Perhaps; the Next codebase was pretty ancient when they resurected it for OSX. Although I think any connection between OSX and Next is mostly speculative rumor that was more positive than negative and as a result Apple never bothered to quash it.
Yes but "upgrade" is in the eye of the beholder. Win7 is still Vista is XP SP2. Gradual rewrites of small portions of core parts of code. 2000 was the last significant upgrade since 98 and NT4. Everyone saw what a night and day difference a total rewrite of an operating system did for performance and usability with OSX - and it still kept backwards compatibility with decade old OS 8/9 programs! People keep waiting for that total rewrite, and microsoft keeps delivering warmed over XP2 code, which is, in turn, which is in turn... Until my games stop running on XP (and I see no slowdown of XP support for Steam based games, up until last october they still supported Win98-Currently it's WinMe).
Until that total rewrite happens, I'll stick with XP for games and OSX/Linux for my daily workhorse. Not upgrading from XP SP2 is more like deciding to hold onto your 1995 air cooled porsche because it's fast and simple(ish) and gets you from point a to b without crashing and still looks halfway decent whild doing it. Not upgrading from win98 is more like hanging on to the buick.
Turns out my mom's been shutting down her computer at midnight every night, and rebooting it at 7am or so with all the bloatware, viruses and aol/yahoo/"antivirus" crap she has on there it's a miracle if it boots in less than 8 minutes to a usable state (once you hit the desktop there's another 4-5 minutes of hard drive grinding as it loads a bunch of useless-ware. Showed her the sleep function, and she's thrilled that the computer "boots" in less than 45 seconds - an 800x improvement.
Unless you live in china! In which case you'll need to find a mirrored copy of TOR (the onion router) to even be able to ping Wiki. As recently as last august Wikipedia was completely stonewalled in China, along with most western news sites.
What kind of data speeds are you seeing on avg on bit torrent?
Btw, I download about 10gb a week between weekly TV shows and software packages (ubuntu, open office 3.0 etc); a land line here in the US costs about $15/month minimum - so for my bandwidth needs I'd have to shell out $88/month, and I'd still have to wait 1-2 weeks to see my shows. Currently I get to see all my shows that same night with the 240-350kb/s downloads I get.
...and everyone south of Chicago has to suffer for the northern state's problems. I live in Texas and don't see the difference when we switch between the two.
Was it a FW800 thumb drive? I'm not going to do the math but even over USB 2.0 sustained you're looking at 300m/b/s (which is probably above the drive's write speed unless you have a RAID array of thumb drives)
looking at that link it looks like it's about 10 min/1.5GB, or 11 hours (roughly)
I can't vouch for DVD-R but I have el-cheapo store brand CD-Rs that I backed up my MP3 collection to 11 years ago and they work just fine. My solution is this:
Back everything up that's not media (mp3/video) every 6 months to CD-R, and once a year, copy all my old data onto a new hard drive that's 20+% larger than the one I bought last year and unplug the old one. I have 11 old hard drives sitting in the closet should I ever need that data, and the likelihood of a hard drive failing in the first year (after the first 30 days) is phenomenally low. Any document that I CAN'T lose between now and the next CD-R backup goes on a thumb drive or it's own CD-R and/or email it to myself.
A mac mini with pci-e and adequate ventilation and I'd buy one tomorrow - and I don't say things like that too often. Dissapointed in the direction mac laptop keyboards have been moving. I love the "scissor action" of my "TiBook" powerbook but I can't stand the flat keys/odd feeling 'spacing'.
I think you'd be better off with a second tier carrier or t-mobile personally. The "big three" have the "we're too big to fail" mentality and I've never experienced worse customer service from anyone when it comes to Sprint. Unless you have a very specific reason to go with Sprint I'd avoid them like the plague.
That's pretty much what happened with me and my friend. My contract expired and I picked up a smartphone plan with unlimited data & sms. With unlimited SMS i hardly ever use more than 200 of my 1000 minutes a month. For less than $70/mo. I also find I use gmail/email/gchat a lot more as an integrated communication solution. $45 is about the top end for a data plan these days. It seems expensive, but being able to use your phone whenever you like without any inhibitions really makes the value shine.
That's a bald faced lie. I've spent countless hours arguing with sprint to even remove the cost of ONE spam text message, let alone wrong numbers. Fuck sprint. I jumped ship the day my contract expired. Good fucking riddance to that garbage company. May they evaporate as the stock market does!!!
