Individuals would love to be able to play any windows-only game without having to shell out an additional $1000 for a gaming rig.
Work-stuff is more likely to be covered by a vmware-like os-inside-an-os solution, but it could still be handy to boot natively into XP for some work-related activities.
Basically, you'd dual-boot OS X with Windows for the same reasons you'd dual-boot Linux and Windows. It's just that OS X windows aren't quite as hardcore in their geekiness as the Linux dual-booters.
Of course for those of us who use all three OSes regularly, the ability for one box to run all of them is a bit of a dream come true.
Then you had to go and say, "which was a great way to get projects from my G5 onto my powerbook quickly." There is no way your puny laptop drive is actually taking in input faster than fw400 can spit it out.
Also, they include this great technology in the MacBook... Gigabit Ethernet. I hear it kicks ass at file transfers.
Businesses don't NEED to run Windows, any more than home computer users do. There are choices in the marketplace, but most companies and businesses have chosen to ignore them.
Now the reasons WHY they chose to ignore them are up for debate (I believe it's because most businesses favor monolithic, homogenous platforms, myself) but it certainly isn't because a Microsoft Rep came to their home/place of work/worship and forced them to. They made usable products and made them cheaper then the competition, and so people voted with their dollars.
Did they drive other companies out of business? Sure, but those same companies would have been driven out of business if users ended up buying Apple or Sun machines as well.
In summation: Did Microsoft violate anti-monopoly laws? Sure. Did they make a huge fortune doing so? Well, that and actually making products that people use and pay for. Did they force people to buy those products? No. What does all this have to do with Bill G donating huge sums of money to charity? Not a whole lot, really.
A CPU that can push a gigabit of data a second is not likely to be found in such a device at this price (I would guess it has something like a 2-300MHz MIPS, ARM or Geode CPU).
True, but any of those could push more than 100mbps. I agree that they should have made the switch 10/100 with a 1gb connection to the internal array.
I think Apple agrees with you, as the videos are still able to be streamed over iTunes for free, but you can pay to watch them offline. not that I would, mind you.
Also, the TV Shows page appears to not be working yet
For a device with those specs, I would probably be willing to drop $200, and then I could feel good about providing 1/5th of a device for someone deserving.
I also really like the addition of wind drift, and the weight factor of various vehicles, something I really don't remember from B3.
Yeah, there was no wind drift in B3, and I do like that as an addition.
Thats just not true. Winning a gold on an event gives you an automatic five star rating, thats the beauty of it. Just like winning a bronze automatically deducts a star.
Nope, getting a gold adds a star, getting a bronze removes one, and a silver leaves it alone. All the events have 5 stars possible, but the only way to get 5 is to get the highest rating _and_ score a gold in the event.
Personally, I'm not sure how much I like some of the changes to the game. Specifically:
Crash mode - In B3, Crash mode was like a puzzle on speed. Finding those x3 and x4 tags and figuring how to hit them while still causing a pileup was the goal. Now the goal is more like Dance Dance Revolution (time that start correctly) followed by Microsoft Olympics (mash that B button like a monkey on meth to make the explosion happen) Driving? not really that important. Placement of wreck? important, but if you fail on the other two "skill" tests, it won't matter.
Car checking - There's now very little danger in driving on the proper side of the road. Anything you hit that is smaller than you and travelling in the same direction just bounces out of the way, barely slowing you down, adds an interesting play mechanic, but takes some of the skill out driving some of those courses. Also, it's applied a little strangely, as cross traffic still causes crashes... sometimes.
Finally, it's no longer good enough to just get a gold medal on each event in the game, you also have to get a gold medal while being "stylish" enough doing it.
It's a good game, certainly, but I prefer B3. I'd only give B4 a 6 or 7 out of 10.
ACtually, it's a bit more strict than "whatever.mp4," which is sad, because even "ga0104.mp4" is easier to decipher into "Grey's Anatomy Season 1, episode 4" than "M4V10030.MP4."
But there's no reason to buy RedHat for that to happen. It takes about 3 guys to roll an initial Linux distro, I'm sure MS has at least that many employees underutilized at the moment.
