I wish Apple would market a headless iMac and sell it for $799. I'm in the market right now, I've been using Macs since 1984 and that would be exactly what I need at a price I'm willing to pay.
Used Cubes still command very high prices on eBay. I'm likely to be getting a used 466 or faster G4 because Apple doesn't sell what I need at a price I can afford.
Being that I do print media on the Mac, I prefer the color of Trinitron phospors. I don't want the puny, flat-panel, expensive 17-inch widescreen (maybe they're dropping the widescreen format and will go with a cheaper, common-ratio 17 inch) because 90% of print media is vertical. I use a 21-inch high-refresh tube and only 512mb of memory. Since 'Desktop Publishing' software is mature, high-speed CPUs don't impact productivity all that much.
That dude shouldn't get just any chemistry set. He should ignore inorganic chemistry and go for the gold (organic chemistry). He needs to read Phikal first. Then he needs to check out Rhodium and The Vaults of Erowid and a gander at The Lycaeum
The superceeded agreement you speak of is the injunction Sun got forcing Micros**t to stop including their own 'embrace and extend' version of Java. Geez, the spin doctors never sleep, do they?
Sun and Microsoft made an signed agreement many years ago for Microsoft to have the rights to include a JDC compliant Java in their OS. Microsoft produced an incompatable JDC in their typical 'embrace and extend' methodology. Therefore Microsoft violated the terms of their agreement with Sun.
Of course, in some people's eyes, Microsoft can do anything it wants because it is above the law and are therefore the corporate heros of a 'free society'. Under those circumstances, the only one who is 'free' is Microsoft and them alone.
M$ will win, but the owners of InterTrust get wealthy in the process. They will settle out of court. M$ will pay anunspecified sum to the InterTrust people. The company will get absorbed by the $borg$.
Article One:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Now watch... Clarence Thomas got pubic hair on his coke can because he sucks donkey dicks.
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This rather huge site takes a semi-skeptical view. Brother Blue has been away for a long time, but somebody put up the whole archive. Believe It or Not!!
I'm running an Nforce right now using the 2.4.19 i810 driver. Works like a charm. In the 2.5 series kernel, the IDE is supported by the AMD driver. Did Nvidia change the audio in the NForce2 series?
Your point has been raised a million times on Slashdot. The counterpoint has as well. NVidia has technology licensing agreements with third parties that, at least according to NVidia, do not allow them to Open Source portions of their drivers without violation of the agreements.
As an Nforce use, I have found this to be a little white lie. The audio is Intel810, the IDE is AMD. Doubtless, their Ethernet implemenation also is somebody elses. They have different entry points to distinguish themselves from the stock branded chips. Using binary modules for their NForce boards is an unnecessary headache.
On the other side of the coin, there is a usenet kook who published a book and listed it on Amazon. He got swarms of (very funny) negative reviews from his usenet detractors. But these were later removed from Amazon's site, probably at the behest of the kook.
I'm all for the off-the-shelf PC-based Xterminal. Right now I'm sitting on an Nforce-based Xterminal, which with a 1.3ghz Duron costs us less than $200. We're pumping a 19" monitor at 1280x1024 24-bit color at a 100hz refresh rate. In my opinion, there is no Xterminal or Thin Client that offers this level of performance at any price. We have 100 BaseT ethernet (some of the thin clients still only offer 10BaseT.
The Micro ATX case is somewhat bigger than the typical thin client, and having to use modules for the proprietary Nforce/Nvidia drivers is a pain, but at this price everybody is very happy.
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I saw somebody selling 50 Sun Sparc X terminal 1s on s Dutch auction this weekend. These things were being offered for $12.00 opening bid and nobody bid!
They sell hardware and they've got only 3.5% of the market now. Can you spot the long-term trend? Do you think Apple would sell more computers if they discontinued OSX and bundles Windows with every new G4 instead?
OSX is there to let you use that nice G4 system you bought.
Problem is, those G4 systems aren't very nice when compared to other computers. Personal computers have become a commodity business. Most of them are made in Taiwan or China. Apple is at the mercy of the PowerPC architecture, yet what they have of value is not G4 computers, but OSX. People don't buy Macs because of the lame architecture, they buy Macs in spite of the lame architecture.
When it comes time to upgrade to the next new version of OSX, you'll be buying this OS (unless you buy a new computer everytime Apple upgrades MacOS).
...according to this editorial on Yahoo News. Ace's Hardware story says IBM's 64-bit PowerPC won't be ready until Fall, 2003 and who knows how much IBM money will want for each CPU?
