Steve Forbes the son was the clueless google eyed loonie who ran against GW Bush for the GOP presidential nomination claiming GW would not do enough for the ultra-rich (like himself).
It is somewhat rich to be given lectures in entepreneurship from a person who inherited every penny he owns
You've failed to make it clear which phoney entrepeneur you're referring to. Please resubmit with requested clarification.
Yeah, I recall noticing it during the Stevenote (yeah, I watched it live, I bleed in six colors, I confess) and thought it was so ironic that whatever she had on her belt resembled an iPod from a distance. Never occured to me that it *was* an iPod stripped in recently.
Which, if using the 1 Yen notes mentioned in my original post, means my original guesstimate was off by a factor of twenty. And judging by some of my past estimates of project completion time, I'd say we've acheived consistency if not equivalency.
Well, that's a mighty tall stack. Maybe if you'd purchased the original Macintosh with 1 Yen notes, we'd have some equivalency here. (No, I can't be bothered to look up historical exchange rates and do the math. So sue me.)
it has become common practice for on-air personalities across the industry -- such as Rush Limbaugh -- to anchor programs remotely.
Umm, I'm the last person you'll ever meet that would stand up and defened Rush Limbaugh, but isn't what he does known as <fingerquotes>syndication</fingerquotes>?
We both know there's precious little I could say about Outlook that most slashdotters haven't heard (and said) a thousand times before. But obviously I couldn't resist the bait of your treating 'Outlook is a fine product' as an uncontestable statement of fact.
I mean c'mon, allow me some [admittedly weak] humor when I'm stuck in a vacant office building hours from home on a beautiful Saturday afternoon because somebody just *had* to have one of them spiffy new wireless neteworks to sling 4k.txt files from room to room.
There, is that enough of a storm for ya? Maybe after I brew the last of these mini coffee packets I swiped from my hotel room I'll be up for more of a tempest.
Even though it's just a shadow of it's former self, a primer on propogation via the nasty for those of a non-biological persuasion is available at telephonesex.net.
Apple is to computers what volkswagen is to cars. Hmm, that makes me wonder about how many VW drivers are also mac users compared to other car brands... I bet it's a higher than normal percentage.
I've been saying that for years. Not just VW, but all German cars. It's the *feel* of the machine. That ineffable quality that VW so hamhandedly advertised as Fahrvergnugen back in the 80s.
Granted, VW's build quality seems to have fallen in recent years, but fortunately Apple's has risen. But the 'feel' of the machine is still there. Some people don't feel the difference between a VW Jetta and a Chevy Cavalier, so I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy as Windows users. I don't begrudge them that, but I do pity them a bit...
I'll ignore most of that trollish diatribe, but I will point out that Mplayer rocks. The only video format it won't play (at least that I've come across) is.RM files, and the Real Player client for OS X, while obviously evil, is 62% less evil than the Windows version.
In '86 Macs were still 1-bit b/w. The Mac II (68020 in a *large* desktop case) was the first color Mac. The LC were a generation later, I think they came out around '91.
Of course, you could hit everymac.com or lowendmac.com to find out for sure, but I'm apparently a bit motivationally-deficient. (As evidenced by me posting this rather than futzing with SWITCH statements in Access queries like a good employee would be.)
Here in North Carolina we still use a Number 2 Pencil on a fill-in-the-bubble card that's run through an optical scanner. So it's not the entire U.S. using touch-screen machines. At least not yet.
Do the environmentalists have any idea how paper is recycled? It's not friendly - you need very powerful chemicals to break up the bonds to reform into pulp. Where do you think those chemicals go when they're used up?
You're generally right about recycling paper being a costly process, but that specific example is wrong. The spent caustics used to pulp paper are removed from the pulp and sent to a *drum roll please* recovery boiler, where so much energy is burned out of it that it powers the rest of the mill, and with the readdition of a small (but costly) portion of it, is transformed back into white liquor and sent back to the beginning of the cycle.
Slashdot Mirror
You've failed to make it clear which phoney entrepeneur you're referring to. Please resubmit with requested clarification.
Jesus!
