I think my PowerBook Titanium works extremely well. I open a text file in a word processor and use Mac OS X's ability to print to a PDF file. Then I open the PDF file with the Preview app, rotate it left, and view it full-screen. Then I hold the computer like a book, and turn pages by clicking the mouse button.
High resolution text, a bit larger than a hardcover, page at a time display instead of annoying scrolling, 3-4 hours battery life...perfect
I put my file server in under the house, and my office is quiet. Unfortunately, now you can hear it quite well in the master bathroom. Something about the heater vents I guess. (BTW, it's an old, rackmount Compaq 5000.)
Everthing about that statement is just plain wrong. Of course a company can set a price for its products! Companies have always set "suggested retail prices." Apple just has contracts with its resellers that prohibit them from selling their products at less than the price Apple sets.
Illegal price fixing is when multiple companies cooperate to artificially raise the price of a whole class of product, thereby establishing a virtual monopoly. Since there are lots of other portable music players in the market, and Apple's not cooperating with any of them to affect the market, they're not doing anything illegal.
If the resellers don't like Apple's terms, they just don't have to sell Apple's products. If they want to sell iPods, they have to sell them at Apple's price.
That's the stick. The carrot is that the margins on Apple's products are actually BETTER than resellers get for competing products, which makes them willing to live with Apple's terms.
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Interesting timing on this. I was just looking at a mini-ITX mobo on tiger direct this morning. I'd been looking for SATA drives to add to my home storage server. But they had a mini-ITX board with 366 mhz Celeron and on-board IDE raid for about 50 bucks! That's less than most SATA controllers. So now I'm thinking I might buy, say 4 of those boards, put two, 250 Gb IDE drives on each, and have a fully mirrored terabyte cluster.
I thought Firewire was much better for streaming stuff than USB is (isosynchronous, or something). It looks to me like we have the low power, low speed stuff (the original target of USB) covered by Bluetooth, the high speed, network stuff (needs TCP, since delivery not guaranteed) covered by WiFi. How would WUSB be better for any of the proposed applications than one of those?
So are we only going with WUBS because Intel is involved? Or is there some real reason that a wireless FireWire wouldn't work and a WUBS is easier/cheaper than WiFi?
Actually, the only well-documented study available, think it was by Kleck at Univ. of Florida, showed that the only thing you can do to reduce your chance of being hurt during a mugging was to pull a gun and threaten the attacker. Cooperating, attacking with bare hands, or attacking with some other weapon all resulted in statistically the same chances of being injured, while drawing a gun slightly reduced the chances.
There's a minor, but important difference between what you said and what the Constitution says. The freedoms we have are not "provided" by the Constitution, they are recognized as rights by the Constitution. Unless the people who ratified the Constitution agreed to give up certain powers to the government, those powers remain with the people, and cannot be taken by the government, later.
I worked at an M&M/Mars office for a while and go really hooked on the coffee from the Flavia machine they had. The coffee (several different roasts available) comes ground in small, sealed packs, and the machine punctures and brews through the pack. Seems pretty similar to the French press method, with very hot water and pressure. Anyway, there's more info at the Flavia website.
After a frustrating weekend trying to get a High Point SATA card working in my Linux server, I'm putting better SATA support on the top my my wish list!
I can't seem to get Photoshop and Office to run on Linux. Safari and iTunes both seem to have problems, too. How did you get them to work? I guess my rsync backup scripts would work, at least.
The RIAA doesn't represent every artist, though. It would be even better if we spent just a little of that money buying a CD from those other artists. Problem is, how do I make sure the CD I want to buy is from someone not represented by the RIAA?
What! So if somebody steals my pickup and runs into someone, I should be responsible? It's legally registered to me, and it's certainly more dangerous than most guns are, so I could really be in a lot of trouble, couldn't I?
Let's see. Somebody had a disease. They had no way to cure it themselves. You did not give them the disease, but you do have a way to cure it. Why is it immoral for you to ask them to pay you for it?
Oh, you're saying it's immoral for you to try to prevent someone else from stealing your method to cure the disease and giving it to the sick person for free.
So why would you spend any time and effort to find that cure in the first place?
Good God, people. Will you do a little homework, first! It's not a freakin' network! It's just a way to "broadcast" DNS queries to the local subnet. The queries are on port 53 and everything, just like normal DNS queries.
About 20 years ago, as a kid in Denver, we used to shoot tennis balls out of guns made from soda cans and fuled with ligher fluid. At least we did until I had the great idea to soak the ball with lighter fluid before we fired it. The first few times were great, but soon one of our flaming balls set the neighbor's yard on fire.
I bought one just like it from compgeeks. I installed 2 80 gig drives and plugged it into my Mac. Mac OS X asked me if I wanted to format the drive. I said "yes," and a 160 gig single volume showed up on my desktop. Couldn't have asked for it to work any better or simpler.
I used Apple Disk Utilities to turn off the software RAID, since I actually intended to use one of the drives for data and the second for nightly backups, so it definitely works either way.
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I think my PowerBook Titanium works extremely well. I open a text file in a word processor and use Mac OS X's ability to print to a PDF file. Then I open the PDF file with the Preview app, rotate it left, and view it full-screen. Then I hold the computer like a book, and turn pages by clicking the mouse button.
High resolution text, a bit larger than a hardcover, page at a time display instead of annoying scrolling, 3-4 hours battery life...perfect
So start sharing, already! ;-)
You clean your shower curtain?
