Correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine that the cubes were very carefully designed to remove a certain amount of heat, and all this new hotter stuff may cause serious problems?
And this is faster than typing into a laptop with tab/shift-tab for organization how? All you get writing that garbage down is a pile of dead paper that you can't use unless you transcribe it later.
Now, I used to write in my classes as well, but that was because it was slow and forced me to concentrate. If I was trying to save information I'd type it or record it and type it later. Cursive is a good way to lose info.
I find it inane that Apple a) didn't simply say "the music execs, thinking stupidly, that this was a great way to steal music, so we downgraded, sorry". b) didn't point out to them that there are some 10 better, faster, simpler, more robust ways to steal music than iTunes 4 and Audio Hijack... ask them if they had ever heard of Gnutella, Kazza, Grokster, Limewire, yada yada yada.
Yeah that would be obvious play: "Hi, Apple here. It's not our fault, it's the fault of the people we have a very shaky and unlikely agreement with.. they're just a bunch of douchebags.. we're cool! Besides, you shouldn't be trying these things.. visit www.apple.com/steal for a detailed list of software and methods to acquire music for free.
You're right in that it's a step in the right direction, but the problem is ratings don't solve the 'This is a favorite CD right now so keep it' problem because I don't want to continuously upkeep the ratings on 7000 tracks.
I have that much music and I don't have a single illegal MP3 on my machine. I have a small handful of files downloaded from mp3.com, and the rest are from cd's (192kb MP3s). I have lots of bargain classical cd's (~$1/ea.) and scores of used cd's. I have more than an average number of cd's, but I honestly doubt I have a freakishly large collection.
If you were paying $15 per cd, then that would start to be insane.
Also, if you fill your player, you can't utilize that other nifty feature - portable hard drive. Instead you have to guess how much space you might need, make sure you delete enough CD's to have that space, and then maintain that buffer everytime you add a CD. More annoying maintenance work that keeps the device from just working.
A good analogy would be a cellphone that can only hold 20 numbers. You would pick the 20 people you call the most and put them in (because you certainly aren't going to call anywhere near 20 people in one day). If you needed to call someone else you just wait until you get home, delete a few numbers and add the other ones from your Address book. A phone that holds all your phone numbers at once? That's just geek lust pure and simple. No sane person would desire such a feature.
I've seen a few posts asking Why God Why would you possibly want/need that much disk space. Surely 5GB is more than enough you Gluttonous Babboon.
Here's why: Imagine you have 40 GB of tunes (not that many once you rip them at good quality, and you finish doing all your cd's). Now imagine you have a 20 GB player. It's all well and fun to carry half your tunes around, but you find yourself saying 'what about CD X'? No problem, just put it on the player. But first you need to remove another CD. And once you have thousands of tracks, and start getting sick of some CD's and want to rotate in others, you realize it's a Massive Pain In The Ass. After a few gigs, the ideal is to just have all your music and skip the rigamarole. The alternative is to just never get around to listening to half your music which is the problem I was trying to avoid in buying an iPod in the first place (swapping CD's from my storage binders to my little travel binder).
I've worked up a decent and simple backup system for my OS X G4 at home. It could use a little more in terms of updating key directories a few times a day, but:
1) I took a 5.25" external CD-ROM Firewire case 2) Put in cheap-ass removable drive-sled sytem 3) Put 2 60GB drives in sleds 4) Bought one of those $250 media safes, put it next to my desk 5) Have Dantz Retrospect backup to the Firewire drive nightly my entire system 6) Occasionally open the safe, take out the other drive and swap it for the existing one.
This is all because I'm lazy so off-site won't happen. The safe weighs about 80 pounds and the lock is cheap but would take a bit of effort to open (more than nothing). So if the computer nukes, I'm backed up to last night. If someone breaks in and smashes/steals everything in a junkie rage the safe is probably more annoying than it's worth.. backed up to a few days ago. Ditto for fire as long as it isn't a total multi-hour inferno.
Simple, not too expensive, and simple/reliable. You could also use Retrospect or Apple Backup to backup key files and document directories over the net throughout the day as well.
I didn't imply that PowerPC chips had on-board emulation units.. I stated that PowerPC _machines_ emulated 68K code, which they did. Of course they did it in software, but that wasn't relevant to refuting Bonker's point. It was a bit vague though, you're correct.
