You see someone getting hauled out the door in a nice white backwards-sleeve jacket, screaming "I'm telling you the truth! I have a cell phone in my teeth! They just installed it yesterday!"
Would you have to use your tongue to dial it, though?
Even they didn't support Macs, they were a good system when I was able to access them.
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You can always count on them to do the sorts of things we'd never dream of doing with our own Macs - tearing them apart and photographing them, overclocking the $#!+ out them, wedging a cd drive into an SE/30, etc.
----- Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
You are correct. Mac OS X is built around Darwin, which is partly based on FreeBSD. See http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ for more details. Darwin is also available for x86-compatible computers, so it's not a Mac-only thing. ----- Darwin is an evolutionary OS...
When I first heard about this yesterday, I was thinking "So what? This is the same kind of Windows&Outlook-only virus problem that's been painfully well documented and explained". I saw no point in the FUD coming from the anti-virus people. Good to see someone else makes those observations, and in such a public forum.
----- Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
With neither a zoom lens nor LCD monitor, it takes some practice to frame shots properly -- subjects that filled the tiny viewfinder proved to be only an off-center portion of the captured image.
Gee, it sounds like he's never used an actual 35mm film camera in his life. No LCD monitor? Heaven forbid you have to use the viewfinder that's happily provided. Guess he's never heard of parallax error, either. ----- Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
The official NWN site only lists Windows requirements - where can I find out what kind of Mac or Linux box it'll run on?
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Just to put a response on this from someone you're talking about...:)
I live in Taco's neck of the woods - cost of living is a bit on the high end here, IMHO - and I'm working one job, while my wife stays home to take care of our two kids. We're paying the bank for the privelage of living under a single roof, and that privelage takes up about 50% of my monthly takehome pay. The only reason we could afford the house was thanks to an inheritance, which barely covered the down payment.
Yes, we have two color tvs and two vcrs, but that's only because we spent good money on the first ones, and they still work well enough to be used in the basement on occasion. There's also an original Nintendo connected to that tv in the basement that we bought used years ago - no Playstations, no XBoxen. No Game Boys in the house, either. I splurged last month and ordered one of those 76-games-in-one game systems that were mentioned in an article here recently, and it's the best thing in the world as far as the kids are concerned. The dvd player that we just got last Christmas is a no-name Best Buy special, and we don't own any dvds (yet). The newest computer that was purchased was a used Bondi blue iMac, and that was two years ago. There's also the G3 that I bought five years ago (wow, that thing's getting old...) with a G4 upgrade that I put in it last year.
We don't go out to the movies, and if we're lucky, we go out to eat once a month. It's too expensive for these things, and the kids are too much hassle to take out in public sometimes:) Nobody in the house drinks, smokes, or does drugs other than caffeine and chocolate. I've always said I never did those other things because I couldn't afford them:) Yes, we have two cars; one is my economy car for shuttling to and from work, and the other is the grocery getter / kid hauler. Both cars are fully paid for, and over 10 years old.
According to that article, we're a "below average" household, based strictly on the income numbers and education levels. Strangely enough, our household basically is the 50s/60s standard model - I come home from a day at work, the kids run up to greet me at the door, and the wife is getting dinner ready after her long day of cleaning / laundry / kid corraling. She does the bookkeeping too - I just bring home the money:) (She's the one with the business degree, after all; I'm just a geek.) She says things are kind of tight, but they've always been that way; we still manage to get by somehow. We don't have the latest and greatest toys (despite my geeky wants and urges), but we're still a happy, "average" American family. I don't see that we're particularly well off, but we're holding our own. The trick to the financials of all this is -
wait for it -
live WITHIN your means.
Just like they did back in the "good old days" before all the PDAs and TiVos and cell phones (oh yeah, one Tracfone in the household - $20 every two months for a phone I barely use for thirty minutes a month), you only spend what's in the bank, or what you KNOW is going to be in the bank come the next paycheck. There's only been a few times that our total credit card debt has been over $1500 at the end of a month, which from what I understand is WAY below average. This is something that people seem to have forgotten - the people that give you those pieces of plastic want their money back someday, and someday SOON.
Like that NYTimes article says, everyone acts like their financial salvation is coming just over the next hill... but the odds are REALLY good that what's over the next hill is just the next paycheck. If you live life expecting that next check, you won't be surprised - or at least, you won't be disappointed when the monthly bills show up. If you learn to take care of what you have, and make do with what you have, you don't have to be throwing tons of money out the window every month for the next "newest and bestest". Regular oil changes are a lot cheaper than a new car every few years because the engine blew up after you kept treating it like crap.
