People generally don't consider longevity when purchasing a machine. My main computer is a 1.4GHz G4 and I also have a 1.33GHz iBook. I don't forsee myself replacing these for a loong time. (The G4 was an 800MHz, but put a new CPU in it about 3 years ago.) And if I need to upgrade my G4 I have a long way to go. I can slap in a new CPU (all the way up to dual 1.8 G4) or more RAM, or a new AGP video card. So yeah, I definitely got my money's worth out of these computers, so I don't feel as sheepish as I would if I had to replace them only 4-5 years after I had purchased them.
Apple is also starting to integrate it into AppleTV. (?TV) ref I wonder if it has anything to do with their recent commitment to strip DRM off iTunes. Maybe they're realizing that open-ness is good for business?
I think I speak for everyone when I ask WTF is so special about the STS-117 mission?
I even skimmed TFA and found this: The STS-117's eleven day mission will install the second starboard truss segment, S3/S4, to the International Space Station (ISS). The truss will be attached to the first starboard truss segment, S1. This will be ISS assembly mission 13A.
Although I do not know what a feedburner is, I would like to formally announce (if any Microsofties are reading) that I am their #2 competitor with great things coming down the pipeline. My product leverages the newest mashup technologies to provide a very compelling value proposition, at an outstanding ROI, with an incredibly low TCO.
You can have it, with no strings attached for 200 mil. (US $ naturally)
Is he the new sysadmin? OK, so if all the emails were lost it stands to reason that they were all stored in one place either the same storage system, or in the same facility. So where are those backups, on-site and off-site. And what about archives? Wouldn't they run an archive at least once a year for safekeeping?
Where are the sysadmins and what are they saying about the incident?
He used to be a regular back in the day. I haven't seen him post lately. Nor have I seen Carmack around here for a while. They probably have better things to do nowdays.
Middle management who figgured that having one would be simpler, than not having just one, and therefore having to keep track of multiple ones. I'm guessing an english major, or perhaps education. They probaly don't even understand how the whole thing works. They just want to make sure that the programmers working for them have busywork to do.
Actually, Trent didn't just put out a couple of teaser tracks. He "leaked" a few songs during concerts on the European tour. Decent quality MP3s were found on USB sticks. I think this was done with 3 songs. Then, a few days before the release he put the whole CD up for streaming on their web-page. It's an awesome album by the way.
4 percent marketshare is generally considered worldwide. And to be honest, I think that 95% Microsoft marketshare is inaccurate. I know that there are a lot more Linux users in Europe and Asia than media reports. Furthermore, I would not be surprised if 30-40% of all worldwide MS licenses are pirated. On the forums i frequent someone is constantly requesting serials for MS Server 2003 and such for their consulting business, showing that in those poorer countries even small and medium businesses are running pirated copies.
In US, it is not uncommon to see a mac laptop in a coffee shop or at a park. At least not in Nebraska. I would guess that around here, Macs have a marketshare and a home presence substantially higher than 4 percent.
I think he describes the situation pretty accurately. Microsoft does suck big time, a lot of their recent technologies are either dead in the water, or quickly heading there. Their upper management doesn't realize how much they suck, so they keep pushing the train in the same direction. This is evident from all the soundbytes that Monkeyboy and Gates are pulling out of their ass.
I am a big fan of OS X, a huge fan of OS X, and I do understand that MS has an unimaginable cash reserve and are still profitable. But for all their might, people in the know don't look to them as trend-setters. They are more of a nuisance and a headache, especially in the underpaid tech support department.
Zune, Vista, Urge, Plays for Sure, MSN Search, Live (WTF is Live anyway?) are all examples of how to royally fuck up a product that your competitors are wildly successful with. (In some cases technically superior as well. Linux for example is free and would accomodate the needs of most home users.) Yes, you might say that sooner or later Vista will be a de facto standard, but look at all the stories from the experts. The message is to run away from it as fast as one can. In the OS satisfaction department, Vista and OS X are completely reversed, meaning for every one person that doesn't like OS X, you'll find one person that does like Vista.
Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. The hammer of the gods Will drive our ships to new lands, To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming! On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. How soft your fields so green, Can whisper tales of gore, Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords. On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. So now youd better stop and rebuild all your ruins, For peace and trust can win the day Despite of all your losing.
yes, but your optiplex also requires a monitor and monitor power cord, which you fail to mention. (as is the case when a case of sour grapes hits, it's not my fault you got a POS Dell.) And macs have excellent webcams built in, with all the necessary software needed to run them. And like the other poster mentioned, with built - in wireless, an iMac can be down to a keyboard and power. You're looking at, ether, power, mouse, keyboard, monitor, monitor power, usb 2.0 webcam. 2 vs 7 cords. Granted you could have one of those franken-"all-in-one" optiplexes, which would reduce the number of cords. Curiously, if you go to dell's website http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetail s.aspx/optix_gx620?c=us&cs=RC956904&l=en&s=hied
notice what background they have on that monitor. (hint, it's not one that comes with windows.)
Not only that, but physically deploying an iMac is a breeze. Everything comes in one box, you've got a computer that's easy to handle and takes 3 chords: Ether, keyboard and power. Stick a FW powered drive into it, and you've got a configured Mac in 20 minutes, which includes unpacking it. With Parallels installed, you've now just deployed 2 computers in half the time it takes to install one Dell. And like others said, this machine will outlast the 3 years easily by another 3 years. I myself am running a 1.4G G4 and see no need to upgrade.
Granularity. Neurons only work on miniscule problems. Pretty much like a single gate. Our programs are not yet capable of dividing problems into such small pieces.
Plus, so far most of our parallelization efforts are focused on optimizing software. Brains are dedicated wetware machines.
well, iTV is as much of a clone of WMC as, say Yugo is a clone of a CaseIH tractor. They both have 4 wheels, one steering wheel, one engine, exhaust and cooling system. Really, is there any difference?
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People generally don't consider longevity when purchasing a machine. My main computer is a 1.4GHz G4 and I also have a 1.33GHz iBook. I don't forsee myself replacing these for a loong time. (The G4 was an 800MHz, but put a new CPU in it about 3 years ago.)
And if I need to upgrade my G4 I have a long way to go. I can slap in a new CPU (all the way up to dual 1.8 G4) or more RAM, or a new AGP video card.
So yeah, I definitely got my money's worth out of these computers, so I don't feel as sheepish as I would if I had to replace them only 4-5 years after I had purchased them.
Apple is also starting to integrate it into AppleTV. (?TV)
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I wonder if it has anything to do with their recent commitment to strip DRM off iTunes. Maybe they're realizing that open-ness is good for business?
I think I speak for everyone when I ask WTF is so special about the STS-117 mission?
I even skimmed TFA and found this:
The STS-117's eleven day mission will install the second starboard truss segment, S3/S4, to the International Space Station (ISS). The truss will be attached to the first starboard truss segment, S1. This will be ISS assembly mission 13A.
I mean seriously?
Although I do not know what a feedburner is, I would like to formally announce (if any Microsofties are reading) that I am their #2 competitor with great things coming down the pipeline. My product leverages the newest mashup technologies to provide a very compelling value proposition, at an outstanding ROI, with an incredibly low TCO.
You can have it, with no strings attached for 200 mil. (US $ naturally)
Is he the new sysadmin?
OK, so if all the emails were lost it stands to reason that they were all stored in one place either the same storage system, or in the same facility. So where are those backups, on-site and off-site.
And what about archives? Wouldn't they run an archive at least once a year for safekeeping?
Where are the sysadmins and what are they saying about the incident?
He used to be a regular back in the day. I haven't seen him post lately. Nor have I seen Carmack around here for a while. They probably have better things to do nowdays.
Middle management who figgured that having one would be simpler, than not having just one, and therefore having to keep track of multiple ones.
I'm guessing an english major, or perhaps education.
They probaly don't even understand how the whole thing works. They just want to make sure that the programmers working for them have busywork to do.
what do you mean it's a privately owned entity, and as such does not answer to the government?
when a judge sends you a letter (not that she did, in this case) you'd best answer it.
we slashdotters are honored by your honesty, and we hope you documented your feelings in your blog.
Actually, Trent didn't just put out a couple of teaser tracks. He "leaked" a few songs during concerts on the European tour. Decent quality MP3s were found on USB sticks. I think this was done with 3 songs.
Then, a few days before the release he put the whole CD up for streaming on their web-page.
It's an awesome album by the way.
Mentioning seamless, windows and microsoft in the same sentence shows that you clearly have no idea what seamless means.
How can just clicking on "Allow" escalate priviledges? Wouldn't you need to enter a password of some sort to prove that you do have admin permissions?
