Ford commercials have a nice little tag at the bottom that says something like "As shown, $28,999". Did the Vista adds have the same thing? Were there "As shown, Vista Premium running on 2GB RAM/NVidia GeForce 7900" tags on the Vista commercials?
While I agree that buying goods "Made in the USA" is important and I too try to do it whenever possible, you still have to be careful. There are sweatshops "in" the USA where workers are subjected to horrible conditions in the Marianas Islands - a US territory.
The are allegations of everything from threatening deportation to forced abortions, all in the good ole' US of A.
Research the companies you buy from before you blindly trust a "Made in the USA" label.
There's really no substitute for Delicious Library for Mac. It has bar code integration and pulls book covers from Amazon. I use it to manage my library and really couldn't fathom not having it.
Is this really a cheap solution? I could get 145 7TB XServe RAIDs plus XServe G5 cluster nodes with XSan for about $2.3 million. Throw in a couple hundred $K for racks, etc. and I'm at around $3 million. What does this get me over an Apple (or other) solution?
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Wow, talk about spreading FUD! A guardian ad litem is "A guardian appointed to represent the interests of a person with respect to a single action in litigation" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_ad_litem.
One of the things that a lot of people miss is that Tridge wasn't just reverse engineering some software that reads a Word file. He was reverse engineering the protocol that BK used on their servers.
What if Tridge wrote something that totally hosed the kernel source on BK's server? People would be screaming bloody murder at BK for letting it happen. One of the reasons BK kept their stuff closed was so they could take accountability if anything went wrong and now exactly how every client was accessing it. That's one of the advantages most managers see with going with a commercial company rather than a OSS solution.
This isn't just copying functionality, it's putting a widely used system at risk because you don't agree with their practices. That's the same philosophy espoused by a lot of virus writers.
One of the things that a lot of people miss is that Tridge wasn't just reverse engineering some software that reads a Word file. He was reverse engineering the protocol that BK used on their servers.
What if Tridge wrote something that totally hosed the kernel source on BK's server? People would be screaming bloody murder at BK for letting it happen. One of the reasons BK kept their stuff closed was so they could take accountability if anything went wrong and now exactly how every client was accessing it. That's one of the advantages most managers see with going with a commercial company rather than a OSS solution.
This isn't just copying functionality, it's putting a widely used system at risk because you don't agree with their practices. That's the same philosophy espoused by a lot of virus writers.
I just bought a new VW Jetta and I see my iTunes songs in kind of the same light. My Jetta has a special key that only the dealer can supply me with, just like my music has to be authorized on computers by Apple.
If I lose my key and the dealer no longer supports it, then I'm screwed. (Obviously with cars there's a little more protection, you wouldn't want a $20K+ car to be inoperable simply because they upgraded key machines). Likewise if Apple stops supporting iTunes music and I upgrade my computer I may lose all my music.
I own the music the same way I own my car. I can do whatever I want to the music, but without the authorization it might not play. I can do whatever I want to my car, but without the key it might not run.
We accept the special keys for cars so that people don't steal our cars. Why don't we accept DRM that doesn't get in the way if it keeps people from stealing our music?
I am not an idiot and I did see the dock. Try this:
- Go to a Mac or run Pear PC - Drop the screen resolution to the lowest supported - Turn dock magnification to the maximum (for the dumber readers such as yourself, you can find the dock preferences in the Apple menu -> Dock -> Dock preferences) - Hover over an item
Holy shit! The outer items on the dock get cut off! The screen must be partly obscured!
They should, but one of the things that makes Apple great is that stuff "just works". Apple doesn't want people calling tech support and saying, "Why can't I play xyz song from abc store"? They want to protect that and if they have the means to, I say let them.
I think that one of the key things that's different from your examples about the XBox and the TiVo is that this is a _company_ doing this. In the cases that you described those were individuals who wanted more functionality out of their devices.
What Real is doing is saying, "Hey, the iPod is the most popular music player out there and we're too lazy and cheap to try to pump up another player or our own so let's hack the iPod". It's another company trying to piggy back on someone's efforts and success without contributing anything back.
In any case, for the near future if you want to run a 64 bit operating system you will either be using one of the free Linux versions or the free download of Windows XP-64 beta.
In high school my friends and I got bored and decided to start playing bike polo.
Materials required: Croquet mallet, Broomstick, Softball, Bike, Field.
Slap the broomstick onto the mallet head, grab some friends and find a field. Set up goals and start playing. The only rules are that you can't put your feet down unless you fall and you can't use your mallet to balance. Hours of fun for far less than the cost of a segway.
