You are correct in stating that the AMT was designed to hit taxpayers with incomes greater than $100,000, however, in recent years, it has been hitting more and more middle-class taxpayers--people it was not designed to target.
Hope you don't have a hardware failure. Buffalo's support sucks donkey balls. They refused to issue an RMA via e-mail and insisted that I call. I never got the privilege of speaking to someone in their call center, because I tried calling several times at off-peak hours and hung up after waiting 45 minutes each time. Pathetic. I ended up throwing the wireless PC card away and bought another one.
I know they want all of the production to go to needy children, but they could eliminate a lot of the grey market concerns if they would increase their production to provide for sales to geeks and the like who are willing to pay for a cool tech toy, and use the profits to build more machines for needy children...
TFA says that France will be the first market for the beverage, starting in 2006.
So, the Europeans once again get all the cool stuff. They have H & M, they have Renault, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Skoda, and other cool cars that we can't get here in th U.S...
I'm not referring specifically to MythBusters or M5, but what qualifications are needed in order to work for a special effects studio, and how does one gain those qualifications?
Up until the mid-1990's, you used to get something by paying extra for the Sony name (case in point, Trinitron). As another poster noted, the patent expired, so every manufacturer has flat CRT's now.
Sony still has some neat stuff (the rear-projection Wega), but the differential between Sony and other brands is much smaller than it once was. I have a couple of Sony LCD's, but I bought them because they were on sale, not because they were head-and-shoulders above the competition.
Toyota Production System. It's both a shield and a sword--it's how they win all those quality awards, and also how they produce some of the blandest-looking and most boring to drive cars on the road today, earning them the nickname "Japanese Buick."
This is one of the big reasons they are moving to Intel. The G5 was an awesome machine when it was introduced, but its relative performance is tapering off compared to the latest bunch of x86 chips. The G4 is just outdated, and I say that as someone who has an 8-month-old PowerBook G4. Even when the Intel portables come out, expect to pay a premium compared to a Dell. If you care nothing about the OS, it won't be worth it, but if you like the OS and the design of the machines, it probably will be...
Personally, I think Apple is the only computer company who currently even has a design staff.
Actually, I can hook up my iPod nano to more than one computer without having to format it first. I haven't tried to copy songs from the iPod to the computer yet, but even the functionality I just mentioned is an improvement over my old Shuffle.
An improvement in usefulness for you (adding the radio) would result in a loss of usability for most users. Jobs talked about this at the MacWorld Expo Paris Q&A. They could easily add a radio to the iPod, but it would make the device more complicated to use, and most customers don't care about it.
I don't want to listen to anything I can't download without commercials anyway.
I had a Nissan. The Japanese cars are much more reliable, but not nicer to drive than German ones. It's hard to describe, but there is something magical about the way a German car drives that the other carmakers can't or won't replicate. Infiniti is really giving BMW a run for its money right now, though...
windows that have been customized, such as hiding a toolbar or making the window non-resizable, will default to opening in their own standalone frame,
Why not just ignore the command to make a window non-resizable or hide a toolbar, or at least include an option to do so? This is a really annoying feature added by web developers.
To confirm you're not a script, please type the text shown in this image:
This is a really annoying feature added by Slashdot.
Google is not just my friend, it's everybody's friend! I did try Google, and it wasn't much help.
Another poster suggested logging in as root on the main screen and changing "root's" trackpad preference, which worked charmingly. How is tap-click a security risk? You still have to enter a password.
It appears most of the time to boot is in what you classify the "hardware test" time (before the blue screen). It takes 10-12 seconds before I see a white screen, then a total of about thirty seconds have elapsed before the blue screen pops up.
When the login screen pops up, I can not tap the touchpad to login, I have to use the button, even though I have my system preferences set so that I can tap the touchpad to click. It then takes another 10-15 seconds after entering my password to boot. The total boot time (not including password entry) for my current-model PowerBook with 512 MB of RAM is just under one minute.
The fundamental problem launchd was created to solve is system startup time. Twenty or thirty seconds to boot a freakin' laptop is just absurd. So we used launchd to get that down to four.
Hey, are you using one of those nifty PowerBook G5's? Because my 1.5 ghz PowerBook G4 takes at least 30 seconds to boot up OS X 10.4.
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You are correct in stating that the AMT was designed to hit taxpayers with incomes greater than $100,000, however, in recent years, it has been hitting more and more middle-class taxpayers--people it was not designed to target.
Hope you don't have a hardware failure. Buffalo's support sucks donkey balls. They refused to issue an RMA via e-mail and insisted that I call. I never got the privilege of speaking to someone in their call center, because I tried calling several times at off-peak hours and hung up after waiting 45 minutes each time. Pathetic. I ended up throwing the wireless PC card away and bought another one.
