There's nothing wrong with 2CO. Infact, 2CO won't begin processing payments for the orders until 2CO itself receives the laptop's they've ordered from Medison (14 of them, I hear). And even then, when you order it, your Medison doesn't receive the funds until you have verified with 2CO that you have received what you ordered.
I've been using the VMWare Fusion beta's for a while now. I love it. I used it to make VMWare IM's of Fedora and CentOS for our software development. We even went so far as to take a CentOS VM that I created on my MacBook Pro, scp it over to the VMWare Server (the free version, running on a CentOS 5 host OS) that we are running and mount it and run it.
You can also go the opposite direction.
It's quite handy. If I were you I'd not hesitate to go w/ an OSX machine and run everything you need under VMWare Fusion.
Now, if only my boss would order the release of Fusion for me...
second, why is the imac so underpowered in the RAM department, I mean the specs in one of the pictures showed the iMacs, all the way up to the biggest $1800 version only has 1gig- with all the RAM you get in normal PCs now days (4gigabytes not unusual) is this not a little strange? Because _most_ people only need the minimum. They just don't do enough on their machines to push it to need much more then that. And, realistically, 1GB for an Intel OSX machine is just that. Apple seems to configure everything for the "most people" segment, not the geek segment that wants to put 3-4gigabytes into the likes of a Mac Mini. Oh wait, you can't:(
If all the movies Apple has available where the full 1080p wouldn't that eat up a lot of bandwidth to xfer each one? If you have a 2 hour 1080p movie, what's the smallest you can compress that to that it won't look like shit?
If I'm not mistaken, most "HD" broadcasts by television stations in the US are mostly 720p.
Show me where you can get all the syncing of all the app's data from one or more machines, and all the application's data integration, for free. I'm sure many people would drop.mac very quickly once you point where that's available.
Until then, I find the convenience of.mac worthy of it's cost to me. And if you search around you can find.Mac packages for-sale on amazon, ebay, etc, for cheaper then what it'll cost you directly from Apple. But like everything else, your time is money. Some people just don't bother trying to save the $10 to $20 on it and set it to auto-renew, figuring that the time you spend deal-searching is more well-spent doing something else. YMMV.
With the _was_current_yesterday version of iWeb, when you added graphics to a webpage, it copied the original file in entirety to the webpage. When someone viewed it, it's resized. So all those photos you took in raw that were 6-12MB were going up there fairly large.
I hope they've changed this with the new version of the suite.
The best option that I found was to export the images you want from iPhoto/Aperture, to a directory, re-sized (and renamed if that's what you want) then drag and drop them into iWeb. But that's a pita.
Have you been living under a rock? It's been on all over the news, the papers. In-fact, it's almost as if it was the only story reported for quite some time.
Actually about a year or two ago they announced they would be "scaling back those efforts". And to me, it seems they have. I don't see anywhere near as many Ohio State Troopers out on the roads staked out at speed traps, like you used to 5 years ago. You can pass most of them @75 and not be stopped. Go over that and you will.
If they'd only up the trucker's speed limit to 65, and make everyone's minimum speed 55, I think we'd all be that much safer.
What you're asking for has been a feature-request many times for eons with Slashcode. What'd be nice is if you could select the color you want the new comments (or comment-bar of each new comment) coded with in your user prefs.
While I agree with you, the iPhone news (here and everywhere) is getting old, Slashdot survives on submissions... if you don't like the stories that are being posted, the least you could do is submit a better story.
Oh, I take that back. The least you, me, and most of the rest of us could do is nothing. Or post comments bitching about all the damned iPhone stories;)
So when people are plunking down the funds to buy them in droves at this coming xmas holiday season, they will still be the "gotta have it now" group? What about in the spring when they're still buying them?
Apple's methodology with regard to pricing isn't rocket science. They release a product then incrementally upgrade future versions of it. When the market's saturated, or they think it's about to be, they release another form of (sometimes lower, sometimes higher) to tempt those that didn't buy it because of price too high or feature-set-lacking.
But they rarely lower the price on an existing model. This helps resale stay fairly high for their users. Look at how quickly a Dell machine's price will plummet on eBay a year later. Then compare a similar mac machine's going price.
Yes, and let's add to this. It should be able to do true 1900x1200 on both screens, and it shouldn't slow down to a crawl when you have add'l displays plugged into it (my 1st-gen 15" MBP does this when the big dell lcd's plugged into it. It's a known thing discussed on Apple's support forums if you're really interested).
And don't limit the thing to 2-3GB of ram. I want minimum maximum of 4GB, damnit. Aperture's a hog!
If Apple does a "low-end" tower it will still likely be quite a bit more expensive than an iMac. Things like not needing a graphics cable save money on the whole device. [...] huh?!? Please explain this logic to me. You'd be removing the entire screen from the unit, and adding a few PCI slots. How does removing a 17, 20 or 24" screen *add* to the cost of screen-less tower unit?
Well, they have let it happen somewhat. Look at the US trade agreements with Mexico and Canada. We have lost a lot of manufacturing jobs to Mexico, especially in the auto industry.