Mostly a good point. The 40 still includes the dock, but you're right about the case and the remote. I never use the remote, but I certainly couldn't live without a case. Oh well, I guess they have their reasons.
Do you people even read? Oh wait. Obviously not. Here's the exact quote:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
And I quote from Vint Cerf, the "father of the Internet"
VP Gore was the first or surely among the first of the members of Congress to become a strong supporter of advanced networking while he served as Senator. As far back as 1986, he was holding hearings on this subject (supercomputing, fiber networks...) and asking about their promise and what could be done to realize them. Bob Kahn, with whom I worked to develop the Internet design in 1973, participated in several hearings held by then-Senator Gore and I recall that Bob introduced the term ``information infrastructure'' in one hearing in 1986. It was clear that as a Senator and now as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it.
As Senator, VP Gore was highly supportive of the research community's efforts to explore new networking capabilities and to extend access to supercomputers by way of NSFNET and its successors, the High Performance Computing and Communication program (which included the National Research and Education Network initiative), and as Vice President, he has been very responsive to recommendations made, for example, by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee that endorsed additional research funding for next generation fundamental research in software and related topics. If you look at the last 30-35 years of network development, you'll find many people who have made major contributions without which the Internet would not be the vibrant, growing and exciting thing it is today. The creation of a new information infrastructure requires the willing efforts of thousands if not millions of participants and we've seen leadership from many quarters, all of it needed, to move the Internet towards increased availability and utility around the world.
While it is not accurate to say that VP Gore invented Internet, he has played a powerful role in policy terms that has supported its continued growth and application, for which we should be thankful.
We're fortunate to have senior level members of Congress and the Administration who embrace new technology and have the vision to see how it can be put to work for national and global benefit.
Sounds to me like Cerf is crediting Gore with taking some initiative in creating the Internet. If you want to nail someone on verbal misteps, skip the whole misinterpreting thing and go straight to the lies:
Question to Bush on 1 Jun 2004 Q: Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration. I'm wondering if you feel that he provided any false information, or are you particularly --
THE PRESIDENT: Chalabi?
Q: Yes, with Chalabi.
THE PRESIDENT: My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.
Hmmm... Okay, how about on Meet the Press on 7 Feb 2004?
Tim Russert: If the Iraqis choose, however, an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be better for the United States than Saddam Hussein?
President Bush: They're not going to develop that. And the reason I can say that is because I'm very aware of this basic law they're writing. They're not going to develop that because right here in the Oval Office I sat down with Mr. [Adnad] Pachachi and Chalabi and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made t
Find me one person who regularly refers that the Internet that you use every day as an internet and I'll pretend I give a shit about that distinction. Hate to break it to you but people can't speak in capital letters to differentiate Internet and internet, so we have to assume Mr. Gore was referring to the Internet.
First of all, this is the stupidest argument ever, but since you fuckers continue to press the issue, I will too.
Have you ever in your life heard someone refer to "an internet". No. There is no such thing since, by definition, there is only one. Thus, one only has the option of creating the internet, not an internet.
Secondly, with specific respect to the internet, yes Al Gore basically built the internet. In the same way that someone on a large committee builds an office building. Do you say they didn't build the office building since they didn't actually lay the bricks? Or did the bricklayer not build it since they didn't dig the foundation? Everyone has a hand. Al Gore's hand was in driving through the legislation to get the internet public. I'd say that gives him just as much justification to say he built it.
What it boils down to is this. If Al Gore hadn't done his part, the internet would not be what it is today (or at least it would have been a few years delayed). He deserves credit for that. But instead of those of us who use and love the internet thanking him for his foresight, you bitch and moan about phraseology and deny him that. Why? Just because he was the democratic candidate. You want to talk about verbal fuckups? Take a look at the current president. There are so many, they made a threefuckingbooks out of them.
I also want to point out that it's really freakin' sad that the dittoheads were so desperate to make Gore look bad compared to Bush that they actually had to go so far as to deliberately misquote him. Pathetic.
Let's say I build a car from scratch. I created that car. No one in their right mind would say I invented the car or ever quote me as such.
Create is not a synonym for invent, plain and simple. This rumor, even though he is guilty of misspeaking, was deliberately put out to make him look stupid/snobish/(insert negative quality). And the saddest thing is that it worked.
Your wife should consider getting an iPod and either this or this. The first thing lets you hook your digital camera directly to the iPod and store your photos on it (since iPod works as a portable hard drive). The second one is a CompactFlash card reader that does the same thing.
