If you really need to go that high, hit pricewatch and find 3 512MB DIMMS for $550-$600.. This is certainly cheaper at $1800 than $4000 as a BTO option.
BTW, to put in a base drive of 20GB, Apple is using a cheaper 5400 RPM Drive (by about 5 bucks IRL, jeez) instead of the 7200. You can now also get 1.5 Gigs of RAM for $4000 (a $2500 drop), but that still doesn't jive with real RAM prices. When will manufactures learn they can't count on the same price for 6 months. THAT is what drops sales, when people wisen up.
and the big swindles roll on..
I'll be getting the dual 500 system with 64 meg of ram and the 20 gig hdd. I'll buy a 512K DIMM on my own, and upgrade my HDD as needed.
10 to 15 grand? You don't really think it would cost that much? get a dual-proc 500 with 64 megs of RAM and 20 GB HDD. Add 1.5 gigs of RAM from any of the online retailers for ~$1700 and save yourself ~$4500! Built-To-Order is a rip-off! you can either get a top of the line Maxtor drive from Apple, or an IBM DeskStar 75GB model from anywhere else for about $80 more!
And so this doesn't seem like a flame: Dell, Compaq and Gateway all do the same thing to you! Compaq charges $2000 for ONE gig of ram. That's 1.8x MARKET VALUE!
They do have Rack mounts for G4 systems, and they do fit in a standard enclosure. I'd much rather have one of these on my desk than on a rack though. Perhaps Apple will one day build a rackmount, once OS X comes out..
The only reason you'd need a gigabit card is if you were to run an OC3. This is 155mbit, and is more than even Slashdot can use. A 10/100 on a G4 running OS X with 512MB of RAM and Apache would be fine.. But do you really want to share your G4 with others? Personally, I'd wait till my site got popular before shelling beaucoup money on a server. Start with a little 200mhz Linux or BSD system. I suppose it would be better to go with BSD considering OS X will be based on it. Good luck, because even MacSlash gets very few hits.
Anyways, the G4 Minitower was not designed for expandability. They have 3 PCI and 1 AGP slot. They also have 3 IDE headers. Why? Because they are expandable than most PC mobos. There is one header for the DVD-ROM/RAM and Zip Drive, one for The primary and secondary drives, and another for another two drives. The mobo is mounted to not only get at RAM, but to get the mobo out of the way so you can work on everything else. Compare that to single plane PCs where the mobo, drives, cards and cables are all on one side of the box. You can see where the G4 is a space-efficient and compact but workable design. The only place in the case you really need to get to is the drives, and they are right along the bottom of the case. It can fit 4 drives in there, bringing the internal capacity of the system to 300 gig using IBM deskstar drives.
Word to the wise: do not buy anything more than the base model (whatever processor speed) with 64 MB of RAM and 10 GB of HDD space. Do not upgrade it until you get it. Go to any memory store, and get Apple branded RAM for about 1/4 the price Apple charges on Built-to-Order. instead of paying $6500 for 1.5 GB of RAM, you only pay $1600. That is a savings of $4900!
They didn't need to, it was more of a cameo. Another thing that wouldn't make that kid nightcrawler is that nightcrawler leaves a smoke brimstone cloud behind him when he Bamfs.
Yeah, except nightcrawler was born that way in the comic books. He had 3 fingers on each hand and 2 toes on each foot. He also had a tail. That was not a costume. He did not suddenly realise he was a mutant. Also, he didn't go "BAMF".
Aren't they going to have problems when AAPL sues them for taking their name? The even InterCapped the name.
Then again, I could go on about the silliness behind a name like AppleSoup. How strange
Also, How long till whatever encryption they use gets cracked? Problems ahead indeed.
Perhaps I'm dis-illusioned from being subjected to Ads on TV, at movie theaters, and so forth. Hollywood.com and a few others in the theatres, and every DotCom under the sun on every channel imaginable. They now have a talk-over-the-web product that will do nothing but increase the required bandwidth of the net AND increase the minimum speed of InHell processors. Frankly, we don't need any more startups. Go away!
Hrm, every SUV I see is driven by a 20-30 something woman picking up groceries. Scary. They are really bloody inefficient vehicles, and they are almost never used for the "Utility" they tout. This is not a surprise to me. They got rid of station wagons with vehicle/fuel class regulations, and consumers needed something to buy..
Something could be said for staying home, and working there if you were in the country. I have found you have to go farther in the city for convienences that are less than a mile away in my neighbourhood. That is a matter of population density. In the city it seems there are more people than services, in the country and small towns, there are more services than people. The city folk flock to my area because our taxes are 1% less, and we have more shopping venues.
By the way, we are not borg. effeciency is irrelevant.
