i'll bite.... yes it does. you can't (at least, not easily/out of the box) copy your mp3 collection on the ipod to another person's mac. the mp3's are "locked" on your computer. nothing prevents you from copying them to your ipod using it as a hard drive, plugging it into another mac, and uploading them to the new host computer, though.
actually i checked @ compUSA the other day... $29 for a 3 port firewire card...probably one controller for 3 ports, but plenty of bandwith for today's consumer.
i remember back in the day, reading email/spam on a 2400 baud modem on a 386 w 4/megs of ram... 10 people in a CC: field and 200 made a HUGE difference...
apparently aol had special software that list owners got that would allow them to make batch emails to aol people and one particular group, the starwars group, had somthing like 10,000 readers... they forgot to turn on the CC: hiding feature.... i must have spent 10 minutes before pulling the plug on my connection
fuck that d00d, gimmie some movie-poster sized versions of that stuff to tack on my wall. or maybe i could stick some underneath my partially transparent tibook's keyboard! then i could finally see the damn keys in the dark... displaying porn on my keyboard would be nifty though:)
probably a cheaper solution....they have indeglo watches...they have indeglo "nightlights....do they make poster-sized versions of the stuff? or is there a maximum size as to how larger it gets before you can't run current safely across the stuff (some sort of gas mixture i would assume)
ok i know the last one was that "infamous" M$ paper, but could someone give me a "color chart" as to define all these different papers that i'm seeing more and more often posted on slashdot?
there's some more unseen advantages, such as less wear and tear on your $5k A/C unit, less freon(or equivilent) lost due to being on less and as a result isn't released into the atmosphere as quickly, and it doesn't heat up the outside atmosphere nearly as quickly (saving everyone's cooling bill, as the atmosphere is that much cooler to do a heat exchange in).... which is more important than you'd think. tokyo has nearly twice as many 33+degree days than surrounding areas b/c of the A/C running all the time. they're looking into a heat exchange system in the bay to help with cooling.
of course in suburban DFW, this doesn't make as much sense, but in the grand scheme of things, it probably does help overall
strip lighting? i understand the other two....but what's unhealthy about strip lighting? all i could possibly think of stip lighting is dust accumulating around the fixture and you possibly breathing it in.
as for carpet being germ-ridden, well i got to thinking, and people complain that bathing too often leaves you extremely clean and as a result your natural germ fighting defenses become lower... dirty carpets can serve to keep the decline of your immune system in check. besides, the germs and bacteria in your carpet are likely to be of the same breed and thus easier to defend against as opposed to those from the outside, or even another country.
I agree with you on the terms that it hasn't made society better as a whole, one slashdotter commented that it has greatly diminshed the size of the back porch, for obvious reasons (although another slashdotter commented it was more likely due to TC, rather than AC..)
but if you look outside the immediate use of "air conditioning" and think in terms of "food preservation", i.e. refridgeration, it has been immensely helpful in the food preperation industry, which has lowered the cost of things such as meat (they used to have to drive cattle from the midwest to newyork to slaughter them), and lower the cost of perishable food, giving people a wider seletion of food, and as a result, a better chance of having a healthy diet. there's other things, i'm sure, but i just woke up...
try using chimera or mozilla, or somthing else. IE is carbon and as a result runs like ass. chimera is pure cocoa (native OS X app) while Mozilla isn't entirely 100% cocoa, , it sure as hell runs a sight better than IE, which runs on a compatibility layer. i deleted IE some time ago. the G3 bit is going to hamper you considerably, as OS X is optimized for the G4. i'm running itunes, adium, cpu monitor, mozilla and terminal and i'm using 377 megs of ram (command "top -u" in the terminal) try and run only cocoa apps. CPU usage plummets and the computer is noticably faster. as a result, the computer doesn't have to access the carbon layer functions, and i rarely see cpu usage above 50%
i think the problem is that his hard drive in his laptop has some bad sectors, specifically in the swap file area, which would cause this problem, specifically in a laptop.
