I have a flashback of Asimov where in one of the Caves of Steel series books the guy has his robots build more and more situations where he basically was mounted on a chair and food flowed into his face and he died.
As if some geeks don't have weight problems as it is now from the sedintary style of sitting infront of a keyboard 10 - 14 - 20 hours a day, restricting movement even less is not something that appeals to me;)
See I don't get this. If iTunes, prior to the release of a Windows version could sell millions of songs how can you not want to tap that small of a market that generates that much of a product?
If Floppies are to optical media as horses are to cars does that mean people will keep floppy drives as pets and wax poetically about 'the good old days' of floppy drives?
Actually the G5 is worse now that it's easier to get into the back of it. The G4 was pretty nice in that most of the stuff took enough work to get into that you could essentially catch someone before they got too far.
Not having received my new G5 iMac yet I can't comment on if you can get in and out quickly, but it never ceases to amaze me the amount of people that steal parts out of a computer in class, even at the college level.
This is a big plus in my book. I'm a little anti-external drive and would prefer internal drives. The 60 Gigger in my G4 is woefully inadequate for all my home movies, music, and the like. Upgrading it however would voide my Applecare warranty on the thing rather quickly.
This way, when the 250GB drive I ordered becomes 'too small' in a year or two I can yank it out, put in a 1TB drive and be just fine.
I am one that won't miss the up/down motion of the iMac G4 that I have. My daughter has a bad tendancy to yank it all over the place because it moves with such ease. Not that she gets to touch the G5 when it gets here, because the G4 becomes hers to play Rolie Polie Olie and all the other Playhousedisney.com websites.
This should be marked more informative than funny. When moving to Mac OS X in 2002 from Windows and linux desktops I found myself often getting into situatinos of 'why the hell can't I do this...' type of thing where it ended up if I just clicked on what I wanted to change (title in a movie I was making) and started typing it'd change it.
I was too busy looking for a menu option to 'edit title' instead of just clicking on what I wanted to work on.
My only complaint that I put in everywhere I see a switch question is that financial software on the Macintosh SUCKS!!!! Quicken is the most horrible, user unfriendly, doesn't support the most basic features of online banking & financial tracking information in a $69 package I've ever seen!
I'm getting a new iMac to replace a two year old 15" iMac FP 800Mhz and it comes with Quicken 2004. I'm going to try it out, but to be honest the first iMac I have came with 2002, then I got 2003 for $69 and neither one of them could calculate a mortgage payment automatically (principle + interest) it just recorded what the first instance of it was and never changed it again. Online banking? forget it.
So I'm using Virtual PC and Windows Home to run Microsoft Money.
Recording an episode on a Time Warner DVR: It records every freaking instance of it on any channel. So if for example you're watching a show like Friends that is rerun on 10 channels and shown new on one only 1/4 the year
TiVo knows the difference, the DVD I had in the spring of 2003 did not.
You may mock the thumbs up/down thing but when you're bored shitless at 2AM and there aint crap on anything, even the soft porn pay channels the randomly picked shows based on preference are a godsend for the terminally bored
My original series one that I paid the $249 on got hit by lightning four months after I paid the $249 and fried the modem. I still have it in a box and have yet to part with it. Been trying to find a way to get it on a wireless network without a large investment. Now I"ve got two of the TiVo/DVD from Toshiba. They're nice
The death of TiVo is greatly exaggerated. Time Warner offers the DVR in my area. I got it after using TiVo for 3 years. I sent it back within a week. The thing sucks.
TiVo's wealth of advantages are it's software. Season Passes, rating show thumbs up/thumbs down getting other shows based on your ratings, etc. I've used them since 2000. With the recent price reductions in the monthly charge it's well worth it. I've got one on both TVs and use my wireless network to connect for the updates/transfer files between them.
When I wanted to upgrade, I get a new one for $199 - $299 or whatever and keep paying the $12.95 for the first / $6.95 there after makes more sense than the $299 up front because I've yet to keep a TiVo for two years due to upgrades, change in whatever, etc.
even the picture shows (at the top of the page) that they're pulling the water out and DRINKING IT.
They just use the temp of the water intially and use it's cooling properties, then they pump it off to be converted into drinking water.
This isn't going to do anything worse than pulling the water off the top of the lake than the bottom, because this lake is the water source for the city.
every 'convergance' thing I've seen does things really half assed instead of the few things they should be doing really well.
Example 1: Cell phones with cameras. I never used the one that came with my phone, and the one time I wanted too use it I find myself behind the Cubs dugout on business at a game. I hate baseball but my brother was a big time baseball in school. I wanted to send him a picture of my view. I did, but it looked like crap, and you could hardly tell what I shot a picture of. This was with a Nokia 6225.
Example 2: Sony PS2 and DVD player. Not sure if it improved but I tried it and without the $30 remote on a $299 system (yeah things have changed, but still) and then it was a mediocre at best player.
