Fair enough if they made it so it looked a bit different. A different colour even?
Fair enough if they made it a different size, or shape, or changed the position of the buttons, or something
Apple do not have a monopoly on flash-based MP3 players, they don't have a patent on the idea. What Apple do have, however, is ownership of the design of the iPod Shuffle.
What Apple are (rightfully) pissed off at is the blatant rip-off of their intellectual property - the look and feel.
How the fuck does this cut-n-paste with no linebreaks qualify as +5 informative?
How about clicking on the link and reading the story, complete with formatting?
Look at the Sun Java Workstations for a decently=priced, Tier-1 Opteron system.
No, they don't have to have anything whatsoever to do with Java if you don't want them to.
They are certified to run three families of Operating System - Linux, Solaris or Windows.
They're fast, built well and, most importantly, they have backup support that's second to none.
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines is a great place to start. They cover a wide range of issues, many of which you wouldn't initially even think about.
"Stability is crucial, so I'm leaning toward a Linux-based system"
You should be looking at embedded operating systems, such as VxWorks which is what some of the real car manufacturers actually use
I would consider the display of a car a fairly mission critical application, and you want a system that's designed for these kinds of tasks. This isn't something you can bodge up and whack on a small PC with an operating environment that hasn't been designed to do such things.
Linux is far too complex for something like running your car's display, there is simply too much that can go wrong.
It would also be well worth checking out what the laws are like in your part of the world, I know that where I am, if I replace my (airbag equipped) steering wheel with an aftermarket one that doesn't have airbags, my car is no longer roadworthy.
I sure hope you've got some deep pockets if you truly want to get this project rolling
Kai
It's not cheap, and it'd only 1st generation at the moment, but the MusicCast system from Yamaha shows a lot of promise.
You have a central server, that's got a hard drive and a CD-ROM in it. The server is designed to look like a piece of hifi equipment, so it doesn't need to be hidden in a cupboard.
You then have remote stations, can be in-wall mounted that connect via wired or wireless ethernet and stream either MP3s or lossless-compressed audio from the server. You can also plug the server itself into your existing amp, and play music from it as well.
Sure you can roll-your-own for cheaper than this costs, but for ease of installation and WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) a black box that looks like the rest of your hi-fi equipment rates a lot higher than a beige box - unless you want to use, say, a Mac Mini =)
How on earth did this blatant advertisment make it to the front page?
How on earth can this thing even work?
From http://www.batmax.com/technology-features.php
The foil and the material are designed to:
Absorb the electromagnetic waves generated from the battery.
Generate a flow of negative ions.
Interact with the battery's internal electrolyte and ions.
OK, so it's outside the battery, insulated by the plastic case of the battery, yet it can still interact with the internal electrolyte and ions? Plus it generates a flow of negative ions... all by itslef?
*COUGH*bullshit*COUGH!*
kai
What my ISP does is block all incoming TCP/IP access to Port 25. They also block all outgoing port 25 access to everything except their own mail server. If you are using their service then you can freely relay mail through their SMTP servers, however then they can easily track the volume of messages being sent.
I initially found this pretty restrictive (eg: I wanted to run my own mail server, quite in violation of their TOS) however now I have my mail server running on another ISP. I can send directly through my mail server using SMTP over SSL on port 465, which isn't blocked.
What this ISP has now done is prevent any zombies on their network from flooding spam to anyone. Do I really need to run my own mail server? No, it's a vanity thing. Does my ISP block anything else? Not that I know, or have encountered.
What I'm getting at is that this is a much better solution than AOL's solution, and the vast majority of internet users don't want to, or need to, run their own mail server so there's no inconvenience to them. Their computers can't be used as spam relays, which is a good thing.
Mac Mini + Apple 23" LCD + FireWire DTB Decoder + USB/IR Remote Control + Bluetooth Kbd/Mouse
This will _nearly_ give you _true_ HDTV.
The 23" Cinema Display can display true HD resolution content, not the 1280x768 that most LCD TVs can display - the only problem is the FireWire decoders I've seen only do HD content on a Dual G5, as (I assume) they use the host CPU to decode the content...
So near, yet so far...
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
You need to be able to unlearn the old, bad habits to be able to move forwards. I can't believe it takes you 10 minutes to go to the Terminal menu, select the item "Window Settings" and select the Font option from the drop-down.
