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Go price out a PC notebook with all the bells and whistles in an apple. then compare prices. The apple will be less expensive when it comes to bang for your buck.

No, that's wrong and a lie.

You can't, first of all, find any PC notebook with "all" the features of a Mac, because PC notebooks are x86 based and have different feature sets.

In terms of raw performance, OS agnostic, you're also wrong and a liar:

Benchmarks: PPC vs Athlon

Also, Apple skimps on things like hard drive rpm and L2 cache.

You are paying a premium for trendiness and OS X, that's it. Not better hardware.

My own search engine, running on my POSIX-capable machine, indexing and organizing 'bookmarks' ...

Freehand is a relatively new yo-yo style created by Steve Brown and Chris Neff.

For videos of Steve doing some FH tricks check out Sector Y

Regardless of this technology, AT&T Wireless has got to concentrate on some very basic services, such as area coverage, quality of signal, and most importantly, customer service. AT&T will happily sell a phone to its customer that will not work correctly in the customer's service area, and then refuse to replace the phone with a different model WITHOUT charging an additional fee. AT&T's GSM network is incredibly spotty, and the signal quality is so poor as to be unlistenable. AT&T has the worst customer service department. For a detailed diatribe on my personal experiences with this terrible company, see: Why I Hate AT&T Wireless If you wish to escalate your service request or complaint, this must be done in writing, via SNAIL MAIL. This company loses some 49% of its customers each year, after their contract is up. They should concentrate less on gimmicky technology, and more on these issues.

I'm no TV exec, but I believe that most networks buy their big shows from 3rd party studios and don't necessarily get any later syndication cash. For example I looked up ER and found that it is produced by Constant c Productions, Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Television, I didn't see any NBC in any production credits that I could find. The studios that actually make the shows tend to lose money when they sell a show to a network, but make it back when they sell them in syndication to other networks/stations.

Poking around more it appears that networks are getting into the role or producing their own shows by doing what is easy, reality shows, from a business standpoint, this makes a hell of a lot of sense to the networks.

AppKiDo It parses the cocoa docs installed by XCode for quick easy access.

There are always alternatives for the most esoteric needs, like Birder.

I think I speak for most people when I say that the reason I failed to get at all excited was:

I just could not understand what the hell they were talking about in the article text. I mean,
"analyze the video feed from the console and create a stat database"
huh? I don't know what sort of stats you're talking about, and what do you mean by analysing the video feed? Huh?

But now, after admitedly RTFA and your post, I have a greater understanding of what this is all about after reading your post than I do from the original article.

So, that's why it's not getting the attention it would seem to deserve (now that I understand just what they've done, which is pretty darn cool) is a poorly written submission, and a site that doesn't show anything flashy or cool to demonstrate how impressive what they've done is... although the commentaries, although pretty average in the voice department, are pretty cool in the content stakes. See this.

Maybe the editors should have added something to the post to get people to RTFA?

However, if you're writing a GUI application, the APIs are totally different.

if you can live with java and swing, it's not that difficult to write applications that for the most part feel like native Mac OS X applications and still run without modifications on other platform.

some guy wrote an article (pdf) how to basically do it. apple's MRJ toolkit is a pain, but fortunately there also is MRJ Adapter.

sure, you have to learn the structure of application bundles and how to write in an Info.plist. still, you can stay away from xcode and cocoa without much trouble.

Maybe I'll start a service?

You mean, like Apple's .Mac? Not "Free for life" as some folks claim it was once advertised as, but I do believe it'll be around as long as Apple is. I have no idea of the password to my ISP email account; I never use it, and never plan to.

Actually.... .Mac doesn't offer a 1GB email package. The 1GB iDisk is what costs $350 (it's much more useful than 1GB of mail, still a ripoff though.) .Mac's 200MB mail costs $90/year, for the curious.

source

Some foolio did this a while back. Basically, 6 degrees of separation to Taco through your Slashdot friends and fans. He said he got banned from Slashdot for running a beefy script against the site.

There are a few nice SVG-GIS (geographic information services) sites out there: vienna and even nebraska

Xerox invested $1 million in Apple by purchasing 100,000 shares at $10 each. Furthermore, Xerox signed an agreement with Apple to never purchase more than 5 percent of Apple's shares. Within a year, these shares split into 800,000 worth $17.6 million when Apple went public.

