Why? The Apple fans that buy Macs because they have OMG PPC970 will be chased away, sure. But not the ones that buy Macs because they are Macs. As long as it runs OSX and Photoshop, looks pretty sitting on their desk, and Steve Jobs said "Hey, you know, this is pretty good!" they are sold. The fact that they will most likely cost significantly less will be an added bonus for them, and likely attract even more customers than the switch chased away. People will likely not buy Dells, only to load them with OSX, because people generally use their computer the way it came until it dies. If someone wants OSX, they will buy an Apple, just like they do now.
And nothing has been said yet on if you WOULD be able to load it on any Dell or Gateway system. It could very well need some proprietary Mac hardware to run on. The CPU may be the core of the computer, but there are other things, too, such as the chipset and BIOS that could be Apple-exclusive.
I fail to see how this can have a SIGNIFICANT impact to Apple's install-base in the short term, and only see good things in the long term.
There were rumors, but I am still amazed that something like this could be kept secret for so long. When I heard the rumors, I expected it would be more like something that was kinda-sorta half-working-with-lots-of-bugs, but it sounds more like it is more along the lines of ready for beta testing.
Well, not really. If they pay for recycling at the same time as they buy the TV, the recycling is paid for, and they drop it off for free at the recycling center, or even leave it on the side of the road with their garbage to be picked up Tuesday afternoon.
If, however, they have to drive it to the recycling center and fork over a few bucks to get the thing off their hands, a good portion of the people will simply leave it in the most convenient drainage ditch, roll it down the nearest ravine, or dump it behind a tree in the city park down the road.
Another option is to raise taxes in the area to pay for the service, which I don't think is a good idea, because it puts an equal burden on everybody. The rich guy replacing his "obsolete" TV every year with a nice new higher-definition screen will pay the same as the poor family that just replaced their 1982 Zenith because it stopped working.
Speaking of the rich guy that gets rid of his TV to replace it with a new one every year, I am sure the poor family would be happy to go buy the TV he used last year, that still works just fine, from the recycle center after he dumps it.
Finally, any of the plans can benefit from a deposit scheme. Tack on another $15 at purchase, to be refunded when you drop it off at the recycle center. They do it here with soda bottles. I don't even think about the deposit when I purchase the things. Ten cents is nothing. But a whole dime for every can I tote back to the store and feed to the nifty machine? RECYCLING RULES!
Well, that is the whole trick of subtle appearance modifications. Work with the design of the car, rather than against it. You can buy something pre-made, or you can do something unique. Also, some people enjoy tinkering. Sure, you can buy an M3, like so many people do, or you can buy a 325, swap in a different engine, and do a lot of work to it, and you end up with something that may or may not be as fast as an M3, but it is your own creation, rather than a cookie-cutter performance car that a few thousand people already have. You might even end up spending as much as you would for an M3, but it is something YOU had input on the creative process.
I have seen modified Civics that are tastefully done, and look very good. However, they are few and far between. I see a LOT more M3s and Porsches than I do tastefully modified Civics.
You can make a VW Golf fast, however, most Boy Racers (same concept as "ricers") don't do anything to the engine. They just paste on a huge wing, carbon fibre hood, unpainted body kit, crappy paint job and lots and lots of stickers. And maybe some huge wheels, a loud exhaust system, and a few coils cut off the springs to make it ride lower (and bottom out on the seams between highway sections).
The problem people have with "Type-R" is that teenagers seem to like to plaster their cars with Type-R stickers, and worship the "Honda Type-R" as if it were the greatest car ever. Sure, it might be better than some cars, certainly it is better than their Civic with a giant aluminium wing on the back of it, but it isn't the greatest car in the world, by a long strech.
These teenagers tend to drive as if they were in "The Fast and the Furious", too, which is the real problem. I get people messing with me on the highway all the time. Pulling up behind me and flashing their brights, flying past me, then slowing down and matching speed, only to speed up until they are a few car lengths ahead of me, and slow down to match speed again, etc. I don't know what they hope to prove by racing a Saturn.
