Wow, I was all for a redesign, but after reading your description the shuttle sounds like a big Space-SUV. It's rekindled my nationalist pride in it and brought a tear to my eye.
God Bless America!
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Did you actually read his POST?
He was addressing why you hardly ever hear of case mods for Macs. i.e. It's like buying a BMW and then slapping a "wing" on it. You're supporting his point by pointing out that the lego case wouldn't have been created had the PowerBook not been facing the trash heap.
There's no streaming for the purchased AAC files. Adding mp3 streaming to iTunes actually creates a situation that didn't exist before that illustrates an intrusive shortcoming of their DRM.
I hope I'm mistaking, but it looks like they replaced the standard firewire port for a cradle port.
What happened to the iPod being a portable hard drive? Do I have to carry around a cradle to make use of that feature? I gained a slimmer iPod but lost the portability afforded by the ability to pick it up and go. I can score a firewire cable away from home for unanticipated file back-up a lot easier than a cradle.
Is it safe to ASSuME that was planned to restrict serendipitous music swapping? Why would I want sound out on a stationary cradle vs. the head phone jack? I know having to support USB2 on the system hardware had to be taken into consideration but I rather have ubiquitous access to straight firewire than the added cradle connectivity to non-firewire wintels.
You know what's also interesting? Coherent sentences. The X-Serve Cluster Node is a dual process system with a price that's $1000 under its non-cluster targetted counterpart. It also has some other missing features deemed not neccessary for clustering purposes.
I start off on the slashdot.org front page and as I scan the articles I prioritize them based on their level of interest to me. Starting at the top of my list I then read the conversations until they degenerate to drivel or I lose interest after following a few dozen threads--links and all. It's time to move on to the next article whenever I come to the conclusion that I now know more about a subject I was casually interested in than was worth the time I afforded to learning about it. I repeat this process as many times as necessary until I run out of articles or I decide the articles at the bottom of my list aren't worth the trouble.
Unless I'm moderating I usually just skim the top with highest scores first although I regularly work my way to the first posts at the bottom. Not to join on the bandwagon but moderation has gotten terrible so I've set all the negative moderations to have a 1+ value in my preferences. This in effect negates them so an article has as fair a chance of reaching me as any other not moderated. I haven't decided that all negative moderations are evil so I also haven't come to the conclusion that any moderation is worth my attention. I'll set my preferences to 2+ if that ever happens.
I follow up slashdot with a somethingawful.com chaser to set my mind at ease and to be reassured that getting aggrevated is futile since the internet makes you stupid.
After reading the day's feature, I then check their Awful Link of the Day. Unless it belongs to a very original freak or a freak ailed by something an acquaintance suffers from, I pass. If it can't give me ammo to tease friends I always opt for my own nomination, macosrumors.com
In the rare case of an update I'll read it for laughs unless it's a processor based update. I don't have a comedy chaser ready for those instances so there's no point in winding myself up into a murderous rage.
A quick stop afterwards at maccentral.com usually satisfies the need for real Mac news although I'm thinking of solely switching to macdevcenter.com since they have Mac Central updates on a sidebar.
The subject says "5 daily reads" and for now that's macdevcenter.com which I got into by following slashdot articles. This slot is always being contested and it's a good thing I only read The Filthy Critic on Monday.
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I think you're just bitter that your name is Mat(t)h and you're bad at math. You're in the same boat as Hoops from One Crazy Summer
Maybe one day your dorment algebra skills will help you win a yacht race.
pun-foo..
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iMac Shipping Delays
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Next time you should say "Apple Newton" so even though they still won't know what you're talking about, at least they'll know it's not totally off topic.
I've easily found regionless hacked versions of Apple's DVD player software online. While I haven't used one myself, all reports point to the regionless part of the equation working while the playback quality depends on hardware/software version.
I don't know of any whole books that cover the UNIVAC era, but if your dad is an ex-IBMer he might be interested in Computer Wars : The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology. The first third of the book covers IBM history including the lead up to the PC. It does a great job of cataloging all the pointy-haired management decisions along the way. The second third of the book covers what was happening at IBM around the time the book was written. The last third is comprised of suggestions from the authors on what they believed at the time IBM needed to do to get back to its position among industry leaders.
