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That being said I paid a $50 premium on eBay for my Wii and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Money well spent. We (not Wii) have had a huge blast over the christmas holiday at my parents home with the Wii.
My 60 year old parents got up at 8:00AM Christmas Eve morning and almost missed church because they were playing bowling over and over.
My 7, 6, 5, and 4 year old nephews went hog wild in tennis. It was a sight to watch.
My siblings and their significant others played bowling and tennis more than I've ever seen them do on the Gamecube, PS2, or PS1. I've not seen that much activity since we were a lot younger and only then it was me and my brother playing, not my two sisters.
I have high hopes for the success of the Wii in non-traditional gaming markets because of that. Sure, hard core gamers will probably downplay it and like the 1080p or whatever the Xbox 360 or PS3 can do, but right now my money is on the Wii as a wake up for the industry.
So the xraid doesn't let you do a single 14 drive array and loose just 2 drives? Wow, bad feature. I'm all for protection if I want it, but don't make me loose that much space, yuk.
I'm not sure about most RAID cards, but I know that HP's SmartArray and IBM's ServeRAID have a background process on the adapter that continually tries to read and re-write each sector one block at a time in an effort to maintain data integrity. While not a complete solution for data integrity issues it is a strong step in that direction.
...finished. After I figured out you had to sail your ass all over the place to find the pieces of the triforce I snapped, and quit playing. My daughter always asked me to play 'link' and was very upset I refused too. She's quite in love watching me play Twilight Princess though. Running commentary from a five year old on 'you didn't do that right' or 'no don't do that as a wolf do it as link' is rather fun for a bit.
The new control scheme is second nature to me, and the six or eight hours straight don't have my hands numb and sore from gripping the controllers. Casually holding the Wiimote in the right and the Nunchuk in the left works well for me, and the cord is just long enough it doesn't get in the way.
The newer 'moves' you learn as the game progresses work well with the nunchuck/wiimote hack slash combos works well and I agree with the review in that you hvae many 'Wii Sports' moments by really getting into it and flailing about.
I'm currently inbetween the forest and air dungeons, and having a blast. About 29 hours into it.
If the browser destroys the system, the person managing that system isn't doing their job properly.
Yeah they're too busy surfing Digg and Slashdot instead of doing their job then. Or the volume of systems at the big companies is so large that they can't do what they need to do and only someone working for a 25 seat company can claim that.
My comments weren't meant that OS X is somehow magically impervious and Safari is the best browser ever done and no one could hack it.
I just don't buy the market share is the reason argument. I feel that it's more of a difficulty level than a don't feel like bothering. It requires more than to visit a website and stupidly click through a pop up or something simple, it takes more than that.
I'm sorry but I don't agree with this marketshare thing.
If someone is standing on the corner going 'neener neener you can't hit me' someone out of spite regardless of any reward is going to do it. The fact that they've been touting they can't be hacked for several years now and they still haven't been hacked says to me that it's not easy to do/not able to be done as easily as it is on Windows.
Plus a lot of the 'security' problems don't focus on the exploits of IE and simple browsing hijacking your system with crap. That's the largest problem facing most IT departments that I've run across in the last year or two, not the OS itself being hacked but something stupid the browser does destroying the system.
My favorite so far was an eBay auction that was starting at $100,000 because he was a solider that had been deployed to Iraq and wasn't going to be home with his family for Christmas because he just got back and was being re-deployed. PIcture is of a guy in fatigues with a little boy holding the box. The cynic in me thought anyone can buy fatigues and claim that.
Maybe that's the geniuses at Sony's marketing but it doesn't seem to be the same for Nintendo. I have a nasty flu bug/cold bug and wasn't about to camp out overnight in sub 40 degree weather. Then to top it off my youngest child decided to wake up at 11PM and stay up until about 4AM so I was in no mood to wander over to the nearest target that was selling at 8AM Sunday morning.
We figured the 36 they told us they'd have would be out of stock shortly, and they were. They told us they had 36 of them and 40 people were camped out front here in Wake Forest, NC.
They also told us that they will be getting bi-weekly shipments of 'at least a dozen' from now until after Christmas. I had my wife call and she said the guy laughed and said 'good luck though if you want a PS3, nothing like that is coming'. It seems to me that Nintendo did a huge build as much as they could, shipped them, and then is going to keep the pipe full from now until the end of the year.
Meanwhile PS3 blew their wad quickly, and is going to take months to recover.
