With the dollar growing all the time, the prices remain constant. Especially now with the world trade disaster my currency just plumeted about 15% in the past 4 weeks. (Whenever anything good happens, the dollar strengthens, and whenever anything bad happens, third-world countries just collapse... you gotta love it, can't win.)
Plus the 40% import tax if I had to import it myself (Not to mention shipping) would not make it worthwhile.
And, PS: That was the best iBook I could find at a respectable store...
Although I also think (like so many other posts here) that the article goes overboard, and that, yes, it's easy for a user to get at the menus that change the association, there are some issues.
1) After finding the menu option to change the association, it's not always clear how to change it... for one thing there are Open, Print, PrintTo and New options attached to DOC files... and all these need to be changed. Then there is the DDE thing... what's that?
2) After actually changing the registry stuff, any upgrade of MS products will clobber your change, and the default if existing products find a change is to change it back (with a promp, sure). Although this is a good idea for inexperienced users who use a purely MS system, this can drive people like me insane...
I use Opera for browsing, IrfanView for Picture viewing, and Agent for email and news.
When I said "Not that useful" I meant not that useful to overclock, since it's already sufficient.
When I said it became hot, I meant heat disipation that would primarily degrade battery life. (Which is practically the main most important thing in a notebook PC)
And finally: Supply and demand is the main reason why they are not so popular... during one of the large FPS LAN tourneys there were perhaps one Mac in about 400 entrants. Macs are an odity... they are for exclusive users. (Anything from the USA in particular is practically unaffordable...)
Apple iBook 366 (Indigo)
366MHz Power PC G3
10GB Ultra ATA
64MB RAM
CD ROM Drive
Hmmm.. and considernig the average high-income person's salary before taxes is about 8,000.00.
This would be quite an investment.
(You pay about 2,500 for rent and 1,500 for car and 800 for insurance and 800 for food)
Leaving you about 500 per month to pay the notebook... you may actually own it before it becomes a meuseum piece.
Now take into account the pitiful availability of software, and the abysmal availability of technical support in a third world country. BAM!
Not to mention the total lack of jobs in anything un-microsoft related. (I'm a unix programmer.. it's tough.)
Now, take into account that I still drool over the iBook and still think Macs are GREAT!
:)
I've had some problems with the latest GeForce MX-400 chips when the FSB is being overclocked...
If only I knew more of the iBook's architecture, but, depending on the tolerances of some of the internal components, overclocking the FSB may also give problems...
(I love dabbling in old technology as well, I've got an Amiga 1200 and Apple powerbook amoungst my toys... hence my respect for the Motorolla line.)
But nothing beats the FPS of PCs nowadays, keeping in mind that Macs are WAY too expensive in third-world countries like mine... -sniff-
;)
33% seems a lot for such a relatively small change... they must be purely reliant on CPU.
I only play FPS games with a GeForce 2 GTS... upgrading my motherboard to 266 FSB and 266 DDR ram did more tham my upgrade from an 700 Athlon to 1.4 GHz Athlon.
But then I'm a bit out of touch with the latest in Apple tech.
I just think evolution is more important than colinization. And humans can evolve past their current concious contraints in a virtual system. Space is infinite, but confining. (Space-time cones and whatnot) But VR is liberating. (Reference: Matrix, Ghost in the Shell, The Thirteenth Floor, Tron, Lain)
I have also read some books which I can suggest: Godel Echer Bach, Alice in Wonderland (and books by Richard Dawkins).
EVENTUALLY we will need to get of this confining planet (confounding?) and grow as an organic race. But we can grow already on a conciousness level.
Research can be funded by other means that are less resource hungry, and more profitable.
(offtopic:)
PS: I loooooovee Quake 3... it's taken me months perfecting my movements... I just love freestyling in levels, doing funky speed rocketjumps, strafe and circle (flick) jumping, plasma climbing etc etc.