Actually the ability to lock out OS 9 booting is in the logic board, and that is probably what is going to happen in January. We've known they were going to 'flip the bit' for some time, and now here it is. They may change to another processor architecture, but I doubt that will be for a while yet if they do.
Apple even watched it happen once before, when they switched from 68k architecture, to PowerPC. They ended up having to include an interperater/emulator for 68k apps in later versions of Mac0S.
This is completely untrue.. PowerPC machines emulated 68K code from the start, which is often lauded as one of the most graceful computer transition in the industry's short history. Completely transparent, totally useable.
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Much as I love jumping on the Jon Katz - What A Pretentious Windbag bandwagon, he's right - it's not clear what happens to Hap: Did dormer shoot him accidentally, or was there a more (somewhat unconscious?) intentional veiling of the truth to make a problem go away?
Forget George Orwell and all that other pretentious 'literature' crap. The high watermark of visionary international conflict-resolution scenarios is, and always has been, the fine and epic film 'Robot Jox'. Soon we shall kneel before our chosen heros as they do battle with diamond chip rope-saws and magnesium flare blinders for our pleasure and the scant fossil-fuel remains of a shattered post-apocalyptic warzone.
for every time I heard something was carcinogenic, I'd have a tumor in my hand from counting all that change.
Do you get a prize if you live a long and miserable life? I didn't get the brochure apparently. I'm just going to keep on grilling beef with a metal antenna on a teflon skillet thanks.
Someone should just hooky up a daisy wheel to the organic AI the CIA uses to read the world's email, and have the real Kevin Mitnick (not the DOJ's PR department's half-baked simulacrum ) stack it all nice and neat on the secret underground continent they're using as an alien petting zoo.
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And what? I don't see the point here. The elderly can still drive.
Clearly you've never been to Florida.
/Couldn't pay me to drive with my Grandfather
Please be afraid.
That is all.
I mean, honestly.
Well this guy's obviously never had sex.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine that the cubes were very carefully designed to remove a certain amount of heat, and all this new hotter stuff may cause serious problems?
And this is faster than typing into a laptop with tab/shift-tab for organization how? All you get writing that garbage down is a pile of dead paper that you can't use unless you transcribe it later.
Now, I used to write in my classes as well, but that was because it was slow and forced me to concentrate. If I was trying to save information I'd type it or record it and type it later. Cursive is a good way to lose info.
I find it inane that Apple a) didn't simply say "the music execs, thinking stupidly, that this was a great way to steal music, so we downgraded, sorry". b) didn't point out to them that there are some 10 better, faster, simpler, more robust ways to steal music than iTunes 4 and Audio Hijack... ask them if they had ever heard of Gnutella, Kazza, Grokster, Limewire, yada yada yada.
Yeah that would be obvious play: "Hi, Apple here. It's not our fault, it's the fault of the people we have a very shaky and unlikely agreement with.. they're just a bunch of douchebags.. we're cool! Besides, you shouldn't be trying these things.. visit www.apple.com/steal for a detailed list of software and methods to acquire music for free.
Love,
Apple
How's your Fortune 500 company doing?
Jackass.
You're right in that it's a step in the right direction, but the problem is ratings don't solve the 'This is a favorite CD right now so keep it' problem because I don't want to continuously upkeep the ratings on 7000 tracks.
I have that much music and I don't have a single illegal MP3 on my machine. I have a small handful of files downloaded from mp3.com, and the rest are from cd's (192kb MP3s). I have lots of bargain classical cd's (~$1/ea.) and scores of used cd's. I have more than an average number of cd's, but I honestly doubt I have a freakishly large collection.
If you were paying $15 per cd, then that would start to be insane.
Also, if you fill your player, you can't utilize that other nifty feature - portable hard drive. Instead you have to guess how much space you might need, make sure you delete enough CD's to have that space, and then maintain that buffer everytime you add a CD. More annoying maintenance work that keeps the device from just working.
A good analogy would be a cellphone that can only hold 20 numbers. You would pick the 20 people you call the most and put them in (because you certainly aren't going to call anywhere near 20 people in one day). If you needed to call someone else you just wait until you get home, delete a few numbers and add the other ones from your Address book. A phone that holds all your phone numbers at once? That's just geek lust pure and simple. No sane person would desire such a feature.
I've seen a few posts asking Why God Why would you possibly want/need that much disk space. Surely 5GB is more than enough you Gluttonous Babboon.
