UI design for open source needs a benevolent dictator for it to work. With Windows and Macs you their respective companies telling you how your apps should look in their UI. I just don't see this happening for normal desktop linux (cite KDE vs Gnome, every other UI toolkit for X11). Good or bad it's just one of the side effects of open source. Now in a sense Negroponte could be considered the benevolent dictator for OLPC. It seems that OLPC is designing their UI from scratch and that interests/excites me. Finally the possibly of apps having a consistent UI on a open source computer!
I think this had to do with Apple being more associated with education at the time and being more responsive to their market. As I recall MS didn't come out with a TCP stack until windows95 (and yes I know there were third party stack for windows3.1). Honestly, I think the whole internet thing blindsided MS.
I said buying a nicer card, not the average priced card. Meaning the average ($211.06) plus stddev ($238.33), so around $449.39. Granted that is a bit much for a video card, but hopefully it will still be good in 2 years time for your gaming needs. About 10% of the cards on zipzoomfly were higher than that price. I tend to believe that those higher priced cards for the pc gamer and not a graphic artist or cad/cam engineer.
just upgrade my [PC hardware] for [considerably less amount or money than your favorite console] This is pushing the truth a bit. I scraped the prices for video cards with at least 256MB of memory on zipzoomfly. I come up with an average of $211.06 and a stddev of $238.33. So if you're buying a nicer video card, you less than a PS3, but more than either a Xbox 360 or a Wii.
Unlike my general experience with OS X, I've been having to reboot my dual G4 desktop every other day for the past week. I've repaired the disk via the install disk, but the lock up are still happening. Since Leopard is coming out this week, I've bought a new HD to install on and will try the migration assistant.
I suggest that you look into cygwin. When I had to use an NT box as my main development box, I got cygwin and was happy to have bash and most of the standard bin utils. If I had to use a window box again, this would be one of the first things I install.
Seems that way. The question I have about the about the requirements is: Does the dual 533Mhz G4 that my wife uses meet the requirements or not? I'm betting that it doesn't.
On a similar vein, I would like to have a feature where you could download the attachments for multiple emails. Then I wouldn't have to look at each email to download my attachments.
As far as to replacing individual parts in an Apple? I'll respond to this as I lean towards the first group. Even with my old G4 desktop, it is using standard parts for just about everything except the CPU. In general, you are limited in your upgrading. HD, RAM, and optical drives are your general upgrade options that will be cheaper than buying from Apple or extending the life of your mac. It is possible to upgrade the video card, but you're really limited on your selection as the video card needs to be supported under OS X. While macs use standard card interfaces, it isn't that easy to find a card that will be supported.
I agreee with the parent. I really thought the elite was gonna have the HD-DVD drive it in when it was a rumor. When MS dropped HD-DVD for the 360 launch, everyone expected one to come out with it built in at some later point. If they aren't including it with this revision, then I don't expect to see the drive built in until next fall. That way they can play up the new revision for Christmas 2008. You would think that would be to late in the life of the 360 (the 4th Christmas for the console). As Sony has shown with the PS3, price is strong factor for customers. If MS can't make a 360 with HD for less than a PS3 then it might not be worth the effort for them to produce it.
Being lazy, I just get an iPod that is bigger than my music collection and have iTunes put everything on the iPod. The bigger iPod Touch has only has about a quarter of the storage on my current iPod. I prefer to have complete albums on my iPod. I haven't figured out a way to get the smart playlist to include all songs from an album that has a songe with 3 or more stars. This factor tend to steer me away from any upgrades at this point.
As a long time Apple fanboy, I'll invoke the don't buy the rev a rule on the iPod Touch. To an extent, the Touch is what I wanted when I saw the iPhone. Unfortunately, the storage space isn't big enough for my music collection. I'd like to have at least 32GB of storage available before I think about buying one.
Does or will MythTV work with hardware that supports CableCard? I've never found a really good answer for this or the answer is in the negative. Leaning me towards buying one of the new TiVo HD boxes.
I suggest that any mac user that has thought about upgrading their OS in the last six months is probably holding off until later this year when Apple releases a shinny new OS to upgrade to. Unless you bought a new mac, I can't think of a reason why you'd go buy a copy of OS X right now.