Hmmm, these kind of sites are becoming a nuisance.

Sorry, that website uses broken embed tags and Windows-specific registry CLSIDs to point to quicktime player. I don't have a "registry" or a "quick time" player. For those of us who choose our own browser helper applications (instead of it being decided by a "registry") here is the relevant link.

Obviously you've never seen the longest line

If that isn't being strong I don't know what is.

When you can show me a public display like the Longest Line then I might agree. (Be warned, it's a video clip.)

God damn you and the parent poster both.

I now have an unshakeable mental image of Leonard Nimoy sitting in a bathroom stall beating off whilst singing about Bilbo Baggins.

I hate you.

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Difference Between Men and Women

It was the Grant Barrett article in World New York called "With A Fat Paycheck Comes Fat Responsibility". It's here

And his original article is here

It was the Grant Barrett article in World New York called "With A Fat Paycheck Comes Fat Responsibility". It's here

And his original article is here

Fortunately for us, Star Trek didn't influence Peter Jackson's take on Lord of the Rings!

I mean... wtf is this? (quicktime required)

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The real bottom line is that if you are competant, not a dickhead, and serve the customers you can make some money.

The other thing to remember is a saying a got from a consultant/coworker a few years back.

"The difference between working for a company and working for yourself is that you are trading the illusion of freedom for for the illusion of security"

Hmmm, these kind of sites are becoming a nuisance.

Sorry, that website uses broken embed tags and Windows-specific registry CLSIDs to point to quicktime player. I don't have a "registry" or a "quick time" player. For those of us who choose our own browser helper applications (instead of it being decided by a "registry") here is the relevant link.

For those of you with a "registry" that decides which applications will open what, and when, you might want to go here.

/Obvious

Pixlet will be your best friend soon

Who is Pixlet? No it is not Piglett's X-Rated relative. Pixlet is the new video codec that will be included in MacOS 10.3 later this year. It is the same codec that Pixar uses to do their compression and editing. You know Pixar? Toy Story? Bug's Life? Monster's Inc? Finding Nemo?

Apple claims that Pixlet can compress a 6GB movie at half high definition, which is a little worse than DVD down to 250MB. Yes. You heard right. 250MB! It will be a video editor's dream. No more huge DV files. No more 30+ GB projects! Wahoo.

So why will it be your best friend? Because the days of grainy and low quality bootlegs off Kazaa and other such services will be over. What? I never. Yes you have. Admit it. You will be able to get near DVD quality movies at 250MB a pop. In order to get high quality now, DIVX it is still almost as bad as if you downloaded the DVD itself. Many DIVX movies are anywhere from 650MB to 1.8GB and are not anywhere close to the quality that will be delivered with Pixlet. Movies are a little different than online music swapping. Many download movies in the interim so they can watch the movies while they wait for the DVD. I still buy every movie I ever download simply because the quality is much better and you get all the extra features. To me movie downloading and music downloading are in two separate categories.

So I don't do that. Why else will Pixlet be my friend? Pixlet will allow complete movies on demand. It will allow near DVD quality movies to be sent to your computer. There are rumors as I type this that Apple is gearing up to make a version of the iTunes Music Store for movies. This hypethetical store would allow you to cheaply purchase, download, and burn your own movies much cheaper than you would buying them in a store. Pixlet could very easily deliver DVD or higher quality with relatively small file sizes. If you are not aware a DVD is either 4.7GB or 8.4GB depending on the media used. That would take forever to download. A 250MB file could theoretically even be downloaded my a modem user in a day or two. That seems like a lot, but with a download manager of some sort that lets you get it little by little as you go along it would really only be a few overnight downloads. It's not as bad as it sounds. In the days where there are people who download entire Linux distributions which are 2+ GB this seems a lot more reasonable.

So will Pixlet be your friend? Yep. I think so.

from here

are "President" George W. Bush and President-Vice (how appropriate) Richard B. Cheney

As evidence, please visit Most Thrilling Impeached

Very truly yours,
Kilgore Trout

Also, it would be interesting to see the much-hyped Pixlet codec compared.

According to my sources, OS X 10.1 (when they really hsipped computers with that as a default) was around midyear 2002 - now if you'll look at a stock chart, you'll find that the abnormal bubble all tech companies went through had dissapated by then (nice of you to choose a price right in the hottest part of the buble) and had sank to about $15.

