Been there! Popped a cdr into an iMac (needed to pull off some archived stuff). Made this go aweful cruchy sound, followed by the sound of grinding. Took a week to clean all the bits of cd out of it.
Ok, I know I shouln;t bitch about you're specifics in the comparison because you're doing a back-of-the-napkin type thing, but you're just wrong. Bottom line iMac has the built-in monitor, combo drive, and optical mouse (they don't make anything else). I'd then argue that almost nobody who buys a computer for a $1500 expects it to do pro audio. "Pro" cards are usually over $500.
Otherwise, you do have a good points. the lack of upgradeability does bother some people, but its rare to find a non-geek (or relative of geek) that upgrades anything beyond ram or a hard drive.
I'm the otherway around. We actually had 2 of the same series Maxtor's start to smoke due to some manufacturing flaw thier logic chips. Western Digital's are the ones that never seem to go down, and we're opperating a very dirty power situation which seems ot kill most of our equipment around the end of thier warrenty periods
No biggy, they've had this for a while. There's 2 slightly differnt versions of OS X server software. The cheaper one ($499) limits you to 10 concurent file sharing connections (I think just for afp, but might be samba also), which includes a limit of 10 users connected atthe same time for thier home directories. The other version ($999) doesn't have these limits. The version that comes with all their hardware is the full one. The light one is for if you want this running on an iMac, or an older server, or to retrofit one of your towers.
Fankly, we tend to use our older Ti's over out new ones at work because they have vga. Our users seem to have problems with the DVI-VGA adaptors for some reason when they're doing ppt presentations on the road.
You hit the nail right on the head: density. Xserves are great and wonderful machines (possibly excluding the god-awerful sound they make), but they just don't compete this blade servers. And I'm assuming they're not supposed to. We all know tthe advanages of using blades for this kind of thing, so it'd be foolhardy to use even 1U devices here.
But as we all know, security is a process. I just can't see your typical blue haried granny updating the firmware on her firewall because somebody found a flaw in it. I'd say it should be automated or something, but automated processes are just one more thing to hack.
It wouldn't take much to prove economic benift from this. Their traffic and associated revenue (advertising or otherwise) are increased by having these documents posted. Sort of like if you'd posted insider information to ArsTechnica aboutthe ps3 or something.
I also remeber something about, legally speaking, possible economic benifit being as bad as actual benifit. If you stole trade secrets, and lose your shirt on the deal by selling them for less then it cose you to get them, you still can go to jail.
See thats the key. its unethical in your book. Ethics are a metter of personal opinion and personal belife. Me, I think its fine to do experiments on mice in the name of science, but YMMV.
"Surely your company can afford you one of these."
Are you kidding?? That's 9 large. We have enough trouble convicing them they need to backup, much less et something like that. Lots of people need lower cost solutions than that.
Also gotta love the multiple lines of subtitles. The copy I got of 13th Warrior a while back had something like 5 different lines of subtitles up all the time, making it near immpossible to actually watch the move past all the writing.
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Not such a big deal. Put the entire thing in a 40 mile no fly zone. Kill anything that flies near.
Bah. Spellnig is ovrerated.
No, Apple liscensed it from Xerox.
Been there! Popped a cdr into an iMac (needed to pull off some archived stuff). Made this go aweful cruchy sound, followed by the sound of grinding. Took a week to clean all the bits of cd out of it.
Exact same thing. Sort of. For me, it took an extra reboot to be able to ssh in for some reason.
Ok, I know I shouln;t bitch about you're specifics in the comparison because you're doing a back-of-the-napkin type thing, but you're just wrong. Bottom line iMac has the built-in monitor, combo drive, and optical mouse (they don't make anything else). I'd then argue that almost nobody who buys a computer for a $1500 expects it to do pro audio. "Pro" cards are usually over $500.
Otherwise, you do have a good points. the lack of upgradeability does bother some people, but its rare to find a non-geek (or relative of geek) that upgrades anything beyond ram or a hard drive.
I'm the otherway around. We actually had 2 of the same series Maxtor's start to smoke due to some manufacturing flaw thier logic chips. Western Digital's are the ones that never seem to go down, and we're opperating a very dirty power situation which seems ot kill most of our equipment around the end of thier warrenty periods
That'll be great for all the times my users spill sodas or yogurt on their computers :-)
Or you can give em s-video cables. For the ones you don't like, give em old apple keyboard cables. Exact same things.
No biggy, they've had this for a while. There's 2 slightly differnt versions of OS X server software. The cheaper one ($499) limits you to 10 concurent file sharing connections (I think just for afp, but might be samba also), which includes a limit of 10 users connected atthe same time for thier home directories. The other version ($999) doesn't have these limits. The version that comes with all their hardware is the full one. The light one is for if you want this running on an iMac, or an older server, or to retrofit one of your towers.
Fankly, we tend to use our older Ti's over out new ones at work because they have vga. Our users seem to have problems with the DVI-VGA adaptors for some reason when they're doing ppt presentations on the road.
You hit the nail right on the head: density. Xserves are great and wonderful machines (possibly excluding the god-awerful sound they make), but they just don't compete this blade servers. And I'm assuming they're not supposed to. We all know tthe advanages of using blades for this kind of thing, so it'd be foolhardy to use even 1U devices here.
Just to check, where did the battery life in "DAYS" come from? Leaving mine on and not playing anything only lasts a little over 20 hours.
Best he could claim is that he rooted somebody's system and killed "man"
Well, then have a a couple windows with multiple tabs each. Never did see why people around here see it as a one or the other thing.
But as we all know, security is a process. I just can't see your typical blue haried granny updating the firmware on her firewall because somebody found a flaw in it. I'd say it should be automated or something, but automated processes are just one more thing to hack.
Right. So you're going to sue somebody's grandmother because she got DSL to play scrabble online? Thats not going to get very far.
It wouldn't take much to prove economic benift from this. Their traffic and associated revenue (advertising or otherwise) are increased by having these documents posted. Sort of like if you'd posted insider information to ArsTechnica aboutthe ps3 or something.
I also remeber something about, legally speaking, possible economic benifit being as bad as actual benifit. If you stole trade secrets, and lose your shirt on the deal by selling them for less then it cose you to get them, you still can go to jail.
So you bought an iMac for $350, and then put it in a $400 case?
Yes, actually, they are.
What does her being deaf have anything to do with it? You can beat a deaf, blind, one legged person too.
and no I didn't read your play.
See thats the key. its unethical in your book. Ethics are a metter of personal opinion and personal belife. Me, I think its fine to do experiments on mice in the name of science, but YMMV.
"Surely your company can afford you one of these."
Are you kidding?? That's 9 large. We have enough trouble convicing them they need to backup, much less et something like that. Lots of people need lower cost solutions than that.
Also gotta love the multiple lines of subtitles. The copy I got of 13th Warrior a while back had something like 5 different lines of subtitles up all the time, making it near immpossible to actually watch the move past all the writing.
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