This would be swell for my computer-hating hubby. However, I'd just want to buy the little box outright and point the storage to a Samba server at home. Anyone know who's making that box?
Let's be fair: Microsoft Mac Business Unit has produced versions of Office for Mac that are superior to Office for Windows. The two iterations of Office for Mac OS X have both run rings around any version made in the same time frame for Windows. And let us not forget the legendary versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint for Mac (Word 5.x, Excel 4.x, Powerpoint 3.x) made before they became an integrated suite. The first version of Office for Mac sucked badly because it was a shovelware port from Windows. People hated it and refused to upgrade from the previous version. MS felt the heat from that. So they started Mac Business Unit and the first thing that came from them was Office For Mac 98 for Classic Mac OS. Then came Office 2000 for Classic and Office v.X. I still use v.X on my iMac G3 and my Clamshell iBook. I use Office 2004, the most recent iteration, with my spiffy MacBook.
However, 2004 is likely my last MS Office purchase. I will either transition to iWork or to the Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.Org. Office 2007 on Windows is a smoking train wreck. Office 2008 for Mac will be the first Intel native Office. Intel native code GOOD. However, if it's in any way, shape, or form like Office 2007, it will never darken my MacBook. Screw that. With Numbers, the iWork spreadsheet, there is an Apple answer to every element of MS Office. It may take a learning curve, but it's better than struggling with the learning curve that is also apparently part of the Office 2007 experience.
You got a hot rod Mac. Yes, you can configure it with quad-SLI and a massive RAID-0 suicide stripe. The one question is the same as the question asked in motorsports for decades: "How fast do you want to go? How much money have you got?"
I don't think so...the same phonemes in shibboleth are present in Arabic as they are in Hebrew. They weren't, apparently, in the language of the Ephraimites. The test wouldn't work today for whom the Israelis are profiling against.
Interesting. The only big concrete dome structure I can think of is the Arclight Main Theatre in Hollywood, also known as the Cinerama Dome. I was positive they did a similar process but they cast individual hexagonal and pentagonal segments and slotted them together. R. Buckminster Fuller consulted on the design, which was done by the LA architectural firm of Welton Becket and Associates. The building is older than me and looks better, although it's had a couple of face lifts over the years.
Domes are cool. They're retro now, not necessarily "futuristic" anymore. But they're still cool.
A second, wait you! A good president of the US Yoda would make! No shit does Yoda take from any man! Size matters not! Osama bin-Laden's ass, he will kick!
If the energy research begun during the Carter Administration hadn't had the plug pulled on it by Ronald Reagan maybe we'd have some viable alternatives now. We had a great deal of warning back in the '70s about Peak Oil. Carter took it seriously. Reagan told us "don't worry, be happy" and we've been ignoring it ever since.
Actually on most modern analog TV sets, the sky above the port would be a bright shiny-shiny blue. I haven't seen static on a TV for literally a decade. For some reason, a blue screen is somehow more preferable than static to the Chinese.
It may wind up killing the species of "musician" who get unbelievably filthy rich off a couple of hits and then can sit around the rest of their life commenting on how technology is destroying the vehicle they rode to their destination. But that's a small price to pay for the swell of music now available at humanity's fingertips.
You hit the nail right on the head.
Who has been agitating for more and more protectionism for a small group of tycoon musicians? Why, the tycoon musicians, of course! Most musicians do NOT make it into that small charmed circle in which people like Sir Elton and Sir Cliff live. Most musicians work day jobs and try to sell recordings on merch tables at small clubs.
The Internet and sites like CD Baby are allowing musicians who would otherwise labor in obscurity a bit of international visibility. It might hurt a few who played the game and won the RIAA lottery but the vast majority of musicians actually benefit by the low barriers to entry and possibility of making modest income.
I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Yes, as in containment of hazardous or radioactive waste. Which Windows can be fruitfully compared to. Windows 2K as a guest OS on top of Mac OS X is as good as it gets. You can even prevent it from accessing the Internet.
DSL Extreme seems to get clueful people working for them. You might have to deal with someone not so clueful at level one. But once you get past the folks who are there to handle the basic questions you are in amongst the clueful.
They are pretty much nationwide for those in AT&T land. They are a reseller of AT&T and VZ DSL bandwidth (They also resell Covad) so you still have to deal with monopolists but it's smooth sailing once you get past the Last Mile.
They also are one of the few national ISPs left who are geek-friendly. And you can get static IPs for something less than an arm, leg or your firstborn.
Not selling anything, just been happily using their services for so long I have lost track.
...wrote many of his operas for "common folk." The ones which were sung in German were written for the 18th Century equivalent of Vaudeville.
Popular entertainment of the present often becomes the high-brow fare of the future. Of course, eventually that leads us to the world of Idiocracy but that's another story for another time.
