Nope. Our peacekeeping force is the Canadian Forces. The Mounties (RCMP) are our national police force, provincial police force, and municipal police forces all rolled into one package. Of course, big cities have their own police forces, and a few provinces do too, but the theory remains.
If kids can't play these games they'll have more free time on their hands. What if they use this free time to learn? What will prevent them from taking all our jobs!?!
More like: They'll used all their newfound free time to kill cops.
Wow. It really is an interesting watch. The usb cord seems to hide inside the wristband. I bet this will making cheating my collage harder when testing in the testing lab. The already check you body and your keychain for usb thumbdrives.
My school solved that problem by using only Windows NT 4.0 on the workstations.
iBooks are nice, but they also have their problems for linux use.
Their modems are Connexant winmodems (macmodems?) which are not very well supported in Linux, though they can be made to work. Other than that, they're great machines for Linux use.
Usage Note: Traditionally, many writers have used man and words derived from it to designate any or all of the human race regardless of sex. In fact, this is the oldest use of the word. In Old English the principal sense of man was "a human," and the words wer and wyf (or wæpman and wifman) were used to refer to "a male human" and "a female human" respectively. But in Middle English man displaced wer as the term for "a male human," while wyfman (which evolved into present-day woman) was retained for "a female human." Despite this change, man continued to carry its original sense of "a human" as well, resulting in an asymmetrical arrangement that many criticize as sexist. Nonetheless, a majority of the Usage Panel still accepts the generic use of man, although the women members have significantly less enthusiasm for this usage than the men do.
It means that at one time, there were more archs supported. NeXT/Open Step ran on ix86, m68k, powerpc, mips, sparc, etc.
It doesn't seem like such a stretch to assume that other architectures are officially not out of the question, with a hedge statement like this one. Very interesting...
I wouldn't be too surprised if Apple has most of those running internally. I also wouldn't be too surprised if they release a server based on something that isn't powerpc, but the client is out of the question.
I also wouldn't be too surprised if an unreleased version of Windows 2003 Server runs on PowerPC and MIPS.
For there to be extradition from Canada, the crime must have a Canadian equivalent. IE DMCA isn't extraditable, but theft over $5000, murder, etc... are.
I think the FireWire version of the Zen uses a 4-pin i.Link-style connector (FireWire without power).
I doubt it. The SB Audigy sound card has a "SB1394" port on it which is just 6 pin firewire, exactly like the one on the side of my iBook. I'd bet that Creative would use the same ports on all its devices.
USB2 is crap, but it might be the only choice soon for high speed external CDRW drives and the like. The 400mhz FSB can't be done with Motorola chips because they're being dinks about Apple. Apple is charging an arm and a leg for ram, so I'd rather add it myself. DVD authoring is there.
I too would like to see a low end Mac, but that isn't Apple's business. Apple starts in mid-range, and it shows.
I'm guessing they're working on a 970 based 15" PowerBook now. The reason I believe this is that the 15" is a good laptop, but there hasn't been a new one in a while, so they're probably keeping it under wraps until the 970 is announced, with a desktop and an Aluminium 15" to go with it.
Between Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec and Vancouver and their surrounding areas, how much of Canada's population isn't accounted for?
6 Provinces and three territories worth of population. Saskatchewan was the first place in North America to get DSL(Saskatoon and Regina were the first cities), and Moose Jaw had it before Calgary! Sasktel still provides high quality service for low rates. Manitoba is only slightly behind Saskatchewan, and the Atlantic provinces (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia) all have good broadband access.. especially New Brunswick whose access is better than SK's from what I hear.
Yea, but Saskatchewan has ~1 Million people concentrated in 251,865mi^2 or 652,327km^2. Not very dense.
It has a telephone company^Wmonopoly called SaskTel, which was the firt DSL provider in North America. "It is now available in 158 cities and towns across the province - and will reach 237 communities by the end of 2003"
Check it out here Apparently it was also the first in the world to release 3G mobile networking. It also built the largest fibre optic cabling network in the world. Don't know if that still holds though.
The iBook will become a tablet and keep its G3, the current iBook's market segment being replaced with the 12" PowerBook G4, the 15" and 17" PowerBooks will move to the PowerPC 970.
I don't doubt that the 15" not being upgraded is due to it using a PPC970 in its newest incarnation.
The PowerPC 970, on the other hand, is designed from the ground up with multiprocessing in mind--IBM intends to see the 970 used in 4-way or higher desktop SMP systems.
Apple hasn't done anything to prevent any other OS from booting on the new machines; it simply isn't updating Mac OS 9 to support them any longer. Nothing sinister, nothing crippled, no "blocking".
Don't be surprised if a third party enabler for OS 9.2 on the new PowerBook or any other new machine. The mac community likes their OS 9. I only use it for the original Unreal, but everything else runs fine in Classic.
Late-2001 iBook. Works fine, but my first attempt at burning install1 didn't work so well, it crashed at 11%.
