Heh, wife and I are both geeks making decent money pounding keyboards but funny thing is, she's a PolySci major and I'm BFA. Turns out we're just really good and seeing where screw ups occur in complex systems and figuring out root causes of issues. Daughter wants to be an artist who makes stuff involving robots. COOL!
Yup, the basic over-the-air stations are still available but the signal seems degraded. Petty Comcast crap of course but when they're the only provider where I'm at (can't even get the phone company out at our house without paying for several poles worth of cabling), we're kinda' stuck. If we didn't have our internet and phone through comcast, I'd switch to satellite.
I had a similar setup with an El Gato EyeTV tuner plugged into my Mac Mini AV server. It could stream live and recorded shows to my iphone and I could browse channels from the iphone. Cool thing was it worked over 3G as well. I was 30 miles away, in town and brought up CNN at lunch. Once it buffered, was smooth steady stream.
Daughter would use this setup to watch tv up in her room (just has computer with access to family iTunes library). With the iPad doing this, as well as now being able to access shared iTunes accounts, these Apple tablets are finally becoming what I thought they should be to begin with; mobile/wireless displays.
They (upper management) still get their bonuses, right? And if their company gets in financial trouble, they can get the gov't to bail them out, right? Looks like win-win.
Yeah, but Apple sells to all those hipsters with lots and lots of money who don't know anything about computers or even how to turn on their tablet. They just hold up at coffee shops so they look cool.
Apple's just selling a lot because of their marketing. Their hardware is obviously sub-standard and over priced. There just happen to be a lot of people in the world with more money than me who value status over what I consider important. So there!
Heh. just getting back into rpg gaming (daughter wants to play D&D after seeing it mentioned on Futurama) after being away for 20 years. Am working up a slightly steampunk/magic world (Stardust movie inspired) with a Scooby Doo type of mystery for first adventure (something's driving away people in an isolated village). Should be fun for the bunch of fourth graders I'm going to be running this for.
Yeah, but these 'tablets' don't act or work like a real computer. Completely useless. Unless you want some stupid display/interactive device. But that's why they made mice and keyboards. They're all PoS poser accessories.
Last I saw of my Power Computing Powertower 180 dual processor system (1996), it had been moved to a 2u rack mount and was humming along fine as a NetBSD print server. That was back in 2005. Last new Apple Mac I purchased was a Quadra 650 in '93. That one's still running I still fire it up when I want to use the attached tabloid scanner on it (68 pin scsi). But yeah, clones were too good of a deal to pass up.
And now, I buy trailing edge stuff. Just picked up a gen 2 iPod touch for $65 from a friend and a G4 Mac Mini for $50 bucks. Once I get NetBSD on it, it'll make a nice little web server.
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I may have once eaten at that restaurant on Peachtree and Peachtree but time twisted so I'm not sure if I'm still waiting to do that.
And fusion power plants, home hologram units, flying cars and jet packs.
It was pity that stayed his hand.
It's a pity I've run out of bullets Dildo thought.
Heh, wife and I are both geeks making decent money pounding keyboards but funny thing is, she's a PolySci major and I'm BFA. Turns out we're just really good and seeing where screw ups occur in complex systems and figuring out root causes of issues. Daughter wants to be an artist who makes stuff involving robots. COOL!
Yup, the basic over-the-air stations are still available but the signal seems degraded. Petty Comcast crap of course but when they're the only provider where I'm at (can't even get the phone company out at our house without paying for several poles worth of cabling), we're kinda' stuck. If we didn't have our internet and phone through comcast, I'd switch to satellite.
Except that Comcast went and encrypted their tv signal so that most of the channels no longer come through as Clear QAM.
I had a similar setup with an El Gato EyeTV tuner plugged into my Mac Mini AV server. It could stream live and recorded shows to my iphone and I could browse channels from the iphone. Cool thing was it worked over 3G as well. I was 30 miles away, in town and brought up CNN at lunch. Once it buffered, was smooth steady stream.
Daughter would use this setup to watch tv up in her room (just has computer with access to family iTunes library). With the iPad doing this, as well as now being able to access shared iTunes accounts, these Apple tablets are finally becoming what I thought they should be to begin with; mobile/wireless displays.
I had to make myself a sandwich.
Fullers ESB! Too bad they stopped distribution in New Mexico.
How else you gonna find a girl who also likes comics and anime?
They (upper management) still get their bonuses, right? And if their company gets in financial trouble, they can get the gov't to bail them out, right? Looks like win-win.
Yeah, but Apple sells to all those hipsters with lots and lots of money who don't know anything about computers or even how to turn on their tablet. They just hold up at coffee shops so they look cool.
Here's NY Times article on why Apple's competing so well price wise.
Apple's just selling a lot because of their marketing. Their hardware is obviously sub-standard and over priced. There just happen to be a lot of people in the world with more money than me who value status over what I consider important. So there!
Since when do customer experiences matter in business? That's just crazy talk!
Heh. just getting back into rpg gaming (daughter wants to play D&D after seeing it mentioned on Futurama) after being away for 20 years. Am working up a slightly steampunk/magic world (Stardust movie inspired) with a Scooby Doo type of mystery for first adventure (something's driving away people in an isolated village). Should be fun for the bunch of fourth graders I'm going to be running this for.
Yeah, but these 'tablets' don't act or work like a real computer. Completely useless. Unless you want some stupid display/interactive device. But that's why they made mice and keyboards. They're all PoS poser accessories.
And sell it for $495.00!
You forgot: "It's all due to marketing to clueless users with too much money."
But, but, it's APPLE!!!
And they're evil and they suck and their Macs and iphones suck and I hate them, hate them, hate them!
A caning of Ballmer? Sounds a bit harsh.
Last I saw of my Power Computing Powertower 180 dual processor system (1996), it had been moved to a 2u rack mount and was humming along fine as a NetBSD print server. That was back in 2005. Last new Apple Mac I purchased was a Quadra 650 in '93. That one's still running I still fire it up when I want to use the attached tabloid scanner on it (68 pin scsi). But yeah, clones were too good of a deal to pass up.
And now, I buy trailing edge stuff. Just picked up a gen 2 iPod touch for $65 from a friend and a G4 Mac Mini for $50 bucks. Once I get NetBSD on it, it'll make a nice little web server.
Ah, well then. I guess that's settled.
Makeup for Cats tutorials.
Yeah, I'm using an IP telephone as well; Comcast cable router/phone setup. No idea how it works but it's held the same IP for 3 years so that's cool.