you cannot beat the reliability of a magneto-optical drive (essentially what a minidisc format functions as). i don't trust an unprotected cdrom disc with my data for more than a few minutes, and a protected one will degrade over a few years. some of my early mp3 backup discs have already "faded" with time, despite being kept in their oldschool caddy trays.
referencing the above "for less than xxx bucks you can get yourself a xxxgb USB hard drive/enclosure"...
you still A) need a computer B) power supply (for most of them, a hassle anyways) C) driver issues
my mom actually bought a meatloaf minidisc from the store to listen to. she's a COBOL hacker for a university, like some of you. when she's home, the last thing i'd ever see is her using a computer.
if you don't want to deal with a computer, you use a minidisc. it's for normal people. sony is losing their market of people who are afraid to ask their techno-savvy friends for help.
remember when one amongst you had the fast bb connection and burned you collections of mp3 files because the lot of y'all had dialup, or worse, AOL (back when it was known as America OnHold... busy signals, automated tech support). the thing is that technology is being accepted by the people who don't care to know how it works or what it does as long as their tunes are available and under control.
I always thought of MiniDisc medium as the potential to replace the floppydisk. Sort of a wet dream for MO medium in common use. Lack of a drive to read/write to MiniDiscs as computer storage, high prices, and availability of writable CD's killed this one, but i wouldn't be suprised if sony is able to jump on it with a 1gb format.
i never saw this show but a buddy of mine (DanK of Leviathan Enterprises) raves on about how we should turn his EV1 robotics kit into a full fledged k-9 robot dog. the theme song rocks my socks, though.
my contribution was that it should probably dock up to some sort of "water dish" which would recharge its batteries.
Oh come now, amazon was losing money for years and years, and still goes on to be a sucessful business. I wouldn't put it past the big bill to allow a *BSD based product for sale in the server market.
and gee, i can't think of ANY other company that put a *BSD product in the server market, lately, can you?
while they're at it, embrace 'n extend rendezvous and call it "A+" grabbing on to the widespread branding of A+ certification, while confusing everyone (as usual).
the last decent OS that the big bill released was Wfw 3.11 and it wasn't even an OS. zing.
googled up and found this (supposedly recent) interview with a former employee: http://www.firingsquad.com/print_article.asp?curre nt_section=Hardware&fs_article_id=1128
From the article: "Most of the PCs used dual, RAID-striped hard drives; the Apple systems did not."
And Microsoft Word? I wouldn't count on that to be optimized for OS X.
I've also heard that ATI drivers are not optimized for platforms other than wintel, it's like, a known thing. The upcoming XF86 4.3.x drivers (not the current ones, the drivers planned for xmas time) are going to be optimized. No word on OS X/64bit though.
Try this test using Intel chips for x86 comparisons... It will be closer I would bet. AMD 64-bit stuff is optimized heavily to increase execution of 32-bit apps.
i think you need a spanking for linking to the word "this"
a large, wet, spanking and yes with the towel of blinking justice.
anywho, charter sucks, it's been going on for years. the difference i see is that charter is being run like a business (protecting clients), though other cable providers are dividing up the customer info. why divy up the info? because the other company cable service providers are run like a short-term high priority scam. get us our money, bring in 800 new subscribers a week, cash in your bonus. man the support lines. the cash cow there is working, but at a competitive rate that will rake in the money. 2mbit connections for regular price? hello charter! protecting your clients? hooray.
charter still sucks.
as linux sucks.
i would say that it just sucks less than alternatives, to those of you who suddenly burn a candle at night around the newly-constructed anti-RIAA/MPAA altar of charter worship.
blow out your candles, and please, please refrain from the click-here syndrome i'd hoped a legitimate poster would find the self-control enough to avoid.
so, if i punch you in the face and then give you a cookie, i will be making your day better, no ?
verisign did something nasty, and now it sounds like they are heros for going along with all these silly internet users who didn't want site finder. give us our bread and toilets, we don't need sleep.
