I got both from a place called "DVD Avenue". Been mostly happy; I took the games off my list, though, because they don't send the manuals with them, and I don't play enough games to be able to intuit the controls. YMMV. I don't know if they ship popular titles any faster than NetFlix, though, as I've never used NetFlix.
Man, I so agree. Since I've gotten a TiVo, I watch a lot more TV than I did before, simply because the weird quirky stuff that comes on at 4 am I can now see on my schedule. Or, when marathons of a show I like come on, I get enough episodes to last me a little while.
If the TV producers would just realize that DVRs have unlocked the potential of the 18 hours of broadcast time that are not in primetime, I think they would start to come around on their opinion of the PVR. As it is, though, they remain too frightened...
Good point. But then shouldn't Best Buy be suing the individual that broke the NDA? Shouldn't Best Buy be at least required to demonstrate that FatWallet communicated with someone who broke their NDA, and therefore conspired to commit a crime?
Certainly, that lays a large burden on Best Buy--neither of those things would be easy to demonstrate. But "innocent until proven guilty" in fact lays the burden of proof on the accuser, regardless how weighty that burden is.
Although the standards may be different for a civil action vs a criminal one, and I'm not sure which this is.
The parent is absolutely misreading the license. You are correct: you can only install it on one, but the "unlimited" means that you can allow "unlimited clients" to connect.
fwiw, I had trouble getting the download link to work with either IE or Safari in OS X--the link would not present the contextual menu to me that gives the option of "saving to disk", required on this particular download.
However, I found that using the "download manager" in Mac Classic IE worked--I had to chose a previous download, and then change the pointers to the game download info.
The US support was constantly being pressed to update the tool, but like many corporate IT programs the tool was written/updated by another department that did not handle customers on a daily basis, and the tool was fairly sparse.
Yeah, and I'm sure you jumped right on it! Why screw around, wasting time, when you could make the tool better that would allow your employer to ship your job to India! Yeah, that's a doc that I would update lots.
It's interesting that Dell attempted to move it's support center to India, but never attempted to move it's phone sales away from agents in Texas.
To gauge how the customer really feels about this, try doing that for just a quarter. I guarantee that you'll get a crystal clear picture of the impression that makes.
As a Mac Partisan, I will concede that the Mac market is small, particularly abroad. However, as the parent poster mentioned: a previous story on/. reposted a Reg story that described how, since MSFT failed to implement Hebrew support in Office products for the Mac, that
The Israel Ministry of Commerce has suspended all governmental contracts with Microsoft, and indicated that the ban will last throughout 2004. The de facto suspension means no upgrades for the duration, at a time when Microsoft is looking to roll out its Office 2003 upgrade; and the Ministry is said to be examining OpenOffice as an alternative.
Emphasis mine: that's all contracts, regardless if they're for Mac based MSFT product, or Windows based MSFT product.
I will agree that the lack of support for Hebrew in a marginal product is more than likely a spurious complaint; I think it's probable that Israel was going to ban MSFT anyways, and jumped on the Office v Mac lack of Hebrew support as a convenient excuse. But there it is.
Is simply de-selecting the "BSD Install" during a custom install a valid test? Does doing so simply not install the userland tools, or does it not-install more than that?
I actually feel more sorry for the non-Apple competitors in this arena.
Tough shit. Why? You said it yourself: They're largely tied into the WMA and Redmond OS and have alread surrendered their souls to the new comptetitor.
Nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to make that choice. Microsoft lied to them about thier intentions, but frankly, that's not surprising behavior. A third-party company ties itself to Microsoft technology in a market that Microsoft itself may be interested in competing in, and then gets creamed when Microsoft moves into the market themselves: they had other options. It's their own fault for using the quick and dirty path rather than the harder but more defensible one.
I think this will pretty quickly resolve to Apple with iTMS and Microsoft. Which of those wins is hard to say; Microsoft will have a good advantage with an embeded music player. However, 1) the EU will take a dim view of this, I think. This makes a $3Billion fine that much more likely, and with that outcome this kind of store really won't pay for itself. And, 2) if you were, say, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, would you be more attracted to Job's charisma, or Gates'? From what I understand, it took a fair degree of personal intervention from Jobs to score a number of the big name music--and that's a draw that I just don't see Gates as having. (But maybe the label of those artists will make the decision for them, and will follow the money?)
The important questions from all Europeans: When will we be able to use it?
