You can use any TV with Mac mini as a display. Some newer HDTV models already sport a DVI connection, but you'll need the optional S-Video/ Composite Video adapter to use Mac mini with regular TVs.
Bottom of the right-hand column on http://www.apple.com/macmini/graphics.html
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I wish that were true. It'll only happen in very limited situations, however.
You won't be able to do "public" web apps because the still-dominant browser won't support XForms. Unless you want to code multiple versions.
If you're an IE shop, you won't be able to do Intranet apps because management won't buy into using a different browser just because the programmers want to use this "way cool new tech" if the old way will work just as well for their end users. And you won't be allowed to write multiple versions.
I actually experienced #2 about 18 months ago. Told my project manager "well, we can do this easily if we don't have to use IE for this app. It could easily cut 200 hours out of your project plan." She actually considered it for a day or two...but ultimately it was determined that since the company doesn't support anything but IE, we had to go with IE.
To give you an idea of how bad management is with stuff like this, we now have those same users running Win95 inside VirtualPC to use another app because it doesn't run on WinXP...and running VPC alongside my web app.
When business won't give IT the money needed to keep business's systems operational (be it for manpower, software upgrades, or electricity) and makes the final decision in purchases, something's going to have to give.
Business decides to buy a software package. After a while, upgrades come out, and the old version keeps getting pushed to the limits. IT adivses business of this, and says that an upgrade/replacement will resolve the problem, but business refuses to authorize said upgrade/replacement.
How do you propose IT "make it work" when their hands are tied? Even worse, IT will take the blame when it wasn't even their decision to make.
Not surprising? I've come to expect it. If a department isn't actively making money, they're considered an expense. Management is usually too shortsighted to notice that without IT, the rest of the departments can't make money (or can't make as much).
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I would rather pay tolls than taxes to support highway (interstate highways) building & maintenance. Pay for what you use. If you don't use it, it costs you nothing.
But then I've lived my whole life in NY, and the toll Thruway a way of life if you have to travel east/west north of the PA border, or north/south below Albany.
We're getting a 25% toll hike next year for vague reasons (in part because the tolls also fund the canal system, go figure), but those of us on E-Z Pass get a 10% break, and those of us on the commuter plan are already "locked in" at 2004's rates for the 2005 full-year pass.
I see you got a dell as well. Congradulations on buying the cheap side of motherboards.
Actually, it's a "beige box special" (well, silver) from a local shop. The first 2 boards he put in it had a transistor fry after a year or so each, then I replaced it with a different make/model board altogether, and that one similarly cooked. I got a used PSU (thinking my PSU was overvolting the motherboard) and board that met my specs from a friend and have been stable since.
As others have pointed out, MHz isn't the only factor in speed. I don't understand the obsession with speed in the first place - if the box works, use it. If it's too slow to do what you need, upgrade it.
I went from a 486-66 to a P133 to a P2-266 (doubling clock each time), then a 1.33GHz. I don't use any "rule" based on performance gain - I just upgrade when I have the money, and I have a need. That 1.33GHz is going on 4 years old and does everything I ask of it (thankfully I spec'd it out well enough that it's never run short on RAM), but it'd sure be nice to be able to play HL2 or Doom 3. I've put exactly $100 into it for upgrades - a second hard drive, because I needed space (the 3 failed motherboards are another story, however).
Shut up, quit complaining and get used to it. You're lucky to still have a job, with all the outsourcing we're doing lately. Your system is on the chopping block for H2 2005.
ctrl-L puts you in the address bar in all the Netscape/Mozilla browsers I've used.
Pages not rendering the same? Usually it's the original designer only checking in IE, which gets many things wrong, and saying "ok, that's what I want" - then a browser that does it right comes along and renders differently from what was intended.
Isn't it up to the parents to put pressure on the school system to make the education better? Remember who pays the taxes (at least for public schools) that keep those schools operating.
And in the end, didn't get the job. But here's what I learned (in the US, anyway):
Taxes can nail you hard. Figure on stashing 1/3 of whatever you get away for tax purposes. Pay estimated taxes quarterly
There are no paid holidays, paid vacations, paid sick days, etc. Plan accordingly.
