Well, Saddam Hussein was kind of involved. You see his is a big homo, the whole dictator thing was just an S&M seen that got out of hand. As if the military uniform fetish wasn't a dead giveaway, the decor of his palaces screams big old queen.
(if you listen closely you'll hear the sound of this post being moded OT and troll.)
The jews did not do the wtc, the pentagon yes but not the wtc. The Homos' did the wtc. It's all part of their plan to bring the Nazi party back to power after reducing the US population down to a bunch of subservient rednecks.
it's a breed of legislator small enough to fit in the breast coat pocket of the party leadership. Their markings are identcal to the Standard Republican (Moral Values Legislator). The primary difference between Pocket and Standard Republicans is that the Pocket verity can only speek in sound bites on AM radio.
I think you put it a little bluntly, but I think your mostly right on this. Last week my boyfriend and I were talking to the brother of one of my coworkers. He was home on leave from the Marines. He was on a tank crew in Iraq. He was telling us how pimp his lifted 4 wheel drive Chevy looked with 38 inch tires on the rear and 35 inch tires on the frount. My BF is a 4x4 nut. He can site the specs for most transfer cases GM has made in the last 30 years. I'm a car guy (i don't have a kitchen I have an engine assmebly area) We know that you want the wheels your putting the power to to turn at about the same rate.
My BF and I could not get him to under stand that running his basically stock drive train in 4WD was a bad idea because running the frount wheels faster than the back wheels would cause one of his differentials to fail (differentials are in most cases not a cheap part). A best case failure would mean just loosing 4WD, a worst case failure could lead to a fire (very unlikely, but still possible). After about ten minutes of trying to convince him to buy uniform sized tires or use 4WD only when absolutely nessary, he says, "You guys are gay. What do you know about trucks." and drives off.
All I could say after he left was, "Our military has certified him in the use of fire arms."
I'm not tring to paint the military as a bunch of brain dead thugs but there are a few that do great disservice to the uniform
I've got a motocross fetish. I think you want me inside with the Mac. Unless you want to see a man in Sinisalo riding gear having his way with another man bent over a KTM 250.
But i'm sure that if you ran across a seen like that in the woods you would pause and say, "Well, that's interesting."
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Its that Picassoish light bulb. People ask me what it is and I tell them its a symbol for good ideas that no one knows what to do with.
my 64 plymouth Valiant wagon with the push button automatic has a neutral safety switch. If the bottom of the mopar line 1964 A-body has one I think the 1968 chrysler newport (C-body) would have one. odds are that the Newport had a 383 in it and as I pointed out if the throttle was that far open the engine would have flooded.
The car wouldn't have started in gear. Ever heard of a neutral safety switch? It's this little thing in your transmission that prevents the starter from engaging if the gear selector isn't in N or P.
But for arguments sake let us say that the neutral safety switch was broken or disabled. The throttle was open far enough that when the cop started the car it would have flooded.
Do not mock the large blond male henchmen. They get very upset when compared to the buxom females, and when 300 lb of man muscle gets upset very expensive "lasers" get smashed. Lets not forget that with female henchmen you will be open to attack for about one week a month as they all sit around, eat chocolate, and bitch about "water weight". Male Henchmen will do ANYTHING as long as you use the magic phrase "Chicks dig guys that (fill in request)."
And why on god's ass crack are you useing a PCI-Express Death Ray Control Card? The drivers are propriety as hell. At least the firewire model has GPL drivers.
My daily driver is a 64 Plymouth Valiant wagon my for fun car is a 1963 Corvair Spyder. I would love for someone to tell me that I had to install one of these. "Welcome to Withoutlube Insurance Company. How may I help you sir?" "You sent this to me to put in my car but I can't get it to work." "Oh you just plug it into the port under the dash." "What port?" "It really simple sir, I'll show you. Witch car is yours?" "The orange one." "You just plug it in right....." "Right where?" "Well this is funny, the port should be right here."
Preach it brother! I've been useing my eMate 300 for the last 3 years. With out fail some one at the coffee shop will ask me if it's new, they get a funny look on their faces when i tell them it nearly ten years old. I can only dream how it would run with with 200+ mhz and 64+ mb.
if you get hit by a bolt of lightning in a composite airplane you would have problems anyway. in a metal airplane the lighting would pass right through you, gas of electic you wouldn't be grounded so no big deal. the real killer with lightning strikes is the heat generated by the 1.21 gigawatts. In a fiberglass and foam airframe it's the big hole in the wing that kills you. Not lossing your engine.
I think a few years ago Lancair solved this by putting a clear matalic coating on the plane, it was sposed to help if not solve the problem.