"Apple has made setting up Bluetooth devices as simple as turning them on and clicking through an intuitive setup assistant. The mouse and keyboard are no exception: The new combined Keyboard and Mouse system preference panel includes a Bluetooth tab that lets you set up your new wireless mouse and keyboard in a snap."
does this not bring into mind the classic x86 BIOS message "Error 5: keyboard not FOUND. [press F1 to continue]"
seriously though, wireless USB protocol keyboards frighten me due to your keystrokes being transmitted in "plain sight." how is bluetooth and the 128-bit encryption any different? are there plans to allow a single bluetooth keyboard to work with many different computers (i.e. for administration just hit a switch on the device and you can flip to a different channel or something).
sure, use this wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, but to get either working initially we're gonna have to require that you use mental psychokinetic rays for dialog navigation. i'm sure somebody has the real scoop on this
10k USD is loose change in the states, though i've the understanding it's valued quite a bit more in the hands of a Germand operation. Additionally, this sets the tone for another official confrontation (well you lost to SCO Germany, so it looks like all that publicity really *sarcasm* validates your claims, hosers. pay up).
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another product to infringe on multiple GPL'ed projects.
this is a troll
you cannot beat the reliability of a magneto-optical drive (essentially what a minidisc format functions as). i don't trust an unprotected cdrom disc with my data for more than a few minutes, and a protected one will degrade over a few years. some of my early mp3 backup discs have already "faded" with time, despite being kept in their oldschool caddy trays.
referencing the above "for less than xxx bucks you can get yourself a xxxgb USB hard drive/enclosure"...
you still
A) need a computer
B) power supply (for most of them, a hassle anyways)
C) driver issues
my mom actually bought a meatloaf minidisc from the store to listen to. she's a COBOL hacker for a university, like some of you. when she's home, the last thing i'd ever see is her using a computer.
if you don't want to deal with a computer, you use a minidisc. it's for normal people. sony is losing their market of people who are afraid to ask their techno-savvy friends for help.
remember when one amongst you had the fast bb connection and burned you collections of mp3 files because the lot of y'all had dialup, or worse, AOL (back when it was known as America OnHold... busy signals, automated tech support). the thing is that technology is being accepted by the people who don't care to know how it works or what it does as long as their tunes are available and under control.
I always thought of MiniDisc medium as the potential to replace the floppydisk. Sort of a wet dream for MO medium in common use. Lack of a drive to read/write to MiniDiscs as computer storage, high prices, and availability of writable CD's killed this one, but i wouldn't be suprised if sony is able to jump on it with a 1gb format.
i never saw this show but a buddy of mine (DanK of Leviathan Enterprises) raves on about how we should turn his EV1 robotics kit into a full fledged k-9 robot dog. the theme song rocks my socks, though.
my contribution was that it should probably dock up to some sort of "water dish" which would recharge its batteries.
...did Mick Jagger get on there?
Oh come now, amazon was losing money for years and years, and still goes on to be a sucessful business. I wouldn't put it past the big bill to allow a *BSD based product for sale in the server market.
and gee, i can't think of ANY other company that put a *BSD product in the server market, lately, can you?
while they're at it, embrace 'n extend rendezvous and call it "A+" grabbing on to the widespread branding of A+ certification, while confusing everyone (as usual).
the last decent OS that the big bill released was Wfw 3.11 and it wasn't even an OS. zing.
-shadow
googled up and found this (supposedly recent) interview with a former employee: http://www.firingsquad.com/print_article.asp?curre nt_section=Hardware&fs_article_id=1128
"how could anyone design hardware that bad? "
have you SEEN the international space station?
oi.
somehow this dell not suprise me at all.
"Only $100,000 to advertise to 900,000 students? What a deal!"
;o]
that's like, 90 cents? how much are Apple iTunes downloads?
oh yeah. and they thought it couldn't work. RIAA with a funny marketing procedure, and a business plan that advocates losing money eh.
you *know* it's working; one of your friends has raised hell concern because you share music.