Alternatley I would note that even buying at your price of $40, you could have sold off at $60 and made a nice profit.

If you had bought Apple stock monthy (using dollar cost averaging which is what you do if you have any brains at all) from even 2001 you would be doing pretty well overall. As proof take a look at the chart you linked to with the same timeframe we are actually discussing. Or better yet compare to a money market fund (where you wanted to put your money).

I'll keep my money working, thanks, and you can keep your money in your mattress. Good luck with that.

But I can see a the potential for misuse too.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Now step over here so I can jab this pencil in your eye, give you a paper cut across the neck and stick your fingers in this space heater.

I predict this will be the next great urban legend, following in the vein of kidney theives and zombies created by criminals. "I woke up in my room and there were wires coming out of my head. I could only scream silently in my head as my body walked out the door and proceeded to rob a bank." Hmmm...reminds me of Spock's Brain...

Cost of U.S. "involvement" in Iraq: over $100 billion

Cost of Halliburton contracts: over $10 billion

Cost of "President"'s salary: over $300,000

Listening to the stupidity vomited by
The Cardboard President ; Priceless !!!!!

Respectfully,
Kilgore Trout

This is great news.

Let's hope though, that we do not have that SCARY song by Leonard Nimoy playing. . .

the best joystick I ever used was an Apple][ joystick

Pictures are here

It just had the perfect feel and was fairly well built. It was the only joystick I've ever seen survive Decathalon.

Do you know what's the biggest cause of cancer in humans due to chemicals? Salt.

You forgot to mention the most dangerous chemical of all, dihydro monoxide. Why worry about mercury, when you have all that H2O around ...

No, the biggest environmental threat to humans isn't either radiation or chemicals, it's ignorance, stupidity, and paranoia.

It is a good thing then that we have Bush in the White House, to fight for more arsenic and lead in the water and more mercury in the air. These stupid environmental laws are just in the way when fighting against ignorance and stupidity.

A message as this could only be vomited by The World's Most Dangerous Leader

Very truly yours,
Kilgore Trout

Only a message as this could be vomited by
The World's Most Dangerous Leader

Patriotically yours,
Kilgore Trout

Jerry Doyle, the actor who played Security Chief Michael Garibaldi on Babylon 5, said that the first season was filmed for about $950,000 an episode -- he figured it was about $19 million for the whole season.

With B5 doing extremely well in DVD boxset form (Doyle commented that 350,000 boxsets at about $80 apiece would bring in $21 million) he remarked that they could effectively film a season and throw it in a box set and it'll eventually make money.

Obviously, that has some pitfalls -- I'm not going to shell out $75 to $100 for a season of a show I haven't watched any of -- but it does lend credence to what you're saying.

Another example would be Red Vs. Blue. Sure, the episodes are free for download in a low-res form; if you donate money, you can get access to high-res versions of the episodes; at the end of the season, they sell a whole season on DVD, and the best part is, if you basically donate the amount the DVD costs over the course of the season, you get it for free!

Leaving aside the fact that Paramount would bury them in lawyers for basically doing fanfic episodes in the vein of Star Trek: the Original Series, Starship Exeter would be another good example of something that might be entertaining, at $8 - $10 a DVD for two episodes, to pick up once in a while. (I'm not sure how they're making money doing basically fanfic episodes in the vein of Star Trek: the Original Series; I assume it's simply for the fun of it.)

I haven't had cable for over 4 years, and it hasn't hampered my ability to socialize with the world; I get my news from Google News and the local paper; friends will record stuff and loan it to me once in a while (I watched Battlestar Galactica and the SciFi Dune miniseries this way) and if you're good at listening, you can get people to tell you what happened on that show you used to watch. (Oral storytelling takes on a new life...?) I'm thinking of signing up for NetFlix and watching TV shows on DVD that way, at least enough to know whether or not I want to buy the box set.

If the MPAA or the networks or whoever want to try to force me to watch shows their way, on their schedule, they will fail. In fact, I'd say they've already failed, not just with me, but with the demographic that's typically the most lucrative for them as well.

Jay (=

Watch the "President" brag about Weapons of Mass Deception

Patriotically,
Kilgore

Ever wonder why Osama bin Laden can't be found?