As far as the air frame goes its nothing new under the sun, looks like another KIS of Lancair knockoff. The Motor is simlar to the ones used in home EV converts. The real neat bit it the batterys, If I recall correctlly he said that a car battery would be about the size of a CD jewel case and weigh about 8-10 OZ. He was very nice and willing to explain every thing in great detail.
I found a story on lowendmac.com that explans all of this:
http://www.lowendmac.com/lite/02/0820.html
The Apple Clock of Doom
Jeff Adkins 2002.08.20
Today I plan to weave for you a complex tapestry of paranoid logic so convoluted, so infused with power and incompetence, it will make the folks over at As the Apple Turns drop their newborn on the floor. It will make the Crazy Apple Rumor mongers write haiku for a week. It will cause the MacOS Rumors site to talk about actual user manuals (in print no less), and Think Secret will change its name to Thought Public. Anne Onymus will finally reveal her true identity just for the opportunity to kick me in the head.
As Forrest Gump would say, "Hang on to your buttocks. This is gonna be a wild ride."
The story is complex enough that I will number the stages to help you keep track.
1) Just prior to the recent Macworld, the Mac Web was abuzz with the effrontery of Apple Computer blacklisting certain non-rumor sites as rumor sites and denying them passes as press.
2) Mainstream press at the David Coursey level was beginning to pick up on the story. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being on the evening news of a major television network, this ranks at about a 6 or so. A score of 8 makes it into the syndicated column of a print newspaper, so this is getting close to the Real World that Apple Pays Attention To. (As The Apple Turns rates about a 4 on this scale, and your friendly neighborhood Lite Side resides at 2,with occasional forays into 3 territory.)
3) Seeking to nip the accelerating bad press in the bud, Steve ("Mr. Steve to you") Jobs decides to use a diversionary tactic. In a bold but desperate gambit, he decides to refocus the building ire of Mac web writers on a new topic:.mac.
4) Before any of us can cook up an article on how tacky the ".mac" name is, given the existence of the vaporware ".Net," he ups the ante by declaring ".mac" a pay service.
5) Poof! That's the last you hear about the blacklisting issue as all laser targeting systems are now focused on the relative value, or lack thereof, of ".mac."
6) Mission accomplished: The rumor site complaints dropped from level 6 (and accelerating) to negative numbers -- meaning, "If you think you've got problems, little rumor site, just look at me, I spent my last dime buying OS9 because it had free web storage included." Suddenly the entire blacklisting issue was less than not important -- people actively discouraged you from bringing it up, didn't they? Don't deny it.
7) Then there's the whole timing thing. I mean, look at the influence AtAT has on the Mac Web. Fans are going nuts trying to hire baby-sitters, just so's these people can type. When better to put faithful Macolytes through the meat grinder when their most popular voice is semiconscious, smeared with sticky ground up peas in pear sauce, and staggering over to 7-11 in search of exactly the right kind of diapers?
8) Not to mention the attempts by Microsoft to upstage Apple just prior to Macworld. Remember those? That whole issue lasted, what, about 30 hours or so? And what does Mr. Jobs (Steve) do to squelch these rumors? He steals Microsoft's ideas right back! Why hasn't anyone said anything about what a low-down cheap shot ".mac" is at the delayed, derided, unsanitary ".Net?" Judging from the smoothness of the transition, it looks like it took, what, 29 hours of work to set up ".mac." Are you following me here?
No?
This is all going to tie together, so trust me.
9) During Macworld, Apple's announcements of no-upgrade Jaguar pricing and no-options ".mac" gouging were apparently supposed to be counterbalanced by the various other announcements he made. But not really. I mean, who even remembers what those other announcements were? Some screen size bump, some new OSX features I'm supposed to be happy to pay for.
Am I right here? Of course I am.
10) Now let's start to tie this together. Steve's a product of his environment, and as we all know, he's into that 70s-liberal-anti-Republican-he's-met-Clinton-North ern-California school of thought, whatever that is. (All I know is what I read on Fox News.) Integral to these exposures is the concept of the Chinese Yin-Yang symbol. (Oh yeah, that's a really clear connection. You just have to live anywhere but California to get it, though.) You know, the one that says "All good must be accompanied by evil," or else you wouldn't know what good is, see?
Now, I used to think Apple was Yin to Microsoft's Yang. That whole worldview got messed up when his Steveness pronounced the war between Microsoft and Apple over -- and did that whole Giant Face of Bill irony thing on a Macworld stage a few years back.
11) But I was wrong. Steve's ego is so large, he isn't Yinging to Gate's Yanger (and you can quote me on that out of context if you like). No, see, here's the thing -- and if you're taking notes, you'll want to put a great big box around this with little winky lights like they used to use on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show 'cuz it's important -- the thing is, Steve wants it all. He wants his Yin and Yang in one circle (his) and Microsoft isn't even in the equation at all. Or much.
