Why would anyone hack me when there are two open networks I can reach from my driveway? There's nothing useful in my network except internet access, and most of my machines run OS X, too.
Here's the choice: spend hours to hack my network, or seconds to associate with the neighbors' networks. And AIUI, hacking WEP actually requires traffic, so you have to wait for me to get home first.
I have mine set to one of my e-mail addresses. Or at least I did until I set up an AirPort base station as a second base. The Linksys software didn't care, but apparently there's a spec that says "@" isn't allowed in an SSID, and someone at Apple actually read it. Still, as far as I know, nobody's sent me e-mail because of it.
So now it's my e-mail address with @ changed to " at ". And my WEP-40 key is posted in a prominent spot in my living room, because the house is wired for Ethernet, and anyone who is already in the house might as well be given the wireless key, too.
The problem that I have with all this is the word "expensing". An expense is something that HAS cost you money. A liability is something that WILL cost you money. These don't cost the company one cent until they're cashed in, and might not ever if they're given out at the top of a bubble. They're liabilities, dammit!
The DART train's downtown route is actually not too bad. I was at the Reunion hotel for a few days last fall, and it was great. The only problem is that for a commuter train that goes by at least two major downtown hotels, someone was completely stupid to make sure that the train that runs between downtown and the DFW airport doesn't run on Sunday at all. Limited runs, that would be cool, but for people coming in for the weekend, a Sunday train to the airport would have been nice. (It's no matter to me, since I drive up anyhow. The train is great because I don't have to leave and re-park.)
But it barely covers anywhere in Dallas other than downtown. It's great if you're starting from downtown and need to go by the Target or Central Market, and it's great for commuters who can get to a Park n Ride, but otherwise, forget it.
Did you read the part of my message (that you quoted) were I said this was a "bypass tollway"? Bypass means it's for people not going to or from Austin, who don't want to get stuck for half an hour with a scenic view of Town Lake or the new Frost Bank building. Or the non-scenic view of the Round Rock part of I-35.
Anyone with any savvy about Apple should know to never buy a new Mac less than two weeks before a traditional major announcement show (currently MWSF and WWDC), unless you're obviously getting a closeout deal (like how I got my 500MHz Pismo back in Dec 2000).
I'm thinking maybe Apple seems to be so pissed because TS got some detail wrong, but this definitely adds credence to the rumor that Apple is coming out with some kind of headless intro iMac/eMac, and it's pretty likely to be sub-$600. Not that I'd buy one, since I've been wanting dual Ethernet for the Macs I've gotten lately, but if it's a "Media Center PC" type of Mac, then I'll definitely be interested.
Now I'm more interested than ever in seeing next week's keynote.
Maybe the sand isn't deep enough for them to dig their infamous six foot holes in the beach? They dig holes in which they lie in the bottom all day or until (sometimes) the sand caves in and buries them.
Usually when I get an AVI WMV9, it's an anime raw. So the WMV9/AVI encoding people in my case are mostly Japanese.
And then there are the wankers who insist on.MKV files, never mind that the MP4 container format (which is esentially Quicktime's container format) does all of the things they are using MKV for and it's already using an MPEG-4 codec. Talk about re-inventing the wheel, MKV is like trying to reinvent a steel-belted radial using duct tape and bailing wire.
At least the.OGM wankers are mostly restricted to the R1 DVD-ripping "anime warez kiddies".
That's great when you're in a costal city with skyscrapers and high-rises all over the place. NYC/NJ works great for rail because it's a linear, dense corridor.
However, in Texas, cities are extremely sparse. San Antonio has a bit over a million population, is maybe 50 miles across, and is ROUND. It's a big hub-and-spoke layout, which sucks for mass transit. Sure, you can take the bus, if you don't mind taking two hours to get somewhere. And you can forget about a subway, because you'll hit limestone just a couple of feet below the surface.
I'm with you on tolling roads that have already been paid for. I find it interesting that only one of the two areas in question is getting any press. Nobody's saying anything about that 2-mile strech of 183 that should have been built years ago anyhow.
As for the chance of the TTC being built, maybe zero for all-at-once, but piecemeal is more likely. Highway 130 as the first piece of this is already pretty much a done deal.
At least unlike that "high speed rail" crap, you'll have a car to get to your exact destination, instead of being stranded at a station in the middle of a sparse city that's 50 or more miles across.
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Illegals getting out of the US is a big problem too. This is the time of the year when they tie down a bunch of crap in the back of their pickups (some of which falls off) and head back down I-35 over the border for Christmas. I think some of them even hook up tow cars full of crap too.
This road isn't meant to "connect communities". It's specifically for long-distance transportation. It's an enormous bypass to get the big trucks away from the urban highways.