When I play any other VR game it's as if I'm walking in treackle. (I've made the rocket to rail platform jump with jumping alone on q3dm6)
Anyone going apple with be into media. And unless you are encoding media, which I doubt you will be donig with an iBook, you will not need mode CPU power. They are powerful enough. (But when is enough enough... search me.)
Mostly the big bottleneck on iBooks would be bus, memory and HD throughput, since it's primary use is still MM playback. And most games rely more and more on the GFX card's processing power.
The final and most important problem is heat generation on a notebook, leading to other problems like short battery life. Once again these are not good traits for that applications that this iBook excels at.
Rather chuck a couple of Durons in a SMP PC.
My 0.02
Re:He still uses only his legs ...
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I'm sure one could go faster, but unfortunately this particular competition has some RULES. (Section 3.0)
With today's quality of 3D rendering, realisms can be achived that would not require the hurtling of great chnuks of expensive metals and composites into the air for it to come back down again later.
Why not just spend some money in a rendering cluster, thereby promoting computing technology, and bringing virtual erality within out grasp?
I'm developing an intelligent access control system for a client, running on a win32/linux combination system.
We have a biometrics component to do fingerprint recognition (amoungst other things), and one application we have is for general building access control.
But what is relevant to this article, is that we have different fingers (which are assigned to people, who in turn have security attributes) applied to different tasks... such as a index finger for normal opreration, pinkie for fire alarm, and middle finger for silent alarm (hostage situations)
I don't think we are the only people who have thought of this though...
There's a difference between linguistics and context. Lexically your sentence does make sense, and for some people that is enough.
However, how can your furnace run on helium?
(It's a gas, isn't it?)
You cannot even achieve exothermic fusion with it!
;)
'Gas' heaters are scarce in my country (as are wooden buildings). Since my climate is so bloody pleasant, I guess heating issues are not so pronounced.
Many a war was forged on simple misunderstandings.
I love gadgets, and not because I want to look like a geek. I don't like the look of gadgets, so the more invisible they are the better. Clothes is the best place to 'hide' gadgets.
I'm already thought of as strange AND a geek, what more could I want?
;)
Pipes are only useful for outdated programming techniques. Sure, there are prob. design patterns for it, but no large system would base it's communication on it.
I don't mind waiting in line... it's this second unknown password it suddently asks for now...
-sigh-
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emacs won the war long ago against vi.
vim is a different beast however.
As someone said: emacs is a great operating system, but when I want to edit something I use vim.
vim is still the best programmers editor. (Whish is what I use it for...)
But personal preferences set aside.
Some of the coolest things vim now has is vertical splitting, and code folding.
It may or may not be true that emacs has had this for bilions and bilions!? of years, but that's not the issue... its just really useful stuff being added to the staple-code editor.
My 0.02
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.. would still run as sweet.
:)
Aparently that are following suit, with NVidia and their DetonatorXP drivers, everyone seems to be trying to get onto the WinXP hype.
They seem to call it Extended Performance (isn't that AthlonEP then?), and sure it has 3-7% more bang for clock than the TB line.
My only question is this, since AMDs are so popular in the linux comunity, what will the change in name do to that support? I for one don't care...
Any thoughts on the name's impact?
Anyone know what happened to UserFriendly?
With the dollar growing all the time, the prices remain constant. Especially now with the world trade disaster my currency just plumeted about 15% in the past 4 weeks. (Whenever anything good happens, the dollar strengthens, and whenever anything bad happens, third-world countries just collapse... you gotta love it, can't win.)
Plus the 40% import tax if I had to import it myself (Not to mention shipping) would not make it worthwhile.
And, PS: That was the best iBook I could find at a respectable store...
Although I also think (like so many other posts here) that the article goes overboard, and that, yes, it's easy for a user to get at the menus that change the association, there are some issues.
1) After finding the menu option to change the association, it's not always clear how to change it... for one thing there are Open, Print, PrintTo and New options attached to DOC files... and all these need to be changed. Then there is the DDE thing... what's that?