12) This explains the alternating blasts of brilliance with the black holes of despair we've seen put through the metaphor mixer lately. Seems like he can't come up with a great product (flat panel iMac) without crippling it somehow (no choice in port placement). The creation and transition to OSX is a fantastic, incredible achievement, counterbalanced by the lack of upgrade path for early adopters.
The War with Microsoft is Over (see #10) but the Switch ads are a slap in the face at the Wintel hegemony. The Switch ads are meeting a long-standing demand of writers on the Mac Web (face the competition squarely) but they do so using people who need a shot of caffeine or something to wake up properly.
No positive thing Apple does can be viewed in isolation without its corresponding negative aspect. This is the secret to Apple's recent behavior; it's very simple. Steve is attempting to bring balance to the Force... all by himself.
The obvious thing for us to do, Mac Fans and Smart-Aleck Pundits alike, is to track the changes for him so when he gets too close to the Dark Side or the Lite Side, he can do the appropriate thing to come back. That's why I've decided to establish, following the example of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the countdown until Apple meets its doom clock sponsored by the Bulletin of Mac Web Pundits.
On this clock, 12:00 midnight is the date Apple declares bankruptcy and the following occurs: The Apple logo is purchased by Sony and turned into an off-brand MP3 player logo. Disney buys the rights to OSX and uses it exclusively in Disney World kiosks. The remaining iMac inventory is sold to Pixar. Everything else goes to Dell.
If you want to know how the clock should have been set from 1977 to the present, read the excellent summary at http://www.apple-history.com. All you really need to know is that the Clone Wars occurred from 1993-1997, as Windows was establishing its Mac-like interface, Jobs was not with the company, and Apple suffered a lack of focus, staggering losses, and poor quality control in product development. During those years the clock rarely moved from 1 minute before midnight. After the introduction of the iMac, the clock has been oscillating around 10 minutes before midnight, which is kind of the point of this stupid article.
We begin our analysis just prior to the recent Macworld New York.
June 2002: Clock standing at 10 minutes before midnight. It would be farther out, but an industrywide sales slump plus consumer nervousness following Sept. 11 depresses sales.
July 2002: Rumors circulate that certain Mac Web sites will be banned from MWNY for spreading rumors, a determination which is in and of itself a rumor, ironically. Clock moves to 9 minutes, 45 seconds to midnight. As the month wears on, the clock moves to 9 minutes 30 seconds, and in the days preceding the Expo, the motion accelerates suddenly, all the way to 8 minutes before midnight a couple of days before the keynote due to widening coverage of the fiasco.
July 2002: Microsoft makes several forgettable announcements just prior to Macworld: clock moves to 6 minutes before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs steps on keynote stage: Reality Distortion Field brings clock to 10 minutes before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs announces extra-wide iMac. Clock moves to 11 minutes before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs announces new features for Jaguar: Clock moves to 11 minutes 30 seconds before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs announces Jaguar upgrade price and policy. Clock drops to 9 minutes before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs announces.mac feature set. Clock rises to 10 minutes before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs announces.mac pricing and lack of options for cash-strapped users: Clock drops to 7 minutes before midnight.
July 2002: Macworld ends with clock set at 7 minutes before midnight. Steve is exhausted, but has more fish to fry later in the summer...
July 2002: Rumors circulate that Apple and Sun may develop Office-compatible suite for Mac OSX. Clock jumps to 11 minutes before midnight.
A little later in July: Sun denies rumors and muddles the water a bit: Clock flutters and settles on 8 minutes before midnight.
August 2002: Apple announces $100 price cut on base iMac, bringing price down to level it was before Apple raised the price in first place: Clock moves to 8-1/2 minutes before midnight.
If 10 minutes before midnight is the sweet spot Steve has been oscillating around ever since he killed the Newton, it seems we're overdue for some good news. iWonder what it will be? Stay tuned to the Lite Side. As events develop, we will adjust the Apple Clock of Doom accordingly.
Disclosure notice: The author of this article does not own any Apple stock. In fact, he doesn't own any stock. Moreover, not only does he not have any formal connection with Apple Computer -- he hasn't even done a Marketsource gig in two years -- it is highly unlikely that anyone poised to climb the corporate latter at Apple HQ would be caught reading anything in the Lite Side archive. Therefore, the SEC can take a day off. Enjoy.
The only time that I ever use the floppy drive on my old Power Mac 7500 is when I run PCX (a PC emulator). When I have to move files from one mac to another I put my Powerbook 165c into SCSI dock mode and use it as a HD.
that just what I've done, I hooked my VCR up to my 7500 when I move a few months ago and I gave to tv to a friend. Right now I've go my VCR. my turn table, and my Play Station hooked up the inputs. I've got my Aiwa (cheep but works for me) hook up as the speakers.
