"There are zillions of clues you get from people's appearance"
Yes, and a lot of them are stereotypes which are often wrong. Haven't you ever met someone via the Internet first, and realized on meeting them in person that you would have crossed the street to avoid them if you had gone by appearances?
PhotoCD isn't much more expensive... As little as $15 if you get it done when the film is developed. Not many places will do it, though.
You can theoretically get stuff put on PhotoCD later on, too. The idea was you'd develop a roll, send the CD back with the next roll, and so on. Unfortunately, the quality of scans is poor unless you pay pro prices, and Kodak have an annoying tendency to scratch the CD.
So, eventually I decided it was better to just give in and buy a film scanner and do it myself, and Kodak destroyed a perfectly good revenue stream.
Yup, sounds great to me. And if I interpret the Sonyspeak correctly, the first session is a genuine CDDA audio CD, so I can still rip it and listen to it on my iPod.
FOX News used to have a great article that, once you looked past the spin, admitted that the intent of the electorate in Florida was to elect Gore. That if there had been a statewide recount with any chosen consistent set of rules for the disputed votes, Gore would have won, electoral college or not.
The URL was http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,38554,00.html
Fox were cleverer than TIME, and managed to prohibit archive.org from serving up the old article. If anyone knows where to find an archive copy, I'd be very interested.
Refusing to support versions of RedHat that have been modified from their default configuration isn't odious, it is a common sense precaution against your support staff wasting vast amounts of time.
Well, if they didn't ship so much stuff broken, it wouldn't be such an issue.
Well, for starters RedHat and SuSE don't document half their stuff. Try typing man yast2 on a SuSE system, or man redhat-config-network on a RedHat system.
The idea of the Empire failing due to budgetary constraints would actually be a return to a favorite theme of Lucas's. Consider THX-1138, where THX escapes simply because the city feels it's uneconomic to spend any more money catching him.
Right. There are some sites where I actively go for the ads, Google is one of them, dealmac is another. I edited my ad blocking configuration when I discovered it blocked dealmac ads.
I started blocking ads as a matter of course when they grew to take up half the width of my browser window, and began screwing up the flow of the text and making it appear in a two-words-wide column. That's why I block Slashdot's ads, for example.
Advertising that's tastefully done and properly targeted works. I bought a product I would never have known about if I hadn't seen it advertised in a small ad on a web site, and I wrote to the company to tell them so.
The advertisers reading this thread need to understand something fairly basic: you cannot force people to look at your ads, particularly not on the Internet. An arms race of ad serving vs ad blocking will serve nobody. It didn't do the New York Times any good trying to get around Mozilla's ad blocking, it just helped improve Mozilla and made it more effective at blocking every other site's ads.
The more obnoxious your ads, and the more garish and eye catching they are, the more people you drive to install ad-blocking software, the more sophisticated the ad-blocking software gets, and the worse you make the problem for the ad-supported web sites--including your own. Give up while you're ahead.
As a final comment, I'm amused that when the RIAA's business model is rendered unworkable by technology, everyone says "tough luck, suck it up"--but when slashdot's business model is rendered unworkable by technology, everyone starts saying that we HAVE to look at the ads, THINK of the POOR WEBSITES!
Debian - whose users think apt-get is better than the ("I never heard of it") rpm/up2date of redhat and with much less features.
Dude, either you're trolling, you work for RedHat, or you need to put down the crack pipe for a few minutes.
(No, I don't run Debian. I don't even particularly like Debian or apt-get.)
Maybe if you make a straight numerical count of features, RPM has more than APT... but if you look at the features you actually need to run an OS, and how easy it is to use them, RPM is a terrible piece of software design.
Maybe Jobs wasn't as technically astute as some... yet ironically, Apple's problem was that far too many decisions were made by the engineers. It was know-it-all technical guys like Gassee who blocked Apple from licensing MacOS in 1985 and gave us the Macintosh Portable. Fortunately Apple managed to get rid of Gasbag, and he went on to found Be and run it into the ground with his brilliant strategic insights.
