Yup. There's also a lot of administrative tasks you simply can't do--the inability to give one user full access to another user's mailbox being a glaring example. Apptix, though slower and clunkier, is a much more complete solution for hosted Exchange/Sharepoint.
Clevenger, is it just me, or did the PPC Macs have better sleep/wake capability than the Intel Macs?
Oh good, it's not just me. I figured it was because my MBP was a first gen.
My current Toshiba Tecra running XP actually does a good job at sleeping and waking--much better than my MBP did. Though Toshibas use a non-standard power controller that requires a bunch of funky drivers to work properly, so there's that downside. (Well, that and the whole running Windows thing.)
The mac, however, is fantastic. I can close the lid and leave it sitting there for a whole day then still open it and it is ready to type before I have the lid fully open. I honestly can't tell you how valuable this simple feature is, you have to experience it.
Depends on the Mac hardware. My old 12" Powerbook G4 was amazingly good at this. When I opened the lid, before I could get my password in, it had already reconnected to my WiFi and even reestablished my open SSH sessions to my Linux box. I only rebooted that thing when I needed to apply security updates. My first-gen Macbook Pro, on the other hand, would frequently never turn on the screen, and I would have to close the lid, wait 30 seconds for the light to go back to "pulsing", open it again, and maybe repeat once or twice more before it would show the password prompt.
I don't buy into the "superior hardware" bit. Apple has their share of problems, from cracking Cubes to "brown" white iBooks to failing silver Power Mac G4 power supplies to Power Mac G5 fan problems to iMac/eMac video failures to capacitor problems to early Macbook Pros that would flex to the point that optical discs wouldn't eject. The difference is that you're stuck with one vendor for parts, and they still charge eight prices for repairs.
Wouldn't it be better to just make the rendering code more efficient? My desktop shouldn't have to fire up a 180 watt graphics card just to render 480p video from Hulu.
Given than accelerator and braking problems go back to when computers started getting authority over those functions back in the 80's, and continue to have today (I.E. not just Toyota)... you haven't a fucking clue what you're talking about.
Computers had authority over the accelerator and brakes in the 80's? The brakes have never been drive-by-wire, except in a few very high-end models recently, and throttle-by-wire didn't come into play until much later.
GM released certain models where the stepper motors for the odometers where bunk. they quickly came in for repair and were fixed no questions asked... the only problem was that they were fixed with the same defective part because GM couldn't get good motors built fast enough. the thought was to fix them make the customer happy and then fix them again with good parts when they broke again.
Yup, they still do that. My Saturn Ion has faulty suspension bushings (clunk, clunk.) They were replaced twice under warranty, and now that the warranty is up, they're clunking again. GM knows of the issue, but they have yet to redesign the part. I'm living with the clunk until the aftermarket comes to the rescue.
Double digit failures out of tens of thousands of LTO3/4 tapes. Nothing to write home about, but if it's your only copy of the data, it's something to think about.
If it's your only copy of the data, it's not a backup.
"Seems" is the word. As one of the articles correctly notes, VW's have a lockout system that drops the engine to idle if the brake is depressed. I have two of these cars, I've tried it and can confirm it works very well indeed. If people keep reporting something that cannot have happened, you refer the matter to a psychologist rather than an engineer.
Then why do they have a reported incident rate far higher than Toyotas? And if unintended acceleration is a software issue, as many are now claiming, then how is software-based BOS any safer? (In fact, the Prius has had BOS for years.)
Bullshit. Normalized data going back many years show Toyota has a far higher incidence rate. Either old people buy way more Toyotas or Toyotas really do have a problem.
VWseems to be having even more issues than Toyota.
What do you mean never? "Kilo" has always meant 10^3 for HDDs, likewise for mega, giga, etc.
Sorry, you're wrong; disks used base-two definitions, too. A 360K floppy is 362,496 bytes formatted, and a Seagate ST-225 20 megabyte hard drive had a little over 21,000,000 bytes formatted. It wasn't until some hard drive manufacturer couldn't quite hit a gigabyte that they redefined "gigabyte" so that they could call their 976MB drive "1 gigabyte."
You think one of those overpriced ripoff "extended warranty" plans costs less than paying for repairs as they become necessary?
If replacing a starter cost $6,000 and an engine overhaul cost $3,000,000, then yes. A 45-minute gallbladder removal and 4 days of semi-private hospital room cost $21,000. That's the insurance-negotiated discount price. Quadruple bypass and five days cost around $56,000--again, the insurance-negotiated price. Without insurance, that same heart surgery runs around $169,000.
The difference is that the auto mechanic has the option to not touch your car until you pay up front. Hospitals don't have that option, so if you don't have insurance, they get to eat that $56,000 (or, in more realistic terms, pass that cost onto the rest of us.)
