Only because there aren't a group of idealogues running around providing free plumbing, electrical, engineering, architectural or carpentry work. Those trades would be screwed if there were.
You're also missing another point, which is certification. Most of those trades require you to be certified before you can practice them for money. Another example would be the law. The law is free... Anyone can learn about the law. If you want to practice law, you need to pass the bar and be licensed. Same with medicine.
Open source & Free software are great things, but to pretend they are something they aren't is disingenuous.
Simply because now we'll get the joy of upgrading hardware every couple of years as the BluRay standard evolves (meaning, Sony + Friends want to increase revenue).
It's already happening; Profile 1.0 players cannot access the new features of profile 1.1 and profile 2.0 players, nor can they be upgraded to do so. Same with 1.1 players to 2.0.
With the exception of the PS3, you cannot even buy a profile 2.0 player at the moment. Additionally, the prices of players is pretty much out of the ball-park; The PS3 is really the only value in any of the product lines. Samsung is currently being sued over their shitty tech, with the rest being too expensive.
What shocks me is the sheer amount of ass-hats who gleefully think BluRay is the greatest. It's like watching a bunch of people eating poison and complimenting each other on the taste.
You may be right with the Webcam, but I know Thinkpads have firewire... At least the one I bought 2 months ago does; I use it all of the time. Now if only they had an eSATA port...
Your 12 year old hardware won't run an OS released last year? So what? I have an Atari 2600 that won't play PS3 games, but I'm not crying to the wind about it. Your false dichotmy not withstanding, what metric are you using to determine that the performance of modern operating systems is lacking? What does good performance look like? People always complain that performance sucks but without a metric to determine what "good" is, how do we know when something is "bad"?
People often make statements like "I need 2 gigs of RAM to run this OS? That is insane!" Why is this insane? How much does 2 gigs of RAM cost? (Hint: about $35 US, $80 if you're not up to playing the rebate game)
The point not being that we shouldn't concern ourselves with performance, but that we should have some reliable way to measure it, beyond old hardware sucking ass.
As an aside, the 486DX line of processors weren't any better at performance (using your "measurements") running Windows 3.11 or OS/2.
That's a fine statement, but that has nothing to do with whether or not content is available. There's a difference between "No content" and "Content I'm not interested in".
WTF are you talking about? There's plenty of "content"; Just go to your local super electronics store and see for yourself. Every major studio release in the last 5 or 6 months is coming out on HD-DVD, Blu-Ray or both. What's more, there's a world of difference in quality if you actually own an HD TV. An up converting standard DVD player does a good job, but the difference with HD-DVD / Blu-Ray is definitely noticeable.
The backers of HD-DVD are being far more intelligent from a marketing stand point than Sony+Blue-Ray. Cheaper players, Combo discs (Standard DVD + HD-DVD in the same package) and they have better penetration into the markets that actually matter (Wal-Mart, for example).
A FICO score of 760 isn't "good" it's great. 650-700 is B to B+ credit (generally one can qualify for a loan but your rates will not be optimum). The scale looks something like this:
475 bottom of the barrel. If you want a loan, you're going to get eaten alive. (30% interest rates, etc.) 525 - 475 your credit really sucks. Like above, though you risk is considered somewhat less. 20-25% interest rates. 600 - 525 Credit isn't in good shape, but you can qualify. Interest rates will be high, (20% on average). 700 - 600 Average credit for a consumer. You qualify for most things, but your rates will still be ugly (15% - 20%). 800 - 700 Good credit. Good rates. People who pay their bills on time and don't have any unpaid debt (collections) fall into this range. 800 + These are the people that qualify for 0% interest for the life of the loan, etc.
FICO is just a small part of the underwriting process and there are many other factors that are taken into consideration by lenders. Mostly these include:
PTI (payment to income ratio) DTI (debt to income ratio) High Credit Deliquincies (number of, severity).
Most lending institutions have their own criteria for lending (called lending guidelines) and they vary widely.
Generally the underwriting process looks something like this:
Get your FICO. If it doesn't immediately disqualify you, then look at the other factors (DTI, PTI, etc.). If your profile passes those, they'll give you money, otherwise they don't.
Where you fall within those limits will effect the interest rate that the lender will apply to you.
Other factors to consider:
Time of year. --> Generally buying happens seasonally and you can get better deals during the down periods (August, February) Time of month. --> Lending institutions have monthly lending goals. Underwriters will pass you through the system if you're border line to meet their quotas.