Save for "downtime" (between jobs). Figure downtime into your rate when you consider your annual salary
Medical insurance costs a LOT of money. I budgeted $1000/month for myself and my wife. Overboard? Maybe. That's also tax-deductible
Don't just translate your current pay to an hourly rate (for reasons above)
Records, records, records. Keep careful records of everything. Theoretically, your commute becomes tax-deductible - save toll receipts, train ticket stubs, keep mileage records, whatever. For 2003, the IRS allotted 37.5 cents/mile as deductible. Every printer cartridge, 25% of your cellphone bill, lots of stuff could become a tax writeoff if you're careful.
One year at $50/hour and 2 weeks not working (holidays, vacation, sick time) is a gross of $100K. Minus $12K for medical insurance (using my above numbers). Minus 1/3 for taxes. Minus X for retirement (401(k) may be gone, but you can still kick into a Roth IRA, start your own investing, etc.). It all starts adding up. Save up for when they let you go with 5 minutes' notice (because they can, when you're an independent contractor) and you can't find work for 4 months.
I built a spreadsheet in Excel so I could look at the range of hourly rates I could (or couldn't) afford. Even at a very high confidence level about the number of weeks I'd work (IOW, assuming I work a full year there), I was shocked by the rate I came up with. I kept looking at it saying "there's no way I can be worth that much" but I also know what my current (full-time) employer figures for my hourly rate, and in reality, I was giving myself only a very slight raise - when you consider I said the rate was "negotiable" that raise disappears.
they said they didn't think that was necesary as I will be well compensated with a large bonus for time spent on call since it is hard to log how much actual work one does.
One thing I've learned the hard way: did you get that in writing?
I've been looking across upstate NY for a year and a half now. I've had less than a half-dozen promising interviews, had to turn down one job because the time demands were not good for me, and been strung along by a couple places for weeks or even months ("oh, we'll get back to you in 2 weeks." 2 weeks later: "2 more weeks").
Most jobs are either ridiculously underpaid, or have insanely high requirements.
I'm on the cusp of something now, but once again, I'm waiting for a response.
Was I the only one who thought Shark Tale sucked, by the way? What a cheap attempt at trying to steal some limelight from Finding Nemo
I didn't go crazy over Nemo myself (it was OK, but not as great as I'd hoped; maybe I need to see it again), but Shark Tale really sucked. Can't believe I paid $17.25 for it (2 tickets). Had I not gone w/ my wife, brother and sister, I'd have walked out.
USA Today is to NYT as People Magazine is to Time.
"Important" people read the NYT. Many of those people also read the WSJ. Their voice carries weight in their companies. If you can grab a CIO/CTO's attention and get him looking at deploying Firefox across his enterprise, it could mean a LOT of adoption across the board - people use at home what they use at work.
Perhaps you missed where I said "At least from my perspective as a user."
As a user, I'm at the mercy of the (in)competence of the Notes developers who put stuff onto my desk. When all you ever see is crappy applications/databases/forms, you start wondering if the tool can produce anything else. I'm sure the platform is at least decent - but I have yet to see any of that shine through in the implementations I have to live with daily.
Also, it continues to evolve - the next release, number 7, is in beta now
Hooray for another "evolution" of Notes. I've used 3 major releases (4.x, 5.x and 6.x) and each one has found new and more innovative ways to suck. It's gotten progressively slower with each release and the UI has yet to be significantly improved - and taken steps backwards in some areas. All that I can say positively is that I haven't gotten the red screen of death while using 6.x yet.
6 is so slow and clunky, that I've tried to abandon the desktop client in favor of the web version. Unfortunately, our setup is such that I can't use most of the community databases I need via the web, so I have to keep going back.
Many companies use Notes as "knowledge repositories" or similar. Trouble is, it's not a relational database (Lotus calls them "databases" but they're not, really), and any linking between content is purely manual - and very easy to break.