The PowerPC albatross is crippleware for Apple's future. Maybe they will move to AMD's Hammer, maybe not. But we'd all be better off if Apple shrank the size of their business by getting out of hardware and focusing on software. I'd rather buy OSX for my beige box than waste it on Apple's overpriced nonsense. Apple can acheive much higher margins with software alone than they can with the current realities of the commodity PC market.
And according to the "pay or opt out" approach, how should we handle this war with Iraq? If you don't pay, should we exile you to a parallel universe where Saddam is free to nuke or poison every neighbor he can get his hands on? Where Iraq becomes the resort location for terrorist training camps? Or, since that's not possible, should we simply put up with your lifelong complaint that it was a waste of your tax dollars?
The best way is for us to stop living in our imaginations about our dependence on the oil that This Year's Bad Man has. There are better ways than conquering the Bad Men. It is going to bankrupt the US, because they aren't pillaging their victims, they are simply turning over their victim's resources to corporates who don't fund the treasury that pays for the conquerors in the first place.
That makes almost US$8,000 for every living Iraqui citizen, assuming about a 22-million population figure. We could fly each and every one over here for a nice Disney World vacation AND give each of them a new Macintoch computer for that kind of money.
Guestimating that there are about 200 million taxpayers, doesn't that mean each one of them pays $1,000 apeace to wage war on Iraq? I wonder how many of the blowhard chicken hawks would be willing to write a check of their own money for $1,000 in advance to back their warmongering bravado?
Once I went looking for open sourced or free plans and blueprints for housing on the internet. Nothing at all, except for some plans for straw-bale houses from a project in New Mexico.
Sure, the 800mhz Via C3 does games slower than a 800mhz Celeron, but 2d applications are as just as fast. These machines would be great for a student, and will help computerize some homes that previously couldn't afford a computer.
I realize this PC uses older technology, but it is still warranted for 1 year. I hope WallyWorld sells these machines in Mexico, and other countries wherever they happen to do business.
We all know that truth is stranger than fiction, and here we have an apparently real item straight from the realm of Tom Clancy. Imagine a huge, absolutely huge, central database containing both the official and commercial data of every single citizen, run by the US military ostensibly for anti-terror and Homeland Security purposes, and all of it under the direction of a convicted felon.
Well the database is in development and coming soon, according to the New York Times; and the felon who will run it is disgraced Reagan administration liar, dirty-trickster and cover-uper Admiral John M. Poindexter, who Dubya has taken out of mothballs to keep us all safe from dreadful evildoers.
Poindexter got caught up in a little Federal crime spree called Iran-Contra a decade ago, stood trial and was convicted, but managed to escape responsibility on an odd technicality.
As told succinctly by FAS.org, Poindexter was "Indicted March 16, 1988, on seven felony charges. After standing trial on five charges, Poindexter was found guilty April 7, 1990, on all counts: conspiracy (obstruction of inquiries and proceedings, false statements, falsification, destruction and removal of documents); two counts of obstruction of Congress and two counts of false statements.
District Judge Harold H. Greene sentenced Poindexter June 11, 1990, to six months in prison on each count, to be served concurrently. A three-judge appeals panel on November 15, 1991, reversed the convictions on the ground that Poindexter's immunized testimony may have influenced the trial testimony of witnesses. The Supreme Court on December 7, 1992, declined to review the case. In 1993, the indictment was dismissed on the motion of Independent Counsel."
Now he's in charge of the newly-invented Information Awareness Office, a part of that mixed bag of good and bad, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and he's got his eye on basically every scrap of data about every single citizen. The system Poindy is preparing to unleash on us "will provide intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials with instant access to information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant," the NYT article says.
And he's in no way embarrassed by his role ensuring that the US military and federal law enforcement and intelligence spooks can quite conveniently spy on the populace. He's said openly that the US government "needs to 'break down the stovepipes' that separate commercial and government databases," the article says.
Poindexter joins a slew of Reagan-era retreads and Iran-Contra alumni now operating brazenly in Dubya's bureaucracy. No doubt he feels quite comfortable among such familiar company, though I doubt I could say the same for the rest of us. ®
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Used Cubes still command very high prices on eBay. I'm likely to be getting a used 466 or faster G4 because Apple doesn't sell what I need at a price I can afford.
Being that I do print media on the Mac, I prefer the color of Trinitron phospors. I don't want the puny, flat-panel, expensive 17-inch widescreen (maybe they're dropping the widescreen format and will go with a cheaper, common-ratio 17 inch) because 90% of print media is vertical. I use a 21-inch high-refresh tube and only 512mb of memory. Since 'Desktop Publishing' software is mature, high-speed CPUs don't impact productivity all that much.