"Do I have nice programs available from the default install like SuSE or Fedora give me...so I don't have to use the command line and can take care of my machine from the GUI?"
Why, yes you do. The exact same programs, in fact.
"Your average non-geek user doesn't want to spend a large portion of his time using his computer working with config files trying to get things working right. They just want it to work. "
This is usually the argument that is used when people talk about Linux. Who wants to spend hours editing conf files, build and rebuilding the kernel, etc.? It's awesome to see that Linux has crossed that threshold!
If you're using NAT, then you need to set up port forwarding on your router. Most likely you are using NAT.
[Less likely] If you are not using NAT, then assign your PB a static IP address from your assinged IP block.
Once your PB has a routable IP address, then you can reach it from the outside world. If you're using NAT then you have a single IP which is shared by all of the computers on your network, which is why you have to have port forwarding (in essence, when your router gets a request on port 80, it will look at it's routing table and say "Oh, I'm supposed to forward all requests at port 80 to this IP address).
Once you have a routable IP address, go sign up for an account at a DNS management host (for example, EasyDNS). Order a new domain name and then assign your IP address (from the previous step) to your new domain. Then when people type in "www.yournewdomain.com" it will map the request to your powerbook.
I call bullshit. Programming concepts and skills cross-pollinate whether you're dealing with Desktop applications or Web applications. There are 2 differences between a desktop application and a web application. 1) The rendering engine is different (GDI, QT, et. al vs. HTML et al.). 2) Web applications are (generally) stateless. If you can grasp those two concepts, then you can do either with equal skill and proficiency.
In regards to your point about business, generally you are correct, but I believe that the problem is that Tech people aren't "good" at business because it's not interesting, not because they're incapable of "being good at it".
Right click on the shortcut and select properties. All of your layout and customizations are there on tabs. Also, if you hit alt+enter it will go full screen. If you would like different configurations (for example, different starting directories) then make multiple short cuts and customize each one.
First, you can load your iPod with MusicMatch rather than using iTunes.
Second, my entire iPod is filled with Mp3s, not an AAC file in sight. I happen to like iTunes as a media player, but I only use MP3s (mostly ripped with iTunes, in fact) on my iPod.
As far as I know, it's true that an iPod cannot play unprotected WMA files, however iTunes will convert them (to a format you specify) upon import if you wish, after which you can put them on your iPod, no problem.
On the CNBC show The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch, Donny interviewed Donald Trump a few nights ago. Trump's summary of Cuban is direct and to the point: "Cuban is a loser and will always be a loser." More battles in a feud between Trump and Cuban. Quite hilarious to observe.
Obviously, you are smoking crack. The Number of the Beast is a brilliant piece of work; In fact, it's one of my favorite books written by him. I admit that it is very "obtuse", but it's hardly poorly written. Then again, perhaps I'm the crack smoker, because the book actually makes sense to me.
Only the first few times. Once they have a "template", it's simply a matter of cut and paste. So the more they sue the more cost effective it is. If you look at the various lawsuit documents you'll see that it's basically the same thing over and over again with different names and some paragraph rearrangement to divert suspicion.
Ultima 5. The Apple version kicked the everloving shit out of the C-64 version... (As did Ultima 1, 2, 3 and 4).
Your case is hardly rested. I'm not claiming that the C-64 wasn't an impressive machine (aside from the slow as hell 1541 Disk drive and the fact that even loading a game would require a process of starting up and then fixing dinner and watching a movie waiting for it to finish, even WITH the 'fastloader' module.)
I'd say a better contender to the Apple would be the Ti-994a. It had an impressive DSP and some pretty killer games (Parsec, for example).
You (and Maciej Ceglowski) are missing the point. The end product of painting and computer programming aren't the same, that's true. However, as any true artist knows, the art is about the process of creation, not mechanics or the end product.
I'd submit that Maciej is just an elitist snob who doesn't want his self admitted "sexy" job as a painter tainted by the uncoolness of writing software.
On second thought, he has gotten one piece of being a true artist: No one could possibly understand his work as a painter because it's unique and nothing like anything else; Anyone who claims to understand it is an ignorant fool.
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Only because there aren't a group of idealogues running around providing free plumbing, electrical, engineering, architectural or carpentry work. Those trades would be screwed if there were.
You're also missing another point, which is certification. Most of those trades require you to be certified before you can practice them for money. Another example would be the law. The law is free... Anyone can learn about the law. If you want to practice law, you need to pass the bar and be licensed. Same with medicine.
Open source & Free software are great things, but to pretend they are something they aren't is disingenuous.