That would be a very good idea. Really, think about it, the fuel cell would go under the hood you would replace the rear axle with two electic motors (one on each rear wheel, or better yet one on all four wheels for AWD). Some computers and wires to hook it all up. Your good to go. It would really be no difrent than the home brew electic car that people have been doing for years. you could do this now, but your range would suck more than it was ever thought that suck could be.
personaly I like cars like the Insight. They remind me of when I was five and my dad bought me a go-kart, small, quick, able the piss off old people in under nine seconds, and I like the swooshie shape. But thats just me.
My seinor year of highschool I dug up a cheep used PowerBook to take notes on in class. Because it was an old color model it would suck the battey dry in about half an hour. This ment that I had to sit in the back of the class room where the "other" power was located. I quickly (after about 5 min) reallized that I could play Tetris and look like I was typing notes. My teachers thinking that I would have a hard time keeping up typing vs writing, wouldn't ask me any questions so as not to distract me.
I spent five days a week for nine months playing Tetris, my highest scores were during history classes, my lowest during art classes. My friends would ask me if they "use my notes" meaning that they had a really boring class coming up and they needed something to do.
since graduating I have played exactly 5 games of Tetris in 4 years.
If the lab is just being used for web surfing and writing papers, just load OS 8.1 (not 8.5 or 8.6, sure as hell not 9, because there all to slow on a 601) as the system, use iCab or mozilla for the web, and top it all off with the last version of Office. I've loaded MKlunix on to my old 6100/60 (Issic), I found that it worked better as a Mac (and still works better as a Mac being used by my cousin at collage for, you guessed it, writing papers and web surfing). Loading lunix will also require you yo make sure that the harddrives have been upgraded to the 1.5 to 2.0 GB range that's what MKlunix likes. The stock harddrives run about 300 to 500 MB. Check how much RAM their sporting, if they have less than 24 MB (two 8 MB SIMMS, and 8 MB on the motherboard) just walk away. If they have less than 24 MB you will have to run Virtual Memory (bad) and System 7.5 (worse)(you could run 8.0 or 8.1 but you wouldn't want to with out at least 40 MB RAM).
long story short, if you can get away with keeping Mac OS on them do it. It will save you many headaches. If you need something that only lunix can provide, put the lab up for sale on ebay.
but if you feel that you must run lunix, surf over to www.lowendmac.com. They will be able help you to do what ever you need to get them running.
I don't see how this would be any differant than when i go to my parents house. They live in valley with a limestone bluff to the north, with the biggest urban area (where I live) 30 miles north of that. Hence all the cell towers in the area are blocked by this and my Nokia goes dead. On more than once I've left their house only to have my phone come back to life with about twentey (usualy pissed off) messages. So should I sue God? My reason being that my manager is pissed at me because I won't give her my parents phone number (they value their privacy) and she can't get my on the phone for things that could really wait untill I get back to work.
PS, My mom's work pager not working at home was one of the things that sold her on the house in the first place, Dad was sold on the wiring.
Those silly gooses! There the ones that we (Gay/Lesbian world domiation & SM club) bought our HomoRay8000a from. It's your standard MindRay6000 with a 12 inch purple control rod crystal inplace of the standard 5 inch. Once that cute guy (the one with the yumy blue eyes) gets done hooking it up, and we finish testing it (on him) we'll be able to make every man in the world "change teams". Yes, every police man (clad only in leather jock strap, gun belt, and motorcyle boots) will give and recive head at all traffic stops. Football will be played as it was ment, nude. The Marine Corp. will be filled with screaming bottoms, oh right, it already is. Of couse it would happen so much faster if the Jews would sell us their mind control satalite network. Of all the nerve! they won't sell it out right, they want us to lease it form them.
quick little fact: vinyl will last AT LEAST over 100 years if cleaned before you play it. This is why i'm in the process of finding all my "life sounds" on vinyl becase it will around and playable in 50 years. Unlike CD that last for 20 years tops.
yes, I will to have a deck to play them on. Just got my 1960's RCA Victrola out of the shop, she's good for another 30+ years.s
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Well, Saddam Hussein was kind of involved. You see his is a big homo, the whole dictator thing was just an S&M seen that got out of hand. As if the military uniform fetish wasn't a dead giveaway, the decor of his palaces screams big old queen.
(if you listen closely you'll hear the sound of this post being moded OT and troll.)
The jews did not do the wtc, the pentagon yes but not the wtc.
