Think Secret has let the cat out of the bag. Since Steve's the master of suspense, he probably wanted to use the 'one more thing' line. But now the whole world knows what to expect so he probably called the whole thing off (did they ever announce it on their QuickTime site?). The lawsuit against Think Secret is basically a confirmation of the low end Mac.
He did it with ATI a couple of years ago when they had a press release slip out days in advance of MacWorld expo. Apple refused to sell the ATI cards they had prepped for the new Macs.
I am the poster and the link was included in the post. Actually, the whole post was about the specific link to the Apple Developer site. Why the editors removed that link is absolutely beyond me...
That's why a mandatory bottle return system, where you bring the bottles back so the can be used again, should make sense.
Of course, that would put some strain on the distribution system, but hey, an empty truck that goes from the supermarket to the distribution point oculd always take some crates with empty bottles back.
Hell, it used to work in the Netherlands. Until the Euro, then the deposit money was lowerd to 25 cents so it didn't make sense to bring the bottles back. And from what I understand is that our current government has completely sold out to the packaging industry by ditching the mandatory return system for a voluntarily one.
Dell is different. You usually see them coming in organisations with HP or IBM (and 7 years ago Apple) on their way out. This is done on price. Usually with a big 'contractual discount', so you'll forget checking in with HP once in a while.
But the trouble is then, the competition has vanished. There's no way you can ask someone else for an offer on Dell than your Dell account manager.
So, as an IT manager you really need to stay in check with technical developments, realism and pricing in the rest of the market since Dell will try to upsell you all kinds of crap for a premium when you don't really need it.
The RC2.040610-1520 that I downloaded two weeks ago works perfect. On an 600 Mhz Celeron HP Omnibook XE3 with 384 Mb RAM it just works. I installed it since I had some issues with XP before and wanted to clean install the whole machine when I thought of SP2.
Installed it without a hitch and my system is running smoothly ever since.
I just hope Microsoft will let people install the final version over the RC2.
Well, of course they can jack up the prices of their crappy music, but if people have found their way to the iTMS and are already discovering the idies, there's nothing Apple (or CDBaby) stopping from making the indies 49 cents.
It's all fine and well, a closed box that can be tucked away to forget about it. But how about backup of these things? When it goes poof, it can take up to 250 gigabytes of data into it's grave.
I've never understood these things. Buy a FireWire or USB disk, but don't connect one of these things to the network.
weblisten.com provides relatively new albums on MP3, and a fair percentage, but not everything on Windows Media.
I've tried their service a couple of weeks ago and was able to obtain about 3 Gb of music over a weekend. They sell a night pass for a little more than $6 (Eur 5) or a night pass (GMT+1) or a weekend pass for less than $20 (Eur 15).
All you can eat downloads during a night or a weekend. Sadly it's mostly IE/Windows only and some of the MP3s (the older ones) are of questionable quality. But for trying it out the weekend pass is a steal.
The correct word would be Asperger. And, indeed does it look like the person you're dealing with is showing some of the signs of the Asperger Syndrome.
Check out this Wiredarticle for more information about the Asperger Syndrome. It includes a short test as well to check yourself out.
The Mac's Classic OS used a little program called the Chooser. Combined with the AppleTalk network protocol (often laughted away because of the 'chatty' nature) it was a complete non issue to select a network printer.
Not only cost, but what about security?
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Normally, people that would do hacking, credit card fraud or just plain spamming would be traceable, not anymore so when half the internet is made out of freely accessible hotspots? Or would they block all interesting ports except port 80 and 443 to allow casual webbrowsing?
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Check out Sidetrack . It let's you define certain areas on the trackpad as mousebuttons and scrollwheels.
Think Secret has let the cat out of the bag. Since Steve's the master of suspense, he probably wanted to use the 'one more thing' line. But now the whole world knows what to expect so he probably called the whole thing off (did they ever announce it on their QuickTime site?). The lawsuit against Think Secret is basically a confirmation of the low end Mac.
He did it with ATI a couple of years ago when they had a press release slip out days in advance of MacWorld expo. Apple refused to sell the ATI cards they had prepped for the new Macs.
I am the poster and the link was included in the post. Actually, the whole post was about the specific link to the Apple Developer site. Why the editors removed that link is absolutely beyond me...
Dual monitor setup, cool!
Enter the Macintosh II, introduced in 1987, it was capable of driving up to 6 monitors at a time.
[insert obligatory joke about overheating server]
That's why a mandatory bottle return system, where you bring the bottles back so the can be used again, should make sense.