I figured I was too unmotivated to join a gym so when I saw a UPS job poster on campus I decided to join up. I've been working preload/splitting for about 4 months now. Here's some of my insight on the goings on at UPS and an analysis of what happened to your package.
The packages arrive at the center in 18 wheelers that get parked up against bays. "Unloaders" take regular boxes and put them on rollers. However, if a box is too heavy or it's an irregularly shaped item it gets put down the side of the bay inside the building. These irregular items are referred to in UPS lingo as "irregs" (ee-regs). An "irreg" can range from truck tires to rolls of carpet to really heavy regular looking square boxes. If you can imagine it, UPS ships it unless federally prohibited.
The rollers that the regular packages get placed on go to a bank of "sorters". These are people physically reading the labels and moving the boxes into color-coded chutes that lead to conveyor belts. The belts move the packages through a complicated maze or chutes and other belts. The packages end up in the section of the center that handles the part of town the address is in. This is the preload section.
The preload section consists of a wide, waist high conveyor belt with UPS "pullman brown" colored "package cars" (the brown trucks) backed up along the sides. The belt splits the area of town down the center such as east and west. That determines which side of the belt the trucks are parked on. The two preloaders at the front of the belt look at all the labels and "split" the packages according to which side of town it belongs in. The "splitters" also need to pull off the "mis-sort" packages with addresses outside the boundaries of that particular preload belt. One of the splitters normally has access to a "return" belt that leads back to the sorters.
Preloaders scan the labels for addresses they're responsible for. When they see one they check if it requires special handling such as hazardous materials or premium service packages that need to be delivered by a certain time of day. The inside of the trucks have a sequence to them that follow the order of stops the driver makes. Hence, a package normally gets put in a section of the truck corresponding to a section of its route. There are exceptions to the placement of packages in cases where it's a hazardous material, a large irregular shape, too heavy to be on a shelf or it's a premium package.
The driver shows up and makes his stops and we all live happily ever after except for you. Why?
After I was done looking at your pictures I scrolled around wondering if I'd missed pictures of the other boxes where all this stuff was shipped in. Putting all those heavy incompatibly shaped items in one box must have made it very heavy and unwieldy. Your box ended up being an "irreg" which means instead of going for a ride on conveyor belts, people had to physically move it around.
Someone had to lift it onto a trolley, carry it off the trolly, sort it, take it to the proper preload area, lift it on a fork lift, and put it on the preload belt. What if it was mis-sorted? Someone had to pull it off the belt and the process started all over again. What's more, all of that was happening while your electronics got to hang out with all the other "irregs" like steel pipes, buckets of mystery solutions, furniture, etc. Notice I didn't even mention the fact that the preloader and driver had to carry it around, too.
If you would have individually packaged the items it might have cost a little more but so would have getting insurance. There's no doubt in my mind that your components would have arrived safely had you packaged them individually. The damage mostly came from the things in the box smacking up against each other. No amount of care would have prevented that.
My personal experience at UPS has been that they do care if employees are treating the packages right. This also includes safety from theft. They accomplish this through regular spying on workers in the course of their duties as well as metal detectors and security guards at the entrance to the center.
In January, there was a story about a guy who at one point had 1 million Atari 2600 and 7800 games stored underground. He was selling them for about a buck each and he was even willing to help people locate the hardware to play them.
So supposedly, according to CNN, the ruling states that if Napster knowingly did not stop pirated material from being traded on its network then it's liable for those instances only. Napster doesn't keep track of its users and when Metallica offered up names and proof on evil copyright enfringers they closed those accounts. Doesn't sound like they knowingly enable pirating to me.
So now that the ruling is in and Napster has a deal with BMI, what's to stop Napster from becoming the official BMI music trading network, oh, and if some non-BMI music got traded, we didn't know about it?
>Is it just me, or are both of these companies throwing around utter bull shit business speak
Well, not to outright disagree with you, but you've only provided examples of Microsoft BS when you implied both companies are equally guilty. Not to mention you ended your comment on MS unethical business practices and no mention of Sun.
