I can tell you right now that when I went from a V-4 to a V twin it made a huge difference in the way people reacted to me on the street.
even seeing the difference between my old V-4 with a not so good exhaust and my friends new V-4 with a nice quite exhaust was like night and day. The primary difference is the way people pulling onto the road react. when approaching an intersection with someone on a side street waiting to enter traffic the difference was more noticeable. people were far more likely to look over and notice me than before.
that said... there is such a thing as too much of a good thing... when I bought my current bike I was concerned about the pipes being obnoxious but they arent louder than many sports cars and I have been very happy with them.
no... certainly not difficult. but it is difficult to reason that the life line of the capitol of the state... which brings in huge amounts of tax revenue for said state... is worth more than the cost of finishing up the project.
I dont understand why anyone would want to kill this project now when it is so close to completion and there is no other viable support infrastructure in place for the city.
now if you could go back to the beginning and compare the value of the upgrade to what it actually ended up costing you might make a different decision, but we call that 20/20 hindsight.
quote: I'm sorry, the last thing Boston needs is more downtown skyscrapers and associated increase in traffic
Well then I have good news. The whole area previously occupied by the horribly ugly, falling down, unmaintainable 93 sky-way, will NOT be replaced by skyscrapers.
they are going to build a large, beautiful snaking park that will go from the north end to south station.
should be absolutely beautiful.
but it wont help you find parking... maybe the new MBTA upgrades will help you get into boston easier. Check your it out and be sure to attend community meetings to make your voice heard.
yes... canning it now would be dumb... its practically finished.
The plumbing and sewer infrastructure upgrade was sorely needed. I remember a few years ago there was a water main break in boston and when they dug it up the found the pipe that broke was made of wood.
wood.
as in hundreds of years old... made of wood...
yea... maybe we should upgrade those.
and the sewer system has needed an overhaul for years. the way the storm drains and residential drains are linked together causes massive pollution of the boston harbor whenever there is a heavy rain storm. these things are far overdue.
actually, the reason you pay the insurance you do is because mass has state regulated insurance prices for autos. one of the reasons that you cant get progressive or geico in mass is because the state sets the price structure for all insurance.
if you have a clean record you are on the good side of the structure, if not you are on the bad side of the price structure. Where you are in the state only factors in with theft rates.
while I wouldnt be surprised to see this tech hit the x-server market, I believe strongly that this will show up in the Powermac line, and probably first.
for one, powermacs are bigger physically making it easier to cool them. for another, one of the best uses of all that power (in apples market) is high end video and desktop publishing... which would tend more toward the powermac side of things.
That said... Im sure a place like Pixar could use a buttload of quad core X-serves for their render farm.
hey... if its only temporary that sounds like a plus to me!
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yea... but when it comes to media formats dont they tend to pick the wrong ones? i seem to remember some of the earliest macs with DVD burners supported a format that didnt make it... DVD-Ram maybe?
I wonder about that. I have a friend that works with a lot of highschool and middle school age kids and according to him role playing games (primarily 3ird edition D&D) are becoming more mainstream amongst kids these days. Not quite mainstream enough to be considered common but far more than when we were that age.
I suspect this might be a combination of WOtC owning D&D and making giving it a more out of the box game feel. Also, I suspect the popularity of the Lord of the Rings trilogy has brought this kind of fantasy thinking further into the mainstream.
there is nothing illegal about asking the public to voluntarily provide information coverd by an NDA. But if the site in question provided any kind of compensation for this information that is corporate espionage and is illegal.
I have not heard anything definitive on wether or not ThinkSecret paid anybody for trade secrets... but apple would be within their rights to sue if they did... the same thing would be true of a magazine.
the only thing that worries me, is that this isnt a fly by night blogger.
Think secret has been around for a long time and reports both news and rumor. what about Salon. they dont have a print version right? would they get the same protection as the New york times?
that said... you dont often see the new york times posting trade secrets.
yep... and those changes effected apples apps just as much as anyone elses. this wasnt a case of intentionally breaking a competitors apps. It was a result of massive changes to the OS between the two versions.
dont a lot of the mac desktops have internal firewire ports? Im pretty sure the G4 towers did although I am not sure about the G5. I wonder how much the presence of one really indicates that they intended to use it for an iPod doc.
you do have to wonder why they would put one in the mini though. there is no hope of adding an internal firewire device.
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I can tell you right now that when I went from a V-4 to a V twin it made a huge difference in the way people reacted to me on the street.
even seeing the difference between my old V-4 with a not so good exhaust and my friends new V-4 with a nice quite exhaust was like night and day. The primary difference is the way people pulling onto the road react. when approaching an intersection with someone on a side street waiting to enter traffic the difference was more noticeable. people were far more likely to look over and notice me than before.
that said... there is such a thing as too much of a good thing... when I bought my current bike I was concerned about the pipes being obnoxious but they arent louder than many sports cars and I have been very happy with them.
no... certainly not difficult. but it is difficult to reason that the life line of the capitol of the state... which brings in huge amounts of tax revenue for said state... is worth more than the cost of finishing up the project.