But if this happens the US government will stop having the huge amount of money to spend
It's called jobloss. The jobs go away. US Gov't loses income tax dollars. And that's exactly what's happened with a lot manufacturing in the U.S over the past 10-15 years.
spend on military hardware
Well, the U.S.'s military spending is whole other issue, probably for a Slashdot article in and of itself. But I can't let your comment slip without throwing out my own $.02. While many (myself included) become very upset with the U.S.'s spending on military (Iraq, imho fits the bill here) there is a rather large part of the world that should also be thankful that the U.S. has had the economy it has, that it has spent so much on military. Because since WWII there's been a lot of countries that would have probably done stupid things if not for fear of the U.S.'s retaliation. Look at WWII. I'm not saying the U.S.'s military is 100% right all the time, but it's a helluva deterent for greedy people all around the globe.
National and ethnic pride is holding up globalisation and distorting the effects of globalised trade and capital markets.
Bah! No, I'd tend to say it's the cost-of-living-difference that's making people want to hold this up. When someone in {insert other country} can code the same code or create the same auto part that I can, and be paid $20k/yr (and live comfortably) when I need $70k/yr here in the US (2 kids, wife, house, aging parents, student loans, etc) how's the US company supposed to compete by hiring me?!?
The one thing I've heard from business folk time and time again is that IT professionals "Don't know the business". That is, we deep-dive so much [...] Yes, but the deep-diving, isn't that what they're paying us for?
google for smcfancontrol. this lil' freeware OSX app lets you control the fan speed (I have the 15" core duo 2 2GHz). So when you sit down on the couch, crank up the fans. You get a little more sound, but it's far cooler on your lap. When you've got the laptop docked, crank the fans down to normal speed.
Go edit your user prefs and put your AIM info in. Save it. Then click on the select box pulldowns on/my/messages for comment reply, journal entry by friend and Journal Reply. You should see an "IM" option on each pulldown.
Isn't this part of the reason for the tagging system? Tag the article "veryimportant" or "improbable".
I guess one could also use the firehose to vote something up/down. However, voting something up/down doesn't seem to _do_ anything from my viewpoint other then change the color on the header of the item within the firehose. Now, if things were deleted from the firehose once they were voted down too many times, that seems useful.
I asked this in IRC, but lately it doesn't seem anyone from the Slashdot SF.Inc's team is on there - if a user sets their msg prefs to IM, but they are not online at the time of the action, so the instant message cannot be sent at that time, what happens to it? Is it re-queued? For how long? Is there a fallback method such as email or web message if the IM can't be sent after X period of time? The last time I looked at the im_messages task code, I didn't see anything like that. But that was weeks ago, and I quickly skimmed it. So I might've missed quite a bit.
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There's nothing wrong with 2CO. Infact, 2CO won't begin processing payments for the orders until 2CO itself receives the laptop's they've ordered from Medison (14 of them, I hear). And even then, when you order it, your Medison doesn't receive the funds until you have verified with 2CO that you have received what you ordered.
I've been using the VMWare Fusion beta's for a while now. I love it. I used it to make VMWare IM's of Fedora and CentOS for our software development. We even went so far as to take a CentOS VM that I created on my MacBook Pro, scp it over to the VMWare Server (the free version, running on a CentOS 5 host OS) that we are running and mount it and run it.
You can also go the opposite direction.
It's quite handy. If I were you I'd not hesitate to go w/ an OSX machine and run everything you need under VMWare Fusion.
Now, if only my boss would order the release of Fusion for me...
Wow, how much bandwidth do you have?
If all the movies Apple has available where the full 1080p wouldn't that eat up a lot of bandwidth to xfer each one? If you have a 2 hour 1080p movie, what's the smallest you can compress that to that it won't look like shit?
If I'm not mistaken, most "HD" broadcasts by television stations in the US are mostly 720p.
Yes, f/w 800 and 802N would've been nice. Those changes, along with a bump in the video would've had me ordering one. Ah well, maybe next round.
Show me where you can get all the syncing of all the app's data from one or more machines, and all the application's data integration, for free. I'm sure many people would drop .mac very quickly once you point where that's available.
.mac worthy of it's cost to me. And if you search around you can find .Mac packages for-sale on amazon, ebay, etc, for cheaper then what it'll cost you directly from Apple. But like everything else, your time is money. Some people just don't bother trying to save the $10 to $20 on it and set it to auto-renew, figuring that the time you spend deal-searching is more well-spent doing something else. YMMV.
Until then, I find the convenience of
With the _was_current_yesterday version of iWeb, when you added graphics to a webpage, it copied the original file in entirety to the webpage. When someone viewed it, it's resized. So all those photos you took in raw that were 6-12MB were going up there fairly large.
I hope they've changed this with the new version of the suite.
The best option that I found was to export the images you want from iPhoto/Aperture, to a directory, re-sized (and renamed if that's what you want) then drag and drop them into iWeb. But that's a pita.
Have you been living under a rock? It's been on all over the news, the papers. In-fact, it's almost as if it was the only story reported for quite some time.
