Not to be too picky, but if you were using a agp2x card (using free bsd) and had that old of a system you were hardly playing games on it anyway, were you? And you could probably stick without the graphics acceleration, right?
Well, about the apple store. It's okay that they do what they want with it to withold a certain quality BUT on the other side of that coin they should allow users to install whatever they want on their phones (even if this introduces virus threats).
It's not like microsoft allows open source programs from their windows update do they?
And yes, they have drawbacks such as the locked in iphone 3g, but you know what: you don't HAVE to buy it you know...
What do we know, perhaps he's doing his absolutely best to highlight the bad sides of apple products as well, just that there isn't really any in the field(s) they are operating?
You don't buy a mac to run a server, you buy it to be creative, and I fail to see the drawbacks of such a purchase.
I have still to own my own mac, but I probably will in the future, because everyone I know who bought one tells me how sweet they are to use, and why wouldn't I trust my friends? After all, what I've seen from it it delivers.
Just having a hard time leaving linux, I guess I will have to multiboot:-)
My grandma picked up computers 2 years ago at age 74. Never used a computer before, was just curious. She has very bad vision (yellow spot) but still manages to check emails and explore the 'net.
My personal fave is the second gen Das Keyboard. Not the best for gaming if you need to quickly look down for a key, but for everything else I couldn't imagine using anything but.
I agree. When you are used to das keyboard every other keyboard feels like pressing a sponge. Totally worth its price tho if you have a model M that works I don't really see why you should switch.
Well, once the CRT started to fade out towards the brand new LCD/TFT era, things moved pretty fast. I remember a classmate had this shiny new 15" TFT back in 98, and in the early 2000 anything other than a TFT was a bit old school.
Now, that was an object that you clearly get a win with (better sharpness for most part, thinner, better looking) but even if SSD's isn't visible right in front of you, techies will see the advantages once the price is right and switch to it. And techies builds computers for other users as well.
And beside that, laptops are being more and more popular all the time, and those are the ones really advantaging from SSD's.
"It took forever (a decade or more at least) to handle crashes in a microsoft OS which had thousands of talented people working on it."
Maybe it would have made more sense getting 500 people who knew what they were doing for twice the money. (Or just one guy. One really good guy. Behind a mountain of pizza boxes and empty coke cans)
Can you think of even one situation where forgetting a semicolon would still result in code that compiles?
while(*p++ = *q++); anything_else();
I've been programming this and that for 20 years and I don't think I _ever_ made that mistake. And even if I did once or twice, hardly something devastating came out of it.
"It's proprietary and only Micosoft can support it" is very rare indeed. Go look in the Yellow Pages and you'll find hundreds of companies prepared to support Windows. Obviously they're a bit stuck if you hit a problem that's caused by a bug which cannot easily be worked around, but these are seldom enough that it's not really a big problem.
Well you see, the answer for that bug is "you need to reinstall", but people are getting more informed, and sees alternatives which doesn't need to be reinstalled that often, especially not for the reasons you need to reinstall windows.
I just want to add that the saab v4 had a freewheel which in practical turns means you can't engine break... but the engine sure could of course, but the CAR couldn't...:D
Watching old trailers on old dvd's is one of the highlights of the extra material which always comes along on those dvd's. You get to see a glimse of some movies you often didn't know existed, or which passed you because they didn't recieve the cult status.
Watching a movie with Steve MqQueen and seeing trailers for next years big-as-in-money movie doesn't really give me anything extra worth.
Disclamer: I do not own a blueray player and do not know how that thing works, but I just worked off your post (as everybody else does).
in most cases like this it ends with the big guy offering enough money to the small guy that he will shut the fuck up about it and get himself another name.
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That's why you need a good lawyer that understand that part and can explain to others about it.
And in fact they had good security around the building as well which is also a good thing. Like fences etc.
Not to be too picky, but if you were using a agp2x card (using free bsd) and had that old of a system you were hardly playing games on it anyway, were you? And you could probably stick without the graphics acceleration, right?
... taskbars.
Not to be a linux fanboy, but with multiple desktops I've yet to even look at the taskbar in linux.
to express, then.
