Also sprach mmaddox: I've always felt he was a bit of an eccentric, egomaniac loon, rather than this golden-boy visionary he's so commonly portrayed as.
He may well be an eccentric, egomaniac loon, but he seems to be a pretty effective eccentric, egomaniac loon.
In a not-so-startling turn of events, the City of Los Angelas has determined that the star system goes above the city every night, so the inhabitants owe tons of money in back taxes.
Dr. Hugh G. Rection, of the astronomy department at The University of Texas at Tumbleweed Gulch, has pointed out that Ursa Major is a cirucumpolar constellation and that no part of it can be farther south than 50 degrees north. He then pointed out that Los Angelas is much too far south to be anywhere near 50 degrees north.
A spokesman for the Los Angelas Department of Tax Weasels, a Mr. Stu Pidasso, said that Dr. Rection is completely off base, that his maps were made by corporations known to use tax dodges, and that Dr. Rection is a confirmed golfer and has never denied being a cuacasian. Mr. Pidasso also said, through teary eyes, that he's doing it for the children.
However, upon hearing Dr. Rection's news, the Canadian government has said that it will tax all inhabitants of the 47 Ursae Majoris star system. Simultaneously, a spokesman for the Russian government, Hugh Kraniansteppes, held a press conference saying that they had tax jurisdiction. The UN quickly moved to resolve this issue, blaming it all on Zionism and American culture.
When asked about the situation by a fawning media, Reverend Hal Snarfton said that all money should be sent by those who have suffered under the jackboot of American totalitarianism. (At least that's what we think he said, as he continued to eat his jellybean burrito and wash it down with a glass of gravy the whole time he spoke.) Reverend Snarfton then spoke for thirty minutes, live on all four networks, CNN, BBC World Service, and The Animal Planet, on the way that America silences those who speak out against it.
David Horowitz called all of this another example of the idiocy of the left in his Salon column, but everyone ignored him because he's now a conservative.
Days later, someone apologizes to the inhabitants of the 47 Ursa Majoris system. The response is in poorly-translated English, beginning:
How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us!!
I'd like to see SGI, IBM, and Apple all fighing for this market. It should produce some great products...
Final Cut Pro. IANAGP, but from what I've heard, this is a $1000 software package that is on par with software that costs $15000. The recent Discovery Channel documentary about North American dinosaurs was done with FCP, and I *think* that FCP was the only video software they used. The reviews of it have been glowing.
(Of course, we all know that Apple machines cost $1000 more, so the companies should buy cheaper Linux boxes and then pay $15000 for the editting software...)
Remember, folks, he's only talking about federal funding. Private funding on new lines is not denied by law, and in fact is where the current 60 lines came from.
Overall, I thought this was a pretty solid decision, and the more I think of it the more I agree with it. While there will be some who advocate complete funding of every new line we can get, I think most of us would agree that, given laws of supply and demand, that could set up a very slippery slope.
Unlike humanclock.com, and due to the long distances involved, we'll be using a cluster of Commodore 64 and Atari 800XL machines to handle the web server(s).
Too bad; I know where you can get a Beowulf cluster of Timex Sinclairs dirt cheap...
I've played around with an iBook (hardly enough to consider myself an expert) and borrowed a TiBook over the weekend at the track. (FWIW, I was at the Brickyard 400 with it and it turned a lot of people's heads. BTW, did you know that some NASCAR fans drink beer? Shocked, I was, shocked!) So I'm hardly an expert, but in my experience as a user and programmer, I'd recommend the Titaium. The iBook, remember, is the low-end model and has a G3 chip, while the TiBook has a G4 and faster bus speed. If you are doing ANY sort of power-user thingies, you'll want the Altivec on the G4.
Then again, I'm talking about spending your money, not mine, and it's always easier to spend other people's money than your own. (I present any government as Exhibit A, m'lud.) In truth, you might want to go to your local Apple retailer and play around with them. Just watch out for CompUSSR; sometimes they don't even have working models of the Mac available.
Anonymous Coward (BOY is he prolific!) writes: I was thinking of buying an Apple as my 2nd home system, but I've been holding off for awhile. I seem to recall reading an interesting post from a fellow Slashdotter who had some rather sobering facts about BSD's possible decline (if somebody would be kind enough to dredge it up and post it, I would appreciate it). Those numbers have me wondering if I shouldn't stick with a proven Intel solution and stick to Linux -- contrary to the BSD numbers, Linux appears to be as healthy as ever.
You're going to believe everything you read on slashdot? Geez, why not give up your intelligence and believe politicians, journalists, and M$ spokespeople while you're at it?
push the buttons on the bottom and pull off the front bezel. i just stripped a pile of them for the recycler's. no tools necessary.