Of course, that would put some strain on the distribution system, but hey, an empty truck that goes from the supermarket to the distribution point oculd always take some crates with empty bottles back.
Hell, it used to work in the Netherlands. Until the Euro, then the deposit money was lowerd to 25 cents so it didn't make sense to bring the bottles back. And from what I understand is that our current government has completely sold out to the packaging industry by ditching the mandatory return system for a voluntarily one.
I mean, come on, Win32 only?
At this site they've set up a grassroots effort to promote open music files. (I've got a suggestion, start by killing DRM).
Earlier today the site linked to a PetitionOnline petition, the link was later removed.
Gee, I wonder why?
Let me guess, does it look like Apple's Keynote?.
What's up with the settlements these days anyway?
Microsoft gets a fine that they can pay in part by giving away their software counting the retail value.
The music industry can offload unwanted CDs while counting the retail value?
What's next? The motion picture industry giving away tickets to a drive cinema showing 10 year old flicks as a settlement?
Dell is different. You usually see them coming in organisations with HP or IBM (and 7 years ago Apple) on their way out. This is done on price. Usually with a big 'contractual discount', so you'll forget checking in with HP once in a while.
But the trouble is then, the competition has vanished. There's no way you can ask someone else for an offer on Dell than your Dell account manager.
So, as an IT manager you really need to stay in check with technical developments, realism and pricing in the rest of the market since Dell will try to upsell you all kinds of crap for a premium when you don't really need it.
Dell, not a cheap as you'd think!
Why is that the websites referred to are not only not hyperlinked but even disabled by putting a space after the www bit,
.tikaro.com/gdi.
e.g. , www
This is consistent.
A General Motors URL then, is actually hotlinked to the stockpage of the NYT.
Conspiracy theorists, start your engines...
The RC2.040610-1520 that I downloaded two weeks ago works perfect. On an 600 Mhz Celeron HP Omnibook XE3 with 384 Mb RAM it just works. I installed it since I had some issues with XP before and wanted to clean install the whole machine when I thought of SP2.
Installed it without a hitch and my system is running smoothly ever since.
I just hope Microsoft will let people install the final version over the RC2.
The Microsoft SoftCard as it was called, contained the Z80 processor, the most popular chip to run CPM on.
Well, of course they can jack up the prices of their crappy music, but if people have found their way to the iTMS and are already discovering the idies, there's nothing Apple (or CDBaby) stopping from making the indies 49 cents.
I'm using it. A few days ago I got an account, prepaid 5 dollars with my Mastercard, bought music that I encoded in 196 Kpbs AAC format and loved it.
Have paid 2 times more (10 bucks and another 5 bucks) and I'm a happy camper.
I won't be needing the iTMS for my iPod anymore in Europe. It's even beating WebListen's 128 bit crappy MP3s.
It's all fine and well, a closed box that can be tucked away to forget about it. But how about backup of these things? When it goes poof, it can take up to 250 gigabytes of data into it's grave.
I've never understood these things. Buy a FireWire or USB disk, but don't connect one of these things to the network.
we see an announcement like this. Yet, at the shop, the harddrive is still king.
When do we get a 100 gb solid state disk for 50 dollars?
> but their systems are definately NOT "open stardards-based"
Hmm,
PCI
Open Firmware
S-IDE
USB
IEEE1394 (Firewire)
Come again?
weblisten.com provides relatively new albums on MP3, and a fair percentage, but not everything on Windows Media.
I've tried their service a couple of weeks ago and was able to obtain about 3 Gb of music over a weekend. They sell a night pass for a little more than $6 (Eur 5) or a night pass (GMT+1) or a weekend pass for less than $20 (Eur 15).
All you can eat downloads during a night or a weekend. Sadly it's mostly IE/Windows only and some of the MP3s (the older ones) are of questionable quality. But for trying it out the weekend pass is a steal.
The correct word would be Asperger. And, indeed does it look like the person you're dealing with is showing some of the signs of the Asperger Syndrome.
Check out this Wiredarticle for more information about the Asperger Syndrome. It includes a short test as well to check yourself out.
The Mac's Classic OS used a little program called the Chooser. Combined with the AppleTalk network protocol (often laughted away because of the 'chatty' nature) it was a complete non issue to select a network printer.
Even under OS X it's a little more difficult.
See for yourself
Normally, people that would do hacking, credit card fraud or just plain spamming would be traceable, not anymore so when half the internet is made out of freely accessible hotspots? Or would they block all interesting ports except port 80 and 443 to allow casual webbrowsing?
It's free isn't it? It definitely sucks less than Windows Media.
Was that the last thing the server said after this article got posted on Slashdot?