So you use the lappie unplugged for a while. Big deal. Watch a movie or something until you get the first "battery low" warning, eject the DVD, then futz around with the laptop some more until it gives you the "goodnight" dialog and goes into Sleep. Then you plug it in and let it charge. Give the battery some exercise every so often and you will have a battery that will last.
The pluses to notebook computers so outweigh the minuses it's not funny. My first Mac was a Powerbook 145. One of my finest PCs was a ThinkPad 600x which still runs today. And the finest computer in my whole collection is my MacBook. Glorious, glorious machine. And yes, you can use a MacBook Core 2 Duo as a laptop in the classic sense of the word...the original Core Duo MacBooks could cook your leg, but the Merom-based MacBook only gets warm. I still use a trivet and keep the thing on a surface when I'm using it, but it's safe to have it in your lap.
Today I got the Fried ad, and they have a $400 Compaq Sempron-based lappie. We were talking about the $300 Walmart computers a few discussions ago, but what would you choose: a VIA-based beige box or a real laptop with a real chip for $100 more? Except for gamers, the beige box is history. Deal with it.
Throw a real OS on there -- Edubuntu would do nicely -- and this machine would be excellent for a student. If you absolutely need MS Office, Office2K run under WINE would be a winner. Without the overhead of Vista OO.org would run fine on this machine.
My concern would be that the capacitors might blow in a couple of years. Otherwise, this would be fine.
If you have the first version of the MacBook, you can't really do much other than software hacks and keeping your MacBook on a cooler pad to keep it cool. The Core 2 Duo was a major improvement heat-wise...it actually *is* a laptop rather than a lap cooker.
The MacBook Pro also has LED backlighting rather than fluorescent backlighting. This is very significant in that the backlight becomes pretty much immortal...it will last as long as the computer does. With fluorescents, eventually you have to replace the fluorescent tube, which is a pain. I'm sure that eventually the MacBook will get it, but not just yet.
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This would be swell for my computer-hating hubby. However, I'd just want to buy the little box outright and point the storage to a Samba server at home. Anyone know who's making that box?
Let's be fair: Microsoft Mac Business Unit has produced versions of Office for Mac that are superior to Office for Windows. The two iterations of Office for Mac OS X have both run rings around any version made in the same time frame for Windows. And let us not forget the legendary versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint for Mac (Word 5.x, Excel 4.x, Powerpoint 3.x) made before they became an integrated suite. The first version of Office for Mac sucked badly because it was a shovelware port from Windows. People hated it and refused to upgrade from the previous version. MS felt the heat from that. So they started Mac Business Unit and the first thing that came from them was Office For Mac 98 for Classic Mac OS. Then came Office 2000 for Classic and Office v.X. I still use v.X on my iMac G3 and my Clamshell iBook. I use Office 2004, the most recent iteration, with my spiffy MacBook.
However, 2004 is likely my last MS Office purchase. I will either transition to iWork or to the Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.Org. Office 2007 on Windows is a smoking train wreck. Office 2008 for Mac will be the first Intel native Office. Intel native code GOOD. However, if it's in any way, shape, or form like Office 2007, it will never darken my MacBook. Screw that. With Numbers, the iWork spreadsheet, there is an Apple answer to every element of MS Office. It may take a learning curve, but it's better than struggling with the learning curve that is also apparently part of the Office 2007 experience.
You got a hot rod Mac. Yes, you can configure it with quad-SLI and a massive RAID-0 suicide stripe. The one question is the same as the question asked in motorsports for decades: "How fast do you want to go? How much money have you got?"
I don't think so...the same phonemes in shibboleth are present in Arabic as they are in Hebrew. They weren't, apparently, in the language of the Ephraimites. The test wouldn't work today for whom the Israelis are profiling against.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Interesting. The only big concrete dome structure I can think of is the Arclight Main Theatre in Hollywood, also known as the Cinerama Dome. I was positive they did a similar process but they cast individual hexagonal and pentagonal segments and slotted them together. R. Buckminster Fuller consulted on the design, which was done by the LA architectural firm of Welton Becket and Associates. The building is older than me and looks better, although it's had a couple of face lifts over the years.
Domes are cool. They're retro now, not necessarily "futuristic" anymore. But they're still cool.
A second, wait you! A good president of the US Yoda would make! No shit does Yoda take from any man! Size matters not! Osama bin-Laden's ass, he will kick!
If the energy research begun during the Carter Administration hadn't had the plug pulled on it by Ronald Reagan maybe we'd have some viable alternatives now. We had a great deal of warning back in the '70s about Peak Oil. Carter took it seriously. Reagan told us "don't worry, be happy" and we've been ignoring it ever since.