The Intel iMacs are close to what I want, but I don't want a all-in-one model. Apple used to have base towers that were between $1500 and $1600. That was generally the model I would consider as a new desktop for my home use. I want a mid range model (more than a mac mini and less than a mac pro) with out a built in display. Besides the dual monitor support, the other reason I don't want a mac mini is that Apple tends to use standard laptop part to make it so small. I'd rather have standard desktop parts in this mythical mac that I desire. At the time I bought mac my wife uses, I could've gotten a superdrive but thought it wasn't worth the cost. Earlier this year I put a lightscribe drive (that cost me $35) into it. I would like to do similar upgrades that I don't feel are as easy to do in the current low and mid level macs. Thus I feel there isn't a desktop mac for me at a time when I would consider replacing my aging mac desktops.
I'm not complaining about having to use an adaptor on my iBook for an external monitor. I stating that without a firmware hack, the external monitor will only mirror my built-in display. The firmware hack can be found here. Also on the page that lists supported macs, they indicate the Mac mini is not supported. Checking google, I see that people have gotten a dual monitor working with a Mac mini. On almost every page I've check they ended up buying some sort off of powered device that is connected to the mac mini and has two video ports for the monitors. It appears as one big display to the mac mini and splits the display to both monitors.
In any case, I believe that I have given 2 cases of Apple's hardware not supporting dual monitors built within the last 4 years. Thus I don't think it's an unreasonable request on the requirements of wishlist midrange mac.
I think Apple has supported multiple monitors in their OS since they shipped the Mac II. Not all of their hardware has the ability to use that functionality. Short of buying an external video splitter, the mac mini can't do it.
The G4 iBook I have has a port for an external monitor, but will not act as a 2nd monitor by default. There are some hacks you can install to get dual monitors on an iBook.
For me, this mythical xMac needs to support not one but two external monitors. The Mac I want from Apple should cost between $1000 and $1500 and support dual external monitors.
When I had comcast that is what I did and just had extended basic. Earlier this year I switched over to Verizon's FiOS TV and there's not much is on the analog part of the cable. I personally hate the IR blasters because occasionally the cable box won't change to the right channel. When I've looked in the past, it just doesn't seem like there is any PC hardware that will work directly with digital cable.
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UI design for open source needs a benevolent dictator for it to work. With Windows and Macs you their respective companies telling you how your apps should look in their UI. I just don't see this happening for normal desktop linux (cite KDE vs Gnome, every other UI toolkit for X11). Good or bad it's just one of the side effects of open source. Now in a sense Negroponte could be considered the benevolent dictator for OLPC. It seems that OLPC is designing their UI from scratch and that interests/excites me. Finally the possibly of apps having a consistent UI on a open source computer!
But isn't that what Apples does? Seems to work pretty well for them. ;-)
Note: I'll admit to being an Apple fanboy, and still waiting for my XO to show up
I think this had to do with Apple being more associated with education at the time and being more responsive to their market. As I recall MS didn't come out with a TCP stack until windows95 (and yes I know there were third party stack for windows3.1). Honestly, I think the whole internet thing blindsided MS.
Saw this figure in the Wireless catalog today.
I said buying a nicer card, not the average priced card. Meaning the average ($211.06) plus stddev ($238.33), so around $449.39. Granted that is a bit much for a video card, but hopefully it will still be good in 2 years time for your gaming needs. About 10% of the cards on zipzoomfly were higher than that price. I tend to believe that those higher priced cards for the pc gamer and not a graphic artist or cad/cam engineer.
While there are references to Ocarina of Time in Wind Walker, I felt they make it pretty clear that you are not "the Link" from Ocarina of Time.
Unlike my general experience with OS X, I've been having to reboot my dual G4 desktop every other day for the past week. I've repaired the disk via the install disk, but the lock up are still happening. Since Leopard is coming out this week, I've bought a new HD to install on and will try the migration assistant.
I suggest that you look into cygwin. When I had to use an NT box as my main development box, I got cygwin and was happy to have bash and most of the standard bin utils. If I had to use a window box again, this would be one of the first things I install.
Seems that way. The question I have about the about the requirements is: Does the dual 533Mhz G4 that my wife uses meet the requirements or not? I'm betting that it doesn't.