I dont understand why anyone would want to kill this project now when it is so close to completion and there is no other viable support infrastructure in place for the city.
now if you could go back to the beginning and compare the value of the upgrade to what it actually ended up costing you might make a different decision, but we call that 20/20 hindsight.
quote:
I'm sorry, the last thing Boston needs is more downtown skyscrapers and associated increase in traffic
Well then I have good news. The whole area previously occupied by the horribly ugly, falling down, unmaintainable 93 sky-way, will NOT be replaced by skyscrapers.
they are going to build a large, beautiful snaking park that will go from the north end to south station.
should be absolutely beautiful.
but it wont help you find parking... maybe the new MBTA upgrades will help you get into boston easier. Check your it out and be sure to attend community meetings to make your voice heard.
so the fact that the old highway has been torn down and the new tunnel is in use has no impact on your reasoning...
yea... just shut it down and let the city of boston die for lack of a highway.
that sure is bright of you.
yes... canning it now would be dumb... its practically finished.
The plumbing and sewer infrastructure upgrade was sorely needed. I remember a few years ago there was a water main break in boston and when they dug it up the found the pipe that broke was made of wood.
wood.
as in hundreds of years old... made of wood...
yea... maybe we should upgrade those.
and the sewer system has needed an overhaul for years. the way the storm drains and residential drains are linked together causes massive pollution of the boston harbor whenever there is a heavy rain storm. these things are far overdue.
actually, the reason you pay the insurance you do is because mass has state regulated insurance prices for autos. one of the reasons that you cant get progressive or geico in mass is because the state sets the price structure for all insurance.
if you have a clean record you are on the good side of the structure, if not you are on the bad side of the price structure. Where you are in the state only factors in with theft rates.
that said, insurance is expensive here.
very interesting. Thanks for the info, Ill have to do some experimenting with that.
another thing... I have never had a problem with the SMB implementation under 10.3. what sort of trouble have you been running into.
as I understand it there were some problems in the earlier versions of OS X but its been smooth sailing for the time I have been using it actively.
while I wouldnt be surprised to see this tech hit the x-server market, I believe strongly that this will show up in the Powermac line, and probably first.
for one, powermacs are bigger physically making it easier to cool them. for another, one of the best uses of all that power (in apples market) is high end video and desktop publishing... which would tend more toward the powermac side of things.
That said... Im sure a place like Pixar could use a buttload of quad core X-serves for their render farm.
hey... if its only temporary that sounds like a plus to me!
yea... but when it comes to media formats dont they tend to pick the wrong ones? i seem to remember some of the earliest macs with DVD burners supported a format that didnt make it... DVD-Ram maybe?
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I wonder about that. I have a friend that works with a lot of highschool and middle school age kids and according to him role playing games (primarily 3ird edition D&D) are becoming more mainstream amongst kids these days. Not quite mainstream enough to be considered common but far more than when we were that age.
I suspect this might be a combination of WOtC owning D&D and making giving it a more out of the box game feel. Also, I suspect the popularity of the Lord of the Rings trilogy has brought this kind of fantasy thinking further into the mainstream.
if it was a case of wrong-doing then whistle-blower laws would apply. that is not the case here though...
there is nothing illegal about asking the public to voluntarily provide information coverd by an NDA. But if the site in question provided any kind of compensation for this information that is corporate espionage and is illegal.
I have not heard anything definitive on wether or not ThinkSecret paid anybody for trade secrets... but apple would be within their rights to sue if they did... the same thing would be true of a magazine.
Well... they are more likely to make it to planet caravan with some dank nug and Sabbath than to make it to Mars with NASA
man... Id vote for someone like that in a minute. focus on balancing the budget, reducing bureaucracy and eliminating waste... thats my candidate!
there is a HUGE difference between the inane babbling of a bloger and Bill O'Reily.
the bogger is, almost with out a doubt, more lucid and in touch with reality than Bill O'Reily ever will be.
the only thing that worries me, is that this isnt a fly by night blogger.
Think secret has been around for a long time and reports both news and rumor. what about Salon. they dont have a print version right? would they get the same protection as the New york times?
that said... you dont often see the new york times posting trade secrets.
yep... and those changes effected apples apps just as much as anyone elses. this wasnt a case of intentionally breaking a competitors apps. It was a result of massive changes to the OS between the two versions.
I havent cracked one of these myself... but wouldnt a dock interfere with the optical drive that I assume takes up most of the top of the Mac mini.
I do get where you are going though, and I could see apple trying something like that.
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you know... sometimes, the lamness filter really pisses me off.
dont a lot of the mac desktops have internal firewire ports? Im pretty sure the G4 towers did although I am not sure about the G5. I wonder how much the presence of one really indicates that they intended to use it for an iPod doc.
you do have to wonder why they would put one in the mini though. there is no hope of adding an internal firewire device.
the shuttle was more of an attempt to knock of the Apple G4 cube.
sure... it will just take several days to move your music onto your iPod.
that was what was so cool about the original iPod... Large capacity with the bandwidth to fill it.