be odd making 1999 an even numbered year. Using zero to represent first is a weird computer quirk, but there is no first year, so it would make perfect sense to use zero before you start using (the equi...

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If you want to, you can rationalize playing the lottery by saying that the marginal improvement by keeping $5 a week (or whatever) is negligible and smaller than the very small probability of a massive change in quality of life. Alternatively, rephrase the question: if you were a rich person, would ...

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