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Which Laptop To Buy?
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He, he. I know there's been a lot of gushing about the Mac iBook already, but no one's mentioned this: it has no fan. The G3 doesn't need one. It's a stealth laptop. My Dell at work sounds like a jet engine compared to my iBook.
I don't think you're going to get a new mac laptp for much less than list price, but most of the on-line dealers will throw in extra stuff to sweeten the deal. Also, Apple charges sales tax in all fifty states, while the dealers only charge sales tax in their own state.
I got my iBook for list, but no sales tax, free shipping, free 128 MB RAM, and I got 5% back with my on-line VISA card.
There are loads of good Mac sites out there, you might want to start at MacSlash.com:)
Interesting, the first article states that, now that he has been released on bail, the U.S. attorney has 10 to 20 days to indict him. Does this mean that if they don't do anything after 20 days he walks? If so, would this be a convenient face-saving measure for the government?
UV ran on SciFi channel in the US a couple of times. There won't be any more Ultraviolet, although there is someone working on a US version. Also, all of UV is available on a 2 disk DVD set, that I have on order right now.
because XP is raising the bar to a whole new level in terms of user experience
Oops, blew your cover there, quoting directly from the Microsoft PR handbook. You certainly have earned your right to praise XP; in your weekly pay packet.
I don't know about Palm, their finances aren't so hot, they talked about spinning the OS division in a separate company and then ditched it when the market went south, and there's a class action lawsuit against them for stock manipulation. I got a letter about it last night.
On the other hand, there's a great article on the Reg justifying the Sony theory. Sony hates Microsoft with a passion, they think their OS's are crap; not fit for human consumption.
So, imagine a Sony Viao with a custom Sony OS(tm). Tuned for multi-media, able to interface with Sony digital cameras, video cameras, MP3 players, memory sticks (heck, even Aibo). Sony is one of the few companies with the marketing clout and the consumer know-how to pull this off. It could happen, and it would really put a chink in Microsoft's armor.
Actually that kind of copy protection propogated to the IBM PC. The common trick was to destroy a sector with a laser, and then the copy protection code would try to write and read that sector. If it got back data, it knew it wasn't the original disk, and quit. It took a month or so for someone to come up with a crack, but in the meantime, those guys made a lot of money licencing their technology to customers as big as Lotus.
Personally, I consider copy-protection companies, like Midbar and Macrovision, to be technology bottom-feeders. Why can't they do something useful, instead of making dumb hacks and selling them to mega-corps? After the stuff that came out of defcon, I'm starting to think that they are all snake-oil salesmen, peddling their crap to gullible media companies, who inflict it on unsuspecting consumers.
I can only hope that they, like the IBM-PC copy-protection creeps I mentioned earlier, go the way of the dodo, as their lame algorithims get cracked faster than they can produce them.
Nusphere is owned by Progress Software, a 271 million dollar company. Chump change to Microsoft, but maybe big enough to attract the attention of the FTC.
Have you got Look to Windward? It's a brand new Culture novel; I picked it upo in the U.K. a couple of months ago, and it should be out in the U.S. this month. I have no idea how publishing schedules in Japan work, or what they import.
Okay, blatant plug for a friend of mine. Try Ventus by Karl Schroeder. It's his first novel, has been getting great reviews and sales, and the paperback is due out in October.
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The Immortal Cell
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If they made JayLo cells immortal instead of HeLa, there'd be money in it.
I've never had a demo go right. They always want them too early, and I've never had time to perfect and test everything so something always goes wrong. Usually something out of my control, like a network server. But, if Gates and Jobs can have the occasional screw-up on stage and keep their jobs, I guess I'm okay.
There's a good article on The Reg about certifications. The rumors seem to be true, people are being trained to pass the tests, not to know the subject matter. I'd take any certifications with a large grain of salt. It's looking more and more like the people who can do the job are actually doing it; the ones with the certification are the ones that want to do it.
Years ago we learned that you could over-clock a 6 Mhz IBM PC-AT to 8 Mhz. You just had to replace the timing crystal, which cost $2.00 at a local electronics shop. The chip speed was actually half the crystal speed, so we were actually replacing a 12Mhz clock with a 16 Mhz clock. sure enough, Norton Sysinfo showed a 25% performance gain.
P.S. the crystal on the IBM MoBos was plug-and-play, no soldering involved. The Morrow might be different, and the system might not handle the speed. But for $2.00 or so, it might be worth a try.
Go to the Science and Technolgy museum in London (okay, so it's a long walk). They're building a full Babbage Difference Engine there. I was there back in May, and they were building a brass printer for the output. Really cool steampunk tech, but I can't help thinking the machine would working better in binary than decimal. maybe that was Babbage's problem.