On a similar vein, I would like to have a feature where you could download the attachments for multiple emails. Then I wouldn't have to look at each email to download my attachments.
I agreee with the parent. I really thought the elite was gonna have the HD-DVD drive it in when it was a rumor. When MS dropped HD-DVD for the 360 launch, everyone expected one to come out with it built in at some later point. If they aren't including it with this revision, then I don't expect to see the drive built in until next fall. That way they can play up the new revision for Christmas 2008. You would think that would be to late in the life of the 360 (the 4th Christmas for the console). As Sony has shown with the PS3, price is strong factor for customers. If MS can't make a 360 with HD for less than a PS3 then it might not be worth the effort for them to produce it.
Context should matter, but that didn't stop Beaver College from changing their name because of porn/child safety filters.
Being lazy, I just get an iPod that is bigger than my music collection and have iTunes put everything on the iPod. The bigger iPod Touch has only has about a quarter of the storage on my current iPod. I prefer to have complete albums on my iPod. I haven't figured out a way to get the smart playlist to include all songs from an album that has a songe with 3 or more stars. This factor tend to steer me away from any upgrades at this point.
As a long time Apple fanboy, I'll invoke the don't buy the rev a rule on the iPod Touch. To an extent, the Touch is what I wanted when I saw the iPhone. Unfortunately, the storage space isn't big enough for my music collection. I'd like to have at least 32GB of storage available before I think about buying one.
Does or will MythTV work with hardware that supports CableCard? I've never found a really good answer for this or the answer is in the negative. Leaning me towards buying one of the new TiVo HD boxes.
I suggest that any mac user that has thought about upgrading their OS in the last six months is probably holding off until later this year when Apple releases a shinny new OS to upgrade to. Unless you bought a new mac, I can't think of a reason why you'd go buy a copy of OS X right now.
Space elevators would be nice, but I want a BattleMech! :-)
Hence why I called the mac mythical and I don't really expect to see it anytime soon.
The Intel iMacs are close to what I want, but I don't want a all-in-one model. Apple used to have base towers that were between $1500 and $1600. That was generally the model I would consider as a new desktop for my home use. I want a mid range model (more than a mac mini and less than a mac pro) with out a built in display. Besides the dual monitor support, the other reason I don't want a mac mini is that Apple tends to use standard laptop part to make it so small. I'd rather have standard desktop parts in this mythical mac that I desire. At the time I bought mac my wife uses, I could've gotten a superdrive but thought it wasn't worth the cost. Earlier this year I put a lightscribe drive (that cost me $35) into it. I would like to do similar upgrades that I don't feel are as easy to do in the current low and mid level macs. Thus I feel there isn't a desktop mac for me at a time when I would consider replacing my aging mac desktops.
I'm not complaining about having to use an adaptor on my iBook for an external monitor. I stating that without a firmware hack, the external monitor will only mirror my built-in display. The firmware hack can be found here. Also on the page that lists supported macs, they indicate the Mac mini is not supported. Checking google, I see that people have gotten a dual monitor working with a Mac mini. On almost every page I've check they ended up buying some sort off of powered device that is connected to the mac mini and has two video ports for the monitors. It appears as one big display to the mac mini and splits the display to both monitors.
In any case, I believe that I have given 2 cases of Apple's hardware not supporting dual monitors built within the last 4 years. Thus I don't think it's an unreasonable request on the requirements of wishlist midrange mac.
I think Apple has supported multiple monitors in their OS since they shipped the Mac II. Not all of their hardware has the ability to use that functionality. Short of buying an external video splitter, the mac mini can't do it. The G4 iBook I have has a port for an external monitor, but will not act as a 2nd monitor by default. There are some hacks you can install to get dual monitors on an iBook.
For me, this mythical xMac needs to support not one but two external monitors. The Mac I want from Apple should cost between $1000 and $1500 and support dual external monitors.
When I had comcast that is what I did and just had extended basic. Earlier this year I switched over to Verizon's FiOS TV and there's not much is on the analog part of the cable. I personally hate the IR blasters because occasionally the cable box won't change to the right channel. When I've looked in the past, it just doesn't seem like there is any PC hardware that will work directly with digital cable.