BTW, although the term "ricer" started as a racial term, that no longer is so. It has more to do with an attitude. Anyone that takes a car and plasters it with tasteless appearance mods, does a few minor bolt-on engine mods, and thinks their car is hot stuff can be called a ricer, whether they are white, black, asian, whatever, and no matter what car they are driving, be it a Civic, Cavalier, Camaro or Peugeot. A tastefully modified Civic, with nice wheels (none of those huge chrome monstrosities with rubber bands streched around them), clean paint job (and no stickers), subtle body kit and spoiler (painted to match, of course) and minor lowering (properly done, i.e. not cut springs, and followed with an alignment), with performance mods to back it up (i.e. beyond a cold air intake and catback, say, perhaps, a built engine with forged internals, lower compression ratio, and a turbo, upgraded fuel delivery and a dyno tuned computer) is not rice.
My family has a cabin in Michigan's upper peninsula. No running water, no electricity, virtually no cell phone service. I have been off the grid for three weeks at a time occasionally.
Quite fun, really. I get a lot of reading done, and wander around the woods.
Most universities will get rid of old stuff the school doesn't need. Old computer equipment, everything from Pentium 133 PCs to beige G3s to old IBM mainframes, big plotters, copy machines, desks from renovated dorm rooms, and all manner of odd scientific equipment that nobody knows what it does. Sometimes a university will have a big warehouse that they sell this stuff continuously from, and sometimes it is just a big auction sometime during the school year.
You could probably find an overhead projector there.
A hub is most certainly NOT a layer 2 device. All a hub does is re-transmit the data across multiple ports. It doesn't even look at the data. A switch actually looks at the frames, and sends them to only the port that needs it.
I do not know where this would fit in with dual-speed hubs, however.
The fuck is a layer 3 switch? I keep hearing this term. I was taught that hubs work on Layer 1 (physical), switches on Layer 2 (data link layer - i.e. dealing with MAC addresses) and routers on Layer 3 (network - i.e. dealing with IP addresses). Is "Layer 3 Switch" just cisco for what everyone else calls a "Router"?
Meh, I'd rather clean it off and stuff it back there than have to mess around with it later. It doesn't take long to do, and certainly can't hurt anything. Anyway, I already have both isopropyl alcohol on hand, and cotton swabs. In a pinch, you could probably use a clean t-shirt and some vodka.
I wasn't talking so much about the initial quality of the connection, but rather the quality after several years. Connect it right the first time, and you won't have to pull it out and clean the connections after five or ten years.
I can hear a slight difference. Is that difference worth the extreme difference in cost? No way. Get medium priced cables that are fairly heavy gauge and, I cannot stress this enough, AS SHORT AS YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH. The MOST EFFECTIVE way of improving the sound of your stereo by changing cables is to simply stop using 3m cables wadded up and stuffed behind your stereo. A decent quality 1m or shorter cable will probably cost the same as a cheap 3m cable.
Also, wipe off the connectors on your stereo equipment and cable ends with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab right before you connect them. This will ensure a good connection with no finger oil or manufacturing oils on the connectors.
And you will probably get the best improvement in sound simply by positioning your speakers properly.
On a shelf. They don't really take up a whole lot of space if you use shelves that are properly small. Not portable, but you can find stuff a LOT faster than any other storage method.
OOh, nice.
I've got a VESA Localbus Diamond Stealth in a mobo with 40 megs of RAM and a 80.3MHz Pentium Overdrive for 486 processor, but I don't have a case for it, and the hard drive was transplanted to my server, which is a Pentium 233 MMX.
Works fine on my 12" 1GHz iBook G4. I was just about to buy SideTrack, but this is even better. I agree with the person above that says to get the XY only one.
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Why? The Apple fans that buy Macs because they have OMG PPC970 will be chased away, sure. But not the ones that buy Macs because they are Macs. As long as it runs OSX and Photoshop, looks pretty sitting on their desk, and Steve Jobs said "Hey, you know, this is pretty good!" they are sold. The fact that they will most likely cost significantly less will be an added bonus for them, and likely attract even more customers than the switch chased away. People will likely not buy Dells, only to load them with OSX, because people generally use their computer the way it came until it dies. If someone wants OSX, they will buy an Apple, just like they do now.