"no, it's okay to download music, just make sure you don't share anything with anyone"
zuh zuh. just don't sue me, i guess.
...hot grits!
fine, mod this down. i, for one welcome...
From the article:
"Most of the PCs used dual, RAID-striped hard drives; the Apple systems did not."
And Microsoft Word? I wouldn't count on that to be optimized for OS X.
I've also heard that ATI drivers are not optimized for platforms other than wintel, it's like, a known thing. The upcoming XF86 4.3.x drivers (not the current ones, the drivers planned for xmas time) are going to be optimized. No word on OS X/64bit though.
Try this test using Intel chips for x86 comparisons... It will be closer I would bet. AMD 64-bit stuff is optimized heavily to increase execution of 32-bit apps.
or so i think.
...where what you were typing actually showed up on the other person's screen? That sounds like notification to me.
+40 roll of "duh"
So, begs the question...
Are you running for office in california?
*karma ducks*
i think you need a spanking for linking to the word "this"
a large, wet, spanking and yes with the towel of blinking justice.
anywho, charter sucks, it's been going on for years. the difference i see is that charter is being run like a business (protecting clients), though other cable providers are dividing up the customer info. why divy up the info? because the other company cable service providers are run like a short-term high priority scam. get us our money, bring in 800 new subscribers a week, cash in your bonus. man the support lines. the cash cow there is working, but at a competitive rate that will rake in the money. 2mbit connections for regular price? hello charter! protecting your clients? hooray.
charter still sucks.
as linux sucks.
i would say that it just sucks less than alternatives, to those of you who suddenly burn a candle at night around the newly-constructed anti-RIAA/MPAA altar of charter worship.
blow out your candles, and please, please refrain from the click-here syndrome i'd hoped a legitimate poster would find the self-control enough to avoid.
what's the opposite of fnord anyways?
so, if i punch you in the face and then give you a cookie, i will be making your day better, no ?
verisign did something nasty, and now it sounds like they are heros for going along with all these silly internet users who didn't want site finder. give us our bread and toilets, we don't need sleep.
Is 12 volts really 'nough to create a spark on an automotive plug? Aren't we missing, say, 19988 volts from the ignition coil?
*sigh*
...1 to beam up!
ha! italy, shaped like boot!
... bang?
ha!
so i guess hurricane fran went out with a
...dell has had this on their technical support system since '96 i believe. :)
"Apple has made setting up Bluetooth devices as simple as turning them on and clicking through an intuitive setup assistant. The mouse and keyboard are no exception: The new combined Keyboard and Mouse system preference panel includes a Bluetooth tab that lets you set up your new wireless mouse and keyboard in a snap."
does this not bring into mind the classic x86 BIOS message "Error 5: keyboard not FOUND. [press F1 to continue]"
seriously though, wireless USB protocol keyboards frighten me due to your keystrokes being transmitted in "plain sight." how is bluetooth and the 128-bit encryption any different? are there plans to allow a single bluetooth keyboard to work with many different computers (i.e. for administration just hit a switch on the device and you can flip to a different channel or something).
sure, use this wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, but to get either working initially we're gonna have to require that you use mental psychokinetic rays for dialog navigation. i'm sure somebody has the real scoop on this
so what it is?
you know, natalie portman was 12 years old once... ...hot grits!.....naked and petrified..... ::runs::
Wowww..... great point. COPA is for 13 and under. mod up parent post
the above link hits a google search for "gay porn"
i thought the 12 year olds would become 13 year olds after a year, and then 14... 15...
guess timestop is allowed on this server *sigh*
10k USD is loose change in the states, though i've the understanding it's valued quite a bit more in the hands of a Germand operation. Additionally, this sets the tone for another official confrontation (well you lost to SCO Germany, so it looks like all that publicity really *sarcasm* validates your claims, hosers. pay up).
good news for me, "yay!"
=o]