the IEEE 1394b spec is the 800mbps connector you are talking about, that is being developed by an open consortium and will not serve to subsidize Apple's past failures. I think that's a great idea. That will bring the transfer rate up to 100Mb/sec which is faster than SCSI-3.
So what? If Intel doesn't want to pay the $0.25 per system or the $1 per port, then it doesn't have to. There is no requirement that every hardware company has to support every new technology that rolls down the pike. If Apple wanted the ports to become the high speed standard they would have given it away. Instead, they choose to play the same stupid game they tried playing in the '80s (the one that nearly bankrupted them I may add) that says that discerning consumers are willing to pay through the nose for technology that is superior. Well, it didn't work very well then, and in this age of sub-$400 eMachines, it works even less now.
You seem a little sensitive on this issue, AC. If Intel doesn't want to pay Apple to use it's technology, how is that FUD? Intel doesn't include support for the G4 in it's motherboards either, is that FUD? Gimme a break. You seem more paranoid than insightful to me.
Re:There were hardly any USB devices dude...
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It aint' FUD if it's true. Apple still taxes the ieee1394 ports. It may not be a lot, but of course a money making venture is going to tend towards the open standard that should be equivalent. Once again Apple is fumbling the future with yet another draconian hardware hegemony.
Yow! For that kind of scratch you can get yourself a full on HDTV that will accept Digital input from your computer, but will also accept analog from your DVD, VCR and satelite dish.
Well, you could, except that microwave radio is point-to-point, line of sight. so you'd have to spend a lot of time re-adjusting your drum antenna not to mention all the time you'd have to spend outside. Oh, well, it's Arizona, right? It never rains in Arizona!
I think that IEEE 802.11 is a much more feasible option for the kind of networking you envision.
It was only 4 years before, in 1861. It doens't matter though, Bell was the one who put it in everyones house. I'm sure there are tons of useful inventions that will never see the light of day as they sit in research laboratories an basements, like all of Tesla's "useful" inventions. Totally and completely worthless as far as the human condition at large is concerned.
Well there has to be a place for more of a bureaucracy. There's always room for a Corporate style bureaucracy. How could you function without quarterly performance ratings and Middle managers and Professionals to do all that stuff that we're doing right now... D'Oh!
Re:Slashdot scoops others... er.. not.
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Slashdot is routinely days, even weeks ahead of Wired, InfoWeek, PC Week, NYT, and several periodicals that I read on a daily basis. AND, you don't get teh reaaly weird stuff in NYT.
See, according to the article, this is why we NEED professional journalists and a crack editorial staff: to weed out just these sorts of inaccuracies. D'Oh!
I understand the Palm V has a months utility in one charging (~50 hours, est.). My Palm 3 goes a bit longer than that on two discount (Panasonic) AAA batteries.
CE machines just can't compete. I have a MP130 which I loved, but that one took 4 AA's every week and a half, and that bit the big one. Great backlight though... until it stopped working.
In the grand Yugoslavian tradition, I have joined Cyber Yuga, and am calling on my fellow NT user brothers to take back our birthright that is www.juga.com
Four Bazillion-odd years ago, this domain was a part of the Greater NT World, and it is our right to evict all the Linux, MacOS, and all other lesser OS users off of our homeland.
Saddle up boys! Tonight we ride, with the gallant and noble purpose of restoring the true order to the server. Kill 'em all!
I concur. It wasn't the cat-jumpin-out-of-the-closet kind of thriller, it was much more creepy than that. I didn't jump once seeing the movie, but the whole last half, the short hairs on the back of my neck were up. that was one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen, and it gives me the chills just thinking about it, and I think about it a lot. I'm never going camping ever again.
I'm beginning to think we need a "User's Bill of Rights", and we need to start boycotting ISPs that don't support that bill of rights.
That sounds like a fine idea, but I wouldn't be shoving a Bill of Rights into the face of the private institution that has agreed to host my site for free, given that it serves a specific purpose.
Remember, ISP's are not in the business of defining constitutional rights, they provide bandwidth and try not to rock the boat. I wouldn't want to have to spend money to defend my ISP (if'n I had an ISP) from lawsuits of people libelled by my users. Even if their cases have no merit, you still have to hire a lawyer to point that out.
If I had an ISP, I wouldn't agree to your bill of rights unless it included the ability of the ISP to yank any content that is cruisin' for a lawsuit.
Off subject, have you all seen Geocities new agreement that says that anything you put on Geolcities becomes their property?
Re:Apple has a point; just ask Ted L. Nancy
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Yep, Coca-Cola had corporate pit bulls (oops, I mean, lawyers) ready to pounce on Mr. Nancy. They felt they had a legitimate case, if in fact Ted Nancy wasn't kidding. And they were probably right.
