those crazy technology-folk with their letter-number swapping! I know its cool and "edgy" because my 12 year old cousin does it. He says its cool to me an "3733t 40L H4X0R! LOLOL ROTFLMAO OMG!!!!" -Whatever that means.
An Apple monopoly depends on what level you look at the situation. What is Apple's market? Macintoshes (specific) or Personal Computers (general). I tend to view this in the general form, because I know damn well that it wouldn't be too dificult at all for me to switch to a Dell tomorrow if I were so inspired.
All they need to do is to build PPC-Linux boxes, without Apple hardware. MOL (mac-on-linux) can then run OSX without the Apple hardware. It might not be the prettiest solution, but if you want a "homebrew" or "clone" mac, thats probably as close as you are going to get.
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Apple needs to sell their hardware. They have competition from PCs. Macs are like the Rolex of computers (bear with me here), and these 2khappyware.com knockoffs are like the "Rolecks" watches that they sell on the street corners in NY.
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I conceed the point. I still love my TI-83 though. Shame i won't be using it too much anymore. I am an english major and I just finished Calc 2 last semester, so I am done with math classes for a while.
good point. Who only uses their watch for 30 minutes per day? Hell I only look at my watch every 30 minutes or so. The idea of combining two products (watch & PDA/Phone & PDA, etc) ceases to be a good one when the addition of the second product to the first causes the first to become largely unusable.
Its a cool idea, but I need a watc I can wear all day. Well, actually I don't wear a watch at all, I just look at the clock in my cell phone, which keeps its charge for days at a time! ha!
An article like this has a better chance here than on, for example, Fark.com, where the vast majority of replies would consist of "fap fap fap", "this is hard to fap to", and "i'd hit it... twice"...
At least a solid 70% of Slashdot readers notice that this is a technology story and proceed to remenisce and/or discuss technical specs.
Damn thats smooth, man. My Palm Vx used to get me beat up pretty regularly. Well, not beat up, but teased unmercilessly. Thats probably more because I kept it in a belt-holster of sorts. Damn I was a dork.
Shut them all up when I showed them all the games, and porn that I had on it...
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I have no problem with caluculators per se, but they shouldn't be used when teaching fundamental mathematics. Learn it the hard way first, so you actually understand what's going on, then use a calculator for actual applied work.
So you are saying that you can't understand math if you use a calculator? I would say that it would be easier to learn, or at least grade math when calculators are used. Think about it; if what you are really after is getting your students to understand the concepts, then why dissallow calculators that prevent them from getting incorrect answers from arithmatic errors ('oops, forgot to carry the 2' or some shit).
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I LOVED my casio calc. watch, damned if that wasn't the best damn thing I ever strapped to my wrist.
IAANAL (I Am Also Not A Lawer), but I pretty much would have guessed that to be the case. IBM has been known to make strange licensing deals in the past, like when they let Microsoft sell DOS to other hardware manufacturers, which was very unusual at the time.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. Companies and their lawyers aren't so dumb as to try something they have no chance at. SCO's lawyers must have seen some clause in the documents that supports their ability to do this, otherwise they wouldn't waste their time.
This is certainly an interesting move. Their lawsuit either wins, and they make money from IBM, or they fail, but instead sell Unix licenses to all of IBM's AIX customers, who surely won't want to start from scratch.
I had an IT professor at Babson College who insisted that an employee that was only going to use a word processor and email REQUIRED a Pentium 4 with an 80 gig hard drive, etc.
I argued with him over that. His argument was that the more expensive computer would "last longer" because it would take longer before it became "obsolete."
I told him that if "it ain't broke, don't fix it. " Or, in other words, it would make just as much sense to buy the cheaper computer and simply not upgrade to the latest versions of Windows and Office whenever they come out. If the employee only does "basic" tasks, as described, any old software will do, and the hardware itself doesn't get slower over time.
Anyway, he still insists he was right. He also doesn't know the difference between a Pentium and a Celeron processor. I transferred - best thing I ever did.
Its not just my friends logging them, I log them too. Besides, I know who I can trust. I wouldn't say anything confidential to someone who i didn't trust, in other words, why should I care? Its not like an anonymous 3rd party is recording the conversation.
My 600 megahertz iMac loads contect menus instantaneously in the Finder. The GUI is extremely responsive, IMHO
The only thing that pisses me off about my Macs is the damned one button mouse. On my iMac its not a problem, I just plug in a new one and move along, but on my 12" Powerbook, its a pain.
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those crazy technology-folk with their letter-number swapping! I know its cool and "edgy" because my 12 year old cousin does it. He says its cool to me an "3733t 40L H4X0R! LOLOL ROTFLMAO OMG!!!!" -Whatever that means.
at risk of being awfully off-topic...
you sir are incorrect. Strongbad is hilarious.
An Apple monopoly depends on what level you look at the situation. What is Apple's market? Macintoshes (specific) or Personal Computers (general). I tend to view this in the general form, because I know damn well that it wouldn't be too dificult at all for me to switch to a Dell tomorrow if I were so inspired.