I don't believe your figures, 'cause I just went through the same exercise at Dell's web site.
Base price for the Dimension 2100 is $599. I hit customize.
The iMac has an 80GB hard drive. Configure the Dell to have an 80GB hard drive too, add $60.
The iMac has 256MB of RAM. Upgrade the Dell to 256MB, add $70.
The iMac has a combo drive. The Dell comes with a CDRW free, so stick a DVD-ROM in, add $30, plus $40 for the "enhanced" software that includes DVD imaging, CD imaging, and other functions not performed by the basic version of RecordNow that comes bundled with the CDRW drive.
iMac has an optical mouse, add $30 for an optical Dell mouse.
Add Microsoft Office and Money, $129.
Dell's cheapest digital flat panel monitor is the 17" 1703FP, add $390.
iMac comes with Firewire and video editing. Dell charges an extra $40 for the Firewire card.
Grand total is $1,388 for Dell, $1,299 for Apple. Dell offers a $100 rebate, so after that hassle you've saved a massive $11 by buying a crappy Windows machine from Dell.
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"There are zillions of clues you get from people's appearance"
Yes, and a lot of them are stereotypes which are often wrong. Haven't you ever met someone via the Internet first, and realized on meeting them in person that you would have crossed the street to avoid them if you had gone by appearances?
Yeah. I have no problem with the gay porn, but I'm not touching Access or SQL Server.
Sheesh, it's not like they were asking you to appear in it.
That's what I just said. It's not part of Panther, it's an optional install. Sure, it's included on the CDs. So are lots of things.
How could they not include FLUXX?
Anyone got any recommendations along the lines of "If you love FLUXX, you'll also love..."?
PhotoCD isn't much more expensive... As little as $15 if you get it done when the film is developed. Not many places will do it, though.
You can theoretically get stuff put on PhotoCD later on, too. The idea was you'd develop a roll, send the CD back with the next roll, and so on. Unfortunately, the quality of scans is poor unless you pay pro prices, and Kodak have an annoying tendency to scratch the CD.
So, eventually I decided it was better to just give in and buy a film scanner and do it myself, and Kodak destroyed a perfectly good revenue stream.
Someone probably sold you a PictureCD pretending it was a PhotoCD.
X11 does not come as part of Panther by default. It's an optional install, just like it was for Jaguar.
Photo editing without color matching? I'll stick to my $30 Photoshop Elements, thanks.
Not at all. There are plenty of CDs on the market which aren't region coded and/or aren't CSS-encrypted.
Perhaps if DVD manufacturers put warnings on their DVDs saying "CSS encrypted, may not play on your computer" you'd have an argument there.
Consumer PhotoCD (aka "Master PhotoCD") is 3072x2048. That's hardly "low-res".
I dunno, people have told me they've had SMP work on kernels as old as 2.2... I just know it's broken on RedHat 2.4.x kernels but works on SuSE ones.
SMP threading. Domino 6.5 won't run on it. Runs fine on SuSE and Gentoo.
Sure, if you have a single-processor machine, RHEL is fine.
You could ask the same about sendmail and BIND.
Yup, sounds great to me. And if I interpret the Sonyspeak correctly, the first session is a genuine CDDA audio CD, so I can still rip it and listen to it on my iPod.
My wife bought a "copy-protected" disc. It wouldn't play in the Discman, and wouldn't play in the Sony mini hi-fi either.
So I dropped it in the Linux MP3 server, and it ripped straight away, no problems.
So the "copy-protection" actually forced us to copy the disc in order to listen to it.
I know, it's not exactly surprising, but...
FOX News used to have a great article that, once you looked past the spin, admitted that the intent of the electorate in Florida was to elect Gore. That if there had been a statewide recount with any chosen consistent set of rules for the disputed votes, Gore would have won, electoral college or not.