Replication of data and a lack of common sense almost seems to be encouraged by these Notes setups. At least from my perspective as a user. I just got through with an exercise w/ one Notes database. Every person associated with a system needed to be put on the form for the system, and then we had to enter their home, work and cell phone numbers. What if those people move? Now we have to go back and update all those documents. Why not just have a link back to their "person document" when I type FirstnameLastname so that only one item ever has to be updated? Why not have automatic links between systems ("system A depends on system B" creates a link to the other system)? For each server for a system, we had to list the software that needed to be on the box, including version & licensing information. Why not just link to a document about that software, with the licensing information there? I'm pretty sure we have the same OS license for all 150 Windows 2000 servers we have.
Anything that allows faster access to information, and automatically builds cross-references is a huge win.
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Bottom of the right-hand column on http://www.apple.com/macmini/graphics.html
And here's the adapter http://images.apple.com/macmini/images/indexdviad
Not even all thumbdrives. My Lexar Jumpdrive 2.0 Pro (USB2) doesn't work on the Mac keyboard I have here - it needs power.
They will if they're designed to do it.
I wish that were true. It'll only happen in very limited situations, however.
You won't be able to do "public" web apps because the still-dominant browser won't support XForms. Unless you want to code multiple versions.
If you're an IE shop, you won't be able to do Intranet apps because management won't buy into using a different browser just because the programmers want to use this "way cool new tech" if the old way will work just as well for their end users. And you won't be allowed to write multiple versions.
I actually experienced #2 about 18 months ago. Told my project manager "well, we can do this easily if we don't have to use IE for this app. It could easily cut 200 hours out of your project plan." She actually considered it for a day or two...but ultimately it was determined that since the company doesn't support anything but IE, we had to go with IE.
To give you an idea of how bad management is with stuff like this, we now have those same users running Win95 inside VirtualPC to use another app because it doesn't run on WinXP...and running VPC alongside my web app.
When business won't give IT the money needed to keep business's systems operational (be it for manpower, software upgrades, or electricity) and makes the final decision in purchases, something's going to have to give.
Business decides to buy a software package. After a while, upgrades come out, and the old version keeps getting pushed to the limits. IT adivses business of this, and says that an upgrade/replacement will resolve the problem, but business refuses to authorize said upgrade/replacement.
How do you propose IT "make it work" when their hands are tied? Even worse, IT will take the blame when it wasn't even their decision to make.
Not surprising? I've come to expect it. If a department isn't actively making money, they're considered an expense. Management is usually too shortsighted to notice that without IT, the rest of the departments can't make money (or can't make as much).
I would rather pay tolls than taxes to support highway (interstate highways) building & maintenance. Pay for what you use. If you don't use it, it costs you nothing.
But then I've lived my whole life in NY, and the toll Thruway a way of life if you have to travel east/west north of the PA border, or north/south below Albany.
We're getting a 25% toll hike next year for vague reasons (in part because the tolls also fund the canal system, go figure), but those of us on E-Z Pass get a 10% break, and those of us on the commuter plan are already "locked in" at 2004's rates for the 2005 full-year pass.
I'm pretty sure my GeForce2 MX can't pull it off.
I have downloaded the demo and intend to give it a shot though.
As others have pointed out, MHz isn't the only factor in speed. I don't understand the obsession with speed in the first place - if the box works, use it. If it's too slow to do what you need, upgrade it.
I went from a 486-66 to a P133 to a P2-266 (doubling clock each time), then a 1.33GHz. I don't use any "rule" based on performance gain - I just upgrade when I have the money, and I have a need. That 1.33GHz is going on 4 years old and does everything I ask of it (thankfully I spec'd it out well enough that it's never run short on RAM), but it'd sure be nice to be able to play HL2 or Doom 3. I've put exactly $100 into it for upgrades - a second hard drive, because I needed space (the 3 failed motherboards are another story, however).
Shut up, quit complaining and get used to it. You're lucky to still have a job, with all the outsourcing we're doing lately. Your system is on the chopping block for H2 2005.
Right, and he's probably putting videos on a website, thus he'd need QuickTime.
Why should I be forced to change my behavior as a non-cell-user because some jackass is using his?
How is saying that any better than the 1997-era "this site best viewed in X"?
ctrl-L puts you in the address bar in all the Netscape/Mozilla browsers I've used.
Pages not rendering the same? Usually it's the original designer only checking in IE, which gets many things wrong, and saying "ok, that's what I want" - then a browser that does it right comes along and renders differently from what was intended.
