Another benefit of paper notebooks is they don't break (physically or software-wise) and I could keep an entire year's in my bag for less weight than a laptop.
You can keep an entire year's worth of notebooks in your bag (assuming 5 classes per semester, a spring and fall semester) and have it weigh less than a 5 lb PowerBook or ThinkPad? Must be some thin paper.
I've started using my laptop in my Psych class to take notes - best notes I've ever taken. Everything is laid out neatly, I actually bother writing things down because I HATE writing long things with paper and pen, when the teacher gives us a handout with a web address I can just copy it into my document and not worry about losing the paper. And then I can print them for worry-free backups.
Does the name OSx86 really irk anyone else? It's OS X as in ten, not X as in ex. And it's x86 as in ex, not as in ten. So it's either OS x86 or OS ten 86, neither of which would really be right.
I'm maybe not your average user, but 5 uses really isn't a lot. Even my Mac Mini would use 2 (OSX 10.4 and OSX 10.3 boots) for one machine.
I've got a PowerBook, a Dell laptop, a homebuilt desktop PC, and an iPod. That's 3 authorizations, the iPod doesn't count. Very few people have as many devices in the home as you do that need to be simultaneously authorized to play a song, so I'd say this puts you out of the iTMS target audience.
The support that comes with the devices by default has been horrible in my experience - odds are your repair is either out of warranty or they're just going to try selling you AppleCare. I'm certainly not giving them money for something that's been horrible thus far.
The only way I'd ever get it was if accidental damage was covered, ala Dell Complete Care
I bought a PowerBook 12" G4 in mid 2004. No AppleCare. Hard drive died on me this past October, about 4 months out of warranty. Instead of paying Apple's $375 repair, I spent $80 on a 60gb Seagate HD and disassambled and replaced it myself, and everything works fine.
After my experiences regarding the PB, my iPod, and my ex gf's iBook, I would never pay for AppleCare - the free service isn't even worth the price so I sure as hell wouldn't pay for it
I'd like to know your mail address and when you are visiting your mom so I can rob your house.
I do believe you're losing sight of the original argument here. The submitter referenced Bush and the NSA's spying as reason for using encrypted email, which is the argument at hand.
Protecting data like that from someone who wants to steal my identity or rob my house is a completely different issue. If Bush wants to raid my house encrypted email isn't going to do much.
I won't be bothered to post the text but right now I've got:
A welcome letter to my campus policing progrma A product replacement request followup from Apple Working hours from my boss for xmas break Photos of my puppy from a friend taking care of him this week
I certainly wouldn't exert the hassle to encrypt these emails, and I'm sure the person on the other end would say the same thing
So what emails are you sending to mom that require encryption? The fact little Johnny has a cold and Aunt Bertha's fruitcake recipe, even if they are intercepted by Big Brother(TM)(C) will be thrown out
X-Play is the only thing that has endured since the ZDTV days (Gamespot TV then Extended Play and now X-Play). And even that stinks now. TechTV was doomed when the smart people like Louderback and (to some extent) Dvorak who helped hold the network afloat left, and G4 removing Leo just signed its death knell.
From Snopes: The Santa Claus figure, although not yet standardized, was ubiquitous by the late 19th century. Santa was portrayed as both large and small; he was usually round but sometimes of normal or slight build; and he dressed in furs (like Belsnickle) or cloth suits of red, blue, green, or purple. A Boston printer named Louis Prang introduced the English custom of Christmas cards to America, and in 1885 he issued a card featuring a red-suited Santa. The chubby Santa with a red suit (like an "overweight superhero") began to replace the fur-dressed Belsnickle image and the multicolored Santas.
The success of this advertising campaign has helped fuel the legend that Coca-Cola actually invented the image of the modern Santa Claus, decking him out in a red-and-white suit to promote the company colors -- or that at the very least, Coca-Cola chose to promote the red-and-white version of Santa Claus over a variety of competing Santa figures in order to establish it as the accepted image of Santa Claus....