I think my favorites used to be the ones that checked when the app started up. Adobe Acrobat Reader was really bad about this. "Would you like to take 30 minutes out of your day to load an Adobe Downloader so you can load the latest version of Adobe Reader so you can reboot and then have to come back to this page so you can read this one-page document, or ignore this and I'll pester you the next time you try to open a document?"
You forgot the second half of that story.
(30 minutes later) "Oh, sorry, you have to be an administrator to install that." (Then after the next reboot) "Would you like to take 30 minutes out of your day to load an Adobe Downloader so you can load the latest version of Adobe Reader so you can reboot and then have to come back to this page so you can read this one-page document, or ignore this and I'll pester you the next time you try to open a document?"
I don't file a claim with my auto insurance company every time I need to change the oil, get a car wash, get new tires, or replace a broken CV axle. I pay for it myself, and it's cheap (actually, dirt cheap because I do it myself). So why should I have some giant insurance company that I have to go through every time I visit a doctor for an annual check-up or an ingrown toenail or whatever?
That's because your car isn't insured against breakdowns. If you paid monthly for breakdown insurance, the warranty company would be smart to throw in monthly oil changes and build it into the price. That way, you'd be much more likely to get that basic maintenance done, and ultimately their repair bills would be lower.
And the reason you go through the "giant insurance company" is that doctors have colluded to charge you three or four times as much if you go in uninsured. That's why that doctor's visit with the $20 copay will cost you between $60 and $240 if you go in uninsured--and that's just for the checkup.
Design one, build a factory and start making them. I'm sure Costco would be happy to put in their hearing centers and undercut everyone else like they do with glasses now.
Chicken pox also has a vaccine, but if you get it as a child you only risk a week at home, some itching, and maybe a scar if your parents can stop you from itching too much.
Cellulitis, ataxia, encephalitis... yeah, I'll stick with the vaccine, thanks.
Uh, the bailout of AIG happened two months before the election. And while Bush said in July 2008 that there'd be no auto industry bailout, by late October, again before the election, he was already flipflopping. Oh, and Senator McCain voted for TARP as well, again, before the election.
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For most people, all they do is turn the damn iPad on, tyoe in their wifi password, and they are off and away.
Don't forget buying, installing and configuring a computer, then installing iTunes so you can actually plug in, activate and use the iPad.
Yup. There's also a lot of administrative tasks you simply can't do--the inability to give one user full access to another user's mailbox being a glaring example. Apptix, though slower and clunkier, is a much more complete solution for hosted Exchange/Sharepoint.
Maybe... or maybe it wasn't actually going to sleep (that happened too.)
Clevenger, is it just me, or did the PPC Macs have better sleep/wake capability than the Intel Macs?
Oh good, it's not just me. I figured it was because my MBP was a first gen.
My current Toshiba Tecra running XP actually does a good job at sleeping and waking--much better than my MBP did. Though Toshibas use a non-standard power controller that requires a bunch of funky drivers to work properly, so there's that downside. (Well, that and the whole running Windows thing.)
The mac, however, is fantastic. I can close the lid and leave it sitting there for a whole day then still open it and it is ready to type before I have the lid fully open. I honestly can't tell you how valuable this simple feature is, you have to experience it.
Depends on the Mac hardware. My old 12" Powerbook G4 was amazingly good at this. When I opened the lid, before I could get my password in, it had already reconnected to my WiFi and even reestablished my open SSH sessions to my Linux box. I only rebooted that thing when I needed to apply security updates. My first-gen Macbook Pro, on the other hand, would frequently never turn on the screen, and I would have to close the lid, wait 30 seconds for the light to go back to "pulsing", open it again, and maybe repeat once or twice more before it would show the password prompt.
I don't buy into the "superior hardware" bit. Apple has their share of problems, from cracking Cubes to "brown" white iBooks to failing silver Power Mac G4 power supplies to Power Mac G5 fan problems to iMac/eMac video failures to capacitor problems to early Macbook Pros that would flex to the point that optical discs wouldn't eject. The difference is that you're stuck with one vendor for parts, and they still charge eight prices for repairs.
Wouldn't it be better to just make the rendering code more efficient? My desktop shouldn't have to fire up a 180 watt graphics card just to render 480p video from Hulu.
Given than accelerator and braking problems go back to when computers started getting authority over those functions back in the 80's, and continue to have today (I.E. not just Toyota)... you haven't a fucking clue what you're talking about.
Computers had authority over the accelerator and brakes in the 80's? The brakes have never been drive-by-wire, except in a few very high-end models recently, and throttle-by-wire didn't come into play until much later.
GM released certain models where the stepper motors for the odometers where bunk. they quickly came in for repair and were fixed no questions asked... the only problem was that they were fixed with the same defective part because GM couldn't get good motors built fast enough. the thought was to fix them make the customer happy and then fix them again with good parts when they broke again.
