Ah yes. When I buy my car I'll need to get the tow truck with it too because everyone knows that the car won't make it home! That's a perfectly acceptable solution! People have suggested that the car companies just make the cars more reliable but everyone knows that's crazy!
I think the author's point is that Average Joe just expects windows to work. Most people don't know about firewalls, NAT, routing and such. They're used to plugging something in and having it work right out of the box. If something breaks they throw it away and get a new one. This gets expensive fast with computers!
Most libraries are stuck with Windows simply because they don't have enough money to move away (it does COST money to get everything working with linux) or because they're required to stay with Microsoft because their systems were donated by Microsoft or one of the related foundations. Lots of libraries are very, very tight on budget and simply can't afford the initial cost of the switchover.
What mirror? Oh, in the picture. That's not a mirror, that image comes with the device. Soon they're going to start offering images of different ladies putting on lipstick with their hands in strange positions.
But forget the mirror thing. Explain THIS image: http://www.jensofsweden.com/media/MP-300/MP-300_5_ web.jpg
My concern is that apple will keep this pace up but run out of steam. Soon they'll start adding tons of bloat to the OS just to keep up on releasing new features. Will Apple eventually slow down and start working more on speed, reliability and security instead of trying to do the radical release every year thing?
That article feels like someone found a few dozen quotes about a topic and made an article about it. It seems every other paragraph is a quote from some seemingly random person.
$100? I'd rather stick with my IBM Model M (the old clicky clacky keyboard) which only cost me $20 at a junk store. Now if there was only a way to get an Apple Key on it!
I can see/hear it now. You walk in the store and this kind of thing happens:
"Hello, Mr. Jackson. How do you like that pair of cotton boys underwear you bought last week?"
or "Hello, Mr. Clinton. Are you back for another blue dress?"
or "Hi, Mr. Timberlake. Looking for another one of those fabulous snap-apart bustiers?"
Actually, iTunes can automatically sync the playlists you select when it sees your iPod.. I don't think there is a built-in way to undock when the sync is finished but I'm not sure I'd want that, especially if I wanted to use the iPod in disk mode..
The iTunes interface on Windows is the same as it is on a Mac.
With an dockable iPod you'll still have to "plug it in" but all you really need to do is place it in its dock and a few seconds later it appears on your desktop and begins automatically syncing..
You can use the Sailing Clicker or Romeo. Great for presentations and locking your screen when you walk away from your machine (if you have your cell phone with you and walk out of range)..
So let's see.. This is an article about an article about an article that hasn't been published yet? Awesome.. Let's create news articles by playing that old game of Telephone! Oh wait.. I think that's how the media works in the first place...
So.. This is a comment about a comment about an articl.. Oh forget it..
I would really hope that the system doesn't have some kind of bug that continually tightens the seat belt. I can just see it now, the emergency workers find a guy in a car, stopped in the middle of the road.. His car is perfectly fine but he has been cut in half by his seat belt.. What an amusingly tragic sight that would be.
> As long as the new space shuttles have some modern computers on board (as opposed to the dated ones on the current shuttles)
What's wrong with the current computers on board? Sure, they're old but they still work and if they still work, why replace them? IIRC, the computers did all they could to try and save the shuttle. In the end, I'm sure it wasn't the computer's fault.
Tetsuo: Iron Man was one of those movies a few friends and I just picked up at the video store one night when we couldn't find anything else. I think the box says "A Japanese surrealistic nightmare" and that doesn't begin to describe it.
I dared a roomate to watch it one night. The entire time he was viewing this video the only words that came out of his mouth were "What.. the.. fuck?" in a half-scared, half-interested tone.
Not to be watched with the kids.. or the parents. Do not view Totsuo: Iron Man while intoxicated, do not view Totsuo: Iron Man while near a weapon (you may shoot your TV), do not taunt Tetsuo: Iron Man.
When I was a kid I found my dad's old (Texas Instruments, I think) calculator. It had a one line red VFD display and was almost the size of a brick (it weighed sligtly less). I also found a little book of magnetic strips (about the size of a stick of gum). The calculator had a little slot in the left and right sides. You could load "programs" into the calculator by inserting the strip in one side of the calculator and a little motor with a rubber wheel attached would pull it through and spit out the other side. If you were lucky, it had read the strip right and loaded your program.
Well, after about a dozen of these loads the little rubber wheel attached to the motor fell off, no more contact with the strips. I tried tons of things, tape, pieces of plastic, shaved down washers, nothing worked. I was quite sad when I had to throw it away, it was a fun little toy. I'm sure that now, being older, I could have fixed it. Maybe if I had kept it and fixed it I could still be using it to this day.