And nothing has been said yet on if you WOULD be able to load it on any Dell or Gateway system. It could very well need some proprietary Mac hardware to run on. The CPU may be the core of the computer, but there are other things, too, such as the chipset and BIOS that could be Apple-exclusive.
I fail to see how this can have a SIGNIFICANT impact to Apple's install-base in the short term, and only see good things in the long term.
There were rumors, but I am still amazed that something like this could be kept secret for so long. When I heard the rumors, I expected it would be more like something that was kinda-sorta half-working-with-lots-of-bugs, but it sounds more like it is more along the lines of ready for beta testing.
Sell them? What? I strip them. The only parts that leave the house are (gutted) cases and broken stuff.
Well, not really. If they pay for recycling at the same time as they buy the TV, the recycling is paid for, and they drop it off for free at the recycling center, or even leave it on the side of the road with their garbage to be picked up Tuesday afternoon.
If, however, they have to drive it to the recycling center and fork over a few bucks to get the thing off their hands, a good portion of the people will simply leave it in the most convenient drainage ditch, roll it down the nearest ravine, or dump it behind a tree in the city park down the road.
Another option is to raise taxes in the area to pay for the service, which I don't think is a good idea, because it puts an equal burden on everybody. The rich guy replacing his "obsolete" TV every year with a nice new higher-definition screen will pay the same as the poor family that just replaced their 1982 Zenith because it stopped working.
Speaking of the rich guy that gets rid of his TV to replace it with a new one every year, I am sure the poor family would be happy to go buy the TV he used last year, that still works just fine, from the recycle center after he dumps it.
Finally, any of the plans can benefit from a deposit scheme. Tack on another $15 at purchase, to be refunded when you drop it off at the recycle center. They do it here with soda bottles. I don't even think about the deposit when I purchase the things. Ten cents is nothing. But a whole dime for every can I tote back to the store and feed to the nifty machine? RECYCLING RULES!
Well, that is the whole trick of subtle appearance modifications. Work with the design of the car, rather than against it. You can buy something pre-made, or you can do something unique. Also, some people enjoy tinkering. Sure, you can buy an M3, like so many people do, or you can buy a 325, swap in a different engine, and do a lot of work to it, and you end up with something that may or may not be as fast as an M3, but it is your own creation, rather than a cookie-cutter performance car that a few thousand people already have. You might even end up spending as much as you would for an M3, but it is something YOU had input on the creative process.
I have seen modified Civics that are tastefully done, and look very good. However, they are few and far between. I see a LOT more M3s and Porsches than I do tastefully modified Civics.
You can make a VW Golf fast, however, most Boy Racers (same concept as "ricers") don't do anything to the engine. They just paste on a huge wing, carbon fibre hood, unpainted body kit, crappy paint job and lots and lots of stickers. And maybe some huge wheels, a loud exhaust system, and a few coils cut off the springs to make it ride lower (and bottom out on the seams between highway sections).
The problem people have with "Type-R" is that teenagers seem to like to plaster their cars with Type-R stickers, and worship the "Honda Type-R" as if it were the greatest car ever. Sure, it might be better than some cars, certainly it is better than their Civic with a giant aluminium wing on the back of it, but it isn't the greatest car in the world, by a long strech.
These teenagers tend to drive as if they were in "The Fast and the Furious", too, which is the real problem. I get people messing with me on the highway all the time. Pulling up behind me and flashing their brights, flying past me, then slowing down and matching speed, only to speed up until they are a few car lengths ahead of me, and slow down to match speed again, etc. I don't know what they hope to prove by racing a Saturn.