Also speaking as someone who is in product marketing as my day job I can tell you that personally I've never twirled my mustache points thinking 'ooh, let's make one and that'll drive up demand' because people can/do find something 'good enough' to take its place and loosing to THAT kind of a sale sucks more because you've just collapsed your market onto a competitors product. This is my personal opinion at least, maybe there's a secret club of people that do that but not at my level.
I wasn't in the boy scouts, but I was in the Explorer portion and that's how I got my private pilot license at 18.
However, I feel that the scout organization has fallen so far from its original intended roots that it's nothing but a special interest shadow of its former self. It's very sad, because what once was an organization that helped kids learn about skills and camping and other simple yet vital tasks for a well rounded person have been hammered away into anti-gay, christian centric whored out to any group that wants type of thing.
Then what. If you have only owned your home for a few years, you'll be lucky to get ten or twenty grand out of it. Then you now have paid 1% or 5% or some small fraction of an amazingly large bill.
What if the illness debilitated you so you can't work any more? put them on the street?
You ever been in a hospital? They don't tell you what things cost, they just start shoving shit in you until they figure it out, hopefully. Then after you leave they hand you some monstrous bill. For a person making $36,000 a year a $2 million hospital bill is impossible to pay. They don't want just $50 a month. They want thousands a month. The system is broken.
You've never had a medical problem beyond the flu have you?
Little suzy gets bitten by a mosquito. She suddenly can't go pee after a few days. You go to the doctor and discover she has encephallitis and will die. They go nuts trying to save her, in the process they discover she now has hemophellia. They start popping in drugs that cost $21,000 per dose into her to try and stop the bleeding. Next thing you know you owe them $2.0M dollars.
They put a lein on your home because you're not paying fast enough.
Some of the doctor offices, but not all of them forgive the debt. Apparently the state run one feels you should pay back more than your home is worth.
I'm sure this number was yanked out of the ass of some analyst somewhere, but last I checked Woodcrest is still faster than Rev F for 98% of the applications out there. Intel is doing a full court press from a sales perspective with their teams out there and are going to introduce quad core by the end of the year.
What makes someone think Dell can flip 50% of it's business to AMD? The best way Dell can do anything is to drop the price. I don't think AMD is in the position to want to go into a price war just yet...
If you interested in saving energy and lowering your bills - why don't you learn to live without the AC, or with is set to 90 degrees or so?
Because I spent the first 20 years of my life living with my parents who did just that. they closed up the house at 8AM, set the AC to 85, and kept all the windows closed. We weren't allowed to 'run in and out' and if you went outside, the doors were locked for three hours at a minimum. I spent most of my summers at friends houses who ran the AC at 72 or lower in the mid 80s.
I do not intend to live like that again. I'm sure you can acclimate yourself to living at all sorts of temperatures, I just don't want to. You could say the same thing about the winter, and setting your thermostat to 50 and wearing warm clothing.
However, if I could change my air conditioner or my heater so that they consumed a fraction of the percent to provide me with the same benefit with an ROI within a year or two I'd be happy too. That's what I did with the lighting. I didn't reduce my lighting, or rely on solar lighting for my home, I use less energy for the same benefit.
I've been wanting to convert 30% of my electrical energy demand to solar power. Based on all the formulas i've found on the web to do just that (with pre-CFL bulbs) I would need to invest $17,000 (after $10,000 in tax breaks) on a system that would financially save me $50 a month on my electric bill. Since I don't have the money laying around to spend this would be either borrowing against the equity of my home or credit, which means the interest I pay would offset that $50 in savings, and this doesn't include any/all maintenance a solar power system of 4000W per day in size would be.
I've had some weird luck with it. Right now my problem is it won't go to sleep even though i set it for when idle more than one hour it should go to sleep. So something I run keeps it awake.
The other is I have a 3 year old. I do not subscribe to the 'lock your doors' train of thought and he'll come in and bang his head on the desk, grab the mouse, or something and wake it up.
Also I've had instances where the bluetooth keyboard/mouse apparently loose connection or something and I can't get it to wake back up short of killing the power to it.
Two story, five bedroom, bonus room, living room, dining room, kitchen eating area in about 3000 square feet.
Each bedroom came with a two 65W fixture in them, hallways have pair, foyer has a pair, loft area on second floor has a pair, stair case has one (haven't gotten to it, it's about 20ft up with no easy way to get to).