Actually about a year or two ago they announced they would be "scaling back those efforts". And to me, it seems they have. I don't see anywhere near as many Ohio State Troopers out on the roads staked out at speed traps, like you used to 5 years ago. You can pass most of them @75 and not be stopped. Go over that and you will.
If they'd only up the trucker's speed limit to 65, and make everyone's minimum speed 55, I think we'd all be that much safer.
and pages shouldn't "refresh on their own" either. That's annoying as all hell.
What you're asking for has been a feature-request many times for eons with Slashcode. What'd be nice is if you could select the color you want the new comments (or comment-bar of each new comment) coded with in your user prefs.
While I agree with you, the iPhone news (here and everywhere) is getting old, Slashdot survives on submissions... if you don't like the stories that are being posted, the least you could do is submit a better story.
;)
Oh, I take that back. The least you, me, and most of the rest of us could do is nothing. Or post comments bitching about all the damned iPhone stories
So when people are plunking down the funds to buy them in droves at this coming xmas holiday season, they will still be the "gotta have it now" group? What about in the spring when they're still buying them?
Apple's methodology with regard to pricing isn't rocket science. They release a product then incrementally upgrade future versions of it. When the market's saturated, or they think it's about to be, they release another form of (sometimes lower, sometimes higher) to tempt those that didn't buy it because of price too high or feature-set-lacking.
But they rarely lower the price on an existing model. This helps resale stay fairly high for their users. Look at how quickly a Dell machine's price will plummet on eBay a year later. Then compare a similar mac machine's going price.
I think it'd be cheaper to drive to the local Apple store and just buy an iPhone
Yes, and let's add to this. It should be able to do true 1900x1200 on both screens, and it shouldn't slow down to a crawl when you have add'l displays plugged into it (my 1st-gen 15" MBP does this when the big dell lcd's plugged into it. It's a known thing discussed on Apple's support forums if you're really interested).
And don't limit the thing to 2-3GB of ram. I want minimum maximum of 4GB, damnit. Aperture's a hog!
> I'm also not rich enough
If Apple does a "low-end" tower it will still likely be quite a bit more expensive than an iMac. Things like not needing a graphics cable save money on the whole device.
[...] huh?!? Please explain this logic to me. You'd be removing the entire screen from the unit, and adding a few PCI slots. How does removing a 17, 20 or 24" screen *add* to the cost of screen-less tower unit?
Well, they have let it happen somewhat. Look at the US trade agreements with Mexico and Canada. We have lost a lot of manufacturing jobs to Mexico, especially in the auto industry.
But if this happens the US government will stop having the huge amount of money to spend
It's called jobloss. The jobs go away. US Gov't loses income tax dollars. And that's exactly what's happened with a lot manufacturing in the U.S over the past 10-15 years.
spend on military hardware
Well, the U.S.'s military spending is whole other issue, probably for a Slashdot article in and of itself. But I can't let your comment slip without throwing out my own $.02. While many (myself included) become very upset with the U.S.'s spending on military (Iraq, imho fits the bill here) there is a rather large part of the world that should also be thankful that the U.S. has had the economy it has, that it has spent so much on military. Because since WWII there's been a lot of countries that would have probably done stupid things if not for fear of the U.S.'s retaliation. Look at WWII. I'm not saying the U.S.'s military is 100% right all the time, but it's a helluva deterent for greedy people all around the globe.
why don't you submit a feature-request.
National and ethnic pride is holding up globalisation and distorting the effects of globalised trade and capital markets.
Bah! No, I'd tend to say it's the cost-of-living-difference that's making people want to hold this up. When someone in {insert other country} can code the same code or create the same auto part that I can, and be paid $20k/yr (and live comfortably) when I need $70k/yr here in the US (2 kids, wife, house, aging parents, student loans, etc) how's the US company supposed to compete by hiring me?!?
google for smcfancontrol. this lil' freeware OSX app lets you control the fan speed (I have the 15" core duo 2 2GHz). So when you sit down on the couch, crank up the fans. You get a little more sound, but it's far cooler on your lap. When you've got the laptop docked, crank the fans down to normal speed.
Go edit your user prefs and put your AIM info in. Save it. Then click on the select box pulldowns on /my/messages for comment reply, journal entry by friend and Journal Reply. You should see an "IM" option on each pulldown.
Isn't this part of the reason for the tagging system? Tag the article "veryimportant" or "improbable".
I guess one could also use the firehose to vote something up/down. However, voting something up/down doesn't seem to _do_ anything from my viewpoint other then change the color on the header of the item within the firehose. Now, if things were deleted from the firehose once they were voted down too many times, that seems useful.
I asked this in IRC, but lately it doesn't seem anyone from the Slashdot SF.Inc's team is on there - if a user sets their msg prefs to IM, but they are not online at the time of the action, so the instant message cannot be sent at that time, what happens to it? Is it re-queued? For how long? Is there a fallback method such as email or web message if the IM can't be sent after X period of time? The last time I looked at the im_messages task code, I didn't see anything like that. But that was weeks ago, and I quickly skimmed it. So I might've missed quite a bit.