Which we tried, but we heard the front cover creak as if it were ready to crack. If you look up "good thing" in the dictionary, you won't find that listed as an example.
Okay, fair enough about the old cases. I had a 6500, a large array of Craftsmen tools, a mind trained to perform n-dimensional geometry without aid of computers or pencil-and-paper (thanks to an astronomy degree), and a father who was a toolmaker-turned-design-engineer, yet we couldn't figure out how to get to the hard drive of the 6500. The case was as solid as a rock, mind you, but unfortunately about as unyielding.
That said, a new computer doesn't come in an old case, and Apple has learned from their mistakes. I have a beige G3 now, and it's pretty easy to get into. The current case is more or less the same one that they've used since the blue-and-white G3s came out in '99, and they are SWEET. Easy to get into, relatively easy for those with large hands to things, solid, easy-to-open, stays shut when it should, etc. The handles may look goofy but there are times when they are handy.
And yes, the case isn't everything, of course. However, it is an instance of attention to detail that, with other attentions, adds up to a much nicer computing experience, in the opinions of some (including me, I admit).
Apple has made some mistakes in the past, but Lord, who hasn't? They seem so to make them less frequently as time goes on and they learn from their mistakes, or at least they are now. And these days, even when they do make a mistake (like with the Cube), at least it's an interesting mistake from which they can learn new things by trying something different.
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Yes, $2500 seems like a lot, but he was trying to make the systems as comparable as possible. Macs tend to come with a lot of goodies standard (ethernet card, USB and Firewire slots, the CD-RW drive or DVD-R/CD-RW, etc). While each one isn't that much of a cost in and of itself, they do add up, so that gives them a higher base.
As for the Naziism remark, I apologize; I should have been clearer. It was the fact that I had to pay for it whether or not I even had the product. Apple's approach was "Here is what you get for your money." Like their product or not, at least it's a straightforward deal. M$ was "Whether you get it or not, you have to pay for it." *Bzzt!* Sorry, no dice.
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Okay, I'll admit, I'm a bit biased towards the Mac. I bought my first one at a time when you still had to pay M$ for the Windows license whether you had Windows or not. I'm a capitalist, but that struck me as being closer to Naziism. So I got a Mac and didn't look back.
I read the rant, big whoop. He's citing a comparison by someone I've spoken to on a Mac forum from time to time. The point of his comparisons (he's done several) is not that the Macintosh will solve world hunger or anything. He was trying to debunk the myth that Macs are expensive in a bang-for-your-buck method. In other words, he tried tricking out systems from various windows OEMs and Apple's online store, compared prices, and guess what? The Mac came out even and sometimes ahead of the others.
This, apparently, caused an uninformed rant that/.'s dieties decided was newsworthy. Boy, this place has gotten so far downhill I may have to turn to NFL Fantasy League boards for higher levels of erudition and intellectual stimulation.
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Thank you, Mr. Farrakhan. Go back to cozying up to members of the Rodham family and leave us alone, okay?
I realize that this was supposed to be funny, and it was. However, it is just so STUPID that it might work.
Uh huh. So, what's the flavor of the Koolaid they're using?
I've always felt he was a bit of an eccentric, egomaniac loon, rather than this golden-boy visionary he's so commonly portrayed as.
He may well be an eccentric, egomaniac loon, but he seems to be a pretty effective eccentric, egomaniac loon.
Not in the constitution. It's the Chinese crack of the audioanimatronic Al Gore that did it.
Dang, and I thought Red Dwarf was fiction ...
Dr. Hugh G. Rection, of the astronomy department at The University of Texas at Tumbleweed Gulch, has pointed out that Ursa Major is a cirucumpolar constellation and that no part of it can be farther south than 50 degrees north. He then pointed out that Los Angelas is much too far south to be anywhere near 50 degrees north.
A spokesman for the Los Angelas Department of Tax Weasels, a Mr. Stu Pidasso, said that Dr. Rection is completely off base, that his maps were made by corporations known to use tax dodges, and that Dr. Rection is a confirmed golfer and has never denied being a cuacasian. Mr. Pidasso also said, through teary eyes, that he's doing it for the children.
However, upon hearing Dr. Rection's news, the Canadian government has said that it will tax all inhabitants of the 47 Ursae Majoris star system. Simultaneously, a spokesman for the Russian government, Hugh Kraniansteppes, held a press conference saying that they had tax jurisdiction. The UN quickly moved to resolve this issue, blaming it all on Zionism and American culture.