The Homos' did the wtc. It's all part of their plan to bring the Nazi party back to power after reducing the US population down to a bunch of subservient rednecks.
it's a breed of legislator small enough to fit in the breast coat pocket of the party leadership. Their markings are identcal to the Standard Republican (Moral Values Legislator). The primary difference between Pocket and Standard Republicans is that the Pocket verity can only speek in sound bites on AM radio.
I think you put it a little bluntly, but I think your mostly right on this.
Last week my boyfriend and I were talking to the brother of one of my coworkers. He was home on leave from the Marines. He was on a tank crew in Iraq. He was telling us how pimp his lifted 4 wheel drive Chevy looked with 38 inch tires on the rear and 35 inch tires on the frount.
My BF is a 4x4 nut. He can site the specs for most transfer cases GM has made in the last 30 years.
I'm a car guy (i don't have a kitchen I have an engine assmebly area)
We know that you want the wheels your putting the power to to turn at about the same rate.
My BF and I could not get him to under stand that running his basically stock drive train in 4WD was a bad idea because running the frount wheels faster than the back wheels would cause one of his differentials to fail (differentials are in most cases not a cheap part). A best case failure would mean just loosing 4WD, a worst case failure could lead to a fire (very unlikely, but still possible).
After about ten minutes of trying to convince him to buy uniform sized tires or use 4WD only when absolutely nessary, he says, "You guys are gay. What do you know about trucks." and drives off.
All I could say after he left was, "Our military has certified him in the use of fire arms."
I'm not tring to paint the military as a bunch of brain dead thugs but there are a few that do great disservice to the uniform
Yes, see this is going to fix that.
I've got a motocross fetish. I think you want me inside with the Mac. Unless you want to see a man in Sinisalo riding gear having his way with another man bent over a KTM 250.
But i'm sure that if you ran across a seen like that in the woods you would pause and say, "Well, that's interesting."
Its that Picassoish light bulb. People ask me what it is and I tell them its a symbol for good ideas that no one knows what to do with.
my 64 plymouth Valiant wagon with the push button automatic has a neutral safety switch.
If the bottom of the mopar line 1964 A-body has one I think the 1968 chrysler newport (C-body) would have one.
odds are that the Newport had a 383 in it and as I pointed out if the throttle was that far open the engine would have flooded.
Like I said parent is full of it.
The car wouldn't have started in gear. Ever heard of a neutral safety switch? It's this little thing in your transmission that prevents the starter from engaging if the gear selector isn't in N or P.
But for arguments sake let us say that the neutral safety switch was broken or disabled. The throttle was open far enough that when the cop started the car it would have flooded.
You sir are full of it.
Do not mock the large blond male henchmen. They get very upset when compared to the buxom females, and when 300 lb of man muscle gets upset very expensive "lasers" get smashed.
Lets not forget that with female henchmen you will be open to attack for about one week a month as they all sit around, eat chocolate, and bitch about "water weight".
Male Henchmen will do ANYTHING as long as you use the magic phrase "Chicks dig guys that (fill in request)."
And why on god's ass crack are you useing a PCI-Express Death Ray Control Card? The drivers are propriety as hell. At least the firewire model has GPL drivers.
My daily driver is a 64 Plymouth Valiant wagon my for fun car is a 1963 Corvair Spyder. I would love for someone to tell me that I had to install one of these.
"Welcome to Withoutlube Insurance Company. How may I help you sir?"
"You sent this to me to put in my car but I can't get it to work."
"Oh you just plug it into the port under the dash."
"What port?"
"It really simple sir, I'll show you. Witch car is yours?"
"The orange one."
"You just plug it in right....."
"Right where?"
"Well this is funny, the port should be right here."
Preach it brother!
I've been useing my eMate 300 for the last 3 years. With out fail some one at the coffee shop will ask me if it's new, they get a funny look on their faces when i tell them it nearly ten years old.
I can only dream how it would run with with 200+ mhz and 64+ mb.
if you get hit by a bolt of lightning in a composite airplane you would have problems anyway. in a metal airplane the lighting would pass right through you, gas of electic you wouldn't be grounded so no big deal.
the real killer with lightning strikes is the heat generated by the 1.21 gigawatts.
In a fiberglass and foam airframe it's the big hole in the wing that kills you.
Not lossing your engine.
I think a few years ago Lancair solved this by putting a clear matalic coating on the plane, it was sposed to help if not solve the problem.
As far as the air frame goes its nothing new under the sun, looks like another KIS of Lancair knockoff. The Motor is simlar to the ones used in home EV converts. The real neat bit it the batterys, If I recall correctlly he said that a car battery would be about the size of a CD jewel case and weigh about 8-10 OZ. He was very nice and willing to explain every thing in great detail.