Several rooms have gone to a lamp configuration where the ceiling mounted lights that came with the house are not used and a smaller 45W fixture was used.
To the best of my knowledge this is about standard configuration for most homes built >2000 as mine was.
Ah yes, I agree. Two years ago the CFL bulbs available had some drawbacks. I was 'doing the right thing' then as well and my main light in my bedroom takes about a second to come on after flipping on the light. When you gotta pee and are walking briskly into the room and it's dark and you flip it on 1 second isn't fast enough to avoid you from finding the random toy or something large that has been put in the path you try and do from memory.
So far the ones I bought this week from Sylvania over at Lowe's home improvement pop on as the switch does, which is much better. We'll see if that response time continues.
Pretty insane isn't it? When you buy a home, looking at the number of light fixtures is one of the last thing you think of. At least it was for me.
Upstairs alone I counted 5 rooms, each room has a fixture in it that two 65W bulbs were in. There are two bathrooms, one has six 65W bulbs, the other had four 65 bulbs across the top of the mirror in these little globe things. That's 20 65W bulbs, at 1kW if they were all on. Swapping down to a 9W CFL that's 0.18KW.
Certainly there was a bit of an upfront investment in that the CFL lights are in fact more expensive.
Mine isn't the largest of homes, about mid-sized in my region at 2700 square feet. I don't have a hot tub, or a pool. I do wonder sometimes what my computers pull in because I subscribe to the 'I hate sleep mode' train of thought and my iMac G5 is on 24x7.
When is the last time you replaced a 65W with a CFL equivalent?
I ask because short of taking a lightmeter into each room and doing a before/after every room I upgraded this past week to a CFL light is *brighter* almost to a point of annoyance in a few bathrooms where we put 4 65W 'globe' CFL equivalents in.
Or do you flip it on go 'bah' and turn it back off without waiting the 30 seconds it takes them to get from 'on' to 'full power'?
I'd been kicking around the 'replace lights when they burn out with CF lights' idea, and then I sat down and did the math and figured that within a year they would pay for themselves in energy savings. I did a write up about it on my boring ass personal blog just to document when I did it so that I could come back and see what power savings I saw.
I would say that I replaced 18 65W bulbs in regular light fixtures, 20 65W 'globe' lights in three bathrooms, 5 chandalier 45W bulbs, four outdoor 150W Spotlights, not including about 8 - 10 bulbs already installed in the 'light burned out' category since we moved into this home in May 2003.
I'm keeping track of the power spent so far, and interested to see if there is a noticeable drop. Noticeable to me = $5 - $10 average. I'm not expecting a bill to go down by half, I do live in North Carolina and it's summer time so the AC is on full blast most of the time.
My next venture is into a PV System to offset the amount of energy I need to buy every month vs. the sun could provide. I'm still investigating that system but it appears that I could invest about $10,000 in a decent system, and get about half back in tax breaks from my state & federal government programs. If I get it in before the end of 2007.
Honestly with the Slyvania bulbs I used, I don't see a color temp difference. There is a slight delay from 'on' light output to full light output and even though they use a lot less power they are on average much bright light luminosity wise. But just in the last 5 years alone the delay you would see from light switch - light on has dropped to near instantaneous. There are several bulbs I put in 2003 that you can count out a second or so from switch on to light in the room. But these new ones come on when you turn em on.
The 'Accident' one to me was one of the best. It pointed out Apple's design philosphy, not a 'I'm Better than You Cuz You're Stupid' approach, but talking about something that almost everyone has experienced in one way or another regardless of operating system or hardware manufacturer. My daughter yanked my Powerbook G4 12" off a table sneaking around behind the couch trying to 'scare' me. she was 2 at the time.
It yanked my laptop onto the floor, and luckily bent just the connector on the power adapter not the laptop.
The second time, I was not so lucky. I did this one all my own. I spent all this time making sure I'd routed the power cord away as I was working on the couch while watching TV. After spending all this time being careful I jump up to grab something, rip the laptop off the table and it puts a nice dent in the Aluminum casing on the left side.
The iPhoto one was a bit odd, and the Spyware one didn't do it for me at all either, but the power cord design one was classic and the 'I saw my life flashing before my eyes, look a field of flowers' made me laugh out loud.
