Isn't this "most powerfull" computer thing getting a bit out of hand? When we start questioning 1 billion FPUs vs. 4 trillion IPUs, where do we point at the leader?
As far as I know, Apple isn't going around fucking with anyone. They make their hardware, they make their software, and they throw out some marketing about thinking different, or whatever the current slogan is. Apple did sue a couple of companies that tried ripping off the Imac, but I can see why. Their legal department is a bit feisty when it comes to copyright stuff, but wouldn't you be to if you were fighting tooth and nail for 7% share or so? At least they're not out breaking laws and agreements, and planning on subscription licences and.APPLENET.
I would go with Bloom County, Dilbert, and Fox Trot, in that order.
Even though he says he cringes at his old strips, I tend to re-read all my Bloom County collections every other year, and they still make me laugh just as hard as the first time.
They tell you what is coming down the pipe, to a point. I have a good friend who let's me know about some key developments at Apple that will be showing up shortly; the other side is, they announce their stuff "just in time" (with some misses, of course). I've watched Dell, etc., promise 3GHz machines in just 2 months (yes, exaggerating.) But you get the point.
And no, no one ever buys a G3 500MHz the day before it is obsolete, Apple always puts price cuts, promotions, special deals, etc., into the works a month AT A MINIMUM, and usually 2 months, before that model is discontinued. This is why Apple's sales always fall off before every major event.
I agree with you on the warranty program.
To close, read Mac OS Rumors (mosr.com) and As The Apple Turns (appleturns.com), and you can get a 90% clue as to what is coming up in the next "big event". Over the past 2 years, they have had about a 90% success rate. This will give you a basic, if not official, idea of upcoming events for Apple.
Well, I'm glad you own a small business. Now how about me, who is just a consumer? What is the equivalent price? And no, I'm not going to go check myself because you just priced 2 different computers through 2 different schemes, and I don't know how you priced your small business computer. Come back with a consumer price please.
I got an original Mac from work, it was buried way back in the corner of a closet. Only problem is that the CRT is burnt out. I wonder if this could be worth any money in the future?
I'm guessing that my 286 clone won't be getting any money any time soon, though. Bummer.
"This just in: Microsoft drops support for all security products in a move to solidfy support for its own firewall. However, Microsoft's firewall has a mere 61,000 bugs, but only 20,000 are considered to be serious. Bill Gates says, 'Screw you Steve Jobs, we got the money, baby!'"
And everyone thought that Apple's "Big Brother" ad was so off the wall...
Wow, Intel really loves the MHz wars. Pumping out MHz when only 90% of the brancing is correct. Most of you probably think 90% is good, but think of it this way: 1 out of every 10 times you try and click on something, or double click something, or open a file, whatever, it fails. Every 10th Word file fails. This is good? Industry servers are designed for 5 9s (99.999% uptime), yet we can accept a 10% fail rate for our processors?
Also, the P4 needs a temperature shutdown?!?!?! Makes one think that even if Motoralla's Apple chips are lagging in MHz, at least they won't burn down your house!
The reason I think that this needs to be legislated is that in the rest of the world, you do this, you are fried. (In the commercial world, you sleep with your assistant, you're fired. In the academic world, you sleep with a student, you're fired.) In Congress, you sleep with a pony, you get a pay raise! (Obvious exageration). My problem is that government officials are not held to the same standard that regular business people are, and therefore we need a law to make them conform to society's norms.
For me, it's not about pics and scandals, it's about responsibility.ff
Uh, no, I would hesitate forever, 'cause I'm married and, at least to me, that actually means something. Unlike you and your booty-loving friends in Congress.
It used to be that a vow actually meant something.
I just heard today that Congress in debating a bill to pass a law that would prohibit Congressmen/women from having affairs with their staff (read: interns). The amazing part is,there is not enough support for this law! By showing how low Congress's morals are, is there any doubt that they will pass any law, no matter how immoral and un-Constittional, as long as it lines their pockets with big bucks?
The scientists want the articles to be kept free and open electronically. If they mean kept on the web by the publishing journal, then I disagree. The journal should not have to foot that bill if they do not want to. Now, if they mean that some site should be allowed to post the articles for free access by the public, I'm all for it.
