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Apple Updates PowerBooks
Tablespork writes "Apple this morning has updated the PowerBook G4. The new models feature 1.5 or 1.67 ghz processors, 8x superdrives, 512MB memory standard, Bluetooth 2.0, updated graphics cards, a sudden motion sensor, as well as a scrolling trackpad. Looks like we'll have to wait a little longer for the PowerBook G5."
Not all that impressive. I would still buy the low end ibook over the low end powerbook.
Who cares what it's for, the important thing is that it's another enty on the feature list!
:)
BTW, the current iBooks even have a magnet sensor, though it's not advertized - it's used to detect when the display is being closed. There's a magnet in the left edge of the display and a sensor in the left edge of the keyboard.
The funny thing is: any other magnet that comes close to the sensor also triggers it and makes the unit go into standby mode
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Bah, I prefer the free dual 2.5Ghz G5s.
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Great, you make a legitimate comment and get marked flaimbait. Even the Linux crowd will let you disagree with them in an open forum.
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What's this?! Someone who actually understands cricket! (The "attempting to bat against the Australian bowling attack" part.) I spent a year in England listening to the BBC and never figured out what the sports reporters were talking about. Could you point me towards any online resources that explain the game? Much obliged..
I came, I saw, I left. It looked better in the brochure.
Understanding "Cricket The Game" and "Cricket The Rules", require seperate skills in my opinion.
Understanding cricket the game essentially requires the ability to take a day or so out of your life, and thrust your posterior upon a seat or grassy hill, accopmanied by surplus amounts of Pims/beer/wine/meths dependant on preference, and vast quantities of suitable picnic type food stuffs.
Then for the next day or so, the etiquitte appears to consist of eating, talking, pointing and the occasional applause (a simple case of joining in with the majority). There are some exceptions, for instance if you are participating in the viewing of an England International, there is the need to put up with the rather loud, and repetetive cries of the English "Barmy Army". These are an intriguing group of people, with the ability to chant the exact same lyrics for an amount of time that seems at odds with the general populaces tedium threshhold.
In terms of the rules of cricket, it has best been put as follows:-
Cricket is played between two teams who each get a chance to bat and bowl.
When they bat a batsman is in until he's out. When he's out the next batsman comes in until he's out.
When all the batsmen are out, the team is all out, apart from one batsman who is not out.
The team that were fielding then go into bat until they are all out and it is a case of the team who scored the most being the winner.
Or for a more exacting reference please see here.
Though to be honest the only real way to learn is to watch a game on TV and listen to the commentators, in between their twittering about the wildlife on show, they occasionally explain some of the action that is occuring on the field.