This is a greatly efficient car with about 60mpg. Unfortunately, as was mentioned once before, there is a Diesel TDI Golf from VW that pulls 70mpg. If you were to put a Diesel TDI together with a Co-generator, you may be able to pull 100mpg. Converting Gases directly with palladium is expensive too. Them fuel cells don't come cheap!
This is really bad in the PC/104 development. They want to get your address and send you a brochure before they will discuss pricing on most sites. This habit shoots them in the foot by wasting the VAR's time in excess manouevers, as well as possibly costing the vendor a sale. Make it just as easy as when you go to a local store. You don't have to ask "how much is this sack-o-spuds" because the price is on the rack.
Had this been the real JonKatz Drinking Game, you would have taken 4-23 drinks for the following, depeding if you count by article or incident:
1 for the creation of the term old-fartism.
It was obviously not necessary to define this, hence no drink.
1 drink for using the word open not in reference to software
1 for re-using an old term from a previous article.
1 for mentioning the "revolution"
if you counted by incident, he uses the term revolution in some form twice, and the word open appears 10 times in the wrong context. He re-uses the term open media (a double whammy) a total of 9 times, so make sure those drinks are beer, and make sure they are small sips if you are playing the long game. Also, remember to use a chaperone.
I will be posting this game on my web site later. Salut!
LCDs are subject to ghosting of images due to the relitively slow speed of liquid crystal. This is similar to slow phosphors on an old TV. But in the case of TV this actually helps the persistence of vision. With LCD you are running 60Hz refresh, and even turning your head will catch the update. This also happens with slower CRT monitors.
Also, keep in mind that this display is for viewing of X-Rays and other mostly still data. It is still a somewhat poor substitute to the original, but the ability to write on the X-ray without damage, plus the instant development of X-ray streams would be an added benefit. I think the latter already exists in some lab, but I'd also wager it is quite expensive. The former is great for keeping layers of notes.
Just don't expect any "TekWar" video-tables anytime soon:(
Jakob Nielsen would disagree with you. Most articles are too long for the attention span of the reader. I think tom should try instead to have a print only version, but in the "tom's blurb" section you have a few multi-page topics (clocking athies) and some other topics (rdram etc).. In this case it should be ok to put these on separate pages.
However, The site itself has a very cluttered, ad buggered appearance. Perhaps he can find better methods of making revenue. Perhaps he can do what many site designers are doing, and do it as a labour of love (gasp!) without ads. I could care less if I get ad hits on lowmagnet.org because I'm not about to make 1/10th of the money I shelled out to get the site up and running.
The best part of McIntosh amps are their displays. Analogue all the way. The way sound should display (it is a wave by the way:).. If only some other companies would realise sometimes a meter is better than a lcd readout.
I'd wager you'd have more fun with a drinking game...
Take 2 drinks for every time Katz compares Something to Columbine.
Take 1 drink for every time Katz uses the word "Geek"
.. take 2 if it in reference to himself
Take 1 drinks every time he coins his own word
.. take 2 if is not completely defined
.. take 3 if it already exists in a dictionary, and he got it wrong.
Take a drink if an article is a "first in a series"
Take 2 when an article actually stands on its own (except reviews)
Take 1 when Katz declares something to be the biggest possible evil to come along in years
.. Take 2 when the theory behind it is worse than some Art Bell calls.
Take 1 when someone uses summarize on one of his articles
.. take 2 when the summary makes more sense than the article.
finally, take 4 when katz comes down on the troll's level and writes an article about hot breakfast foods, a certain actress, and the process of stripping and petrifying same.
I have a problem with English Prof. pushing off all sorts of "international" writers because the current "white dead guys" view of literature. I don't think it's really a good idea to say "Fubar is Mexican, and he wrote this story" as that inspires stupidity among those with predilictions toward racism. Let them read the story and guess what the author is. If it is evident mention AFTERWARD who the author is. It really changes the perspective of the "global view"
As a Japanese man, I do not like you lumping me in with other asians.
Ridiculous, isn't it? (then again I'm not Japanese, but I think the point has been made. Everybody gets offenden at everything else these days. I think it's (+1 Funny).
The only time I have netscape (4.73) lock on me is on some far out dns calls to ad sites, or one of those "ping-pong" situations when News.com tries to hook up an ad. The best solution is to install Junkbuster and block ads.* etc, and a lot of the ad lookups go away. I think this mostly has to do with dblclk's cookie situation (it tosses about a dozen if you trap them) and the fact that one cookie goes to various servers in their empire. DNS makes a locking call for a lookup for some reason under netscape. Using a proxy such as squid (lost the url) will greatly reduce this problem. good luck!
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That is still cheaper than a 1.5GB DIMM.