These things wear out and break down but I think if you have enough time, money and resources you could probably keep them going forever.. But, is it worth it? For me it would have been... for the sentimental value.
Well it's perfectly fine for many uses. For instance, to store my music. Reading an mp3 off a drive doesn't require a lot of speed and if a 5400RPM drive is cheaper than a 7200RPM drive, I'll be quite happy with it. Besides, I RAID 1 any drives I get since most of them don't seem to last more than a year or two now. RAID 1 gives you an instant read speed gain, although it doesn't help your write speed.
It utterly amazes me how a company can release a product like this and not really expect it to last more than a few years. Ahh, for the old days where people built stuff to last.
Walk around your office and see how many people (usually non-hackers or admins) are running their monitors at some ridiculously low refesh rate. Anything below 70 Hertz and you can see the screen flickering. I don't understand how people can sit in front of those things for hours and not get headaches and tired eyes.
I agree. When I first discovered arstechnica I went through and read every story by Hannibal and was hooked. People who can translate knowledge from something insanely complex to more simplistic yet still accurate versions amaze me. From reading some of the current CPU specs, processors have become so complex that I can only grasp one section at a time, imagining the whole picture is nearly impossible (for me). I just wish I could have someone explain certain things to me the way Hannibal does, everything would seem so much more straightforward.
The article seems to portray the idea that Microsoft is unhappy with Office v. X's sales performance and is blaming Apple for not marketing OS 10 enough.
Well, I think I may have another theory on why Office isn't selling very well: $459.95. While the new version of Office is nice and quite pretty I still don't see it warranting almost half a grand. I can't think of the last time I ever used Word for anything more than writing my resume and the occasional label and envelope printing. AppleWorks can do all that for more than one fifth the price. While it's true that Office has quite a few more features than Works it can probably get most people by.
So this is probably just good (or bad) old Microsoft marketing work. Some people will believe whatever they read, despite their mothers telling them not to.
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Ah yes. When I buy my car I'll need to get the tow truck with it too because everyone knows that the car won't make it home! That's a perfectly acceptable solution! People have suggested that the car companies just make the cars more reliable but everyone knows that's crazy!
I think the author's point is that Average Joe just expects windows to work. Most people don't know about firewalls, NAT, routing and such. They're used to plugging something in and having it work right out of the box. If something breaks they throw it away and get a new one. This gets expensive fast with computers!
I didn't think Michael Jackson lived in New York!
Most libraries are stuck with Windows simply because they don't have enough money to move away (it does COST money to get everything working with linux) or because they're required to stay with Microsoft because their systems were donated by Microsoft or one of the related foundations. Lots of libraries are very, very tight on budget and simply can't afford the initial cost of the switchover.
Geoffeg
What mirror? Oh, in the picture. That's not a mirror, that image comes with the device. Soon they're going to start offering images of different ladies putting on lipstick with their hands in strange positions.
_ web.jpg
But forget the mirror thing. Explain THIS image: http://www.jensofsweden.com/media/MP-300/MP-300_5
My concern is that apple will keep this pace up but run out of steam. Soon they'll start adding tons of bloat to the OS just to keep up on releasing new features. Will Apple eventually slow down and start working more on speed, reliability and security instead of trying to do the radical release every year thing?
Just my concern,
Geoffeg
That article feels like someone found a few dozen quotes about a topic and made an article about it. It seems every other paragraph is a quote from some seemingly random person.
$100? I'd rather stick with my IBM Model M (the old clicky clacky keyboard) which only cost me $20 at a junk store. Now if there was only a way to get an Apple Key on it!
I can see/hear it now. You walk in the store and this kind of thing happens:
"Hello, Mr. Jackson. How do you like that pair of cotton boys underwear you bought last week?"
or
"Hello, Mr. Clinton. Are you back for another blue dress?"
or
"Hi, Mr. Timberlake. Looking for another one of those fabulous snap-apart bustiers?"
I don't think this idea will last very long..
Geoffeg
Actually, iTunes can automatically sync the playlists you select when it sees your iPod.. I don't think there is a built-in way to undock when the sync is finished but I'm not sure I'd want that, especially if I wanted to use the iPod in disk mode..
The iTunes interface on Windows is the same as it is on a Mac.
With an dockable iPod you'll still have to "plug it in" but all you really need to do is place it in its dock and a few seconds later it appears on your desktop and begins automatically syncing..
Geoffeg
Whatever, buttmunch.
Geoffeg
So let's see.. This is an article about an article about an article that hasn't been published yet? Awesome.. Let's create news articles by playing that old game of Telephone! Oh wait.. I think that's how the media works in the first place...
So.. This is a comment about a comment about an articl.. Oh forget it..
