The cost of memory for a 7500 is more reasonable now. A couple years ago when a 7500 was a pretty decent mac to have, the price of memory for it was 2-3 time the cost of general PC memory. The point about the 7500 memory is that very few computers ever used that type of memory and fed the complaints that macs were to expensive.
I tend to agree that Apple products aren't as revolutionary as they used to be. In the past Apple choose or created components that made their computers easier to use. As PC components have evolved, Apple has picked them for their computers. (Nubus to PCI cards, ADB to USB, SCSI to Firewire, SCSI to IDE) While I would like to see DDR support in the new G4s, at least the current line is using PC133. Unlike the FPM DIMMs in my 7500, I can get this memory at the local PC shop and not pay through the nose cause it will go in a mac. In general, I think the computer market, not just Apple, has reach a point of maturity that innovations have now become baby steps compared to the steps that were considered revolutionary years ago.
Ok, so we're now talking about 12% increase between the two. But it sounds like neither of those players are really in your price range. I agree that CD players that can play mp3 CDRs is a much better buy than any mp3 player using either compact flash or other memory card.
The thing with the Toshiba or iPod is that you can about 8 time the playing of the CD player with out having to carry around a CD holder. Also I can have multiple playlists for the music on the HD.
How is Toshiba's unit financially viable over the iPod on windows? Both will require you to have a Firewire card. The extra cost of the software will only make up about 6% of your total purchases to have a compact 5GB firewire mp3 player.
If you like your current job, then take the counter offer and stay.
As for companies, I'm not sure it's a good idea for them to make counter offers. It can cause some employees to go on interviews just to get pay increases. In other cases, the company does make a counter offer, the employee takes it, but ends up leaving withing 6 months anyway. Now maybe in that 6 months, you pumped the employee for the critical information that he/she had and can now let them go.
The only thing I'm missing is a NetInfo daemon for Linux so it can act as a complete configuration server for NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and MacOS X systems.
I'm not sure about the NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP boxes, but you could use NIS instead of NetInfo for OS X. I recently did this for the OS X box we have here at work. The only downside was that the automounting in OS X sucks and I ended up making static NFS links to people's home dirs. Consider they BSD base, I would assume the other 2 could use NIS also.
Cell-phone, organizer, pager, fold-up-keyboard, bad of dice, slide-rule, and Gameboy Advance..
How about you combine the GBA and a PDA instead of the Cell Phone and PDA. I can see it now. Number 1 title for GBA and huge hit with accountants: Excel for GBA.;-)
I'm Catholic also. The joke is based off of a stereotype for Catholics in America. One of which is generally that they have a lot more children than Prodestants. For an example of this stereotype, there is a scene in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life you can watch.
Probably the same is true of sporting events. I doubt many people will tolerate watching "old" sports for the benefit of racing through the commercials.
No I don't think a lot of people will be recording sports events, unless they are a die hard fan of the team. Though people may use their TiVo to skip commericals on "live" events. Have the TiVo start recording live tv of the game. Come back 15-20 minutes later and start watching. You can now start skipping commericals for about an hour. I think a lot of people could get used to watching sporting events that way. That's the magic of a HD over video tape, you can watch as your recording.
Not sure about ReplayTV, but even with the 30 second skip on TiVo you still see a fragment of the commerical. Sometimes that fragement is enough to make a person watch the commerical. In my case, I caught a fragment for Kids in the Hall on tour. I watched it, found out they were in town and went to see them.
But are you a professional engineer? I received a BSEE and remember from my last year of school the examination to become a professional engineer. For the EEs, there wasn't a whole lot of reasons to take the test. On the other hand, a lot of the CEs I knew were taking the exams. For the work that CEs do, a professional engineer needs to sign off on plans/design so that no one comes to harm. As an EE doing software, there isn't much need for that kind of thing. Though I did know one EE that was going into defense contract work and though that being a professional engineer would benifit his carreer.
And what about "The Classic" (Raimi's signature big yellow car)? I knew Sam would stay true to his roots when I saw spider-man land on "The Classic" in the trailer. Thank god for TiVo, I was able to freeze it and confirm that "The Classic" would be in the movie.:-)
or you could use pine and procmail. I generally ssh into my ISP to read my email. This way I can generally read it on the go and avoid the bandwidth costs of downloading large emails.
I haven't found a decent free address book that will export your contacts in vCard format. So I'm doing my vCards by hand (kinda like how I do HTML). Below is the basic information that I pulled out of the RFC for the vCard format. If your gonna use the notes field, use \n to delimit a new line and keep the text of the note to under 1024 characters.
adr;type=*:post office box; the extended address; the street address; the locality (e.g., city); the region (e.g., state or province); the postal code; the country name
I think this is a nice improvement to the contact hacks we have been seeing for the iPod. The vCards will allow you to store more information that you could have squeezed into an ID3 tag.
Is is possible to switch from floppy images to small iso files? I would almost think it's easier for people to try making micro distros that could run off a CD-R instead of a locked floppy.
It is a stupid idea if/. gets only 10 people buying into the ad free/. So the development time of this feature needs to weighted against the estimated income this feature will bring in. If the development time is a couple days, then it's probably a wash. If it takes a month to get the feature into the code, then you really need to look at the numbers to make that decision.
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I would tend to agree. The only reason I could see them going with USB is if they want to see this device in the PC market as well.
The comment was more about the fact that the requirements for POV-Ray on OS X was 10.2. Which I mentioned hasn't been released yet.
I really don't need a gui as I generally call it from a script to create some data driven images (the jpeg links, not the PDFs).
While I'm happy to see OS X directly from povray.org instead of some port. I didn't think OS X 10.2 would be available until Auguest 5th.
