i have the same 500mhz machine, but later revs eliminated the silver part 'round the middle and replaced it with a cool rubberized white plastic. apple called this 'opaque white'; the replacement battery i bought for my machine is different than the old one (a solid piece of white plastic instead of clear plastic over paint).
but you get an UNCOMPRESSED version if you buy from Amazon you dolt. I listened to some of the previews at the AMS, I WASN'T impressed by the quality - my home ripped, 256kbps mp3s sound a hell of a lot better.
so, uh, pay the ~$3 premium, spend the time to rip it, and shut the fuck up.
it's not like apple launched an online music store and then blew up all the cd pressing plants. vote with your damn dollars, not with your CAPITAL LETTERS MEANS IMPORTANT slashdot posts.
Wow, where's that scsi bus that can handle 63 peripherals? Or how about the SCSI bus that can be used for TCP/IP communication?
exactly. it's called firewire. those are the big changes in the spec you're talking about. it is based on SCSI, after all.
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but if that radio is still operational, the magnet moves back and forth as the speaker produces sound, which would create a magnetic disturbance. only a problem if the radion bits still function, i guess.
you really have no idea how unintentionally funny that is, do you?
now it is reduced to this...(wait for it)...diamond.
and the audience goes wild!
you know why it seems like most radio/tv pundits are righty-tightys? because the left is too busy laughing at how stupid you guys sound to mount any sort of response.
challenge (and i know there's an answer): name one right wing comedian. there's got to be at least one. and dubya doesn't count.
Uhh, I didn't say ISA or Nubus or whateverthehellyoucallit is _better_, just that anyone with legacy cards gets screwed with a Mac, whereas with a PC, anyone with a little clue can save a couple of bucks on a soundcard, printer port, serial port, or even a SCSI board for a scanner if they get a Mobo with an ISA slot.
dude, the only things that came on nubus cards were shitty video cards and like fast-1 scsi cards. there was no need to continue to maintain compatibility with a closed, dead end technology when PCI was open and vastly superior. which, i believe, negates your entire arguement vis a vis closed v. open tech.
Not to mention I prefer to buy a decent monitor and speakers for even my cheap systems. And not to mention that a majority of non-geeks I know like to have a good monitor and speakers. I thought we gave up on built in monitors during the TRS-80 and PET days?
i don't know, apple is famous for making the best lcd's on the market, and a flat crt like on the emac is pretty hard to fuck up, so what're you driving at with this one?
Geeks reccomend computers to non-geeks. Guess which type of computer wins? Not to mention that cool hardware is designed by geeks who would just rather work with a system that works with them, rather than against them.
so..who's the bigger geek, the guy who staples parts together at the dell factory, or the designers at apple?
yeah, i was a junior or a senior in high school when the game boy pockets came out (you know, the little silver b/w one) and when we discovered that it fit perfectly into a TI-8x cover, math, physics, and chemistry all got a lot more interesting, because we were allowed to play with our 'calculators' during class.
of course, there was also the kid who actually did have all of legend of zelda programmed into his ti-82. i guess that's a lot slicker than sliding a GB pocket into the cover, huh?
just as i read this, my at 8260 gave the sms beep, and guess what? you can now use your att wireless phone to make international calls to over 220 countries. sign up at...
fucking ridiculous. did this happen to anyone else today? i'm in chicago.
and just to wander somewhere close to on-topic, i'd like to point out that right now, so-called 'local' music is absolutely thriving--most cities are experiencing an explosion in bands. go check it out: hit a club, wander around local music websites, pick up one of those free weeklies that list clubs and bars with music, just get out there and you'll be surprised how good and how honest music actually can be. just my $.02...
but in your eye, the receptors are always moving--it's very hard to keep you head and neck still, let alone your body, which is jolted regularly by heartbeats and respiration, so your eye muscles are always moving around.
if you don't believe me, go zen for a minute and stare at something on your desk. pay attention to your head--how high it is, when you can feel your heart beat. it's really hard to stay perfectly still.
