Few people want to go out and cobble together parts to build a computer. Its a pain in the ass, quite frankly.
Ever wonder why all of those PC companies run out of garages and selling computers out of computer shopper went out of business?
Its because people would rather spend $500 or $2000 on something that looks like it belongs together... that's why people blow extra money on Sony or HP or Apple computers.
The Mac Mini has a low footprint and is a perfect PC for the living or family. Families can be computer users without shoving the machine in the closet or basement or losing half of the living room to a hairball of wires and noisy equipment.
"...it was a HELL of a lot cheaper than the Wintel laptop I considered (1300 w/ educational deal, plus 69 for another iPod, vs 2100 for the Dell I would have otherwise got [centrino])."
That's like saying that a Honda Civic is better than a Bentley because the Civic costs $13k and the Bentley $130k.
A $1300 iBook is a much lower end machine in comparison to a $2100 centrino machine. The Dell you compared had a bigger, higher resolution screen, faster CPU, more memory and hard disk.
Mac hardware is excellent, but more expensive -- you could get a laptop similar to your iBook for about $300 less.
I'm buying a Powerbook when Tiger is released, understanding that I'm paying a premium over what I would pay for another functionally similar Thinkpad T42 or T43.
That is without a doubt one of the stupidest comments that I've ever heard in my life. Its not difficult to open accounts in the US anyway, particularly since there is a huge expatriate community in the US.
Big Indian outsourcing companies have a vested interest in keeping stuff like this out of the limelight -- notice that Citibank detected this fraud and not the outsourcer.
I really have no desire for my income tax, banking or medical processing to be handled in a country 8000 miles away that is completely outside of the framework of laws that protect my information in my country.
The "spam fighters" are making the problem worse by trying to sustain the current system, which is completely flawed.
There is obviously a need to introduce a system to replace the current scheme of electronic mail. SMTP is a legacy protocol that needs to go away just like rsh & the like.
I once worked for a company that had a problem similar to the original poster's. We had a Sprint Frame Relay and somebody on a nearby subnet was spamming.
Contacting the MAPS people was like pulling teeth, they refused to cooperate and were extremely rude to boot. In the end, we were affected for nearly 5 days until Sprint finally fixed whatever needed fixing.
These email activists are like the pricks who drive 55mph in the passing lane... bunch of self-aggrandizing jerks. They accomplish little or nothing, yet create alot of hassle for legitimate people & businesses.
Back in '99 or 2000 when I cared about this stuff, I always knew that Tomshardware.com would have fair video card comparisons... after all there was that 500x500 nVidia ad right in the middle of the page!
Think about what you'll need tomorrow, or three-five years from now. Then think about whether you'll be able to scale your design without rebuilding...
Alot of vendor supplied designs are made assuming that you are going to grow exponentially... which may or may not be your case.
That's a good point. And note that I'm not excluding McVoy from the list of people with big egos... he's made alot of shoot-from-the-hip statements that did little to ingratiate himself with his user community.
I used to follow the BitKeeper controversey on the Kernel mailing list, and based on what I read, I don't blame BitMover at all.
It seemed to me like McVoy & co tried to "give back" a little by contributing their product to the Linux development effort in a way that kept them in business.
But the amount of flaming & grief that they got in return was blown far out of proportion to a nauseatingly high level. Several kernel developers "took their ball (license in this case) home" and made an a big fuss over a small issue. I'm shocked that they didn't pull BitKeeper two years ago, frankly.
This whole fiasco is a textbook example of what happens when too many big egos are in one place at the same time.
In some cases, you can deduct the entire lease amount in the first year -- which is a big tax savings, especially since you can include things like MS Office if purchased with the hardware.
Who needs a sensible, rational reason for doing things when we create a big flamewar about security conspiracy theory that ranges into the 2000 election & war in iraq?
I stand corrected... I looked on the machine where I ran through some of the rails tutorials and found where I found the hole -- it was caused by exactly the problem you described.
I thought that I had read that it was a bug in one of the rails libraries... but I must have been incorrect.
The relevant point of your long-winded response is:
"Track the stuff, not the lift"
The problems with that solution are:
- There's alot of stuff - It doesn't belong to the OP - It stays in the warehouse for a brief period.