If you really need to go that high, hit pricewatch and find 3 512MB DIMMS for $550-$600.. This is certainly cheaper at $1800 than $4000 as a BTO option.
BTW, to put in a base drive of 20GB, Apple is using a cheaper 5400 RPM Drive (by about 5 bucks IRL, jeez) instead of the 7200. You can now also get 1.5 Gigs of RAM for $4000 (a $2500 drop), but that still doesn't jive with real RAM prices. When will manufactures learn they can't count on the same price for 6 months. THAT is what drops sales, when people wisen up.
and the big swindles roll on..
I'll be getting the dual 500 system with 64 meg of ram and the 20 gig hdd. I'll buy a 512K DIMM on my own, and upgrade my HDD as needed.
10 to 15 grand? You don't really think it would cost that much? get a dual-proc 500 with 64 megs of RAM and 20 GB HDD. Add 1.5 gigs of RAM from any of the online retailers for ~$1700 and save yourself ~$4500! Built-To-Order is a rip-off! you can either get a top of the line Maxtor drive from Apple, or an IBM DeskStar 75GB model from anywhere else for about $80 more!
And so this doesn't seem like a flame: Dell, Compaq and Gateway all do the same thing to you! Compaq charges $2000 for ONE gig of ram. That's 1.8x MARKET VALUE!
Homegrown is still the way for me..
They do have Rack mounts for G4 systems, and they do fit in a standard enclosure. I'd much rather have one of these on my desk than on a rack though. Perhaps Apple will one day build a rackmount, once OS X comes out..
The only reason you'd need a gigabit card is if you were to run an OC3. This is 155mbit, and is more than even Slashdot can use. A 10/100 on a G4 running OS X with 512MB of RAM and Apache would be fine.. But do you really want to share your G4 with others? Personally, I'd wait till my site got popular before shelling beaucoup money on a server. Start with a little 200mhz Linux or BSD system. I suppose it would be better to go with BSD considering OS X will be based on it. Good luck, because even MacSlash gets very few hits.
No! He said NOT to start a flame war!
Oh, the Humanity!
Wow, I almost forgot about that Far Side!
Anyways, the G4 Minitower was not designed for expandability. They have 3 PCI and 1 AGP slot. They also have 3 IDE headers. Why? Because they are expandable than most PC mobos. There is one header for the DVD-ROM/RAM and Zip Drive, one for The primary and secondary drives, and another for another two drives. The mobo is mounted to not only get at RAM, but to get the mobo out of the way so you can work on everything else. Compare that to single plane PCs where the mobo, drives, cards and cables are all on one side of the box. You can see where the G4 is a space-efficient and compact but workable design. The only place in the case you really need to get to is the drives, and they are right along the bottom of the case. It can fit 4 drives in there, bringing the internal capacity of the system to 300 gig using IBM deskstar drives.
Word to the wise: do not buy anything more than the base model (whatever processor speed) with 64 MB of RAM and 10 GB of HDD space. Do not upgrade it until you get it. Go to any memory store, and get Apple branded RAM for about 1/4 the price Apple charges on Built-to-Order. instead of paying $6500 for 1.5 GB of RAM, you only pay $1600. That is a savings of $4900!
When I get bad data, I get really pissed off. Like yesterday. Damn ancient TI systems. They should have shot them years ago.
"ars" means "art" or in latin. "ars technica" means the art of technology..
They didn't need to, it was more of a cameo. Another thing that wouldn't make that kid nightcrawler is that nightcrawler leaves a smoke brimstone cloud behind him when he Bamfs.
Yeah, except nightcrawler was born that way in the comic books. He had 3 fingers on each hand and 2 toes on each foot. He also had a tail. That was not a costume. He did not suddenly realise he was a mutant. Also, he didn't go "BAMF".
Aren't they going to have problems when AAPL sues them for taking their name? The even InterCapped the name.
Then again, I could go on about the silliness behind a name like AppleSoup. How strange
Also, How long till whatever encryption they use gets cracked? Problems ahead indeed.
Perhaps I'm dis-illusioned from being subjected to Ads on TV, at movie theaters, and so forth. Hollywood.com and a few others in the theatres, and every DotCom under the sun on every channel imaginable. They now have a talk-over-the-web product that will do nothing but increase the required bandwidth of the net AND increase the minimum speed of InHell processors. Frankly, we don't need any more startups. Go away!
Your resident Dot Grump..
Hrm, every SUV I see is driven by a 20-30 something woman picking up groceries. Scary. They are really bloody inefficient vehicles, and they are almost never used for the "Utility" they tout. This is not a surprise to me. They got rid of station wagons with vehicle/fuel class regulations, and consumers needed something to buy..