Yup, they still do that. My Saturn Ion has faulty suspension bushings (clunk, clunk.) They were replaced twice under warranty, and now that the warranty is up, they're clunking again. GM knows of the issue, but they have yet to redesign the part. I'm living with the clunk until the aftermarket comes to the rescue.
Double digit failures out of tens of thousands of LTO3/4 tapes. Nothing to write home about, but if it's your only copy of the data, it's something to think about.
If it's your only copy of the data, it's not a backup.
Don't forget exploding vans. I'd love to have actual news in Southern California.
Yeah, that would be clbuttic.
Exactly. Mine's "Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the spelling, punctuation and brevity."
"Seems" is the word. As one of the articles correctly notes, VW's have a lockout system that drops the engine to idle if the brake is depressed. I have two of these cars, I've tried it and can confirm it works very well indeed. If people keep reporting something that cannot have happened, you refer the matter to a psychologist rather than an engineer.
Then why do they have a reported incident rate far higher than Toyotas? And if unintended acceleration is a software issue, as many are now claiming, then how is software-based BOS any safer? (In fact, the Prius has had BOS for years.)
Bullshit. Normalized data going back many years show Toyota has a far higher incidence rate. Either old people buy way more Toyotas or Toyotas really do have a problem.
VW seems to be having even more issues than Toyota.
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What do you mean never? "Kilo" has always meant 10^3 for HDDs, likewise for mega, giga, etc.
Sorry, you're wrong; disks used base-two definitions, too. A 360K floppy is 362,496 bytes formatted, and a Seagate ST-225 20 megabyte hard drive had a little over 21,000,000 bytes formatted. It wasn't until some hard drive manufacturer couldn't quite hit a gigabyte that they redefined "gigabyte" so that they could call their 976MB drive "1 gigabyte."
You think one of those overpriced ripoff "extended warranty" plans costs less than paying for repairs as they become necessary?
If replacing a starter cost $6,000 and an engine overhaul cost $3,000,000, then yes. A 45-minute gallbladder removal and 4 days of semi-private hospital room cost $21,000. That's the insurance-negotiated discount price. Quadruple bypass and five days cost around $56,000--again, the insurance-negotiated price. Without insurance, that same heart surgery runs around $169,000.
The difference is that the auto mechanic has the option to not touch your car until you pay up front. Hospitals don't have that option, so if you don't have insurance, they get to eat that $56,000 (or, in more realistic terms, pass that cost onto the rest of us.)
I think my favorites used to be the ones that checked when the app started up. Adobe Acrobat Reader was really bad about this. "Would you like to take 30 minutes out of your day to load an Adobe Downloader so you can load the latest version of Adobe Reader so you can reboot and then have to come back to this page so you can read this one-page document, or ignore this and I'll pester you the next time you try to open a document?"
You forgot the second half of that story.
(30 minutes later) "Oh, sorry, you have to be an administrator to install that." (Then after the next reboot) "Would you like to take 30 minutes out of your day to load an Adobe Downloader so you can load the latest version of Adobe Reader so you can reboot and then have to come back to this page so you can read this one-page document, or ignore this and I'll pester you the next time you try to open a document?"
I don't file a claim with my auto insurance company every time I need to change the oil, get a car wash, get new tires, or replace a broken CV axle. I pay for it myself, and it's cheap (actually, dirt cheap because I do it myself). So why should I have some giant insurance company that I have to go through every time I visit a doctor for an annual check-up or an ingrown toenail or whatever?
That's because your car isn't insured against breakdowns. If you paid monthly for breakdown insurance, the warranty company would be smart to throw in monthly oil changes and build it into the price. That way, you'd be much more likely to get that basic maintenance done, and ultimately their repair bills would be lower. And the reason you go through the "giant insurance company" is that doctors have colluded to charge you three or four times as much if you go in uninsured. That's why that doctor's visit with the $20 copay will cost you between $60 and $240 if you go in uninsured--and that's just for the checkup.
Design one, build a factory and start making them. I'm sure Costco would be happy to put in their hearing centers and undercut everyone else like they do with glasses now.
Chicken pox also has a vaccine, but if you get it as a child you only risk a week at home, some itching, and maybe a scar if your parents can stop you from itching too much.
Cellulitis, ataxia, encephalitis... yeah, I'll stick with the vaccine, thanks.
Jesus, major grammar fail.
This. I still use fail2ban, but since I changed the port, I haven't had a single invalid auth attempt.
Exactly. And why the fuck am I watched 19 minutes of commercials an hour when my cable company is already paying you $40 million?
Uh, the bailout of AIG happened two months before the election. And while Bush said in July 2008 that there'd be no auto industry bailout, by late October, again before the election, he was already flipflopping. Oh, and Senator McCain voted for TARP as well, again, before the election.