Slashdot has been going since September 1997. We're still wasting time there. QED.
More accurately, a cowboy boot, worn by someone who is afraid of horses, stomping on a human face, forever.
Mark my words. He's not going to leave in January 2009. Unless he's dragged out.
Actually on most modern analog TV sets, the sky above the port would be a bright shiny-shiny blue. I haven't seen static on a TV for literally a decade. For some reason, a blue screen is somehow more preferable than static to the Chinese.
Executive summary: throw the trash out, and sue the bastards for malfeasance.
...if you like Piranhas. Check out those teeth. Brings to mind a certain retarded Hall & Oates song.
It may wind up killing the species of "musician" who get unbelievably filthy rich off a couple of hits and then can sit around the rest of their life commenting on how technology is destroying the vehicle they rode to their destination. But that's a small price to pay for the swell of music now available at humanity's fingertips.
You hit the nail right on the head.
Who has been agitating for more and more protectionism for a small group of tycoon musicians? Why, the tycoon musicians, of course! Most musicians do NOT make it into that small charmed circle in which people like Sir Elton and Sir Cliff live. Most musicians work day jobs and try to sell recordings on merch tables at small clubs.
The Internet and sites like CD Baby are allowing musicians who would otherwise labor in obscurity a bit of international visibility. It might hurt a few who played the game and won the RIAA lottery but the vast majority of musicians actually benefit by the low barriers to entry and possibility of making modest income.
I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Yes, as in containment of hazardous or radioactive waste. Which Windows can be fruitfully compared to. Windows 2K as a guest OS on top of Mac OS X is as good as it gets. You can even prevent it from accessing the Internet.
In fact, only TRON has a billion users, and TRON doesn't seem to have the problems you describe.
That's because Tron fights for the Users.
DSL Extreme seems to get clueful people working for them. You might have to deal with someone not so clueful at level one. But once you get past the folks who are there to handle the basic questions you are in amongst the clueful.
They are pretty much nationwide for those in AT&T land. They are a reseller of AT&T and VZ DSL bandwidth (They also resell Covad) so you still have to deal with monopolists but it's smooth sailing once you get past the Last Mile.
They also are one of the few national ISPs left who are geek-friendly. And you can get static IPs for something less than an arm, leg or your firstborn.
Not selling anything, just been happily using their services for so long I have lost track.
...wrote many of his operas for "common folk." The ones which were sung in German were written for the 18th Century equivalent of Vaudeville.
Popular entertainment of the present often becomes the high-brow fare of the future. Of course, eventually that leads us to the world of Idiocracy but that's another story for another time.
So you use the lappie unplugged for a while. Big deal. Watch a movie or something until you get the first "battery low" warning, eject the DVD, then futz around with the laptop some more until it gives you the "goodnight" dialog and goes into Sleep. Then you plug it in and let it charge. Give the battery some exercise every so often and you will have a battery that will last.
The pluses to notebook computers so outweigh the minuses it's not funny. My first Mac was a Powerbook 145. One of my finest PCs was a ThinkPad 600x which still runs today. And the finest computer in my whole collection is my MacBook. Glorious, glorious machine. And yes, you can use a MacBook Core 2 Duo as a laptop in the classic sense of the word...the original Core Duo MacBooks could cook your leg, but the Merom-based MacBook only gets warm. I still use a trivet and keep the thing on a surface when I'm using it, but it's safe to have it in your lap.
Today I got the Fried ad, and they have a $400 Compaq Sempron-based lappie. We were talking about the $300 Walmart computers a few discussions ago, but what would you choose: a VIA-based beige box or a real laptop with a real chip for $100 more? Except for gamers, the beige box is history. Deal with it.
Throw a real OS on there -- Edubuntu would do nicely -- and this machine would be excellent for a student. If you absolutely need MS Office, Office2K run under WINE would be a winner. Without the overhead of Vista OO.org would run fine on this machine.
My concern would be that the capacitors might blow in a couple of years. Otherwise, this would be fine.
...I can has re-vote on Bush v. Kerry 2004, plz? Kthxbai.
You mean like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMkj7rNjDp4
...when there's a version of the plugin that works with Office for Mac v.X and Office for Mac 2004.
If you have the first version of the MacBook, you can't really do much other than software hacks and keeping your MacBook on a cooler pad to keep it cool. The Core 2 Duo was a major improvement heat-wise...it actually *is* a laptop rather than a lap cooker.
The MacBook Pro also has LED backlighting rather than fluorescent backlighting. This is very significant in that the backlight becomes pretty much immortal...it will last as long as the computer does. With fluorescents, eventually you have to replace the fluorescent tube, which is a pain. I'm sure that eventually the MacBook will get it, but not just yet.