When asked about the situation by a fawning media, Reverend Hal Snarfton said that all money should be sent by those who have suffered under the jackboot of American totalitarianism. (At least that's what we think he said, as he continued to eat his jellybean burrito and wash it down with a glass of gravy the whole time he spoke.) Reverend Snarfton then spoke for thirty minutes, live on all four networks, CNN, BBC World Service, and The Animal Planet, on the way that America silences those who speak out against it.
David Horowitz called all of this another example of the idiocy of the left in his Salon column, but everyone ignored him because he's now a conservative.
Days later, someone apologizes to the inhabitants of the 47 Ursa Majoris system. The response is in poorly-translated English, beginning:
How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us!!
Final Cut Pro. IANAGP, but from what I've heard, this is a $1000 software package that is on par with software that costs $15000. The recent Discovery Channel documentary about North American dinosaurs was done with FCP, and I *think* that FCP was the only video software they used. The reviews of it have been glowing.
(Of course, we all know that Apple machines cost $1000 more, so the companies should buy cheaper Linux boxes and then pay $15000 for the editting software ...)
Besides which, even if we did have them, you know some lawyer would try to unionize them.
Obvious! Put a story about them on slashdot, with a link to their server. They'll be shut down in no time!
Overall, I thought this was a pretty solid decision, and the more I think of it the more I agree with it. While there will be some who advocate complete funding of every new line we can get, I think most of us would agree that, given laws of supply and demand, that could set up a very slippery slope.
Let the 'rice' jokes begin. All hand to the puns!
Too bad; I know where you can get a Beowulf cluster of Timex Sinclairs dirt cheap ...
Fine, if property rights are so bad, I'll just take your car and bank account, okay?
Then again, I'm talking about spending your money, not mine, and it's always easier to spend other people's money than your own. (I present any government as Exhibit A, m'lud.) In truth, you might want to go to your local Apple retailer and play around with them. Just watch out for CompUSSR; sometimes they don't even have working models of the Mac available.
I was thinking of buying an Apple as my 2nd home system, but I've been holding off for awhile. I seem to recall reading an interesting post from a fellow Slashdotter who had some rather sobering facts about BSD's possible decline (if somebody would be kind enough to dredge it up and post it, I would appreciate it). Those numbers have me wondering if I shouldn't stick with a proven Intel solution and stick to Linux -- contrary to the BSD numbers, Linux appears to be as healthy as ever.
You're going to believe everything you read on slashdot? Geez, why not give up your intelligence and believe politicians, journalists, and M$ spokespeople while you're at it?
Which we tried, but we heard the front cover creak as if it were ready to crack. If you look up "good thing" in the dictionary, you won't find that listed as an example.
That said, a new computer doesn't come in an old case, and Apple has learned from their mistakes. I have a beige G3 now, and it's pretty easy to get into. The current case is more or less the same one that they've used since the blue-and-white G3s came out in '99, and they are SWEET. Easy to get into, relatively easy for those with large hands to things, solid, easy-to-open, stays shut when it should, etc. The handles may look goofy but there are times when they are handy.
And yes, the case isn't everything, of course. However, it is an instance of attention to detail that, with other attentions, adds up to a much nicer computing experience, in the opinions of some (including me, I admit).
Apple has made some mistakes in the past, but Lord, who hasn't? They seem so to make them less frequently as time goes on and they learn from their mistakes, or at least they are now. And these days, even when they do make a mistake (like with the Cube), at least it's an interesting mistake from which they can learn new things by trying something different.
As for the Naziism remark, I apologize; I should have been clearer. It was the fact that I had to pay for it whether or not I even had the product. Apple's approach was "Here is what you get for your money." Like their product or not, at least it's a straightforward deal. M$ was "Whether you get it or not, you have to pay for it." *Bzzt!* Sorry, no dice.
I read the rant, big whoop. He's citing a comparison by someone I've spoken to on a Mac forum from time to time. The point of his comparisons (he's done several) is not that the Macintosh will solve world hunger or anything. He was trying to debunk the myth that Macs are expensive in a bang-for-your-buck method. In other words, he tried tricking out systems from various windows OEMs and Apple's online store, compared prices, and guess what? The Mac came out even and sometimes ahead of the others.
This, apparently, caused an uninformed rant that /.'s dieties decided was newsworthy. Boy, this place has gotten so far downhill I may have to turn to NFL Fantasy League boards for higher levels of erudition and intellectual stimulation.
Ask your local NBA team. They seem to have all the "inside scoop" on things like that.
I got to use a three-month old TiBook with OS X this weekend. I had to give it back today, and I'm going through withdrawal.
Being required to ship a functional version of Windows without IE commingled would be one.
Forget the browser, when was the last time MS shipped a functional version of Windows, period?