I've never tried the Xbox. That's because I just don't like the idea of MS and my TV becoming one thing.
It just seems to me that in order to keep the price from being good this+good that+good that type thing they cut out things here and there and you get a mediocre at everything device.
Eventually they might improve, but for a few years you get nothing but junky stuff and end up tossing the al-in-one in favor of multiple devices.
...have a guy stand behind you and scream three of the most annoying words to you in the english language for 90 mins and you will have a better time than if you watched Freddy Got Fingered.
I have the panasonic TGA-2000 family of phones. I have five handsets scattered across 2500 sq feet home. I also have two airport extreme base stations and one airport express.
I've had no problems being on the phone and on the internet at the same time, or broadcasting a song to my airport express.
This is Apple we're talking about, not another company. Apple doesn't license thing, they make an industry leading product only to have the rest of the world scramble to come out with something 'close enough' that everyone accepts and then go to a miniscule but violently loyal fan base.
I am the Americas Product Manager for BladeCenter.
The processor in the BladeCenter HS20 3.06GHz we released on August 2nd is a modified Nocona processor mated to a modified Serverworks chipset (few more wires on the memory controller for the extended adressing) to give you EM64T functionality on our existing platform. This is not a EM64T Prescott or Prestonia (we never used Prescott in the HS20, it's a P4, we do Xeon DP in the HS20 which is Prestonia)
..I mean anyone else remember service pack 2 for Windows NT 4.0? Talk about run for the hills day when that came out.
I'd prefer they get their stuff together instead of rushing to market. Though personally the service pack thing to me is more of a PITA than patching the various subsystems and then creating a 'roll up' service pack vs. the service pack being the 'holy grail' update all at once breaking/changing things willy nilly (at least that is how it seems some days)
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Yes, insanely ugly. Doesn't help to advertise it with a guy that has metal mouth either.
Guess I've jumped the shark, don't find this 'hip' or 'cool' at all.
I believe that the law firm has capped what they'll charge SCO until they win.
So we'll see two bankruptcies in Utah one day.
I have a flashback of Asimov where in one of the Caves of Steel series books the guy has his robots build more and more situations where he basically was mounted on a chair and food flowed into his face and he died.
;)
As if some geeks don't have weight problems as it is now from the sedintary style of sitting infront of a keyboard 10 - 14 - 20 hours a day, restricting movement even less is not something that appeals to me
See I don't get this. If iTunes, prior to the release of a Windows version could sell millions of songs how can you not want to tap that small of a market that generates that much of a product?
If Floppies are to optical media as horses are to cars does that mean people will keep floppy drives as pets and wax poetically about 'the good old days' of floppy drives?
Actually the G5 is worse now that it's easier to get into the back of it. The G4 was pretty nice in that most of the stuff took enough work to get into that you could essentially catch someone before they got too far.
Not having received my new G5 iMac yet I can't comment on if you can get in and out quickly, but it never ceases to amaze me the amount of people that steal parts out of a computer in class, even at the college level.
This is a big plus in my book. I'm a little anti-external drive and would prefer internal drives. The 60 Gigger in my G4 is woefully inadequate for all my home movies, music, and the like. Upgrading it however would voide my Applecare warranty on the thing rather quickly.
This way, when the 250GB drive I ordered becomes 'too small' in a year or two I can yank it out, put in a 1TB drive and be just fine.
I am one that won't miss the up/down motion of the iMac G4 that I have. My daughter has a bad tendancy to yank it all over the place because it moves with such ease. Not that she gets to touch the G5 when it gets here, because the G4 becomes hers to play Rolie Polie Olie and all the other Playhousedisney.com websites.
This should be marked more informative than funny. When moving to Mac OS X in 2002 from Windows and linux desktops I found myself often getting into situatinos of 'why the hell can't I do this...' type of thing where it ended up if I just clicked on what I wanted to change (title in a movie I was making) and started typing it'd change it.
I was too busy looking for a menu option to 'edit title' instead of just clicking on what I wanted to work on.
My only complaint that I put in everywhere I see a switch question is that financial software on the Macintosh SUCKS!!!! Quicken is the most horrible, user unfriendly, doesn't support the most basic features of online banking & financial tracking information in a $69 package I've ever seen!
I'm getting a new iMac to replace a two year old 15" iMac FP 800Mhz and it comes with Quicken 2004. I'm going to try it out, but to be honest the first iMac I have came with 2002, then I got 2003 for $69 and neither one of them could calculate a mortgage payment automatically (principle + interest) it just recorded what the first instance of it was and never changed it again. Online banking? forget it.
So I'm using Virtual PC and Windows Home to run Microsoft Money.
My flight instructer would always say 'you can't pull over and fix it on cloud nine' when he did the pre-flight training.
