The article doesn't say what kind of OS these thin clients support.
Presumably it isn't Solaris, since they would have mentioned Sunray terminals otherwise. Poor Sun, they've been trying for years -- halfheartedly -- to push their sunray terminals without much success.
Personally, I'd be interested in Apple producing a thin client solution. But not just for the office. Consider how many of us have 3-4 computers at home these days for our families? I'd like to see a small home setup where a G5 tower (or smaller!) would support up to four thin terminals around the house. Much easier to administrate and backup.
What if the.NET place would let you negotiate a 4 day work week? By my calculations you'd still get 32% more cash than at your current job, AND is still more than the Perl job, AND you'd get an extra day off EVERY WEEK for pursuing hobbies or whatnot.
But that is just some fun outside-the-box thinking. In truth, I'd think hard about what I would enjoy about each place. How are the people? How is the work environment? Which one has a nicer office? More fresh air? More space? More Perks? Which one has the people you'll enjoy spending time with? Which has the work challenges that will make your days enjoyable?
They mention that stats might be skewed, by the sheer volume of photos uploaded by photo enthusiasts. The implication is that they're simply totalling up all the pictures.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to generate stats by user? (ie: x% of flickr users have camera Y)
This is what I do: - I have a linux box at home, on a DSL line. - I have a unix system at work. - I have exchanged the ssh keys to my user account between the two sytems. - the work box has a cron job that runs two rsync commands at 3am
1- rsync my work home directory to my home box
2- rsync the home box home directory to my work box
More and more people have two systems at home, so you could set this up at home also. But this has the advantage of giving me an off-site backup.
If your work situation doesn't allow this, then perhaps you have a close friend with whom you could arrange something similar.
But yes, this is only good for, oh I guess a few GB. after that you are going to run into bandwidth issues. But leave out your audio and video data and I would wager that this would work for many people.
I looked at the article, and saw the photo's, but it hardly looks comfortable. Seems to me that you'd get in trouble every time you let your wrists down.
Seriously... how many of us have good piano skills and always keep our wrists up? Not me, thats what wrist rests are for...
Everything else aside... if you are a 'vi' user, then this keyboard will likely drive you mad. Why? Because you use the "hjkl" keys in edit mode as arrow keys.
On the qwerty kbd, they are the home row, and they are used constantly for moving your cursor around. The mouse takes your hand too far from the keyboard. Even the dedicated arrow keys take your hand away from the keyboard. I use the hjkl keys constantly when editing.
(to be fair, ANY non-qwerty keyboard will be horrible for a dedicated vi user, for the same reason.)
I'm going to buy it for some perfectly ordinary reasons: 1) it's a Mac 2) it is small and QUIET 3) it is cheaper than an emac or imac by a long shot.
People keep comparing it to cheap PC's. First, I don't want a cheap PC. I'm tired of windows (spam, viruses, spyware). and I'm tired of the noise that my linux box makes (3 fans in an AMD system)
But really, compare it to "cheap" PC's. If you buy a cheap PC you get pretty much the same keyboard, same case, same mouse, same monitor as in an expensive system. But on the inside you get cheap/noisy fans, and low cost LOW QUALITY motherboards and other internal components. On the mac mini, we're getting pretty much the SAME internal components as I already have in my Powerbook G4 (at work).
Is it FOR movies, or FOR media centers, or FOR ipod lovers? Dunno, I just think it is for regular folks.
Every 8-12yr old should have a *GOOD* yo-yo. Builds hand-eye coordination. No batteries. Get some books from the library and learn some easy tricks. Fits in your pocket, carry it anywhere and play when you get a few moments.
They don't fit the original posters definition of "classic", as they haven't been around for decades. However, I think they are just as good at Lego in termns of stimulating creativity, and offering a huge variety of options.
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The article doesn't say what kind of OS these thin clients support.
Presumably it isn't Solaris, since they would have mentioned Sunray terminals otherwise. Poor Sun, they've been trying for years -- halfheartedly -- to push their sunray terminals without much success.