At the beginning of the 1930s, the burgeoning Coca-Cola company was still looking for ways to increase sales of their product during winter, then a slow time of year for the soft drink market. They turned to a talented commercial illustrator named Haddon Sundblom, who created a series of memorable drawings that associated the figure of a larger than life, red-and-white garbed Santa Claus with Coca-Cola. Coke's annual advertisements -- featuring Sundblom-drawn Santas holding bottles of Coca-Cola, drinking Coca-Cola, receiving Coca-Cola as gifts, and especially enjoying Coca-Cola -- became a perennial Christmastime feature which helped spur Coca-Cola sales throughout the winter (and produced the bonus effect of appealing quite strongly to children, an important segment of the soft drink market). The success of this advertising campaign has helped fuel the legend that Coca-Cola actually invented the image of the modern Santa Claus, decking him out in a red-and-white suit to promote the company colors -- or that at the very least, Coca-Cola chose to promote the red-and-white version of Santa Claus over a variety of competing Santa figures in order to establish it as the accepted image of Santa Claus.
This legend is not true. Although some versions of the Santa Claus figure still had him attired in various colors of outfits past the beginning of the 20th century, the jolly, ruddy, sack-carrying Santa with a red suit and flowing white whiskers had become the standard image of Santa Claus by the 1920s, several years before Sundlom drew his first Santa illustration for Coca-Cola.
Saying "johnny you have 30 minutes of computer tonight" and "JOHNNY! You'd better be off that computer and doing your homework in 5 minutes!" always works
but I had to connect via ethernet initially so I could get past the intro screens, enter a terminal, and do a quick ifconfig to print en1's MAC address, since Apple only prints the ethernet MAC on the sticker instide the battery chamber)
For future reference, you can get that from the System Profiler in/Applications/Utilities
Sometimes timeliness is a reason. I had my laptop HD died and needed a same day replacement. I could've upgraded to an 80 gig for $100, instead I paid $80 for a 60 gig simply because I could get one that day.
IIRC, doesn't Google offer a free cafeteria with a rather amazing selection? Not having to buy a lunch (and maybe dinner) every day cuts down the cost of living a fair amount
If I have a "HitMovie.avi" file, I'll watch it by giving the command "xine HitMovie.avi" to the computer. If I have a HitMovie DVD, I'll have to suffer trough FBI warnings (and possibly MPAA's "piracy is theft" music video wannabe), fuck around with the start menu, then I'll finally get to see the movie. Of course, all this assumes that HitMovie has already been released to DVD - HitMovie.avi is typically available before the movie's first shown in theaters.
While I consider your other point valid, is pressing an extra button and watching a 30 second FBI warning screen really that much of an inconvenience in your every day life?
Just would like to point out that not many people actually thought apple would released the ipod/itune video feature last week.
The two scenarios are completely different The iPod is a continuing product line that isn't going away soon, massive upgrades are expected the PowerPC line is nearing its end starting middle of next year - they wouldn't launch a completely new PowerBook line to kill it in under a year
That, and any such plan to repurpose over-the-air ads for legal media downloads would necessitate further wrangling over sponsor contracts, fee schedules, and demographic targeting (hint: it won't be the same online as OTA)
And lets not forget unions. Most radio stations are having trouble broadcasting online because the commercials are voiced by union actors who want to be paid for the extra medium.
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What's really that wrong with paper and pen anyway?
Paper crumbles
Notebooks fall apart
Pens run out of ink
If you're a lefty you wind up with "lefty residue" on your hand
Laptops also have issues though:
They can fail
They can be bulky
Batteries can die
However, I can type way faster and easier than I can write, therefore laptops win for me.
Another benefit of paper notebooks is they don't break (physically or software-wise) and I could keep an entire year's in my bag for less weight than a laptop.
