So you're trying to tell me that professional DJs are going to ditch their pair of 1200s and huge collection of vinyl for some shitty little piece of plastic with a USB connector on it?
Unless said "professional DJs" are idiots and don't get the point, they actually might.
What matters is what you actually play and how it sounds.
Using SLs and vinyl is like l33tsp33k. It's clever, but there's no particular point to it, and it's unneccessarily difficult.
Do you know how much vinyl weighs? Those things are HEAVY. Not to mention the SLs themselves, which are basically a giant magnet in a box.
FYI: magnets are made out of metal. Metal is heavy.
The thing about FreeBSD is that anyone can easily take away the freedom of the software! And many closed-source vendors do just that.
No.
Even if somebody takes BSD and makes it into a closed-source product, the original BSD code is still available for free.
Thus, two things will cause customers to ignore the closed-source product based on BSD: more cost and less addition of value. Until the derivative clears this invisible hurdle, people will rather just get the completely free FreeBSD.
Mac OS X works, because it adds sufficiently many features and makes them easy enough to use that people will buy it for what Apple decides they will sell it for.
How is that a microchip? It's just slowly degrading polymer with drugs in it. Well, I may have misunderstood the definition of a microchip, but I figured that you'd need some sort of electrical binary logic processing going on for you to be able to call your piece of hardware an actual "microchip".
OS X does have software RAID, though my guess is the Alienware machines have hardware RAID(something Apple hasn't figured out, due to, I'm sure, firmware issues), which tests have shown is faster.
My guess is that Apple hasn't felt the need for including it in their desktop / workstation line. You can always get an XSERVE-RAID box if you really need RAID.
This is true, hadn't thought of it this way. Although you *could* get G4s, still. A basic monitorless G4 costs $1300 - the same as a basic iMac. Apple sort of needs a thin-client-ish box, it seems.
I somewhat agree with you even if I don't want to. My wishful thinking is that if everyone properly follow standards that have been established by qualified people, this kind of company-approved-only thinking will become redundant.
There is no universal law that says that personal hardware connected to a corporate network will always have to lead to disaster, although right now, in practice, it might.
I was simply pointing out that if anybody has a mac that is a) out of warranty and b) needs a new CPU, getting a third-party upgraded CPU is more cost-effective.
I was actually not directly saying anything relevant to this article or thread:)
Get to shake it when your one stick of lead finishes so the next one will catch, until you open it up to insert the lead in backwards (through the tip) because its not catching, and then when you open it the lead falls out and snaps
Yes! Yes yes yes! As I read that, in my minds eye I saw millions of little browser-sized quicktime videos of my own hands doing *exactly* that. Thank you.
The ink is very fluid, and the colored ones are fun because they are sort of transparent, so coloring in your doodles in class is nice.
Because the ink in them needs to dry a little, you may have to watch your hand if you're a lefty like me or you'll be stamping your last sentence on your essay again and again with the side of your hand. Depends on the paper.
There are actually links to pictures of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species available on the official Web site.
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From the site: "The winners have all done things that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK."
So it's not a bunch of nerds dissing other nerds, it's a bunch of nerds bringing the attention of the general populace to funny-but-clever things other nerds have done.
So your research winnig an Ig-Nobel doesn't mean it it useless, neccessarily. Just that it is funny.
After really trying to like Autechre's Confield album and failing, I started noticing really interesting things.
For example, once when I was driving around in a loaner Hyundai on a gravel road. The car had only minimal noise insulation and the pinging, metallic bursts of the fine gravel hitting the wheel arches was sort of like waves, but I could listen to it as a whole sound or many small sounds. Or try both at the same time. In stereo, of course.
Then I noticed the bass of the wind - at the limits of my hearing. The lowest of the low, gigantic, sounding with the most effortless immense force and unfocused. Really rather scary.
Then the engine, which I decided would be the melody in this case. It took a little coercing of my brain, but it worked out. It's not that much different than some weird far-away-indigenous music i've heard.
And it was nice. The real world is pretty god damn hi-fi, too.
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This assumes that either the software that comes with it is usable or that the unit can be made to work with something like Traktor.