Yes, I struggle today with a reliable backup that is either not time consuming nor very manual. I recently ordered one of the Segate Mirra devices in hopes to backup some of the more important stuff. However the more important stuff for me is RAW files from my Digital SLR (about 150GB over the last 4 years now) and the DV files from my camcorder (another 30 - 50 GB on HDD, and about 10 tapes worth). Right now I backup to DVD every week and to HDD nightly using Apple's Backup. It's rather expensive to burn 4.7GB DVDs (1 - 3 a week depending on what I've done that week) and if I don't want to keep track of Weekly DVDs since six months ago I have to re-start the incremental backup which nets a 35 - 40 Disc backup that takes a few days.
I'm hoping within the application you'll be able to say how many versions you want to keep and for how many days, etc. I'd like to see it integrate into Mirra devices as well because one of the beauty things for the Mirra to me is that if there was a fire, hurricane, or whatever the Mirra isn't *that* big and I could rip the cord from the wall and run as it'd be in my garage next to the cars. Doing that with a full computer or getting to an external hard drive would not be as easy to do as in my house it's upstairs and at the opposite end of the house. At that point I'd be more concerned about kids & exiting vs. something you could grab on the way out.
I'm probably over reacting, but for me the most important things outside the living breathing portions of it I'd want to save are the photographs on my hard drives.
Either way, can't wait to see how it is implemented. Trying to keep in mind it's a 'dot oh' product, but we'll see what I can do with it.
Keeping my fingers crossed there is encryption though.
That's great that it was in VMS. But the last time I saw a system capable of running VMS it wasn't under my desk and didn't cost under US$3000.
now if file versioning was in Linux natively, or Windows, or OS/2, or the Amiga, or some other desktop operating system like BeOS I'd think you'd have a point. But that's like saying the Honda Civic is cool but the GPS in it is late to the party because the Audi A8L has had it for 5 years. That's comparing two cars that aren't in the same class just like comparing a multi-user VMS box to a single user desktop.
I'm not saying versioning hasn't been done before, but when has it been native to the operating system itself? All I kept thinking about it was 'well, there goes the one redeeming features for.Mac for me' because I bought it to use Backup primarily.
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That being said I paid a $50 premium on eBay for my Wii and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Money well spent. We (not Wii) have had a huge blast over the christmas holiday at my parents home with the Wii.
My 60 year old parents got up at 8:00AM Christmas Eve morning and almost missed church because they were playing bowling over and over.
My 7, 6, 5, and 4 year old nephews went hog wild in tennis. It was a sight to watch.
My siblings and their significant others played bowling and tennis more than I've ever seen them do on the Gamecube, PS2, or PS1. I've not seen that much activity since we were a lot younger and only then it was me and my brother playing, not my two sisters.
I have high hopes for the success of the Wii in non-traditional gaming markets because of that. Sure, hard core gamers will probably downplay it and like the 1080p or whatever the Xbox 360 or PS3 can do, but right now my money is on the Wii as a wake up for the industry.
So the xraid doesn't let you do a single 14 drive array and loose just 2 drives? Wow, bad feature. I'm all for protection if I want it, but don't make me loose that much space, yuk.
I'm not sure about most RAID cards, but I know that HP's SmartArray and IBM's ServeRAID have a background process on the adapter that continually tries to read and re-write each sector one block at a time in an effort to maintain data integrity. While not a complete solution for data integrity issues it is a strong step in that direction.
Do you mean RAID 50 or something else? Last I saw RAID5 was N-1 and a HS was 1. So 7 drives is 5 drives of usable space, not 3.
I've never used one, would love one for photo storage/backup but they're a bit out of my price range at the moment.
...finished. After I figured out you had to sail your ass all over the place to find the pieces of the triforce I snapped, and quit playing. My daughter always asked me to play 'link' and was very upset I refused too. She's quite in love watching me play Twilight Princess though. Running commentary from a five year old on 'you didn't do that right' or 'no don't do that as a wolf do it as link' is rather fun for a bit.
The new control scheme is second nature to me, and the six or eight hours straight don't have my hands numb and sore from gripping the controllers. Casually holding the Wiimote in the right and the Nunchuk in the left works well for me, and the cord is just long enough it doesn't get in the way.
The newer 'moves' you learn as the game progresses work well with the nunchuck/wiimote hack slash combos works well and I agree with the review in that you hvae many 'Wii Sports' moments by really getting into it and flailing about.
I'm currently inbetween the forest and air dungeons, and having a blast. About 29 hours into it.