Sorry, that was just to get your attention.
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h ern-California school of thought, whatever that is. (All I know is what I read on Fox News.) Integral to these exposures is the concept of the Chinese Yin-Yang symbol. (Oh yeah, that's a really clear connection. You just have to live anywhere but California to get it, though.) You know, the one that says "All good must be accompanied by evil," or else you wouldn't know what good is, see?
... all by himself.
.mac feature set. Clock rises to 10 minutes before midnight.
.mac pricing and lack of options for cash-strapped users: Clock drops to 7 minutes before midnight.
I found a story on lowendmac.com that explans all of this:
http://www.lowendmac.com/lite/02/0820.html
The Apple Clock of Doom
Jeff Adkins
2002.08.20
Today I plan to weave for you a complex tapestry of paranoid logic so convoluted, so infused with power and incompetence, it will make the folks over at As the Apple Turns drop their newborn on the floor. It will make the Crazy Apple Rumor mongers write haiku for a week. It will cause the MacOS Rumors site to talk about actual user manuals (in print no less), and Think Secret will change its name to Thought Public. Anne Onymus will finally reveal her true identity just for the opportunity to kick me in the head.
As Forrest Gump would say, "Hang on to your buttocks. This is gonna be a wild ride."
The story is complex enough that I will number the stages to help you keep track.
1) Just prior to the recent Macworld, the Mac Web was abuzz with the effrontery of Apple Computer blacklisting certain non-rumor sites as rumor sites and denying them passes as press.
2) Mainstream press at the David Coursey level was beginning to pick up on the story. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being on the evening news of a major television network, this ranks at about a 6 or so. A score of 8 makes it into the syndicated column of a print newspaper, so this is getting close to the Real World that Apple Pays Attention To. (As The Apple Turns rates about a 4 on this scale, and your friendly neighborhood Lite Side resides at 2,with occasional forays into 3 territory.)
3) Seeking to nip the accelerating bad press in the bud, Steve ("Mr. Steve to you") Jobs decides to use a diversionary tactic. In a bold but desperate gambit, he decides to refocus the building ire of Mac web writers on a new topic:
4) Before any of us can cook up an article on how tacky the ".mac" name is, given the existence of the vaporware ".Net," he ups the ante by declaring ".mac" a pay service.
5) Poof! That's the last you hear about the blacklisting issue as all laser targeting systems are now focused on the relative value, or lack thereof, of ".mac."
6) Mission accomplished: The rumor site complaints dropped from level 6 (and accelerating) to negative numbers -- meaning, "If you think you've got problems, little rumor site, just look at me, I spent my last dime buying OS9 because it had free web storage included." Suddenly the entire blacklisting issue was less than not important -- people actively discouraged you from bringing it up, didn't they? Don't deny it.
7) Then there's the whole timing thing. I mean, look at the influence AtAT has on the Mac Web. Fans are going nuts trying to hire baby-sitters, just so's these people can type. When better to put faithful Macolytes through the meat grinder when their most popular voice is semiconscious, smeared with sticky ground up peas in pear sauce, and staggering over to 7-11 in search of exactly the right kind of diapers?
8) Not to mention the attempts by Microsoft to upstage Apple just prior to Macworld. Remember those? That whole issue lasted, what, about 30 hours or so? And what does Mr. Jobs (Steve) do to squelch these rumors? He steals Microsoft's ideas right back! Why hasn't anyone said anything about what a low-down cheap shot ".mac" is at the delayed, derided, unsanitary ".Net?" Judging from the smoothness of the transition, it looks like it took, what, 29 hours of work to set up ".mac." Are you following me here?
No?
This is all going to tie together, so trust me.
9) During Macworld, Apple's announcements of no-upgrade Jaguar pricing and no-options ".mac" gouging were apparently supposed to be counterbalanced by the various other announcements he made. But not really. I mean, who even remembers what those other announcements were? Some screen size bump, some new OSX features I'm supposed to be happy to pay for.
Am I right here? Of course I am.
10) Now let's start to tie this together. Steve's a product of his environment, and as we all know, he's into that 70s-liberal-anti-Republican-he's-met-Clinton-Nort
Now, I used to think Apple was Yin to Microsoft's Yang. That whole worldview got messed up when his Steveness pronounced the war between Microsoft and Apple over -- and did that whole Giant Face of Bill irony thing on a Macworld stage a few years back.
11) But I was wrong. Steve's ego is so large, he isn't Yinging to Gate's Yanger (and you can quote me on that out of context if you like). No, see, here's the thing -- and if you're taking notes, you'll want to put a great big box around this with little winky lights like they used to use on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show 'cuz it's important -- the thing is, Steve wants it all. He wants his Yin and Yang in one circle (his) and Microsoft isn't even in the equation at all. Or much.