Geoffeg
I would really hope that the system doesn't have some kind of bug that continually tightens the seat belt. I can just see it now, the emergency workers find a guy in a car, stopped in the middle of the road.. His car is perfectly fine but he has been cut in half by his seat belt.. What an amusingly tragic sight that would be.
Geoffeg
> As long as the new space shuttles have some modern computers on board (as opposed to the dated ones on the current shuttles)
What's wrong with the current computers on board? Sure, they're old but they still work and if they still work, why replace them? IIRC, the computers did all they could to try and save the shuttle. In the end, I'm sure it wasn't the computer's fault.
Geoffeg
I dared a roomate to watch it one night. The entire time he was viewing this video the only words that came out of his mouth were "What.. the.. fuck?" in a half-scared, half-interested tone.
Not to be watched with the kids.. or the parents. Do not view Totsuo: Iron Man while intoxicated, do not view Totsuo: Iron Man while near a weapon (you may shoot your TV), do not taunt Tetsuo: Iron Man.
You've been warned!
Geoffeg
When I was a kid I found my dad's old (Texas Instruments, I think) calculator. It had a one line red VFD display and was almost the size of a brick (it weighed sligtly less). I also found a little book of magnetic strips (about the size of a stick of gum). The calculator had a little slot in the left and right sides. You could load "programs" into the calculator by inserting the strip in one side of the calculator and a little motor with a rubber wheel attached would pull it through and spit out the other side. If you were lucky, it had read the strip right and loaded your program.
Well, after about a dozen of these loads the little rubber wheel attached to the motor fell off, no more contact with the strips. I tried tons of things, tape, pieces of plastic, shaved down washers, nothing worked. I was quite sad when I had to throw it away, it was a fun little toy. I'm sure that now, being older, I could have fixed it. Maybe if I had kept it and fixed it I could still be using it to this day.
These things wear out and break down but I think if you have enough time, money and resources you could probably keep them going forever.. But, is it worth it? For me it would have been... for the sentimental value.
Geoffeg
Been there.. done that...
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Well it's perfectly fine for many uses. For instance, to store my music. Reading an mp3 off a drive doesn't require a lot of speed and if a 5400RPM drive is cheaper than a 7200RPM drive, I'll be quite happy with it. Besides, I RAID 1 any drives I get since most of them don't seem to last more than a year or two now. RAID 1 gives you an instant read speed gain, although it doesn't help your write speed.
It utterly amazes me how a company can release a product like this and not really expect it to last more than a few years. Ahh, for the old days where people built stuff to last.
Geoffeg
Just do what I do when you're driving down the road and you see a billboard, close your eyes! This way, the advertising won't influence you.
For some reason, a few seconds after I close my eyes, people start honking their horns. I haven't exactly figured out this correlation.
In certain parts of the city there are so many billboards that I just keep my eyes closed for the entire drive.
Geoffeg
Walk around your office and see how many people (usually non-hackers or admins) are running their monitors at some ridiculously low refesh rate. Anything below 70 Hertz and you can see the screen flickering. I don't understand how people can sit in front of those things for hours and not get headaches and tired eyes.
Geoffeg
I agree. When I first discovered arstechnica I went through and read every story by Hannibal and was hooked. People who can translate knowledge from something insanely complex to more simplistic yet still accurate versions amaze me. From reading some of the current CPU specs, processors have become so complex that I can only grasp one section at a time, imagining the whole picture is nearly impossible (for me). I just wish I could have someone explain certain things to me the way Hannibal does, everything would seem so much more straightforward.
Geoffeg
How big would the resulting data be? In the meg's, gig's? Would it compress well?
It would be cool to be able to carry around your own genome on a little CDROM in your wallet or purse.
Geoffeg
Download now to continue keeping your computer secure.
So apparently my computer is allready secure and there is no need to download the patch then!
Silly Microsoft.
The article seems to portray the idea that Microsoft is unhappy with Office v. X's sales performance and is blaming Apple for not marketing OS 10 enough.
Well, I think I may have another theory on why Office isn't selling very well: $459.95. While the new version of Office is nice and quite pretty I still don't see it warranting almost half a grand. I can't think of the last time I ever used Word for anything more than writing my resume and the occasional label and envelope printing. AppleWorks can do all that for more than one fifth the price. While it's true that Office has quite a few more features than Works it can probably get most people by.
So this is probably just good (or bad) old Microsoft marketing work. Some people will believe whatever they read, despite their mothers telling them not to.
From the article:
* Part three The Matrix Revolutions is also in production and will be released in December 2000
Two years ago!? Looks like a glitch in The Matrix!
Run, Neo, Run! (See Neo Run... oh, forget it).
Geoffeg