2) After actually changing the registry stuff, any upgrade of MS products will clobber your change, and the default if existing products find a change is to change it back (with a promp, sure). Although this is a good idea for inexperienced users who use a purely MS system, this can drive people like me insane...
I use Opera for browsing, IrfanView for Picture viewing, and Agent for email and news.
My programs are all at war!
:P
How I DO miss my Amiga... -sigh-
When I said "Not that useful" I meant not that useful to overclock, since it's already sufficient.
When I said it became hot, I meant heat disipation that would primarily degrade battery life. (Which is practically the main most important thing in a notebook PC)
And finally: Supply and demand is the main reason why they are not so popular... during one of the large FPS LAN tourneys there were perhaps one Mac in about 400 entrants. Macs are an odity... they are for exclusive users. (Anything from the USA in particular is practically unaffordable...)
Apple iBook 366 (Indigo)
366MHz Power PC G3
10GB Ultra ATA
64MB RAM
CD ROM Drive
17,899.99
Wheras:
440+ Multimedia Notebook
With Internal 24X CD-ROM 8,435.00
64MB SDRAM DIMM 126.00
MHM2100AT 10GB HDD 931.00
Intel® Celeron(TM) 900 700
Working out to under 12,000.00
Hmmm.. and considernig the average high-income person's salary before taxes is about 8,000.00.
This would be quite an investment.
(You pay about 2,500 for rent and 1,500 for car and 800 for insurance and 800 for food)
Leaving you about 500 per month to pay the notebook... you may actually own it before it becomes a meuseum piece.
Now take into account the pitiful availability of software, and the abysmal availability of technical support in a third world country. BAM!
Not to mention the total lack of jobs in anything un-microsoft related. (I'm a unix programmer.. it's tough.)
Now, take into account that I still drool over the iBook and still think Macs are GREAT!
:)
So, kind sir, you misunderstand my laments.
I've had some problems with the latest GeForce MX-400 chips when the FSB is being overclocked...
If only I knew more of the iBook's architecture, but, depending on the tolerances of some of the internal components, overclocking the FSB may also give problems...
(I love dabbling in old technology as well, I've got an Amiga 1200 and Apple powerbook amoungst my toys... hence my respect for the Motorolla line.)
But nothing beats the FPS of PCs nowadays, keeping in mind that Macs are WAY too expensive in third-world countries like mine... -sniff-
;)
33% seems a lot for such a relatively small change... they must be purely reliant on CPU.
I only play FPS games with a GeForce 2 GTS... upgrading my motherboard to 266 FSB and 266 DDR ram did more tham my upgrade from an 700 Athlon to 1.4 GHz Athlon.
But then I'm a bit out of touch with the latest in Apple tech.
Which is a good point.
I just think evolution is more important than colinization. And humans can evolve past their current concious contraints in a virtual system. Space is infinite, but confining. (Space-time cones and whatnot) But VR is liberating. (Reference: Matrix, Ghost in the Shell, The Thirteenth Floor, Tron, Lain)
I have also read some books which I can suggest: Godel Echer Bach, Alice in Wonderland (and books by Richard Dawkins).
EVENTUALLY we will need to get of this confining planet (confounding?) and grow as an organic race. But we can grow already on a conciousness level.
Research can be funded by other means that are less resource hungry, and more profitable.
(offtopic:)
PS: I loooooovee Quake 3... it's taken me months perfecting my movements... I just love freestyling in levels, doing funky speed rocketjumps, strafe and circle (flick) jumping, plasma climbing etc etc.
When I play any other VR game it's as if I'm walking in treackle. (I've made the rocket to rail platform jump with jumping alone on q3dm6)
Anyone going apple with be into media. And unless you are encoding media, which I doubt you will be donig with an iBook, you will not need mode CPU power. They are powerful enough. (But when is enough enough... search me.)
Mostly the big bottleneck on iBooks would be bus, memory and HD throughput, since it's primary use is still MM playback. And most games rely more and more on the GFX card's processing power.
The final and most important problem is heat generation on a notebook, leading to other problems like short battery life. Once again these are not good traits for that applications that this iBook excels at.