We may not be financially compared to other households in this country, but we're financially stable, and we're overflowing with intangibles that a happy family provides.
/me checks the preview... wow, I was in a mood to write tonight, wasn't I?:) Sifting through to edit out some of the more personal information...
And after this lengthy monologue about money and happiness and making do, I leave you with a link to a site where you could win new geek toys, and put some affiliate money in my pocket in the process so I can buy more toys:)
----- Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
...which still most anyone can do, if they know how to use Photoshop, it's just a little fancier:)
The man said to buy from the other guy, so... store's open, if anyone's interested. And if you want a shirt with the graphics placed in a different orders, let me know. E-mail link is on the page.
As of 10:15 am Thursday morning from inside UMich, www.macslash.com is still a dotster default page. Plain old macslash.com, however, gets me to their site.
----- Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
This suit has been making the rounds in the anti-spam circles, like the SpamCom mailing list and the news.admin.net-abuse.email Usenet group.
It is good to see things heading in this direction. The MonsterHut situation stunk very badly for a long time, and it's good to see them getting smacked for such irresponsible behavior. ----- Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
I'd heard about Comcast doing this from a local news report; seems like I missed the postings here. Thanks for all the info.
Heh, and as I'm typing this, a "we're hiring" ad for Comcast is on cable... "Enjoy an exciting career with Comcast! Technician! Sales! Spy!" ---- Apple hardware still too expensive? How about a raffle ticket?
People using Windows XP with the stolen key will not be able to apply the service pack or any future updates available from Microsoft's Web site.
So, not only are they are they known pirates, but they're going to be running software that cannot POSSIBLY be secured to prevent the spread of M$-virii. Great thinking, guys!
You know they're running stolen software based on the code they're using, surely it's within your power to actually *disable* the machine so it can't continue to spew it's Klez/CodeRed/Melissa crap into netspace.
----- Apple hardware still too expensive? How about a raffle ticket?
I think the Powerbook program was to get those machines out of circulation. The trade-in was for 190s and 5300s (if I remember corectly), which were covered under a special extended warranty as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement there were multiple design flaws in those machines, easily the worst quality products to ever escape from Cupertino.
I still have my 190, since I still couldn't afford a new machine, even with the trade-in:p
BTW, my first accepted submission! Yay me!:)
---- Apple hardware STILL too expensive? How about a raffle ticket?
Even considering my experience with college; I graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor's in Computer Information Systems, having been taught the basics of programming in Pascal, Cobol, and assembly language (they refreshed the curriculum the year after I started in with USEFUL stuff like C and VisualBasic (okay, somewhat useful)). My goal was to get an admin job, and I did get one - three years later.
So go to school, get the four years under your belt, learn your basic chops... sure can't hurt. If someone should happen to offer you a gig while you're still in school, see what they'll do about paying your way while you gun for the end of that four years. Employers *do* care if you learned in a proper.edu environment, as opposed to "I hacked on a *nux box in my basement". I did, however, get my current admin job because I was able to say both of those things:)
Holy crap, that rocks. uberdood, you suck - I'm having a hard enough time scraping pocket change together to get new trinkets for my Newton, and now you show me this?:)
I'm sure a lot of the games on this system are Japanese knock-offs, but who cares, as long as the gameplay is the same:D
No kidding. $50 can get you a wavelan off of ebay that works fine with Newtons. I'm also waiting to see the software get out of beta, just so I can use it on a network named something other than "Newton". I really want to take it into work and use it as a streaming mp3 player:)
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You see someone getting hauled out the door in a nice white backwards-sleeve jacket, screaming "I'm telling you the truth! I have a cell phone in my teeth! They just installed it yesterday!"
Would you have to use your tongue to dial it, though?
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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!
Hey does someone know where I can buy Slack in the Netherlands?
Oh, you cannot buy true Slack, my friend... Slackware? Sure, no problem. But *Slack*? That's a whole other kettle of aquatic sea creatures...
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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!
Even they didn't support Macs, they were a good system when I was able to access them.
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
You can always count on them to do the sorts of things we'd never dream of doing with our own Macs - tearing them apart and photographing them, overclocking the $#!+ out them, wedging a cd drive into an SE/30, etc.