Because thanks to NAFTA, I-35 is bursting at the seams, especially in Austin. And with the exception of one three-mile section currently under construction, it is now at least six lanes wide all the way from south of San Antonio to far north of Austin, well over 100 miles. That's why the first section of this is already under construction, as a bypass toll road around Austin.
I have to wonder what historically significant neighborhoods will be bulldozed to make this interstate happen.
Have you ever been out of New York City or what? Most of the acreage in this country doesn't have any "neighborhoods". This is being run through mostly rural farmland areas that haven't ever been anywhere near a major road, at the very longitude where settlement becomes sparse. And it will be a limited-access toll road in the middle of frickin' nowhere, which should even limit the "highway effect" that causes neighborhoods to sprout up around major highways.
Dr. Botts is the brand Steve uses for his presentations.
But whatever you do, stay away from the ioGear MiniView III series. They emulate a regular 104-key keyboard, regardless of what you have plugged into the keyboard port. No volume buttons, no eject button. And when I tried one, the kkeyboard woulld stuttter. The switched USB ports are also useless for keyboard switching, because they can ONLY be switched from a keyboard plugged into the keyboard port.
What about the standard of control-click? Use one object AND a part of another object at the same time. How is this a good UI?
How many hands do you have? One or two?
Using both hands has been a good enough design that Microsoft long ago copied the "Command-Z/X/C/V" editing keys that Apple has been using since 1984. And then there's W, Q, and S which are also commonly used and left-hand-only. The left hand is already there on the keyboard, and control-click makes use of this.
All "New World" (anything since 1999) Macs and laptops use standard PC#### memory, just like PCs. I don't know what this new one would use, but I'm sure it's going to be DDR, maybe PC2700 or PC3200.
Just as long as somebody makes a player capable of playing WMV9.AVI files. Microsoft's player whines that.AVI is "too old" and it doesn't want to play them. VLC and mPlayer don't support WMV9 on OS X because there isn't an open-source non-x86 decoder for WMV9 yet.
I don't think Apple has ever made a computer without at least one RAM slot. They have made a few in the past with ridiculously low maximums (I think the early "toilet" iBooks were limited to 384M), but it's always been upgradable from the standard configuration. I would be surprised if this can't go up to at least 1G, since they've been making computers with that limit for at least five or six years now.
You won't need these for a start when buying a mac:
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As much as I enjoy joking about my "Seventeen Inch iPod", it's awful hard to go jogging with a Powerbook hanging from your belt. So I use an MP3 CD player in the car.
As the first of the "New World" Macs, the Blue & White G3 will still be supported under 10.4 Tiger. It will happily use any old VGA monitor, any old USB or ADB keyboard or mouse, and up to 1G of any PC100 RAM (except for 512M and single-bank 256M modules). It's even got three 64-bit/33MHz PCI slots. (The video card goes into a fourth 32/66 slot, which was the best you could do before AGP.) The CPU can even be upgraded to 1.1GHz for $350.
You will want to fill it with at least 384M-512M of RAM to get sufficient OS X performance. And make sure to look for the "402" rev-2 IDE controller chip next to the bottom PCI slot.
The best thing about the Model M (no Windows keys) is also the worst thing. A PS2-to-USB adapator will map the Windows keys to the Mac's command key. This makes a Model M rather difficult to use with a Mac. Otherwise I'd happily be using my Spacesavers all over the place.
So you will have to find a different model (maybe a Northgate Omnikey) that does have Windows keys.
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Here's the choice: spend hours to hack my network, or seconds to associate with the neighbors' networks. And AIUI, hacking WEP actually requires traffic, so you have to wait for me to get home first.
So now it's my e-mail address with @ changed to " at ". And my WEP-40 key is posted in a prominent spot in my living room, because the house is wired for Ethernet, and anyone who is already in the house might as well be given the wireless key, too.
The problem that I have with all this is the word "expensing". An expense is something that HAS cost you money. A liability is something that WILL cost you money. These don't cost the company one cent until they're cashed in, and might not ever if they're given out at the top of a bubble. They're liabilities, dammit!
(or was that "BSD is dying" is dying?)
Firewire, man, sheesh, how can you forget that one? At least name one that actually gets used on non-Apple machines!
But it barely covers anywhere in Dallas other than downtown. It's great if you're starting from downtown and need to go by the Target or Central Market, and it's great for commuters who can get to a Park n Ride, but otherwise, forget it.
Did you read the part of my message (that you quoted) were I said this was a "bypass tollway"? Bypass means it's for people not going to or from Austin, who don't want to get stuck for half an hour with a scenic view of Town Lake or the new Frost Bank building. Or the non-scenic view of the Round Rock part of I-35.
I'm thinking maybe Apple seems to be so pissed because TS got some detail wrong, but this definitely adds credence to the rumor that Apple is coming out with some kind of headless intro iMac/eMac, and it's pretty likely to be sub-$600. Not that I'd buy one, since I've been wanting dual Ethernet for the Macs I've gotten lately, but if it's a "Media Center PC" type of Mac, then I'll definitely be interested.
