A friend is running OS X 10.3 in a iMac G3 333 Mhz, 128 Mb RAM just fine. A stripped down version of OS X could run fine on the $100 laptop hardware.
Now, on your 2nd point, from Apple's perspective, they will not lose anything, since the $100 laptops doesn't overlay with any of Apple's offers/market. The key point is that OS X is not Open Source, just the kernel, but, if Apple released Newton OS under an open source license, this would be the perfect match for the $100 laptop proyect.
Even better, since british appear to have so little value for their freedom, they sould leave Iraq alone and pay them war damages, after all, they and the USA bombed the country in the name of a freedom that themselves don't value.
Yes, I know that a mayority of british opposed the war, but in the end they endorsed it by voting for the prowar parties. The fact that the Labor goverment improved some public services in Britain doesn't override the fact that it bears (sp?) direct responsability for the death of thousands of innocent people. The same in a lesser (sp?) extent for Tories.
"Who knows, maybe if we didn't go around killing off democratically elected leaders and replacing them with US-owned despots who destroy the lives of their people, those people wouldn't hate us so much... Nah.
That's a load of BS. It doesn't need futher comment."
Please Google for september 11, 1973, search the declasified documents for the terrorist campaing funded by the CIA against the legitimate Chilean goverment, the american funded murderous bastards of Nicaragua's Contras, an the wars in Central America in the 80's, the dirty war in Mexico, the bombing of Libya, the invasion of Grenada, and a long etc., let's no forget that the american goverment is protecting Posada Carriles, a convicted terrorist. The guy is detained for immigration issues, not for blowing a plane full of passengers, somehow the lives of cubans from Cuba are worthless, but than the lives of cubans in Miami or New York not.
And a side note, the first terrorist attack in Whasington, D.C. was the making of the Augosto Pinochet's Chilean inteligence service, but that didn't stoped (sp?) Nixxon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Tatcher, Bush Sr. and Tony Blair of protecting Pinochet, and all except Tony of providing him with weapons to opress his country.
For the record, I like americans,but despise USA's goverment. I also admire the possitive aspects of the "Founding Fathers" and currently I'm reading Jefferson, maybe you sould do the same.
It's also made in Mexico. Here in Mexico is esily the 20-30% off all the cell phones on the GSM networks. I agree, it's the best cell phone ever. Beautiful, small, useful and sturdy. Works up to 9 days without recharge, and the lamp is an useful add on, not a gimmick (sp?).
On the question, yes, our economy is not efficient at all, and yes,for those reasons; thats why our people risk their lives to work in USA.
Our economy, despite being the 13th largest in the world, is going down the tubes; massive concentration of wealth; (sp?),INCREDIBLY,AMAZINGLY corrupt politicians; worthless, bad joke political parties -a side note, a very small, but increasing minority is in favor of a military goverment, since they are the only members of goverment that deserve respect-; a vanishing middle class,the only improvements in the standard of life come from technology; a shickening, american style individualism without (sp?) american style passion for hard work, coupled with cronyism, nepotism and corruption at all social levels, from poor to rich.
The worst part is that instead of Mexico becoming like USA, the USA are becoming North Mexico, and usians can't blame that to the immigrants.
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I always thougth from your posts that you were from Canada, I guess then that you are from Washington or Wisconsin
Considering the usual disregard by Tony Blair for the popular opinion or even his own party, the awful antiterrorist laws, among many other totalitatian measures, Why the citizens let their goverment officials get away with it? Why they vote for being more enslaved (sp?)? Why the brits or the americans feel that they have the right to impose "freedom" on other nations? They -well, we- need more men like Feingold, McCain or Robin Cook (RIP) in Senates/Parliaments/Goverment; men that believe in ideals, not in party lines/discipline, and less Cambells, Scarletts, Cheneys, Blairs, Fox* or Albrigths
*Vicente Fox -president of Mexico, if Blair is Bush's poodle, he is Bush's overzised Chihuahua
I would like to add that one of the key strenghts of OS X is that many OSS works flawlessly on OS X. Native OSS software and OS X make a powerful combination. For everything else, there is Fink. My fiancee works in a small 3D animation studio based in Blender for OS X, all the animators are extremely happy with their Macs, all of them planing to buy one for home. The workstations / render machines are all Mac minis. Why not whiteboxes? Because the Mac Mini has an small footprint and very low power consumption, they don't need a big place, a huge UPS or air conditioning.