Here's why: Imagine you have 40 GB of tunes (not that many once you rip them at good quality, and you finish doing all your cd's). Now imagine you have a 20 GB player. It's all well and fun to carry half your tunes around, but you find yourself saying 'what about CD X'? No problem, just put it on the player. But first you need to remove another CD. And once you have thousands of tracks, and start getting sick of some CD's and want to rotate in others, you realize it's a Massive Pain In The Ass. After a few gigs, the ideal is to just have all your music and skip the rigamarole. The alternative is to just never get around to listening to half your music which is the problem I was trying to avoid in buying an iPod in the first place (swapping CD's from my storage binders to my little travel binder).
Preview buttons are for the weak!
O'Reilly's Info Page for Mac OS X: The Missing Manual
For actual info about what's in the book, take a look here:
It has the table of contents, a sample chapter, and is the butt of a multi-tiered joke.
On a mac SE/30 from Salvation Army I found intimate IM's between two lesbians.
mmm.. cinemaxy
I've worked up a decent and simple backup system for my OS X G4 at home. It could use a little more in terms of updating key directories a few times a day, but:
1) I took a 5.25" external CD-ROM Firewire case
2) Put in cheap-ass removable drive-sled sytem
3) Put 2 60GB drives in sleds
4) Bought one of those $250 media safes, put it next to my desk
5) Have Dantz Retrospect backup to the Firewire drive nightly my entire system
6) Occasionally open the safe, take out the other drive and swap it for the existing one.
This is all because I'm lazy so off-site won't happen. The safe weighs about 80 pounds and the lock is cheap but would take a bit of effort to open (more than nothing). So if the computer nukes, I'm backed up to last night. If someone breaks in and smashes/steals everything in a junkie rage the safe is probably more annoying than it's worth.. backed up to a few days ago. Ditto for fire as long as it isn't a total multi-hour inferno.
Simple, not too expensive, and simple/reliable. You could also use Retrospect or Apple Backup to backup key files and document directories over the net throughout the day as well.
I didn't imply that PowerPC chips had on-board emulation units.. I stated that PowerPC _machines_ emulated 68K code, which they did. Of course they did it in software, but that wasn't relevant to refuting Bonker's point. It was a bit vague though, you're correct.
Actually the ability to lock out OS 9 booting is in the logic board, and that is probably what is going to happen in January. We've known they were going to 'flip the bit' for some time, and now here it is. They may change to another processor architecture, but I doubt that will be for a while yet if they do.
Apple even watched it happen once before, when they switched from 68k architecture, to PowerPC. They ended up having to include an interperater/emulator for 68k apps in later versions of Mac0S.
This is completely untrue.. PowerPC machines emulated 68K code from the start, which is often lauded as one of the most graceful computer transition in the industry's short history. Completely transparent, totally useable.
One of the members over at Ars Technica has done a similar thing by compiling a PDF of bachelor chow from their forums:
http://ars.flyingember.com/***SPOILERS***
Much as I love jumping on the Jon Katz - What A Pretentious Windbag bandwagon, he's right - it's not clear what happens to Hap: Did dormer shoot him accidentally, or was there a more (somewhat unconscious?) intentional veiling of the truth to make a problem go away?
Forget George Orwell and all that other pretentious 'literature' crap. The high watermark of visionary international conflict-resolution scenarios is, and always has been, the fine and epic film 'Robot Jox'. Soon we shall kneel before our chosen heros as they do battle with diamond chip rope-saws and magnesium flare blinders for our pleasure and the scant fossil-fuel remains of a shattered post-apocalyptic warzone.
Achiillleeessss!
for every time I heard something was carcinogenic, I'd have a tumor in my hand from counting all that change.
Do you get a prize if you live a long and miserable life? I didn't get the brochure apparently. I'm just going to keep on grilling beef with a metal antenna on a teflon skillet thanks.
-atticus
Enough of this namby-pamby lightweight pseudo-academic posturing Mr. Wheat. Let's take the gloves off and get down to brass tacks:
What do you think of Caddyshack?
Someone should just hooky up a daisy wheel to the organic AI the CIA uses to read the world's email, and have the real Kevin Mitnick (not the DOJ's PR department's half-baked simulacrum ) stack it all nice and neat on the secret underground continent they're using as an alien petting zoo.
Hoo-rah! Bring on the Demon-Monkeys!