Yep, my '77 242 had 215,000 when i gave it away (after getting it for free from a friend 18 mos earlier). It finally died about 6 months later, a blown rear engine seal that the current owner couldn't afford to replace.
That was a well-made car and nice to drive, even beat as it was. I couldn't get it stuck in snow unless i was stupid enough to high-center it.
During my tenure, i replaced a shot front end bushing with a piece of rubber from a sneaker (really tightened up the steering, that did), and replaced a rear axle stub with a used one while it was parked at a curb because the old one had eaten all the bearings.
Sure, you might be able to build a server cheaper that Apple's, but compare hardware cost to a comparable HP or Dell server. Most corps are still buying the bigger names with actual support for their servers, and the differences in price between them and Apple are trifling.
I'm (knock on wood) on the verge of replacing 2 Windows servers with a spanky new G5 Xserve, and part of the argument for the change is that the hardware cost is virtually the same as what we will spend for the next PC server we buy, but the OS will be much cheaper.
Plus, we get extra goodies like a database server and vpn server built in for no extra cost (we're still a Windows 2000 shop, no fancy built-in vpn here). Not to mention no extra user fees when we upgrade the OS.
Unfortunately, there will probably be women who don't breastfeed because of news like this. The benefits of breastfeeding are far better than most people realize - as one recent example, our 2-month-old daughter beat a cold within 2 days that the rest of us had for a week. There will never be a formula that provides the mix of nutrition, fat and antibodies that breastmilk does.
The real message of a study like this should be that pregnant or nursing mothers need to improve the quality of food they eat, along with avoiding tobacco and alcohol. Organic food is best, but just eating pasture-raised meat is a great start.
People blow this stuff off, but the health impact is significant, not to mention the other amazing things about nursing; the bond with the child, the reduction of allergies, better brain development, leaner children, etc. etc.
If you like the briefcase format (rather than a backpack), but want something a little more butch, a little more down to earth than a laptop bags, git yerself a Duluth Pack bag.
They've got a nice laptop insert that i've been using for 2 years with my ibook. It would probably hold 3 of them if i needed it to. As it is, there's plenty of space for whatever I need to carry (papers, books, etc.).
Leather reinforced canvas, with honest-to-god brass rivets, available in any color you want, as long as it's black.
Yeah, the Vanagon is pretty nice (especially the camper version). It's definitely due for modernization - i've heard that it was basically a bare-bones delivery van that VW adapted for the US market so it would have a van to sell.
Goodies like dual side doors, flat folding (better than removable) rear seats, etc are pretty solid reasons to give the american vans an edge over the vanagon.
I'm looking forward to test-driving the 130 hp Passat TDI, one of our local dealers is supposed to have them in January. A TDI Passat Wagon may very well be our next car (in a couple of years) unless there's a very good diesel or hybrid van around then.
I'm 6'4", and fit just fine in a 2000 Golf. In fact, the seat adjust up and down, and i've got more headroom than i had in my '77 Volvo. Your back seat passengers will suffer (unless they're toddlers), but you'll fit fine.
I actually tested a Passat before i got the Golf, and felt like the door sills were far too high to comfortably hang my elbow out the window while driving, compared to the Golf/Jetta.
I'd LOVE to make my next car a diesel - i'm impressed with the progress they're making in the European market. The mileage and durability seem good, and the ability to run biodiesel/veg oil would be a great bonus. I just with they'd send more models to the states.
I didn't have a lot of time to shop when i bought my current Golf, so i never got a chance to test out the TDI. I'm driving a turbo(1.8 gas) Golf now and love it, but will be buying either a van or larger station wagon in a couple of years (2 kids) and i'd want something more efficient than a typical gas v6. I've talked to a local VW dealer, and the Passats (presumably wagons too) will have their new tdi engine.
Even better would be a VW van such as the Sharan in a diesel, but there doesn't seem to be much hope that they'll make it here any time soon. Unfortunately, Mercedes stopped selling their excellent diesels here about 4-5 years ago.
On the plus side, i'm seeing quite a few VW TDIs around here (Twin Cities), so my initial fears of winter driveability seem to be unfounded. There are also quite a few hybrids around here though i haven't had a chance to drive one myself.
I talked with an apple rep after a Panther demo a couple of weeks ago, and Panther is going to include a set of Linux APIs.
He didn't have much information about which ones, what it meant for running PPC Linux binaries, etc., but it'll be interesting to see what they're planning for it.
I've been working on Macs all day for years. A while back, when i didn't need my home box for real work, i'd play around installing Be, LinuxPPC, netBSD, etc. Troubleshooting a sendmail config problem can be interesting (for a while) when you've been tweaking pixels all day.
Now, that same box is running YDL, mail & web server for a handful of sites... remotely admin'd from my iBook.
They're gobbling up all of the new license sales, that's probably true. And they're getting quite a few people who are (rightly) losing confidence in Quark.