Despite the fact that Intel invented USB in 1992-94, we sould thank Apple for making it popular. How many USB devices were mass marketed prior to the iMac? I remember to be tempted to send the USB ports of the PC's that I assembled to the trashcan in 1996 because I couldn't find or afford any device to conect in them.
Well, not to nitpick, but I believe that CMDR Taco -something that Rob Malda read in a sign comes from CoMaDRe Taco. Taco is the mexican food, comadre is the name given to the godmothers by the parents; for godfather is compadre.
Aznar and the Popular party lost the election because they lied and used the terrorist attacks for political gain and paid the price, has sould it be. That was a matter of dignity and self-respect. You don't use the dead bodies of your countrymen to win an election.
That's way better than the blind faith that many of the people of Great Britain and the USA have in their goverments.
Now, if your application is I/O bound, like ERP, Sun's servers are perfect. In our oldest Sunfire 15K, the processors are iddle 85% of the time running SAP; I'm talking about ancient UltraSparc III running at 900 Mhz serving thousands of users. On the workstation side, the machines are (were?) very overpriced, but extremely reliable.
Indeed, even parts of the real hardsuit looks like they were designed by Kenichi Sonoda (The character designer/mecha designer of Bubblegum Crisis). Maybe the engineers got the inspiration from Bubblegum Crisis itself.
If the Sun's Opteron machines have OBP/Open Firmware, maybe you could run OS X Intel over them. Maybe a licence agreement will be all that would be needed. The key difference bettween (sp?) PC's and Apple X86 will be the firmware, BIOS vs. Open Boot/Open Firmware.
Not only that. Many americans forget that they are the most important market in the wold -just for now. Thats why the chinese, japanese, etc. lends them money.
But,for cell phones, as example, the most important market is China, soon for cars that will be the case, too.What will happen when the american market loses their key relevance?
While the chinese improve their standard of living and their economy, americans are losing their jobs. With the american goverment busy promoting antiamericanism around the world, who will want to buy american goods? How will the american workers keep their jobs and american investors their wealth if the label "Made in USA" becomes a liability? How they will fund then that big army?
"Our foreign policy is what dertermines our 'worth' - but unchallengable military superiority ensures our freedom."
Only from foreign conquerors. In 1941 the germans for almost all practical purposes had unchallengable military superiority, but no freedom. Freedom comes from educated, responsible (sp?) citizens, not from soldiers.
Personally, I tell to my mac user friends that they sould be careful, but the ones that aren't IT professionals, use their machines without internet conection. The problem are the uncritical Apple fanboys and the thousands of clueless users that don't know better.
MS gives their users a machine gun to shoot themselves on the foot, and Apple now gives a shinny (sp?), full loaded Colt. In the end, the efect can be the same. All to "save" a few mouse clics.
Firefox and Safari use a download management window, making easy to find and open/execute the downloaded files. Even in OS X Tiger this function is more useless, because you could use Spotlight to search for the file. Making easy to make the system insecure to save 2 or 3 keystrokes/clics is crimminal.
Certainly the cleanup and prevention is easy, but the fact that Safari downloads automatically widgets without user intervention/request is incredibly stupid, even more than the autoinstall -this is already stupid-, the guys who put those "features" on an fairly secure, wonderful and useful system sould be fired; this is seer incompetence, and a disservice for the rest of the fine, great OS X team. What the hell where they thinking? This sould have been scrapped in the design phase of Dashboard.
I read this 5 hours ago and still I'm amazed. I say this has a -otherwise- happy mac user, and someone that made 6 friends switch to the mac.
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Maybe you are right, but this is the first device I see that integrates an USB hub and a Firewire hub (to be honest, I didn't know that it could be done) in a external hard disk enclosure. I live in Mexico, the price for these things are: -USB hub: US$ 15 -38 -160 HD: US$ 90-120 -FireWire Hub: never seen one here -External HD enclosure: US$ 60-100
Really, the price of this unit is low, if the quality of the enclosure is similar to the case of the Mac mini, then it is cheap.
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the NSDAP won again the elections in Germany?
At least, here south of the border, the mexicans that still live in Mexico think that, too.
A friend is running OS X 10.3 in a iMac G3 333 Mhz, 128 Mb RAM just fine. A stripped down version of OS X could run fine on the $100 laptop hardware.
