Here's a decent solution. Back up your taxes, email, and budget files. Say fuck-all to your porn and if your 10 TB of necro-beastiality or whatever goes missing, you'll just have to download it all again from whatever depraved place you would get such a thing. Not that I would know....
Yeah, but mommy and daddy with their 3 year old DV camera they bought when their baby was born can't use the new Macs to make movies of their now three-year-old child. These types wouldn't want the higher end pro versions, because they aren't pros. They just want to make a damn dvd. This is the market that will most likely switch to a dell or something (and miss iMovie like crazy when they find out what software comes with their windows box).
Actually, I think the way businesses decide if a technology is outdated is whether or not including it affects their final balance sheets (taking into account hardware inclusion, user/customer acceptance, and other variables affecting revenue). Businesses never do ANYTHING without first determining how much money it will make/cost them. It is the first and last consideration. Always remember that...
Pisses me off that apple drops their own widely used standard on their own equipment.
You mean Like ADC (Apple Display Connector)? Sometimes it's ok to drop a particular interface. Although, I think firewire is used more often now than ADC was when it was dropped...
The big exception to this is pretty much every DV camcorder out there and a huge collection of midi interfaces and other audio equipment. Considering Macs are often used for low budget audio/video production (and high budget sometimes), they are kicking a big part of their userbase in the teeth by removing it. At least on the Mac Pro desktop systems you can add firewire cards later if you want.
Something like this, offering 24/7 uptime, should be configured in such a way that routine maintenance never ever requires any amount of downtime. If failover and redundancy are configured properly, this is easily doable.
What about Windows2000? You can SAY that it wasn't REALLY a "consumer OS" all you want, but the fact is that for a while there when you went to buy a new computer as a home user, Win2k was a popular option.
Depens on what you're interested in. SL is not a game, it's more like a technical platform.. where you can implement games, if you like. What I like about it is that there's no fixed goal.
Dwight: Second life is not a game. There are no winners and no losers.
Jim: Oh there are losers...
If you reformat, you might miss out on all the personally identifyable information that might be on it. Keep the network disabled till you find all the credit card numbers, then format the laptop and sell it on ebay. No, I haven't thought about this much...
lol, then you could say, "I just installed my G-PIMP Upgrayedd. The extra d is for a double dose of my pimping."
Fantastic.
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I agree that it depends on your background. C# syntax is very similar to Java and VB.net syntax is similar to VB6, but they are different from those languages in ways that make them similar to each other..NET is.NET. look at the example code in the msdn library sometime. They show the same example in multiple.net languages and it's amazing how similar they all are.
It's a question of public services. Electricity is guranteed to your house, as are POTS telephone lines, but broadband isn't. The real issue here is who makes that distinction? The argument could go either wy, if broadband isn't guranteed, why gurantee electricity and phones? if you want them bad enough, you can pay for them (same applies to all three). Or maybe broadband should be guranteed like the others? Who decides?
OSX's launchd does a fantastic job at this. My Macbook boots in no time. Plus it keeps on working while I'm in the desktop environment, so if I need a service I can just start using it and it's launched automatically. A good example is the ssh-agent. It just works.
That feature has to be supported by the hardware, too. How many servers do you know where you can take the cover off and pull out a CPU while it's on and nothing bad happens? I somehow doubt the sparc hardware that supports this option is supported in Linux, or at least not supported well.
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Here's a decent solution. Back up your taxes, email, and budget files. Say fuck-all to your porn and if your 10 TB of necro-beastiality or whatever goes missing, you'll just have to download it all again from whatever depraved place you would get such a thing. Not that I would know....
Admittedly Portal has shinier graphics and a story
Princess No-Knees would argue that Narbacular DID have a story...
Haha, even I can fly higher than that, un-aided, even.
I'm still struggling with the table that is measured using centimeters on one side and yards on the other. How many square foot-meters is that?
Actually, superfluous lights, knobs, and dials are the point of the joke, so the fact that this image is doctored only proves to strengthen the joke.
No, he means more like this.
Yeah, but mommy and daddy with their 3 year old DV camera they bought when their baby was born can't use the new Macs to make movies of their now three-year-old child. These types wouldn't want the higher end pro versions, because they aren't pros. They just want to make a damn dvd. This is the market that will most likely switch to a dell or something (and miss iMovie like crazy when they find out what software comes with their windows box).
Actually, I think the way businesses decide if a technology is outdated is whether or not including it affects their final balance sheets (taking into account hardware inclusion, user/customer acceptance, and other variables affecting revenue). Businesses never do ANYTHING without first determining how much money it will make/cost them. It is the first and last consideration. Always remember that...
Pisses me off that apple drops their own widely used standard on their own equipment.
You mean Like ADC (Apple Display Connector)? Sometimes it's ok to drop a particular interface. Although, I think firewire is used more often now than ADC was when it was dropped...
The big exception to this is pretty much every DV camcorder out there and a huge collection of midi interfaces and other audio equipment. Considering Macs are often used for low budget audio/video production (and high budget sometimes), they are kicking a big part of their userbase in the teeth by removing it. At least on the Mac Pro desktop systems you can add firewire cards later if you want.
Something like this, offering 24/7 uptime, should be configured in such a way that routine maintenance never ever requires any amount of downtime. If failover and redundancy are configured properly, this is easily doable.
What if you don't know how many cars you own?
What about Windows2000? You can SAY that it wasn't REALLY a "consumer OS" all you want, but the fact is that for a while there when you went to buy a new computer as a home user, Win2k was a popular option.
Depens on what you're interested in. SL is not a game, it's more like a technical platform.. where you can implement games, if you like. What I like about it is that there's no fixed goal.
Dwight: Second life is not a game. There are no winners and no losers.
Jim: Oh there are losers...
I know, it's like it almost takes work to be lazy in this case. I think I'll just keep being lazy the old fashioned way.
According to wikipedia CDE was announced in 1993. I think it's always had the dock...
If you reformat, you might miss out on all the personally identifyable information that might be on it. Keep the network disabled till you find all the credit card numbers, then format the laptop and sell it on ebay. No, I haven't thought about this much...
Just don't let the battery catch fire. You'll miss out on your happy ending that way...
lol, then you could say, "I just installed my G-PIMP Upgrayedd. The extra d is for a double dose of my pimping."
Fantastic.
I agree that it depends on your background. C# syntax is very similar to Java and VB.net syntax is similar to VB6, but they are different from those languages in ways that make them similar to each other. .NET is .NET. look at the example code in the msdn library sometime. They show the same example in multiple .net languages and it's amazing how similar they all are.
Apparently, I have an octothorpe button on my keyboard but not a sharp button. Go figure.
It's a question of public services. Electricity is guranteed to your house, as are POTS telephone lines, but broadband isn't. The real issue here is who makes that distinction? The argument could go either wy, if broadband isn't guranteed, why gurantee electricity and phones? if you want them bad enough, you can pay for them (same applies to all three). Or maybe broadband should be guranteed like the others? Who decides?
Isn't this the plot of that movie, "Cable Guy"?
OSX's launchd does a fantastic job at this. My Macbook boots in no time. Plus it keeps on working while I'm in the desktop environment, so if I need a service I can just start using it and it's launched automatically. A good example is the ssh-agent. It just works.
That feature has to be supported by the hardware, too. How many servers do you know where you can take the cover off and pull out a CPU while it's on and nothing bad happens? I somehow doubt the sparc hardware that supports this option is supported in Linux, or at least not supported well.