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Whatthehell is that? It looks like a part of the Enterprise bridge, or the command plug for an Eva or something.
Heh, you left out the easiest: use a laptop.
He, he. I know there's been a lot of gushing about the Mac iBook already, but no one's mentioned this: it has no fan. The G3 doesn't need one. It's a stealth laptop. My Dell at work sounds like a jet engine compared to my iBook.
I got my iBook for list, but no sales tax, free shipping, free 128 MB RAM, and I got 5% back with my on-line VISA card.
There are loads of good Mac sites out there, you might want to start at MacSlash.com :)
UV ran on SciFi channel in the US a couple of times. There won't be any more Ultraviolet, although there is someone working on a US version. Also, all of UV is available on a 2 disk DVD set, that I have on order right now.
Here, try this. Go on, I date you.
Would the EFF pony up, under the same circumstances? Interesting thought, considering they're in this for moral/ethical reasons, not profit.
Oops, blew your cover there, quoting directly from the Microsoft PR handbook. You certainly have earned your right to praise XP; in your weekly pay packet.
On the other hand, there's a great article on the Reg justifying the Sony theory. Sony hates Microsoft with a passion, they think their OS's are crap; not fit for human consumption.
So, imagine a Sony Viao with a custom Sony OS(tm). Tuned for multi-media, able to interface with Sony digital cameras, video cameras, MP3 players, memory sticks (heck, even Aibo). Sony is one of the few companies with the marketing clout and the consumer know-how to pull this off. It could happen, and it would really put a chink in Microsoft's armor.
Personally, I consider copy-protection companies, like Midbar and Macrovision, to be technology bottom-feeders. Why can't they do something useful, instead of making dumb hacks and selling them to mega-corps? After the stuff that came out of defcon, I'm starting to think that they are all snake-oil salesmen, peddling their crap to gullible media companies, who inflict it on unsuspecting consumers.
I can only hope that they, like the IBM-PC copy-protection creeps I mentioned earlier, go the way of the dodo, as their lame algorithims get cracked faster than they can produce them.
Nusphere is owned by Progress Software, a 271 million dollar company. Chump change to Microsoft, but maybe big enough to attract the attention of the FTC.
Have you got Look to Windward? It's a brand new Culture novel; I picked it upo in the U.K. a couple of months ago, and it should be out in the U.S. this month. I have no idea how publishing schedules in Japan work, or what they import.
Okay, blatant plug for a friend of mine. Try Ventus by Karl Schroeder. It's his first novel, has been getting great reviews and sales, and the paperback is due out in October.
If they made JayLo cells immortal instead of HeLa, there'd be money in it.
I've never had a demo go right. They always want them too early, and I've never had time to perfect and test everything so something always goes wrong. Usually something out of my control, like a network server. But, if Gates and Jobs can have the occasional screw-up on stage and keep their jobs, I guess I'm okay.
Most hits from the U.S. and third most from the U.K. Give the Reg some credit :)
It's been done. Check out this guy's website.
There's a good article on The Reg about certifications. The rumors seem to be true, people are being trained to pass the tests, not to know the subject matter. I'd take any certifications with a large grain of salt. It's looking more and more like the people who can do the job are actually doing it; the ones with the certification are the ones that want to do it.
Aww, that's no fun. Make it into a fish tank instead.
You've got a Cray! Too cool!
That was the COSMAC ELF and the chip was the RCA 1702, right? You could get 'toy' ones with a hex keypad and an LED display and maybe 1K of RAM?
Jeez, I remember learning 'indexed-indirect' and 'indirect-indexed' but senility has kicked in and I can't remember what the hell they mean :)
Years ago we learned that you could over-clock a 6 Mhz IBM PC-AT to 8 Mhz. You just had to replace the timing crystal, which cost $2.00 at a local electronics shop. The chip speed was actually half the crystal speed, so we were actually replacing a 12Mhz clock with a 16 Mhz clock. sure enough, Norton Sysinfo showed a 25% performance gain.
P.S. the crystal on the IBM MoBos was plug-and-play, no soldering involved. The Morrow might be different, and the system might not handle the speed. But for $2.00 or so, it might be worth a try.
Go to the Science and Technolgy museum in London (okay, so it's a long walk). They're building a full Babbage Difference Engine there. I was there back in May, and they were building a brass printer for the output. Really cool steampunk tech, but I can't help thinking the machine would working better in binary than decimal. maybe that was Babbage's problem.
Unfortunately, they don't seem to be available any more. Maybe they were ahead of their time?