there's a spinning beachball? i thought they got rid of that in OS 9 or 8 or whatever. are you running one of those 233 g3 powerbooks with no L2 cache? that's probably your problem. they're notoriously slow.if your computer is slower than 400 mhz then consider your laptop at the end of it's useful product cycle and stick with the OS it was designed in mind for - OS 9. they just recently added support for rage 128 video cards in OS X.
my 550mhz w/512 megs of ram only noticably lags when i'm reloading my 8 gig mp3 library in itun4es, or "normalizing the audio", somthing that uses all avalible extra cpu. maybe your laptop is a lemon, or your hard drive has sustained shock damage? there's a plethora of problems that can be causing your problem; but i assure you, it's not the OS.
huzzah. i'll second that. problem is, you'd need an agp slot and a pci slot. old pizza boxes only had one expansion slot. (video on board). they also consumed so little electricity that the powersupply was cool to the touch, negating a fan (which creates noise + the need for more space).....
they do however sell an xserve, or whatever the hell it's called.
wow, really? i used to work at compUSA, and whenever quake 3 was sold @ best buy for $20 less than retail, the manager made us take it off the shelves and tell customers we didn't have it in stock, b/c we advertisec we'd meet anyone's price if you brought in the ad. this happened every saturday with some product.
hunh. even if it's paid for with public money? at that point it would seem, at least phiolsophically, "pubic domain" - that performance specifically, of course
recording a concert (that you paid to get into) while you're at it and distributing it is legal because... i dunno. all i know is that's one of the ways/reasons metallica got big in the first place. "word of mouth tapes" or somesuch. so is it illegal to record a live public performance, i.e. somthing in central park, NY NY, that's free to attend?
just randomly curious
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Why shouldn't Apple charge money for their services? You say yourself that you've standardised your email around it. It must be worth something to you.
same thing with aol. we pay $10 a month for aol access despite the fact that we've had cable internet for over a year now, and regular dial up ISP for 3 yeare precluding that. my mom is just too "attached" to her AOL email address to give it up, depsite the fact that she probably hasn't used it in over 3-5 months. people are willing to and do pay for comfort. i'm sure you could make some sort of variation of the quote "give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish, he never goes hungry again" to fit this situation, roles reversed or somthing....... i dunno. i just woke up, and am in dire need of caffine.
thanksi originally wasn't intending to troll, just get some responses out of people (positive trolling?). i really have never seen a PC display @ walmart, though. i think the trick to trolling is post early, post a widely known fact, and then support it with questionable evidence easily disputable. *bite*
LED's have supposedly 100,000 hours of use in them. of course, that's at about half intensity, and they still dim over time, and it's not been fully proved (LED's haven't been mainstream for 10 years really)....
OLED's supposedly have somthing like a maximum of 30,000 hours of life.... would using them as primitive "solar cells" decrease their lifespan considerably? or is this a possible reason as to why they have such a short lifespan?
on a somewhat completely unrelated topic, if increasing battery life is so damn important, why haven't they started including $3 radio shack 3v solar panels on everything in existance? or does the voltage/amperage have to be >= standard voltage of the battery? we have a 200mA trickle charger for our 12v deep cycle boat battery...
would i be able to run/charge my m100 off a $3 3v solar cell? if i underclocked it? yes, i realize it's usually in my pocket....but it does sit underneath a hallogen light when i'm @ the computer...
has some chairs for sale, the first, third and fourth chairs are generally what i look for, and are extremely comfortable.
also this link
has a nice picture of a chair that is particularly easy to remove the legs. these style chairs routinely have a U-shaped metal bar attached to the back for strength and support. there are a rare few that do not need the metal backing, as they provide enough support somehow with just plastic (although still attach to metal legs). i would highly reccomend them over the part metal part plastic chairs, as they have the ability to better mold to the shape of your back, but both are quite comfortable.