Something tells me very few people will upgrade (gamestop bought "fat" DSes for $70) to a 1/4" larger screen and almost no new features with only a $70 trade-in value on a DS Lite to not be able to play guitar hero and/or pokemon. Pokemon is huge, but what are the sales numbers for Guitar Hero DS? We're probably talking 100,000 copies sold out of 15? 20? million DS lites sold? the minor improvements are to help it sell against the PSP, not get existing users to upgrade. Are you REALLY going to buy a new DS just to have an SD card?
Also the quality of the sensor, the size of the sensor, and the color balancing software.... there are many variables that make an equal impact on image quality. Electonic noise around the sensor makes a large impact as well.
Of which 2 or 3 games, one of which being the DS browser (now built into the system) used that exp. port. The exp. port-less system won't be sold in the US in quantity until 2009 so they still have another christmas' worth of DSes to be sold with the expansion port. Shrinking market? Perhaps, but that's 5 months from now and most of those DSes will continue to work for another year or two.
You're an idiot, and so are the people who signed arm/balloon mortgages. $1200 will buy you a 2000 sq ft house just north of $150K with $10,000 down on a std 30 year mortgage. $150K is the average price of a house in my area.a lot of couples can afford $200K mortgages which will buy a modest (not small, not huge) house in other parts of the country as well).
Rent for a 1 bedroom in hollywood is 850-900, which is about $100 more a month than it is in the not-most-poor parts of Dallas. For $1200 a month you can get a mortgage on a house here in the suburbs. It's not fantastically cheap, but someone making $75 grand a year could easily afford two houses here in the suburbs. Combine that with income from your spouse and you can still afford to eat out every night, go on extended vacations and both own new $30,000 cars. That's above average here in the US.
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You could try building your own! You'll need an array of them, and a heat sink. Probably a parabolic reflector too, but very doable.
I think he's talking in a more general sense. But you are correct in that definition of the term!
Perhaps; the Next codebase was pretty ancient when they resurected it for OSX. Although I think any connection between OSX and Next is mostly speculative rumor that was more positive than negative and as a result Apple never bothered to quash it.
Yes but "upgrade" is in the eye of the beholder. Win7 is still Vista is XP SP2. Gradual rewrites of small portions of core parts of code. 2000 was the last significant upgrade since 98 and NT4. Everyone saw what a night and day difference a total rewrite of an operating system did for performance and usability with OSX - and it still kept backwards compatibility with decade old OS 8/9 programs! People keep waiting for that total rewrite, and microsoft keeps delivering warmed over XP2 code, which is, in turn, which is in turn... Until my games stop running on XP (and I see no slowdown of XP support for Steam based games, up until last october they still supported Win98-Currently it's WinMe).
Until that total rewrite happens, I'll stick with XP for games and OSX/Linux for my daily workhorse. Not upgrading from XP SP2 is more like deciding to hold onto your 1995 air cooled porsche because it's fast and simple(ish) and gets you from point a to b without crashing and still looks halfway decent whild doing it. Not upgrading from win98 is more like hanging on to the buick.
Turns out my mom's been shutting down her computer at midnight every night, and rebooting it at 7am or so with all the bloatware, viruses and aol/yahoo/"antivirus" crap she has on there it's a miracle if it boots in less than 8 minutes to a usable state (once you hit the desktop there's another 4-5 minutes of hard drive grinding as it loads a bunch of useless-ware. Showed her the sleep function, and she's thrilled that the computer "boots" in less than 45 seconds - an 800x improvement.
Unless you live in china! In which case you'll need to find a mirrored copy of TOR (the onion router) to even be able to ping Wiki. As recently as last august Wikipedia was completely stonewalled in China, along with most western news sites.
What kind of data speeds are you seeing on avg on bit torrent?
Btw, I download about 10gb a week between weekly TV shows and software packages (ubuntu, open office 3.0 etc); a land line here in the US costs about $15/month minimum - so for my bandwidth needs I'd have to shell out $88/month, and I'd still have to wait 1-2 weeks to see my shows. Currently I get to see all my shows that same night with the 240-350kb/s downloads I get.
...and everyone south of Chicago has to suffer for the northern state's problems. I live in Texas and don't see the difference when we switch between the two.
Reasonably heavy duty, cheap, and readily available.