I'll assume they mean the latter. Overall, this is a disturbing trend in science. In the past science tended to prove theories, practice on applied science, etc. Engineers tended to find practical applications, which then would be patented. Now we have humans gene sequences being patented. What's next, patenting lab coats? (Ok, a bit extreme, but you get the point)
This is true, only sexy/brutal/outrageous stuff seems to make it onto TV news anymore. "Pornographic star charged with burning shaved monkeys at 11!" kinda stuff. Every morning I catch up on the news with my Yahoo page- I get 5 headlines from about 20 different sources, including AP, Reuters, CNN, ZDNet, ABCNews, sports, and entertainment coverage. As you can guess, about 75% of the stuff I bring up at work no one has heard of. What do I see if I watch network news:
"Fires! Shootings! Madonna in the nude! Fires! Suspect caught! Some story about another country! Bush eats pastries! Some actor and some actress get divorced! Monkeys on cell phones! Sports! Weather! Funny video of the day!"
Generally, the average John Doe is a TV-toting half(third? quarter?)-informed nitwit who bases his/her life on newspaper headlines, TV news blurbs, and outright ingnorance.
WT News: Microsoft counters US lawsuit.
NYT News: Senator Clinton says "Take that Bush!"
WT Ed: Finally, someone protests Bush election win!
NYT Ed: Mayor Guiliani announces New York City initiative for Microsoft-free zones.
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And somehow you did not identify the sub-journalists here? AOLSearch and iNBC are real type search engines?
Get me awa from such idiots as fast as posssible...
I never downloaded anything over the 'net. I know that popular artists get spanked by their contracts, but I got 1 (one) CD from a friend who had made a compilation CD for me. I checked my collection and I legally owned that burned CD.
For obscure and fringe songs, sure, let it be free. For popular songs, give the artists (NOT the distributors!!!!!!) some bucks! Then they can make more good music. Just skip the middle-man of the big distribution houses.
I was a bit near-sighted in my analysis. Of course there are many in-the-field uses for a PDA, but being an office kinda guy, I totally overlooked that aspect of usefullness.
My bad, I am sorry that I forgot the field guys!
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Did you see the one match where a 'bot with a pick-ax-type thing kept going after Mr. Lee? I thing Mr. Lee even hit the kill saws at one point. But I'm pretty sure that that car was more sturdy than your average Barbie car!
I know that some of you must use these things, but I have never (nor have most of my co-workers) had the need to poke away at a little screen with a little pen-like stylus. A $20 paper organizer seems to serve the same function as a $150 PDA. Now we have a Linux version? Besides you hardcore fans, why would anyone give 2 craps? Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS... as long as it does the job, (Note the lack of any Microsoft OS, BSOD does not constitute productivity) who cares what OS the mini screen is running?
Just my buck fifty (hey, inflation sucks!)
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Scarily enough, I had a mental picture of this getting ripped by the kill saws into the path of the big hammer...
Truly nasty stuff!
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Until then, Battlebots will continue to be a show pandering to the lowest common denominator, relying on sex and loud music to attract an audience.
Damn, are you watch the Robo-Playboy channel?
Also:
robot
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1.A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.
2.A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
3.A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.
I don't see the term "AI" anywhere in there, whiz kid.
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and that problem is that when your "Doom-bot" runs up against your competitor's $4000 titanium shell that laughs at whatever sad-assed weaponary you have. There is a reason that the 'bots (at least the ones that win at least once) on Battlebots cost a shit-load of money- quality parts. Yeah, I could stick a stuffed monkey in a Barbie car with spikes on the front, but I think that the kill saws and the hammer will make short shrift of said device. This ain't "lawnmower vs. weed-whacker" kids!
As a capitalist kinda guy, I don't mind a company leveraging their strengths. As a tech guy, I dislike how MS has forced various stuff down consumers' throats.
What I really, really HATE, though, is the complete buy-in of corporate IT/IS drones into MS. As a co-worker likes to tell me, MS was good at one point to solidify standards (back in the '80s). But we have progressed now to the point where we have standards bodies who can give us standards. For example, MS XP will be the first MS OS with an OSI standard TCP/IP stack? This took how many years? Also, all these corporate wankers deciding that MS is the best route? Come on, has there been a study where the MS OS route has resulted in a lower cost for support. Not that I've seen.
Overall, I don't really blame MS, I (now) blame all the lemmings who follow "the group" when it comes to anything relating to computers.
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Isn't this "most powerfull" computer thing getting a bit out of hand? When we start questioning 1 billion FPUs vs. 4 trillion IPUs, where do we point at the leader?
