Looked at the $799 model earlier this week. compared it with something I could build.
My build was $80 cheaper after shipping. 3.xx Ghz CPU (the mac was 2.5 or 2.6), with virtualization extension (I'll assume the mac had those, but that wasn't mentioned). A good Intel gigabyte mobo (P4x or G4x). 4GB of memory (as with the mac). 500GB HDD (mac had 320) Add the case and a very high quality PSU, and that's my rig.
Buying MacOS and setting it up to hackintosh, I could have a mac for less than the $799 mini. I could drop the CPU to what was in the Mini, along with getting the smaller hard drive, and a PSU that is less overkill (probably less high quality, but still quite good), and afford a copy of windows home premium. Actually, I could drop the mobo to something that wouldn't be hackintosh acceptable, and save more money.
And you compared Apple/Intel (a solid upper-mid quality hardware vendor) to Compaq (fairly low quality), on AMD? I'd blame the dipshit that made that decision, and not PCs in general. It's certainly not a fair comparison.
It's always made suggestions and autoindented properly for me.
Admitted Eclipse does a better job of making suggestions in a timely manner, but eclipse has an issue where it will only suggest packages first, then I have to delete back to the dot (after typing in something not recognized as a package) to get a class or inheritance I need.
What do you mean by custom syntax hilighting? I'm guessing that's not the same as color coding various standard language constructs (which has always been easier for me to find in Visual Studios than Eclipse).
I won't disagree with you on the buffers. The C/C++ compiler doesn't seem significantly slower than GCC to me.
If you bother buying Fusion or Prallels, nothing, but that seems to miss the point.
Some games, I like Corel Photopaint myself - yes there are alternatives, none seem to have as high a rate of format compatibility, few seem to have ease of use (without losing functionality), and all of those cost more money.
I've had similar experiences in Windows and agree wholeheartedly.
That, in combination with the fact that there is no viable 3D with ATi on FreeBSD, leads me to use pretty much anyone other than ATi for my graphics chips, when possible.
Oh, and while you can hack their drivers to install on notebooks pretty easily, ATi still puts the stupid checks in the software to prevent the drivers from installing on notebooks.
Anyway, rote-enlightenment is no different from the stuff they are already buying now. It'll last them until someone comes along and tells them something else "interesting".
Unfortunately, one of the ancestor posts was correct - it is the/stupid/ people. The non-stupid but ignorant people fix the latter problem more often than not, it's the stupid people that persist in the intoxicating cloud of ignorance.
What, they won't? Oh man, this virtualization thing is brilliant.
So you virtualize a box, so that, if there's a hardware failure, the box can be brought back up on another machine, with minimal downtime! Also, you can run multiple systems on a box saving money!
We virtualized all our servers around here, went from about 200 servers to 8 machines, each with 16 CPU cores. It went well. So we decided to repeat the process. We then had 4 machines, each taking two VM hosts! It was great, more savings, more vodka for my drawer... So I thought, how could I make this even better...?
That's right, I put all four of THOSE VM hosts on a 486 in the back room that doesn't even need special cooling. Let me tell you, in terms of Vodka, this virtualization thing has been *quite* productive.
How could it not be all pervasive by 2019? I'm sure everyone will be virtualizing all of their VM hosts on VM hosts running on 486s by 2019!
Not really a "distro" problem for me as I'm a FreeBSD user. I chose to install 3.x and 4.x simultaneously.
After putting a lot of effort into 4.0 for a week, I said "fuck it", and went back to 3. The same happened with 4.1.
I missed 4.2, and ended up with 4.3 on an Ubuntu Live CD I was experimenting with. My first thought was "Wow, they did some nice tweaks to this to make it play nice with Ubuntu. I wonder what it's like on FreeBSD?"
I went back and installed it on FreeBSD and it was just as nice as it was on Ubuntu.
I went back and found some 4.2 releases, and they didn't seem so bad either. My old 4.1 release still wasn't pleasant though.