I doubt the former, and hope for the latter.
Unless said "professional DJs" are idiots and don't get the point, they actually might.
What matters is what you actually play and how it sounds.
Using SLs and vinyl is like l33tsp33k. It's clever, but there's no particular point to it, and it's unneccessarily difficult.
Do you know how much vinyl weighs? Those things are HEAVY. Not to mention the SLs themselves, which are basically a giant magnet in a box.
FYI: magnets are made out of metal. Metal is heavy.
No.
Even if somebody takes BSD and makes it into a closed-source product, the original BSD code is still available for free.
Thus, two things will cause customers to ignore the closed-source product based on BSD: more cost and less addition of value. Until the derivative clears this invisible hurdle, people will rather just get the completely free FreeBSD.
Mac OS X works, because it adds sufficiently many features and makes them easy enough to use that people will buy it for what Apple decides they will sell it for.
Smart.
What did you write this for?
Hint: for something to be funny, it has to actually make you laugh, not just be written in a sarcastic style.
How is that a microchip? It's just slowly degrading polymer with drugs in it. Well, I may have misunderstood the definition of a microchip, but I figured that you'd need some sort of electrical binary logic processing going on for you to be able to call your piece of hardware an actual "microchip".
This is true, hadn't thought of it this way. Although you *could* get G4s, still. A basic monitorless G4 costs $1300 - the same as a basic iMac. Apple sort of needs a thin-client-ish box, it seems.
I somewhat agree with you even if I don't want to. My wishful thinking is that if everyone properly follow standards that have been established by qualified people, this kind of company-approved-only thinking will become redundant.
There is no universal law that says that personal hardware connected to a corporate network will always have to lead to disaster, although right now, in practice, it might.
I feel that "I appreciate what you're saying" answer is as about as vague as a fart in a hurricane.
Lots :)
:)
I was simply pointing out that if anybody has a mac that is
a) out of warranty and
b) needs a new CPU,
getting a third-party upgraded CPU is more cost-effective.
I was actually not directly saying anything relevant to this article or thread
Cool, they're selling EMP hardened wristwatches now? Where can I order one?
For $500, you'd get a 1.3GHz G4 upgrade.
Here's a list of what MacSales says will fit into a G4/500 Sawtooth Mac.
800MHz upgrades are about $250.
If the warranty is already expired, this is way better than getting the same processor again.
Pentel Uni-Eye.
I think they're Pentels, at least.
The ink is very fluid, and the colored ones are fun because they are sort of transparent, so coloring in your doodles in class is nice.
Because the ink in them needs to dry a little, you may have to watch your hand if you're a lefty like me or you'll be stamping your last sentence on your essay again and again with the side of your hand. Depends on the paper.
I have no mod points so I am pushing this up with my head.
*Nnng*.
*Nnng*.
What do you mean?
There are actually links to pictures of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species available on the official Web site.
From the site: "The winners have all done things that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK."
So it's not a bunch of nerds dissing other nerds, it's a bunch of nerds bringing the attention of the general populace to funny-but-clever things other nerds have done.
So your research winnig an Ig-Nobel doesn't mean it it useless, neccessarily. Just that it is funny.
Mod parent up, please. [nt]
Put extra money in the parking meters.
Or tip policemen.
Totally.
After really trying to like Autechre's Confield album and failing, I started noticing really interesting things.
For example, once when I was driving around in a loaner Hyundai on a gravel road. The car had only minimal noise insulation and the pinging, metallic bursts of the fine gravel hitting the wheel arches was sort of like waves, but I could listen to it as a whole sound or many small sounds. Or try both at the same time. In stereo, of course.
Then I noticed the bass of the wind - at the limits of my hearing. The lowest of the low, gigantic, sounding with the most effortless immense force and unfocused. Really rather scary.
Then the engine, which I decided would be the melody in this case. It took a little coercing of my brain, but it worked out. It's not that much different than some weird far-away-indigenous music i've heard.
And it was nice. The real world is pretty god damn hi-fi, too.
Note: I drive sober.
"Pentium 5" actually means Fivetium Five. Neat.