Yeah they're too busy surfing Digg and Slashdot instead of doing their job then. Or the volume of systems at the big companies is so large that they can't do what they need to do and only someone working for a 25 seat company can claim that.
My comments weren't meant that OS X is somehow magically impervious and Safari is the best browser ever done and no one could hack it.
I just don't buy the market share is the reason argument. I feel that it's more of a difficulty level than a don't feel like bothering. It requires more than to visit a website and stupidly click through a pop up or something simple, it takes more than that.
I'm sorry but I don't agree with this marketshare thing.
If someone is standing on the corner going 'neener neener you can't hit me' someone out of spite regardless of any reward is going to do it. The fact that they've been touting they can't be hacked for several years now and they still haven't been hacked says to me that it's not easy to do/not able to be done as easily as it is on Windows.
Plus a lot of the 'security' problems don't focus on the exploits of IE and simple browsing hijacking your system with crap. That's the largest problem facing most IT departments that I've run across in the last year or two, not the OS itself being hacked but something stupid the browser does destroying the system.
My favorite so far was an eBay auction that was starting at $100,000 because he was a solider that had been deployed to Iraq and wasn't going to be home with his family for Christmas because he just got back and was being re-deployed. PIcture is of a guy in fatigues with a little boy holding the box. The cynic in me thought anyone can buy fatigues and claim that.
Maybe that's the geniuses at Sony's marketing but it doesn't seem to be the same for Nintendo. I have a nasty flu bug/cold bug and wasn't about to camp out overnight in sub 40 degree weather. Then to top it off my youngest child decided to wake up at 11PM and stay up until about 4AM so I was in no mood to wander over to the nearest target that was selling at 8AM Sunday morning.
We figured the 36 they told us they'd have would be out of stock shortly, and they were. They told us they had 36 of them and 40 people were camped out front here in Wake Forest, NC.
They also told us that they will be getting bi-weekly shipments of 'at least a dozen' from now until after Christmas. I had my wife call and she said the guy laughed and said 'good luck though if you want a PS3, nothing like that is coming'. It seems to me that Nintendo did a huge build as much as they could, shipped them, and then is going to keep the pipe full from now until the end of the year.
Meanwhile PS3 blew their wad quickly, and is going to take months to recover.
Also speaking as someone who is in product marketing as my day job I can tell you that personally I've never twirled my mustache points thinking 'ooh, let's make one and that'll drive up demand' because people can/do find something 'good enough' to take its place and loosing to THAT kind of a sale sucks more because you've just collapsed your market onto a competitors product. This is my personal opinion at least, maybe there's a secret club of people that do that but not at my level.
I wasn't in the boy scouts, but I was in the Explorer portion and that's how I got my private pilot license at 18.
However, I feel that the scout organization has fallen so far from its original intended roots that it's nothing but a special interest shadow of its former self. It's very sad, because what once was an organization that helped kids learn about skills and camping and other simple yet vital tasks for a well rounded person have been hammered away into anti-gay, christian centric whored out to any group that wants type of thing.
Yes, houses, and everything you own can be sold.
Then what. If you have only owned your home for a few years, you'll be lucky to get ten or twenty grand out of it. Then you now have paid 1% or 5% or some small fraction of an amazingly large bill.
What if the illness debilitated you so you can't work any more? put them on the street?
You ever been in a hospital? They don't tell you what things cost, they just start shoving shit in you until they figure it out, hopefully. Then after you leave they hand you some monstrous bill. For a person making $36,000 a year a $2 million hospital bill is impossible to pay. They don't want just $50 a month. They want thousands a month. The system is broken.
You've never had a medical problem beyond the flu have you?
Little suzy gets bitten by a mosquito. She suddenly can't go pee after a few days. You go to the doctor and discover she has encephallitis and will die. They go nuts trying to save her, in the process they discover she now has hemophellia. They start popping in drugs that cost $21,000 per dose into her to try and stop the bleeding. Next thing you know you owe them $2.0M dollars.
They put a lein on your home because you're not paying fast enough.
Some of the doctor offices, but not all of them forgive the debt. Apparently the state run one feels you should pay back more than your home is worth.
Don't think that happens? Think Again
I'm sure this number was yanked out of the ass of some analyst somewhere, but last I checked Woodcrest is still faster than Rev F for 98% of the applications out there. Intel is doing a full court press from a sales perspective with their teams out there and are going to introduce quad core by the end of the year.
