My homeowner's policy (which is pretty typical) requires that a person checks on my house while I am away. You may find yourself without insurance coverage if you don't give the keys to someone and arrange for them to drop by every couple of days
You need a G5 with a gig or more of RAM to get anything approaching decent performance out of OS X
Bullshit.
Until about a month ago I was using a 10 year old Powermac 7600 as my primary machine. that had a 3rd party G3/400 daughter card, swapped for the original 120 mhz 604 cpu. Except for watching videos, performance was more than acceptable. I'm not surprised that some newer video codecs didn't work too well, since I never put in a video card, but used the on-board video ram (4 mb).
Although I eventually added memory up to the old machine's 1 GB maximum, I found that the sweet spot for OS X memory size was 512 MB. With every new release of OS X until 10.4, performance actually improved!
Tiger (10.4) added widgets, which can eat up memory. What people with older systems often do is to simply disable the widgets. This brings the hardware requirements right back where they used to be.
There is a correlation. Whether or not it is causal or coincident is unknown, but it is meaningful. You're upset because it either conflicts with your political beliefs or because it is personally embarassing.
Don't pick on the hot chicks, they're not stupid either... and putting down others won't raise you up. Slagging good looking women is no more than parroting another stereotype. Here are some counter examples: Cindy Crawford was a high-school valedictorian and studied Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University (on an academic scholaship) before she made it big as a model. Hedy Lamarr (major hottie back in grampa's day) invented and patented spread spectrum radio. Sharon Stone's IQ is estimated to be 154, while Madonna's is estimated at 140 and Nicole Kidman's is "only" 134. Finally, this former NFL cheerleader is a mensa member.
I absolutely agree with you. Ribbons are just a tarted up version of Lotus 1-2-3's original user interface. Pull down menus were a huge improvement. What a shame that MS is bringing it back from the dead after so many years
The reason that people keep using Windows is because their old software works
On my OS X mac, I still regularly use: Color It! 3.2 (1996), Claris Home Page 3 (1998) and MS Office 98.
Let's check some of the other old apps I have kicking around. The following still work: Illustrator 3.2 (1993), Quicken 5 (1994), EyeCon (1990), WordPerfect 3.5 (1997), WriteNow 3.0 (1992), ResEdit 2.1.3 (1994), Tome Viewer (1998)
Every fall, the freshman engineering class at Queen's University is sent on a scavenger hunt. Over the years, in addition to thunder mugs many "large" items were turned in, but even a the great lakes lake freighter that someone moored near campus isn't the biggest. The greatest bit of scavenge ever turned in was the United States of America. Apparently one of the frosh had a parent with connections to the Carter administration and they got the White House to send a document handing over the USA for one hour to the Queen's Engineering Society. The year was 1978 or 1979. My memory's a little hazy; I was in Clark Hall working on that week's issue of Golden Words when I heard the news.
Americans need to transport many big boxes. Therefore a cubic shape is ideal.
Your parents drove sedans and station wagons. They had larger families and therefore a need to carry more people and stuff than today's Americans. While urbanites treat it like a luxury car, the SUV is essentially a pick-up transformed into a small awkward station wagon. SUV's have the inferior gas milage, handling and stopping power of a light truck, yet are no safer in a crash than any large car. Insecure drivers like SUV's because they feel safer in a large vehicle and sit "tall in the saddle" so they can see farther. I also have a theory that a large proportion of male SUV drivers have tiny little penises.
Before you try to say macs aren't upgradable, my wife's powermac has a retail ati 9800 in it and it shipped with a geforce 4 mx 32mb AGP card
I hear ya. I'm running OS X on a late 1995 PowerMac 7600, thanks to XPostFacto. I bought the box specifically because it was so upgradable (processor on a daughter card, 3 free PCI slots, 8 ram slots). Processor is now upgraded to a G3. One PCI slot now has an ATA133 controller, one has a Firewire/USB card and one is still free (maybe I'll drop a Radeon in that one). RAM slots are now full, with 1GB installed.
Pity. I've seen lots of pages that rendered beatifully with the IE user agent string, but were crap otherwise. You're probably right that it's malformed html which FFox doesn't handle as gracefully as its ancestors
Does the website return a different page with the IE user agent?...or with the new Firefox agent.
.net based servers, by default, serve different html and style sheets to different browsers. It'd be interesting to see if the page renders correctly with the IE (or some other) user agent
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My homeowner's policy (which is pretty typical) requires that a person checks on my house while I am away. You may find yourself without insurance coverage if you don't give the keys to someone and arrange for them to drop by every couple of days
It's a conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!