How about the fact that the metal needed to hold that kind of water would have been a lot heavier compared to the plexiglass they used?
Plus it'd really suck to get back to the 24th century and figure out you beamed up a bunch of salt water instead of a couple of whales..
I don't remember Kirk or Spock going 'can you hear me now? Good' every 10 feet.
Recording an episode on a Time Warner DVR: It records every freaking instance of it on any channel. So if for example you're watching a show like Friends that is rerun on 10 channels and shown new on one only 1/4 the year
TiVo knows the difference, the DVD I had in the spring of 2003 did not.
You may mock the thumbs up/down thing but when you're bored shitless at 2AM and there aint crap on anything, even the soft porn pay channels the randomly picked shows based on preference are a godsend for the terminally bored
My original series one that I paid the $249 on got hit by lightning four months after I paid the $249 and fried the modem. I still have it in a box and have yet to part with it. Been trying to find a way to get it on a wireless network without a large investment. Now I"ve got two of the TiVo/DVD from Toshiba. They're nice
article is up for 10 minutes and no posts? Everyone still laughing at their keyboards or what?
The death of TiVo is greatly exaggerated. Time Warner offers the DVR in my area. I got it after using TiVo for 3 years. I sent it back within a week. The thing sucks.
TiVo's wealth of advantages are it's software. Season Passes, rating show thumbs up/thumbs down getting other shows based on your ratings, etc. I've used them since 2000. With the recent price reductions in the monthly charge it's well worth it. I've got one on both TVs and use my wireless network to connect for the updates/transfer files between them.
When I wanted to upgrade, I get a new one for $199 - $299 or whatever and keep paying the $12.95 for the first / $6.95 there after makes more sense than the $299 up front because I've yet to keep a TiVo for two years due to upgrades, change in whatever, etc.
even the picture shows (at the top of the page) that they're pulling the water out and DRINKING IT.
They just use the temp of the water intially and use it's cooling properties, then they pump it off to be converted into drinking water.
This isn't going to do anything worse than pulling the water off the top of the lake than the bottom, because this lake is the water source for the city.
I don't remember Apple saying 'No you can't put music on it' I think they said 'No real, we don't want you to dick with our stuff'
Tiny bit of a difference. Real is talking about 'choice' yet they don't support anything other than windows.
..then a new 'firmware' update comes out for the iPod and your new library quits working...
Until the dust settles I'd not buy anything from real in hopes of it working with my iPod. Not like they support my platform anyway (Mac)
every 'convergance' thing I've seen does things really half assed instead of the few things they should be doing really well.
Example 1: Cell phones with cameras. I never used the one that came with my phone, and the one time I wanted too use it I find myself behind the Cubs dugout on business at a game. I hate baseball but my brother was a big time baseball in school. I wanted to send him a picture of my view. I did, but it looked like crap, and you could hardly tell what I shot a picture of. This was with a Nokia 6225.
Example 2: Sony PS2 and DVD player. Not sure if it improved but I tried it and without the $30 remote on a $299 system (yeah things have changed, but still) and then it was a mediocre at best player.
I've never tried the Xbox. That's because I just don't like the idea of MS and my TV becoming one thing.
It just seems to me that in order to keep the price from being good this+good that+good that type thing they cut out things here and there and you get a mediocre at everything device.
Eventually they might improve, but for a few years you get nothing but junky stuff and end up tossing the al-in-one in favor of multiple devices.
...have a guy stand behind you and scream three of the most annoying words to you in the english language for 90 mins and you will have a better time than if you watched Freddy Got Fingered.
I have the panasonic TGA-2000 family of phones. I have five handsets scattered across 2500 sq feet home. I also have two airport extreme base stations and one airport express.
I've had no problems being on the phone and on the internet at the same time, or broadcasting a song to my airport express.
This is Apple we're talking about, not another company. Apple doesn't license thing, they make an industry leading product only to have the rest of the world scramble to come out with something 'close enough' that everyone accepts and then go to a miniscule but violently loyal fan base.
I am the Americas Product Manager for BladeCenter.
The processor in the BladeCenter HS20 3.06GHz we released on August 2nd is a modified Nocona processor mated to a modified Serverworks chipset (few more wires on the memory controller for the extended adressing) to give you EM64T functionality on our existing platform. This is not a EM64T Prescott or Prestonia (we never used Prescott in the HS20, it's a P4, we do Xeon DP in the HS20 which is Prestonia)
..I mean anyone else remember service pack 2 for Windows NT 4.0? Talk about run for the hills day when that came out.
I'd prefer they get their stuff together instead of rushing to market. Though personally the service pack thing to me is more of a PITA than patching the various subsystems and then creating a 'roll up' service pack vs. the service pack being the 'holy grail' update all at once breaking/changing things willy nilly (at least that is how it seems some days)