A slightly faster G4, along with probably more base memory, larger base hard drive, better video card, stuff like that. Possibly widescreen.
Mactels are due in '06. A G4 speedbump has been waiting for like 9 months now already. It is long overdue, really.
Because it has already been 9 months or so since the last update of the iBook, and Mactels aren't due until 2006. They need something fresh on the market for back to school.
Not true. I got carded at a supermarket (Meijer) when I bought a copy of Black Hawk Down as a Christmas present for my uncle. I was 18 at the time, IIRC, so they let me buy it, but I thought it was interesting that they carded me.
Now, that doesn't stop me from buying it and giving it to my nine-year-old cousin. That is what my uncle, his wife and their V-chip are for.
Things like movie and game ratings and V-chips are TOOLS to help parents. They are not substitute parents, and they were never designed to be substitute parents.
I like their software. Their hardware will still be nice. Not as different, but still nice, even if it is still overpriced. But their OS won't change. It will still be a nice, easy to use OS with Unix underpinnings. That is why I bought my iBook, not because it has a G4 processor.
How does it FEEL? What kind of keyswitches does it have? Cheapo membrane, ALPS keyswitches? Buckling spring? Does it have nice, crisp key feel, with positive feedback on when you have actually pressed a key, or does it have squisy rubber domes under all of the keys? Do the keys travel a full distance, or are they short-throw scissor-switch keys like a laptop? Will the final version really be so... FLAT?
Why the FUCK would you want to re-encode ANY lossy format such as AAC, MP3 or OGG Vorbis into FLAC? It is a pointless, stupid waste of space, time and computrons.
I'm recommending one to my parents, and that my parents get my sister an iBook when she goes off to college for pretty much the same reason. I have an iBook, and I love it. Linux, like on my main workstation, would be nicer for certain things, but the iBook is just completely trouble-free. It isn't the fastest little thing, only 1ghz, and OSX isn't quite as... Unix as I would like, but the extra gig of RAM I just ordered ought to speed it up a lot (only 256 megs in it now - yes, I know) and I have a dual Athlon box for when I need fast processing. That box (and all of my other computers) runs Linux, so I use that when I need the *nix stuff. OSX can deal with some of that stuff, but X11 is a bit painful on 256 megs, and some of the stuff doesn't work quite right, mainly lower level stuff that I'm just not used to yet.
My parents have so much trouble with their current computer. It's running Windows 98SE, which is horrible. I get calls all the time and have to fix stuff over the phone. "Click here, click there. Ok, now click Properties. Click this, click that. YOU CLICKED CANCEL? WHY?!" Grr. I told them I don't want to support their old Pentium 3 running Windows 98se anymore. Get a Mac, or get support somewhere else. I don't know XP well enough to support them on that, and I'm not willing to deal with 9x anymore. If they have issues with 98, they back their stuff up and use the re-image disk I prepared for them.
I know my optical mouse on my main workstation will sometimes start jiggling around a few pixels on the screen if I don't touch it for a while. I think it is the surface of my desk: shiny varnished wood. If it is on a certain place on the wood, it has issues tracking, and starts jiggling around. If I am going to be leaving for a while, I usually slip a book or something under the mouse; that seems to cure the problem.
Was that in formal essays? Or was it in papers that are meant to have a more informal, conversational style in order to make the reader more comfortable?
I think that's right but do you ever use a "'" with a plural?
No.
However, in this case the ' is replacing "vertisement", so technically its use is correct. Just as in words like "bag o' flamin' shit" and dates like "'94".
It is, of course, not really "correct" to shorten words in this manner, so it probably will not pass muster in a formal paper of any sort.
If "ad" is actually a word, "ad's" is not correct, unless it is referring to something belonging to the "ad", because apostrophies are not used to make plurals.
IIRC, the way the top works is that it is spinning fast enough to act as a gyroscope strong enough to keep the top from flipping over. When it slows down enough, it flips over and comes crashing down to the base violently.
Not to mention that they aren't really all that great of recordings. They sound rushed, and 128kbps mp3 is WAY too low for Beethoven.
Besides which, I have several recordings of Beethoven symphonies. I think I have three or four different versions of the 9th, two or three of the 7th, three or four of the 3rd, etc. From all different record companies. One free recording, and a mediocre one at that, isn't going to stop people from buying CDs, even of the same piece.
That's what I use. It is plenty permanent enough. I haven't had it come off accidentally. More expensive than cable ties, but a lot more convenient, and it holds just fine.
Not to mention that bikes aren't fast enough to make it interesting. You could pull off onto the sidewalk and walk your bike while staring at the screen, and you wouldn't need to worry about hitting a line.
When you are just learning an instrument, you should learn to play it "perfectly" and mechanically, before you add in artistic expression. You have to get the technique down first. Once you have that, the expression follows. If you can't play the notes in the first place, nobody cares if you can play with all the feeling in the world. It still won't sound good. Likewise, if you can play all of the notes, but you sound like a robot with no feeling, nobody will want to listen to you. But who really gives a shit about that in 7th grade band? You are there to learn how to play an instrument, not give memorable performances.
