you mean like going to the desktop menu, going to system, configuration, packaging, browse available software? Linux has had gui-based installers for years, it's just that for the set around here, it's usually faster to go through the command line.
Of course, you realize that viagara was a side effect of heart research, right? Seems that medication that was intended to help an ailing cardiovascular system also managed to give men's little friends a little pick me up, and the rest is history. Just because something is marketed doesn't mean that a corporation is all about making money.
Of course OS X installs are easy when there are only 3 programs available for it. Come back to me when you stop using that ugly toy and get a real computer.
It's all right. I don't like DRM-riddled music anyways. And I prefer a working music player that doesn't eat up clock cycles like popcorn. I'll just convert my music into a non-crippled format and be happy.
You got to rub a bit lower to really titillate an ocelot, baby;3
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I don't know. Spammers' circumvention of certain email filters seems pretty creative to me. It's still vandalism, when all is said and done though, just like graffiti.
Of course, your argument falls apart when you're dealing with a competent network admin who locks down systems and installs AV software. Also, backward compatibility isn't the real reason that MS is targeted, it's marketshare. I bet if Apple had more people using their OS, there'd be more people targeting OS X. Remember, most viruses don't work by targeting exploits in the computer, they work by socially engineering peopel to run the code That won't change just because they get a mac.
An iPod can't play DVDs. A mini ITX system can. An iPod can't give you driving directions. A mini ITX system can. An iPod can't play the hundreds of.oggs I've ripped. A mini ITX system can.
Actually, it probably isn't affecting his milage all that much. At most, probably shaving off like a tenth of a mile per gallon -- 200 lbs is nothing for a car. Now, were he hauling around a cray supercomputer, you may have a point, but this is well within what's expected of a car. I know I'd be pissed if my car got worse milage if I had a single passenger with me.
But in a year and a half, when those spiffy ipods are all victims of dead, nonchangeable batteries, his e450 will still be humming along, serving up tunes.
Two optical drives is insanely useful, IMO. useful enoug to be pretty much a necessity inside the computer case. I enjoy being able to rip a CD while simultaneously watching a DVD. Or backing up CDs without using a hard drive as an intermediary.
Having a media reader inside the system is a very useful thing, if you've ever seen it used properly. I've seen it used quite successfully for digital camera pools at events. Just drop off the memory stick and get an empty one to take more pictures. No waiting for the photos to download. Internal bays just mean less stuff to worry about accidentally disconnecting, which is a good thing.
Also, one more of anything doesn't hurt at the moment, it's when you've got a half dozen firewire cables tangled behind a system that it becomes a problem. And while I imagine that firewire may not have problems with a drive or two, it's hardly as nice and elegant a solution as one item with the devices you use on a regular basis.
Finally, the floppy is not dead. For small files, it's quite useful. It's pretty much ubiquitous, you don't have to wait for the computer to load the drivers to read it, and the media's cheap enough to be disposable, yet durable enough that you don't have to worry about coddling it.
Maybe my needs are unusual, but trust me, there have been times when I've said that I wished a case had more expansion. I've never have said a case had too much expansion. Futureproofing. It's a good thing.
Most USB and Firewire drives still require external power supplies to properly operate. While both power smaller devices like keyboards and the like, neither delivers enough power to drive a hard disk or CD-Rom drive. Besides, that still doesn't handle the rats nest of wiring that inevitably when you have lots of devices interfacing with each other in a tight area, like that around a computer case.
Modding the case to make it useful, duh. Where is the flash media reader that even $300 PCs have? Where are the dual optical drives? Where's the slot for a floppy drive? It may look nice, but it's still got the utter lack of expandibility that macs have pretty much always had. I'm sorry, but I like to have some expansion capabilities, so I don't need an extra outlet bar just for all the things that belong inside of the computer case.
You agree that you will not web host or utilize continuous streaming video or audio for periods of more than four hours with at least one hour of inactivity between uses
There's the loophole. All he has to do is shut off the server every four hours and blame it on the/. effect. A downed IIS process and a slashdotted server are indistinguishable by the naked eye.
I don't know. Linux made it to 1.0 in a couple years. Surely 10 years is long enough for a big project.
Additionally, it's not GNU/Linux. One can use, for example, ulibc X and MWM to have a complete operating system with no more GNU software than the typical BSD. So unless you want to suggest that we start calling it GNU/BSD, stop insisting that Linux is really GNU/Linux.
I'm not convinced. I used OS X exclusively at home for several months. The hassles of that oversimplified, slow system greatly outweighed any perceived "intuitiveness" gains that may be acheived. Intuitiveness gains which quickly collapse once you start looking at 3rd party tools which are much more powerful than their implementation than the built-in mac tools.
I'd rather run OS X in an emulator for the one or two interesting programs that aren't available on the PC, and save the money I would have spent on Apple hardware for more important things, like trips to visit my boyfriend.
I'm not a developer. I don't come in contact with APIs on a daily basis. Thus, API issues don't concern me all that much. And even if I did program windows, I'd probably be using QT, as it's a pretty kickass API and works well on all the important operating environments.
Does this mean that Mac users who run programs like virtualPC should just give it up and buy a PC? I mean the pains people go through to run Windows on non-PC hardware just further hows that it is worth extra effort to run the system.