Drag the Terminal into the Dock, it's then 1 click away. Set it to auto-launch at login if you wish and then it's always there.
As for the positioning of window widgets, I regularly move between OS X, varions X window managers, and Windows and have no problems identifying at a glance which widget I need to use...
When it's transmitted over an analogue medium. Be that the aether or be it a piecr of copper or glass.
You CAN NOT get a perfect, unlimited bandwidth square wave over an analogue mesium (which includes just about everything in the real world) and when you're talking about 1GHz or 10GHz signals, these are microwave frequency signals that, when interpreted correctly, correspond to a digital bit pattern. Your analogies with consumer audio are only valid up to a point, you're never going to push much more than around 1.5MHz down a consumer digital audio cable, even for high-bitrate 5.1 channel audio.
When you're dealing with signals at a rate of 1000x higher, it's a whole different ballgame. Just splice a couple of cables together? No, this won't work, the difference in the impedance, and the dB loss of the join will act like a mirror and reflect the signal back down the line, causing interference.
Want to use cheap connectors? Don't crimp them correctly? Too tight a bend radius (yes, on copper)? See above.
In short, when you need maximum uptime, you want the peace of mind of quality cabling done by someone who knows what they're doing. You don't want to have to track down a comms error between two servers to an incorrectly specced bit of copper, as this is the _LAST_ place you will ever think of looking
When you're looking at, say, 5v Peak-to-peak, at 1GHz, the voltage will hit that peak for 1 billionth of a second. This can very easily get lost in noise.
There's a famous quote that gets thrown around quite a bit:
"Linux is free only if your time has no value" - Jamie Zawinski
If you are truly a pro photographer than you time is worth a lot more than the purchase price of a decent iMac
You charge for your time, it's your most valuable resource. Why waste it trying to do things the hard way?
Why use the wrong tool for the job?
Linux (and other free unices) have their time and place, but as a professional photography scanning and retouching system it's just not ready yet.
Does the GIMP even use ICC profiles?
Cheers...
Well, let's just throw some figures up into the air. You've got a 200GB hard drive. The index is taking up 1GB. This is half of one percent of the drive space, a couple of dollars worth.
I'd say that 1GB is a lot larger than it will ever be, so it's not a concern for me at all
I'll happily spend a couple of dollars on drive space for instant searches on my local machine.
Kai
"President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job"
Yet he's happy to send troops to get themselves killed in Iraq.
Simply get one iMac or eMac, add in a good dose of iTunes and an AirPort Card. Hang an AirPort Express off the back of the stereo.
Set iTunes' preferences to "On CD Insert: Import CD and Eject" to handle the ripping automatically, it will also connect to CDDB to get album and track names, and encode all the ID3 tags correctly. Down the bottom of the iTunes window, select the name of the AirPort Express Base Station. Hit Play.
If you can't be arsed selecting music, there's an excellent party shuffle, where you can see what's coming up, and what's been played, as well as queue music up to add to the shuffle, without distrupting it.
Plus, and this is the a big plus, it's easy enough for pretty much anyone to use.
I use afraid.org as my free DNS provider.
I don't host a high-volume site, just a vanity domain for the usual email and blog, but I haven't had a problem with them yet.
You can also, if you don't want to register your own domain, "piggy-back" on some of the domains they hold, and if you submit your domain to them, then there's the option to let others use your domain - for instance someone-else.mydomain.com - where you own mydomain.com
Kai
Swapping on other Unix systems
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IMHO Swap is a good idea and here's why.
I admin Solaris systems, and swap on Solaris is a fine thing indeed.
You allocate a complete slice of a hard disk for swap, and you can then add and remove swap dynamically while the system is running. Need 1 GB more swap? Create an empty 1GB file, and add it as swap.
What's more/tmp is mounted on swap. If you, say, have 1GB of swap space and chuck 512MB of stuff in/tmp, you've now got 512MB of swap left. Lots of Unix software dumps stuff in/tmp and, when there is available RAM,/tmp lives in RAM. This makes temp files very fast.
Plus, the VM subsystem also deals with the file cache so on a Solaris system, you will see the amount of RAM used always around the 100% mark. No point in having RAM there unused, it costs too much. Use it as disk cache.