The big difference here is that in the US, trademark owners need to agressively defend their trademarks, or they lose them. As far as I know, the look & feel of the Imac box (one I personally find to be very dis-functional) has not been trademarked. If it has, like the Diet Coke(tm) Trademark, or the Coke Bottle(tm) trademark, or What-the-hell-else(tm) trademark, then Apple would have a much stronger case. If they are really relying on the external design to sell their machines, then they should have trademarked the design. As it is all they have is a kistchy design around some over-priced hardware, and they (as far as I know) chose not to defend their only selling point (translucent, dis-functional, all-in-one-with-no-floppy-drive case) with a proper registered trademark. Fools. Gonna throw away their second shot at world domination.
From a distance, they're very difficult to tell apart.
This, I believe, is the key. How many people buy computers from a distance? If it's obvious when you get close or use the machine, I don't believe Apple has a case. And it will be because the OS is Windows. And there's a floppy drive.
Part of design is color, in this particular case it's also translucent color and not solid. That's one of the earmarks of iMac design. Also it's clear that it's a total ripoff, from the keyboard to the all-in-one case design
Bullshit. If they didn't copy the case by molding theirs from a disassembled IMac, then I say screw Apple.
Apple's just trying to Microsoft their way around the hardware industry by filing frivolous lawsuits that have no merit, in order to bankrupt a fledgling startup that has the potential to compete against them.
Is there any particular brand of Guarana powder that we should look for? I wonder if you can get that in the US? It seems a lot safer than smoking crank...
I wonder if the truck drivers and bikers know about this?
You know, it's really funny to see all these Linux Advocates tossing out FUD just like their MS adversaries do.
I've been reading PC Week for almost a year now, and I don't find it to be particularly biased in either direction. I use both Linux and NT on my home and work machines, so I'm not an MS crony (as I'm sure I'll be accused of in reply).
I'd have to say that the tests were fair and NT beat Linux. The first set of un-audited tests weren't. I believe their results are true. No amount of FUD from this community can dissuade me.
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Trolled! Sucka!
the IEEE 1394b spec is the 800mbps connector you are talking about, that is being developed by an open consortium and will not serve to subsidize Apple's past failures. I think that's a great idea. That will bring the transfer rate up to 100Mb/sec which is faster than SCSI-3.
So what? If Intel doesn't want to pay the $0.25 per system or the $1 per port, then it doesn't have to. There is no requirement that every hardware company has to support every new technology that rolls down the pike. If Apple wanted the ports to become the high speed standard they would have given it away. Instead, they choose to play the same stupid game they tried playing in the '80s (the one that nearly bankrupted them I may add) that says that discerning consumers are willing to pay through the nose for technology that is superior. Well, it didn't work very well then, and in this age of sub-$400 eMachines, it works even less now.
Cite your sources, AC. Everyone says this, no one shows it. I guess that's the advantage of hiding behind the AC wall...
You seem a little sensitive on this issue, AC. If Intel doesn't want to pay Apple to use it's technology, how is that FUD? Intel doesn't include support for the G4 in it's motherboards either, is that FUD? Gimme a break. You seem more paranoid than insightful to me.
It aint' FUD if it's true. Apple still taxes the ieee1394 ports. It may not be a lot, but of course a money making venture is going to tend towards the open standard that should be equivalent. Once again Apple is fumbling the future with yet another draconian hardware hegemony.
Yow! For that kind of scratch you can get yourself a full on HDTV that will accept Digital input from your computer, but will also accept analog from your DVD, VCR and satelite dish.
Wrongo,
Your == You are
Your wrong, look it up in any dictionary, your totally out of line.
Well, you could, except that microwave radio is point-to-point, line of sight. so you'd have to spend a lot of time re-adjusting your drum antenna not to mention all the time you'd have to spend outside. Oh, well, it's Arizona, right? It never rains in Arizona!
I think that IEEE 802.11 is a much more feasible option for the kind of networking you envision.
It was only 4 years before, in 1861. It doens't matter though, Bell was the one who put it in everyones house. I'm sure there are tons of useful inventions that will never see the light of day as they sit in research laboratories an basements, like all of Tesla's "useful" inventions. Totally and completely worthless as far as the human condition at large is concerned.
Well there has to be a place for more of a bureaucracy. There's always room for a Corporate style bureaucracy. How could you function without quarterly performance ratings and Middle managers and Professionals to do all that stuff that we're doing right now... D'Oh!
Slashdot is routinely days, even weeks ahead of Wired, InfoWeek, PC Week, NYT, and several periodicals that I read on a daily basis. AND, you don't get teh reaaly weird stuff in NYT.