Isn't it up to the parents to put pressure on the school system to make the education better? Remember who pays the taxes (at least for public schools) that keep those schools operating.
- Taxes can nail you hard. Figure on stashing 1/3 of whatever you get away for tax purposes. Pay estimated taxes quarterly
- There are no paid holidays, paid vacations, paid sick days, etc. Plan accordingly.
- Save for "downtime" (between jobs). Figure downtime into your rate when you consider your annual salary
- Medical insurance costs a LOT of money. I budgeted $1000/month for myself and my wife. Overboard? Maybe. That's also tax-deductible
- Don't just translate your current pay to an hourly rate (for reasons above)
- Records, records, records. Keep careful records of everything. Theoretically, your commute becomes tax-deductible - save toll receipts, train ticket stubs, keep mileage records, whatever. For 2003, the IRS allotted 37.5 cents/mile as deductible. Every printer cartridge, 25% of your cellphone bill, lots of stuff could become a tax writeoff if you're careful.
One year at $50/hour and 2 weeks not working (holidays, vacation, sick time) is a gross of $100K. Minus $12K for medical insurance (using my above numbers). Minus 1/3 for taxes. Minus X for retirement (401(k) may be gone, but you can still kick into a Roth IRA, start your own investing, etc.). It all starts adding up. Save up for when they let you go with 5 minutes' notice (because they can, when you're an independent contractor) and you can't find work for 4 months.I built a spreadsheet in Excel so I could look at the range of hourly rates I could (or couldn't) afford. Even at a very high confidence level about the number of weeks I'd work (IOW, assuming I work a full year there), I was shocked by the rate I came up with. I kept looking at it saying "there's no way I can be worth that much" but I also know what my current (full-time) employer figures for my hourly rate, and in reality, I was giving myself only a very slight raise - when you consider I said the rate was "negotiable" that raise disappears.
I've been looking across upstate NY for a year and a half now. I've had less than a half-dozen promising interviews, had to turn down one job because the time demands were not good for me, and been strung along by a couple places for weeks or even months ("oh, we'll get back to you in 2 weeks." 2 weeks later: "2 more weeks").
Most jobs are either ridiculously underpaid, or have insanely high requirements.
I'm on the cusp of something now, but once again, I'm waiting for a response.
Screw "learning stuff" - what about getting drunk and getting laid?
USA Today is to NYT as People Magazine is to Time.
"Important" people read the NYT. Many of those people also read the WSJ. Their voice carries weight in their companies. If you can grab a CIO/CTO's attention and get him looking at deploying Firefox across his enterprise, it could mean a LOT of adoption across the board - people use at home what they use at work.
Perhaps you missed where I said "At least from my perspective as a user."
As a user, I'm at the mercy of the (in)competence of the Notes developers who put stuff onto my desk. When all you ever see is crappy applications/databases/forms, you start wondering if the tool can produce anything else. I'm sure the platform is at least decent - but I have yet to see any of that shine through in the implementations I have to live with daily.
6 is so slow and clunky, that I've tried to abandon the desktop client in favor of the web version. Unfortunately, our setup is such that I can't use most of the community databases I need via the web, so I have to keep going back.
Many companies use Notes as "knowledge repositories" or similar. Trouble is, it's not a relational database (Lotus calls them "databases" but they're not, really), and any linking between content is purely manual - and very easy to break.
Replication of data and a lack of common sense almost seems to be encouraged by these Notes setups. At least from my perspective as a user. I just got through with an exercise w/ one Notes database. Every person associated with a system needed to be put on the form for the system, and then we had to enter their home, work and cell phone numbers. What if those people move? Now we have to go back and update all those documents. Why not just have a link back to their "person document" when I type FirstnameLastname so that only one item ever has to be updated? Why not have automatic links between systems ("system A depends on system B" creates a link to the other system)? For each server for a system, we had to list the software that needed to be on the box, including version & licensing information. Why not just link to a document about that software, with the licensing information there? I'm pretty sure we have the same OS license for all 150 Windows 2000 servers we have.
Anything that allows faster access to information, and automatically builds cross-references is a huge win.