"There are slums in Canada, but due to the tiny, largely homogeneous populatoin, they quite naturally are not as dilapidated as some slums in the U.S., although gentrification is remaking many of the U.S. slums into more livable areas." HAHAHAHA. whew. homogeneous. heh. ok, stop with the jokes, i have to get some work done. and if that wasn't a joke, maybe you should actually visit canada before spouting this drivel.
What do you know about Vancouver's east side? I live there. Sure, there are a couple blocks that are not what i would call safe but they pale when compared to detroit/compton/watts (sp?) Do us all a favour, don't speak on subjects you know little about. penman
ummm, while the tax rate here is high it is NOT 60% even at the top bracket. The top rate is around 52%. Now if you add sales tax (PST & GST) it gets higher but these are not income tax. I live here. I pay the 52%. I know. penman
Ok, this might be a troll but i'll bite. I have owned a SE/30, IIci, Quadra 650, 7200 and worked extensively on a G3. (still have the 7200 and work on the G3.) I also own a Celeron 450 clone, Compaq Proliant 800 dual PPRO server and Sony VAIO laptop. Why the Mac crashes more often than NT (I don't care about 95/8 they suck)is attributable to 2 key failings of the current mac OS: * Task sharing vs. multitasking -- the mac doesn't mutlitask and isn't multithreaded * Protected Memory -- Photoshop crashes. fact of life. On a mac it takes the OS with it. Under NT it doesn't. Why do you think everyone has been waiting so desperatley for copland, taligent, rhapsody, OSX??? Not for the pretty new graphics... pen
what worries me is the spectre of data obsolescence. While i'm really into larger and faster storage i can't help but wonder how long it is until my data cd's aren't readable. anyone used a 44mb syquest lately? i've lost plenty of personal files by neglecting to copy stuff cause i didn't have time. pen
it'll be a great notebook for everything but the gaming...today's games -- even the 2d slower paced ones -- require significant horsepower. Dell, Micron and Apple make the only semi useful gaming notebooks. that said this is an excellent utility laptop. pen
doesn't do diddly as far as 3d but the Neomagic chipset has some cool features...dual monitors being one of them. great ultraportable but not a gamers box...
regardless of implementation. Ok, I share the concerns over SMDI but we all know it's doomed to fail, and SONY is a SMART company. They won't canabalize their media properties but as an owner of both a Z505 superslim notebook and the PC-100 (an EXCELLENT digital video cam -- DV) I can say that I would gladly trade my RIO 500 for a memory stick compatible device. Would I put up with a proprietary security measure? Possibly. After all, we bitch and moan but face it; the people who make this music deserve some kind of recompense and right now that only happens through the labels. Don't get me wrong; I strongly advocate the preservation of open and free standards, but we need to meet the megacorps halfway sometimes and this is one of those times...remember technology is only as effective as the impact it has on those who use it. pen
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"There are slums in Canada, but due to the tiny, largely homogeneous populatoin, they quite naturally are not as dilapidated as some slums in the U.S., although gentrification is remaking many of the U.S. slums into more livable areas." HAHAHAHA. whew. homogeneous. heh. ok, stop with the jokes, i have to get some work done. and if that wasn't a joke, maybe you should actually visit canada before spouting this drivel.
What do you know about Vancouver's east side? I live there. Sure, there are a couple blocks that are not what i would call safe but they pale when compared to detroit/compton/watts (sp?) Do us all a favour, don't speak on subjects you know little about. penman
ummm, while the tax rate here is high it is NOT 60% even at the top bracket. The top rate is around 52%. Now if you add sales tax (PST & GST) it gets higher but these are not income tax. I live here. I pay the 52%. I know. penman
Ok, this might be a troll but i'll bite. I have owned a SE/30, IIci, Quadra 650, 7200 and worked extensively on a G3. (still have the 7200 and work on the G3.) I also own a Celeron 450 clone, Compaq Proliant 800 dual PPRO server and Sony VAIO laptop. Why the Mac crashes more often than NT (I don't care about 95/8 they suck)is attributable to 2 key failings of the current mac OS: * Task sharing vs. multitasking -- the mac doesn't mutlitask and isn't multithreaded * Protected Memory -- Photoshop crashes. fact of life. On a mac it takes the OS with it. Under NT it doesn't. Why do you think everyone has been waiting so desperatley for copland, taligent, rhapsody, OSX??? Not for the pretty new graphics... pen
what worries me is the spectre of data obsolescence. While i'm really into larger and faster storage i can't help but wonder how long it is until my data cd's aren't readable. anyone used a 44mb syquest lately? i've lost plenty of personal files by neglecting to copy stuff cause i didn't have time. pen
it'll be a great notebook for everything but the gaming...today's games -- even the 2d slower paced ones -- require significant horsepower. Dell, Micron and Apple make the only semi useful gaming notebooks. that said this is an excellent utility laptop. pen
doesn't do diddly as far as 3d but the Neomagic chipset has some cool features...dual monitors being one of them. great ultraportable but not a gamers box...
regardless of implementation. Ok, I share the concerns over SMDI but we all know it's doomed to fail, and SONY is a SMART company. They won't canabalize their media properties but as an owner of both a Z505 superslim notebook and the PC-100 (an EXCELLENT digital video cam -- DV) I can say that I would gladly trade my RIO 500 for a memory stick compatible device. Would I put up with a proprietary security measure? Possibly. After all, we bitch and moan but face it; the people who make this music deserve some kind of recompense and right now that only happens through the labels. Don't get me wrong; I strongly advocate the preservation of open and free standards, but we need to meet the megacorps halfway sometimes and this is one of those times...remember technology is only as effective as the impact it has on those who use it. pen