Well, reguardless of the performance of the itanium vs. the G5 cluster, at least you'll be saving on your electricity bill by going with the 1100 G5s....
Wow. I am not alone. yes, ResEdit and making simple changes like these were what made the Mac a great learning experience to me, allowing me to get whatever work i needed done, yet also allowing me to play around with the system when i felt so inclined. Unlike dealing with PCs of the time, which were generally the other way around...play with it go get things to work, and get some work done if the computer felt so inclined.... =/
Generally i dont get involved with this, esp as im not all that familiar with Unix, but you got your order of events wrong. First Xerox got it working on the star... a GUI with a mouse and ethernet and all that good stuff... Steve Jobs saw the concept of the GUI and fell in love with it, made an exchange with Xerox for stock, and then proceeded to include several of the xerox staff over time, developing first the Lisa, and eventually the Macintosh. I believe GEos came soon afterwards with a crude GUI, but similar to Apple's... they were sued into oblivion by Apple. M$ made windows 1.0, but it was so pitiful, apple never bothered to sue...(and i have a box of windows 1.0.1 back at my parents, and have run it.. it IS pitiful.. even for its day) it was with Windows 3.0 that M$ had a true gui, and Apple sued. Also, around this time, Unix first achieved a GUI with X11, created in 88 iirc... as far as atari and amiga, im not aware of their timelines, however would love to find out more information on those systems as well.. -Joel it wasnt
If this does come to fruition in the marketplace, most likely the first company to make use of this would be M$. while they may not innovate on technology, they do innovate on ways to screw the consumer, and this is an excellent example. Say MS releases Windows 2004 next year. instead of sending out a regular CD like they usually do, they'll send out one of these CDs, which upon installation will write a small portion of information to the CD, with your computer's hardware info and specs on it. After that point, it might be restricted to installing ONLY on a computer with those specs, and additionally, only a limited # of times, at which point you would have to go and buy a new copy of windows...
Its called exageration. but even then, i have reason why i said what i said. If i'm in a fender-bender in my super, my fender might have gotten some impact, fine. i can hammer it all out, and bring it back at least close to proper shape. With most of these new cars, your either stuck with a crapload of bondo, or buying a new fender from the manufacturer (which is generally NOT cheap) so my car will actually survive, instead of having if forcibly retired because it would just cost too damn much to replace all that fiberglass. Sure, its lighter, but it'll actually last. Now, as far as cars working much better.... Brake technology has improved IMMENSELY over the years, theres no doubt about that. ive already upgrded my super's front brakes to discs, and am considering moving up to vented discs from a Porsche. and im glad to hear that your car is working great. But if you read other posts, you'll hear lists of problems with Ford focus cars... in the RAMVA newsgroup, just yesterday there were dozens and dozens of posts of people commenting on the new beetles, burnign a quart of oil every 1000 miles, and the dealers sayin thats normal for the 2.0 engines.... and thats not even taking into account the many cars i see here in San Diego, which u can see them coming a few blocks away by the smoke plume that follows them. and these arent far and few between either. and a well-tuned beetle engine will polute MCUH less then some of the gas-guzzler SUVs around, and will last 10 times as long too
By the way, I'm personally of the opinion that nobody should be driving a car >10 years old. The improvements in emisssions technology and safety have been dramatic, and your old car can be recycled and turned into new ones.
Sure, safety and emmisions might have gone up. But even my 71 Super beetle runs MUCH better then most 6-7 year old cars i see driving around, burning a quart of oil every ten feet.
In addition to that, i bet you that that very same 31-year old car (her birthday is coming up in 2 weeks) will still be around 10 years from now, where as your brand new SUVs will already have been thrown away, as the trend seems to be much closer to disposing cars every 3-6 years at most to buy a brand new one. Strange to sound like an old-timer (esp as i am only 21) but they just dont make cars like they used to. and sadly, probably never will.
this might sound stupid and all... but im glad that there is a failure rate. I dont use SMS messages, i dont quite see the point. my phone supports AIM, if i need to, i just use that. additionally, SMS will become the next hottest spam source. Last nite, i finally got another cell phone, through verizon... the phone hadnt been activated for 2 hours, and i received some mail that had been sent from hotmail, advertising a party... 2 hours! yea, its a cool little feature, but i dont see how it can be anything trully beneficial, just another gee-wiz thing. esp when im about to start getting charged for all the spam that comes in to the phone.
But on the same hand, if you want a car with Northstar ( i think thats the name) you go with cadillac. If you want a car based on bmw engine, you dont get a mercedes or a VW. you get a BMW.
so like the poster above you said, "BMW has a monopoly in the BMW market. GM has a monopoly in the GM market. And yet, they both sell cars and compete against each other. I can assure you Dell has 0% market penetration in the cow-logo computer market. Therefore, gateway has their own monopoly on cow logo computers. if you want a Mac, you get an apple computer. simple as that. they all have a monopoly on the products they sell, if you define it close enough
Yea but who are these guys? is it M$ thats chraging the pirates? is it adobe, or macromedia, or whatever company who's software is being distributed? no. its just some company who's supposedly against piracy, who is gonna make a profit off of piracy. will adobe or M$ or anyone else see that money? i highly doubt it. all they are doing is basically going around and saying pay us, or pay us and some lawyer to protect your ass.
