I was excited when I saw this new article up on/. But, the new Palms look very, very cheap. I hope it's just bad pictures... but they'd have to be very bad!
Well, if I could find a card for one of my PCs that uses the same IEEE DSSS specification as Apple's AirPort I could use it as a cheaper way to link the Apple's to the rest of my LAN. (do you know of a card that I could use?) However, what I'd really like is for Apple to offer an AirPort Base Station without a modem and lower its price to $199. That way I could just connect it to my router and use the iBook, G4 Cube, or iMac (whichever I end up getting) without worrying whether the PC is on or not.
The Cube is available now, yes? I think store.apple.com said it was. They couldn't have pulled all of the Cubes and put Rage 128's in them so quickly. Plus, you have to have drivers.
Yea, I have 3 PCs in my home 'office'. Two run Win98 and the fileserver runs Mandrake. They are running off of a 4-port switch. I'd love to get a Sage iMac for the kitchen using an AirPort card to connect to the rest of my LAN wirelessly. I'd also love an iBook with an AirPort card to take to the patio or wherever.
I love how Linux users always call buying an OS packed along with a computer an OS tax. I hardly doubt that the MacOS is raising the price of the computer that much. In this case the OS is just another component, unlike the Wintel world.
Would this keyboard work with a Wintel box? That would be sweet! I'd buy one. I know I'd need a driver for the special buttons, but would all the standard ones work?
This will never work. Adaptive user interfaces are not a good idea. Consistency is the most important trait of a user interface, and this is most often thrown out the window when people start talking about adaptive user interfaces. One perfect example is Microsoft's implementation of adaptive menu bars in Office 2000. People have a hard enough time finding things in the menu to begin with, but now Microsoft starts playing hide & seek with them. Adaptive menus are a huge pain for Microsoft support professionals. Back when I supported Access 2000, the first thing I had people do it turn those off so that they could actually follow what I was telling them to do.
I'm not going to reply to your last sentence, because I know you were just razzing the populace here.
At any rate, the Foo Fighters MP3s that I auditioned before buying the CD were from Napster. I think my.sig (are they stored as.sig files on the Slashserver?) makes the point that even what would normally be considered pirated music by the RIAA helps promote artists. The Foo Fighters aren't the only ones that have benefitted from my Internet research of new music. However, Metallica is the only band that has made me decide against purchasing their music (I was going to get their Cunning Stunts DVD, until the crap they pulled).
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I'd rather wear clothes that appeal to me and my tastes, not be forced to fit into the cookie-cutter mold society has decided is "normal." Of course, I also don't like inane catch-phrase formula-pop or cock-rock either, so there you go.
You'd rather be obsessed with the goth fashion mob, than wear normal everyday clothes. You'd rather clone yourself after a pre-defined style (or as you would say "cookie-cutter mold") in order to identify to a group that tries to be different. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Someone betted in an earlier Katz story that he would use the phrase "post-Columbine" in a review of X-Men if he ever did one. I guess whoever that was wins the prize!
Someone needs to make the Katz generator a little less predictable.
Free Software doesn't require that the software be free (gratis) either. In fact, the FSF encourages developers to charge for their work. Free Software just requires that the software be free (libre).
Please forgive my foreign language... I only speak English. Just remember gratis is like beer.
I know that there are commercial vendors offering VPN solutions that interoperate beautifully between Windows and Linux, but these carry a hefty pricetag, upwards of several thousand dollars. I would much rather go with an Open Source solution.
Am I the only person that noticed that Adam equated Open Source with free? He doesn't want to pay for the VPN support, so he wants an Open Source solution? That's not right! I'm surprised this Ask Slashdot got submitted.
The best form of copy protection the record industry could find is larger files. And how do they get larger files? Start supporting DVD Audio! I want very high resolution audio, dammit!
Precisely, this sounds like Circuit City's Divx model of business: move the video rental store into the customer's house so that we don't have to pay for real estate, and continue to charge them the same (or more) for the "service".
No thanks, if I'm storing your stuff for you, I expect to get it cheap.
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I was excited when I saw this new article up on /. But, the new Palms look very, very cheap. I hope it's just bad pictures... but they'd have to be very bad!