Yeah, I felt like all the jokes about people who buy a MS OS prior to the first SP1 being the "paying beta testers" would have been appropriate for KDE4.0 and 4.1, at least if they charged.
4.2 wasn't bad, and I actually *like* 4.3, I can easily set it up to do what I want/need easily.
My only worry is that... with 4.4 out, are we going to be subjected to KDE5.0 soon?
Who knows, maybe they are doing this to prevent 3rd party vendors from making software that does this on an Apple platform (and preventing patent based blockage of vendors on other platforms?)
you are assuming the media companies are trying to stop the pirates.
The pirates, are a straw man for the media consortium to be able to give the users less (i.e. less work on the media companies part), while still ensuring payment of the same price.
I see both as the enemy - the pirates for giving the media companies this tool, the only tool in their belt, as well as being so inundated with a sense of entitlement that they can't consider doing without... And the media companies for just being greedy bastards.
I've never seen powerpoint slides come with a student's copy of the book. I suspect they are referring to the teacher's copy or the extra material a teacher might purchase.
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I was thinking of getting a Mini at one point.
Looked at the $799 model earlier this week. compared it with something I could build.
My build was $80 cheaper after shipping.
3.xx Ghz CPU (the mac was 2.5 or 2.6), with virtualization extension (I'll assume the mac had those, but that wasn't mentioned).
A good Intel gigabyte mobo (P4x or G4x).
4GB of memory (as with the mac).
500GB HDD (mac had 320)
Add the case and a very high quality PSU, and that's my rig.
Buying MacOS and setting it up to hackintosh, I could have a mac for less than the $799 mini. I could drop the CPU to what was in the Mini, along with getting the smaller hard drive, and a PSU that is less overkill (probably less high quality, but still quite good), and afford a copy of windows home premium. Actually, I could drop the mobo to something that wouldn't be hackintosh acceptable, and save more money.
And you compared Apple/Intel (a solid upper-mid quality hardware vendor) to Compaq (fairly low quality), on AMD? I'd blame the dipshit that made that decision, and not PCs in general. It's certainly not a fair comparison.
This topic thread? Not much really, but if you are going to pick, why not go after one of the earlier people on the topic?
THey don't work on newer versions of Photopaint, and games are hit or miss (mostly they work, but not always).
It's always made suggestions and autoindented properly for me.
Admitted Eclipse does a better job of making suggestions in a timely manner, but eclipse has an issue where it will only suggest packages first, then I have to delete back to the dot (after typing in something not recognized as a package) to get a class or inheritance I need.
What do you mean by custom syntax hilighting? I'm guessing that's not the same as color coding various standard language constructs (which has always been easier for me to find in Visual Studios than Eclipse).
I won't disagree with you on the buffers. The C/C++ compiler doesn't seem significantly slower than GCC to me.
If you bother buying Fusion or Prallels, nothing, but that seems to miss the point.
Some games, I like Corel Photopaint myself - yes there are alternatives, none seem to have as high a rate of format compatibility, few seem to have ease of use (without losing functionality), and all of those cost more money.
While I don't understand it, what's so back about cricket?
Real? They are still in business?
I think I'd rather have MS based stuff than their garbage. *blech*
Mobility modder was what I was referring to when I mentioned "hack their drivers to install on notebooks pretty easily".
Still, I prefer Intel and nVidia where I've never needed to do that.
However, I didn't have a choice on my new notebook, and MM allowed me to upgrade from Vista to XP, and therefore they will have my undying love.
I've had similar experiences in Windows and agree wholeheartedly.
That, in combination with the fact that there is no viable 3D with ATi on FreeBSD, leads me to use pretty much anyone other than ATi for my graphics chips, when possible.
Oh, and while you can hack their drivers to install on notebooks pretty easily, ATi still puts the stupid checks in the software to prevent the drivers from installing on notebooks.
Anyway, rote-enlightenment is no different from the stuff they are already buying now. It'll last them until someone comes along and tells them something else "interesting".