Next try was to re-burn install1 on a higher quality CD and it worked fine. It's reminds me of the descriptions of the latest Red Hat, but with mac add ons like pbbuttonsd and the like.
When i can install linux on my mom's machine, and have her be able to figure out how to use it, then, and only then, will i consider linux ready for the desktop.
By that criterion, Windows isn't ready for the desktop. Neither is Mac OS X (though it's better than Windows), or even OS 9. Linux is the worst of the four, and OS/2 and DOS are out of the question.
What's more likely is that Apple is using AMD to get their HyperTransport chipsets. Apple, IBM, and AMD are all on the HyperTransport consortium, so that makes sense. Apple motherboard with AMD chipset and IBM processor.
Another, less likely, but more likely than Operon CPUs is AMD manufacturing PowerPC processors for Apple.
It would be interesting to see what those "proprietary elements" are. There isn't much that's proprietary about current Macs, right? (I could be wrong about this). Basically they're stock memory, hard drives, etc. with a Motorola CPU (Okay, the DVI output is unique, but that's about it, I think). Anyway, If you change the CPU, then what's so proprietary about them that it could prevent an OS running on that hardware from running on other hardware? Most differences (like that DVI port) could be fixed by a properly coded driver, couldn't they?
DVI ports are standard. They are used on high end PC video cards as well. I think you're talking about ADC, but that too is a standard, it just isn't used by anybody else. It's documented, and can be implemented by anyone.
The ADC port is power, USB, and DVI video signal on one cable. There is a product called "DVI Excractor" which takes ADC and gives you only DVI. There is also a DVI to ADC adaptor which plugs into a power outlet, USB port, and DVI port and spits out an ADC signal to the monitor.
As for proprietary parts on a Mac, I don't think there are any anymore. The PMU is non-standard I think, but that's it. OpenFirmware: Open, PCI: Open, AGP: Open, USB: Open, well you get the idea.
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While this 1986 CAN $2 I have says
Hey... those things are rare. You'd do well to hang on to that. I haven't seen one in years, and I'm IN Canada. We have $1 and $2 coins now.
P.S. I'm still waiting for PS/2 keyboard support
That's what happens when you don't upgrade past 0.01.
The Mounties?
Nope. Our peacekeeping force is the Canadian Forces. The Mounties (RCMP) are our national police force, provincial police force, and municipal police forces all rolled into one package. Of course, big cities have their own police forces, and a few provinces do too, but the theory remains.
If kids can't play these games they'll have more free time on their hands. What if they use this free time to learn? What will prevent them from taking all our jobs!?!
More like: They'll used all their newfound free time to kill cops.
Wow. It really is an interesting watch. The usb cord seems to hide inside the wristband. I bet this will making cheating my collage harder when testing in the testing lab. The already check you body and your keychain for usb thumbdrives.
My school solved that problem by using only Windows NT 4.0 on the workstations.
iBooks are nice, but they also have their problems for linux use.
Their modems are Connexant winmodems (macmodems?) which are not very well supported in Linux, though they can be made to work. Other than that, they're great machines for Linux use.
What about young women?
Take a look here.
2. A human regardless of sex or age; a person.
Usage Note: Traditionally, many writers have used man and words derived from it to designate any or all of the human race regardless of sex. In fact, this is the oldest use of the word. In Old English the principal sense of man was "a human," and the words wer and wyf (or wæpman and wifman) were used to refer to "a male human" and "a female human" respectively. But in Middle English man displaced wer as the term for "a male human," while wyfman (which evolved into present-day woman) was retained for "a female human." Despite this change, man continued to carry its original sense of "a human" as well, resulting in an asymmetrical arrangement that many criticize as sexist. Nonetheless, a majority of the Usage Panel still accepts the generic use of man, although the women members have significantly less enthusiasm for this usage than the men do.
Doesn't seem to exclude women to me.
"Currently" supported? What does that mean?
It means that at one time, there were more archs supported. NeXT/Open Step ran on ix86, m68k, powerpc, mips, sparc, etc.
It doesn't seem like such a stretch to assume that other architectures are officially not out of the question, with a hedge statement like this one. Very interesting...
I wouldn't be too surprised if Apple has most of those running internally. I also wouldn't be too surprised if they release a server based on something that isn't powerpc, but the client is out of the question.
I also wouldn't be too surprised if an unreleased version of Windows 2003 Server runs on PowerPC and MIPS.
For there to be extradition from Canada, the crime must have a Canadian equivalent. IE DMCA isn't extraditable, but theft over $5000, murder, etc... are.
I think the FireWire version of the Zen uses a 4-pin i.Link-style connector (FireWire without power).
I doubt it. The SB Audigy sound card has a "SB1394" port on it which is just 6 pin firewire, exactly like the one on the side of my iBook. I'd bet that Creative would use the same ports on all its devices.
USB2 is crap, but it might be the only choice soon for high speed external CDRW drives and the like. The 400mhz FSB can't be done with Motorola chips because they're being dinks about Apple. Apple is charging an arm and a leg for ram, so I'd rather add it myself. DVD authoring is there.