Bryan
As far as I know, Apple isn't going around fucking with anyone. They make their hardware, they make their software, and they throw out some marketing about thinking different, or whatever the current slogan is. Apple did sue a couple of companies that tried ripping off the Imac, but I can see why. Their legal department is a bit feisty when it comes to copyright stuff, but wouldn't you be to if you were fighting tooth and nail for 7% share or so? At least they're not out breaking laws and agreements, and planning on subscription licences and .APPLENET.
Just my viewpoint.
I would go with Bloom County, Dilbert, and Fox Trot, in that order.
Even though he says he cringes at his old strips, I tend to re-read all my Bloom County collections every other year, and they still make me laugh just as hard as the first time.
I just hope he starts 'tooning again.
They tell you what is coming down the pipe, to a point. I have a good friend who let's me know about some key developments at Apple that will be showing up shortly; the other side is, they announce their stuff "just in time" (with some misses, of course). I've watched Dell, etc., promise 3GHz machines in just 2 months (yes, exaggerating.) But you get the point.
And no, no one ever buys a G3 500MHz the day before it is obsolete, Apple always puts price cuts, promotions, special deals, etc., into the works a month AT A MINIMUM, and usually 2 months, before that model is discontinued. This is why Apple's sales always fall off before every major event.
I agree with you on the warranty program.
To close, read Mac OS Rumors (mosr.com) and As The Apple Turns (appleturns.com), and you can get a 90% clue as to what is coming up in the next "big event". Over the past 2 years, they have had about a 90% success rate. This will give you a basic, if not official, idea of upcoming events for Apple.
Well, I'm glad you own a small business. Now how about me, who is just a consumer? What is the equivalent price? And no, I'm not going to go check myself because you just priced 2 different computers through 2 different schemes, and I don't know how you priced your small business computer. Come back with a consumer price please.
I got an original Mac from work, it was buried way back in the corner of a closet. Only problem is that the CRT is burnt out. I wonder if this could be worth any money in the future?
I'm guessing that my 286 clone won't be getting any money any time soon, though. Bummer.
"This just in: Microsoft drops support for all security products in a move to solidfy support for its own firewall. However, Microsoft's firewall has a mere 61,000 bugs, but only 20,000 are considered to be serious. Bill Gates says, 'Screw you Steve Jobs, we got the money, baby!'"
And everyone thought that Apple's "Big Brother" ad was so off the wall...
Wow, Intel really loves the MHz wars. Pumping out MHz when only 90% of the brancing is correct. Most of you probably think 90% is good, but think of it this way: 1 out of every 10 times you try and click on something, or double click something, or open a file, whatever, it fails. Every 10th Word file fails. This is good? Industry servers are designed for 5 9s (99.999% uptime), yet we can accept a 10% fail rate for our processors?
Also, the P4 needs a temperature shutdown?!?!?! Makes one think that even if Motoralla's Apple chips are lagging in MHz, at least they won't burn down your house!
The reason I think that this needs to be legislated is that in the rest of the world, you do this, you are fried. (In the commercial world, you sleep with your assistant, you're fired. In the academic world, you sleep with a student, you're fired.) In Congress, you sleep with a pony, you get a pay raise! (Obvious exageration). My problem is that government officials are not held to the same standard that regular business people are, and therefore we need a law to make them conform to society's norms.
For me, it's not about pics and scandals, it's about responsibility.ff
And obviously, you just don't want your wife/sig-other/boyfriend finding out what you are doing behind his/her back.
Uh, no, I would hesitate forever, 'cause I'm married and, at least to me, that actually means something. Unlike you and your booty-loving friends in Congress.
It used to be that a vow actually meant something.
I just heard today that Congress in debating a bill to pass a law that would prohibit Congressmen/women from having affairs with their staff (read: interns). The amazing part is,there is not enough support for this law! By showing how low Congress's morals are, is there any doubt that they will pass any law, no matter how immoral and un-Constittional, as long as it lines their pockets with big bucks?
The scientists want the articles to be kept free and open electronically. If they mean kept on the web by the publishing journal, then I disagree. The journal should not have to foot that bill if they do not want to. Now, if they mean that some site should be allowed to post the articles for free access by the public, I'm all for it.