PS for linux would be great, but it'll never happen.
photoshop makes a LOT of mac toolbox calls, so much so that adobe ported a large part of macapp (or whatever it is) to windows and runs that as a DLL.
this is incidentally why photoshop took so long to go to os x--carbon stripped a lot of these legacy calls away. same deal for pagemaker--actually, pagemaker had turned into such a steaming pile of wierd old crap that adobe just started over with indesign. you'll never see pagemaker for x; i doubt it beings revved much farther for 9 either.
i don't the the linux target market is large enough to support that kind of porting effort again.
actually, there's an article at apple's site which claims that latency in os x is down to 1ms, from 10ms in the classic mac os.
and i can't find it right now, but i also read another article somewhere that showed that os x had virtually no latency when doing dedicated audio, so i think os x probably stands a snowball's chance here.
does anyone know which episode has the wierd fifties farmyard documentary? all i remember is one of the bots going "no one knows why farmer brown is 200 years old."
but every time my sister or i say this to each other, the we both start cracking up and her husband thinks we're crazy.
anybody know?
well, IANAL, but according to that thing of ours called the constitution, states do not have the power to enforce their laws in other states, even if the laws are similar or identical.
so, if you cross state lines, it becomes a matter for the overarching authority in the land, te federal government--they have the power to handle inter-state issues.
actually, there's a great line in "this side of paradise" by f. scott fitzgerald, when the protagonist amory blaine goes home to see his mom. she pulls up in her "ancient electric" and then speeds them away at 2mph.
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the best thing about macs is that MCSE's just look all confused when people ask them for help, so they can't fuck anything up.
the same is also true for linux, but what brand of masochistic linux user asks an MCSE for help?
um, this is true in the same universe where hot girls actually drink miller lite and shoes with springs in them make you a better basketball player.
don't be stupid.
remember: everyone has the same problems as you. some people just solve them. for free, even.
i have the same 500mhz machine, but later revs eliminated the silver part 'round the middle and replaced it with a cool rubberized white plastic. apple called this 'opaque white'; the replacement battery i bought for my machine is different than the old one (a solid piece of white plastic instead of clear plastic over paint).
but you get an UNCOMPRESSED version if you buy from Amazon you dolt. I listened to some of the previews at the AMS, I WASN'T impressed by the quality - my home ripped, 256kbps mp3s sound a hell of a lot better.
so, uh, pay the ~$3 premium, spend the time to rip it, and shut the fuck up.
it's not like apple launched an online music store and then blew up all the cd pressing plants. vote with your damn dollars, not with your CAPITAL LETTERS MEANS IMPORTANT slashdot posts.
i know a few thousand ibook/powerbook owners who'd disagree with you.
the desktops might be lagging, but as far as portables go, apple products seem to set the standard.
no, it's kinda more like a cadillac escalade is really just a gmc suburban or whatever.
same basics, incredibly different implementation.
Wow, where's that scsi bus that can handle 63 peripherals? Or how about the SCSI bus that can be used for TCP/IP communication?
exactly. it's called firewire. those are the big changes in the spec you're talking about. it is based on SCSI, after all.
but if that radio is still operational, the magnet moves back and forth as the speaker produces sound, which would create a magnetic disturbance. only a problem if the radion bits still function, i guess.
you really have no idea how unintentionally funny that is, do you?
now it is reduced to this...(wait for it)...diamond.
and the audience goes wild!
you know why it seems like most radio/tv pundits are righty-tightys? because the left is too busy laughing at how stupid you guys sound to mount any sort of response.
challenge (and i know there's an answer): name one right wing comedian. there's got to be at least one. and dubya doesn't count.
Uhh, I didn't say ISA or Nubus or whateverthehellyoucallit is _better_, just that anyone with legacy cards gets screwed with a Mac, whereas with a PC, anyone with a little clue can save a couple of bucks on a soundcard, printer port, serial port, or even a SCSI board for a scanner if they get a Mobo with an ISA slot.
dude, the only things that came on nubus cards were shitty video cards and like fast-1 scsi cards. there was no need to continue to maintain compatibility with a closed, dead end technology when PCI was open and vastly superior. which, i believe, negates your entire arguement vis a vis closed v. open tech.