Since recently upgrading our company's server's from exchange (god I hated that thing) to MDaemon, our systems have been working amazingly well and reliable. One of the bonuses to using Mdaemon, is a companion product, which can also be used as a stand-alone product, is Ldaemon, based on the OpenLDAP code. (It actually includes the OpenLDAP code that its based on!) Not to sound like a plug for the product, but since I installed it, most of my mail headaches just went away... (giving me more/. time!) Anyways, heres the link http://www.altn.com/Products/Default.asp?product_i d=LDaemon
Diamond rings, balloon trips - they're for the masses. Now, if you were to forge your own ring out of titanium and gold, in your microwave, with a diamond bought wholesale off of ebay which you etched using a electron-beam-tomograph, proclaiming your love, which you then used an AI-controlled balloon running linux to drop off to your SO, then you would be the envy of geeks everywhere!
Just the fact that you have a SO, wouldnt that already make you the envy of geeks everywhere?
While it would definately be cool to have something like this to talk in privacy, there is a quite possible danger that if someone was to call you during the night, and you werent awaken by it, it would be quite possible to send subliminal messages througout the night to the person, effectively brainwashing them with anything required to do... Unless very properly made with safeguards, this could be a very dangerous yet powerful item for brainwashin, and espionage even.. *insert twilight zone theme here*
Considering the fact that im closing in on 30GB of MP3s, yes, the feature is useful. But other then the extreme cases like me, the removable HD would be useful for someone who might have the players at various locations but want to keep one set of songs... and not to mention its use as a pccard hd, you could use it as a portable storage device. all in all, its a very useful feature
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Actually, it DOES read the iPod hard disk, which is why the issue exists.
Windows cannot read HFS+ disks (without help, anyways)
Then i guess you dont know what Ford stands for....
Aer you sure it isnt
Bill's Insecure Operating System
It's a new and exciting feature!
Cambridge, Ma school department uses 172.25
the city uses 172.24, and the hospital uses 172.26
Well, reguardless of the performance of the itanium vs. the G5 cluster, at least you'll be saving on your electricity bill by going with the 1100 G5s....
Wow.
I am not alone.
yes, ResEdit and making simple changes like these were what made the Mac a great learning experience to me, allowing me to get whatever work i needed done, yet also allowing me to play around with the system when i felt so inclined.
Unlike dealing with PCs of the time, which were generally the other way around...play with it go get things to work, and get some work done if the computer felt so inclined....
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Generally i dont get involved with this, esp as im not all that familiar with Unix, but you got your order of events wrong.
First Xerox got it working on the star... a GUI with a mouse and ethernet and all that good stuff...
Steve Jobs saw the concept of the GUI and fell in love with it, made an exchange with Xerox for stock, and then proceeded to include several of the xerox staff over time, developing first the Lisa, and eventually the Macintosh. I believe GEos came soon afterwards with a crude GUI, but similar to Apple's...
they were sued into oblivion by Apple. M$ made windows 1.0, but it was so pitiful, apple never bothered to sue...(and i have a box of windows 1.0.1 back at my parents, and have run it.. it IS pitiful.. even for its day)
it was with Windows 3.0 that M$ had a true gui, and Apple sued. Also, around this time, Unix first achieved a GUI with X11, created in 88 iirc...
as far as atari and amiga, im not aware of their timelines, however would love to find out more information on those systems as well..
-Joel
it wasnt
If this does come to fruition in the marketplace, most likely the first company to make use of this would be M$. while they may not innovate on technology, they do innovate on ways to screw the consumer, and this is an excellent example.
Say MS releases Windows 2004 next year.
instead of sending out a regular CD like they usually do, they'll send out one of these CDs, which upon installation will write a small portion of information to the CD, with your computer's hardware info and specs on it. After that point, it might be restricted to installing ONLY on a computer with those specs, and additionally, only a limited # of times, at which point you would have to go and buy a new copy of windows...
Microsoft can make sure that you'll need more than 4GB pretty soon....
No problem. /. decided to ignore my italics tags and just made it sound as if it were my own.
it seems
Its called exageration.
but even then, i have reason why i said what i said.
If i'm in a fender-bender in my super, my fender might have gotten some impact, fine. i can hammer it all out, and bring it back at least close to proper shape.
With most of these new cars, your either stuck with a crapload of bondo, or buying a new fender from the manufacturer (which is generally NOT cheap)
so my car will actually survive, instead of having if forcibly retired because it would just cost too damn much to replace all that fiberglass.
Sure, its lighter, but it'll actually last.
Now, as far as cars working much better....