I'll assume they mean the latter. Overall, this is a disturbing trend in science. In the past science tended to prove theories, practice on applied science, etc. Engineers tended to find practical applications, which then would be patented. Now we have humans gene sequences being patented. What's next, patenting lab coats? (Ok, a bit extreme, but you get the point)
This is true, only sexy/brutal/outrageous stuff seems to make it onto TV news anymore. "Pornographic star charged with burning shaved monkeys at 11!" kinda stuff. Every morning I catch up on the news with my Yahoo page- I get 5 headlines from about 20 different sources, including AP, Reuters, CNN, ZDNet, ABCNews, sports, and entertainment coverage. As you can guess, about 75% of the stuff I bring up at work no one has heard of. What do I see if I watch network news:
"Fires! Shootings! Madonna in the nude! Fires! Suspect caught! Some story about another country! Bush eats pastries! Some actor and some actress get divorced! Monkeys on cell phones! Sports! Weather! Funny video of the day!"
Generally, the average John Doe is a TV-toting half(third? quarter?)-informed nitwit who bases his/her life on newspaper headlines, TV news blurbs, and outright ingnorance.
/rant
If the management really screwed with JPL too much. This is a top notch lab, including a whole lot of ideas/innovations transfered over to NASA.
At least they are not shutting it down tomorrow.
WT News: Microsoft counters US lawsuit.
NYT News: Senator Clinton says "Take that Bush!"
WT Ed: Finally, someone protests Bush election win!
NYT Ed: Mayor Guiliani announces New York City initiative for Microsoft-free zones.
And somehow you did not identify the sub-journalists here? AOLSearch and iNBC are real type search engines?
Get me awa from such idiots as fast as posssible...
I never downloaded anything over the 'net. I know that popular artists get spanked by their contracts, but I got 1 (one) CD from a friend who had made a compilation CD for me. I checked my collection and I legally owned that burned CD.
For obscure and fringe songs, sure, let it be free. For popular songs, give the artists (NOT the distributors!!!!!!) some bucks! Then they can make more good music. Just skip the middle-man of the big distribution houses.
I was a bit near-sighted in my analysis. Of course there are many in-the-field uses for a PDA, but being an office kinda guy, I totally overlooked that aspect of usefullness.
My bad, I am sorry that I forgot the field guys!
Did you see the one match where a 'bot with a pick-ax-type thing kept going after Mr. Lee? I thing Mr. Lee even hit the kill saws at one point. But I'm pretty sure that that car was more sturdy than your average Barbie car!
I know that some of you must use these things, but I have never (nor have most of my co-workers) had the need to poke away at a little screen with a little pen-like stylus. A $20 paper organizer seems to serve the same function as a $150 PDA. Now we have a Linux version? Besides you hardcore fans, why would anyone give 2 craps? Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS... as long as it does the job, (Note the lack of any Microsoft OS, BSOD does not constitute productivity) who cares what OS the mini screen is running?
Just my buck fifty (hey, inflation sucks!)
Scarily enough, I had a mental picture of this getting ripped by the kill saws into the path of the big hammer...
Truly nasty stuff!
Until then, Battlebots will continue to be a show pandering to the lowest common denominator, relying on sex and loud music to attract an audience.
Damn, are you watch the Robo-Playboy channel?
Also:
robot
n.
1.A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.
2.A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
3.A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.
I don't see the term "AI" anywhere in there, whiz kid.
and that problem is that when your "Doom-bot" runs up against your competitor's $4000 titanium shell that laughs at whatever sad-assed weaponary you have. There is a reason that the 'bots (at least the ones that win at least once) on Battlebots cost a shit-load of money- quality parts. Yeah, I could stick a stuffed monkey in a Barbie car with spikes on the front, but I think that the kill saws and the hammer will make short shrift of said device. This ain't "lawnmower vs. weed-whacker" kids!
As a capitalist kinda guy, I don't mind a company leveraging their strengths. As a tech guy, I dislike how MS has forced various stuff down consumers' throats.
What I really, really HATE, though, is the complete buy-in of corporate IT/IS drones into MS. As a co-worker likes to tell me, MS was good at one point to solidify standards (back in the '80s). But we have progressed now to the point where we have standards bodies who can give us standards. For example, MS XP will be the first MS OS with an OSI standard TCP/IP stack? This took how many years? Also, all these corporate wankers deciding that MS is the best route? Come on, has there been a study where the MS OS route has resulted in a lower cost for support. Not that I've seen.
Overall, I don't really blame MS, I (now) blame all the lemmings who follow "the group" when it comes to anything relating to computers.