12) This explains the alternating blasts of brilliance with the black holes of despair we've seen put through the metaphor mixer lately. Seems like he can't come up with a great product (flat panel iMac) without crippling it somehow (no choice in port placement). The creation and transition to OSX is a fantastic, incredible achievement, counterbalanced by the lack of upgrade path for early adopters.
The War with Microsoft is Over (see #10) but the Switch ads are a slap in the face at the Wintel hegemony. The Switch ads are meeting a long-standing demand of writers on the Mac Web (face the competition squarely) but they do so using people who need a shot of caffeine or something to wake up properly.
No positive thing Apple does can be viewed in isolation without its corresponding negative aspect. This is the secret to Apple's recent behavior; it's very simple. Steve is attempting to bring balance to the Force
The obvious thing for us to do, Mac Fans and Smart-Aleck Pundits alike, is to track the changes for him so when he gets too close to the Dark Side or the Lite Side, he can do the appropriate thing to come back. That's why I've decided to establish, following the example of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the countdown until Apple meets its doom clock sponsored by the Bulletin of Mac Web Pundits.
On this clock, 12:00 midnight is the date Apple declares bankruptcy and the following occurs: The Apple logo is purchased by Sony and turned into an off-brand MP3 player logo. Disney buys the rights to OSX and uses it exclusively in Disney World kiosks. The remaining iMac inventory is sold to Pixar. Everything else goes to Dell.
If you want to know how the clock should have been set from 1977 to the present, read the excellent summary at http://www.apple-history.com. All you really need to know is that the Clone Wars occurred from 1993-1997, as Windows was establishing its Mac-like interface, Jobs was not with the company, and Apple suffered a lack of focus, staggering losses, and poor quality control in product development. During those years the clock rarely moved from 1 minute before midnight. After the introduction of the iMac, the clock has been oscillating around 10 minutes before midnight, which is kind of the point of this stupid article.
We begin our analysis just prior to the recent Macworld New York.
June 2002: Clock standing at 10 minutes before midnight. It would be farther out, but an industrywide sales slump plus consumer nervousness following Sept. 11 depresses sales.
July 2002: Rumors circulate that certain Mac Web sites will be banned from MWNY for spreading rumors, a determination which is in and of itself a rumor, ironically. Clock moves to 9 minutes, 45 seconds to midnight. As the month wears on, the clock moves to 9 minutes 30 seconds, and in the days preceding the Expo, the motion accelerates suddenly, all the way to 8 minutes before midnight a couple of days before the keynote due to widening coverage of the fiasco.
July 2002: Microsoft makes several forgettable announcements just prior to Macworld: clock moves to 6 minutes before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs steps on keynote stage: Reality Distortion Field brings clock to 10 minutes before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs announces extra-wide iMac. Clock moves to 11 minutes before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs announces new features for Jaguar: Clock moves to 11 minutes 30 seconds before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs announces Jaguar upgrade price and policy. Clock drops to 9 minutes before midnight.
July 2002: Jobs announces
July 2002: Jobs announces
July 2002: Macworld ends with clock set at 7 minutes before midnight. Steve is exhausted, but has more fish to fry later in the summer...
July 2002: Rumors circulate that Apple and Sun may develop Office-compatible suite for Mac OSX. Clock jumps to 11 minutes before midnight.
A little later in July: Sun denies rumors and muddles the water a bit: Clock flutters and settles on 8 minutes before midnight.
August 2002: Apple announces $100 price cut on base iMac, bringing price down to level it was before Apple raised the price in first place: Clock moves to 8-1/2 minutes before midnight.
If 10 minutes before midnight is the sweet spot Steve has been oscillating around ever since he killed the Newton, it seems we're overdue for some good news. iWonder what it will be? Stay tuned to the Lite Side. As events develop, we will adjust the Apple Clock of Doom accordingly.
Disclosure notice: The author of this article does not own any Apple stock. In fact, he doesn't own any stock. Moreover, not only does he not have any formal connection with Apple Computer -- he hasn't even done a Marketsource gig in two years -- it is highly unlikely that anyone poised to climb the corporate latter at Apple HQ would be caught reading anything in the Lite Side archive. Therefore, the SEC can take a day off. Enjoy.
The only time that I ever use the floppy drive on my old Power Mac 7500 is when I run PCX (a PC emulator). When I have to move files from one mac to another I put my Powerbook 165c into SCSI dock mode and use it as a HD.
that just what I've done, I hooked my VCR up to my 7500 when I move a few months ago and I gave to tv to a friend.