I put my file server in under the house, and my office is quiet. Unfortunately, now you can hear it quite well in the master bathroom. Something about the heater vents I guess. (BTW, it's an old, rackmount Compaq 5000.)
For the casual Futurama watcher, it would be, "Bite my shiny metal ass." For a serious fan it might be, "Bite my splintery wooden ass."
Just curious, are you implying that people killing each other "with firearms" is somehow better or worse than any other method of killing each other?
I don't have to wait 10 seconds. I use a Mac.
Everthing about that statement is just plain wrong. Of course a company can set a price for its products! Companies have always set "suggested retail prices." Apple just has contracts with its resellers that prohibit them from selling their products at less than the price Apple sets.
Illegal price fixing is when multiple companies cooperate to artificially raise the price of a whole class of product, thereby establishing a virtual monopoly. Since there are lots of other portable music players in the market, and Apple's not cooperating with any of them to affect the market, they're not doing anything illegal.
If the resellers don't like Apple's terms, they just don't have to sell Apple's products. If they want to sell iPods, they have to sell them at Apple's price.
That's the stick. The carrot is that the margins on Apple's products are actually BETTER than resellers get for competing products, which makes them willing to live with Apple's terms.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=86698&Sku=MBM-TS20-C3 66
$49.95 with Celeron 366
Interesting timing on this. I was just looking at a mini-ITX mobo on tiger direct this morning. I'd been looking for SATA drives to add to my home storage server. But they had a mini-ITX board with 366 mhz Celeron and on-board IDE raid for about 50 bucks! That's less than most SATA controllers. So now I'm thinking I might buy, say 4 of those boards, put two, 250 Gb IDE drives on each, and have a fully mirrored terabyte cluster.
I thought Firewire was much better for streaming stuff than USB is (isosynchronous, or something).
It looks to me like we have the low power, low speed stuff (the original target of USB) covered by Bluetooth, the high speed, network stuff (needs TCP, since delivery not guaranteed) covered by WiFi. How would WUSB be better for any of the proposed applications than one of those?
So are we only going with WUBS because Intel is involved? Or is there some real reason that a wireless FireWire wouldn't work and a WUBS is easier/cheaper than WiFi?
Actually, the only well-documented study available, think it was by Kleck at Univ. of Florida, showed that the only thing you can do to reduce your chance of being hurt during a mugging was to pull a gun and threaten the attacker. Cooperating, attacking with bare hands, or attacking with some other weapon all resulted in statistically the same chances of being injured, while drawing a gun slightly reduced the chances.
There's a minor, but important difference between what you said and what the Constitution says. The freedoms we have are not "provided" by the Constitution, they are recognized as rights by the Constitution. Unless the people who ratified the Constitution agreed to give up certain powers to the government, those powers remain with the people, and cannot be taken by the government, later.
I've spent hours feeding Alka-Seltzer and baking soda to seagulls at South Padre Island. Never a sign of discomfort, much less and explosion.
I worked at an M&M/Mars office for a while and go really hooked on the coffee from the Flavia machine they had. The coffee (several different roasts available) comes ground in small, sealed packs, and the machine punctures and brews through the pack. Seems pretty similar to the French press method, with very hot water and pressure. Anyway, there's more info at the Flavia website.
After a frustrating weekend trying to get a High Point SATA card working in my Linux server, I'm putting better SATA support on the top my my wish list!
I can't seem to get Photoshop and Office to run on Linux. Safari and iTunes both seem to have problems, too. How did you get them to work? I guess my rsync backup scripts would work, at least.
I live in the country, and we burn our trash. Works even better than a crosscut shredder.
The RIAA doesn't represent every artist, though. It would be even better if we spent just a little of that money buying a CD from those other artists. Problem is, how do I make sure the CD I want to buy is from someone not represented by the RIAA?
Obviously, we have to do something.
But how do I make sure that when I buy a CD, I'm
not supporting the RIAA?
What! So if somebody steals my pickup and runs into someone, I should be responsible? It's legally registered to me, and it's certainly more dangerous than most guns are, so I could really be in a lot of trouble, couldn't I?
Let's see. Somebody had a disease. They had no way to cure it themselves. You did not give them the disease, but you do have a way to cure it. Why is it immoral for you to ask them to pay you for it?
Oh, you're saying it's immoral for you to try to prevent someone else from stealing your method to cure the disease and giving it to the sick person for free.
So why would you spend any time and effort to find that cure in the first place?
Good God, people. Will you do a little homework, first! It's not a freakin' network! It's just a way to "broadcast" DNS queries to the local subnet. The queries are on port 53 and everything, just like normal DNS queries.
About 20 years ago, as a kid in Denver, we used to shoot tennis balls out of guns made from soda cans and fuled with ligher fluid. At least we did until I had the great idea to soak the ball with lighter fluid before we fired it. The first few times were great, but soon one of our flaming balls set the neighbor's yard on fire.
I bought one just like it from compgeeks. I installed 2 80 gig drives and plugged it into my Mac. Mac OS X asked me if I wanted to format the drive. I said "yes," and a 160 gig single volume showed up on my desktop. Couldn't have asked for it to work any better or simpler.
I used Apple Disk Utilities to turn off the software RAID, since I actually intended to use one of the drives for data and the second for nightly backups, so it definitely works either way.