I think it is nice to have that speaking there. The main audience of this music is people who haven't heard the symphonies before, or have never really listened to them. The description of the piece, what to listen for, etc. is quite useful for people like that. They probably want to skip it the second time through, though.
You really have to JUST LISTEN to the Beethoven symphonies. At least once, just listen to them. Don't use it as background music, just listen for the themes and variations, the instruments playing off of one another, etc. Sit in a dark room, crank it up on your stereo, sit in a comfortable chair, and listen.
And these really aren't great recordings, unfortunately. The conductor takes everything VERY fast, MUCH faster than any other recording I have heard, and it really detracts from the music. It sounds neat the first time through in some movements of some of the symphonies, but it is just too much. The orchestra is very good, but the conductor is mediocre compared to the greats. I LOVE my live recording of Wilhelm Furtwangler with the Beyreuth Fesival Orchestra. It has some sound issues, sounds like someone brushed a microphone at one point, and a couple clams, but the music just shines through all of the defects.
You can listen to them for as long as you want. But they only have them avaliable for download on their website for the next 7 days. Well, the 6th is probably nearing the end of it's seven days pretty soon, the 9th should be up until Friday, I think.
Can anyone give a reason why to choose inkjet over laserprinters apart from the initial purchase costs?
Large format photo printing. Sure you can DO it on a colour laser, but an inkjet produces much better results. Really good photo prints on the dye-sub printers you can get now only get so large, so after that you need to go to inkjet if you want to print them yourself. If you get a high-end (business class) inkjet they are relatively cost-effective, especially if you also get a b/w laser to go along with it. The HP Business Inkjet 1200dn has a network print server and duplexer for $250. The $34 black cartridge holds 69ml, so that saves a lot right there on black printing.
And Apple probably won't care, as long as you are buying the OS from them, and not pirating it. You know why?
Because my friend, who is studying Graphic Design, owns a PowerMac. He uses it for art stuff. Great art stuff. What he can do with that computer is amazing. But he doesn't care what processor his computer has. He is used to OSX, and has specific needs as far as software that will run on his computer (mainly Photoshop and Illustrator). And he doesn't know enough about computers to mess with any crappy loader. He will buy a Mac anyway, and use OSX on it. And so will 99% of Apple's customers.
The amount of people that will be building their own Opteron-based Mac clones will be completely irrelavent compared to the VAST majority of Apple's market.
Which is why I think people are overreacting to this. Apple has gone through two huge transitions already, and has done just fine. I don't see this as being as difficult as the OS9 to OSX transition.
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A slightly faster G4, along with probably more base memory, larger base hard drive, better video card, stuff like that. Possibly widescreen. Mactels are due in '06. A G4 speedbump has been waiting for like 9 months now already. It is long overdue, really.
Because it has already been 9 months or so since the last update of the iBook, and Mactels aren't due until 2006. They need something fresh on the market for back to school.
Not true. I got carded at a supermarket (Meijer) when I bought a copy of Black Hawk Down as a Christmas present for my uncle. I was 18 at the time, IIRC, so they let me buy it, but I thought it was interesting that they carded me.
Now, that doesn't stop me from buying it and giving it to my nine-year-old cousin. That is what my uncle, his wife and their V-chip are for.
Things like movie and game ratings and V-chips are TOOLS to help parents. They are not substitute parents, and they were never designed to be substitute parents.
I like their software. Their hardware will still be nice. Not as different, but still nice, even if it is still overpriced. But their OS won't change. It will still be a nice, easy to use OS with Unix underpinnings. That is why I bought my iBook, not because it has a G4 processor.
How does it FEEL? What kind of keyswitches does it have? Cheapo membrane, ALPS keyswitches? Buckling spring? Does it have nice, crisp key feel, with positive feedback on when you have actually pressed a key, or does it have squisy rubber domes under all of the keys? Do the keys travel a full distance, or are they short-throw scissor-switch keys like a laptop? Will the final version really be so... FLAT?
Why the FUCK would you want to re-encode ANY lossy format such as AAC, MP3 or OGG Vorbis into FLAC? It is a pointless, stupid waste of space, time and computrons.
I'm recommending one to my parents, and that my parents get my sister an iBook when she goes off to college for pretty much the same reason. I have an iBook, and I love it. Linux, like on my main workstation, would be nicer for certain things, but the iBook is just completely trouble-free. It isn't the fastest little thing, only 1ghz, and OSX isn't quite as... Unix as I would like, but the extra gig of RAM I just ordered ought to speed it up a lot (only 256 megs in it now - yes, I know) and I have a dual Athlon box for when I need fast processing. That box (and all of my other computers) runs Linux, so I use that when I need the *nix stuff. OSX can deal with some of that stuff, but X11 is a bit painful on 256 megs, and some of the stuff doesn't work quite right, mainly lower level stuff that I'm just not used to yet.
My parents have so much trouble with their current computer. It's running Windows 98SE, which is horrible. I get calls all the time and have to fix stuff over the phone. "Click here, click there. Ok, now click Properties. Click this, click that. YOU CLICKED CANCEL? WHY?!" Grr. I told them I don't want to support their old Pentium 3 running Windows 98se anymore. Get a Mac, or get support somewhere else. I don't know XP well enough to support them on that, and I'm not willing to deal with 9x anymore. If they have issues with 98, they back their stuff up and use the re-image disk I prepared for them.