No one will switch to Mac OS X because it's designed to be used with a one-button mouse! Why the hell would anybody opt to work better when they can be cool and use a foot-pedal or one of many mouse buttons to bring up a contextual menu?!
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For the idiot readers in the audience: It's a real shame some of you miss things like [SARCASM] being put in a sarcastic post.
For the idiot moderators in the audience: This isn't a 'flamebait' and no it isn't a troll either. It's a funny, like other moderators can most of the time understand.
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I know, I know, even I'm groaning at that one.
God Bless America!
He was addressing why you hardly ever hear of case mods for Macs. i.e. It's like buying a BMW and then slapping a "wing" on it. You're supporting his point by pointing out that the lego case wouldn't have been created had the PowerBook not been facing the trash heap.
There's no streaming for the purchased AAC files. Adding mp3 streaming to iTunes actually creates a situation that didn't exist before that illustrates an intrusive shortcoming of their DRM.
Awaits "flamebait" mod or the ever passive aggressive "offtopic" or "overrated."
Forget the dark ages of gaming. Hello dark ages of BBSing.
I guess this is an acceptable compromise, yet not as convenient as the original.
What happened to the iPod being a portable hard drive? Do I have to carry around a cradle to make use of that feature? I gained a slimmer iPod but lost the portability afforded by the ability to pick it up and go. I can score a firewire cable away from home for unanticipated file back-up a lot easier than a cradle.
Is it safe to ASSuME that was planned to restrict serendipitous music swapping? Why would I want sound out on a stationary cradle vs. the head phone jack? I know having to support USB2 on the system hardware had to be taken into consideration but I rather have ubiquitous access to straight firewire than the added cradle connectivity to non-firewire wintels.
O'Reilly's Mac Dev Center also put out a review here.
Come waste your mod points here, retards.
You know what's also interesting? Coherent sentences. The X-Serve Cluster Node is a dual process system with a price that's $1000 under its non-cluster targetted counterpart. It also has some other missing features deemed not neccessary for clustering purposes.
Unless I'm moderating I usually just skim the top with highest scores first although I regularly work my way to the first posts at the bottom. Not to join on the bandwagon but moderation has gotten terrible so I've set all the negative moderations to have a 1+ value in my preferences. This in effect negates them so an article has as fair a chance of reaching me as any other not moderated. I haven't decided that all negative moderations are evil so I also haven't come to the conclusion that any moderation is worth my attention. I'll set my preferences to 2+ if that ever happens.
I follow up slashdot with a somethingawful.com chaser to set my mind at ease and to be reassured that getting aggrevated is futile since the internet makes you stupid.
After reading the day's feature, I then check their Awful Link of the Day. Unless it belongs to a very original freak or a freak ailed by something an acquaintance suffers from, I pass. If it can't give me ammo to tease friends I always opt for my own nomination, macosrumors.com
In the rare case of an update I'll read it for laughs unless it's a processor based update. I don't have a comedy chaser ready for those instances so there's no point in winding myself up into a murderous rage.
A quick stop afterwards at maccentral.com usually satisfies the need for real Mac news although I'm thinking of solely switching to macdevcenter.com since they have Mac Central updates on a sidebar.
The subject says "5 daily reads" and for now that's macdevcenter.com which I got into by following slashdot articles. This slot is always being contested and it's a good thing I only read The Filthy Critic on Monday. --- and then I got tired of proofreading my post
Does your grandmother also go out of her way to give you her potato chowder?
Maybe one day your dorment algebra skills will help you win a yacht race.
pun-foo..
Next time you should say "Apple Newton" so even though they still won't know what you're talking about, at least they'll know it's not totally off topic.
Next time they're hiring editors, make sure to submit a resume.
All right, whores! We already know what was viewed as interesting, insightful and funny just a few hours ago! Repost and cash in!
I've easily found regionless hacked versions of Apple's DVD player software online. While I haven't used one myself, all reports point to the regionless part of the equation working while the playback quality depends on hardware/software version.
Have everybody log into a FreeBSD box running hunt.
I don't know of any whole books that cover the UNIVAC era, but if your dad is an ex-IBMer he might be interested in Computer Wars : The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology. The first third of the book covers IBM history including the lead up to the PC. It does a great job of cataloging all the pointy-haired management decisions along the way. The second third of the book covers what was happening at IBM around the time the book was written. The last third is comprised of suggestions from the authors on what they believed at the time IBM needed to do to get back to its position among industry leaders.
Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer is an even meatier tome but with an emphasis on Silicon Valley.
I figured I was too unmotivated to join a gym so when I saw a UPS job poster on campus I decided to join up. I've been working preload/splitting for about 4 months now. Here's some of my insight on the goings on at UPS and an analysis of what happened to your package.
The packages arrive at the center in 18 wheelers that get parked up against bays. "Unloaders" take regular boxes and put them on rollers. However, if a box is too heavy or it's an irregularly shaped item it gets put down the side of the bay inside the building. These irregular items are referred to in UPS lingo as "irregs" (ee-regs). An "irreg" can range from truck tires to rolls of carpet to really heavy regular looking square boxes. If you can imagine it, UPS ships it unless federally prohibited.
The rollers that the regular packages get placed on go to a bank of "sorters". These are people physically reading the labels and moving the boxes into color-coded chutes that lead to conveyor belts. The belts move the packages through a complicated maze or chutes and other belts. The packages end up in the section of the center that handles the part of town the address is in. This is the preload section.
The preload section consists of a wide, waist high conveyor belt with UPS "pullman brown" colored "package cars" (the brown trucks) backed up along the sides. The belt splits the area of town down the center such as east and west. That determines which side of the belt the trucks are parked on. The two preloaders at the front of the belt look at all the labels and "split" the packages according to which side of town it belongs in. The "splitters" also need to pull off the "mis-sort" packages with addresses outside the boundaries of that particular preload belt. One of the splitters normally has access to a "return" belt that leads back to the sorters.
Preloaders scan the labels for addresses they're responsible for. When they see one they check if it requires special handling such as hazardous materials or premium service packages that need to be delivered by a certain time of day. The inside of the trucks have a sequence to them that follow the order of stops the driver makes. Hence, a package normally gets put in a section of the truck corresponding to a section of its route. There are exceptions to the placement of packages in cases where it's a hazardous material, a large irregular shape, too heavy to be on a shelf or it's a premium package.
The driver shows up and makes his stops and we all live happily ever after except for you. Why?
After I was done looking at your pictures I scrolled around wondering if I'd missed pictures of the other boxes where all this stuff was shipped in. Putting all those heavy incompatibly shaped items in one box must have made it very heavy and unwieldy. Your box ended up being an "irreg" which means instead of going for a ride on conveyor belts, people had to physically move it around.
Someone had to lift it onto a trolley, carry it off the trolly, sort it, take it to the proper preload area, lift it on a fork lift, and put it on the preload belt. What if it was mis-sorted? Someone had to pull it off the belt and the process started all over again. What's more, all of that was happening while your electronics got to hang out with all the other "irregs" like steel pipes, buckets of mystery solutions, furniture, etc. Notice I didn't even mention the fact that the preloader and driver had to carry it around, too.
If you would have individually packaged the items it might have cost a little more but so would have getting insurance. There's no doubt in my mind that your components would have arrived safely had you packaged them individually. The damage mostly came from the things in the box smacking up against each other. No amount of care would have prevented that.
My personal experience at UPS has been that they do care if employees are treating the packages right. This also includes safety from theft. They accomplish this through regular spying on workers in the course of their duties as well as metal detectors and security guards at the entrance to the center.
In January, there was a story about a guy who at one point had 1 million Atari 2600 and 7800 games stored underground. He was selling them for about a buck each and he was even willing to help people locate the hardware to play them.
So now that the ruling is in and Napster has a deal with BMI, what's to stop Napster from becoming the official BMI music trading network, oh, and if some non-BMI music got traded, we didn't know about it?
Well, not to outright disagree with you, but you've only provided examples of Microsoft BS when you implied both companies are equally guilty. Not to mention you ended your comment on MS unethical business practices and no mention of Sun.
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For the idiot readers in the audience: It's a real shame some of you miss things like [SARCASM] being put in a sarcastic post.
For the idiot moderators in the audience: This isn't a 'flamebait' and no it isn't a troll either. It's a funny, like other moderators can most of the time understand.