Not to mention I prefer to buy a decent monitor and speakers for even my cheap systems. And not to mention that a majority of non-geeks I know like to have a good monitor and speakers. I thought we gave up on built in monitors during the TRS-80 and PET days?
i don't know, apple is famous for making the best lcd's on the market, and a flat crt like on the emac is pretty hard to fuck up, so what're you driving at with this one?
Geeks reccomend computers to non-geeks. Guess which type of computer wins? Not to mention that cool hardware is designed by geeks who would just rather work with a system that works with them, rather than against them.
so..who's the bigger geek, the guy who staples parts together at the dell factory, or the designers at apple?
why do some people simply refuse to make sense?
yeah, i was a junior or a senior in high school when the game boy pockets came out (you know, the little silver b/w one) and when we discovered that it fit perfectly into a TI-8x cover, math, physics, and chemistry all got a lot more interesting, because we were allowed to play with our 'calculators' during class.
of course, there was also the kid who actually did have all of legend of zelda programmed into his ti-82. i guess that's a lot slicker than sliding a GB pocket into the cover, huh?
What about proprietary application software for Linux that is provided only as a binary for Intel x86 architecture?
well, you load up virtual pc and get to work.
thank you for playing, please make sure to try again.
just as i read this, my at 8260 gave the sms beep, and guess what?
you can now use your att wireless phone to make international calls to over 220 countries. sign up at...
fucking ridiculous. did this happen to anyone else today? i'm in chicago.
i don't think there's a better place to plug my, band in this article, really...:)
so, yeah, check us out. http://www.sixtyeights.com
and just to wander somewhere close to on-topic, i'd like to point out that right now, so-called 'local' music is absolutely thriving--most cities are experiencing an explosion in bands. go check it out: hit a club, wander around local music websites, pick up one of those free weeklies that list clubs and bars with music, just get out there and you'll be surprised how good and how honest music actually can be. just my $.02...
but in your eye, the receptors are always moving--it's very hard to keep you head and neck still, let alone your body, which is jolted regularly by heartbeats and respiration, so your eye muscles are always moving around.
if you don't believe me, go zen for a minute and stare at something on your desk. pay attention to your head--how high it is, when you can feel your heart beat. it's really hard to stay perfectly still.
PS for linux would be great, but it'll never happen.
photoshop makes a LOT of mac toolbox calls, so much so that adobe ported a large part of macapp (or whatever it is) to windows and runs that as a DLL.
this is incidentally why photoshop took so long to go to os x--carbon stripped a lot of these legacy calls away. same deal for pagemaker--actually, pagemaker had turned into such a steaming pile of wierd old crap that adobe just started over with indesign. you'll never see pagemaker for x; i doubt it beings revved much farther for 9 either.
i don't the the linux target market is large enough to support that kind of porting effort again.
dude, your list of sw is /fucked/.
imovie comes with a $799 imac.
idvd comes with a $1300 imac.
all the pro stuff is just that, pro stuff
so, yeah, apple charges pro prices for pro soft, and gives the consumer stuff away for free. what a fucking surprise.
don't most buses start vibrating when hot girls get on them anyway? this is just one way to amp up the experience.
actually, there's an article at apple's site which claims that latency in os x is down to 1ms, from 10ms in the classic mac os.
and i can't find it right now, but i also read another article somewhere that showed that os x had virtually no latency when doing dedicated audio, so i think os x probably stands a snowball's chance here.
dude, taco, VA must be pretty hard up if you've got to go straight to the hard-sell.
'Fix that squeaky door hinge...Buy a Japanese orange."
i gotta say, that's the best rhyme i've ever seen for 'orange.'
and they told me in third grade it couldn't be done!
does anyone know which episode has the wierd fifties farmyard documentary? all i remember is one of the bots going "no one knows why farmer brown is 200 years old."
but every time my sister or i say this to each other, the we both start cracking up and her husband thinks we're crazy.
anybody know?
well, IANAL, but according to that thing of ours called the constitution, states do not have the power to enforce their laws in other states, even if the laws are similar or identical.
so, if you cross state lines, it becomes a matter for the overarching authority in the land, te federal government--they have the power to handle inter-state issues.
actually, there's a great line in "this side of paradise" by f. scott fitzgerald, when the protagonist amory blaine goes home to see his mom. she pulls up in her "ancient electric" and then speeds them away at 2mph.