....wtf you're thinking.... it sounds stupid, but once you try them, you'll never go back. originally dubbed "movie night chairs" to provide extra seating when space ran out on the couches due to couples, i took home from school the plastic piece of a broken all in one school desk. it's exactly the right size to sit in, they're designed for someone to sit their ass in for 8 hours a day and not be sore. most importantly, they're FREE. they're very durable, i've collected 4 so far through high school, and they've worked wonderfully. only problem is they mount to the desk via metal pipes usually, but 10 minutes and a 4" metal grinder (about $20, the only expense for the whole setup if you don't have it already) will leave the bottom shiney smooth.
be sure not to remove the metal piping altogether, as it often serves as a "backbone" for your backsupport.
another feature not usually thought about, is that once it's ibeen liberated from the desk, you're no longer confined to sitting upright in them. you can lean back in them and tilt them on their axis for MAXIMUM COMFORT. they're unbelievably comfortable, and every moie night i'm now invited to i'm always asked to bring them along.
other uses:
+ turn one upside down, now you have a comfortable sloped surface to lay back on (w/pillow)
+ turn it upside down, then 90 degrees. you now have a low cost, effective and comfortable foot stool.
you can usually find at least 2 or 3 of these plastic chairs behind a high school or middle school by the maintencnece shed, or near the trash cans. about once a week one breaks and the school gets ready to throw it out, and you can find them in the halls or out back. just grinder off any exces metal and wash it down real good with some soap and water in the backyard and you'll have hours of gaming comfort. my friends and i will play an entire season of NHL on the playstation in these in comfort.
friends 140 lbs to 230 have no trouble in the movie night chairs at all.
omebody mod this up. pure freaking genius. never thought about it that way.
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yeah, anything USB will use cpu cycles, as USB is a "dumb bus", as opposed to fire wire, which is a "smart bus" that is completely independent of the CPU (you can connect two firewire cameras together and copy video between them with no computer in the middle managing the data). PS/2 is so old and simple that i'm sure all of it is controlled by a chip on the motherboard. it's possible to have win eithernet cards; microsoft is trying to push win wireless eithernet cards as we speak. depending on the PCI card, and integrated eithernet, one could be faster than the other. the nforce2 chipset uses 3com technology, so it'g going to fucking fly.
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i'll bite.... yes it does. you can't (at least, not easily/out of the box) copy your mp3 collection on the ipod to another person's mac. the mp3's are "locked" on your computer. nothing prevents you from copying them to your ipod using it as a hard drive, plugging it into another mac, and uploading them to the new host computer, though.
actually i checked @ compUSA the other day... $29 for a 3 port firewire card...probably one controller for 3 ports, but plenty of bandwith for today's consumer.
i remember back in the day, reading email/spam on a 2400 baud modem on a 386 w 4/megs of ram... 10 people in a CC: field and 200 made a HUGE difference...
apparently aol had special software that list owners got that would allow them to make batch emails to aol people and one particular group, the starwars group, had somthing like 10,000 readers... they forgot to turn on the CC: hiding feature.... i must have spent 10 minutes before pulling the plug on my connection
fuck that d00d, gimmie some movie-poster sized versions of that stuff to tack on my wall. or maybe i could stick some underneath my partially transparent tibook's keyboard! then i could finally see the damn keys in the dark... displaying porn on my keyboard would be nifty though :)
probably a cheaper solution....they have indeglo watches...they have indeglo "nightlights....do they make poster-sized versions of the stuff? or is there a maximum size as to how larger it gets before you can't run current safely across the stuff (some sort of gas mixture i would assume)
ok i know the last one was that "infamous" M$ paper, but could someone give me a "color chart" as to define all these different papers that i'm seeing more and more often posted on slashdot?
there's some more unseen advantages, such as less wear and tear on your $5k A/C unit, less freon(or equivilent) lost due to being on less and as a result isn't released into the atmosphere as quickly, and it doesn't heat up the outside atmosphere nearly as quickly (saving everyone's cooling bill, as the atmosphere is that much cooler to do a heat exchange in).... which is more important than you'd think. tokyo has nearly twice as many 33+degree days than surrounding areas b/c of the A/C running all the time. they're looking into a heat exchange system in the bay to help with cooling.
of course in suburban DFW, this doesn't make as much sense, but in the grand scheme of things, it probably does help overall
strip lighting? i understand the other two....but what's unhealthy about strip lighting? all i could possibly think of stip lighting is dust accumulating around the fixture and you possibly breathing it in.
as for carpet being germ-ridden, well i got to thinking, and people complain that bathing too often leaves you extremely clean and as a result your natural germ fighting defenses become lower... dirty carpets can serve to keep the decline of your immune system in check. besides, the germs and bacteria in your carpet are likely to be of the same breed and thus easier to defend against as opposed to those from the outside, or even another country.