My guess is: never. The EU is already investigating Microsoft for anti-trust violations, has apparently taken a rather dimmer view of their behavior than the DOJ in the US, and has specifically mentioned the bundled Microsoft media player as infringing.
My guess is that the EU will require Microsoft to unbundle the media player for the European market, at least; I suppose that it would still be available as a download, but I can see that Microsoft may "cut off it's nose to spite it's face" ie not make the player available at all, to spin the judgement against them as "dooming the EU market to a second-class status".
Judgement on this case is expected in March; I guess we'll know then.
fwiw, the information that I've read about the Big Mac cluster is that each G5 shipped with the standard-build hard drive; so that's 160G of SATA per node. 1100x160=176000G, which I believe is also 176T. So that trumps your storage--unless each node of yours also comes with it's own HD in addition to the SAN that you mentioned. And, I'll concede that a single SAN is more useful than 1100 drives in different machines in some circumstances--but each node in Big Mac will be able to cache information locally rather than having to call it over the network.
As for your other question about network pipe to/from, I haven't seen that.
Looks like linux has more heads on the desktop than Apple.
Not according to Google. Not the most scientific poll--UAs can certainly be changed, even easier on Linux on Mac, but does really 2/3 Linux users change their UA?--but I'd be interested to know how IBM counts Linux installs.
A single missing word costs you "several million dollars"? Wow. I guess that's a pretty important word! I can only imagine what it was--maybe "inches" in the phrase "300 inches", and so metric was assumed by the ex-British colony in India?
The expectation, of course, is that CNET will unveil their own online music store. But--how will they do this with MP3s? If they use some other format for the DRM, won't that make the domain name kind of ridiculous?
So where would you put Mac OS X in this panoply? I offer: as a hobbit. You think that you know them, that they're "mostly harmless" cuddly and cute, and serves no real purpose; but then, one day one goes off and steals from a dragon.
Nice analogy. I've always thought that this is one of the reasons that Apple lost; it was much more difficult to develop for them than it was for Windows. And Microsoft knew it; that's why we get the "Developers, developers" chant from Ballmer.
However, I don't understand why Microsoft continues to fail to get it as the lesson is taught back to them--on linux, the development tools, even the very OS, are open and free. Just as they won from Apple by being "good enough, and cheaper" how can they stand before this threat?
I wasn't aware of the tool "parted". However, their info page says that, while it can read HFS partitions, it is not one of the format types that it can resize. Unless the tool on the CD is newer than the documentation, I think it's no-go.
If you've successfully used this tool on an HFS partition, I would be sure interested to know.
You have no options, at least with an internal drive. Installing Linux requires a partition that is not merely "formatted", but rather it must be Free Space, totally unallocated. (Presumably, so it can lay down it's own filesystem, ext3? I'm a newb also.) I have not found a way to make a single partition "Free Space" without repartitioning the entire drive.
So--even if you did have a spare partition, unless it was not given a filesystem during the original partition setup, you're back to repartion and install--there's no way to repartition without a format using an Apple filesystem.
So, that brings us to: external firewire HDs. I don't know if YDL is capable of booting from one; I don't see why not, but I think I remember reading somewhere that it wasn't possible to do. You'll have to look there.
Incidentally, that's the beauty of Terrasoft, the purveyors of Yellow Dog Linux--although they haven't yet updated YDL for G5s, they'll sell you a G5 today that is "Linux Ready"--meaning that it'll come with that format in place, so you can install YDL when it is ready without missing a pace. Otherwise, come Linux install time, you'd have to back your data, and then format and repartition, which quite a few people aren't going to be willing to do.
Good point. However, I rather suspect, that, while the G5 ads have been pulled, Microsoft's ads and "stupid claims in oversized truck and SUV ads, diet pills, etc" remain on the air in the UK. Why do you suppose that is?
This is interesting--I know that when I turn on "block pop-up windows" in Safari, that my company's webmail front-end to Exchange no longer works correctly. I presume that other pop-up blockers would have the same effect. I wonder how Microsoft will avoid blocking the OWA part of exchange?
dunno, actually. I've never tried it, but I suppose so.
The credit card company itself knows the correlation between the disposable cc numbers and my real billing #, of course. And I would suppose that just as they know which real # to charge that they could also reverse those charges.
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I got both from a place called "DVD Avenue". Been mostly happy; I took the games off my list, though, because they don't send the manuals with them, and I don't play enough games to be able to intuit the controls. YMMV. I don't know if they ship popular titles any faster than NetFlix, though, as I've never used NetFlix.