In addition, when an application needs to be swapped out to disk, why bother writing to disk something that's already there - the application's code is marked as being paged out to disk and removed from RAM and when it's needed again, the code is fetched from the original binary that the application was loaded from.
All in all, these kind of modifications to the VM subsystem mean that swap is good to have and can make systems faster with it than without.
k:.
Right, I set up these kinds of networks for a living, so I suppose I'm qualified to speak about it...
First - TIME IS MONEY.
Don't waste time dicking around with "free" software to try and save some money, I don't care what anyone says.
GIMP is nowhere near as good as Photoshop *for the kind of tasks you will be using it for*
Quark 6.0 is shite, Quark 6.1 is making inroads in getting back up on it's throne, but I think it's too little, too late. If you already have a substantial investment in Quark, then upgrading to 6.1 is not such a bad idea, however if you're setting up from scratch, forget it.
Get a PowerMac G5, Dual CPU if possible, and a nice monitor - DO NOT skimp on the monitor, you will have problems with clarity and colour.
Get the Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat. You're essentially paying for Photoshop and InDesign and getting Illustrator and Acrobat for free.
I personally prefer Macromedia FreeHand, but I'm in the minority there - if you're doing any web based design, however, Macromedia Studio MX 2004 is excellent. Once again, you save money over getting the individual components and Dreamweaver (IMHO) is better than GoLive.
Get a two button mouse, like a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. Don't skimp on the mouse, it's like getting a BMW and then whacking a steering-wheel on it held together by gaffer tape.
If you're getting multiple machines, get a half-decent machine as the server (Quicksilver or Mirror Drive Doors G4 or higher) and use some fast disks in it. RAID if possible. BACK IT UP.
AIT or LTO are good, if expensive, tape options, but worth every cent when you recover that file you've been working on for a whole week that you deleted.
You can do similar work on a PC, but when you go to output the files to film or plate, people will look at you funny and assume you don't know what you're doing if the files came from a PC.
Last, but not least, Fonts.
Piracy on fonts is now being treated like piracy on software. Fonts aren't too expensive, if you're paying for your software, you can afford fonts too. Less is more with fonts, don't use too many! Also, get the "brand name" versions of fonts, not the cheap knockoffs. It will look better, they will work reliably and have proper kerning tables and things like that.
k:.
I've looked on the dude's web page, but there's nothing there that tells us what this is about.
In what major way is photon simulation different from ray tracing?
Check out FileMaker Pro if you want an easy to use, cross platform and relatively powerful database that I think will do exactly what you want...
It runs on Linux & Mac OS X - so there's your Unix compatibility (it also runs on Windows and Mac OS 9). You can have a database on one machine hosted to other machines over the LAN quite easily, and the power of it is in the simplicity of defining fields and layouts - it's all a GUI based draw, drag and drop interface.
It's a lot more like the old skool databases where you draw a form, fill in the fields and then there's your database, rather than all this new-fangled SQL select * from blah where whatever kind of syntax =)
It is 100% closed source, and you have to pay for it, so two thirds of the people here will immediately dismiss it, but you can download a free trial and see if it does what you want.
-k
Here in the land of Oz, it's now been like this for a while. Both ISPs who offer cable have caps on their service, and they do tell you what that cap is.
You want more capacity, you buy more.
Cable services, however, are unlimited speed. This is good - my Optus cable would have to be (by my reckoning) somewhere between 7 and 10 megabits per second.
If you go over your cap (mine is 12GB) some companies will charge you per meg, some will throttle your speed back...
ADSL is a different kettle of fish, and you can get services that are advertised as unlimited downloads - and it is. Other services offer other advantages, like static IP address, or let you do what you want and run servers, but cap your data downloads.
US companies are having a good look at what's happened here in Australia, and are starting to follow suit... It's now been two or three years since the major ISPs have done this, and they seem to be quite happy with their subscriber level - and let's face it, if you want a T1 to use at 100% utilisation, damn well go out and buy one, rather than abuse a RESIDENTIAL service.
- k
What would have been more impressive is if he got, say, the guts of an LCD iMac or eMac, and fitted a small, high-res LCD in place of the original monitor, keeping it a real mac and also keeping it an all-in-one form-factor...
- k
Slashdot Mirror
Fair enough if they made it so it looked a bit different. A different colour even?