2GB cards aren't cheap and $500 for a 40GB iPod plus one of these addons would make a lot of sense. I use the card reader one when I travel so that I don't have to lug my laptop with me.
Hey dumbass. I was pointing out that the parent poster had no kids and didn't think in terms of single or two working parents who _do_ take their child(ren) on their commute with them everyday. Nowhere in my post did I exclude people who leave their kids at home.
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Ford commercials have a nice little tag at the bottom that says something like "As shown, $28,999". Did the Vista adds have the same thing? Were there "As shown, Vista Premium running on 2GB RAM/NVidia GeForce 7900" tags on the Vista commercials?
While I agree that buying goods "Made in the USA" is important and I too try to do it whenever possible, you still have to be careful. There are sweatshops "in" the USA where workers are subjected to horrible conditions in the Marianas Islands - a US territory.
The are allegations of everything from threatening deportation to forced abortions, all in the good ole' US of A.
Research the companies you buy from before you blindly trust a "Made in the USA" label.
There's really no substitute for Delicious Library for Mac. It has bar code integration and pulls book covers from Amazon. I use it to manage my library and really couldn't fathom not having it.
Is this really a cheap solution? I could get 145 7TB XServe RAIDs plus XServe G5 cluster nodes with XSan for about $2.3 million. Throw in a couple hundred $K for racks, etc. and I'm at around $3 million. What does this get me over an Apple (or other) solution?
Wow, talk about spreading FUD! A guardian ad litem is "A guardian appointed to represent the interests of a person with respect to a single action in litigation" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_ad_litem.
No one is taking this girl from her mother.
Way. Too. Much. Free. Time.
One of the things that a lot of people miss is that Tridge wasn't just reverse engineering some software that reads a Word file. He was reverse engineering the protocol that BK used on their servers.
What if Tridge wrote something that totally hosed the kernel source on BK's server? People would be screaming bloody murder at BK for letting it happen. One of the reasons BK kept their stuff closed was so they could take accountability if anything went wrong and now exactly how every client was accessing it. That's one of the advantages most managers see with going with a commercial company rather than a OSS solution.
This isn't just copying functionality, it's putting a widely used system at risk because you don't agree with their practices. That's the same philosophy espoused by a lot of virus writers.
One of the things that a lot of people miss is that Tridge wasn't just reverse engineering some software that reads a Word file. He was reverse engineering the protocol that BK used on their servers.
What if Tridge wrote something that totally hosed the kernel source on BK's server? People would be screaming bloody murder at BK for letting it happen. One of the reasons BK kept their stuff closed was so they could take accountability if anything went wrong and now exactly how every client was accessing it. That's one of the advantages most managers see with going with a commercial company rather than a OSS solution.
This isn't just copying functionality, it's putting a widely used system at risk because you don't agree with their practices. That's the same philosophy espoused by a lot of virus writers.
I just bought a new VW Jetta and I see my iTunes songs in kind of the same light. My Jetta has a special key that only the dealer can supply me with, just like my music has to be authorized on computers by Apple.
If I lose my key and the dealer no longer supports it, then I'm screwed. (Obviously with cars there's a little more protection, you wouldn't want a $20K+ car to be inoperable simply because they upgraded key machines). Likewise if Apple stops supporting iTunes music and I upgrade my computer I may lose all my music.
I own the music the same way I own my car. I can do whatever I want to the music, but without the authorization it might not play. I can do whatever I want to my car, but without the key it might not run.
We accept the special keys for cars so that people don't steal our cars. Why don't we accept DRM that doesn't get in the way if it keeps people from stealing our music?
I am not an idiot and I did see the dock. Try this:
- Go to a Mac or run Pear PC
- Drop the screen resolution to the lowest supported
- Turn dock magnification to the maximum (for the dumber readers such as yourself, you can find the dock preferences in the Apple menu -> Dock -> Dock preferences)
- Hover over an item
Holy shit! The outer items on the dock get cut off! The screen must be partly obscured!
Dumb motherfucker.
Because the screen on the XBox on displays at 640x480. It's not obscured. Look at the menu bar.
They should, but one of the things that makes Apple great is that stuff "just works". Apple doesn't want people calling tech support and saying, "Why can't I play xyz song from abc store"? They want to protect that and if they have the means to, I say let them.
I think that one of the key things that's different from your examples about the XBox and the TiVo is that this is a _company_ doing this. In the cases that you described those were individuals who wanted more functionality out of their devices.
What Real is doing is saying, "Hey, the iPod is the most popular music player out there and we're too lazy and cheap to try to pump up another player or our own so let's hack the iPod". It's another company trying to piggy back on someone's efforts and success without contributing anything back.
