Macs are not about the same price. If you make a system at the online Apple Store and then post the price here, I'll happily cruise over to the Dell online store and build a (roughly -- the two vendors may not supply exactly the same part) system and we can compare.
OK. iMac G4 1GHz, $1299.
When pricing up your PC, don't forget to include:
Digital flat panel display--i.e. DVI connected, not just VGA.
802.11g, 100baseT, combo drive.
A UNIX flavored OS.
Movie editing software.
Some spreadsheet, word processor, database, vector graphics, bitmap graphics and presentation software.
Network aware multi-user calendar.
DVD player software.
Personal finance software.
And of course, make sure all the software comes with support. No cheating and pricing it up with unsupported free downloads.
Right. My land line phone gives me 5 a minute long distance and 10 a minute to family overseas. If I went through the hassle of getting VoIP and persuaded everyone else to, I could save myself maybe... oh, $3 a month? Pardon me if I don't run out and buy VoIP software immediately.
OK, they say, but what about the monthly fee you're paying for your landline or mobile phone? Well, yes, it would be nice to not have to pay that, but until everyone's using VoIP, I'm gonna have to have a phone. So until everyone has VoIP, it has no compelling financial benefit. And until it has a compelling benefit, it's not going to be used by everyone.
Read the article you linked to. TDMA does it by tagging the message via its own special scheme.
There's no 100% reliable way to tag a message so that you can always detect replies to it, other than to use unique e-mail addresses when you send... and that's not a very useful approach.
$500 in upgrades for faster CPUs, graphics cards, bigger hard drives, moving up from CD to DVD, and so on. My brothers are PC gamers, and they're always having to upgrade the machine (or build a mostly new one) to play the latest games.
Actually, lots of people think it's stupid to spend $1000 plus $500 a year in upgrades, and put up with all the hassle of dealing with Windoze, to play games on a PC. That's why I have a PS2 and a Mac.
Challenge-response only works as long as practically nobody uses it.
As soon as it becomes slightly commonplace, you'll see the spammers sending messages saying
Thanks for your e-mail. This is an automatic reply from my challenge-response system. To confirm that you are not a spammer, please click the URL below to make sure your e-mail gets received by me.
...followed by an obscure URL that goes straight to a page full of advertising for free cable, herbal viagra and penis enlargement pills from a guy in Nigeria, and confirms the sucker's e-mail address.
At which point the number of people willing to respond to your challenge e-mails will drop to zero very rapidly.
In fact, if any spammers are reading this, please hurry up and do the above so we can stop having C-R put forward as the solution to spam.
Perhaps nVidia could spend more of their valuable time fixing the bugs in their OpenGL drivers, and less of it whining.
For example, I'd appreciate it if they could fix it so on my GeForce 4MX, antialiased lines with width >1 pixel draw properly, rather than being drawn as width 1 lines with no antialiasing. You know, little details like that.
I know I'm hardly likely to spend time trying to use nVidia-only optimizations when even core OpenGL doesn't work properly.
If you're on the Cocoa Dev mailing lists, you'll know that CocoaTech have been very generous with their source code. They have released a number of the libraries they developed for Path Finder for use by other people. So maybe they aren't complying fully with the GPL here, but they're not exactly the evil hoarders of source that everyone seems to be rushing to assume they are.
If it was another country's research team we'd probably be invading by now...
No, if it was another country we'd ">sell them the biological weapons, order them to get rid of them, wait for them to do so, then use the no-longer-existing weapons as an excuse to invade.
So long as they had oil, of course. Otherwise we'd just ignore them and let them get on with it.
Activision is essentially telling its Xbox customers to fuck themselves. [...] At a time when every other game came with online features, Tonk Hawk 4 topped out at 2 players and no other features.
Then again, since you bought an Xbox and are actively supporting Microsoft's attempt to take over the video game industry, even if Activision aren't actually telling you to go fuck yourself, I'd be only too glad to.
Not necessarily. The Sony UX-50 has a 480x320 screen, but it's such a tiny 480x320 screen that the text is pretty much unreadable even if you have good eyesight. The Palm T3, while only slightly bigger, is a lot more visible at the same resolution.
So the first question I find myself asking about this Nokia is, how big is the screen?
I keep waiting for something like the Sidekick that isn't tied to a single GSM provider, and doesn't turn into a paperweight if I decided to switch phone company. No way am I paying $300 for something that locks me to a single company. Either unlock it, or give it away for $50.
Perhaps you can tell me what the compelling need for Struts is, then. I've looked at it, and it doesn't seem to do anything that's worth the added complexity of learning and using it, not to mention adding one more external dependency to the project... Then there's the documentation issue, it seems to be nearly as impenetrable as the XSLT spec.
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OK. iMac G4 1GHz, $1299.
When pricing up your PC, don't forget to include:
And of course, make sure all the software comes with support. No cheating and pricing it up with unsupported free downloads.
Uh, did you try noapic in the boot options? Works for me on systems where APIC causes Linux to die.