You've just lost thousands of Windows folks...
su..do...?
4 percent marketshare is generally considered worldwide.
And to be honest, I think that 95% Microsoft marketshare is inaccurate. I know that there are a lot more Linux users in Europe and Asia than media reports.
Furthermore, I would not be surprised if 30-40% of all worldwide MS licenses are pirated. On the forums i frequent someone is constantly requesting serials for MS Server 2003 and such for their consulting business, showing that in those poorer countries even small and medium businesses are running pirated copies.
In US, it is not uncommon to see a mac laptop in a coffee shop or at a park. At least not in Nebraska. I would guess that around here, Macs have a marketshare and a home presence substantially higher than 4 percent.
I think he describes the situation pretty accurately.
Microsoft does suck big time, a lot of their recent technologies are either dead in the water, or quickly heading there. Their upper management doesn't realize how much they suck, so they keep pushing the train in the same direction.
This is evident from all the soundbytes that Monkeyboy and Gates are pulling out of their ass.
I am a big fan of OS X, a huge fan of OS X, and I do understand that MS has an unimaginable cash reserve and are still profitable. But for all their might, people in the know don't look to them as trend-setters. They are more of a nuisance and a headache, especially in the underpaid tech support department.
Zune, Vista, Urge, Plays for Sure, MSN Search, Live (WTF is Live anyway?) are all examples of how to royally fuck up a product that your competitors are wildly successful with. (In some cases technically superior as well. Linux for example is free and would accomodate the needs of most home users.) Yes, you might say that sooner or later Vista will be a de facto standard, but look at all the stories from the experts. The message is to run away from it as fast as one can. In the OS satisfaction department, Vista and OS X are completely reversed, meaning for every one person that doesn't like OS X, you'll find one person that does like Vista.
Oh boy are you in for a shock tomorrow!
I hope you like your ponies pink!
To quote:
Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying:
Valhalla, I am coming!
On we sweep with threshing oar,
Our only goal will be the western shore.
Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
How soft your fields so green,
Can whisper tales of gore,
Of how we calmed the tides of war.
We are your overlords.
On we sweep with threshing oar,
Our only goal will be the western shore.
So now youd better stop and rebuild all your ruins,
For peace and trust can win the day
Despite of all your losing.
I need to embetter my dictionary then, I thought that embroaden was a perfectly cromulent word!
yes, but your optiplex also requires a monitor and monitor power cord, which you fail to mention. (as is the case when a case of sour grapes hits, it's not my fault you got a POS Dell.)l s.aspx/optix_gx620?c=us&cs=RC956904&l=en&s=hied
And macs have excellent webcams built in, with all the necessary software needed to run them.
And like the other poster mentioned, with built - in wireless, an iMac can be down to a keyboard and power. You're looking at, ether, power, mouse, keyboard, monitor, monitor power, usb 2.0 webcam. 2 vs 7 cords.
Granted you could have one of those franken-"all-in-one" optiplexes, which would reduce the number of cords.
Curiously, if you go to dell's website http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetai
notice what background they have on that monitor. (hint, it's not one that comes with windows.)
Not only that, but physically deploying an iMac is a breeze. Everything comes in one box, you've got a computer that's easy to handle and takes 3 chords: Ether, keyboard and power. Stick a FW powered drive into it, and you've got a configured Mac in 20 minutes, which includes unpacking it. With Parallels installed, you've now just deployed 2 computers in half the time it takes to install one Dell. And like others said, this machine will outlast the 3 years easily by another 3 years.
I myself am running a 1.4G G4 and see no need to upgrade.
Intel Xserves do have dual power supplies. (They also have ILO.)A ppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=AE304267&nclm=Xserve
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/
I haven't heard of any hardware such as that, but I'd guess it'd be possible to do with FPGAs.
Surely someone here could enlighten us.
Granularity.
Neurons only work on miniscule problems. Pretty much like a single gate.
Our programs are not yet capable of dividing problems into such small pieces.
Plus, so far most of our parallelization efforts are focused on optimizing software. Brains are dedicated wetware machines.
My apollogies, I went with the "default" spelling.
well, iTV is as much of a clone of WMC as, say Yugo is a clone of a CaseIH tractor. They both have 4 wheels, one steering wheel, one engine, exhaust and cooling system. Really, is there any difference?