I know my optical mouse on my main workstation will sometimes start jiggling around a few pixels on the screen if I don't touch it for a while. I think it is the surface of my desk: shiny varnished wood. If it is on a certain place on the wood, it has issues tracking, and starts jiggling around. If I am going to be leaving for a while, I usually slip a book or something under the mouse; that seems to cure the problem.
Yeah, same here.
Was that in formal essays? Or was it in papers that are meant to have a more informal, conversational style in order to make the reader more comfortable?
No.
However, in this case the ' is replacing "vertisement", so technically its use is correct. Just as in words like "bag o' flamin' shit" and dates like "'94".
It is, of course, not really "correct" to shorten words in this manner, so it probably will not pass muster in a formal paper of any sort.
If "ad" is actually a word, "ad's" is not correct, unless it is referring to something belonging to the "ad", because apostrophies are not used to make plurals.
IIRC, the way the top works is that it is spinning fast enough to act as a gyroscope strong enough to keep the top from flipping over. When it slows down enough, it flips over and comes crashing down to the base violently.
Not to mention that they aren't really all that great of recordings. They sound rushed, and 128kbps mp3 is WAY too low for Beethoven.
Besides which, I have several recordings of Beethoven symphonies. I think I have three or four different versions of the 9th, two or three of the 7th, three or four of the 3rd, etc. From all different record companies. One free recording, and a mediocre one at that, isn't going to stop people from buying CDs, even of the same piece.
That's what I use. It is plenty permanent enough. I haven't had it come off accidentally. More expensive than cable ties, but a lot more convenient, and it holds just fine.
Not to mention that bikes aren't fast enough to make it interesting. You could pull off onto the sidewalk and walk your bike while staring at the screen, and you wouldn't need to worry about hitting a line.
When you are just learning an instrument, you should learn to play it "perfectly" and mechanically, before you add in artistic expression. You have to get the technique down first. Once you have that, the expression follows. If you can't play the notes in the first place, nobody cares if you can play with all the feeling in the world. It still won't sound good. Likewise, if you can play all of the notes, but you sound like a robot with no feeling, nobody will want to listen to you. But who really gives a shit about that in 7th grade band? You are there to learn how to play an instrument, not give memorable performances.
I think it is nice to have that speaking there. The main audience of this music is people who haven't heard the symphonies before, or have never really listened to them. The description of the piece, what to listen for, etc. is quite useful for people like that. They probably want to skip it the second time through, though.
You really have to JUST LISTEN to the Beethoven symphonies. At least once, just listen to them. Don't use it as background music, just listen for the themes and variations, the instruments playing off of one another, etc. Sit in a dark room, crank it up on your stereo, sit in a comfortable chair, and listen.
And these really aren't great recordings, unfortunately. The conductor takes everything VERY fast, MUCH faster than any other recording I have heard, and it really detracts from the music. It sounds neat the first time through in some movements of some of the symphonies, but it is just too much. The orchestra is very good, but the conductor is mediocre compared to the greats. I LOVE my live recording of Wilhelm Furtwangler with the Beyreuth Fesival Orchestra. It has some sound issues, sounds like someone brushed a microphone at one point, and a couple clams, but the music just shines through all of the defects.
You can listen to them for as long as you want. But they only have them avaliable for download on their website for the next 7 days. Well, the 6th is probably nearing the end of it's seven days pretty soon, the 9th should be up until Friday, I think.
Just use it with any text editor. There are two great choices avaliable for Linux: vim in a terminal, or gvim in X.
Eh? Don't you saw off BOTH ends? I.e. the end of the barrel, AND the end of the stock, so as to make it more easily concealable?
Large format photo printing. Sure you can DO it on a colour laser, but an inkjet produces much better results. Really good photo prints on the dye-sub printers you can get now only get so large, so after that you need to go to inkjet if you want to print them yourself. If you get a high-end (business class) inkjet they are relatively cost-effective, especially if you also get a b/w laser to go along with it. The HP Business Inkjet 1200dn has a network print server and duplexer for $250. The $34 black cartridge holds 69ml, so that saves a lot right there on black printing.
Sorry, but most freezers are gas-based.
And Apple probably won't care, as long as you are buying the OS from them, and not pirating it. You know why?
Because my friend, who is studying Graphic Design, owns a PowerMac. He uses it for art stuff. Great art stuff. What he can do with that computer is amazing. But he doesn't care what processor his computer has. He is used to OSX, and has specific needs as far as software that will run on his computer (mainly Photoshop and Illustrator). And he doesn't know enough about computers to mess with any crappy loader. He will buy a Mac anyway, and use OSX on it. And so will 99% of Apple's customers.
The amount of people that will be building their own Opteron-based Mac clones will be completely irrelavent compared to the VAST majority of Apple's market.
Actually, probably both.
Which is why I think people are overreacting to this. Apple has gone through two huge transitions already, and has done just fine. I don't see this as being as difficult as the OS9 to OSX transition.