You can keep an entire year's worth of notebooks in your bag (assuming 5 classes per semester, a spring and fall semester) and have it weigh less than a 5 lb PowerBook or ThinkPad? Must be some thin paper.
I've started using my laptop in my Psych class to take notes - best notes I've ever taken. Everything is laid out neatly, I actually bother writing things down because I HATE writing long things with paper and pen, when the teacher gives us a handout with a web address I can just copy it into my document and not worry about losing the paper. And then I can print them for worry-free backups.
Does the name OSx86 really irk anyone else? It's OS X as in ten, not X as in ex. And it's x86 as in ex, not as in ten. So it's either OS x86 or OS ten 86, neither of which would really be right.
Technically, it should be OS X for Intel.
If they want to enter that badly, they can get someone to read the screen for them. Not trolling, just making a point.
RTFA. They determined in the process of getting a warrant that they only needed to sieze 3 computers.
I'm maybe not your average user, but 5 uses really isn't a lot. Even my Mac Mini would use 2 (OSX 10.4 and OSX 10.3 boots) for one machine.
I've got a PowerBook, a Dell laptop, a homebuilt desktop PC, and an iPod. That's 3 authorizations, the iPod doesn't count. Very few people have as many devices in the home as you do that need to be simultaneously authorized to play a song, so I'd say this puts you out of the iTMS target audience.
The support that comes with the devices by default has been horrible in my experience - odds are your repair is either out of warranty or they're just going to try selling you AppleCare. I'm certainly not giving them money for something that's been horrible thus far.
The only way I'd ever get it was if accidental damage was covered, ala Dell Complete Care
I bought a PowerBook 12" G4 in mid 2004. No AppleCare.
Hard drive died on me this past October, about 4 months out of warranty.
Instead of paying Apple's $375 repair, I spent $80 on a 60gb Seagate HD and disassambled and replaced it myself, and everything works fine.
After my experiences regarding the PB, my iPod, and my ex gf's iBook, I would never pay for AppleCare - the free service isn't even worth the price so I sure as hell wouldn't pay for it
How about your password reminders ?
I'd like to know your mail address and when you are visiting your mom so I can rob your house.
I do believe you're losing sight of the original argument here. The submitter referenced Bush and the NSA's spying as reason for using encrypted email, which is the argument at hand.
Protecting data like that from someone who wants to steal my identity or rob my house is a completely different issue. If Bush wants to raid my house encrypted email isn't going to do much.
I won't be bothered to post the text but right now I've got:
A welcome letter to my campus policing progrma
A product replacement request followup from Apple
Working hours from my boss for xmas break
Photos of my puppy from a friend taking care of him this week
I certainly wouldn't exert the hassle to encrypt these emails, and I'm sure the person on the other end would say the same thing
So what emails are you sending to mom that require encryption? The fact little Johnny has a cold and Aunt Bertha's fruitcake recipe, even if they are intercepted by Big Brother(TM)(C) will be thrown out
I was the guy who went on TechTV and told the world how to get rid of some ads with Javascript
I get VH1 Classic Rock, VH1 Soul, and VH1 Country... there's usually something decent on one of the three. Otherwise I flip to Music Choice.
X-Play is the only thing that has endured since the ZDTV days (Gamespot TV then Extended Play and now X-Play). And even that stinks now. TechTV was doomed when the smart people like Louderback and (to some extent) Dvorak who helped hold the network afloat left, and G4 removing Leo just signed its death knell.
BZZZT.
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From Snopes:
The Santa Claus figure, although not yet standardized, was ubiquitous by the late 19th century. Santa was portrayed as both large and small; he was usually round but sometimes of normal or slight build; and he dressed in furs (like Belsnickle) or cloth suits of red, blue, green, or purple. A Boston printer named Louis Prang introduced the English custom of Christmas cards to America, and in 1885 he issued a card featuring a red-suited Santa. The chubby Santa with a red suit (like an "overweight superhero") began to replace the fur-dressed Belsnickle image and the multicolored Santas.