To make matters worse, they're still selling the PowerBook G4 (including the 15" model) alongside the MacBook Pro.
The iBook will still sell, as it's a heck of a lot less expensive than the MacBook Pro.
It may be 6 months or 6 years until Apple makes a cell phone, but I know only that I want one and that I will buy it.
I know they want all of the production to go to needy children, but they could eliminate a lot of the grey market concerns if they would increase their production to provide for sales to geeks and the like who are willing to pay for a cool tech toy, and use the profits to build more machines for needy children...
Please, think of the nerds!
TFA says that France will be the first market for the beverage, starting in 2006.
So, the Europeans once again get all the cool stuff. They have H & M, they have Renault, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Skoda, and other cool cars that we can't get here in th U.S...
415-620-5412... Call her and ask her what her favorite restaurant is!
I'm not referring specifically to MythBusters or M5, but what qualifications are needed in order to work for a special effects studio, and how does one gain those qualifications?
Up until the mid-1990's, you used to get something by paying extra for the Sony name (case in point, Trinitron). As another poster noted, the patent expired, so every manufacturer has flat CRT's now.
Sony still has some neat stuff (the rear-projection Wega), but the differential between Sony and other brands is much smaller than it once was. I have a couple of Sony LCD's, but I bought them because they were on sale, not because they were head-and-shoulders above the competition.
Makes sense, what I said was entirely tongue-in-cheek!
Toyota Production System. It's both a shield and a sword--it's how they win all those quality awards, and also how they produce some of the blandest-looking and most boring to drive cars on the road today, earning them the nickname "Japanese Buick."
This is one of the big reasons they are moving to Intel. The G5 was an awesome machine when it was introduced, but its relative performance is tapering off compared to the latest bunch of x86 chips. The G4 is just outdated, and I say that as someone who has an 8-month-old PowerBook G4. Even when the Intel portables come out, expect to pay a premium compared to a Dell. If you care nothing about the OS, it won't be worth it, but if you like the OS and the design of the machines, it probably will be...
Personally, I think Apple is the only computer company who currently even has a design staff.
Actually, I can hook up my iPod nano to more than one computer without having to format it first. I haven't tried to copy songs from the iPod to the computer yet, but even the functionality I just mentioned is an improvement over my old Shuffle.
An improvement in usefulness for you (adding the radio) would result in a loss of usability for most users. Jobs talked about this at the MacWorld Expo Paris Q&A. They could easily add a radio to the iPod, but it would make the device more complicated to use, and most customers don't care about it.
I don't want to listen to anything I can't download without commercials anyway.
I had a Nissan. The Japanese cars are much more reliable, but not nicer to drive than German ones. It's hard to describe, but there is something magical about the way a German car drives that the other carmakers can't or won't replicate. Infiniti is really giving BMW a run for its money right now, though...
31/12/2006 is when the dev mechines have to be returned, not 31/12/2005.
windows that have been customized, such as hiding a toolbar or making the window non-resizable, will default to opening in their own standalone frame,
Why not just ignore the command to make a window non-resizable or hide a toolbar, or at least include an option to do so? This is a really annoying feature added by web developers.
To confirm you're not a script, please type the text shown in this image:
This is a really annoying feature added by Slashdot.
I read an article indicating that USB 2.0 on Apple machines was subpar:
http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html
You might get better performance from a FireWire enclosure.
Thanks for the tip...
You know, if you really find this guy annoying, there is contact information so you can tell him about it: http://www.primidi.com/personalinfo/contactme.html
Umm, replace "another poster" with "you..."
Google is not just my friend, it's everybody's friend! I did try Google, and it wasn't much help.
Another poster suggested logging in as root on the main screen and changing "root's" trackpad preference, which worked charmingly. How is tap-click a security risk? You still have to enter a password.
Thanks, I will try that out. For some reason, I thought that I could only log in as root in the Terminal, and not the GUI.
It appears most of the time to boot is in what you classify the "hardware test" time (before the blue screen). It takes 10-12 seconds before I see a white screen, then a total of about thirty seconds have elapsed before the blue screen pops up.
When the login screen pops up, I can not tap the touchpad to login, I have to use the button, even though I have my system preferences set so that I can tap the touchpad to click. It then takes another 10-15 seconds after entering my password to boot. The total boot time (not including password entry) for my current-model PowerBook with 512 MB of RAM is just under one minute.
The fundamental problem launchd was created to solve is system startup time. Twenty or thirty seconds to boot a freakin' laptop is just absurd. So we used launchd to get that down to four.
Hey, are you using one of those nifty PowerBook G5's? Because my 1.5 ghz PowerBook G4 takes at least 30 seconds to boot up OS X 10.4.