Fair enough if they made it a different size, or shape, or changed the position of the buttons, or something
Apple do not have a monopoly on flash-based MP3 players, they don't have a patent on the idea. What Apple do have, however, is ownership of the design of the iPod Shuffle.
What Apple are (rightfully) pissed off at is the blatant rip-off of their intellectual property - the look and feel.
How the fuck does this cut-n-paste with no linebreaks qualify as +5 informative? How about clicking on the link and reading the story, complete with formatting?
Look at the Sun Java Workstations for a decently=priced, Tier-1 Opteron system.
No, they don't have to have anything whatsoever to do with Java if you don't want them to.
They are certified to run three families of Operating System - Linux, Solaris or Windows.
They're fast, built well and, most importantly, they have backup support that's second to none.
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines is a great place to start. They cover a wide range of issues, many of which you wouldn't initially even think about.
"Stability is crucial, so I'm leaning toward a Linux-based system"
You should be looking at embedded operating systems, such as VxWorks which is what some of the real car manufacturers actually use
I would consider the display of a car a fairly mission critical application, and you want a system that's designed for these kinds of tasks. This isn't something you can bodge up and whack on a small PC with an operating environment that hasn't been designed to do such things.
Linux is far too complex for something like running your car's display, there is simply too much that can go wrong.
It would also be well worth checking out what the laws are like in your part of the world, I know that where I am, if I replace my (airbag equipped) steering wheel with an aftermarket one that doesn't have airbags, my car is no longer roadworthy.
I sure hope you've got some deep pockets if you truly want to get this project rolling
Kai
It's not cheap, and it'd only 1st generation at the moment, but the MusicCast system from Yamaha shows a lot of promise.
You have a central server, that's got a hard drive and a CD-ROM in it. The server is designed to look like a piece of hifi equipment, so it doesn't need to be hidden in a cupboard.
You then have remote stations, can be in-wall mounted that connect via wired or wireless ethernet and stream either MP3s or lossless-compressed audio from the server. You can also plug the server itself into your existing amp, and play music from it as well.
Sure you can roll-your-own for cheaper than this costs, but for ease of installation and WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) a black box that looks like the rest of your hi-fi equipment rates a lot higher than a beige box - unless you want to use, say, a Mac Mini =)
How on earth can this thing even work?
From http://www.batmax.com/technology-features.php The foil and the material are designed to:
- Absorb the electromagnetic waves generated from the battery.
- Generate a flow of negative ions.
- Interact with the battery's internal electrolyte and ions.
OK, so it's outside the battery, insulated by the plastic case of the battery, yet it can still interact with the internal electrolyte and ions? Plus it generates a flow of negative ions... all by itslef?*COUGH*bullshit*COUGH!*
kai
What my ISP does is block all incoming TCP/IP access to Port 25. They also block all outgoing port 25 access to everything except their own mail server. If you are using their service then you can freely relay mail through their SMTP servers, however then they can easily track the volume of messages being sent.
I initially found this pretty restrictive (eg: I wanted to run my own mail server, quite in violation of their TOS) however now I have my mail server running on another ISP. I can send directly through my mail server using SMTP over SSL on port 465, which isn't blocked.
What this ISP has now done is prevent any zombies on their network from flooding spam to anyone. Do I really need to run my own mail server? No, it's a vanity thing. Does my ISP block anything else? Not that I know, or have encountered.
What I'm getting at is that this is a much better solution than AOL's solution, and the vast majority of internet users don't want to, or need to, run their own mail server so there's no inconvenience to them. Their computers can't be used as spam relays, which is a good thing.
Mac Mini + Apple 23" LCD + FireWire DTB Decoder + USB/IR Remote Control + Bluetooth Kbd/Mouse
This will _nearly_ give you _true_ HDTV.
The 23" Cinema Display can display true HD resolution content, not the 1280x768 that most LCD TVs can display - the only problem is the FireWire decoders I've seen only do HD content on a Dual G5, as (I assume) they use the host CPU to decode the content...
So near, yet so far...
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
You need to be able to unlearn the old, bad habits to be able to move forwards. I can't believe it takes you 10 minutes to go to the Terminal menu, select the item "Window Settings" and select the Font option from the drop-down.