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
You are correct. Mac OS X is built around Darwin, which is partly based on FreeBSD. See http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ for more details. Darwin is also available for x86-compatible computers, so it's not a Mac-only thing.
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Darwin is an evolutionary OS...
When I first heard about this yesterday, I was thinking "So what? This is the same kind of Windows&Outlook-only virus problem that's been painfully well documented and explained". I saw no point in the FUD coming from the anti-virus people. Good to see someone else makes those observations, and in such a public forum.
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
From the review:
With neither a zoom lens nor LCD monitor, it takes some practice to frame shots properly -- subjects that filled the tiny viewfinder proved to be only an off-center portion of the captured image.
Gee, it sounds like he's never used an actual 35mm film camera in his life. No LCD monitor? Heaven forbid you have to use the viewfinder that's happily provided. Guess he's never heard of parallax error, either.
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
The official NWN site only lists Windows requirements - where can I find out what kind of Mac or Linux box it'll run on?
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
Just to put a response on this from someone you're talking about... :)
:) Nobody in the house drinks, smokes, or does drugs other than caffeine and chocolate. I've always said I never did those other things because I couldn't afford them :) Yes, we have two cars; one is my economy car for shuttling to and from work, and the other is the grocery getter / kid hauler. Both cars are fully paid for, and over 10 years old.
:) (She's the one with the business degree, after all; I'm just a geek.) She says things are kind of tight, but they've always been that way; we still manage to get by somehow. We don't have the latest and greatest toys (despite my geeky wants and urges), but we're still a happy, "average" American family. I don't see that we're particularly well off, but we're holding our own. The trick to the financials of all this is -
:) Sifting through to edit out some of the more personal information...
:)
I live in Taco's neck of the woods - cost of living is a bit on the high end here, IMHO - and I'm working one job, while my wife stays home to take care of our two kids. We're paying the bank for the privelage of living under a single roof, and that privelage takes up about 50% of my monthly takehome pay. The only reason we could afford the house was thanks to an inheritance, which barely covered the down payment.
Yes, we have two color tvs and two vcrs, but that's only because we spent good money on the first ones, and they still work well enough to be used in the basement on occasion. There's also an original Nintendo connected to that tv in the basement that we bought used years ago - no Playstations, no XBoxen. No Game Boys in the house, either. I splurged last month and ordered one of those 76-games-in-one game systems that were mentioned in an article here recently, and it's the best thing in the world as far as the kids are concerned. The dvd player that we just got last Christmas is a no-name Best Buy special, and we don't own any dvds (yet). The newest computer that was purchased was a used Bondi blue iMac, and that was two years ago. There's also the G3 that I bought five years ago (wow, that thing's getting old...) with a G4 upgrade that I put in it last year.
We don't go out to the movies, and if we're lucky, we go out to eat once a month. It's too expensive for these things, and the kids are too much hassle to take out in public sometimes
According to that article, we're a "below average" household, based strictly on the income numbers and education levels. Strangely enough, our household basically is the 50s/60s standard model - I come home from a day at work, the kids run up to greet me at the door, and the wife is getting dinner ready after her long day of cleaning / laundry / kid corraling. She does the bookkeeping too - I just bring home the money
wait for it -
live WITHIN your means.
Just like they did back in the "good old days" before all the PDAs and TiVos and cell phones (oh yeah, one Tracfone in the household - $20 every two months for a phone I barely use for thirty minutes a month), you only spend what's in the bank, or what you KNOW is going to be in the bank come the next paycheck. There's only been a few times that our total credit card debt has been over $1500 at the end of a month, which from what I understand is WAY below average. This is something that people seem to have forgotten - the people that give you those pieces of plastic want their money back someday, and someday SOON.
Like that NYTimes article says, everyone acts like their financial salvation is coming just over the next hill... but the odds are REALLY good that what's over the next hill is just the next paycheck. If you live life expecting that next check, you won't be surprised - or at least, you won't be disappointed when the monthly bills show up. If you learn to take care of what you have, and make do with what you have, you don't have to be throwing tons of money out the window every month for the next "newest and bestest". Regular oil changes are a lot cheaper than a new car every few years because the engine blew up after you kept treating it like crap.
We may not be financially compared to other households in this country, but we're financially stable, and we're overflowing with intangibles that a happy family provides.
/me checks the preview... wow, I was in a mood to write tonight, wasn't I?
