I just returned from a trip into the woods (just an overnighter) and was able to take around 150 Large/Fine JPEGS (3kx2k pixels) and review them in the tent while it rained that night!
I would recommend an SLR for any kind of future investment value. The EOS D30, a 4 MP camera IIRC, can be had for 300-400 bucks on eBay. With the BG-ED3, and miserly battery usage (no instant preview, 1 minute auto-sleep, minimum of metering and autofocusing) one could shoot for at least a week. The beauty of the digicam is the price - the one-time investment (not counting lens fever) lets you become a better photographer through shooting more pictures!
Personally, I recommend the Powerbook, the 10D, and any of the myriad of well-constructed portable photocells if you plan to spend any time in the backcountry (adding perhaps 13-15 pounds to your load) for sustainable imaging on the road.
What we really need is a Firewire / USB hard drive / cd-rom burner. One could be put into a Discman-sized package quite easily nowadays, and you only need to buy and mail CD's when you reache civilization, and eschew them in favor of the hard drive in the backcountry.
You DO know that in most states emplyment is 'at-will' which means that you can be fired at any time with no notice for no reason at all.
Really, the only defense against IT people being marginalized into the sub-$14.00 per hour category, in the long term, is massive geek organization. The corporations view you as any resource - as labor that can and will be paid the absolute minimum for the skill set. If industry folk get together and conspire to hire for smaller and smaller sums, every geek loses. A geek union, not affiliated with the labor unions whatsoever, and run democratically, is probably the thing most feared by EVERY medium to large tech house in the world. The union needs to be international, and unafraid of action. That way, slimy businesspeople wouldn't be able to outsource to India for any less money than their current labor. Do geeks have the spines to strike, though? Somehow, I think not.
Well, flaky Apple hardware often boots and runs, but one may notice slowdowns and odd glitches as a sign of someting more serious. I hope you bought Applecare. I wasn't going to, and then my TiG4's case seperated at the right corner (by the DVD drive), the logic board blew, and some fucker at Apple repair burned the LCD screen somehow! Apple has always been pretty good about fixing their shit, but when I had the case seperation problem I was told by some lackey on the phone that it was a cosmetic issue. I said that it wasn't at all, that it directly affected my ability to actually use the machine, and if Apple wasn't going to honor their warranty, I was going to call my Attorney General and 'take it from there.' Three minutes later I had my repair underway.
I don't find this odd, however, as stupid people who don't know their rights may just give up at that point, and buy a new Mac, rather than sound mean and crabby on the phone. As a Unix sysadmin, however, I have the whole BOFH thing going for me, as most of us do.
It isn't so much the lack of cash on hand, but how the CEO decides to use it. Either he'll line his pockets and jump, or he'll maybe sell the third beach house, buckle down and get to work. Either way, he's rich and engineers probably get canned to save costs.
Generally, downtime doesn't really cost money. If you are running a huge e-commerce site (think Amazon or anything else of that scale) you have multiple, redundant machines. The customer will still be able to place his order. What costs the big money is flying the Sun guy out so he can reboot the box and tinker with some shit.
Holy shit! Someone found a time machine in 1994 and came nine years into the future. I hope to God he doesn't experience a Divx movie, or his brain might explode.
Shit, considering that there are a quarter million Iraqi Army regulars and probably twice that number of militiamen still UNACCOUNTED FOR, they are probably being smart and waiting for us to withdraw the rest of our troops, so they can retake it all the more easily. Then Saddam will come out of his cabin at Camp David, get flown back to Iraq in Air Force One, and we'll be told by Bush that we have to do it all again 'for the children.'
They'll realize this as soon as you engineers have the balls to go ahead and not work for these slime merchants. I guarantee that the game developers who were let go are out banging on the doors of any other goming house who will have them, whether or not that company has a history of layoffs right after project completions.
Is Cable the only thing that's happened in Bhutan in the last four years? Probably not. I would bet that the rises in crime, violence, and drug abuse have more to do with the fact that Bhutan is constantly shat upon by the west, economically at least.
I work at a PC-only shop as a generic PC support dude, doing both hardware service in-house and software and hardware outside. I used Omnigraffle to diagram a client's network, and the MCSE type who was also there for a meeting had a diagram made on Visio. Talk about ugly and amateurish! I laughed and asked him where he got those diagrams, as the output looked more primative than anything I had seen on paper in a while (no, I don't read USA today). He showed me his diagram on Visio on his fuckin' buggy Centrino notebook. I whipped out the Powerbook and proceeded to blow away everyone at the meeting with the fact that I not only had a diagram of their network, but also had scripted OmniGraffle to ping each host when the chart loaded, so there is a rough view of the status of the network. That was what really blew everyone away, not to mention the fact that the output from Omnigraffle is BEAUTIFUL!!!
Anyway, Windows is still nowhere near OS X for publishing, video, pro audio, etc.
You DO realize that MSN for OS X is IE for OS X, don't you? They are just going to bundle it with their shitty ISP service in the future. MSN seriously has the worst ping times I have ever experienced, perhaps rivaled by AOL. That's what happens when you have way too thin a pipe for all your subscribers, though, and all the packets are just waiting in the cache of a fetid Cisco somewhere.