Now I'm more interested than ever in seeing next week's keynote.
Maybe the sand isn't deep enough for them to dig their infamous six foot holes in the beach? They dig holes in which they lie in the bottom all day or until (sometimes) the sand caves in and buries them.
And then there are the wankers who insist on .MKV files, never mind that the MP4 container format (which is esentially Quicktime's container format) does all of the things they are using MKV for and it's already using an MPEG-4 codec. Talk about re-inventing the wheel, MKV is like trying to reinvent a steel-belted radial using duct tape and bailing wire.
At least the .OGM wankers are mostly restricted to the R1 DVD-ripping "anime warez kiddies".
However, in Texas, cities are extremely sparse. San Antonio has a bit over a million population, is maybe 50 miles across, and is ROUND. It's a big hub-and-spoke layout, which sucks for mass transit. Sure, you can take the bus, if you don't mind taking two hours to get somewhere. And you can forget about a subway, because you'll hit limestone just a couple of feet below the surface.
As for the chance of the TTC being built, maybe zero for all-at-once, but piecemeal is more likely. Highway 130 as the first piece of this is already pretty much a done deal.
At least unlike that "high speed rail" crap, you'll have a car to get to your exact destination, instead of being stranded at a station in the middle of a sparse city that's 50 or more miles across.
Illegals getting out of the US is a big problem too. This is the time of the year when they tie down a bunch of crap in the back of their pickups (some of which falls off) and head back down I-35 over the border for Christmas. I think some of them even hook up tow cars full of crap too.
This road isn't meant to "connect communities". It's specifically for long-distance transportation. It's an enormous bypass to get the big trucks away from the urban highways.
Because thanks to NAFTA, I-35 is bursting at the seams, especially in Austin. And with the exception of one three-mile section currently under construction, it is now at least six lanes wide all the way from south of San Antonio to far north of Austin, well over 100 miles. That's why the first section of this is already under construction, as a bypass toll road around Austin.
Lets face it. Texas is mostly not an attractive state.
Are you sure it isn't just Houston that's not attractive?
Have you ever been out of New York City or what? Most of the acreage in this country doesn't have any "neighborhoods". This is being run through mostly rural farmland areas that haven't ever been anywhere near a major road, at the very longitude where settlement becomes sparse. And it will be a limited-access toll road in the middle of frickin' nowhere, which should even limit the "highway effect" that causes neighborhoods to sprout up around major highways.
But whatever you do, stay away from the ioGear MiniView III series. They emulate a regular 104-key keyboard, regardless of what you have plugged into the keyboard port. No volume buttons, no eject button. And when I tried one, the kkeyboard woulld stuttter. The switched USB ports are also useless for keyboard switching, because they can ONLY be switched from a keyboard plugged into the keyboard port.
How many hands do you have? One or two?
Using both hands has been a good enough design that Microsoft long ago copied the "Command-Z/X/C/V" editing keys that Apple has been using since 1984. And then there's W, Q, and S which are also commonly used and left-hand-only. The left hand is already there on the keyboard, and control-click makes use of this.
All "New World" (anything since 1999) Macs and laptops use standard PC#### memory, just like PCs. I don't know what this new one would use, but I'm sure it's going to be DDR, maybe PC2700 or PC3200.
Just as long as somebody makes a player capable of playing WMV9 .AVI files. Microsoft's player whines that .AVI is "too old" and it doesn't want to play them. VLC and mPlayer don't support WMV9 on OS X because there isn't an open-source non-x86 decoder for WMV9 yet.
I don't think Apple has ever made a computer without at least one RAM slot. They have made a few in the past with ridiculously low maximums (I think the early "toilet" iBooks were limited to 384M), but it's always been upgradable from the standard configuration. I would be surprised if this can't go up to at least 1G, since they've been making computers with that limit for at least five or six years now.
Mp3 player
As much as I enjoy joking about my "Seventeen Inch iPod", it's awful hard to go jogging with a Powerbook hanging from your belt. So I use an MP3 CD player in the car.
As the first of the "New World" Macs, the Blue & White G3 will still be supported under 10.4 Tiger. It will happily use any old VGA monitor, any old USB or ADB keyboard or mouse, and up to 1G of any PC100 RAM (except for 512M and single-bank 256M modules). It's even got three 64-bit/33MHz PCI slots. (The video card goes into a fourth 32/66 slot, which was the best you could do before AGP.) The CPU can even be upgraded to 1.1GHz for $350.
You will want to fill it with at least 384M-512M of RAM to get sufficient OS X performance. And make sure to look for the "402" rev-2 IDE controller chip next to the bottom PCI slot.
So you will have to find a different model (maybe a Northgate Omnikey) that does have Windows keys.