I too would like to see a low end Mac, but that isn't Apple's business. Apple starts in mid-range, and it shows.
I'm guessing they're working on a 970 based 15" PowerBook now. The reason I believe this is that the 15" is a good laptop, but there hasn't been a new one in a while, so they're probably keeping it under wraps until the 970 is announced, with a desktop and an Aluminium 15" to go with it.
Between Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec and Vancouver and their surrounding areas, how much of Canada's population isn't accounted for?
6 Provinces and three territories worth of population. Saskatchewan was the first place in North America to get DSL(Saskatoon and Regina were the first cities), and Moose Jaw had it before Calgary!
Sasktel still provides high quality service for low rates. Manitoba is only slightly behind Saskatchewan, and the Atlantic provinces (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia) all have good broadband access.. especially New Brunswick whose access is better than SK's from what I hear.
Yea, but Saskatchewan has ~1 Million people concentrated in 251,865mi^2 or 652,327km^2. Not very dense.
It has a telephone company^Wmonopoly called SaskTel, which was the firt DSL provider in North America. "It is now available in 158 cities and towns across the province - and will reach 237 communities by the end of 2003"
Check it out here Apparently it was also the first in the world to release 3G mobile networking. It also built the largest fibre optic cabling network in the world. Don't know if that still holds though.
This is complete speculation on my part:
The iBook will become a tablet and keep its G3, the current iBook's market segment being replaced with the 12" PowerBook G4, the 15" and 17" PowerBooks will move to the PowerPC 970.
I don't doubt that the 15" not being upgraded is due to it using a PPC970 in its newest incarnation.
The PPC970 was designed to run multi-processor.
The PowerPC 970, on the other hand, is designed from the ground up with multiprocessing in mind--IBM intends to see the 970 used in 4-way or higher desktop SMP systems.
See here
Apple hasn't done anything to prevent any other OS from booting on the new machines; it simply isn't updating Mac OS 9 to support them any longer. Nothing sinister, nothing crippled, no "blocking".
Don't be surprised if a third party enabler for OS 9.2 on the new PowerBook or any other new machine. The mac community likes their OS 9. I only use it for the original Unreal, but everything else runs fine in Classic.
Late-2001 iBook. Works fine, but my first attempt at burning install1 didn't work so well, it crashed at 11%.
Next try was to re-burn install1 on a higher quality CD and it worked fine. It's reminds me of the descriptions of the latest Red Hat, but with mac add ons like pbbuttonsd and the like.
It'd be excellent for bootlegging live shows if they made a model that could record, although isn't it impossible to copy MP3s off an iPod?
.{something}, so they also don't show up without using ls -a.
/some_dir \;
/some_dir
No. The files just can't be seen from the Mac finder. They are stored in directories name
All you have to do to get songs off the iPod is type:
find . -name "*.mp3" -exec cp {}
and that will copy all the songs from the iPod to
Fair enough. I read the originals poster as saying "If you live in Canada....."
so my bad.
I forgot one thing: until further notice, the service in usavailable to Canadians. I'd really like it though, Apple Canada, are you listening???
I don't know about the Canada where you live, but in mine we pay levys on data cds as well. It's just a *LOT* more for the music cds.
When i can install linux on my mom's machine, and have her be able to figure out how to use it, then, and only then, will i consider linux ready for the desktop.
By that criterion, Windows isn't ready for the desktop. Neither is Mac OS X (though it's better than Windows), or even OS 9. Linux is the worst of the four, and OS/2 and DOS are out of the question.
What's more likely is that Apple is using AMD to get their HyperTransport chipsets. Apple, IBM, and AMD are all on the HyperTransport consortium, so that makes sense. Apple motherboard with AMD chipset and IBM processor.
Another, less likely, but more likely than Operon CPUs is AMD manufacturing PowerPC processors for Apple.
It would be interesting to see what those "proprietary elements" are. There isn't much that's proprietary about current Macs, right? (I could be wrong about this). Basically they're stock memory, hard drives, etc. with a Motorola CPU (Okay, the DVI output is unique, but that's about it, I think). Anyway, If you change the CPU, then what's so proprietary about them that it could prevent an OS running on that hardware from running on other hardware? Most differences (like that DVI port) could be fixed by a properly coded driver, couldn't they?
DVI ports are standard. They are used on high end PC video cards as well. I think you're talking about ADC, but that too is a standard, it just isn't used by anybody else. It's documented, and can be implemented by anyone.
The ADC port is power, USB, and DVI video signal on one cable. There is a product called "DVI Excractor" which takes ADC and gives you only DVI. There is also a DVI to ADC adaptor which plugs into a power outlet, USB port, and DVI port and spits out an ADC signal to the monitor.
As for proprietary parts on a Mac, I don't think there are any anymore. The PMU is non-standard I think, but that's it. OpenFirmware: Open, PCI: Open, AGP: Open, USB: Open, well you get the idea.