I can't seem to find it with google but I seem to remember some pyramid shaped thing with only USB and Firewire ports concept from a few years ago. I've not seen any system that looks like that yet either
I can't find the forum post but a guild that had names on multiple MMORPGs for the last 5 or 7 years I think it was banned with no reason given other than 'innapropriate name' I can't find it but it had 'drinking' or 'drunk' in the title and was toast, and they'd been allowed on the majors like EQ, DAOC, EQ2, and other.
...and it doesn't hold water. The monthly fee is for maintenance of the systems and resources you continue to use and the base code still cost something to develop. I've seen places that give away the client code for free and wasn't that impressed (Lineage, Jumpgate) compared to something that cost money like EQ or Dark Age of Camelot.
That's like saying you should get a co-located computer for free because you're paying $49.95 a month for bandwidth. There is still an initial investment cost.
I'm sorry if I'm asking the obvious here, but why not buy a copy from a store instead of a used copy from someone? I mean it's a monthly charge and you're sneaking out of the $39.95 or whatever it is for the base version? (I bought the 'collectors edition' not sure waht the regular one cost)
That being said, I can give you my '10 day free' key if you want to play that bad.
If someone can afford a $27,000 system (starting price) I really doubt they're going to be worried about recouping their $19.95 investment on a DVD or screwing with eBay to do it...
You need a stand alone computer to download music too then sync it to an iPod? The one I use to do everything else works for this feature just fine, and isn't limited to the Mac platform though that is my platform of choice at the moment and for teh forseeable future.
I guess my concern is battery life. All these extra gidgets on my phone make the battery shorter because of all the gizmos. Something has to power up the storage in the phone whether I use it or not, and has to power the fancier sound speaker that is 100s of times better than the phone system that carries my signal.
I don't mean to sound like a grumpy old man here but the rush to converge everything without improving the power consumption/storage device just makes me that much more reliant on standing next to a pillar in an airport fending off other for the one power outlet within 500 ft.
I mean the iPod has a 40GB drive in my latest model and I can't get anywhere near the 12 hours it advertised (sometimes I wonder if it is 12 hours frmo when you unplug it from the charger whether you use it or not) but then most of my songs are around 224 AAC instead of 128 AAC so maybe that has something to do with the battery life.
IBM got out of the home business years ago. They dropped the Aptiva product line almost two years ago from direct sales, and pulled it from Best Buy and the like about four years ago, if not longer ago.
I had River Raid on my 5200. Good God did that game get hard fast. I wore out the already weak controllers on the 5200 with that one.
That was my favorite out of all of the Activision titles. Pitfall was ok, but I'd always go left because I could do the right direction jumping onto the crocs for some reason.
yeah that's how I fixed it but at the same time that level of resolution in a day to day environment isn't needed either. Kinda like hard drives almost, the size of some of them has gotten to the point of diminishing returns because the actual application of them doesn't require the level of stuff they provide.
You do not always need an infiniband or myrinet link, it depends on the workload. If there isn't a lot of inter-node communication going on infiniband or myrinet is a big chunk of change for little/no benefit.
For example, workloads like Seti @ Home, Oil Sonar Data Analysis, protein folding, etc need like 1K of bandwidth total to move tiny packets of 'equation and results' and that's about it.
however quantum computing modeling, or airflow analysis, things like that where data is intermingled and not a 'brute force' cluster like the previous set you need a high speed low-latency interconnect for MPI and then yeah you'd want it.
...Some corps are like a credit rating, they never forget. I mean try and sell an xSeires server from IBM to someone and you inevitably hear 'Microchannel', 'IBM Proprietary' and an 'OS/2' for good measure.
The reason things enterprise have died is the stupidity of the plots, etc. It's just now getting good but UPN has got to be fed up after so many years of crap.
Are you watching the same show? Back when Adam did just 'Extended Play' it was a great game review show. But then they had to go add the hip morgan and change the name to 'x-play' and it got freaking stupid. My spending money went way up because I quit watching the lame ass version. Extended Play sold quite a few Nintendo and PC games I'd never have looked at without. It almost sold an x-box with that Mech game but lucky me it was sold out when I had the urge, and then the urge passed
I quit watching it well before the G4 debacle destroyed it.
What made me buy a two button mouse? Trying to figure out how to swim with a one button mouse in World of Warcraft.
Before that, I'd used one button for years. Amazingly enough I still control-click my way through killing things in WoW but I have to hold down both buttons to swim up/swim down.
what will Apple call it? Airport Extravagant? Airport Extra Extreme? Airport Groovy?