Now, on your 2nd point, from Apple's perspective, they will not lose anything, since the $100 laptops doesn't overlay with any of Apple's offers/market. The key point is that OS X is not Open Source, just the kernel, but, if Apple released Newton OS under an open source license, this would be the perfect match for the $100 laptop proyect.
Those laptops remind me of the Apple's eMate, but with a better choice of colors.
Good point.
Even better, since british appear to have so little value for their freedom, they sould leave Iraq alone and pay them war damages, after all, they and the USA bombed the country in the name of a freedom that themselves don't value.
Yes, I know that a mayority of british opposed the war, but in the end they endorsed it by voting for the prowar parties. The fact that the Labor goverment improved some public services in Britain doesn't override the fact that it bears (sp?) direct responsability for the death of thousands of innocent people. The same in a lesser (sp?) extent for Tories.
"Who knows, maybe if we didn't go around killing off democratically elected leaders and replacing them with US-owned despots who destroy the lives of their people, those people wouldn't hate us so much... Nah.
That's a load of BS. It doesn't need futher comment."
Please Google for september 11, 1973, search the declasified documents for the terrorist campaing funded by the CIA against the legitimate Chilean goverment, the american funded murderous bastards of Nicaragua's Contras, an the wars in Central America in the 80's, the dirty war in Mexico, the bombing of Libya, the invasion of Grenada, and a long etc., let's no forget that the american goverment is protecting Posada Carriles, a convicted terrorist. The guy is detained for immigration issues, not for blowing a plane full of passengers, somehow the lives of cubans from Cuba are worthless, but than the lives of cubans in Miami or New York not.
And a side note, the first terrorist attack in Whasington, D.C. was the making of the Augosto Pinochet's Chilean inteligence service, but that didn't stoped (sp?) Nixxon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Tatcher, Bush Sr. and Tony Blair of protecting Pinochet, and all except Tony of providing him with weapons to opress his country.
For the record, I like americans,but despise USA's goverment. I also admire the possitive aspects of the "Founding Fathers" and currently I'm reading Jefferson, maybe you sould do the same.
It's also made in Mexico. Here in Mexico is esily the 20-30% off all the cell phones on the GSM networks. I agree, it's the best cell phone ever. Beautiful, small, useful and sturdy. Works up to 9 days without recharge, and the lamp is an useful add on, not a gimmick (sp?).
On the question, yes, our economy is not efficient at all, and yes,for those reasons; thats why our people risk their lives to work in USA.
Our economy, despite being the 13th largest in the world, is going down the tubes; massive concentration of wealth; (sp?),INCREDIBLY,AMAZINGLY corrupt politicians; worthless, bad joke political parties -a side note, a very small, but increasing minority is in favor of a military goverment, since they are the only members of goverment that deserve respect-; a vanishing middle class,the only improvements in the standard of life come from technology; a shickening, american style individualism without (sp?) american style passion for hard work, coupled with cronyism, nepotism and corruption at all social levels, from poor to rich.
The worst part is that instead of Mexico becoming like USA, the USA are becoming North Mexico, and usians can't blame that to the immigrants.
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I always thougth from your posts that you were from Canada, I guess then that you are from Washington or Wisconsin
Considering the usual disregard by Tony Blair for the popular opinion or even his own party, the awful antiterrorist laws, among many other totalitatian measures, Why the citizens let their goverment officials get away with it? Why they vote for being more enslaved (sp?)? Why the brits or the americans feel that they have the right to impose "freedom" on other nations? They -well, we- need more men like Feingold, McCain or Robin Cook (RIP) in Senates/Parliaments/Goverment; men that believe in ideals, not in party lines/discipline, and less Cambells, Scarletts, Cheneys, Blairs, Fox* or Albrigths
*Vicente Fox -president of Mexico, if Blair is Bush's poodle, he is Bush's overzised Chihuahua
I would like to add that one of the key strenghts of OS X is that many OSS works flawlessly on OS X. Native OSS software and OS X make a powerful combination. For everything else, there is Fink.
My fiancee works in a small 3D animation studio based in Blender for OS X, all the animators are extremely happy with their Macs, all of them planing to buy one for home. The workstations / render machines are all Mac minis. Why not whiteboxes? Because the Mac Mini has an small footprint and very low power consumption, they don't need a big place, a huge UPS or air conditioning.