Drag the Terminal into the Dock, it's then 1 click away. Set it to auto-launch at login if you wish and then it's always there.
As for the positioning of window widgets, I regularly move between OS X, varions X window managers, and Windows and have no problems identifying at a glance which widget I need to use...
When it's transmitted over an analogue medium. Be that the aether or be it a piecr of copper or glass.
You CAN NOT get a perfect, unlimited bandwidth square wave over an analogue mesium (which includes just about everything in the real world) and when you're talking about 1GHz or 10GHz signals, these are microwave frequency signals that, when interpreted correctly, correspond to a digital bit pattern. Your analogies with consumer audio are only valid up to a point, you're never going to push much more than around 1.5MHz down a consumer digital audio cable, even for high-bitrate 5.1 channel audio.
When you're dealing with signals at a rate of 1000x higher, it's a whole different ballgame. Just splice a couple of cables together? No, this won't work, the difference in the impedance, and the dB loss of the join will act like a mirror and reflect the signal back down the line, causing interference.
Want to use cheap connectors? Don't crimp them correctly? Too tight a bend radius (yes, on copper)? See above.
In short, when you need maximum uptime, you want the peace of mind of quality cabling done by someone who knows what they're doing. You don't want to have to track down a comms error between two servers to an incorrectly specced bit of copper, as this is the _LAST_ place you will ever think of looking
When you're looking at, say, 5v Peak-to-peak, at 1GHz, the voltage will hit that peak for 1 billionth of a second. This can very easily get lost in noise.
There's a famous quote that gets thrown around quite a bit:
"Linux is free only if your time has no value" - Jamie Zawinski
If you are truly a pro photographer than you time is worth a lot more than the purchase price of a decent iMac You charge for your time, it's your most valuable resource. Why waste it trying to do things the hard way?
Why use the wrong tool for the job?
Linux (and other free unices) have their time and place, but as a professional photography scanning and retouching system it's just not ready yet.
Does the GIMP even use ICC profiles?
Cheers...
Well, let's just throw some figures up into the air. You've got a 200GB hard drive. The index is taking up 1GB. This is half of one percent of the drive space, a couple of dollars worth.
I'd say that 1GB is a lot larger than it will ever be, so it's not a concern for me at all
I'll happily spend a couple of dollars on drive space for instant searches on my local machine.
Kai
"President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job"
Yet he's happy to send troops to get themselves killed in Iraq.
If apple has...
Apple already has it, no ifs, no buts about it...
Kai
Simply get one iMac or eMac, add in a good dose of iTunes and an AirPort Card. Hang an AirPort Express off the back of the stereo.
Set iTunes' preferences to "On CD Insert: Import CD and Eject" to handle the ripping automatically, it will also connect to CDDB to get album and track names, and encode all the ID3 tags correctly. Down the bottom of the iTunes window, select the name of the AirPort Express Base Station. Hit Play.
If you can't be arsed selecting music, there's an excellent party shuffle, where you can see what's coming up, and what's been played, as well as queue music up to add to the shuffle, without distrupting it.
Plus, and this is the a big plus, it's easy enough for pretty much anyone to use.
I use afraid.org as my free DNS provider.
I don't host a high-volume site, just a vanity domain for the usual email and blog, but I haven't had a problem with them yet.
You can also, if you don't want to register your own domain, "piggy-back" on some of the domains they hold, and if you submit your domain to them, then there's the option to let others use your domain - for instance someone-else.mydomain.com - where you own mydomain.com
Kai
IMHO Swap is a good idea and here's why. /tmp is mounted on swap. If you, say, have 1GB of swap space and chuck 512MB of stuff in /tmp, you've now got 512MB of swap left. Lots of Unix software dumps stuff in /tmp and, when there is available RAM, /tmp lives in RAM. This makes temp files very fast.
I admin Solaris systems, and swap on Solaris is a fine thing indeed.
You allocate a complete slice of a hard disk for swap, and you can then add and remove swap dynamically while the system is running. Need 1 GB more swap? Create an empty 1GB file, and add it as swap.
What's more
Plus, the VM subsystem also deals with the file cache so on a Solaris system, you will see the amount of RAM used always around the 100% mark. No point in having RAM there unused, it costs too much. Use it as disk cache.