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Man, I so agree. Since I've gotten a TiVo, I watch a lot more TV than I did before, simply because the weird quirky stuff that comes on at 4 am I can now see on my schedule. Or, when marathons of a show I like come on, I get enough episodes to last me a little while.
If the TV producers would just realize that DVRs have unlocked the potential of the 18 hours of broadcast time that are not in primetime, I think they would start to come around on their opinion of the PVR. As it is, though, they remain too frightened...
Good point. But then shouldn't Best Buy be suing the individual that broke the NDA? Shouldn't Best Buy be at least required to demonstrate that FatWallet communicated with someone who broke their NDA, and therefore conspired to commit a crime?
Certainly, that lays a large burden on Best Buy--neither of those things would be easy to demonstrate. But "innocent until proven guilty" in fact lays the burden of proof on the accuser, regardless how weighty that burden is.
Although the standards may be different for a civil action vs a criminal one, and I'm not sure which this is.
One of my DMs was fond of saying: "If you give it hitpoints, the players will kill it" when describing god design. I guess he was right...
The parent is absolutely misreading the license. You are correct: you can only install it on one, but the "unlimited" means that you can allow "unlimited clients" to connect.
fwiw, I had trouble getting the download link to work with either IE or Safari in OS X--the link would not present the contextual menu to me that gives the option of "saving to disk", required on this particular download.
However, I found that using the "download manager" in Mac Classic IE worked--I had to chose a previous download, and then change the pointers to the game download info.
The US support was constantly being pressed to update the tool, but like many corporate IT programs the tool was written/updated by another department that did not handle customers on a daily basis, and the tool was fairly sparse.
Yeah, and I'm sure you jumped right on it! Why screw around, wasting time, when you could make the tool better that would allow your employer to ship your job to India! Yeah, that's a doc that I would update lots.
It's interesting that Dell attempted to move it's support center to India, but never attempted to move it's phone sales away from agents in Texas.
To gauge how the customer really feels about this, try doing that for just a quarter. I guarantee that you'll get a crystal clear picture of the impression that makes.
and the boss is upset because the stuff comes back just like he said it, but it sucks.
If only more bosses would be made to listen to themselves. Of course, instead of realizing that they suck, they instead fire the team.
As a Mac Partisan, I will concede that the Mac market is small, particularly abroad. However, as the parent poster mentioned: a previous story on
The Israel Ministry of Commerce has suspended all governmental contracts with Microsoft, and indicated that the ban will last throughout 2004. The de facto suspension means no upgrades for the duration, at a time when Microsoft is looking to roll out its Office 2003 upgrade; and the Ministry is said to be examining OpenOffice as an alternative.
Emphasis mine: that's all contracts, regardless if they're for Mac based MSFT product, or Windows based MSFT product.
I will agree that the lack of support for Hebrew in a marginal product is more than likely a spurious complaint; I think it's probable that Israel was going to ban MSFT anyways, and jumped on the Office v Mac lack of Hebrew support as a convenient excuse. But there it is.
Is simply de-selecting the "BSD Install" during a custom install a valid test? Does doing so simply not install the userland tools, or does it not-install more than that?
I've never been willing to try, frankly.
I actually feel more sorry for the non-Apple competitors in this arena.
Tough shit. Why? You said it yourself: They're largely tied into the WMA and Redmond OS and have alread surrendered their souls to the new comptetitor.
Nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to make that choice. Microsoft lied to them about thier intentions, but frankly, that's not surprising behavior. A third-party company ties itself to Microsoft technology in a market that Microsoft itself may be interested in competing in, and then gets creamed when Microsoft moves into the market themselves: they had other options. It's their own fault for using the quick and dirty path rather than the harder but more defensible one.
I think this will pretty quickly resolve to Apple with iTMS and Microsoft. Which of those wins is hard to say; Microsoft will have a good advantage with an embeded music player. However, 1) the EU will take a dim view of this, I think. This makes a $3Billion fine that much more likely, and with that outcome this kind of store really won't pay for itself. And, 2) if you were, say, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, would you be more attracted to Job's charisma, or Gates'? From what I understand, it took a fair degree of personal intervention from Jobs to score a number of the big name music--and that's a draw that I just don't see Gates as having. (But maybe the label of those artists will make the decision for them, and will follow the money?)
The important questions from all Europeans: When will we be able to use it?