Web developers who take their work seriously will code their pages to be standards compliant. Ones who do not are either A. Working for clueless retards who care nothing about their Web presence. B. Primadonnas who probably con't use anything other than Dreamweaver.
There is no PPC mac emulator. There are emulators that equate to a hella-fast 68xxx, but the Mac is essentially un-emulatable on the current and future X86 architecture.
Unlike the X86, which is emulated quite nicely by a myriad of cross-platform apps.
But suddenly Microsoft controls a considerable segment of the video game market
Probably less than fifteen percent. Microsoft told the users that Xbox would trounce on all the other game consoles. They told the developers that they could put games out faster, because the unit has a hard drive which facilitates patching, or at least the concept of patching.
No serious gamers go for the Xbox because it has no serious games (excepting maybe DOA (titties!!!) and Halo, but as a Tribes2 player, I hardly consider Halo to be a 'Serious' game). Additionally, every informed gamer knows that they can get a PC that beats the SHIT out of the Xbox on all performance levels for not much more money. The informed gamer knows that titles published on Xbox are likely to be offered simultaneously on most other platforms, and failing that, on the PC.
I find Safari nearly unusable on some pages I go to because of flaws in KHTML
Did you try using the Bug button? I have only had Safari barf on a very few pages and those were mainly artsy-fartsy Flash oriented pages which look like aborted hog fetuses even when properly rendered.
Darwin isn't better than Linux -- it's a totally different system with totally different goals. Linux/*BSD are monolithic kernels with typical unix-like authentication and system calls. OSX is closer to BSD-lite, running the Mach microkernel, and using Mach IPC, etc. etc. Totally different systems.
The Unix interface is there on OS X, and unless you are a kernel hacker, you shouldn't have to care about Mach at all.
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Winfax Pro was outsourced 2 major versions ago. Do a strings on it.
I just returned from a trip into the woods (just an overnighter) and was able to take around 150 Large/Fine JPEGS (3kx2k pixels) and review them in the tent while it rained that night!
I would recommend an SLR for any kind of future investment value. The EOS D30, a 4 MP camera IIRC, can be had for 300-400 bucks on eBay. With the BG-ED3, and miserly battery usage (no instant preview, 1 minute auto-sleep, minimum of metering and autofocusing) one could shoot for at least a week. The beauty of the digicam is the price - the one-time investment (not counting lens fever) lets you become a better photographer through shooting more pictures!
Personally, I recommend the Powerbook, the 10D, and any of the myriad of well-constructed portable photocells if you plan to spend any time in the backcountry (adding perhaps 13-15 pounds to your load) for sustainable imaging on the road.
What we really need is a Firewire / USB hard drive / cd-rom burner. One could be put into a Discman-sized package quite easily nowadays, and you only need to buy and mail CD's when you reache civilization, and eschew them in favor of the hard drive in the backcountry.
You DO know that in most states emplyment is 'at-will' which means that you can be fired at any time with no notice for no reason at all.
Really, the only defense against IT people being marginalized into the sub-$14.00 per hour category, in the long term, is massive geek organization. The corporations view you as any resource - as labor that can and will be paid the absolute minimum for the skill set. If industry folk get together and conspire to hire for smaller and smaller sums, every geek loses. A geek union, not affiliated with the labor unions whatsoever, and run democratically, is probably the thing most feared by EVERY medium to large tech house in the world. The union needs to be international, and unafraid of action. That way, slimy businesspeople wouldn't be able to outsource to India for any less money than their current labor. Do geeks have the spines to strike, though? Somehow, I think not.
Which energy company is that? Enron is still doing business today! They still own a shitload of energy concerns.
IBM ISN'T GOING TO BUY SCO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn, they are going to leave a smoking crater in Cali.
MS Already has a 'Perpeptual and Irrevocable' Unix license. Remember Xenix?
Well, flaky Apple hardware often boots and runs, but one may notice slowdowns and odd glitches as a sign of someting more serious. I hope you bought Applecare. I wasn't going to, and then my TiG4's case seperated at the right corner (by the DVD drive), the logic board blew, and some fucker at Apple repair burned the LCD screen somehow! Apple has always been pretty good about fixing their shit, but when I had the case seperation problem I was told by some lackey on the phone that it was a cosmetic issue. I said that it wasn't at all, that it directly affected my ability to actually use the machine, and if Apple wasn't going to honor their warranty, I was going to call my Attorney General and 'take it from there.' Three minutes later I had my repair underway.
I don't find this odd, however, as stupid people who don't know their rights may just give up at that point, and buy a new Mac, rather than sound mean and crabby on the phone. As a Unix sysadmin, however, I have the whole BOFH thing going for me, as most of us do.
It isn't so much the lack of cash on hand, but how the CEO decides to use it. Either he'll line his pockets and jump, or he'll maybe sell the third beach house, buckle down and get to work. Either way, he's rich and engineers probably get canned to save costs.
Generally, downtime doesn't really cost money. If you are running a huge e-commerce site (think Amazon or anything else of that scale) you have multiple, redundant machines. The customer will still be able to place his order. What costs the big money is flying the Sun guy out so he can reboot the box and tinker with some shit.