For the backward compatibility concerns I'm sure if we found the thread where Apple inroduced the Extreme family of routers in '02 or '03 whenever it was we'll find all sorts of 'how will they update em'
So far, I've had no problems with my TiVos, ThinkPads, Powerbooks, and iMac's attaching in B and G modes to them so they must have figured it out.
I find the semi-biased choice of words from the submitter interesting. Apple 'controls' 80% of the market?
More like Apple is 'the choice' for 80% of the market. When I want a music track, or a CD I don't find myself forced or 'controlled' to buy from iTunes.
I do because it works with my stuff that I bought well before it came out....not because I'm forced, coerced, have no option too.
I always find the Apple iTunes Music Store part funny on how the slashdot community reacts. on one hand it's apple, the company everyone wants to love but somehow everything costs too much or just missing feature xx for you to personally use, on the other, it's DRM'd stuff and that's satan incarnate.
I got to spend a few weeks with this at my parents house over the holidays. They signed up for DISH through SBC in KS over DirecTV with TiVo.
They hate it, despise it, and think it's the most clunky hard to use thing ever - but are stuck for a year.
TiVo just works better (tm). Easier to schedule things, easier to fast forward through (you never think you'd miss it but their little backstep they do when you hit stop/play while FF is a godsend) and you end up watching commercials 4x their speed because anything else you're halfway into the program before you get it stopped.
Scheduling was a nightmare, though as I was leaving a new software update got downloaded that was supposed to 'improve' this but TiVo's season pass/suggestions were done 100x better than that.
What do you know, I went from 15 FPS average to 30 FPS average after doing that. Interesting. Of course the fans are on all the time now but it's still about 95% quieter than any PC desktop I had before.
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I can't seem to find it with google but I seem to remember some pyramid shaped thing with only USB and Firewire ports concept from a few years ago. I've not seen any system that looks like that yet either
The 'Purchased Music' list in iTunes has 536 tracks.
There are currently 4736 tracks on my iPod. Every song on my iPod has been paid for either with physical media or iTunes Music Store.
Accounts being banned because of a 'mass protest"
I can't find the forum post but a guild that had names on multiple MMORPGs for the last 5 or 7 years I think it was banned with no reason given other than 'innapropriate name' I can't find it but it had 'drinking' or 'drunk' in the title and was toast, and they'd been allowed on the majors like EQ, DAOC, EQ2, and other.
...and it doesn't hold water. The monthly fee is for maintenance of the systems and resources you continue to use and the base code still cost something to develop. I've seen places that give away the client code for free and wasn't that impressed (Lineage, Jumpgate) compared to something that cost money like EQ or Dark Age of Camelot.
That's like saying you should get a co-located computer for free because you're paying $49.95 a month for bandwidth. There is still an initial investment cost.
I'm sorry if I'm asking the obvious here, but why not buy a copy from a store instead of a used copy from someone? I mean it's a monthly charge and you're sneaking out of the $39.95 or whatever it is for the base version? (I bought the 'collectors edition' not sure waht the regular one cost)
That being said, I can give you my '10 day free' key if you want to play that bad.
If someone can afford a $27,000 system (starting price) I really doubt they're going to be worried about recouping their $19.95 investment on a DVD or screwing with eBay to do it...
You need a stand alone computer to download music too then sync it to an iPod? The one I use to do everything else works for this feature just fine, and isn't limited to the Mac platform though that is my platform of choice at the moment and for teh forseeable future.
I guess my concern is battery life. All these extra gidgets on my phone make the battery shorter because of all the gizmos. Something has to power up the storage in the phone whether I use it or not, and has to power the fancier sound speaker that is 100s of times better than the phone system that carries my signal.
I don't mean to sound like a grumpy old man here but the rush to converge everything without improving the power consumption/storage device just makes me that much more reliant on standing next to a pillar in an airport fending off other for the one power outlet within 500 ft.
I mean the iPod has a 40GB drive in my latest model and I can't get anywhere near the 12 hours it advertised (sometimes I wonder if it is 12 hours frmo when you unplug it from the charger whether you use it or not) but then most of my songs are around 224 AAC instead of 128 AAC so maybe that has something to do with the battery life.
IBM got out of the home business years ago. They dropped the Aptiva product line almost two years ago from direct sales, and pulled it from Best Buy and the like about four years ago, if not longer ago.
I had River Raid on my 5200. Good God did that game get hard fast. I wore out the already weak controllers on the 5200 with that one.
That was my favorite out of all of the Activision titles. Pitfall was ok, but I'd always go left because I could do the right direction jumping onto the crocs for some reason.
yeah that's how I fixed it but at the same time that level of resolution in a day to day environment isn't needed either. Kinda like hard drives almost, the size of some of them has gotten to the point of diminishing returns because the actual application of them doesn't require the level of stuff they provide.