Alright, just give me your credit card details and I'll be on my way...
Well, about the apple store. It's okay that they do what they want with it to withold a certain quality BUT on the other side of that coin they should allow users to install whatever they want on their phones (even if this introduces virus threats).
It's not like microsoft allows open source programs from their windows update do they?
And yes, they have drawbacks such as the locked in iphone 3g, but you know what: you don't HAVE to buy it you know...
What do we know, perhaps he's doing his absolutely best to highlight the bad sides of apple products as well, just that there isn't really any in the field(s) they are operating?
You don't buy a mac to run a server, you buy it to be creative, and I fail to see the drawbacks of such a purchase.
I have still to own my own mac, but I probably will in the future, because everyone I know who bought one tells me how sweet they are to use, and why wouldn't I trust my friends? After all, what I've seen from it it delivers.
Just having a hard time leaving linux, I guess I will have to multiboot :-)
My grandma picked up computers 2 years ago at age 74. Never used a computer before, was just curious. She has very bad vision (yellow spot) but still manages to check emails and explore the 'net.
Keep the jokes, we heard them all.
My personal fave is the second gen Das Keyboard. Not the best for gaming if you need to quickly look down for a key, but for everything else I couldn't imagine using anything but.
I agree. When you are used to das keyboard every other keyboard feels like pressing a sponge. Totally worth its price tho if you have a model M that works I don't really see why you should switch.
I don't know if the LHC should be accounted for this year, but if it missed the list, something is not right.
well the backups storing the questions have been lost.
Well, once the CRT started to fade out towards the brand new LCD/TFT era, things moved pretty fast. I remember a classmate had this shiny new 15" TFT back in 98, and in the early 2000 anything other than a TFT was a bit old school.
Now, that was an object that you clearly get a win with (better sharpness for most part, thinner, better looking) but even if SSD's isn't visible right in front of you, techies will see the advantages once the price is right and switch to it. And techies builds computers for other users as well.
And beside that, laptops are being more and more popular all the time, and those are the ones really advantaging from SSD's.
"It took forever (a decade or more at least) to handle crashes in a microsoft OS which had thousands of talented people working on it."
Maybe it would have made more sense getting 500 people who knew what they were doing for twice the money. (Or just one guy. One really good guy. Behind a mountain of pizza boxes and empty coke cans)
Can you think of even one situation where forgetting a semicolon would still result in code that compiles?
while(*p++ = *q++); anything_else();
I've been programming this and that for 20 years and I don't think I _ever_ made that mistake. And even if I did once or twice, hardly something devastating came out of it.
Yeah, but if it turned out he was listening to c64 sid music, I'd wet my pants ;-)
"It's proprietary and only Micosoft can support it" is very rare indeed. Go look in the Yellow Pages and you'll find hundreds of companies prepared to support Windows. Obviously they're a bit stuck if you hit a problem that's caused by a bug which cannot easily be worked around, but these are seldom enough that it's not really a big problem.
Well you see, the answer for that bug is "you need to reinstall", but people are getting more informed, and sees alternatives which doesn't need to be reinstalled that often, especially not for the reasons you need to reinstall windows.
no one noticed because this is the way web pages should look like? :-)
... if that's the case you will be in serious trouble when bush's administration effects will kick in.
.. or she could hire - the A-TEAM!
agreed, he's the best in world relating to garp and good will hunting for instance.
I just want to add that the saab v4 had a freewheel which in practical turns means you can't engine break ... but the engine sure could of course, but the CAR couldn't... :D
Watching old trailers on old dvd's is one of the highlights of the extra material which always comes along on those dvd's. You get to see a glimse of some movies you often didn't know existed, or which passed you because they didn't recieve the cult status.
Watching a movie with Steve MqQueen and seeing trailers for next years big-as-in-money movie doesn't really give me anything extra worth.
Disclamer: I do not own a blueray player and do not know how that thing works, but I just worked off your post (as everybody else does).
haha, brilliant answer :D
in most cases like this it ends with the big guy offering enough money to the small guy that he will shut the fuck up about it and get himself another name.