To find out, listen to The World's Most Dangerous Leader

Regards,
Kilgore

...that you can design data structures that parallel the way in which you represent numbers? You mean like this?

While the eminent thinker, leader, and not least orator Bush would have explained why SCO would only be able to fool him (at least) once:

"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

Liste to the actual Bush quote here.

I posted a mirror of the video here.

I don't know how much this will help you, but you can publish an iCal as HTML to a WebDAV-enabled server. I've got a .mac account so I publish mine that way, but WebDAV is obviously cheaper. ;)

Viewing the feed any more frequently, even by mistake or for just a day or two, bans your RSS reader permanently.

Yes, that is very annoying. This article inspired me to download the latest version of the excellent Mac OS X RSS reader SlashDock. I had to quit and restart the app to clear up some problem with its preferences window not appearing. Which meant that it reloaded the headlines. There we go again: banned from Slashdot RSS feed for 72 hours. Forget it, I'll just go back to reloading the web page. Which costs Slashdot a lot more bandwith than the RSS feed, I suppose. Oh well.

JP

...well that's what I think. If a thief knows there is an alarm they probably just dump or trash the laptop (in this case) and the chances of getting it back intact are very remote.

I use LapCop for my powerbook and my desktop for that matter. Combined with a firmware password (stopping anyone reformating your harddrive) you can install it as a invisible application and when your PowerBook is next connected to the internet via the modem or a network it will email you it's new IP information. Hopefully after that you can trace down it location with the help of the ISP it's connected to.

Granted not a good as a GSP based system, but a good and relatively cheap solution.

You can schedule a program to be recorded on a one-time, daily, or weekly basis (or more generically using iCal). And you can save programs in a Library. After they are recorded, the streams are converted to mp3 or aac in itunes and moved to a special playlist. All ready to upload to the ipod. I use it to have the latest broadcasts of several npr programs that I like on my ipod. Unfortunately, cartalk just went wma, which I don't yet support.

The source is included and is public domain. The latest version is here. There is also a beta that has a revised and simpler interface - but which has a couple of interface glitches.

Hope someone enjoys it.

You can schedule a program to be recorded on a one-time, daily, or weekly basis (or more generically using iCal). And you can save programs in a Library. After they are recorded, the streams are converted to mp3 or aac in itunes and moved to a special playlist. All ready to upload to the ipod. I use it to have the latest broadcasts of several npr programs that I like on my ipod. Unfortunately, cartalk just went wma, which I don't yet support.

The source is included and is public domain. The latest version is here. There is also a beta that has a revised and simpler interface - but which has a couple of interface glitches.

Hope someone enjoys it.

Pah! Windows...

Before Apple introduced System 7 that had switching built-in, there was an application called "Switcher" that allowed the user to run up to 4 simultaneous screens. This was for the Macintosh Plus/SE/IIGS/etc, that typically had between 512K and 2megs of RAM, I'd say about 1985 though I'mnot at all certain about this.

Best resource page I could find quickly.

The US will patent ANYTHING. Duhh.

Better Pic of his wife. ;-)

...was regularly ranked in the top ten Tribes players in the world, according to the realtime stats at some site that tracks such things. She used to play 10+ hours/day 5+ days/week.

It was interesting to see the varied reactions of the guys. She didn't advertise that she was female, but if it came up the first reaction was usually disbelief and dismissal -- they assumed she was a guy lying about his gender. Then after adequate proof (using voice comm in game, for example) they'd be surprised, but accept the truth. Then they wanted to see pictures.

There were basically two reactions: anger and attraction. It was usually the younger guys who got angry -- for some reason they were pissed off that a girl could beat them. They'd get all bitchy at her and call her names, claim she was cheating and disappear. Maybe they'd be like that with anyone. Who knows?

Most of the older guys (heh -- meaning past puberty) ended up getting attracted to her. In fact a whole bunch of guys would flock around her online wherever she went... be it gaming, or IRC.

She went to TribesCon IV in Reno a couple years ago, and she was one of maybe three girls who came to play... out of 200+ total gamers. There were lots of girlfriends there, but they stayed off to the side.

Some of the guys became quite taken with her (it doesn't hurt that she's a hottie). Which got a little weird. Eventually she retired and got back into real life.

Cheers.