I help my coworkers and we all got Thinkpad T41s recently and they do 1600x1400 or something of that nature.
90% of them immediately after getting their new laptop were upset/couldn't read/needed help fixing and then weren't happy with how it looked.
Adjusting it down to 1024x768 or whatever they were comfortable with was fuzzy and looked like trash.
reading 1600x1400 on a 14 - 15" screen is hard for them older folk, you know, people over 25 - 30.
What really sucks is yesterday, without that card my groceries for the family would have cost $75 more.
It is pretty frustrating. It's not like you can't get cash without 'someone' knowing about it somewhere.
You do not always need an infiniband or myrinet link, it depends on the workload. If there isn't a lot of inter-node communication going on infiniband or myrinet is a big chunk of change for little/no benefit.
For example, workloads like Seti @ Home, Oil Sonar Data Analysis, protein folding, etc need like 1K of bandwidth total to move tiny packets of 'equation and results' and that's about it.
however quantum computing modeling, or airflow analysis, things like that where data is intermingled and not a 'brute force' cluster like the previous set you need a high speed low-latency interconnect for MPI and then yeah you'd want it.
...Some corps are like a credit rating, they never forget. I mean try and sell an xSeires server from IBM to someone and you inevitably hear 'Microchannel', 'IBM Proprietary' and an 'OS/2' for good measure.
The reason things enterprise have died is the stupidity of the plots, etc. It's just now getting good but UPN has got to be fed up after so many years of crap.
Like here and here and here.
Those are LCDs, you could go even cheaper and get this, or this one.
That, or whip out an old one all the PC people claim to have that keeps them from buying an iMac or eMac because they 'already have that stuff'
Are you watching the same show? Back when Adam did just 'Extended Play' it was a great game review show. But then they had to go add the hip morgan and change the name to 'x-play' and it got freaking stupid. My spending money went way up because I quit watching the lame ass version. Extended Play sold quite a few Nintendo and PC games I'd never have looked at without. It almost sold an x-box with that Mech game but lucky me it was sold out when I had the urge, and then the urge passed
I quit watching it well before the G4 debacle destroyed it.
yeah I thought of that too. Thankfully I can't think of a reason to need a cluster of little computers other than the geek factor.
Though I've been thinking since yesterday Hmm, Mac OS X Server run on this?
I kept telling myself.
I don't need one.
I Don't need one. I just got a 20" iMac G5.
I Don't need one, my kid uses my old 15" iMac 800MHz
I don't need one.
Then you got to go and post a damn reason I need one now!!
What made me buy a two button mouse? Trying to figure out how to swim with a one button mouse in World of Warcraft.
Before that, I'd used one button for years. Amazingly enough I still control-click my way through killing things in WoW but I have to hold down both buttons to swim up/swim down.
what will Apple call it? Airport Extravagant? Airport Extra Extreme? Airport Groovy?
For the backward compatibility concerns I'm sure if we found the thread where Apple inroduced the Extreme family of routers in '02 or '03 whenever it was we'll find all sorts of 'how will they update em'
So far, I've had no problems with my TiVos, ThinkPads, Powerbooks, and iMac's attaching in B and G modes to them so they must have figured it out.
I find the semi-biased choice of words from the submitter interesting. Apple 'controls' 80% of the market?
More like Apple is 'the choice' for 80% of the market. When I want a music track, or a CD I don't find myself forced or 'controlled' to buy from iTunes.
I do because it works with my stuff that I bought well before it came out....not because I'm forced, coerced, have no option too.
I always find the Apple iTunes Music Store part funny on how the slashdot community reacts. on one hand it's apple, the company everyone wants to love but somehow everything costs too much or just missing feature xx for you to personally use, on the other, it's DRM'd stuff and that's satan incarnate.
I got to spend a few weeks with this at my parents house over the holidays. They signed up for DISH through SBC in KS over DirecTV with TiVo.
They hate it, despise it, and think it's the most clunky hard to use thing ever - but are stuck for a year.
TiVo just works better (tm). Easier to schedule things, easier to fast forward through (you never think you'd miss it but their little backstep they do when you hit stop/play while FF is a godsend) and you end up watching commercials 4x their speed because anything else you're halfway into the program before you get it stopped.
Scheduling was a nightmare, though as I was leaving a new software update got downloaded that was supposed to 'improve' this but TiVo's season pass/suggestions were done 100x better than that.
Over the last 10 years I've used IBM, Toshiba, and Apple laptops.
Of those, Toshiba had the highest incident of hardware repair than any other I worked with.
What do you know, I went from 15 FPS average to 30 FPS average after doing that. Interesting. Of course the fans are on all the time now but it's still about 95% quieter than any PC desktop I had before.