Teather ball isn't really considered a sport.
Actually, no. The compiler(s) are written in C++ but the Framework itself is actually written in C#.
Simply because now we'll get the joy of upgrading hardware every couple of years as the BluRay standard evolves (meaning, Sony + Friends want to increase revenue).
It's already happening; Profile 1.0 players cannot access the new features of profile 1.1 and profile 2.0 players, nor can they be upgraded to do so. Same with 1.1 players to 2.0.
With the exception of the PS3, you cannot even buy a profile 2.0 player at the moment. Additionally, the prices of players is pretty much out of the ball-park; The PS3 is really the only value in any of the product lines. Samsung is currently being sued over their shitty tech, with the rest being too expensive.
What shocks me is the sheer amount of ass-hats who gleefully think BluRay is the greatest. It's like watching a bunch of people eating poison and complimenting each other on the taste.
You may be right with the Webcam, but I know Thinkpads have firewire... At least the one I bought 2 months ago does; I use it all of the time. Now if only they had an eSATA port...
Your 12 year old hardware won't run an OS released last year? So what? I have an Atari 2600 that won't play PS3 games, but I'm not crying to the wind about it. Your false dichotmy not withstanding, what metric are you using to determine that the performance of modern operating systems is lacking? What does good performance look like? People always complain that performance sucks but without a metric to determine what "good" is, how do we know when something is "bad"?
People often make statements like "I need 2 gigs of RAM to run this OS? That is insane!" Why is this insane? How much does 2 gigs of RAM cost? (Hint: about $35 US, $80 if you're not up to playing the rebate game)
The point not being that we shouldn't concern ourselves with performance, but that we should have some reliable way to measure it, beyond old hardware sucking ass.
As an aside, the 486DX line of processors weren't any better at performance (using your "measurements") running Windows 3.11 or OS/2.
That's a fine statement, but that has nothing to do with whether or not content is available. There's a difference between "No content" and "Content I'm not interested in".
WTF are you talking about? There's plenty of "content"; Just go to your local super electronics store and see for yourself. Every major studio release in the last 5 or 6 months is coming out on HD-DVD, Blu-Ray or both. What's more, there's a world of difference in quality if you actually own an HD TV. An up converting standard DVD player does a good job, but the difference with HD-DVD / Blu-Ray is definitely noticeable.
The backers of HD-DVD are being far more intelligent from a marketing stand point than Sony+Blue-Ray. Cheaper players, Combo discs (Standard DVD + HD-DVD in the same package) and they have better penetration into the markets that actually matter (Wal-Mart, for example).
A FICO score of 760 isn't "good" it's great. 650-700 is B to B+ credit (generally one can qualify for a loan but your rates will not be optimum). The scale looks something like this:
475 bottom of the barrel. If you want a loan, you're going to get eaten alive. (30% interest rates, etc.)
525 - 475 your credit really sucks. Like above, though you risk is considered somewhat less. 20-25% interest rates.
600 - 525 Credit isn't in good shape, but you can qualify. Interest rates will be high, (20% on average).
700 - 600 Average credit for a consumer. You qualify for most things, but your rates will still be ugly (15% - 20%).
800 - 700 Good credit. Good rates. People who pay their bills on time and don't have any unpaid debt (collections) fall into this range.
800 + These are the people that qualify for 0% interest for the life of the loan, etc.
FICO is just a small part of the underwriting process and there are many other factors that are taken into consideration by lenders. Mostly these include:
PTI (payment to income ratio)
DTI (debt to income ratio)
High Credit
Deliquincies (number of, severity).
Most lending institutions have their own criteria for lending (called lending guidelines) and they vary widely.
Generally the underwriting process looks something like this:
Get your FICO. If it doesn't immediately disqualify you, then look at the other factors (DTI, PTI, etc.).
If your profile passes those, they'll give you money, otherwise they don't.
Where you fall within those limits will effect the interest rate that the lender will apply to you.
Other factors to consider:
Time of year. --> Generally buying happens seasonally and you can get better deals during the down periods (August, February)
Time of month. --> Lending institutions have monthly lending goals. Underwriters will pass you through the system if you're border line to meet their quotas.
Sorry about the adhoc tutorial on credit.
"Can I pop in an install dvd, have all of my hardware recognized and configured, and be dropped into kde or gnome, depending on what I chose?"
As a matter of fact, yes you can. See: PC-BSD
"Do I have nice programs available from the default install like SuSE or Fedora give me...so I don't have to use the command line and can take care of my machine from the GUI?"