And after this lengthy monologue about money and happiness and making do, I leave you with a link to a site where you could win new geek toys, and put some affiliate money in my pocket in the process so I can buy more toys
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
I dipped into lankwei.com (as mentioned in the original article), and found this page with info on various flash ROM products. Not exactly cheap...
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
Now, there's copying and pasting text, which anyone can do, and then there's
:)
http://www.cafepress.com/jackvalenti
...which still most anyone can do, if they know how to use Photoshop, it's just a little fancier
The man said to buy from the other guy, so... store's open, if anyone's interested. And if you want a shirt with the graphics placed in a different orders, let me know. E-mail link is on the page.
You want a shirt? You got it :)
:) God, I love how easy it is to work with cafepress... :D
http://www.cafepress.com/jackvalenti
I should have a design up by tomorrow morning
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket? Or a Darwin shirt?
As of 10:15 am Thursday morning from inside UMich, www.macslash.com is still a dotster default page. Plain old macslash.com, however, gets me to their site.
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
This suit has been making the rounds in the anti-spam circles, like the SpamCom mailing list and the news.admin.net-abuse.email Usenet group.
It is good to see things heading in this direction. The MonsterHut situation stunk very badly for a long time, and it's good to see them getting smacked for such irresponsible behavior.
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
thehungersite is back up? Cool! I hit that site every day for the longest time before it died. Thanks for posting that :)
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?
I'd heard about Comcast doing this from a local news report; seems like I missed the postings here. Thanks for all the info.
Heh, and as I'm typing this, a "we're hiring" ad for Comcast is on cable... "Enjoy an exciting career with Comcast! Technician! Sales! Spy!"
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Apple hardware still too expensive? How about a raffle ticket?
People using Windows XP with the stolen key will not be able to apply the service pack or any future updates available from Microsoft's Web site.
So, not only are they are they known pirates, but they're going to be running software that cannot POSSIBLY be secured to prevent the spread of M$-virii. Great thinking, guys!
You know they're running stolen software based on the code they're using, surely it's within your power to actually *disable* the machine so it can't continue to spew it's Klez/CodeRed/Melissa crap into netspace.
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Apple hardware still too expensive? How about a raffle ticket?
Umm.... Smart Media? Flash RAM? Sony memory sticks? I think they've already got that technology covered :)
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Apple hardware too expensive? How about a raffle ticket?
I think the Powerbook program was to get those machines out of circulation. The trade-in was for 190s and 5300s (if I remember corectly), which were covered under a special extended warranty as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement there were multiple design flaws in those machines, easily the worst quality products to ever escape from Cupertino.
:p
:)
I still have my 190, since I still couldn't afford a new machine, even with the trade-in
BTW, my first accepted submission! Yay me!
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Apple hardware STILL too expensive? How about a raffle ticket?
I wonder how much audio advertising a fetus is subjected to before it's born...
Personally, I'm still waiting for advertising on toilet paper and paper towels in public restrooms.
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Can't afford Apple's nifty hardware? How about a raffle ticket?
This guy could be Professor Mann's child :)
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Can't afford Apple's hardware? How about a raffle ticket?
Even considering my experience with college; I graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor's in Computer Information Systems, having been taught the basics of programming in Pascal, Cobol, and assembly language (they refreshed the curriculum the year after I started in with USEFUL stuff like C and VisualBasic (okay, somewhat useful)). My goal was to get an admin job, and I did get one - three years later.
.edu environment, as opposed to "I hacked on a *nux box in my basement". I did, however, get my current admin job because I was able to say both of those things :)
So go to school, get the four years under your belt, learn your basic chops... sure can't hurt. If someone should happen to offer you a gig while you're still in school, see what they'll do about paying your way while you gun for the end of that four years. Employers *do* care if you learned in a proper
Holy crap, that rocks. uberdood, you suck - I'm having a hard enough time scraping pocket change together to get new trinkets for my Newton, and now you show me this? :)
:D
I'm sure a lot of the games on this system are Japanese knock-offs, but who cares, as long as the gameplay is the same
No kidding. $50 can get you a wavelan off of ebay that works fine with Newtons. I'm also waiting to see the software get out of beta, just so I can use it on a network named something other than "Newton". I really want to take it into work and use it as a streaming mp3 player :)
I hope there isn't actually a foo@bar.com out there, because I use that name quite often when I need to feed a form an email. That, or uce@ftc.gov...