Right now I've go my VCR. my turn table, and my Play Station hooked up the inputs. I've got my Aiwa (cheep but works for me) hook up as the speakers.
That would be a very good idea.
Really, think about it, the fuel cell would go under the hood you would replace the rear axle with two electic motors (one on each rear wheel, or better yet one on all four wheels for AWD). Some computers and wires to hook it all up.
Your good to go.
It would really be no difrent than the home brew electic car that people have been doing for years.
you could do this now, but your range would suck more than it was ever thought that suck could be.
personaly I like cars like the Insight. They remind me of when I was five and my dad bought me a go-kart, small, quick, able the piss off old people in under nine seconds, and I like the swooshie shape.
But thats just me.
My seinor year of highschool I dug up a cheep used PowerBook to take notes on in class. Because it was an old color model it would suck the battey dry in about half an hour. This ment that I had to sit in the back of the class room where the "other" power was located. I quickly (after about 5 min) reallized that I could play Tetris and look like I was typing notes. My teachers thinking that I would have a hard time keeping up typing vs writing, wouldn't ask me any questions so as not to distract me.
I spent five days a week for nine months playing Tetris, my highest scores were during history classes, my lowest during art classes. My friends would ask me if they "use my notes" meaning that they had a really boring class coming up and they needed something to do.
since graduating I have played exactly 5 games of Tetris in 4 years.
just work out the improbability of someone who's pro-Microsoft getting a first post on a Linux story and saying something nice about open source.
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"I just want to be a good engineer." -- Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, concluding his keynote speech at the 1988 AppleFest
If the lab is just being used for web surfing and writing papers, just load OS 8.1 (not 8.5 or 8.6, sure as hell not 9, because there all to slow on a 601) as the system, use iCab or mozilla for the web, and top it all off with the last version of Office.
I've loaded MKlunix on to my old 6100/60 (Issic), I found that it worked better as a Mac (and still works better as a Mac being used by my cousin at collage for, you guessed it, writing papers and web surfing).
Loading lunix will also require you yo make sure that the harddrives have been upgraded to the 1.5 to 2.0 GB range that's what MKlunix likes. The stock harddrives run about 300 to 500 MB. Check how much RAM their sporting, if they have less than 24 MB (two 8 MB SIMMS, and 8 MB on the motherboard) just walk away. If they have less than 24 MB you will have to run Virtual Memory (bad) and System 7.5 (worse)(you could run 8.0 or 8.1 but you wouldn't want to with out at least 40 MB RAM).
long story short, if you can get away with keeping Mac OS on them do it. It will save you many headaches. If you need something that only lunix can provide, put the lab up for sale on ebay.
but if you feel that you must run lunix, surf over to www.lowendmac.com. They will be able help you to do what ever you need to get them running.
people, I just feal the need to point out one thing,
IT'S A GOD DAMMED MOTHER FUCKING BENTCHMARK!!!!!!
That means its like politics, unless its something good for the side your on it doesn't mean anything.
as far as I can tell this bentchmark says that a Mac is good at Photoshop.
what a shock. get over it. move on.
I don't see how this would be any differant than when i go to my parents house. They live in valley with a limestone bluff to the north, with the biggest urban area (where I live) 30 miles north of that. Hence all the cell towers in the area are blocked by this and my Nokia goes dead. On more than once I've left their house only to have my phone come back to life with about twentey (usualy pissed off) messages.
So should I sue God? My reason being that my manager is pissed at me because I won't give her my parents phone number (they value their privacy) and she can't get my on the phone for things that could really wait untill I get back to work.
PS, My mom's work pager not working at home was one of the things that sold her on the house in the first place, Dad was sold on the wiring.
Those silly gooses! There the ones that we (Gay/Lesbian world domiation & SM club) bought our HomoRay8000a from. It's your standard MindRay6000 with a 12 inch purple control rod crystal inplace of the standard 5 inch. Once that cute guy (the one with the yumy blue eyes) gets done hooking it up, and we finish testing it (on him) we'll be able to make every man in the world "change teams".
Yes, every police man (clad only in leather jock strap, gun belt, and motorcyle boots) will give and recive head at all traffic stops. Football will be played as it was ment, nude. The Marine Corp. will be filled with screaming bottoms, oh right, it already is.
Of couse it would happen so much faster if the Jews would sell us their mind control satalite network. Of all the nerve! they won't sell it out right, they want us to lease it form them.
quick little fact: vinyl will last AT LEAST over 100 years if cleaned before you play it.
This is why i'm in the process of finding all my "life sounds" on vinyl becase it will around and playable in 50 years. Unlike CD that last for 20 years tops.
yes, I will to have a deck to play them on. Just got my 1960's RCA Victrola out of the shop, she's good for another 30+ years.s