Tracking the forklift gives you all the info that you need, plus you get the added bonus of being able to figure out which employee isn't doing his job correctly.
The are a several main factors, none of which have much to do with the supply of crude oil.
- The dollar has devalued nearly 25% since 2000 versus the Euro (imports are more expensive) - The Feds have allowed oil company mergers to go through again. There used to be 15 gasoline refineries in NY, post-consolidation there are 6. (ExxonMobil represents the core of the old Standard Oil monopoly.) - Oil company lobbyists have encouraged state governments to pass differning gasoline formulations to battle smog. The result is that refineries work at 90% of capacity and keep inventories low, resulting in high prices.
Someone who routinely travels from the US to Japan likely has the coin to buy a new laptop.
If you have a Thinkpad T-Series with 3-5 hours of battery and an external battery pack, you'll have more than enough juice to use your PC in the airport while waiting around and to do something productive on the 10-hour flight.
Swapping batteries is a pain... plus the clips holding batteries on most laptops are not meant for daily use. At a company that I worked for, field techs often had to duct-tape batteries to machines that required constant battery charging.
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Few people want to go out and cobble together parts to build a computer. Its a pain in the ass, quite frankly.
Ever wonder why all of those PC companies run out of garages and selling computers out of computer shopper went out of business?
Its because people would rather spend $500 or $2000 on something that looks like it belongs together... that's why people blow extra money on Sony or HP or Apple computers.
The Mac Mini has a low footprint and is a perfect PC for the living or family. Families can be computer users without shoving the machine in the closet or basement or losing half of the living room to a hairball of wires and noisy equipment.
"...it was a HELL of a lot cheaper than the Wintel laptop I considered (1300 w/ educational deal, plus 69 for another iPod, vs 2100 for the Dell I would have otherwise got [centrino])."
That's like saying that a Honda Civic is better than a Bentley because the Civic costs $13k and the Bentley $130k.
A $1300 iBook is a much lower end machine in comparison to a $2100 centrino machine. The Dell you compared had a bigger, higher resolution screen, faster CPU, more memory and hard disk.
Mac hardware is excellent, but more expensive -- you could get a laptop similar to your iBook for about $300 less.
I'm buying a Powerbook when Tiger is released, understanding that I'm paying a premium over what I would pay for another functionally similar Thinkpad T42 or T43.
Many organized criminals use $2 bills, since they are very common at racetracks, and you know that mobsters and terrorists are big fans of the races.
In this post-911 world, sometimes you need to go overboard! This guy could easily have been another Mohammed Atta.
Why is anyone still using Bind 4? Is there any justifiable reason for doing so other than sheer stupidity or laziness?
That is without a doubt one of the stupidest comments that I've ever heard in my life. Its not difficult to open accounts in the US anyway, particularly since there is a huge expatriate community in the US.
Big Indian outsourcing companies have a vested interest in keeping stuff like this out of the limelight -- notice that Citibank detected this fraud and not the outsourcer.
I really have no desire for my income tax, banking or medical processing to be handled in a country 8000 miles away that is completely outside of the framework of laws that protect my information in my country.
The "spam fighters" are making the problem worse by trying to sustain the current system, which is completely flawed.
There is obviously a need to introduce a system to replace the current scheme of electronic mail. SMTP is a legacy protocol that needs to go away just like rsh & the like.
I once worked for a company that had a problem similar to the original poster's. We had a Sprint Frame Relay and somebody on a nearby subnet was spamming.
Contacting the MAPS people was like pulling teeth, they refused to cooperate and were extremely rude to boot. In the end, we were affected for nearly 5 days until Sprint finally fixed whatever needed fixing.
These email activists are like the pricks who drive 55mph in the passing lane... bunch of self-aggrandizing jerks. They accomplish little or nothing, yet create alot of hassle for legitimate people & businesses.
You might have to be using a 64-bit build of Windows, as I'm pretty sure that windows 32 doesn't know about the NX memory stuff.
I'm jaded by their worship of the Honda Accord & Toyota Corolla, which are IMHO the most overrated cars on earth.