Bullshit.
Until about a month ago I was using a 10 year old Powermac 7600 as my primary machine. that had a 3rd party G3/400 daughter card, swapped for the original 120 mhz 604 cpu. Except for watching videos, performance was more than acceptable. I'm not surprised that some newer video codecs didn't work too well, since I never put in a video card, but used the on-board video ram (4 mb).
Although I eventually added memory up to the old machine's 1 GB maximum, I found that the sweet spot for OS X memory size was 512 MB. With every new release of OS X until 10.4, performance actually improved! Tiger (10.4) added widgets, which can eat up memory. What people with older systems often do is to simply disable the widgets. This brings the hardware requirements right back where they used to be.
There is a correlation. Whether or not it is causal or coincident is unknown, but it is meaningful. You're upset because it either conflicts with your political beliefs or because it is personally embarassing.
Don't pick on the hot chicks, they're not stupid either... and putting down others won't raise you up. Slagging good looking women is no more than parroting another stereotype. Here are some counter examples: Cindy Crawford was a high-school valedictorian and studied Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University (on an academic scholaship) before she made it big as a model. Hedy Lamarr (major hottie back in grampa's day) invented and patented spread spectrum radio. Sharon Stone's IQ is estimated to be 154, while Madonna's is estimated at 140 and Nicole Kidman's is "only" 134. Finally, this former NFL cheerleader is a mensa member.
Nope. You'll be dead.
The bernoulli disk lives again!
I absolutely agree with you. Ribbons are just a tarted up version of Lotus 1-2-3's original user interface. Pull down menus were a huge improvement. What a shame that MS is bringing it back from the dead after so many years
OpenBSD got a real boost in performance at spring 2005 Hackathon, when a subtle bug in the virtual memory code was found and corrected.
OS X is in the BSD Family.... scary!
It'd be interesting to know how many people counted for Windoze (XP, 2000, NT) are mac owners surfing from work
On my OS X mac, I still regularly use: Color It! 3.2 (1996), Claris Home Page 3 (1998) and MS Office 98.
Let's check some of the other old apps I have kicking around. The following still work: Illustrator 3.2 (1993), Quicken 5 (1994), EyeCon (1990), WordPerfect 3.5 (1997), WriteNow 3.0 (1992), ResEdit 2.1.3 (1994), Tome Viewer (1998)
WTF? Apple hasn't been "into gaming" since the Apple II. The mac has NEVER been a gamer's machine.
Every fall, the freshman engineering class at Queen's University is sent on a scavenger hunt. Over the years, in addition to thunder mugs many "large" items were turned in, but even a the great lakes lake freighter that someone moored near campus isn't the biggest. The greatest bit of scavenge ever turned in was the United States of America. Apparently one of the frosh had a parent with connections to the Carter administration and they got the White House to send a document handing over the USA for one hour to the Queen's Engineering Society. The year was 1978 or 1979. My memory's a little hazy; I was in Clark Hall working on that week's issue of Golden Words when I heard the news.
Back in 1996 I tried to get ca.ca, but was refused
That would be hard to swallow. Fortunately, the Ship & Anchor is at least 2 blocks distance from Victoria's, so mixing them up is unlikely.
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3. Theo enjoys the monks' very good beer
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3. Theo enjoys the monk's very good beer
Your parents drove sedans and station wagons. They had larger families and therefore a need to carry more people and stuff than today's Americans. While urbanites treat it like a luxury car, the SUV is essentially a pick-up transformed into a small awkward station wagon. SUV's have the inferior gas milage, handling and stopping power of a light truck, yet are no safer in a crash than any large car. Insecure drivers like SUV's because they feel safer in a large vehicle and sit "tall in the saddle" so they can see farther. I also have a theory that a large proportion of male SUV drivers have tiny little penises.
I hear ya. I'm running OS X on a late 1995 PowerMac 7600, thanks to XPostFacto. I bought the box specifically because it was so upgradable (processor on a daughter card, 3 free PCI slots, 8 ram slots). Processor is now upgraded to a G3. One PCI slot now has an ATA133 controller, one has a Firewire/USB card and one is still free (maybe I'll drop a Radeon in that one). RAM slots are now full, with 1GB installed.
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Pity. I've seen lots of pages that rendered beatifully with the IE user agent string, but were crap otherwise. You're probably right that it's malformed html which FFox doesn't handle as gracefully as its ancestors
...or with the new Firefox agent.
Does the website return a different page with the IE user agent?
.net based servers, by default, serve different html and style sheets to different browsers. It'd be interesting to see if the page renders correctly with the IE (or some other) user agent