Caligula wasn't shot as a porn movie, originally. It was supposed to be a Fellini-esque (meaning raunchy and disturbing) look at the Roman Empire made by a big-budget studio. The studio went bankrupt and the production company fell apart and liquidated its assets. Bob Guccione bought the rights to the film and recut it with a bunch of Penthouse models and turned it into the highest budget porn movie ever made. But it wasn't originally intended to be that.
The highest budget porn movie ever made to be an actual porn is (or was, assuming Wicked hasn't started making $250k films) Zazel, which also features a number of Penthouse models.
But honestly, most porn is very standard, very rote, very much "simple guy girl getting in on with a cum shot at the end"
Or girls getting paid to act like lesbians, that's popular too.
Wrong. Read the RFC. The whole 127 is reserved, but only 127.0.0.1 is loopback.
bzzzzt. Time for an Anonymous coward to also learn something relatively useless today:-)
according to RFC 1166:
The class A network number 127 is assigned the "loopback" function, that is, a datagram sent by a higher level protocol to a network 127 address should loop back inside the host. No datagram "sent" to a network 127 address should ever appear on any network anywhere.
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Well, technically... If I install Linux on a MacBook Pro, I _am_ installing it on an x86 box.
Games and work.
Individuals would love to be able to play any windows-only game without having to shell out an additional $1000 for a gaming rig.
Work-stuff is more likely to be covered by a vmware-like os-inside-an-os solution, but it could still be handy to boot natively into XP for some work-related activities.
Basically, you'd dual-boot OS X with Windows for the same reasons you'd dual-boot Linux and Windows. It's just that OS X windows aren't quite as hardcore in their geekiness as the Linux dual-booters.
Of course for those of us who use all three OSes regularly, the ability for one box to run all of them is a bit of a dream come true.
Running MS Windows on a MacBook Pro is like letting a retarded kid drive a Ferrari.
Yeah, but at least the retarded kid gets to play F.E.A.R. and Warhammer 40,000:Dawn of War.
While driving the Ferrari.
Or does the metaphor break down at that point?
A little shy of the 2500$ for the 1.83GHz MacBook Pro, kid.
Pretty far shy of the Core Duo performance, too, though, isn't it?
Then you had to go and say, "which was a great way to get projects from my G5 onto my powerbook quickly." There is no way your puny laptop drive is actually taking in input faster than fw400 can spit it out.
Also, they include this great technology in the MacBook... Gigabit Ethernet. I hear it kicks ass at file transfers.
What it doesn't have (comparatively):
Decent support.
I will never, never, never buy Gateway again.
Dell has better support, though not by much.
See where I'm getting at?
Yes, and you're still full of crap.
Businesses don't NEED to run Windows, any more than home computer users do. There are choices in the marketplace, but most companies and businesses have chosen to ignore them.
Now the reasons WHY they chose to ignore them are up for debate (I believe it's because most businesses favor monolithic, homogenous platforms, myself) but it certainly isn't because a Microsoft Rep came to their home/place of work/worship and forced them to. They made usable products and made them cheaper then the competition, and so people voted with their dollars.
Did they drive other companies out of business? Sure, but those same companies would have been driven out of business if users ended up buying Apple or Sun machines as well.
In summation: Did Microsoft violate anti-monopoly laws? Sure. Did they make a huge fortune doing so? Well, that and actually making products that people use and pay for. Did they force people to buy those products? No. What does all this have to do with Bill G donating huge sums of money to charity? Not a whole lot, really.
A CPU that can push a gigabit of data a second is not likely to be found in such a device at this price (I would guess it has something like a 2-300MHz MIPS, ARM or Geode CPU).
True, but any of those could push more than 100mbps. I agree that they should have made the switch 10/100 with a 1gb connection to the internal array.
Music videos are commercials for albums. Yawn
I think Apple agrees with you, as the videos are still able to be streamed over iTunes for free, but you can pay to watch them offline. not that I would, mind you.
Also, the TV Shows page appears to not be working yet
For a device with those specs, I would probably be willing to drop $200, and then I could feel good about providing 1/5th of a device for someone deserving.
I also really like the addition of wind drift, and the weight factor of various vehicles, something I really don't remember from B3.
Yeah, there was no wind drift in B3, and I do like that as an addition.
Thats just not true. Winning a gold on an event gives you an automatic five star rating, thats the beauty of it. Just like winning a bronze automatically deducts a star.