The cost of memory for a 7500 is more reasonable now. A couple years ago when a 7500 was a pretty decent mac to have, the price of memory for it was 2-3 time the cost of general PC memory. The point about the 7500 memory is that very few computers ever used that type of memory and fed the complaints that macs were to expensive.
I tend to agree that Apple products aren't as revolutionary as they used to be. In the past Apple choose or created components that made their computers easier to use. As PC components have evolved, Apple has picked them for their computers. (Nubus to PCI cards, ADB to USB, SCSI to Firewire, SCSI to IDE) While I would like to see DDR support in the new G4s, at least the current line is using PC133. Unlike the FPM DIMMs in my 7500, I can get this memory at the local PC shop and not pay through the nose cause it will go in a mac. In general, I think the computer market, not just Apple, has reach a point of maturity that innovations have now become baby steps compared to the steps that were considered revolutionary years ago.
Ok, so we're now talking about 12% increase between the two. But it sounds like neither of those players are really in your price range. I agree that CD players that can play mp3 CDRs is a much better buy than any mp3 player using either compact flash or other memory card.
The thing with the Toshiba or iPod is that you can about 8 time the playing of the CD player with out having to carry around a CD holder. Also I can have multiple playlists for the music on the HD.
How is Toshiba's unit financially viable over the iPod on windows? Both will require you to have a Firewire card. The extra cost of the software will only make up about 6% of your total purchases to have a compact 5GB firewire mp3 player.
If you like your current job, then take the counter offer and stay.
As for companies, I'm not sure it's a good idea for them to make counter offers. It can cause some employees to go on interviews just to get pay increases. In other cases, the company does make a counter offer, the employee takes it, but ends up leaving withing 6 months anyway. Now maybe in that 6 months, you pumped the employee for the critical information that he/she had and can now let them go.
The only thing I'm missing is a NetInfo daemon for Linux so it can act as a complete configuration server for NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and MacOS X systems.
I'm not sure about the NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP boxes, but you could use NIS instead of NetInfo for OS X. I recently did this for the OS X box we have here at work. The only downside was that the automounting in OS X sucks and I ended up making static NFS links to people's home dirs. Consider they BSD base, I would assume the other 2 could use NIS also.
Cell-phone, organizer, pager, fold-up-keyboard, bad of dice, slide-rule, and Gameboy Advance..
How about you combine the GBA and a PDA instead of the Cell Phone and PDA. I can see it now. Number 1 title for GBA and huge hit with accountants: Excel for GBA. ;-)
I'm Catholic also. The joke is based off of a stereotype for Catholics in America. One of which is generally that they have a lot more children than Prodestants. For an example of this stereotype, there is a scene in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life you can watch.
You must not be Catholic. >;-)
Probably the same is true of sporting events. I doubt many people will tolerate watching "old" sports for the benefit of racing through the commercials.
No I don't think a lot of people will be recording sports events, unless they are a die hard fan of the team. Though people may use their TiVo to skip commericals on "live" events. Have the TiVo start recording live tv of the game. Come back 15-20 minutes later and start watching. You can now start skipping commericals for about an hour. I think a lot of people could get used to watching sporting events that way. That's the magic of a HD over video tape, you can watch as your recording.
Not sure about ReplayTV, but even with the 30 second skip on TiVo you still see a fragment of the commerical. Sometimes that fragement is enough to make a person watch the commerical. In my case, I caught a fragment for Kids in the Hall on tour. I watched it, found out they were in town and went to see them.
But are you a professional engineer? I received a BSEE and remember from my last year of school the examination to become a professional engineer. For the EEs, there wasn't a whole lot of reasons to take the test. On the other hand, a lot of the CEs I knew were taking the exams. For the work that CEs do, a professional engineer needs to sign off on plans/design so that no one comes to harm. As an EE doing software, there isn't much need for that kind of thing. Though I did know one EE that was going into defense contract work and though that being a professional engineer would benifit his carreer.
And what about "The Classic" (Raimi's signature big yellow car)? I knew Sam would stay true to his roots when I saw spider-man land on "The Classic" in the trailer. Thank god for TiVo, I was able to freeze it and confirm that "The Classic" would be in the movie. :-)
And here's the link to the book, Interface, detailing that process.
or you could use pine and procmail. I generally ssh into my ISP to read my email. This way I can generally read it on the go and avoid the bandwidth costs of downloading large emails.
I haven't found a decent free address book that will export your contacts in vCard format. So I'm doing my vCards by hand (kinda like how I do HTML). Below is the basic information that I pulled out of the RFC for the vCard format. If your gonna use the notes field, use \n to delimit a new line and keep the text of the note to under 1024 characters.
begin:vcard
version:3.0
fieldType;property=propertyType:value
end:vcard
Telecommunications Addressing
Geographical
Organizational
Explanatory
Security
Extended
I think this is a nice improvement to the contact hacks we have been seeing for the iPod. The vCards will allow you to store more information that you could have squeezed into an ID3 tag.
This was an article by Katz. Where's all the half thought out assumptions?
I think we have a candiate for an April's Fools language. Shortly there after we will have a compiler for it. :-)
Is is possible to switch from floppy images to small iso files? I would almost think it's easier for people to try making micro distros that could run off a CD-R instead of a locked floppy.
How is this a stupid idea?
It is a stupid idea if /. gets only 10 people buying into the ad free /. So the development time of this feature needs to weighted against the estimated income this feature will bring in. If the development time is a couple days, then it's probably a wash. If it takes a month to get the feature into the code, then you really need to look at the numbers to make that decision.
Yeah, cause no one wants to see a bearded supermodel. >;-)
When I went last spring, the enigma machine had a couple burnt out lights. I didn't get to see how my name would have been encrypted. :-(