The reason Microsoft made both XP Home and XP Pro is easy: They can get more people to pay for the Home version, but the people with deep pockets are willing to shell out for a version called 'Pro'. Joel On Software gives a better explanation of it than I can.
Except that that's not what happens. This issue only happens when someone else bids $80.
Your bid is now $80, but you still win because you were there first.
However, if you *then* bump your max bid higher, it'll bump your current bid up an increment.
Know how you solve this problem? Actually make your max bid the maximum amount you're willing to pay for the item to start with, like you're supposed to.
The 100 was a one-time design in terms of hardware (well, two-time design, really. It was basically a Mac Portable shrunk down wee. Same components, just rearranged and miniaturized), but the 100, 140, and 170 were all very similar in terms of physical case design. I.e., they all had the keyboard-back, pointer-front-center design that has been used by everyone ever since. I assume they picked the 100 because it was the lowest-numbered model of the set.
In addition, the 100 was the lightest and cheapest of the trio, which means it was the most affordable and portable, which was another major consideration in picking it.
There are no huge, bug-free programs in *any* language.
"Every program contains at least one bug and can be reduced by at least one line of code. From which we can deduce that every program can be reduced to one line of code that doesn't work."
I bought a crate of them at a University of Missouri-Rolla surplus property auction a few years back. I've not had one break in the many years I've been using Model Ms (even with several unfortunate gravity-related incidents), but I'm not taking any chances.
Take Two interactive announced today that it would be changing its name to "Take Everything Interactive". A company spokesman was quoted as saying "We felt that the new name would better reflect the company's new goals and objectives. We found we weren't satisfied with just taking two, so we're going to go ahead and take it all, piece by piece."
Insiders report that the newly renamed company next plans to acquire exclusive rights to all games that feature the concept of 'crates', games featuring the likeness of Jodie Foster, and games that use the musical note B-sharp anywhere in their score.
Raskin's lasting contributions to the Mac were pretty much the name. Jobs changed just about everything when he came in, and Raskin was pissed about it.
If it had been up to Raskin, the original Macintosh would have been text-based with a processor barely more powerful than a 6502.
Advanced User things I do that would like more processing horsepower:
1. Video editing. Converting video files to MPEG, rendering effects, that sort of thing. 2. Compiling software. More MHz = Faster compile. Doesn't matter much when you're just installing software, but when you're developing software and have to go through several iterations of fiddle-compile-run to get a particular feature to work properly, compile time gets really annoying.
But actually, the main processor-hungry type of activity out there is the one used by the least advanced group of users out there. Video games. The last several upgrades to my Windows machine have been to run various games (Starcraft brought me up to a P166, The Sims brought me to PII, Black & White got me an Athlon XP 1600+, and most recently The Sims 2 and Myst: Uru got me to shell out for a GeForce video card).
All that being said, I'm getting myself a 1.25GHz Mini to use primarily for video editing as soon as I have $724 (getting the 512M, bluetooth, and Superdrive upgrades) to spare.
My reasons for building my own machines: 1. Don't have to pay for an OS I'm not going to use (I.e., Windows) 2. I know exactly what's going into it, so I can buy better quality parts for the parts that are important. 3. If I build it myself from standard parts, I know I'll be able to upgrade it later. My current main machine started life as a P166. I don't think there are any original parts in it still. I think the last part was the busmouse card that I ditched in favor of a SCSI card and a PS/2 mouse in 2003. 4. Price.
And okay, yeah, the new Mac's going to beat homebuilding on number 4, but there are still a lot of good reasons to build it onesself.
Now, that being said, I've been a Mac geek since 1984 and plan to get a Mini as soon as I get my next paycheck. The people who are complaining that it costs more than you could build a PC for are completely missing the point. I'm just saying, when it comes to PCs, there are damn good reasons to, quote-unquote, hand-carve your own microchips.
Hey, if you got a Mac, you'd become an elitist bastard too. Trust me, I've seen it happen many a time.
(Me, I've been using them since I was four, so I started out as an elitist bastard)
--AC
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You are wrong. The Morex case doesn't have an internal power supply. It has an internal DC-DC power supply, which means that it has an external wall-wart to convert AC to DC.
Good point. They both use an ARM and have basically the same software. But I don't know for sure either (I have a 48g, a 48g+, a 49g, and a 49g+, but no 48gII)
Only works on the HP49g+, not the HP49g or the HP48 series.
Works really well, though. I enjoy the fact that I can overclock my calculator--which is already faster than the first Unix workstation I ever owned--so I can do my simple addition, multiplication, and subtraction problems at blazing fast speed!
I'm envisioning a longhorn cow grazing stupidly in a field. A tiger sneaks up and noisily devours it.
Then, later, RedHat could make a competing commercial. Same thing happens, except after the tiger attack, a fat little penguin waddles up and eats the tiger.
Seriously, even when they're running through a script and avoiding the bits of code that they aren't 100% on, they still got two crashes. Maybe next time, they should just make a PowerPoint presentation that looks like an interactive Windows desktop and hope nobody notices that they're just mouse-syncing.
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The reason Microsoft made both XP Home and XP Pro is easy: They can get more people to pay for the Home version, but the people with deep pockets are willing to shell out for a version called 'Pro'.
Joel On Software gives a better explanation of it than I can.
Except that that's not what happens. This issue only happens when someone else bids $80.
Your bid is now $80, but you still win because you were there first.
However, if you *then* bump your max bid higher, it'll bump your current bid up an increment.
Know how you solve this problem? Actually make your max bid the maximum amount you're willing to pay for the item to start with, like you're supposed to.
