No, I'm sarcastic. Here's these people complaining about the cost of the new Apple laptops and I was illustrating what the same amount of money bought, 12 years ago. Was also bragging a bit about my Q650. Is the best computer I've ever owned. No hardware failures, ever, even with all the upgrades it's had (runs three monitors, has been upgraded to a 100Mhz PPC, maxed out with RAM, 4 GB HD, and has a 2x SCSI CD-R. It's case is solid metal and I (215 lbs) can use it as a step stool. Damn! Nice engineering.
I was part of a team that transsisioned Fla Honeywell engineers from Mac Desktops to Windows, back in 95-96. Talk about a bunch of complainers. "I can't find my printer", "Outlook sucks", "My Mac was cute!", etc. Only fun bit was watching the support metrics climb as more windows machines went online.
Meh. I paid $2500 for my Quadra 650/230MB HD/12MB RAM with AV monitor (with built in sub woofer) (1994). And that didn't include the price of the laser printer, tabloid scanner, or external SCSI stack (La Cie Jewel drives). Friggin' monitor died 4 years ago. And the computer is maxed out at 136MB of RAM. It can't even handle a gig. Apple's a fuckin' rip off!
You can already dual boot into Linux, NetBSD, etc. As for Windows, Apple says they're not going to stand in the way of it. Can't wait to hear how it goes.
I just keep multiple copies of my home directory scattered across my various home machines. True, a 747 could drop some blue ice through my roof and wipe everything out but I'm willing to risk that. Suppose I could go and mail off a 100 GB hard drive to my buddy cross country every month, but she lives in Fla, near the water. Not the best place for remote backup.
A year and a half ago, I picked up two dead G3/4 laptops (PowerBook Bronze, and Pismo), and combined the working parts into one good machine. Other than the battery coming loose and the cover plate on the CD tray falling off, this thing's been running great. It has 512MB RAM, 400 MHz G3 and latest version of OSX 10.4.3. Is a little slow when running Bryce, compared to my dual G5 but it still works fine for movie watching, surfing the web, etc.
Well, certainly, admins (dbas and sys) need some form of root access. And recently, one of our larger problems was caused by someone in IT screwing something up on a server but that's about the only way we have system wide problems anymore. Regular users (not in IT, but admin, research, production, etc.) have been isolated to just their own machines. Sometimes they have trouble with an organizational server they've set up but those are mostly testing machines. Is expected. For regular work apps/db's, we heavily recommend transferring app/business requirement to IT supported server. And then they get no root access, on day-to-day, unsupervised basis. Seems to work. Sure, there's always the impatient ones out there, that demand root to change something themselves, instead of going through channels, but most seem to understand how things are done.
Even the smart ones. Sure, give the users some stand alone development machines with root access but don' let them fuck up the cluster/servers. A lot of users are focused on their job but they don't always see how their actions on shared equipment will impact the company or entity at large./tech support at large lab, full of brilliant idiots.
What if the TLJ has his brain waves copied into the robot's system and it thinks it's married to his wife and tries to have a romantic interlude with her. That would be cool!
I'll second that. The only new music I've bought in the last three years are from small bands at bars, that are making their own cd's. Granted, I'm getting older (38) and just not into music as much as I used to be. I spend a lot more money on movies, too.
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3.8% of my iTunes library is purchased from Apple.
No, I'm sarcastic. Here's these people complaining about the cost of the new Apple laptops and I was illustrating what the same amount of money bought, 12 years ago. Was also bragging a bit about my Q650. Is the best computer I've ever owned. No hardware failures, ever, even with all the upgrades it's had (runs three monitors, has been upgraded to a 100Mhz PPC, maxed out with RAM, 4 GB HD, and has a 2x SCSI CD-R. It's case is solid metal and I (215 lbs) can use it as a step stool. Damn! Nice engineering.
With a grammar checker?
I was part of a team that transsisioned Fla Honeywell engineers from Mac Desktops to Windows, back in 95-96. Talk about a bunch of complainers. "I can't find my printer", "Outlook sucks", "My Mac was cute!", etc. Only fun bit was watching the support metrics climb as more windows machines went online.
Been doing that for a few years now. Always been cheaper to run Winders. Just not as fun.
Meh. I paid $2500 for my Quadra 650/230MB HD/12MB RAM with AV monitor (with built in sub woofer) (1994). And that didn't include the price of the laser printer, tabloid scanner, or external SCSI stack (La Cie Jewel drives). Friggin' monitor died 4 years ago. And the computer is maxed out at 136MB of RAM. It can't even handle a gig. Apple's a fuckin' rip off!
You can already dual boot into Linux, NetBSD, etc. As for Windows, Apple says they're not going to stand in the way of it. Can't wait to hear how it goes.
I just keep multiple copies of my home directory scattered across my various home machines. True, a 747 could drop some blue ice through my roof and wipe everything out but I'm willing to risk that. Suppose I could go and mail off a 100 GB hard drive to my buddy cross country every month, but she lives in Fla, near the water. Not the best place for remote backup.
Just use a high powered laser to etch the information 12" deep into granite slabs. Store slabs in a salt dome in Nevada. Should last awhile.
Have I got a tulip to sell you!
It's not how new the dance is, but how well you dance, I guess.
Or maybe two gel sacks, that you squeeze and twist, to chord keyboard input as well as mouse movements?
What about iSpread? iStrip?
Would like to see a bundled version of Filemaker. That would be cool.
D'oh! Forgot I have a Duo280c. Still works, though the battery's shot. Keep meaning to take it apart and turn it into a wall mounted photo display.
A year and a half ago, I picked up two dead G3/4 laptops (PowerBook Bronze, and Pismo), and combined the working parts into one good machine. Other than the battery coming loose and the cover plate on the CD tray falling off, this thing's been running great. It has 512MB RAM, 400 MHz G3 and latest version of OSX 10.4.3. Is a little slow when running Bryce, compared to my dual G5 but it still works fine for movie watching, surfing the web, etc.
Well, certainly, admins (dbas and sys) need some form of root access. And recently, one of our larger problems was caused by someone in IT screwing something up on a server but that's about the only way we have system wide problems anymore. Regular users (not in IT, but admin, research, production, etc.) have been isolated to just their own machines. Sometimes they have trouble with an organizational server they've set up but those are mostly testing machines. Is expected. For regular work apps/db's, we heavily recommend transferring app/business requirement to IT supported server. And then they get no root access, on day-to-day, unsupervised basis. Seems to work. Sure, there's always the impatient ones out there, that demand root to change something themselves, instead of going through channels, but most seem to understand how things are done.
Even the smart ones. Sure, give the users some stand alone development machines with root access but don' let them fuck up the cluster/servers. A lot of users are focused on their job but they don't always see how their actions on shared equipment will impact the company or entity at large. /tech support at large lab, full of brilliant idiots.
What's wrong with paper RPG's?
What if the TLJ has his brain waves copied into the robot's system and it thinks it's married to his wife and tries to have a romantic interlude with her. That would be cool!
What about Lithium-Hydrade bombs? I know those were theoretical, back in the 50's. Anyone heard of anything being done with them for real?
I'll second that. The only new music I've bought in the last three years are from small bands at bars, that are making their own cd's. Granted, I'm getting older (38) and just not into music as much as I used to be. I spend a lot more money on movies, too.
Can I have your Mac Mini? Would be a great replacement for my daughter's 600MHz iMac.
You might want to downgrade Overstock from you Trusted eTailers list.
I'm not. I'm a geek.