What makes someone think Dell can flip 50% of it's business to AMD? The best way Dell can do anything is to drop the price. I don't think AMD is in the position to want to go into a price war just yet...
Because I spent the first 20 years of my life living with my parents who did just that. they closed up the house at 8AM, set the AC to 85, and kept all the windows closed. We weren't allowed to 'run in and out' and if you went outside, the doors were locked for three hours at a minimum. I spent most of my summers at friends houses who ran the AC at 72 or lower in the mid 80s.
I do not intend to live like that again. I'm sure you can acclimate yourself to living at all sorts of temperatures, I just don't want to. You could say the same thing about the winter, and setting your thermostat to 50 and wearing warm clothing.
However, if I could change my air conditioner or my heater so that they consumed a fraction of the percent to provide me with the same benefit with an ROI within a year or two I'd be happy too. That's what I did with the lighting. I didn't reduce my lighting, or rely on solar lighting for my home, I use less energy for the same benefit.
I've been wanting to convert 30% of my electrical energy demand to solar power. Based on all the formulas i've found on the web to do just that (with pre-CFL bulbs) I would need to invest $17,000 (after $10,000 in tax breaks) on a system that would financially save me $50 a month on my electric bill. Since I don't have the money laying around to spend this would be either borrowing against the equity of my home or credit, which means the interest I pay would offset that $50 in savings, and this doesn't include any/all maintenance a solar power system of 4000W per day in size would be.
I've had some weird luck with it. Right now my problem is it won't go to sleep even though i set it for when idle more than one hour it should go to sleep. So something I run keeps it awake.
The other is I have a 3 year old. I do not subscribe to the 'lock your doors' train of thought and he'll come in and bang his head on the desk, grab the mouse, or something and wake it up.
Also I've had instances where the bluetooth keyboard/mouse apparently loose connection or something and I can't get it to wake back up short of killing the power to it.
Two story, five bedroom, bonus room, living room, dining room, kitchen eating area in about 3000 square feet.
Each bedroom came with a two 65W fixture in them, hallways have pair, foyer has a pair, loft area on second floor has a pair, stair case has one (haven't gotten to it, it's about 20ft up with no easy way to get to).
Several rooms have gone to a lamp configuration where the ceiling mounted lights that came with the house are not used and a smaller 45W fixture was used.
To the best of my knowledge this is about standard configuration for most homes built >2000 as mine was.
Ah yes, I agree. Two years ago the CFL bulbs available had some drawbacks. I was 'doing the right thing' then as well and my main light in my bedroom takes about a second to come on after flipping on the light. When you gotta pee and are walking briskly into the room and it's dark and you flip it on 1 second isn't fast enough to avoid you from finding the random toy or something large that has been put in the path you try and do from memory.
So far the ones I bought this week from Sylvania over at Lowe's home improvement pop on as the switch does, which is much better. We'll see if that response time continues.
Pretty insane isn't it? When you buy a home, looking at the number of light fixtures is one of the last thing you think of. At least it was for me.
Upstairs alone I counted 5 rooms, each room has a fixture in it that two 65W bulbs were in. There are two bathrooms, one has six 65W bulbs, the other had four 65 bulbs across the top of the mirror in these little globe things. That's 20 65W bulbs, at 1kW if they were all on. Swapping down to a 9W CFL that's 0.18KW.
Certainly there was a bit of an upfront investment in that the CFL lights are in fact more expensive.
Mine isn't the largest of homes, about mid-sized in my region at 2700 square feet. I don't have a hot tub, or a pool. I do wonder sometimes what my computers pull in because I subscribe to the 'I hate sleep mode' train of thought and my iMac G5 is on 24x7.
When is the last time you replaced a 65W with a CFL equivalent?
I ask because short of taking a lightmeter into each room and doing a before/after every room I upgraded this past week to a CFL light is *brighter* almost to a point of annoyance in a few bathrooms where we put 4 65W 'globe' CFL equivalents in.
Or do you flip it on go 'bah' and turn it back off without waiting the 30 seconds it takes them to get from 'on' to 'full power'?
I'd been kicking around the 'replace lights when they burn out with CF lights' idea, and then I sat down and did the math and figured that within a year they would pay for themselves in energy savings. I did a write up about it on my boring ass personal blog just to document when I did it so that I could come back and see what power savings I saw.