Politicians at either side of the border are exactly the same type of mindless robots.
Despite the fact that Intel invented USB in 1992-94, we sould thank Apple for making it popular. How many USB devices were mass marketed prior to the iMac? I remember to be tempted to send the USB ports of the PC's that I assembled to the trashcan in 1996 because I couldn't find or afford any device to conect in them.
Well, not to nitpick, but I believe that CMDR Taco -something that Rob Malda read in a sign comes from CoMaDRe Taco. Taco is the mexican food, comadre is the name given to the godmothers by the parents; for godfather is compadre.
iPodez ( ez = son in spanish)
iPodroo (ditto in japanese)
Aznar and the Popular party lost the election because they lied and used the terrorist attacks for political gain and paid the price, has sould it be. That was a matter of dignity and self-respect. You don't use the dead bodies of your countrymen to win an election.
That's way better than the blind faith that many of the people of Great Britain and the USA have in their goverments.
The key advantage of Sun is by far its support.
Now, if your application is I/O bound, like ERP, Sun's servers are perfect. In our oldest Sunfire 15K, the processors are iddle 85% of the time running SAP; I'm talking about ancient UltraSparc III running at 900 Mhz serving thousands of users. On the workstation side, the machines are (were?) very overpriced, but extremely reliable.
Don't Fight! This is Slashdot! Behave like adults.
Indeed, even parts of the real hardsuit looks like they were designed by Kenichi Sonoda (The character designer/mecha designer of Bubblegum Crisis). Maybe the engineers got the inspiration from Bubblegum Crisis itself.
If the Sun's Opteron machines have OBP/Open Firmware, maybe you could run OS X Intel over them. Maybe a licence agreement will be all that would be needed. The key difference bettween (sp?) PC's and Apple X86 will be the firmware, BIOS vs. Open Boot/Open Firmware.
Not only that. Many americans forget that they are the most important market in the wold -just for now. Thats why the chinese, japanese, etc. lends them money.
But,for cell phones, as example, the most important market is China, soon for cars that will be the case, too.What will happen when the american market loses their key relevance?
While the chinese improve their standard of living and their economy, americans are losing their jobs. With the american goverment busy promoting antiamericanism around the world, who will want to buy american goods? How will the american workers keep their jobs and american investors their wealth if the label "Made in USA" becomes a liability? How they will fund then that big army?
"Our foreign policy is what dertermines our 'worth' - but unchallengable military superiority ensures our freedom."
Only from foreign conquerors. In 1941 the germans for almost all practical purposes had unchallengable military superiority, but no freedom. Freedom comes from educated, responsible (sp?) citizens, not from soldiers.
Well said.
Personally, I tell to my mac user friends that they sould be careful, but the ones that aren't IT professionals, use their machines without internet conection. The problem are the uncritical Apple fanboys and the thousands of clueless users that don't know better.
MS gives their users a machine gun to shoot themselves on the foot, and Apple now gives a shinny (sp?), full loaded Colt. In the end, the efect can be the same. All to "save" a few mouse clics.
Incredible.
Firefox and Safari use a download management window, making easy to find and open/execute the downloaded files. Even in OS X Tiger this function is more useless, because you could use Spotlight to search for the file. Making easy to make the system insecure to save 2 or 3 keystrokes/clics is crimminal.
Certainly the cleanup and prevention is easy, but the fact that Safari downloads automatically widgets without user intervention/request is incredibly stupid, even more than the autoinstall -this is already stupid-, the guys who put those "features" on an fairly secure, wonderful and useful system sould be fired; this is seer incompetence, and a disservice for the rest of the fine, great OS X team. What the hell where they thinking? This sould have been scrapped in the design phase of Dashboard.
I read this 5 hours ago and still I'm amazed. I say this has a -otherwise- happy mac user, and someone that made 6 friends switch to the mac.
Maybe you are right, but this is the first device I see that integrates an USB hub and a Firewire hub (to be honest, I didn't know that it could be done) in a external hard disk enclosure. I live in Mexico, the price for these things are:
-USB hub: US$ 15 -38
-160 HD: US$ 90-120
-FireWire Hub: never seen one here
-External HD enclosure: US$ 60-100
Really, the price of this unit is low, if the quality of the enclosure is similar to the case of the Mac mini, then it is cheap.