Rather chuck a couple of Durons in a SMP PC.
My 0.02
I'm sure one could go faster, but unfortunately this particular competition has some RULES. (Section 3.0)
;)
Rules are good, M'kay?
With today's quality of 3D rendering, realisms can be achived that would not require the hurtling of great chnuks of expensive metals and composites into the air for it to come back down again later.
Why not just spend some money in a rendering cluster, thereby promoting computing technology, and bringing virtual erality within out grasp?
-sigh-
Actually, they were given sufficient distance to start from. They can choose any distance, but their speeds are measured over a 200 meter stretch.
There are also several other different classes, for more info, here are the RULES
Also for a more detailed listing of the records (with km/h and miles/h):
Go HERE.
It contains more that just land speed records.
(I also read that he is only reported to have gone faster than 80 miles per hour, but I do not see it on the official site.
But I'm have studied, and in studying I have learnt that man is mortal.
So I just give the middle finger and move on.
;)
(PS: It's one of my favorite movies...)
PS: The system is not hardcoded at all, it has client capable scripting... you can type a combination of fingers!
;)
Cheers, and to the pain.
Regards,
I'm developing an intelligent access control system for a client, running on a win32/linux combination system.
We have a biometrics component to do fingerprint recognition (amoungst other things), and one application we have is for general building access control.
But what is relevant to this article, is that we have different fingers (which are assigned to people, who in turn have security attributes) applied to different tasks... such as a index finger for normal opreration, pinkie for fire alarm, and middle finger for silent alarm (hostage situations)
I don't think we are the only people who have thought of this though...
It happened to me as well after about the first month.
I sent the 75 Gig in, and they replaced it, but this one has been running fine for about 9 months now.
I've setteled for raiding 2 40 Gig Seagate drives, instead of another 75 Gig.
... for most versatile hybrid polymorphic y-chromosome based genome string :
Once again: Cowboy Neal!
There's a difference between linguistics and context. Lexically your sentence does make sense, and for some people that is enough.
However, how can your furnace run on helium?
(It's a gas, isn't it?)
You cannot even achieve exothermic fusion with it!
;)
'Gas' heaters are scarce in my country (as are wooden buildings). Since my climate is so bloody pleasant, I guess heating issues are not so pronounced.
Many a war was forged on simple misunderstandings.
I love gadgets, and not because I want to look like a geek. I don't like the look of gadgets, so the more invisible they are the better. Clothes is the best place to 'hide' gadgets.
I'm already thought of as strange AND a geek, what more could I want?
;)
Do the tests include micro-grained security?
Pipes are only useful for outdated programming techniques. Sure, there are prob. design patterns for it, but no large system would base it's communication on it.
Pipe's moto: The world's a File.
-sigh-
If the power cells start containing gasses... then phones will become much lighter.
The only problem is with public perception...
... images of exploding phones next to my head does not conjure up great feelings of trust.
Plus they may not be allowed on airplanes.
(There was this crash not so long ago... so there's a lot of FUD)
Dom.
Gas is not fuel (petrol).
Gas is a state of matter.
If this gets applied, it would make cyber clothes more of a reality, since the last thing I want to do is have huge battery packs in my pocketess.
Besides, It's cool for the winter...
I don't mind waiting in line... it's this second unknown password it suddently asks for now... -sigh-
emacs won the war long ago against vi. vim is a different beast however. As someone said: emacs is a great operating system, but when I want to edit something I use vim. vim is still the best programmers editor. (Whish is what I use it for...) But personal preferences set aside. Some of the coolest things vim now has is vertical splitting, and code folding. It may or may not be true that emacs has had this for bilions and bilions!? of years, but that's not the issue... its just really useful stuff being added to the staple-code editor. My 0.02
This shiuld never have been built into the editor... Rather use the userfs ftp filesystem.
ftp.idsoftware.com given me 'server unavailable' Must be overloaded too. -sigh- I'm boycotting fileplanet from now on. ;)