Unfortunately, one of the ancestor posts was correct - it is the /stupid/ people. The non-stupid but ignorant people fix the latter problem more often than not, it's the stupid people that persist in the intoxicating cloud of ignorance.
What, they won't? Oh man, this virtualization thing is brilliant.
So you virtualize a box, so that, if there's a hardware failure, the box can be brought back up on another machine, with minimal downtime! Also, you can run multiple systems on a box saving money!
We virtualized all our servers around here, went from about 200 servers to 8 machines, each with 16 CPU cores. It went well. So we decided to repeat the process. We then had 4 machines, each taking two VM hosts! It was great, more savings, more vodka for my drawer... So I thought, how could I make this even better...?
That's right, I put all four of THOSE VM hosts on a 486 in the back room that doesn't even need special cooling. Let me tell you, in terms of Vodka, this virtualization thing has been *quite* productive.
How could it not be all pervasive by 2019? I'm sure everyone will be virtualizing all of their VM hosts on VM hosts running on 486s by 2019!
Not really a "distro" problem for me as I'm a FreeBSD user. I chose to install 3.x and 4.x simultaneously.
After putting a lot of effort into 4.0 for a week, I said "fuck it", and went back to 3. The same happened with 4.1.
I missed 4.2, and ended up with 4.3 on an Ubuntu Live CD I was experimenting with. My first thought was "Wow, they did some nice tweaks to this to make it play nice with Ubuntu. I wonder what it's like on FreeBSD?"
I went back and installed it on FreeBSD and it was just as nice as it was on Ubuntu.
I went back and found some 4.2 releases, and they didn't seem so bad either. My old 4.1 release still wasn't pleasant though.
Yeah, I felt like all the jokes about people who buy a MS OS prior to the first SP1 being the "paying beta testers" would have been appropriate for KDE4.0 and 4.1, at least if they charged.
4.2 wasn't bad, and I actually *like* 4.3, I can easily set it up to do what I want/need easily.
My only worry is that... with 4.4 out, are we going to be subjected to KDE5.0 soon?
I wonder what clockspeed it would get. I know it's completely useless/pointless, but I'd be interested to see anyway.
Likewise for me, something like "SAM". It was a nice simple case, but not terribly interesting.
But maybe that's why they do the fake arch - because a real arch would be too complex? At least, that would explain undergraduate classes.
Maybe the author should have put longer than necessary.
Heck, even ignoring that, no matter how well coded, printf won't have short documentation.
The question is - is it a 5 page set of documentation on printf, or 50?
Who knows, maybe they are doing this to prevent 3rd party vendors from making software that does this on an Apple platform (and preventing patent based blockage of vendors on other platforms?)
Ghostview is also a nice free (as in beer) and OSS package for creating PDFs.
you are assuming the media companies are trying to stop the pirates.
The pirates, are a straw man for the media consortium to be able to give the users less (i.e. less work on the media companies part), while still ensuring payment of the same price.
I see both as the enemy - the pirates for giving the media companies this tool, the only tool in their belt, as well as being so inundated with a sense of entitlement that they can't consider doing without... And the media companies for just being greedy bastards.
I think I had something like that with my Biochemistry book. Except it only contained videos, pictures and a few 3D models. Maybe a couple PDFs.
I've never seen powerpoint slides come with a student's copy of the book. I suspect they are referring to the teacher's copy or the extra material a teacher might purchase.
Not all, in my experience, but a lot outside of math and physics (chem is intermediate), most others use powerpoint or pre-made overhead slides.
Which gets me to thinking, why pick on powerpoint - the pre-made overheads have the same exact problem.
I'm wondering - does this take into account land costs of ground based solar cells, particularly in Japan?
Yes, and what he said is still true.
Money, goods and services, weeks in vacation houses in tahiti... will exchange hands to rectify any answers that are not sufficient.
But I use RedHat you insensitive clod!