Personally, I'd be interested in Apple producing a thin client solution. But not just for the office. Consider how many of us have 3-4 computers at home these days for our families? I'd like to see a small home setup where a G5 tower (or smaller!) would support up to four thin terminals around the house. Much easier to administrate and backup.
Just thinking...
.NET place would let you negotiate a 4 day work week? By my calculations you'd still get 32% more cash than at your current job, AND is still more than the Perl job, AND you'd get an extra day off EVERY WEEK for pursuing hobbies or whatnot.
What if the
But that is just some fun outside-the-box thinking. In truth, I'd think hard about what I would enjoy about each place. How are the people? How is the work environment? Which one has a nicer office? More fresh air? More space? More Perks? Which one has the people you'll enjoy spending time with? Which has the work challenges that will make your days enjoyable?
Couldn't get into GnuCash.
Didn't like Quicken.
I looked at moneydance 2-3 years ago, and it also was lacking.
None of these support the "envelope" method of budgeting, which IMHO, is the best way to manage your home finances.
Fortunately I found "Budget" from http://www.snowmintcs.com/ which works great on MacOSX.
They mention that stats might be skewed, by the sheer volume of photos uploaded by photo enthusiasts. The implication is that they're simply totalling up all the pictures.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to generate stats by user? (ie: x% of flickr users have camera Y)
This is what I do:
- I have a linux box at home, on a DSL line.
- I have a unix system at work.
- I have exchanged the ssh keys to my user account between the two sytems.
- the work box has a cron job that runs two rsync commands at 3am
1- rsync my work home directory to my home box
2- rsync the home box home directory to my work box
More and more people have two systems at home, so you could set this up at home also. But this has the advantage of giving me an off-site backup.
If your work situation doesn't allow this, then perhaps you have a close friend with whom you could arrange something similar.
But yes, this is only good for, oh I guess a few GB. after that you are going to run into bandwidth issues. But leave out your audio and video data and I would wager that this would work for many people.
I looked at the article, and saw the photo's, but it hardly looks comfortable. Seems to me that you'd get in trouble every time you let your wrists down.
Seriously... how many of us have good piano skills and always keep our wrists up? Not me, thats what wrist rests are for...
Everything else aside... if you are a 'vi' user, then this keyboard will likely drive you mad. Why? Because you use the "hjkl" keys in edit mode as arrow keys.
On the qwerty kbd, they are the home row, and they are used constantly for moving your cursor around. The mouse takes your hand too far from the keyboard. Even the dedicated arrow keys take your hand away from the keyboard. I use the hjkl keys constantly when editing.
(to be fair, ANY non-qwerty keyboard will be horrible for a dedicated vi user, for the same reason.)
Why does it need a 'special reason' to exist?
I'm going to buy it for some perfectly ordinary reasons: 1) it's a Mac 2) it is small and QUIET 3) it is cheaper than an emac or imac by a long shot.
People keep comparing it to cheap PC's. First, I don't want a cheap PC. I'm tired of windows (spam, viruses, spyware). and I'm tired of the noise that my linux box makes (3 fans in an AMD system)
But really, compare it to "cheap" PC's. If you buy a cheap PC you get pretty much the same keyboard, same case, same mouse, same monitor as in an expensive system. But on the inside you get cheap/noisy fans, and low cost LOW QUALITY motherboards and other internal components. On the mac mini, we're getting pretty much the SAME internal components as I already have in my Powerbook G4 (at work).
Is it FOR movies, or FOR media centers, or FOR ipod lovers? Dunno, I just think it is for regular folks.
subject says it all.
Every 8-12yr old should have a *GOOD* yo-yo. Builds hand-eye coordination. No batteries. Get some books from the library and learn some easy tricks. Fits in your pocket, carry it anywhere and play when you get a few moments.
Make sure you also provide extra strings!
Agreed.
They don't fit the original posters definition of "classic", as they haven't been around for decades. However, I think they are just as good at Lego in termns of stimulating creativity, and offering a huge variety of options.