All they need to do is to build PPC-Linux boxes, without Apple hardware. MOL (mac-on-linux) can then run OSX without the Apple hardware. It might not be the prettiest solution, but if you want a "homebrew" or "clone" mac, thats probably as close as you are going to get.
Apple needs to sell their hardware. They have competition from PCs. Macs are like the Rolex of computers (bear with me here), and these 2khappyware.com knockoffs are like the "Rolecks" watches that they sell on the street corners in NY.
Yeah, but Microsoft is going to have l33t 3v4n3l15t5 haX0rZ!!!!!
So you would have to use Internet Explorer to watch Strongbad Email?
That would never do.
that obviously came to mind, but its kind of hard to justify whipping out a calculator in the middle of a lecture on Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Now, if it were a lecture on Lord Byron, perhaps I could justify it as a homage to his daughter, Ada. Even that would be a stretch though.
Get over it. I said I was an English major, not a spelling major. I don't proofread my slashdot posts.
OS X? I think that comes with Photoshop...
I conceed the point. I still love my TI-83 though. Shame i won't be using it too much anymore. I am an english major and I just finished Calc 2 last semester, so I am done with math classes for a while.
good point. Who only uses their watch for 30 minutes per day? Hell I only look at my watch every 30 minutes or so. The idea of combining two products (watch & PDA/Phone & PDA, etc) ceases to be a good one when the addition of the second product to the first causes the first to become largely unusable.
Its a cool idea, but I need a watc I can wear all day. Well, actually I don't wear a watch at all, I just look at the clock in my cell phone, which keeps its charge for days at a time! ha!
An article like this has a better chance here than on, for example, Fark.com, where the vast majority of replies would consist of "fap fap fap", "this is hard to fap to", and "i'd hit it... twice"...
At least a solid 70% of Slashdot readers notice that this is a technology story and proceed to remenisce and/or discuss technical specs.
Damn thats smooth, man. My Palm Vx used to get me beat up pretty regularly. Well, not beat up, but teased unmercilessly. Thats probably more because I kept it in a belt-holster of sorts. Damn I was a dork.
Shut them all up when I showed them all the games, and porn that I had on it...
I have no problem with caluculators per se, but they shouldn't be used when teaching fundamental mathematics. Learn it the hard way first, so you actually understand what's going on, then use a calculator for actual applied work.
So you are saying that you can't understand math if you use a calculator? I would say that it would be easier to learn, or at least grade math when calculators are used. Think about it; if what you are really after is getting your students to understand the concepts, then why dissallow calculators that prevent them from getting incorrect answers from arithmatic errors ('oops, forgot to carry the 2' or some shit).
I LOVED my casio calc. watch, damned if that wasn't the best damn thing I ever strapped to my wrist.
I also love my TI-83plus.
IAANAL (I Am Also Not A Lawer), but I pretty much would have guessed that to be the case. IBM has been known to make strange licensing deals in the past, like when they let Microsoft sell DOS to other hardware manufacturers, which was very unusual at the time.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. Companies and their lawyers aren't so dumb as to try something they have no chance at. SCO's lawyers must have seen some clause in the documents that supports their ability to do this, otherwise they wouldn't waste their time.
This is certainly an interesting move. Their lawsuit either wins, and they make money from IBM, or they fail, but instead sell Unix licenses to all of IBM's AIX customers, who surely won't want to start from scratch.
I had an IT professor at Babson College who insisted that an employee that was only going to use a word processor and email REQUIRED a Pentium 4 with an 80 gig hard drive, etc.
I argued with him over that. His argument was that the more expensive computer would "last longer" because it would take longer before it became "obsolete."
I told him that if "it ain't broke, don't fix it. " Or, in other words, it would make just as much sense to buy the cheaper computer and simply not upgrade to the latest versions of Windows and Office whenever they come out. If the employee only does "basic" tasks, as described, any old software will do, and the hardware itself doesn't get slower over time.
Anyway, he still insists he was right. He also doesn't know the difference between a Pentium and a Celeron processor. I transferred - best thing I ever did.
Everybody knows that the answer is 42...
volts...
Considering that I was in kindergarten at the time, I think I can honestly say "me".
It was still a great movie. I didn't see it in the theatre, but I remember seeing it. Possibly on TV. Maybe HBO.
Its not just my friends logging them, I log them too. Besides, I know who I can trust. I wouldn't say anything confidential to someone who i didn't trust, in other words, why should I care? Its not like an anonymous 3rd party is recording the conversation.
maybe a google search for "Motel 6"... ...but you won't get to that point if you mention google...
I go to the bar to try to get laid.
The Internet doesn't belong in a bar. It doesn't impress drunk chicks.
I think you have just caught Microsoft red-handed.
My 600 megahertz iMac loads contect menus instantaneously in the Finder. The GUI is extremely responsive, IMHO
The only thing that pisses me off about my Macs is the damned one button mouse. On my iMac its not a problem, I just plug in a new one and move along, but on my 12" Powerbook, its a pain.