BTW, although the term "ricer" started as a racial term, that no longer is so. It has more to do with an attitude. Anyone that takes a car and plasters it with tasteless appearance mods, does a few minor bolt-on engine mods, and thinks their car is hot stuff can be called a ricer, whether they are white, black, asian, whatever, and no matter what car they are driving, be it a Civic, Cavalier, Camaro or Peugeot. A tastefully modified Civic, with nice wheels (none of those huge chrome monstrosities with rubber bands streched around them), clean paint job (and no stickers), subtle body kit and spoiler (painted to match, of course) and minor lowering (properly done, i.e. not cut springs, and followed with an alignment), with performance mods to back it up (i.e. beyond a cold air intake and catback, say, perhaps, a built engine with forged internals, lower compression ratio, and a turbo, upgraded fuel delivery and a dyno tuned computer) is not rice.
Well, this phone here on my desk only has two wires, so I guess that answers that question.
My family has a cabin in Michigan's upper peninsula. No running water, no electricity, virtually no cell phone service. I have been off the grid for three weeks at a time occasionally.
Quite fun, really. I get a lot of reading done, and wander around the woods.
Most universities will get rid of old stuff the school doesn't need. Old computer equipment, everything from Pentium 133 PCs to beige G3s to old IBM mainframes, big plotters, copy machines, desks from renovated dorm rooms, and all manner of odd scientific equipment that nobody knows what it does. Sometimes a university will have a big warehouse that they sell this stuff continuously from, and sometimes it is just a big auction sometime during the school year.
You could probably find an overhead projector there.
You are in 12th grade. With the English skills of a...
Kids these days.
A typo in an article? Fine. A typo in an article summary? Well, OK, not THAT bad, but in a HEADLINE? It's in big bold text. Kind of hard to miss.
Typos in the headlines. What are editors for, again?
It was a joke. There WAS no Slackware 5. Or 6.
Delete the USB mass storage drivers?
A hub is most certainly NOT a layer 2 device. All a hub does is re-transmit the data across multiple ports. It doesn't even look at the data. A switch actually looks at the frames, and sends them to only the port that needs it. I do not know where this would fit in with dual-speed hubs, however.
The fuck is a layer 3 switch? I keep hearing this term. I was taught that hubs work on Layer 1 (physical), switches on Layer 2 (data link layer - i.e. dealing with MAC addresses) and routers on Layer 3 (network - i.e. dealing with IP addresses). Is "Layer 3 Switch" just cisco for what everyone else calls a "Router"?
Meh, I'd rather clean it off and stuff it back there than have to mess around with it later. It doesn't take long to do, and certainly can't hurt anything. Anyway, I already have both isopropyl alcohol on hand, and cotton swabs. In a pinch, you could probably use a clean t-shirt and some vodka.
I wasn't talking so much about the initial quality of the connection, but rather the quality after several years. Connect it right the first time, and you won't have to pull it out and clean the connections after five or ten years.
I can hear a slight difference. Is that difference worth the extreme difference in cost? No way. Get medium priced cables that are fairly heavy gauge and, I cannot stress this enough, AS SHORT AS YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH. The MOST EFFECTIVE way of improving the sound of your stereo by changing cables is to simply stop using 3m cables wadded up and stuffed behind your stereo. A decent quality 1m or shorter cable will probably cost the same as a cheap 3m cable.
Thicker gauge cable + shorter length == better sound.
Also, wipe off the connectors on your stereo equipment and cable ends with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab right before you connect them. This will ensure a good connection with no finger oil or manufacturing oils on the connectors.
And you will probably get the best improvement in sound simply by positioning your speakers properly.
On a shelf. They don't really take up a whole lot of space if you use shelves that are properly small. Not portable, but you can find stuff a LOT faster than any other storage method.
Does it let you skip the postal code field?
OOh, nice. I've got a VESA Localbus Diamond Stealth in a mobo with 40 megs of RAM and a 80.3MHz Pentium Overdrive for 486 processor, but I don't have a case for it, and the hard drive was transplanted to my server, which is a Pentium 233 MMX.
Works fine on my 12" 1GHz iBook G4. I was just about to buy SideTrack, but this is even better. I agree with the person above that says to get the XY only one.
Netcraft confirms... ...BSD is dying.
You could install SWareT, and upgrade it to 10.1 easily.