I'll bet that the biggest group of Quark users have just been waiting patiently. People in the internet world wouldn't believe how slow and reluctant print users are to upgrade. There are just too many variables for most people to leap into a different production platform.
In our shop, our manager has been very interested in moving our production to an XML-to-PDF-based 'blind' publishing system (no wysiwyg, preview as pdf). This is a change that would turn our whole work flow upside down; designers, writers, editors, etc. BUT, she doesn't want to get a copy ID2 to test it out. That would be too disruptive.
There are print people very happily working away in OS9 with Quark 3.3, cranking out thousands of pages. They don't care about Unix or its benefits, they care that their fonts and graphics make it to the page EXACTLY as they designed them on EVERY page.
I think once it's proven that Quark 6 is stable, and once 6.01 comes out, maybe 6 months after that Apple will start selling some serious numbers of new pro machines.
You don't need to edit video to appreciate a fast network.
For print production work, i'll bet most people would gladly give up the 100gb hard drives for gigabit ethernet. We don't keep much at all stored locally, but we'll routinely open and edit 100 mb photoshop files.
Anything that makes opening and saving those faster (along with 50 mb Quark files, etc) will save money in our shop. Production people need every reason to save as often as necessary. If it takes 2 minutes to save a file, chances are they'll save less often and lose more work when there are network/server issues.
i don't have 20 gigs worth of CDs worth ripping, but i would sure use it for file storage, boot drive, portable home directory, storing DVDs, etc. You couldn't do that with your average cheap-ass mp3 player.
The beautiful thing about the ipod is that it can do all of those things because it's firewire and a hard drive. Sure, you might boot up from a usb drive, on a vacation day maybe, while you take a nap.
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i think each app is still restricted to 2GB, supposed to change when more of the os is 64-bit...
i know, it's pretty scary to have to look this up at the apple site:
Up to 8GB of 400MHz DDR SDRAM
Yep, my '77 242 had 215,000 when i gave it away (after getting it for free from a friend 18 mos earlier). It finally died about 6 months later, a blown rear engine seal that the current owner couldn't afford to replace.
That was a well-made car and nice to drive, even beat as it was. I couldn't get it stuck in snow unless i was stupid enough to high-center it.
During my tenure, i replaced a shot front end bushing with a piece of rubber from a sneaker (really tightened up the steering, that did), and replaced a rear axle stub with a used one while it was parked at a curb because the old one had eaten all the bearings.
good times...
wow, that took all of .45 seconds to google:
.19 seconds gets us:
...and, as others have pointed out, FDR was physically sick.
longest presidential vacation in 32 years
let's see what another
Bush has taken 250 days off as of August 2003. That's 27% of his presidency spent on vacation.
yeah... just like Rush Limbaugh... or James Lileks... just a couple more lefty Mac lovers.
Sure, but he had a C average. And it's not like he had to work his way through school or anything.
Do you really think that a guy with average intelligence or average work ethic should be running the country?
And he might not have time to read his email, but he sure makes times for those long-ass vacations.
Sure, you might be able to build a server cheaper that Apple's, but compare hardware cost to a comparable HP or Dell server. Most corps are still buying the bigger names with actual support for their servers, and the differences in price between them and Apple are trifling.
I'm (knock on wood) on the verge of replacing 2 Windows servers with a spanky new G5 Xserve, and part of the argument for the change is that the hardware cost is virtually the same as what we will spend for the next PC server we buy, but the OS will be much cheaper.
Plus, we get extra goodies like a database server and vpn server built in for no extra cost (we're still a Windows 2000 shop, no fancy built-in vpn here). Not to mention no extra user fees when we upgrade the OS.
Unfortunately, there will probably be women who don't breastfeed because of news like this. The benefits of breastfeeding are far better than most people realize - as one recent example, our 2-month-old daughter beat a cold within 2 days that the rest of us had for a week. There will never be a formula that provides the mix of nutrition, fat and antibodies that breastmilk does.
The real message of a study like this should be that pregnant or nursing mothers need to improve the quality of food they eat, along with avoiding tobacco and alcohol. Organic food is best, but just eating pasture-raised meat is a great start.
People blow this stuff off, but the health impact is significant, not to mention the other amazing things about nursing; the bond with the child, the reduction of allergies, better brain development, leaner children, etc. etc.
If you like the briefcase format (rather than a backpack), but want something a little more butch, a little more down to earth than a laptop bags, git yerself a Duluth Pack bag.
They've got a nice laptop insert that i've been using for 2 years with my ibook. It would probably hold 3 of them if i needed it to. As it is, there's plenty of space for whatever I need to carry (papers, books, etc.).
Leather reinforced canvas, with honest-to-god brass rivets, available in any color you want, as long as it's black.
just written up and posted:
http://hivelogic.com/macfax.php
basically, you get a distinctive ring tone from your phone company for the fax line, and the panther fax software will distinguish.
yes, much like the referenced post
Yeah, the Vanagon is pretty nice (especially the camper version). It's definitely due for modernization - i've heard that it was basically a bare-bones delivery van that VW adapted for the US market so it would have a van to sell.
