You forget, that in Soviet Russia dead horses beat your beowulf clusters of GNAA members while profiting from you.
But the real question is... can they run Linux?
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The first time I turned on ZDTV sometime in 1998 was at a friends house (I didn't have the channel at the time) when Leo and Kate were installing Linux live on an episode of TSS
Windows MOvie Maker is hardly what I'd call functionality. Same goes for Powertoys... oooh a graphical ALT+TAB and a new version of TweakUI. And the journal viewer is only out of necessity so people can move stuff from XP Tablet to their desktop machines and still read it.
I disagree. I run XP on a PII 300mhz w/ 384 megs of RAM (a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop) and it's incredibly smooth once you turn off unnessecary crap like visual styles
I don't suppose the screens on the 12" model have been updated? I remember hearing that the screen model used on the 12" Powerbook and the 12"/14" iBooks was a much lower quality screen than the 15"/17" powerbooks.
Apple is designed for those with a LOT of disposable income and the hardcore geek.
You missed one. I'm going to a school for radio/tv/film, an industry (and university, Rowan) that is mostly Mac-based (yes PCs are starting to slip in but the Mac's are still in force)
You can always go to a friend who's either a teacher or a parent with a child either in K-12 or college... educators and educatees get one discounted major hardware purchase (usually around $200 off) per year
If you go w/ a PPC solution, this will let you force any program to run in "Kiosk" mode, meaning none of the Windows Mobile interface (close button, other programs, etc) will be accessible.
I haven't listened to to any stations owned by $conglomorate in $years. There are so many better alternatives out there like $NPR1, $NPR2, $internet_radio_station, or $satellite_company.
Besides, I don't even listen to radio while I'm doing $activity. I use my $mp3_player_brand or cd player.
Because as a user, I don't want my email service to be taking initative to change the content of my emails to be "safer". Guess what, I run Windows. I have Office. I use.doc files. I don't run OpenOffice, and I don't need my email provider giving me an.SXC instead, thank you very much. And I sure as hell don't want my text documents made into an image format.
In the position of an email provider, I sure as hell wouldn't want to be responsible for ensuring that all emails were "cleansed".
You don't want.doc files, fine, I'll send you an RTF if you ask nicely. But the worst way to try to get someone to see your point of view is to force them.
the problem is people don't care. joe average seriously does not give a rat's ass if software is proprietary or not. i've given up trying to tell people why (pick one: comet cursor/word/kazaa regular/etc) is bad because they just don't care. it works for them and that's all they care about.
This particular thread reminds me of a quote from Bash...
I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.
For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me.
Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better.
So if you're starting out Linux, I advise you to use the same method as I did to get help. Start the sentence with "Linux is gay because it can't do XXX like Windows can". You will have PhDs running to tell you how to solve your problems.
"The company won't release their source so they don't care about their fans" is possibly one of the worst non-sequitur arguments I have ever heard.
Not everyone wants to share their code. Period. Let me repeat that. Not everyone wants to share their code. Period.
Just like you chose to only support companies that will release their code, the company can choose not to release their code. It's their code and their perogative to do what they want with it.
The library at my Uni has got a whole bunch of new Pentium 4s with WinXP in the library, for running a web client for searching through book records.
Not only did our local library buy a bunch of new P4 WinXP machines to run fullscreen IE for searching the catalog, but they wiped out XP and installed freaking NT4 on them!
I remember oogling the foldout things that came w/ sega games that had a poster on one side and adverts for new stuff on the other side... the gamegear tv tuner was something i desperately wanted (and the gg to go w/ it)
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Will you settle for Cat Schwartz? (not safe for work/school/etc)
that could become clusters
Imagine a Beowulf cluster... oh, wait...
You forget, that in Soviet Russia dead horses beat your beowulf clusters of GNAA members while profiting from you.
But the real question is... can they run Linux?
The first time I turned on ZDTV sometime in 1998 was at a friends house (I didn't have the channel at the time) when Leo and Kate were installing Linux live on an episode of TSS
Erm... you do know that windows messenger is just someones box going "net send" to a range of IPs, right?
Windows MOvie Maker is hardly what I'd call functionality. Same goes for Powertoys... oooh a graphical ALT+TAB and a new version of TweakUI. And the journal viewer is only out of necessity so people can move stuff from XP Tablet to their desktop machines and still read it.