I would say that I replaced 18 65W bulbs in regular light fixtures, 20 65W 'globe' lights in three bathrooms, 5 chandalier 45W bulbs, four outdoor 150W Spotlights, not including about 8 - 10 bulbs already installed in the 'light burned out' category since we moved into this home in May 2003.
I'm keeping track of the power spent so far, and interested to see if there is a noticeable drop. Noticeable to me = $5 - $10 average. I'm not expecting a bill to go down by half, I do live in North Carolina and it's summer time so the AC is on full blast most of the time.
My next venture is into a PV System to offset the amount of energy I need to buy every month vs. the sun could provide. I'm still investigating that system but it appears that I could invest about $10,000 in a decent system, and get about half back in tax breaks from my state & federal government programs. If I get it in before the end of 2007.
Honestly with the Slyvania bulbs I used, I don't see a color temp difference. There is a slight delay from 'on' light output to full light output and even though they use a lot less power they are on average much bright light luminosity wise. But just in the last 5 years alone the delay you would see from light switch - light on has dropped to near instantaneous. There are several bulbs I put in 2003 that you can count out a second or so from switch on to light in the room. But these new ones come on when you turn em on.
The 'Accident' one to me was one of the best. It pointed out Apple's design philosphy, not a 'I'm Better than You Cuz You're Stupid' approach, but talking about something that almost everyone has experienced in one way or another regardless of operating system or hardware manufacturer. My daughter yanked my Powerbook G4 12" off a table sneaking around behind the couch trying to 'scare' me. she was 2 at the time.
It yanked my laptop onto the floor, and luckily bent just the connector on the power adapter not the laptop.
The second time, I was not so lucky. I did this one all my own. I spent all this time making sure I'd routed the power cord away as I was working on the couch while watching TV. After spending all this time being careful I jump up to grab something, rip the laptop off the table and it puts a nice dent in the Aluminum casing on the left side.
The iPhoto one was a bit odd, and the Spyware one didn't do it for me at all either, but the power cord design one was classic and the 'I saw my life flashing before my eyes, look a field of flowers' made me laugh out loud.
Yes, I struggle today with a reliable backup that is either not time consuming nor very manual. I recently ordered one of the Segate Mirra devices in hopes to backup some of the more important stuff. However the more important stuff for me is RAW files from my Digital SLR (about 150GB over the last 4 years now) and the DV files from my camcorder (another 30 - 50 GB on HDD, and about 10 tapes worth). Right now I backup to DVD every week and to HDD nightly using Apple's Backup. It's rather expensive to burn 4.7GB DVDs (1 - 3 a week depending on what I've done that week) and if I don't want to keep track of Weekly DVDs since six months ago I have to re-start the incremental backup which nets a 35 - 40 Disc backup that takes a few days.
I'm hoping within the application you'll be able to say how many versions you want to keep and for how many days, etc. I'd like to see it integrate into Mirra devices as well because one of the beauty things for the Mirra to me is that if there was a fire, hurricane, or whatever the Mirra isn't *that* big and I could rip the cord from the wall and run as it'd be in my garage next to the cars. Doing that with a full computer or getting to an external hard drive would not be as easy to do as in my house it's upstairs and at the opposite end of the house. At that point I'd be more concerned about kids & exiting vs. something you could grab on the way out.
I'm probably over reacting, but for me the most important things outside the living breathing portions of it I'd want to save are the photographs on my hard drives.
Either way, can't wait to see how it is implemented. Trying to keep in mind it's a 'dot oh' product, but we'll see what I can do with it.
Keeping my fingers crossed there is encryption though.
Order your 3.0GHz now, it'll arrive in time for your birthday ;)
I just ordered the 2.66. The perf diff between the 3.0GHz and the 2.66GHz isn't worth $798 to me. Mine won't be here until Sept 15th or so.
That's great that it was in VMS. But the last time I saw a system capable of running VMS it wasn't under my desk and didn't cost under US$3000.
.Mac for me' because I bought it to use Backup primarily.
now if file versioning was in Linux natively, or Windows, or OS/2, or the Amiga, or some other desktop operating system like BeOS I'd think you'd have a point. But that's like saying the Honda Civic is cool but the GPS in it is late to the party because the Audi A8L has had it for 5 years. That's comparing two cars that aren't in the same class just like comparing a multi-user VMS box to a single user desktop.
I'm not saying versioning hasn't been done before, but when has it been native to the operating system itself? All I kept thinking about it was 'well, there goes the one redeeming features for