Dude, you so deserved a +5 Funny. Even if I was about to make the same joke.
Isn't it a bit late for "Talk Like A Pirate Day"?
Right. My land line phone gives me 5 a minute long distance and 10 a minute to family overseas. If I went through the hassle of getting VoIP and persuaded everyone else to, I could save myself maybe... oh, $3 a month? Pardon me if I don't run out and buy VoIP software immediately.
OK, they say, but what about the monthly fee you're paying for your landline or mobile phone? Well, yes, it would be nice to not have to pay that, but until everyone's using VoIP, I'm gonna have to have a phone. So until everyone has VoIP, it has no compelling financial benefit. And until it has a compelling benefit, it's not going to be used by everyone.
Read the article you linked to. TDMA does it by tagging the message via its own special scheme.
There's no 100% reliable way to tag a message so that you can always detect replies to it, other than to use unique e-mail addresses when you send... and that's not a very useful approach.
That only works if everybody uses TDMA.
I never have for any previous Mac.
PS2 for games, Mac for everything else.
$500 in upgrades for faster CPUs, graphics cards, bigger hard drives, moving up from CD to DVD, and so on. My brothers are PC gamers, and they're always having to upgrade the machine (or build a mostly new one) to play the latest games.
Actually, lots of people think it's stupid to spend $1000 plus $500 a year in upgrades, and put up with all the hassle of dealing with Windoze, to play games on a PC. That's why I have a PS2 and a Mac.
As soon as it becomes slightly commonplace, you'll see the spammers sending messages saying
At which point the number of people willing to respond to your challenge e-mails will drop to zero very rapidly.
In fact, if any spammers are reading this, please hurry up and do the above so we can stop having C-R put forward as the solution to spam.
That's funny. I got an e-mail from RedHat warning me that my subscription was expiring, and that I'd have to pay to continue using it.
If up2date is really free, that was one seriously misleading e-mail.
Perhaps nVidia could spend more of their valuable time fixing the bugs in their OpenGL drivers, and less of it whining.
For example, I'd appreciate it if they could fix it so on my GeForce 4MX, antialiased lines with width >1 pixel draw properly, rather than being drawn as width 1 lines with no antialiasing. You know, little details like that.
I know I'm hardly likely to spend time trying to use nVidia-only optimizations when even core OpenGL doesn't work properly.
If you're on the Cocoa Dev mailing lists, you'll know that CocoaTech have been very generous with their source code. They have released a number of the libraries they developed for Path Finder for use by other people. So maybe they aren't complying fully with the GPL here, but they're not exactly the evil hoarders of source that everyone seems to be rushing to assume they are.
Even better, will someone hurry up and digitize the episode and post a torrent? I forgot to set the ReplayTV...
Of course, we've had working quantum XNOT gates for ages...
Uh, no. The reason it's as cheap as a PS2 is that Microsoft makes a loss on every Xbox sale, whereas Sony makes a profit on every PS2 sale.
No, if it was another country we'd ">sell them the biological weapons, order them to get rid of them, wait for them to do so, then use the no-longer-existing weapons as an excuse to invade.
So long as they had oil, of course. Otherwise we'd just ignore them and let them get on with it.
On 9/11 I watched live TV coverage from the BBC via the Internet, across a transatlantic link even. Worked fine.
Maybe suckholes like Faux News and CNN were down, but actual news sites were working if you were prepared to look for them.
Tony Hawk's Underground?
I didn't even know he was dead.
That's because Microsoft won't let you develop online multiplayer games for Xbox unless you agree to let Microsoft own your customer data and host your online presence on Microsoft software. Activision and EA won't agree to that, so no online Xbox multiplayer. Don't like it? Blame Microsoft for acting like they have a console monopoly and can make developers agree to anything.
Then again, since you bought an Xbox and are actively supporting Microsoft's attempt to take over the video game industry, even if Activision aren't actually telling you to go fuck yourself, I'd be only too glad to.
There's a native rsync for Windows which doesn't need cygwin. (Google for it.)
Not necessarily. The Sony UX-50 has a 480x320 screen, but it's such a tiny 480x320 screen that the text is pretty much unreadable even if you have good eyesight. The Palm T3, while only slightly bigger, is a lot more visible at the same resolution.
So the first question I find myself asking about this Nokia is, how big is the screen?
I keep waiting for something like the Sidekick that isn't tied to a single GSM provider, and doesn't turn into a paperweight if I decided to switch phone company. No way am I paying $300 for something that locks me to a single company. Either unlock it, or give it away for $50.
Hmm. The custom tags didn't seem to do much that I couldn't write myself or find in pure custom tag libraries, but maybe I didn't look hard enough.
Perhaps you can tell me what the compelling need for Struts is, then. I've looked at it, and it doesn't seem to do anything that's worth the added complexity of learning and using it, not to mention adding one more external dependency to the project... Then there's the documentation issue, it seems to be nearly as impenetrable as the XSLT spec.