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Well, if I could find a card for one of my PCs that uses the same IEEE DSSS specification as Apple's AirPort I could use it as a cheaper way to link the Apple's to the rest of my LAN. (do you know of a card that I could use?) However, what I'd really like is for Apple to offer an AirPort Base Station without a modem and lower its price to $199. That way I could just connect it to my router and use the iBook, G4 Cube, or iMac (whichever I end up getting) without worrying whether the PC is on or not.
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The Cube is available now, yes? I think store.apple.com said it was. They couldn't have pulled all of the Cubes and put Rage 128's in them so quickly. Plus, you have to have drivers.
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Yea, I have 3 PCs in my home 'office'. Two run Win98 and the fileserver runs Mandrake. They are running off of a 4-port switch. I'd love to get a Sage iMac for the kitchen using an AirPort card to connect to the rest of my LAN wirelessly. I'd also love an iBook with an AirPort card to take to the patio or wherever.
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I'd love to see some high resolution pictures of the Cube. The ones on Apple's site are too small.
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I love how Linux users always call buying an OS packed along with a computer an OS tax. I hardly doubt that the MacOS is raising the price of the computer that much. In this case the OS is just another component, unlike the Wintel world.
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You must've missed his sarcasm.
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Would this keyboard work with a Wintel box? That would be sweet! I'd buy one. I know I'd need a driver for the special buttons, but would all the standard ones work?
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Compaq's new box design is boring. But, didn't /. have a news story about the iPaq?
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DVDs may be encoded at 24FPS, but the output you're getting from your DVD player is 30FPS. It does a conversion.
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Is this better?
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...or Microsoft could make it that applications don't steal focus from each other. I hate that!
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Ever tried PDF? The suits seem to like that one. I'm thinking of using it when I have to send out resumes again.
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I agree: damn Microsoft.
This will never work. Adaptive user interfaces are not a good idea. Consistency is the most important trait of a user interface, and this is most often thrown out the window when people start talking about adaptive user interfaces. One perfect example is Microsoft's implementation of adaptive menu bars in Office 2000. People have a hard enough time finding things in the menu to begin with, but now Microsoft starts playing hide & seek with them. Adaptive menus are a huge pain for Microsoft support professionals. Back when I supported Access 2000, the first thing I had people do it turn those off so that they could actually follow what I was telling them to do.
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I'm not going to reply to your last sentence, because I know you were just razzing the populace here.
.sig (are they stored as .sig files on the Slashserver?) makes the point that even what would normally be considered pirated music by the RIAA helps promote artists. The Foo Fighters aren't the only ones that have benefitted from my Internet research of new music. However, Metallica is the only band that has made me decide against purchasing their music (I was going to get their Cunning Stunts DVD, until the crap they pulled).
At any rate, the Foo Fighters MP3s that I auditioned before buying the CD were from Napster. I think my
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Someone betted in an earlier Katz story that he would use the phrase "post-Columbine" in a review of X-Men if he ever did one. I guess whoever that was wins the prize!
Someone needs to make the Katz generator a little less predictable.
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Free Software doesn't require that the software be free (gratis) either. In fact, the FSF encourages developers to charge for their work. Free Software just requires that the software be free (libre).
Please forgive my foreign language... I only speak English. Just remember gratis is like beer.
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Am I the only person that noticed that Adam equated Open Source with free? He doesn't want to pay for the VPN support, so he wants an Open Source solution? That's not right! I'm surprised this Ask Slashdot got submitted.
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The best form of copy protection the record industry could find is larger files. And how do they get larger files? Start supporting DVD Audio!
I want very high resolution audio, dammit!
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Oh, how I wish I could get CSPAN without having to pay for all of the other crap Time Warner makes you pay for. I guess it's still rabbit ears for me.
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Precisely, this sounds like Circuit City's Divx model of business: move the video rental store into the customer's house so that we don't have to pay for real estate, and continue to charge them the same (or more) for the "service".
No thanks, if I'm storing your stuff for you, I expect to get it cheap.
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It's a former employee of Napster that left and is now starting AppleSoup.
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