Why, yes you do. The exact same programs, in fact.
"Your average non-geek user doesn't want to spend a large portion of his time using his computer working with config files trying to get things working right. They just want it to work. "
This is usually the argument that is used when people talk about Linux. Who wants to spend hours editing conf files, build and rebuilding the kernel, etc.? It's awesome to see that Linux has crossed that threshold!
Depends on your router configuration.
If you're using NAT, then you need to set up port forwarding on your router. Most likely you are using NAT.
[Less likely]
If you are not using NAT, then assign your PB a static IP address from your assinged IP block.
Once your PB has a routable IP address, then you can reach it from the outside world. If you're using NAT then you have a single IP which is shared by all of the computers on your network, which is why you have to have port forwarding (in essence, when your router gets a request on port 80, it will look at it's routing table and say "Oh, I'm supposed to forward all requests at port 80 to this IP address).
Once you have a routable IP address, go sign up for an account at a DNS management host (for example, EasyDNS). Order a new domain name and then assign your IP address (from the previous step) to your new domain. Then when people type in "www.yournewdomain.com" it will map the request to your powerbook.
Good luck.
I call bullshit. Programming concepts and skills cross-pollinate whether you're dealing with Desktop applications or Web applications. There are 2 differences between a desktop application and a web application. 1) The rendering engine is different (GDI, QT, et. al vs. HTML et al.). 2) Web applications are (generally) stateless. If you can grasp those two concepts, then you can do either with equal skill and proficiency.
In regards to your point about business, generally you are correct, but I believe that the problem is that Tech people aren't "good" at business because it's not interesting, not because they're incapable of "being good at it".
Right click on the shortcut and select properties. All of your layout and customizations are there on tabs. Also, if you hit alt+enter it will go full screen. If you would like different configurations (for example, different starting directories) then make multiple short cuts and customize each one.
You are completely incorrect.
First, you can load your iPod with MusicMatch rather than using iTunes.
Second, my entire iPod is filled with Mp3s, not an AAC file in sight. I happen to like iTunes as a media player, but I only use MP3s (mostly ripped with iTunes, in fact) on my iPod.
As far as I know, it's true that an iPod cannot play unprotected WMA files, however iTunes will convert them (to a format you specify) upon import if you wish, after which you can put them on your iPod, no problem.
*Know it all card revoked*
Star Wars took place "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away."
On the CNBC show The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch, Donny interviewed Donald Trump a few nights ago. Trump's summary of Cuban is direct and to the point: "Cuban is a loser and will always be a loser." More battles in a feud between Trump and Cuban. Quite hilarious to observe.
I admit that I don't closely follow the news for the Wii but looking this morning, www.ebgames.com lists the processing power.
Look here.
Obviously, you are smoking crack. The Number of the Beast is a brilliant piece of work; In fact, it's one of my favorite books written by him. I admit that it is very "obtuse", but it's hardly poorly written. Then again, perhaps I'm the crack smoker, because the book actually makes sense to me.
Only the first few times. Once they have a "template", it's simply a matter of cut and paste. So the more they sue the more cost effective it is. If you look at the various lawsuit documents you'll see that it's basically the same thing over and over again with different names and some paragraph rearrangement to divert suspicion.
Ultima 5. The Apple version kicked the everloving shit out of the C-64 version... (As did Ultima 1, 2, 3 and 4).
Your case is hardly rested. I'm not claiming that the C-64 wasn't an impressive machine (aside from the slow as hell 1541 Disk drive and the fact that even loading a game would require a process of starting up and then fixing dinner and watching a movie waiting for it to finish, even WITH the 'fastloader' module.)
I'd say a better contender to the Apple would be the Ti-994a. It had an impressive DSP and some pretty killer games (Parsec, for example).
You do know that it's "Collar" as in "shirt collar" not "Color", right?
See! I even did it to myself! /s/Gammer/Grammer
I cannot believe how often this sort of thing happens.
"Grammar" not "Gammer".
You (and Maciej Ceglowski) are missing the point. The end product of painting and computer programming aren't the same, that's true. However, as any true artist knows, the art is about the process of creation, not mechanics or the end product.
I'd submit that Maciej is just an elitist snob who doesn't want his self admitted "sexy" job as a painter tainted by the uncoolness of writing software.
On second thought, he has gotten one piece of being a true artist: No one could possibly understand his work as a painter because it's unique and nothing like anything else; Anyone who claims to understand it is an ignorant fool.
Mod this up! This is funniest thing on /. since the CentOS debacle itself.