I agree with you on the terms that it hasn't made society better as a whole, one slashdotter commented that it has greatly diminshed the size of the back porch, for obvious reasons (although another slashdotter commented it was more likely due to TC, rather than AC..)
but if you look outside the immediate use of "air conditioning" and think in terms of "food preservation", i.e. refridgeration, it has been immensely helpful in the food preperation industry, which has lowered the cost of things such as meat (they used to have to drive cattle from the midwest to newyork to slaughter them), and lower the cost of perishable food, giving people a wider seletion of food, and as a result, a better chance of having a healthy diet. there's other things, i'm sure, but i just woke up...
Huzzah! Bring in the Data Dogs! Ein* rocked.
I wouldn't mind a smarter dog...
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try using chimera or mozilla, or somthing else. IE is carbon and as a result runs like ass. chimera is pure cocoa (native OS X app) while Mozilla isn't entirely 100% cocoa, , it sure as hell runs a sight better than IE, which runs on a compatibility layer. i deleted IE some time ago. the G3 bit is going to hamper you considerably, as OS X is optimized for the G4. i'm running itunes, adium, cpu monitor, mozilla and terminal and i'm using 377 megs of ram (command "top -u" in the terminal) try and run only cocoa apps. CPU usage plummets and the computer is noticably faster. as a result, the computer doesn't have to access the carbon layer functions, and i rarely see cpu usage above 50%
i think the problem is that his hard drive in his laptop has some bad sectors, specifically in the swap file area, which would cause this problem, specifically in a laptop.
there's a spinning beachball? i thought they got rid of that in OS 9 or 8 or whatever. are you running one of those 233 g3 powerbooks with no L2 cache? that's probably your problem. they're notoriously slow.if your computer is slower than 400 mhz then consider your laptop at the end of it's useful product cycle and stick with the OS it was designed in mind for - OS 9. they just recently added support for rage 128 video cards in OS X.
my 550mhz w/512 megs of ram only noticably lags when i'm reloading my 8 gig mp3 library in itun4es, or "normalizing the audio", somthing that uses all avalible extra cpu. maybe your laptop is a lemon, or your hard drive has sustained shock damage? there's a plethora of problems that can be causing your problem; but i assure you, it's not the OS.
huzzah. i'll second that. problem is, you'd need an agp slot and a pci slot. old pizza boxes only had one expansion slot. (video on board). they also consumed so little electricity that the powersupply was cool to the touch, negating a fan (which creates noise + the need for more space).....
they do however sell an xserve, or whatever the hell it's called.
wow, really? i used to work at compUSA, and whenever quake 3 was sold @ best buy for $20 less than retail, the manager made us take it off the shelves and tell customers we didn't have it in stock, b/c we advertisec we'd meet anyone's price if you brought in the ad. this happened every saturday with some product.
hunh. even if it's paid for with public money? at that point it would seem, at least phiolsophically, "pubic domain" - that performance specifically, of course
recording a concert (that you paid to get into) while you're at it and distributing it is legal because... i dunno. all i know is that's one of the ways/reasons metallica got big in the first place. "word of mouth tapes" or somesuch. so is it illegal to record a live public performance, i.e. somthing in central park, NY NY, that's free to attend?
just randomly curious
Why shouldn't Apple charge money for their services? You say yourself that you've standardised your email around it. It must be worth something to you.
same thing with aol. we pay $10 a month for aol access despite the fact that we've had cable internet for over a year now, and regular dial up ISP for 3 yeare precluding that. my mom is just too "attached" to her AOL email address to give it up, depsite the fact that she probably hasn't used it in over 3-5 months. people are willing to and do pay for comfort. i'm sure you could make some sort of variation of the quote "give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish, he never goes hungry again" to fit this situation, roles reversed or somthing....... i dunno. i just woke up, and am in dire need of caffine.