My guess is: never. The EU is already investigating Microsoft for anti-trust violations, has apparently taken a rather dimmer view of their behavior than the DOJ in the US, and has specifically mentioned the bundled Microsoft media player as infringing.
My guess is that the EU will require Microsoft to unbundle the media player for the European market, at least; I suppose that it would still be available as a download, but I can see that Microsoft may "cut off it's nose to spite it's face" ie not make the player available at all, to spin the judgement against them as "dooming the EU market to a second-class status".
Judgement on this case is expected in March; I guess we'll know then.
fwiw, the information that I've read about the Big Mac cluster is that each G5 shipped with the standard-build hard drive; so that's 160G of SATA per node. 1100x160=176000G, which I believe is also 176T. So that trumps your storage--unless each node of yours also comes with it's own HD in addition to the SAN that you mentioned. And, I'll concede that a single SAN is more useful than 1100 drives in different machines in some circumstances--but each node in Big Mac will be able to cache information locally rather than having to call it over the network.
As for your other question about network pipe to/from, I haven't seen that.
I agree. And that's before cost considerations: do you wanna bet that the NCSA at #4 is in fact more expensive than Big Mac?
Looks like linux has more heads on the desktop than Apple.
Not according to Google. Not the most scientific poll--UAs can certainly be changed, even easier on Linux on Mac, but does really 2/3 Linux users change their UA?--but I'd be interested to know how IBM counts Linux installs.
A single missing word costs you "several million dollars"? Wow. I guess that's a pretty important word! I can only imagine what it was--maybe "inches" in the phrase "300 inches", and so metric was assumed by the ex-British colony in India?
The expectation, of course, is that CNET will unveil their own online music store. But--how will they do this with MP3s? If they use some other format for the DRM, won't that make the domain name kind of ridiculous?
"Go to MP3.com to spend a buck a piece on WMA!"?
So where would you put Mac OS X in this panoply? I offer: as a hobbit. You think that you know them, that they're "mostly harmless" cuddly and cute, and serves no real purpose; but then, one day one goes off and steals from a dragon.
Nice analogy. I've always thought that this is one of the reasons that Apple lost; it was much more difficult to develop for them than it was for Windows. And Microsoft knew it; that's why we get the "Developers, developers" chant from Ballmer.
However, I don't understand why Microsoft continues to fail to get it as the lesson is taught back to them--on linux, the development tools, even the very OS, are open and free. Just as they won from Apple by being "good enough, and cheaper" how can they stand before this threat?
I wasn't aware of the tool "parted". However, their info page says that, while it can read HFS partitions, it is not one of the format types that it can resize. Unless the tool on the CD is newer than the documentation, I think it's no-go.
If you've successfully used this tool on an HFS partition, I would be sure interested to know.
You have no options, at least with an internal drive. Installing Linux requires a partition that is not merely "formatted", but rather it must be Free Space, totally unallocated. (Presumably, so it can lay down it's own filesystem, ext3? I'm a newb also.) I have not found a way to make a single partition "Free Space" without repartitioning the entire drive.
So--even if you did have a spare partition, unless it was not given a filesystem during the original partition setup, you're back to repartion and install--there's no way to repartition without a format using an Apple filesystem.
So, that brings us to: external firewire HDs. I don't know if YDL is capable of booting from one; I don't see why not, but I think I remember reading somewhere that it wasn't possible to do. You'll have to look there.
Incidentally, that's the beauty of Terrasoft, the purveyors of Yellow Dog Linux--although they haven't yet updated YDL for G5s, they'll sell you a G5 today that is "Linux Ready"--meaning that it'll come with that format in place, so you can install YDL when it is ready without missing a pace. Otherwise, come Linux install time, you'd have to back your data, and then format and repartition, which quite a few people aren't going to be willing to do.
Good point. However, I rather suspect, that, while the G5 ads have been pulled, Microsoft's ads and "stupid claims in oversized truck and SUV ads, diet pills, etc" remain on the air in the UK. Why do you suppose that is?
This is interesting--I know that when I turn on "block pop-up windows" in Safari, that my company's webmail front-end to Exchange no longer works correctly. I presume that other pop-up blockers would have the same effect. I wonder how Microsoft will avoid blocking the OWA part of exchange?
dunno, actually. I've never tried it, but I suppose so.
The credit card company itself knows the correlation between the disposable cc numbers and my real billing #, of course. And I would suppose that just as they know which real # to charge that they could also reverse those charges.