Goodies like dual side doors, flat folding (better than removable) rear seats, etc are pretty solid reasons to give the american vans an edge over the vanagon.
I'm looking forward to test-driving the 130 hp Passat TDI, one of our local dealers is supposed to have them in January. A TDI Passat Wagon may very well be our next car (in a couple of years) unless there's a very good diesel or hybrid van around then.
I'm 6'4", and fit just fine in a 2000 Golf. In fact, the seat adjust up and down, and i've got more headroom than i had in my '77 Volvo. Your back seat passengers will suffer (unless they're toddlers), but you'll fit fine.
I actually tested a Passat before i got the Golf, and felt like the door sills were far too high to comfortably hang my elbow out the window while driving, compared to the Golf/Jetta.
I'd LOVE to make my next car a diesel - i'm impressed with the progress they're making in the European market. The mileage and durability seem good, and the ability to run biodiesel/veg oil would be a great bonus. I just with they'd send more models to the states.
I didn't have a lot of time to shop when i bought my current Golf, so i never got a chance to test out the TDI. I'm driving a turbo(1.8 gas) Golf now and love it, but will be buying either a van or larger station wagon in a couple of years (2 kids) and i'd want something more efficient than a typical gas v6. I've talked to a local VW dealer, and the Passats (presumably wagons too) will have their new tdi engine.
Even better would be a VW van such as the Sharan in a diesel, but there doesn't seem to be much hope that they'll make it here any time soon. Unfortunately, Mercedes stopped selling their excellent diesels here about 4-5 years ago.
On the plus side, i'm seeing quite a few VW TDIs around here (Twin Cities), so my initial fears of winter driveability seem to be unfounded. There are also quite a few hybrids around here though i haven't had a chance to drive one myself.
I talked with an apple rep after a Panther demo a couple of weeks ago, and Panther is going to include a set of Linux APIs.
He didn't have much information about which ones, what it meant for running PPC Linux binaries, etc., but it'll be interesting to see what they're planning for it.
actually, yeah.
I've been working on Macs all day for years. A while back, when i didn't need my home box for real work, i'd play around installing Be, LinuxPPC, netBSD, etc. Troubleshooting a sendmail config problem can be interesting (for a while) when you've been tweaking pixels all day.
Now, that same box is running YDL, mail & web server for a handful of sites... remotely admin'd from my iBook.
hi troll!
1997 called and they want their gripe back.
Someone at /. must have bought the iPhoto Missing manual.
i'm sure that once a "Stock G5" exists, there will extensive benchmarking.
i wouldn't hold your breath for a "Stock G5 P4" though.
yao yao yao
and they want their press release back.
They're gobbling up all of the new license sales, that's probably true. And they're getting quite a few people who are (rightly) losing confidence in Quark.
I'll bet that the biggest group of Quark users have just been waiting patiently. People in the internet world wouldn't believe how slow and reluctant print users are to upgrade. There are just too many variables for most people to leap into a different production platform.
In our shop, our manager has been very interested in moving our production to an XML-to-PDF-based 'blind' publishing system (no wysiwyg, preview as pdf). This is a change that would turn our whole work flow upside down; designers, writers, editors, etc. BUT, she doesn't want to get a copy ID2 to test it out. That would be too disruptive.
There are print people very happily working away in OS9 with Quark 3.3, cranking out thousands of pages. They don't care about Unix or its benefits, they care that their fonts and graphics make it to the page EXACTLY as they designed them on EVERY page.
I think once it's proven that Quark 6 is stable, and once 6.01 comes out, maybe 6 months after that Apple will start selling some serious numbers of new pro machines.
well, you can send an alien out to destroy your text box... wonder if they still have that in 6?
maybe it'll be Marvin the Martian this time, swooping across the screen in 3d - that'd be worth $899.
production work can be tedious.
actually, for $899, all it has to do is not crash and not write corrupt documents, and they'll sell a million the first week.
You don't need to edit video to appreciate a fast network.
For print production work, i'll bet most people would gladly give up the 100gb hard drives for gigabit ethernet. We don't keep much at all stored locally, but we'll routinely open and edit 100 mb photoshop files.
Anything that makes opening and saving those faster (along with 50 mb Quark files, etc) will save money in our shop. Production people need every reason to save as often as necessary. If it takes 2 minutes to save a file, chances are they'll save less often and lose more work when there are network/server issues.
i don't have 20 gigs worth of CDs worth ripping, but i would sure use it for file storage, boot drive, portable home directory, storing DVDs, etc. You couldn't do that with your average cheap-ass mp3 player.
The beautiful thing about the ipod is that it can do all of those things because it's firewire and a hard drive. Sure, you might boot up from a usb drive, on a vacation day maybe, while you take a nap.
now if i could only afford one...