The success of this advertising campaign has helped fuel the legend that Coca-Cola actually invented the image of the modern Santa Claus, decking him out in a red-and-white suit to promote the company colors -- or that at the very least, Coca-Cola chose to promote the red-and-white version of Santa Claus over a variety of competing Santa figures in order to establish it as the accepted image of Santa Claus.
At the beginning of the 1930s, the burgeoning Coca-Cola company was still looking for ways to increase sales of their product during winter, then a slow time of year for the soft drink market. They turned to a talented commercial illustrator named Haddon Sundblom, who created a series of memorable drawings that associated the figure of a larger than life, red-and-white garbed Santa Claus with Coca-Cola. Coke's annual advertisements -- featuring Sundblom-drawn Santas holding bottles of Coca-Cola, drinking Coca-Cola, receiving Coca-Cola as gifts, and especially enjoying Coca-Cola -- became a perennial Christmastime feature which helped spur Coca-Cola sales throughout the winter (and produced the bonus effect of appealing quite strongly to children, an important segment of the soft drink market). The success of this advertising campaign has helped fuel the legend that Coca-Cola actually invented the image of the modern Santa Claus, decking him out in a red-and-white suit to promote the company colors -- or that at the very least, Coca-Cola chose to promote the red-and-white version of Santa Claus over a variety of competing Santa figures in order to establish it as the accepted image of Santa Claus.
This legend is not true. Although some versions of the Santa Claus figure still had him attired in various colors of outfits past the beginning of the 20th century, the jolly, ruddy, sack-carrying Santa with a red suit and flowing white whiskers had become the standard image of Santa Claus by the 1920s, several years before Sundlom drew his first Santa illustration for Coca-Cola.
Saying "johnny you have 30 minutes of computer tonight" and "JOHNNY! You'd better be off that computer and doing your homework in 5 minutes!" always works
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but I had to connect via ethernet initially so I could get past the intro screens, enter a terminal, and do a quick ifconfig to print en1's MAC address, since Apple only prints the ethernet MAC on the sticker instide the battery chamber) For future reference, you can get that from the System Profiler in /Applications/Utilities
Sometimes timeliness is a reason. I had my laptop HD died and needed a same day replacement. I could've upgraded to an 80 gig for $100, instead I paid $80 for a 60 gig simply because I could get one that day.
IIRC, doesn't Google offer a free cafeteria with a rather amazing selection? Not having to buy a lunch (and maybe dinner) every day cuts down the cost of living a fair amount
as for the panel, just lock it in your glove box
security through obscurity
unless you're parking in harlem
If I have a "HitMovie.avi" file, I'll watch it by giving the command "xine HitMovie.avi" to the computer. If I have a HitMovie DVD, I'll have to suffer trough FBI warnings (and possibly MPAA's "piracy is theft" music video wannabe), fuck around with the start menu, then I'll finally get to see the movie. Of course, all this assumes that HitMovie has already been released to DVD - HitMovie.avi is typically available before the movie's first shown in theaters.
While I consider your other point valid, is pressing an extra button and watching a 30 second FBI warning screen really that much of an inconvenience in your every day life?
what's with all the dead space around toolbars, blocks of text, etc?
Just would like to point out that not many people actually thought apple would released the ipod/itune video feature last week.
The two scenarios are completely different
The iPod is a continuing product line that isn't going away soon, massive upgrades are expected
the PowerPC line is nearing its end starting middle of next year - they wouldn't launch a completely new PowerBook line to kill it in under a year
That, and any such plan to repurpose over-the-air ads for legal media downloads would necessitate further wrangling over sponsor contracts, fee schedules, and demographic targeting (hint: it won't be the same online as OTA)
And lets not forget unions. Most radio stations are having trouble broadcasting online because the commercials are voiced by union actors who want to be paid for the extra medium.