In addition, when an application needs to be swapped out to disk, why bother writing to disk something that's already there - the application's code is marked as being paged out to disk and removed from RAM and when it's needed again, the code is fetched from the original binary that the application was loaded from.
All in all, these kind of modifications to the VM subsystem mean that swap is good to have and can make systems faster with it than without.
k:.
Subject says it all...
That's Just The Way It is
Right, I set up these kinds of networks for a living, so I suppose I'm qualified to speak about it...
First - TIME IS MONEY.
Don't waste time dicking around with "free" software to try and save some money, I don't care what anyone says.
GIMP is nowhere near as good as Photoshop *for the kind of tasks you will be using it for*
Quark 6.0 is shite, Quark 6.1 is making inroads in getting back up on it's throne, but I think it's too little, too late. If you already have a substantial investment in Quark, then upgrading to 6.1 is not such a bad idea, however if you're setting up from scratch, forget it.
Get a PowerMac G5, Dual CPU if possible, and a nice monitor - DO NOT skimp on the monitor, you will have problems with clarity and colour.
Get the Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat. You're essentially paying for Photoshop and InDesign and getting Illustrator and Acrobat for free.
I personally prefer Macromedia FreeHand, but I'm in the minority there - if you're doing any web based design, however, Macromedia Studio MX 2004 is excellent. Once again, you save money over getting the individual components and Dreamweaver (IMHO) is better than GoLive.
Get a two button mouse, like a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. Don't skimp on the mouse, it's like getting a BMW and then whacking a steering-wheel on it held together by gaffer tape.
If you're getting multiple machines, get a half-decent machine as the server (Quicksilver or Mirror Drive Doors G4 or higher) and use some fast disks in it. RAID if possible. BACK IT UP.
AIT or LTO are good, if expensive, tape options, but worth every cent when you recover that file you've been working on for a whole week that you deleted.
You can do similar work on a PC, but when you go to output the files to film or plate, people will look at you funny and assume you don't know what you're doing if the files came from a PC.
Last, but not least, Fonts.
Piracy on fonts is now being treated like piracy on software. Fonts aren't too expensive, if you're paying for your software, you can afford fonts too. Less is more with fonts, don't use too many! Also, get the "brand name" versions of fonts, not the cheap knockoffs. It will look better, they will work reliably and have proper kerning tables and things like that.
k:.
I've looked on the dude's web page, but there's nothing there that tells us what this is about.
In what major way is photon simulation different from ray tracing?
Titan AE - which wasn't that great a movie, used a cell shader for the entire movie, not just the human (and alien) characters...
Check out FileMaker Pro if you want an easy to use, cross platform and relatively powerful database that I think will do exactly what you want...
It runs on Linux & Mac OS X - so there's your Unix compatibility (it also runs on Windows and Mac OS 9). You can have a database on one machine hosted to other machines over the LAN quite easily, and the power of it is in the simplicity of defining fields and layouts - it's all a GUI based draw, drag and drop interface.
It's a lot more like the old skool databases where you draw a form, fill in the fields and then there's your database, rather than all this new-fangled SQL select * from blah where whatever kind of syntax =)
It is 100% closed source, and you have to pay for it, so two thirds of the people here will immediately dismiss it, but you can download a free trial and see if it does what you want.
-k
Here in the land of Oz, it's now been like this for a while. Both ISPs who offer cable have caps on their service, and they do tell you what that cap is.
You want more capacity, you buy more.
Cable services, however, are unlimited speed. This is good - my Optus cable would have to be (by my reckoning) somewhere between 7 and 10 megabits per second.
If you go over your cap (mine is 12GB) some companies will charge you per meg, some will throttle your speed back...
ADSL is a different kettle of fish, and you can get services that are advertised as unlimited downloads - and it is. Other services offer other advantages, like static IP address, or let you do what you want and run servers, but cap your data downloads.
US companies are having a good look at what's happened here in Australia, and are starting to follow suit... It's now been two or three years since the major ISPs have done this, and they seem to be quite happy with their subscriber level - and let's face it, if you want a T1 to use at 100% utilisation, damn well go out and buy one, rather than abuse a RESIDENTIAL service.
- k
What would have been more impressive is if he got, say, the guts of an LCD iMac or eMac, and fitted a small, high-res LCD in place of the original monitor, keeping it a real mac and also keeping it an all-in-one form-factor...
- k