I don't really fit a car demographic... I drive a Cadillac & a Honda and have been really pleased with both.
Its only a problem on 64-bit platforms that can flag areas of memory as executable or non-executable.
As to be expected from Microsoft, their documentation is poor and misleading.
Consumer Reports writes goods reviews, but the ratings are usually misleading and biased towards certain manufacturers.
A Toyota/Honda review will be like "Interior uncomfortable & cheap, car priced 25% over rivals, underpowered & rides rough. Score:9/10"
A Nissan/Ford/Mercedes review will be like "Acceptable ride, good exterior design, comforable interior, spirited engine. Score:4/10"
I've found their appliance ratings very fair though.
Back in '99 or 2000 when I cared about this stuff, I always knew that Tomshardware.com would have fair video card comparisons... after all there was that 500x500 nVidia ad right in the middle of the page!
Think about what you'll need tomorrow, or three-five years from now. Then think about whether you'll be able to scale your design without rebuilding...
Alot of vendor supplied designs are made assuming that you are going to grow exponentially... which may or may not be your case.
That's a good point. And note that I'm not excluding McVoy from the list of people with big egos... he's made alot of shoot-from-the-hip statements that did little to ingratiate himself with his user community.
I used to follow the BitKeeper controversey on the Kernel mailing list, and based on what I read, I don't blame BitMover at all.
It seemed to me like McVoy & co tried to "give back" a little by contributing their product to the Linux development effort in a way that kept them in business.
But the amount of flaming & grief that they got in return was blown far out of proportion to a nauseatingly high level. Several kernel developers "took their ball (license in this case) home" and made an a big fuss over a small issue. I'm shocked that they didn't pull BitKeeper two years ago, frankly.
This whole fiasco is a textbook example of what happens when too many big egos are in one place at the same time.
In some cases, you can deduct the entire lease amount in the first year -- which is a big tax savings, especially since you can include things like MS Office if purchased with the hardware.
Who needs a sensible, rational reason for doing things when we create a big flamewar about security conspiracy theory that ranges into the 2000 election & war in iraq?
I stand corrected... I looked on the machine where I ran through some of the rails tutorials and found where I found the hole -- it was caused by exactly the problem you described.
I thought that I had read that it was a bug in one of the rails libraries... but I must have been incorrect.
A thousand apologies to the rail'ers out there.
I recall one of the rather trivial Ruby on Rails tutorials having a remote code execution exploit.
RoR is a cool concept, but definately not ready for any kind of real deployment.
The relevant point of your long-winded response is:
"Track the stuff, not the lift"
The problems with that solution are:
- There's alot of stuff
- It doesn't belong to the OP
- It stays in the warehouse for a brief period.
Tracking the forklift gives you all the info that you need, plus you get the added bonus of being able to figure out which employee isn't doing his job correctly.
That is true... demand is growing all over the world for crude.
I have a good friend who's own a small chain of gas stations, so most of what I hear about the industry centers around gasoline.
Then think less and read more :)
The are a several main factors, none of which have much to do with the supply of crude oil.
- The dollar has devalued nearly 25% since 2000 versus the Euro (imports are more expensive)
- The Feds have allowed oil company mergers to go through again. There used to be 15 gasoline refineries in NY, post-consolidation there are 6. (ExxonMobil represents the core of the old Standard Oil monopoly.)
- Oil company lobbyists have encouraged state governments to pass differning gasoline formulations to battle smog. The result is that refineries work at 90% of capacity and keep inventories low, resulting in high prices.
The Debian folks are too slow and too focused on political issues.
Woody was released nearly three years ago, and wasn't anything near cutting edge when it was released.
Someone who routinely travels from the US to Japan likely has the coin to buy a new laptop.
If you have a Thinkpad T-Series with 3-5 hours of battery and an external battery pack, you'll have more than enough juice to use your PC in the airport while waiting around and to do something productive on the 10-hour flight.
Swapping batteries is a pain... plus the clips holding batteries on most laptops are not meant for daily use. At a company that I worked for, field techs often had to duct-tape batteries to machines that required constant battery charging.
Give it some time. My T41 has lost about 15% of its capacity over 55 charge cycles and 6 months.
Not too bad, but not too great either.