Was it a FW800 thumb drive? I'm not going to do the math but even over USB 2.0 sustained you're looking at 300m/b/s (which is probably above the drive's write speed unless you have a RAID array of thumb drives)
looking at that link it looks like it's about 10 min/1.5GB, or 11 hours (roughly)
I can't vouch for DVD-R but I have el-cheapo store brand CD-Rs that I backed up my MP3 collection to 11 years ago and they work just fine. My solution is this:
Back everything up that's not media (mp3/video) every 6 months to CD-R, and once a year, copy all my old data onto a new hard drive that's 20+% larger than the one I bought last year and unplug the old one. I have 11 old hard drives sitting in the closet should I ever need that data, and the likelihood of a hard drive failing in the first year (after the first 30 days) is phenomenally low. Any document that I CAN'T lose between now and the next CD-R backup goes on a thumb drive or it's own CD-R and/or email it to myself.
As long as I can triple boot it to play TF2 in windows and tinker in linux, I don't care if the pcie car works under osx
A mac mini with pci-e and adequate ventilation and I'd buy one tomorrow - and I don't say things like that too often. Dissapointed in the direction mac laptop keyboards have been moving. I love the "scissor action" of my "TiBook" powerbook but I can't stand the flat keys/odd feeling 'spacing'.
I think you'd be better off with a second tier carrier or t-mobile personally. The "big three" have the "we're too big to fail" mentality and I've never experienced worse customer service from anyone when it comes to Sprint. Unless you have a very specific reason to go with Sprint I'd avoid them like the plague.
That's pretty much what happened with me and my friend. My contract expired and I picked up a smartphone plan with unlimited data & sms. With unlimited SMS i hardly ever use more than 200 of my 1000 minutes a month. For less than $70/mo. I also find I use gmail/email/gchat a lot more as an integrated communication solution. $45 is about the top end for a data plan these days. It seems expensive, but being able to use your phone whenever you like without any inhibitions really makes the value shine.
That's a bald faced lie. I've spent countless hours arguing with sprint to even remove the cost of ONE spam text message, let alone wrong numbers. Fuck sprint. I jumped ship the day my contract expired. Good fucking riddance to that garbage company. May they evaporate as the stock market does!!!
What are you running that won't run on W2K? Your software vendor can't release a W2K support patch for thousands of software installations?
Something tells me very few people will upgrade (gamestop bought "fat" DSes for $70) to a 1/4" larger screen and almost no new features with only a $70 trade-in value on a DS Lite to not be able to play guitar hero and/or pokemon. Pokemon is huge, but what are the sales numbers for Guitar Hero DS? We're probably talking 100,000 copies sold out of 15? 20? million DS lites sold? the minor improvements are to help it sell against the PSP, not get existing users to upgrade. Are you REALLY going to buy a new DS just to have an SD card?
Also the quality of the sensor, the size of the sensor, and the color balancing software.... there are many variables that make an equal impact on image quality. Electonic noise around the sensor makes a large impact as well.
Of which 2 or 3 games, one of which being the DS browser (now built into the system) used that exp. port. The exp. port-less system won't be sold in the US in quantity until 2009 so they still have another christmas' worth of DSes to be sold with the expansion port. Shrinking market? Perhaps, but that's 5 months from now and most of those DSes will continue to work for another year or two.
Super Game Boy will allow you to colorize most B&W gameboy games to a palate of 4 colors. Also this is a terrible troll.
Are there even 2000 sq ft houses being built in that area? Are there any 2000 sq ft houses within 30 minutes drive time (one way) of those areas?
You're an idiot, and so are the people who signed arm/balloon mortgages. $1200 will buy you a 2000 sq ft house just north of $150K with $10,000 down on a std 30 year mortgage. $150K is the average price of a house in my area.a lot of couples can afford $200K mortgages which will buy a modest (not small, not huge) house in other parts of the country as well).
Rent for a 1 bedroom in hollywood is 850-900, which is about $100 more a month than it is in the not-most-poor parts of Dallas. For $1200 a month you can get a mortgage on a house here in the suburbs. It's not fantastically cheap, but someone making $75 grand a year could easily afford two houses here in the suburbs. Combine that with income from your spouse and you can still afford to eat out every night, go on extended vacations and both own new $30,000 cars. That's above average here in the US.
Zomg apostrophe only on contractions and possessives. Never, ever plurals.