That is jarringly ugly. *shudder*
Yeah, I recall noticing it during the Stevenote (yeah, I watched it live, I bleed in six colors, I confess) and thought it was so ironic that whatever she had on her belt resembled an iPod from a distance. Never occured to me that it *was* an iPod stripped in recently.
Which, if using the 1 Yen notes mentioned in my original post, means my original guesstimate was off by a factor of twenty. And judging by some of my past estimates of project completion time, I'd say we've acheived consistency if not equivalency.
Well, I'm not most people. Got one stashed in the closet. I've gotten rid of most of my excess Maccage, but there's still a few...
Well, that's a mighty tall stack. Maybe if you'd purchased the original Macintosh with 1 Yen notes, we'd have some equivalency here. (No, I can't be bothered to look up historical exchange rates and do the math. So sue me.)
it has become common practice for on-air personalities across the industry -- such as Rush Limbaugh -- to anchor programs remotely.
Umm, I'm the last person you'll ever meet that would stand up and defened Rush Limbaugh, but isn't what he does known as <fingerquotes>syndication</fingerquotes>?
We both know there's precious little I could say about Outlook that most slashdotters haven't heard (and said) a thousand times before. But obviously I couldn't resist the bait of your treating 'Outlook is a fine product' as an uncontestable statement of fact.
.txt files from room to room.
I mean c'mon, allow me some [admittedly weak] humor when I'm stuck in a vacant office building hours from home on a beautiful Saturday afternoon because somebody just *had* to have one of them spiffy new wireless neteworks to sling 4k
There, is that enough of a storm for ya? Maybe after I brew the last of these mini coffee packets I swiped from my hotel room I'll be up for more of a tempest.
Even though it's just a shadow of it's former self, a primer on propogation via the nasty for those of a non-biological persuasion is available at telephonesex.net.
Outlook is a fine product; I doubt anyone would argue that.
Well, you'd be wrong.
I've been saying that for years. Not just VW, but all German cars. It's the *feel* of the machine. That ineffable quality that VW so hamhandedly advertised as Fahrvergnugen back in the 80s.
Granted, VW's build quality seems to have fallen in recent years, but fortunately Apple's has risen. But the 'feel' of the machine is still there. Some people don't feel the difference between a VW Jetta and a Chevy Cavalier, so I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy as Windows users. I don't begrudge them that, but I do pity them a bit...
I'll ignore most of that trollish diatribe, but I will point out that Mplayer rocks. The only video format it won't play (at least that I've come across) is .RM files, and the Real Player client for OS X, while obviously evil, is 62% less evil than the Windows version.
Nice
It's an Intel technology, but its uptake was pathetic until the iMac brought it to the masses.
In '86 Macs were still 1-bit b/w. The Mac II (68020 in a *large* desktop case) was the first color Mac. The LC were a generation later, I think they came out around '91.
Of course, you could hit everymac.com or lowendmac.com to find out for sure, but I'm apparently a bit motivationally-deficient. (As evidenced by me posting this rather than futzing with SWITCH statements in Access queries like a good employee would be.)
Some older info on Open Firmware is also available at bananajr6000.apple.com which I'm posting mainly because I love that domain name.
But has anybody managed to get Linux running on it?
*ducks*
Who says MS doesn't release patches faster than Linux?
g /p ub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/0.7/MozillaFirebi rd-0.7-win32.zip
www.microsoft.com/ie/download%01@ftp.mozilla.or
mac.com?
*ducks*
No.
Hmm, so you believe this hasn't happened yet?
Post corrected, that'll be $3.50 please.
Here in North Carolina we still use a Number 2 Pencil on a fill-in-the-bubble card that's run through an optical scanner. So it's not the entire U.S. using touch-screen machines. At least not yet.
You're generally right about recycling paper being a costly process, but that specific example is wrong. The spent caustics used to pulp paper are removed from the pulp and sent to a *drum roll please* recovery boiler, where so much energy is burned out of it that it powers the rest of the mill, and with the readdition of a small (but costly) portion of it, is transformed back into white liquor and sent back to the beginning of the cycle.
Wrong.