Nope, getting a gold adds a star, getting a bronze removes one, and a silver leaves it alone. All the events have 5 stars possible, but the only way to get 5 is to get the highest rating _and_ score a gold in the event.
Personally, I'm not sure how much I like some of the changes to the game. Specifically:
Crash mode - In B3, Crash mode was like a puzzle on speed. Finding those x3 and x4 tags and figuring how to hit them while still causing a pileup was the goal. Now the goal is more like Dance Dance Revolution (time that start correctly) followed by Microsoft Olympics (mash that B button like a monkey on meth to make the explosion happen) Driving? not really that important. Placement of wreck? important, but if you fail on the other two "skill" tests, it won't matter.
Car checking - There's now very little danger in driving on the proper side of the road. Anything you hit that is smaller than you and travelling in the same direction just bounces out of the way, barely slowing you down, adds an interesting play mechanic, but takes some of the skill out driving some of those courses. Also, it's applied a little strangely, as cross traffic still causes crashes... sometimes.
Finally, it's no longer good enough to just get a gold medal on each event in the game, you also have to get a gold medal while being "stylish" enough doing it.
It's a good game, certainly, but I prefer B3. I'd only give B4 a 6 or 7 out of 10.
And try to plug some articles that aren't completely fluff.
Laptops on your network running Windows? Use least priviledges. Or consider Linux.
There, I just saved you clicking the link.
Cool idea, but wake me when you can actually buy one.
This assumes, of course, that you managed to buy a 1.50 PSP and then didn't bother to upgrade it to 1.51 or 1.52.
If you have anything other than a 1.00 (Japanese only) or 1.50 PSP, you already can't run homebrew games and apps.
No one's cracked the 1.50 or the 1.51 firmware yet, so US PSP owners are still SOL.
If you must know, this comment has been typed on a 1.25 MHz G4 iMac.
:-)
That must've taken quite awhile. Even the original IBM PC ran at 4 MHz
(And I found your first post funny, so screw the rest of them.)
ACtually, it's a bit more strict than "whatever.mp4," which is sad, because even "ga0104.mp4" is easier to decipher into "Grey's Anatomy Season 1, episode 4" than "M4V10030.MP4."
But there's no reason to buy RedHat for that to happen. It takes about 3 guys to roll an initial Linux distro, I'm sure MS has at least that many employees underutilized at the moment.
Not that it _would_ happen, mind you...
HAH! yeah, um.. Look! the "k" key is right next to the "m" key... That was the problem! yeah!
<slinks off>
I dunno, you can get pretty decent quality over 64mbps connections these days. The codecs are only improving.
As an example, I'll offer WOXY, a Cincinnati traditional radio station that has gone 100% internet. http://woxy.com/
They have 6 different streams for you to choose from depending on your taste in bandwidth and player.
Caligula wasn't shot as a porn movie, originally. It was supposed to be a Fellini-esque (meaning raunchy and disturbing) look at the Roman Empire made by a big-budget studio. The studio went bankrupt and the production company fell apart and liquidated its assets. Bob Guccione bought the rights to the film and recut it with a bunch of Penthouse models and turned it into the highest budget porn movie ever made. But it wasn't originally intended to be that.
The highest budget porn movie ever made to be an actual porn is (or was, assuming Wicked hasn't started making $250k films) Zazel, which also features a number of Penthouse models.
But honestly, most porn is very standard, very rote, very much "simple guy girl getting in on with a cum shot at the end"
Or girls getting paid to act like lesbians, that's popular too.
You went to junior high school dances?
:-)
I was too busy playing guitar and getting high.
Careful with those nerd sterotypes
Wrong. Read the RFC. The whole 127 is reserved, but only 127.0.0.1 is loopback.
:-)
bzzzzt. Time for an Anonymous coward to also learn something relatively useless today
according to RFC 1166:
The class A network number 127 is assigned the "loopback" function, that is, a datagram sent by a higher level protocol to a network 127 address should loop back inside the host. No datagram "sent" to a network 127 address should ever appear on any network anywhere.
Source: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1166.html
Dual 2.7 G5's with a 1.35Ghz front-side bus sure makes me salivate, though.
Oh, and the dual 2.7 uses "an innovative closed-loop liquid cooling system that draws away heat quietly and efficiently."
Does this make it the first mass-produced liquid cooled system for the desktop?