(RealVideo is awesome :-)
Holy shit! Someone found a time machine in 1994 and came nine years into the future. I hope to God he doesn't experience a Divx movie, or his brain might explode.
It means nothing for the UltraSPARC.
Shit, considering that there are a quarter million Iraqi Army regulars and probably twice that number of militiamen still UNACCOUNTED FOR, they are probably being smart and waiting for us to withdraw the rest of our troops, so they can retake it all the more easily. Then Saddam will come out of his cabin at Camp David, get flown back to Iraq in Air Force One, and we'll be told by Bush that we have to do it all again 'for the children.'
They'll realize this as soon as you engineers have the balls to go ahead and not work for these slime merchants. I guarantee that the game developers who were let go are out banging on the doors of any other goming house who will have them, whether or not that company has a history of layoffs right after project completions.
Is Cable the only thing that's happened in Bhutan in the last four years? Probably not. I would bet that the rises in crime, violence, and drug abuse have more to do with the fact that Bhutan is constantly shat upon by the west, economically at least.
Needing access to the underlying OS is just a poor excuse.
No, it's just a bald-faced lie. The reasons for this move are entirely more evil than needing more access to the OS.
OmniGraffle vs. Visio...
I work at a PC-only shop as a generic PC support dude, doing both hardware service in-house and software and hardware outside. I used Omnigraffle to diagram a client's network, and the MCSE type who was also there for a meeting had a diagram made on Visio. Talk about ugly and amateurish! I laughed and asked him where he got those diagrams, as the output looked more primative than anything I had seen on paper in a while (no, I don't read USA today). He showed me his diagram on Visio on his fuckin' buggy Centrino notebook. I whipped out the Powerbook and proceeded to blow away everyone at the meeting with the fact that I not only had a diagram of their network, but also had scripted OmniGraffle to ping each host when the chart loaded, so there is a rough view of the status of the network. That was what really blew everyone away, not to mention the fact that the output from Omnigraffle is BEAUTIFUL!!!
Anyway, Windows is still nowhere near OS X for publishing, video, pro audio, etc.
but more developers means a better product made in a shorter amount of time
Whoa, sounds like somebody needs to read The Mythical Man Month, by Brooks.
The best and most robust software is usually coded by smaller teams.
You DO realize that MSN for OS X is IE for OS X, don't you? They are just going to bundle it with their shitty ISP service in the future. MSN seriously has the worst ping times I have ever experienced, perhaps rivaled by AOL. That's what happens when you have way too thin a pipe for all your subscribers, though, and all the packets are just waiting in the cache of a fetid Cisco somewhere.
No, it's called credit cards and loans.
You don't have to actually BE rich in order to LOOK rich. All you have to do is embroil yourself in endless debt, and look good doing it!
Web developers who take their work seriously will code their pages to be standards compliant. Ones who do not are either
A. Working for clueless retards who care nothing about their Web presence.
B. Primadonnas who probably con't use anything other than Dreamweaver.
There is no PPC mac emulator. There are emulators that equate to a hella-fast 68xxx, but the Mac is essentially un-emulatable on the current and future X86 architecture.
Unlike the X86, which is emulated quite nicely by a myriad of cross-platform apps.
But suddenly Microsoft controls a considerable segment of the video game market
Probably less than fifteen percent. Microsoft told the users that Xbox would trounce on all the other game consoles. They told the developers that they could put games out faster, because the unit has a hard drive which facilitates patching, or at least the concept of patching.
No serious gamers go for the Xbox because it has no serious games (excepting maybe DOA (titties!!!) and Halo, but as a Tribes2 player, I hardly consider Halo to be a 'Serious' game). Additionally, every informed gamer knows that they can get a PC that beats the SHIT out of the Xbox on all performance levels for not much more money. The informed gamer knows that titles published on Xbox are likely to be offered simultaneously on most other platforms, and failing that, on the PC.
I find Safari nearly unusable on some pages I go to because of flaws in KHTML
Did you try using the Bug button? I have only had Safari barf on a very few pages and those were mainly artsy-fartsy Flash oriented pages which look like aborted hog fetuses even when properly rendered.
Darwin isn't better than Linux -- it's a totally different system with totally different goals. Linux/*BSD are monolithic kernels with typical unix-like authentication and system calls. OSX is closer to BSD-lite, running the Mach microkernel, and using Mach IPC, etc. etc. Totally different systems.
The Unix interface is there on OS X, and unless you are a kernel hacker, you shouldn't have to care about Mach at all.
I would.
Acura = luxury Honda.
Infiniti = luxury Nissan.
Lexus = luxury Toyota.
Mercedes is a product line made by a company owned by the massive Daimler Chrysler corporation. It isn't a 'massive dymerclysler corporation' at all.
Whoa, you have no idea how political whoredom works.
$30,000 isn't just going to buy you votes and favors, but it'll get your shoes shined, your car hot waxed, and a blow OR rim job (your choice).
Until the people make it clear that political bribery is NOT to be tolerated, we can expect them to become ever cheaper whores.