I disagree. I run XP on a PII 300mhz w/ 384 megs of RAM (a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop) and it's incredibly smooth once you turn off unnessecary crap like visual styles
Gaming is now bigger than movies.
Is that why I'm buying a Powerbook in a few moths to use at college (for communications, as in radio/tv/film. As in video.)?
I don't suppose the screens on the 12" model have been updated? I remember hearing that the screen model used on the 12" Powerbook and the 12"/14" iBooks was a much lower quality screen than the 15"/17" powerbooks.
I have no need for Firewire or Bluetooth.
And 3 years ago, you had no need for that 20 gig drive, you were never going to fill that whole thing up.
You probably also had no USB, after all there were no major USB devices out there.
I don't need DVD authoring. A DVD burner without a reader is useless to me.
Erm... you are aware that the DVD burner also READS DVDs and CDs, right? And that the OS comes with a DVD player built in?
iTunes? I've got Winamp. It's free.
So's iTunes
Apple is designed for those with a LOT of disposable income and the hardcore geek.
You missed one. I'm going to a school for radio/tv/film, an industry (and university, Rowan) that is mostly Mac-based (yes PCs are starting to slip in but the Mac's are still in force)
You can always go to a friend who's either a teacher or a parent with a child either in K-12 or college... educators and educatees get one discounted major hardware purchase (usually around $200 off) per year
http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/kiosk.html
If you go w/ a PPC solution, this will let you force any program to run in "Kiosk" mode, meaning none of the Windows Mobile interface (close button, other programs, etc) will be accessible.
I haven't listened to to any stations owned by $conglomorate in $years. There are so many better alternatives out there like $NPR1, $NPR2, $internet_radio_station, or $satellite_company.
Besides, I don't even listen to radio while I'm doing $activity. I use my $mp3_player_brand or cd player.
IANAFF, but isn't it simply the same reason you don't put whipped cream cans near fire... they explode
You're supposed to use a fire extinguisher from something like 6' away
Because as a user, I don't want my email service to be taking initative to change the content of my emails to be "safer". Guess what, I run Windows. I have Office. I use .doc files. I don't run OpenOffice, and I don't need my email provider giving me an .SXC instead, thank you very much. And I sure as hell don't want my text documents made into an image format.
.doc files, fine, I'll send you an RTF if you ask nicely. But the worst way to try to get someone to see your point of view is to force them.
In the position of an email provider, I sure as hell wouldn't want to be responsible for ensuring that all emails were "cleansed".
You don't want
the problem is people don't care. joe average seriously does not give a rat's ass if software is proprietary or not. i've given up trying to tell people why (pick one: comet cursor/word/kazaa regular/etc) is bad because they just don't care. it works for them and that's all they care about.
This particular thread reminds me of a quote from Bash...
I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.
For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me.
Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better.
So if you're starting out Linux, I advise you to use the same method as I did to get help. Start the sentence with "Linux is gay because it can't do XXX like Windows can". You will have PhDs running to tell you how to solve your problems.
The latest "beta" lets you opt out of WeatherBug and WildTangent installing
http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/win_beta.adp
"The company won't release their source so they don't care about their fans" is possibly one of the worst non-sequitur arguments I have ever heard.
Not everyone wants to share their code.
Period.
Let me repeat that.
Not everyone wants to share their code.
Period.
Just like you chose to only support companies that will release their code, the company can choose not to release their code. It's their code and their perogative to do what they want with it.
It's not the deaf people bothering him. It's the lusers who use it for CC fraud.
The library at my Uni has got a whole bunch of new Pentium 4s with WinXP in the library, for running a web client for searching through book records.
Not only did our local library buy a bunch of new P4 WinXP machines to run fullscreen IE for searching the catalog, but they wiped out XP and installed freaking NT4 on them!
Joe Average is not going to change his entire operating system to record a radio broadcast... get real.
I prefer "tech"
When I hear "techie" I think of the guys in black who handle the behind the scene show aspects.
30 quid for an IDE to USB2 caddy too expensive? :)
Just too bulky.
They condensed Windows 98 to 5 megs, there's gotta be a way to boot it from a flash drive
I remember oogling the foldout things that came w/ sega games that had a poster on one side and adverts for new stuff on the other side... the gamegear tv tuner was something i desperately wanted (and the gg to go w/ it)
they also had an infared controller i wanted