The URL was http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,38554,00.html
Fox were cleverer than TIME, and managed to prohibit archive.org from serving up the old article. If anyone knows where to find an archive copy, I'd be very interested.
Well, if they didn't ship so much stuff broken, it wouldn't be such an issue.
Well, for starters RedHat and SuSE don't document half their stuff. Try typing man yast2 on a SuSE system, or man redhat-config-network on a RedHat system.
The idea of the Empire failing due to budgetary constraints would actually be a return to a favorite theme of Lucas's. Consider THX-1138, where THX escapes simply because the city feels it's uneconomic to spend any more money catching him.
Right. There are some sites where I actively go for the ads, Google is one of them, dealmac is another. I edited my ad blocking configuration when I discovered it blocked dealmac ads.
I started blocking ads as a matter of course when they grew to take up half the width of my browser window, and began screwing up the flow of the text and making it appear in a two-words-wide column. That's why I block Slashdot's ads, for example.
Advertising that's tastefully done and properly targeted works. I bought a product I would never have known about if I hadn't seen it advertised in a small ad on a web site, and I wrote to the company to tell them so.
The advertisers reading this thread need to understand something fairly basic: you cannot force people to look at your ads, particularly not on the Internet. An arms race of ad serving vs ad blocking will serve nobody. It didn't do the New York Times any good trying to get around Mozilla's ad blocking, it just helped improve Mozilla and made it more effective at blocking every other site's ads.
The more obnoxious your ads, and the more garish and eye catching they are, the more people you drive to install ad-blocking software, the more sophisticated the ad-blocking software gets, and the worse you make the problem for the ad-supported web sites--including your own. Give up while you're ahead.
As a final comment, I'm amused that when the RIAA's business model is rendered unworkable by technology, everyone says "tough luck, suck it up"--but when slashdot's business model is rendered unworkable by technology, everyone starts saying that we HAVE to look at the ads, THINK of the POOR WEBSITES!
Actually, the endless stream of cheesy Mario-related crap is what kept me away from Nintendo for ages.
Dude, either you're trolling, you work for RedHat, or you need to put down the crack pipe for a few minutes.
(No, I don't run Debian. I don't even particularly like Debian or apt-get.)
Maybe if you make a straight numerical count of features, RPM has more than APT... but if you look at the features you actually need to run an OS, and how easy it is to use them, RPM is a terrible piece of software design.
Maybe Jobs wasn't as technically astute as some... yet ironically, Apple's problem was that far too many decisions were made by the engineers. It was know-it-all technical guys like Gassee who blocked Apple from licensing MacOS in 1985 and gave us the Macintosh Portable. Fortunately Apple managed to get rid of Gasbag, and he went on to found Be and run it into the ground with his brilliant strategic insights.
I don't believe your figures, 'cause I just went through the same exercise at Dell's web site.
Base price for the Dimension 2100 is $599. I hit customize.
The iMac has an 80GB hard drive. Configure the Dell to have an 80GB hard drive too, add $60.
The iMac has 256MB of RAM. Upgrade the Dell to 256MB, add $70.
The iMac has a combo drive. The Dell comes with a CDRW free, so stick a DVD-ROM in, add $30, plus $40 for the "enhanced" software that includes DVD imaging, CD imaging, and other functions not performed by the basic version of RecordNow that comes bundled with the CDRW drive.
iMac has an optical mouse, add $30 for an optical Dell mouse.
Add Microsoft Office and Money, $129.
Dell's cheapest digital flat panel monitor is the 17" 1703FP, add $390.
iMac comes with Firewire and video editing. Dell charges an extra $40 for the Firewire card.
Grand total is $1,388 for Dell, $1,299 for Apple. Dell offers a $100 rebate, so after that hassle you've saved a massive $11 by buying a crappy Windows machine from Dell.
I encourage anyone reading this to go confirm the figures for themselves.
Yup. I never could get on with virtual desktops, but now with expos I get the benefits without the hassle.