I've run windows, I've run OS X. Windows is a hell of a lot nicer than OS X once you run necessities such as LiteStep. Plus I get to run fun programs like GunBound.
Or, you caould always run Linux, or FreeBSD, or OpenBSD, or NetBSD, or BeOS, or OS/2, or... PC doesn't always equate to running Windows.
Of course, Apple users are just expressing sour grapes, seeing as the only 64 bit machine that can run both OS X and Windows has a nice AMD processor inside.
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#include int main(){ return printf("Hello World!\n"); } That may work, it may not. Dammit Jim, I'm an IT guy, not a coder.
you mean like going to the desktop menu, going to system, configuration, packaging, browse available software? Linux has had gui-based installers for years, it's just that for the set around here, it's usually faster to go through the command line.
It's funny. Laugh. It's not supposed to be serious.
Of course, you realize that viagara was a side effect of heart research, right? Seems that medication that was intended to help an ailing cardiovascular system also managed to give men's little friends a little pick me up, and the rest is history. Just because something is marketed doesn't mean that a corporation is all about making money.
Of course OS X installs are easy when there are only 3 programs available for it. Come back to me when you stop using that ugly toy and get a real computer.
It's all right. I don't like DRM-riddled music anyways. And I prefer a working music player that doesn't eat up clock cycles like popcorn. I'll just convert my music into a non-crippled format and be happy.
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I don't know. Spammers' circumvention of certain email filters seems pretty creative to me. It's still vandalism, when all is said and done though, just like graffiti.
meter, and I'll take any pansy-ass brit, aussie, canuck, etc who says otherwise. Poofs.
Of course, your argument falls apart when you're dealing with a competent network admin who locks down systems and installs AV software. Also, backward compatibility isn't the real reason that MS is targeted, it's marketshare. I bet if Apple had more people using their OS, there'd be more people targeting OS X. Remember, most viruses don't work by targeting exploits in the computer, they work by socially engineering peopel to run the code That won't change just because they get a mac.
An iPod can't play DVDs. A mini ITX system can. An iPod can't give you driving directions. A mini ITX system can. An iPod can't play the hundreds of .oggs I've ripped. A mini ITX system can.
Actually, it probably isn't affecting his milage all that much. At most, probably shaving off like a tenth of a mile per gallon -- 200 lbs is nothing for a car. Now, were he hauling around a cray supercomputer, you may have a point, but this is well within what's expected of a car. I know I'd be pissed if my car got worse milage if I had a single passenger with me.
But in a year and a half, when those spiffy ipods are all victims of dead, nonchangeable batteries, his e450 will still be humming along, serving up tunes.
The New AMD Blackholeteron processor! It really sucks!
Having a media reader inside the system is a very useful thing, if you've ever seen it used properly. I've seen it used quite successfully for digital camera pools at events. Just drop off the memory stick and get an empty one to take more pictures. No waiting for the photos to download. Internal bays just mean less stuff to worry about accidentally disconnecting, which is a good thing.
Also, one more of anything doesn't hurt at the moment, it's when you've got a half dozen firewire cables tangled behind a system that it becomes a problem. And while I imagine that firewire may not have problems with a drive or two, it's hardly as nice and elegant a solution as one item with the devices you use on a regular basis.
Finally, the floppy is not dead. For small files, it's quite useful. It's pretty much ubiquitous, you don't have to wait for the computer to load the drivers to read it, and the media's cheap enough to be disposable, yet durable enough that you don't have to worry about coddling it.
Maybe my needs are unusual, but trust me, there have been times when I've said that I wished a case had more expansion. I've never have said a case had too much expansion. Futureproofing. It's a good thing.
Most USB and Firewire drives still require external power supplies to properly operate. While both power smaller devices like keyboards and the like, neither delivers enough power to drive a hard disk or CD-Rom drive. Besides, that still doesn't handle the rats nest of wiring that inevitably when you have lots of devices interfacing with each other in a tight area, like that around a computer case.
Modding the case to make it useful, duh. Where is the flash media reader that even $300 PCs have? Where are the dual optical drives? Where's the slot for a floppy drive? It may look nice, but it's still got the utter lack of expandibility that macs have pretty much always had. I'm sorry, but I like to have some expansion capabilities, so I don't need an extra outlet bar just for all the things that belong inside of the computer case.
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Additionally, it's not GNU/Linux. One can use, for example, ulibc X and MWM to have a complete operating system with no more GNU software than the typical BSD. So unless you want to suggest that we start calling it GNU/BSD, stop insisting that Linux is really GNU/Linux.
I'd rather run OS X in an emulator for the one or two interesting programs that aren't available on the PC, and save the money I would have spent on Apple hardware for more important things, like trips to visit my boyfriend.
I'm not a developer. I don't come in contact with APIs on a daily basis. Thus, API issues don't concern me all that much. And even if I did program windows, I'd probably be using QT, as it's a pretty kickass API and works well on all the important operating environments.
Does this mean that Mac users who run programs like virtualPC should just give it up and buy a PC? I mean the pains people go through to run Windows on non-PC hardware just further hows that it is worth extra effort to run the system.
Or, you caould always run Linux, or FreeBSD, or OpenBSD, or NetBSD, or BeOS, or OS/2, or... PC doesn't always equate to running Windows.
Of course, Apple users are just expressing sour grapes, seeing as the only 64 bit machine that can run both OS X and Windows has a nice AMD processor inside.