That dude shouldn't get just any chemistry set. He should ignore inorganic chemistry and go for the gold (organic chemistry). He needs to read Phikal first. Then he needs to check out Rhodium and The Vaults of Erowid and a gander at The Lycaeum
Of course, in some people's eyes, Microsoft can do anything it wants because it is above the law and are therefore the corporate heros of a 'free society'. Under those circumstances, the only one who is 'free' is Microsoft and them alone.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Now watch... Clarence Thomas got pubic hair on his coke can because he sucks donkey dicks.
I simply take it to mean that Intel's processes are beginning to suck. Sell their stock and buy somebody else's.
The Micro ATX case is somewhat bigger than the typical thin client, and having to use modules for the proprietary Nforce/Nvidia drivers is a pain, but at this price everybody is very happy.
They sell hardware and they've got only 3.5% of the market now. Can you spot the long-term trend? Do you think Apple would sell more computers if they discontinued OSX and bundles Windows with every new G4 instead?
OSX is there to let you use that nice G4 system you bought.
Problem is, those G4 systems aren't very nice when compared to other computers. Personal computers have become a commodity business. Most of them are made in Taiwan or China. Apple is at the mercy of the PowerPC architecture, yet what they have of value is not G4 computers, but OSX. People don't buy Macs because of the lame architecture, they buy Macs in spite of the lame architecture.
When it comes time to upgrade to the next new version of OSX, you'll be buying this OS (unless you buy a new computer everytime Apple upgrades MacOS).
The PowerPC albatross is crippleware for Apple's future. Maybe they will move to AMD's Hammer, maybe not. But we'd all be better off if Apple shrank the size of their business by getting out of hardware and focusing on software. I'd rather buy OSX for my beige box than waste it on Apple's overpriced nonsense. Apple can acheive much higher margins with software alone than they can with the current realities of the commodity PC market.
Guestimating that there are about 200 million taxpayers, doesn't that mean each one of them pays $1,000 apeace to wage war on Iraq? I wonder how many of the blowhard chicken hawks would be willing to write a check of their own money for $1,000 in advance to back their warmongering bravado?
Does anybody have a source for free plans?
With this new technology, Jacko can finally be a white woman (above the waist).
No support. No how, no way. They won't even release any documentation. Don't waste your money on a Xabre.
Who let Micros**t into Oasis in the first place? I wonder if they have veto power over any new standards by this clueless group?
I realize this PC uses older technology, but it is still warranted for 1 year. I hope WallyWorld sells these machines in Mexico, and other countries wherever they happen to do business.
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By Thomas C Greene in Washington
We all know that truth is stranger than fiction, and here we have an apparently real item straight from the realm of Tom Clancy. Imagine a huge, absolutely huge, central database containing both the official and commercial data of every single citizen, run by the US military ostensibly for anti-terror and Homeland Security purposes, and all of it under the direction of a convicted felon.
Well the database is in development and coming soon, according to the New York Times; and the felon who will run it is disgraced Reagan administration liar, dirty-trickster and cover-uper Admiral John M. Poindexter, who Dubya has taken out of mothballs to keep us all safe from dreadful evildoers.
Poindexter got caught up in a little Federal crime spree called Iran-Contra a decade ago, stood trial and was convicted, but managed to escape responsibility on an odd technicality.
As told succinctly by FAS.org, Poindexter was "Indicted March 16, 1988, on seven felony charges. After standing trial on five charges, Poindexter was found guilty April 7, 1990, on all counts: conspiracy (obstruction of inquiries and proceedings, false statements, falsification, destruction and removal of documents); two counts of obstruction of Congress and two counts of false statements.
District Judge Harold H. Greene sentenced Poindexter June 11, 1990, to six months in prison on each count, to be served concurrently. A three-judge appeals panel on November 15, 1991, reversed the convictions on the ground that Poindexter's immunized testimony may have influenced the trial testimony of witnesses. The Supreme Court on December 7, 1992, declined to review the case. In 1993, the indictment was dismissed on the motion of Independent Counsel."
Now he's in charge of the newly-invented Information Awareness Office, a part of that mixed bag of good and bad, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and he's got his eye on basically every scrap of data about every single citizen. The system Poindy is preparing to unleash on us "will provide intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials with instant access to information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant," the NYT article says.
And he's in no way embarrassed by his role ensuring that the US military and federal law enforcement and intelligence spooks can quite conveniently spy on the populace. He's said openly that the US government "needs to 'break down the stovepipes' that separate commercial and government databases," the article says.
Poindexter joins a slew of Reagan-era retreads and Iran-Contra alumni now operating brazenly in Dubya's bureaucracy. No doubt he feels quite comfortable among such familiar company, though I doubt I could say the same for the rest of us. ®