Jesus is said to be the Prince of Peace.
Jesus is said to be half-man, half-God.
So actually, that tracks.
The 100 was a one-time design in terms of hardware (well, two-time design, really. It was basically a Mac Portable shrunk down wee. Same components, just rearranged and miniaturized), but the 100, 140, and 170 were all very similar in terms of physical case design. I.e., they all had the keyboard-back, pointer-front-center design that has been used by everyone ever since. I assume they picked the 100 because it was the lowest-numbered model of the set.
In addition, the 100 was the lightest and cheapest of the trio, which means it was the most affordable and portable, which was another major consideration in picking it.
--AC
So this means I can create my army of half-man, half-shark superwarriors without worrying about IP lawyers?
Sweet.
Would now be a good time to mention that *he* was joking, and you completely missed the boat on *that* one? ;)
(Read it again)
There are no huge, bug-free programs in Fortran.
There are no huge, bug-free programs in *any* language.
"Every program contains at least one bug and can be reduced by at least one line of code. From which we can deduce that every program can be reduced to one line of code that doesn't work."
...for companies that started out housing their primary product in wood cases and legos, respectively.
--AC
Preach it, brother.
I bought a crate of them at a University of Missouri-Rolla surplus property auction a few years back. I've not had one break in the many years I've been using Model Ms (even with several unfortunate gravity-related incidents), but I'm not taking any chances.
--AC
Why not?
I brought a Model M into work with me so I wouldn't have to use the crappy Dell keyboard they gave me. A mouse is way easier to transport than that.
Take Two interactive announced today that it would be changing its name to "Take Everything Interactive". A company spokesman was quoted as saying "We felt that the new name would better reflect the company's new goals and objectives. We found we weren't satisfied with just taking two, so we're going to go ahead and take it all, piece by piece."
Insiders report that the newly renamed company next plans to acquire exclusive rights to all games that feature the concept of 'crates', games featuring the likeness of Jodie Foster, and games that use the musical note B-sharp anywhere in their score.
Raskin's lasting contributions to the Mac were pretty much the name. Jobs changed just about everything when he came in, and Raskin was pissed about it.
If it had been up to Raskin, the original Macintosh would have been text-based with a processor barely more powerful than a 6502.
--AC
You know there's a Firefox port for OSX, right?
Advanced User things I do that would like more processing horsepower:
1. Video editing. Converting video files to MPEG, rendering effects, that sort of thing.
2. Compiling software. More MHz = Faster compile. Doesn't matter much when you're just installing software, but when you're developing software and have to go through several iterations of fiddle-compile-run to get a particular feature to work properly, compile time gets really annoying.
But actually, the main processor-hungry type of activity out there is the one used by the least advanced group of users out there. Video games. The last several upgrades to my Windows machine have been to run various games (Starcraft brought me up to a P166, The Sims brought me to PII, Black & White got me an Athlon XP 1600+, and most recently The Sims 2 and Myst: Uru got me to shell out for a GeForce video card).
All that being said, I'm getting myself a 1.25GHz Mini to use primarily for video editing as soon as I have $724 (getting the 512M, bluetooth, and Superdrive upgrades) to spare.
My reasons for building my own machines:
1. Don't have to pay for an OS I'm not going to use (I.e., Windows)
2. I know exactly what's going into it, so I can buy better quality parts for the parts that are important.
3. If I build it myself from standard parts, I know I'll be able to upgrade it later. My current main machine started life as a P166. I don't think there are any original parts in it still. I think the last part was the busmouse card that I ditched in favor of a SCSI card and a PS/2 mouse in 2003.
4. Price.
And okay, yeah, the new Mac's going to beat homebuilding on number 4, but there are still a lot of good reasons to build it onesself.
Now, that being said, I've been a Mac geek since 1984 and plan to get a Mini as soon as I get my next paycheck. The people who are complaining that it costs more than you could build a PC for are completely missing the point. I'm just saying, when it comes to PCs, there are damn good reasons to, quote-unquote, hand-carve your own microchips.
--AC
(Me, I've been using them since I was four, so I started out as an elitist bastard) --AC
You are wrong. The Morex case doesn't have an internal power supply. It has an internal DC-DC power supply, which means that it has an external wall-wart to convert AC to DC.
Then you want Wine.
(Or, rather, you want a version of Wine from far in the future when it works a lot better)
--AC
Good point. They both use an ARM and have basically the same software. But I don't know for sure either (I have a 48g, a 48g+, a 49g, and a 49g+, but no 48gII)
--AC
Only works on the HP49g+, not the HP49g or the HP48 series.
Works really well, though. I enjoy the fact that I can overclock my calculator--which is already faster than the first Unix workstation I ever owned--so I can do my simple addition, multiplication, and subtraction problems at blazing fast speed!
So does anyone besides me want Apple to name a MacOS X version 'Kzinti'?
I'm envisioning a longhorn cow grazing stupidly in a field. A tiger sneaks up and noisily devours it.
Then, later, RedHat could make a competing commercial. Same thing happens, except after the tiger attack, a fat little penguin waddles up and eats the tiger.
--AC
I finally got around to plowing through Niven's Known Space series of books.
Anybody else want an OSX version named 'Kzin' to come out?
Your second if has a bug in it. You used a set-equals instead of a compare-equals. So all companies not Apple are going to be set equal to Microsoft.
--AC
...when they can't even rig a demo properly?
Seriously, even when they're running through a script and avoiding the bits of code that they aren't 100% on, they still got two crashes. Maybe next time, they should just make a PowerPoint presentation that looks like an interactive Windows desktop and hope nobody notices that they're just mouse-syncing.