In any case, for the near future if you want to run a 64 bit operating system you will either be using one of the free Linux versions or the free download of Windows XP-64 beta.
Um, what about Mac OS X?
In high school my friends and I got bored and decided to start playing bike polo.
Materials required: Croquet mallet, Broomstick, Softball, Bike, Field.
Slap the broomstick onto the mallet head, grab some friends and find a field. Set up goals and start playing. The only rules are that you can't put your feet down unless you fall and you can't use your mallet to balance. Hours of fun for far less than the cost of a segway.
Mostly a good point. The 40 still includes the dock, but you're right about the case and the remote. I never use the remote, but I certainly couldn't live without a case. Oh well, I guess they have their reasons.
Notice that price cut with 20gb version was made by leaving dock out of the package.
The base model ($299) has _never_ had the dock, carry case, or remote. Now it's just that the base model is the 20GB.
Funny how when your guy gets challenged it becomes "off-topic", yet somehow it's not to continue challenging Gore's comment? Hypocrite.
And I quote from Vint Cerf, the "father of the Internet"
Sounds to me like Cerf is crediting Gore with taking some initiative in creating the Internet. If you want to nail someone on verbal misteps, skip the whole misinterpreting thing and go straight to the lies:
Question to Bush on 1 Jun 2004
Q: Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration. I'm wondering if you feel that he provided any false information, or are you particularly --
THE PRESIDENT: Chalabi?
Q: Yes, with Chalabi.
THE PRESIDENT: My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.
Hmmm... Okay, how about on Meet the Press on 7 Feb 2004?
Tim Russert: If the Iraqis choose, however, an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be better for the United States than Saddam Hussein?
President Bush: They're not going to develop that. And the reason I can say that is because I'm very aware of this basic law they're writing. They're not going to develop that because right here in the Oval Office I sat down with Mr. [Adnad] Pachachi and Chalabi and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made t
Find me one person who regularly refers that the Internet that you use every day as an internet and I'll pretend I give a shit about that distinction. Hate to break it to you but people can't speak in capital letters to differentiate Internet and internet, so we have to assume Mr. Gore was referring to the Internet.
You people just don't give up do you?
First of all, this is the stupidest argument ever, but since you fuckers continue to press the issue, I will too.
Have you ever in your life heard someone refer to "an internet". No. There is no such thing since, by definition, there is only one. Thus, one only has the option of creating the internet, not an internet.
Secondly, with specific respect to the internet, yes Al Gore basically built the internet. In the same way that someone on a large committee builds an office building. Do you say they didn't build the office building since they didn't actually lay the bricks? Or did the bricklayer not build it since they didn't dig the foundation? Everyone has a hand. Al Gore's hand was in driving through the legislation to get the internet public. I'd say that gives him just as much justification to say he built it.
What it boils down to is this. If Al Gore hadn't done his part, the internet would not be what it is today (or at least it would have been a few years delayed). He deserves credit for that. But instead of those of us who use and love the internet thanking him for his foresight, you bitch and moan about phraseology and deny him that. Why? Just because he was the democratic candidate. You want to talk about verbal fuckups? Take a look at the current president. There are so many, they made a three fucking books out of them.
I also want to point out that it's really freakin' sad that the dittoheads were so desperate to make Gore look bad compared to Bush that they actually had to go so far as to deliberately misquote him. Pathetic.
Let's say I build a car from scratch. I created that car. No one in their right mind would say I invented the car or ever quote me as such.
Create is not a synonym for invent, plain and simple. This rumor, even though he is guilty of misspeaking, was deliberately put out to make him look stupid/snobish/(insert negative quality). And the saddest thing is that it worked.
What keeps me off Windows? Buying a Mac. And _never_ looking back. I sometimes wonder how I lived with a computer that didn't "just work".
Your wife should consider getting an iPod and either this or this. The first thing lets you hook your digital camera directly to the iPod and store your photos on it (since iPod works as a portable hard drive). The second one is a CompactFlash card reader that does the same thing.
2GB cards aren't cheap and $500 for a 40GB iPod plus one of these addons would make a lot of sense. I use the card reader one when I travel so that I don't have to lug my laptop with me.
Hey dumbass. I was pointing out that the parent poster had no kids and didn't think in terms of single or two working parents who _do_ take their child(ren) on their commute with them everyday. Nowhere in my post did I exclude people who leave their kids at home.
"Stop. Think. Then speak.... Nope, still jackass." -Wanda Sykes