Something could be said for staying home, and working there if you were in the country. I have found you have to go farther in the city for convienences that are less than a mile away in my neighbourhood. That is a matter of population density. In the city it seems there are more people than services, in the country and small towns, there are more services than people. The city folk flock to my area because our taxes are 1% less, and we have more shopping venues.
By the way, we are not borg. effeciency is irrelevant.
This is a greatly efficient car with about 60mpg. Unfortunately, as was mentioned once before, there is a Diesel TDI Golf from VW that pulls 70mpg. If you were to put a Diesel TDI together with a Co-generator, you may be able to pull 100mpg. Converting Gases directly with palladium is expensive too. Them fuel cells don't come cheap!
This is really bad in the PC/104 development. They want to get your address and send you a brochure before they will discuss pricing on most sites. This habit shoots them in the foot by wasting the VAR's time in excess manouevers, as well as possibly costing the vendor a sale. Make it just as easy as when you go to a local store. You don't have to ask "how much is this sack-o-spuds" because the price is on the rack.
Had this been the real JonKatz Drinking Game, you would have taken 4-23 drinks for the following, depeding if you count by article or incident:
if you counted by incident, he uses the term revolution in some form twice, and the word open appears 10 times in the wrong context. He re-uses the term open media (a double whammy) a total of 9 times, so make sure those drinks are beer, and make sure they are small sips if you are playing the long game. Also, remember to use a chaperone.
I will be posting this game on my web site later. Salut!
LCDs are subject to ghosting of images due to the relitively slow speed of liquid crystal. This is similar to slow phosphors on an old TV. But in the case of TV this actually helps the persistence of vision. With LCD you are running 60Hz refresh, and even turning your head will catch the update. This also happens with slower CRT monitors.
Also, keep in mind that this display is for viewing of X-Rays and other mostly still data. It is still a somewhat poor substitute to the original, but the ability to write on the X-ray without damage, plus the instant development of X-ray streams would be an added benefit. I think the latter already exists in some lab, but I'd also wager it is quite expensive. The former is great for keeping layers of notes.
Just don't expect any "TekWar" video-tables anytime soon :(
However, The site itself has a very cluttered, ad buggered appearance. Perhaps he can find better methods of making revenue. Perhaps he can do what many site designers are doing, and do it as a labour of love (gasp!) without ads. I could care less if I get ad hits on lowmagnet.org because I'm not about to make 1/10th of the money I shelled out to get the site up and running.
The best part of McIntosh amps are their displays. Analogue all the way. The way sound should display (it is a wave by the way :) .. If only some other companies would realise sometimes a meter is better than a lcd readout.
I thought that was the point of drinking games. Perhaps some of the rules are a bad idea, but it is a start.
He hasn't said geek *much* lately, and we have called on him enough to stop calling himself a geek.
The series ones would be best left at "first of a series" -- mainly to dull the pain of the rest of the series if nothing else.
However, I have to let the definitions stand. Can't live without those :)
I'd wager you'd have more fun with a drinking game...
Take 2 drinks for every time Katz compares Something to Columbine.
Take 1 drink for every time Katz uses the word "Geek"
.. take 2 if it in reference to himself
Take 1 drinks every time he coins his own word
.. take 2 if is not completely defined
.. take 3 if it already exists in a dictionary, and he got it wrong.
Take a drink if an article is a "first in a series"
Take 2 when an article actually stands on its own (except reviews)
Take 1 when Katz declares something to be the biggest possible evil to come along in years
.. Take 2 when the theory behind it is worse than some Art Bell calls.
Take 1 when someone uses summarize on one of his articles
.. take 2 when the summary makes more sense than the article.
finally, take 4 when katz comes down on the troll's level and writes an article about hot breakfast foods, a certain actress, and the process of stripping and petrifying same.
I have a problem with English Prof. pushing off all sorts of "international" writers because the current "white dead guys" view of literature. I don't think it's really a good idea to say "Fubar is Mexican, and he wrote this story" as that inspires stupidity among those with predilictions toward racism. Let them read the story and guess what the author is. If it is evident mention AFTERWARD who the author is. It really changes the perspective of the "global view"
As a Japanese man, I do not like you lumping me in with other asians.
Ridiculous, isn't it? (then again I'm not Japanese, but I think the point has been made. Everybody gets offenden at everything else these days. I think it's (+1 Funny).
The only time I have netscape (4.73) lock on me is on some far out dns calls to ad sites, or one of those "ping-pong" situations when News.com tries to hook up an ad. The best solution is to install Junkbuster and block ads.* etc, and a lot of the ad lookups go away. I think this mostly has to do with dblclk's cookie situation (it tosses about a dozen if you trap them) and the fact that one cookie goes to various servers in their empire. DNS makes a locking call for a lookup for some reason under netscape. Using a proxy such as squid (lost the url) will greatly reduce this problem.
good luck!