See, according to the article, this is why we NEED professional journalists and a crack editorial staff: to weed out just these sorts of inaccuracies. D'Oh!
I understand the Palm V has a months utility in one charging (~50 hours, est.). My Palm 3 goes a bit longer than that on two discount (Panasonic) AAA batteries.
CE machines just can't compete. I have a MP130 which I loved, but that one took 4 AA's every week and a half, and that bit the big one. Great backlight though... until it stopped working.
Try to roll out 20 new machines with 15-20 minute installs. When you return, you will have answered your own question, grasshopper.
In the grand Yugoslavian tradition, I have joined Cyber Yuga, and am calling on my fellow NT user brothers to take back our birthright that is www.juga.com
Four Bazillion-odd years ago, this domain was a part of the Greater NT World, and it is our right to evict all the Linux, MacOS, and all other lesser OS users off of our homeland.
Saddle up boys! Tonight we ride, with the gallant and noble purpose of restoring the true order to the server. Kill 'em all!
I concur. It wasn't the cat-jumpin-out-of-the-closet kind of thriller, it was much more creepy than that. I didn't jump once seeing the movie, but the whole last half, the short hairs on the back of my neck were up. that was one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen, and it gives me the chills just thinking about it, and I think about it a lot. I'm never going camping ever again.
I'm beginning to think we need a "User's Bill of
Rights", and we need to start boycotting ISPs
that don't support that bill of rights.
That sounds like a fine idea, but I wouldn't be shoving a Bill of Rights into the face of the private institution that has agreed to host my site for free, given that it serves a specific purpose.
Remember, ISP's are not in the business of defining constitutional rights, they provide bandwidth and try not to rock the boat. I wouldn't want to have to spend money to defend my ISP (if'n I had an ISP) from lawsuits of people libelled by my users. Even if their cases have no merit, you still have to hire a lawyer to point that out.
If I had an ISP, I wouldn't agree to your bill of rights unless it included the ability of the ISP to yank any content that is cruisin' for a lawsuit.
Off subject, have you all seen Geocities new agreement that says that anything you put on Geolcities becomes their property?
Yep, Coca-Cola had corporate pit bulls (oops, I mean, lawyers) ready to pounce on Mr. Nancy. They felt they had a legitimate case, if in fact Ted Nancy wasn't kidding. And they were probably right.
The big difference here is that in the US, trademark owners need to agressively defend their trademarks, or they lose them. As far as I know, the look & feel of the Imac box (one I personally find to be very dis-functional) has not been trademarked. If it has, like the Diet Coke(tm) Trademark, or the Coke Bottle(tm) trademark, or What-the-hell-else(tm) trademark, then Apple would have a much stronger case. If they are really relying on the external design to sell their machines, then they should have trademarked the design. As it is all they have is a kistchy design around some over-priced hardware, and they (as far as I know) chose not to defend their only selling point (translucent, dis-functional, all-in-one-with-no-floppy-drive case) with a proper registered trademark. Fools. Gonna throw away their second shot at world domination.
From a distance, they're very difficult to tell apart.
This, I believe, is the key. How many people buy computers from a distance? If it's obvious when you get close or use the machine, I don't believe Apple has a case. And it will be because the OS is Windows. And there's a floppy drive.
When I installed MacOS 8.6 I noticed a far greater stability than both my NT machine at work and the many Windows 9x machines I have used.
You should expect that 3-4 years of design between Win95 and MacOS8.6 would turn out a more stable product...
Part of design is color, in this particular case it's also translucent color and not solid. That's one of the earmarks of iMac design. Also it's clear that it's a total ripoff, from the keyboard to the all-in-one case design
Bullshit. If they didn't copy the case by molding theirs from a disassembled IMac, then I say screw
Apple.
Apple's just trying to Microsoft their way around the hardware industry by filing frivolous lawsuits that have no merit, in order to bankrupt a fledgling startup that has the potential to compete against them.
>it tastes like shit.. not that I eat shit mind you. :)
:p
...but you've tasted it?
Is there any particular brand of Guarana powder that we should look for? I wonder if you can get that in the US? It seems a lot safer than smoking crank...
I wonder if the truck drivers and bikers know about this?
You know, it's really funny to see all these Linux Advocates tossing out FUD just like their MS adversaries do.
I've been reading PC Week for almost a year now, and I don't find it to be particularly biased in either direction. I use both Linux and NT on my home and work machines, so I'm not an MS crony (as I'm sure I'll be accused of in reply).
I'd have to say that the tests were fair and NT beat Linux. The first set of un-audited tests weren't. I believe their results are true. No amount of FUD from this community can dissuade me.