The plastics are different - they look different, they feel different. I owned an iBook G4 and used it for years, with no discoloration. I've had my MacBook for 3 weeks, and it's developing faint yellowish "stains" on the palm rest that won't wash off. I'm a very clean person, a non-smoker, I wash my hands frequently, and this isn't dirt or tar from cigarette smoking (as a few people on the discussion forums have erroneously concluded). It's some kind of chemical reaction with the natural oils in my hands and the particular plastics used in the MacBook.
Mod parent up. I think this is the best argument against DNA sampling, and the best illustration of the difference between fingerprinting and DNA sampling (supporting the arguments of all you "slippery slope" people).
Yep, sure does. When I go home, my company-supplied laptop goes with me. I could leave my password taped to my monitor, and it wouldn't do anyone any good, unless they broke into my house...
... or steal your laptop out of your car, or off the subway, or from the coffee shop, or wherever you take it.
You buy a DirecTV HD TiVo. It will record both DirecTV HD and off-air HD signals. It will record 2 channels at the same time. As for the external storage question, well you got me there.
Of course you meant you got a G4 Powerbook from work; Apple has never shipped any G5 Powerbooks (that being one of the reasons for the switch to the Intel CPUs).
The Bible says God created the earth in 7 days. The Bible also says that to God, "a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day". These two statements clearly illustrate the principles of eternity and immortality, and demonstrate that it is indeed possible to believe what the Bible says and what science shows AT THE SAME TIME; you just can't take the King James Version of the Bible so damn word-for-word literally!
While I'm on that topic, the KJV was commissioned at the beginning of the 17th century by King James I of England. Its focus was more on flowery prose & poetry than it was on translational accuracy.
Oh please no. I don't want more devices that use rechargable batteries that have to be replaced over time because they can no longer hold a charge, and that contain nickel/cadmium and other toxic heavy metals.
I'm using SSH in a fairly mundane way, but one I haven't seen anyone else mention here. I telecommute, and my ISP (DirecWay, unfortunately the only thing besides dial-up available to me where I live) blocks PPTP VPN. So instead to do remote administration, I run RDP over a PuTTY/SSH tunnel.
I've been nearsighted since 5th grade. There were no computers back then (though I was and am an avid book reader). I'm 38 now, my vision has been stable for the last 10 years, and I've worked in IT for 17 years.
Given all that, I don't think that in my case extensive time in front of a computer screen has contributed significantly to my nearsightedness.
Without a native port of OpenOffice.org to Mac OS X, it's still completely unusable by my standards. And yes, I'm aware of NeoOffice/J (too slow to use) and OO.org for X11 (the interface is just too... odd for everyday use under Mac OS X).
This will sound like an old curmudgeon speaking, except I'm not that old (I'm 38), and not that much of a curmudgeon, most of the time.
When I was in high school, the idea of a computer for use in school was laughable. I remember lusting after a C64, and getting a Vic20 instead.
I got my first PC (an IBM PC jr, anyone else remember those?) as a freshman at Virginia Tech, the first year the College of Engineering had a PC requirement. That PC requirement was (I think) the first of its kind, and it made national news at the time.
So I just have to shake my head when I read about people buying personal notebook computers for their middle school (and younger) kids.
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The plastics are different - they look different, they feel different. I owned an iBook G4 and used it for years, with no discoloration. I've had my MacBook for 3 weeks, and it's developing faint yellowish "stains" on the palm rest that won't wash off. I'm a very clean person, a non-smoker, I wash my hands frequently, and this isn't dirt or tar from cigarette smoking (as a few people on the discussion forums have erroneously concluded). It's some kind of chemical reaction with the natural oils in my hands and the particular plastics used in the MacBook.
Mod parent up. I think this is the best argument against DNA sampling, and the best illustration of the difference between fingerprinting and DNA sampling (supporting the arguments of all you "slippery slope" people).
Try in vein? You added blood to your play-doh? Sick, dude!
Any idea how soon this is likely to be? It seems like we've been talking about the MPEG4 move for years, but it hasn't happened yet...
You buy a DirecTV HD TiVo. It will record both DirecTV HD and off-air HD signals. It will record 2 channels at the same time. As for the external storage question, well you got me there.
Hey, it worked in The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold.
Of course you meant you got a G4 Powerbook from work; Apple has never shipped any G5 Powerbooks (that being one of the reasons for the switch to the Intel CPUs).
The Bible says God created the earth in 7 days. The Bible also says that to God, "a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day". These two statements clearly illustrate the principles of eternity and immortality, and demonstrate that it is indeed possible to believe what the Bible says and what science shows AT THE SAME TIME; you just can't take the King James Version of the Bible so damn word-for-word literally!
While I'm on that topic, the KJV was commissioned at the beginning of the 17th century by King James I of England. Its focus was more on flowery prose & poetry than it was on translational accuracy.
This is modded funny, but it's scary insightful as well.
Oh please no. I don't want more devices that use rechargable batteries that have to be replaced over time because they can no longer hold a charge, and that contain nickel/cadmium and other toxic heavy metals.
I'm using SSH in a fairly mundane way, but one I haven't seen anyone else mention here. I telecommute, and my ISP (DirecWay, unfortunately the only thing besides dial-up available to me where I live) blocks PPTP VPN. So instead to do remote administration, I run RDP over a PuTTY/SSH tunnel.
Slashdot readers eat a lot of junk food.
Meetings = Bad.
Wasting time posting to Slashdot to complain about meetings = Good.
Can anyone say "feature creep"?
Let me rephrase that... "There were no computers that I had any direct contact with back then..."
I've been nearsighted since 5th grade. There were no computers back then (though I was and am an avid book reader). I'm 38 now, my vision has been stable for the last 10 years, and I've worked in IT for 17 years.
Given all that, I don't think that in my case extensive time in front of a computer screen has contributed significantly to my nearsightedness.
So many good posts --
Damn! I wish I had mod points!
Better luck next time.
Maybe he was trying to say they could hear over the noise generated by the thing?
Ringtones are starting to pop up in retail stores here in the US as well. Why ANYONE would pay any price for a ringtone baffles me.
OS X wasn't just inspired by NeXTstep, it's BASED ON NeXTstep.
By my count that's only 6.
Without a native port of OpenOffice.org to Mac OS X, it's still completely unusable by my standards. And yes, I'm aware of NeoOffice/J (too slow to use) and OO.org for X11 (the interface is just too ... odd for everyday use under Mac OS X).
So I'm still "stuck" with MS Office 2004.
This will sound like an old curmudgeon speaking, except I'm not that old (I'm 38), and not that much of a curmudgeon, most of the time.
When I was in high school, the idea of a computer for use in school was laughable. I remember lusting after a C64, and getting a Vic20 instead.
I got my first PC (an IBM PC jr, anyone else remember those?) as a freshman at Virginia Tech, the first year the College of Engineering had a PC requirement. That PC requirement was (I think) the first of its kind, and it made national news at the time.
So I just have to shake my head when I read about people buying personal notebook computers for their middle school (and younger) kids.
Yet another article with a review of yet another PC case. This is marketing, folks, not news.
And this case happens to be butt-ugly -- which would be fine in a hidden, rack-mounted media center, but I sure wouldn't want it in my living room!