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nice troll btw..."
thanksi originally wasn't intending to troll, just get some responses out of people (positive trolling?). i really have never seen a PC display @ walmart, though. i think the trick to trolling is post early, post a widely known fact, and then support it with questionable evidence easily disputable. *bite*
LED's have supposedly 100,000 hours of use in them. of course, that's at about half intensity, and they still dim over time, and it's not been fully proved (LED's haven't been mainstream for 10 years really)....
OLED's supposedly have somthing like a maximum of 30,000 hours of life.... would using them as primitive "solar cells" decrease their lifespan considerably? or is this a possible reason as to why they have such a short lifespan?
on a somewhat completely unrelated topic, if increasing battery life is so damn important, why haven't they started including $3 radio shack 3v solar panels on everything in existance? or does the voltage/amperage have to be >= standard voltage of the battery? we have a 200mA trickle charger for our 12v deep cycle boat battery...
would i be able to run/charge my m100 off a $3 3v solar cell? if i underclocked it? yes, i realize it's usually in my pocket....but it does sit underneath a hallogen light when i'm @ the computer...
sorry about the lack of specific details. i am talking about what i believe you refer to as the " part plastic part metal" models.
this link
has some chairs for sale, the first, third and fourth chairs are generally what i look for, and are extremely comfortable.
also this link
has a nice picture of a chair that is particularly easy to remove the legs. these style chairs routinely have a U-shaped metal bar attached to the back for strength and support. there are a rare few that do not need the metal backing, as they provide enough support somehow with just plastic (although still attach to metal legs). i would highly reccomend them over the part metal part plastic chairs, as they have the ability to better mold to the shape of your back, but both are quite comfortable.
"school chair supply" came up with a few results
....wtf you're thinking.... it sounds stupid, but once you try them, you'll never go back. originally dubbed "movie night chairs" to provide extra seating when space ran out on the couches due to couples, i took home from school the plastic piece of a broken all in one school desk. it's exactly the right size to sit in, they're designed for someone to sit their ass in for 8 hours a day and not be sore. most importantly, they're FREE. they're very durable, i've collected 4 so far through high school, and they've worked wonderfully. only problem is they mount to the desk via metal pipes usually, but 10 minutes and a 4" metal grinder (about $20, the only expense for the whole setup if you don't have it already) will leave the bottom shiney smooth.
be sure not to remove the metal piping altogether, as it often serves as a "backbone" for your backsupport.
another feature not usually thought about, is that once it's ibeen liberated from the desk, you're no longer confined to sitting upright in them. you can lean back in them and tilt them on their axis for MAXIMUM COMFORT. they're unbelievably comfortable, and every moie night i'm now invited to i'm always asked to bring them along.
other uses:
+ turn one upside down, now you have a comfortable sloped surface to lay back on (w/pillow)
+ turn it upside down, then 90 degrees. you now have a low cost, effective and comfortable foot stool.
you can usually find at least 2 or 3 of these plastic chairs behind a high school or middle school by the maintencnece shed, or near the trash cans. about once a week one breaks and the school gets ready to throw it out, and you can find them in the halls or out back. just grinder off any exces metal and wash it down real good with some soap and water in the backyard and you'll have hours of gaming comfort. my friends and i will play an entire season of NHL on the playstation in these in comfort.
friends 140 lbs to 230 have no trouble in the movie night chairs at all.
not if he has netflix (assuming, of course, he's not #8,000 in a line of 9000 for 6 copies
omebody mod this up. pure freaking genius. never thought about it that way.
yeah, anything USB will use cpu cycles, as USB is a "dumb bus", as opposed to fire wire, which is a "smart bus" that is completely independent of the CPU (you can connect two firewire cameras together and copy video between them with no computer in the middle managing the data). PS/2 is so old and simple that i'm sure all of it is controlled by a chip on the motherboard. it's possible to have win eithernet cards; microsoft is trying to push win wireless eithernet cards as we speak. depending on the PCI card, and integrated eithernet, one could be faster than the other. the nforce2 chipset uses 3com technology, so it'g going to fucking fly.
dell has market penetration. not to mention they're #2 in sales, and good word of mouth. walmart has none of the above