Brake technology has improved IMMENSELY over the years, theres no doubt about that.
ive already upgrded my super's front brakes to discs, and am considering moving up to vented discs from a Porsche.
and im glad to hear that your car is working great.
But if you read other posts, you'll hear lists of problems with Ford focus cars...
in the RAMVA newsgroup, just yesterday there were dozens and dozens of posts of people commenting on the new beetles, burnign a quart of oil every 1000 miles, and the dealers sayin thats normal for the 2.0 engines....
and thats not even taking into account the many cars i see here in San Diego, which u can see them coming a few blocks away by the smoke plume that follows them.
and these arent far and few between either.
and a well-tuned beetle engine will polute MCUH less then some of the gas-guzzler SUVs around, and will last 10 times as long too
By the way, I'm personally of the opinion that nobody should be driving a car >10 years old. The improvements in emisssions technology and safety have been dramatic, and your old car can be recycled and turned into new ones.
Sure, safety and emmisions might have gone up.
But even my 71 Super beetle runs MUCH better then most 6-7 year old cars i see driving around, burning a quart of oil every ten feet.
In addition to that, i bet you that that very same 31-year old car (her birthday is coming up in 2 weeks) will still be around 10 years from now, where as your brand new SUVs will already have been thrown away, as the trend seems to be much closer to disposing cars every 3-6 years at most to buy a brand new one.
Strange to sound like an old-timer (esp as i am only 21) but they just dont make cars like they used to.
and sadly, probably never will.
this might sound stupid and all...
but im glad that there is a failure rate.
I dont use SMS messages, i dont quite see the point.
my phone supports AIM, if i need to, i just use that.
additionally, SMS will become the next hottest spam source.
Last nite, i finally got another cell phone, through verizon...
the phone hadnt been activated for 2 hours, and i received some mail that had been sent from hotmail, advertising a party...
2 hours!
yea, its a cool little feature, but i dont see how it can be anything trully beneficial, just another gee-wiz thing.
esp when im about to start getting charged for all the spam that comes in to the phone.
Your marking Anonymous Coward a friend?
But on the same hand, if you want a car with Northstar ( i think thats the name) you go with cadillac.
If you want a car based on bmw engine, you dont get a mercedes or a VW. you get a BMW.
so like the poster above you said, "BMW has a monopoly in the BMW market. GM has a monopoly in the GM market. And yet, they both sell cars and compete against each other.
I can assure you Dell has 0% market penetration in the cow-logo computer market. Therefore, gateway has their own monopoly on cow logo computers.
if you want a Mac, you get an apple computer.
simple as that.
they all have a monopoly on the products they sell, if you define it close enough
Yea but who are these guys?
is it M$ thats chraging the pirates?
is it adobe, or macromedia, or whatever company who's software is being distributed?
no.
its just some company who's supposedly against piracy, who is gonna make a profit off of piracy.
will adobe or M$ or anyone else see that money?
i highly doubt it.
all they are doing is basically going around and saying pay us, or pay us and some lawyer to protect your ass.
definately not what we've been asking for
Dammit, you had to remind me!!!!!!
ARGH!!
*breathes deeply*
must think nice thoughts...
other movies
*jar jar binks flashes in head*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Unless your Microsoft, in which case beta is where everything gets pressed on the CDs and a several hundred dollar price tag gets put on it, right?
Actually, i think they do have one..
the Windows flag flyin high above redmond...
but...
national anthem!
thats what their missing!
unless steve ballmer screamin developers could be considered one....
hmmm...
Since recently upgrading our company's server's from exchange (god I hated that thing) to MDaemon, our systems have been working amazingly well and reliable. /. time!)i d=LDaemon
One of the bonuses to using Mdaemon, is a companion product, which can also be used as a stand-alone product, is Ldaemon, based on the OpenLDAP code. (It actually includes the OpenLDAP code that its based on!)
Not to sound like a plug for the product, but since I installed it, most of my mail headaches just went away... (giving me more
Anyways, heres the link
http://www.altn.com/Products/Default.asp?product_
Just the fact that you have a SO, wouldnt that already make you the envy of geeks everywhere?
Now I have another excuse for my doctor when he says a few pots of coffee might be too excessive
Dr: "You got to cut back on your caffeine intake."
Me: "But I'm reducing my risk of getting Alzeimer's!"
While it would definately be cool to have something like this to talk in privacy, there is a quite possible danger that if someone was to call you during the night, and you werent awaken by it, it would be quite possible to send subliminal messages througout the night to the person, effectively brainwashing them with anything required to do...
Unless very properly made with safeguards, this could be a very dangerous yet powerful item for brainwashin, and espionage even..
*insert twilight zone theme here*
Considering the fact that im closing in on 30GB of MP3s, yes, the feature is useful.
But other then the extreme cases like me, the removable HD would be useful for someone who might have the players at various locations but want to keep one set of songs...
and not to mention its use as a pccard hd, you could use it as a portable storage device.
all in all, its a very useful feature