From what I've seen there are a few factors at work. One is wanting a consistent computing setup companywide. One is wanting high value out of the computers used. Another is maintaining momentum from the past. All three were addressed a few years ago where I work when the Sun engineering workstations were discarded in favor of Dell x86's, but Pro/E continued to be the CAD software of choice. Sun didn't have competitive performance for the price, the engineers got machines which could run anything that anyone else in the company could, but no one had to re-learn how to do CAD work.
You don't save much disk space when you need to generate the mp3s anyway, to have something that an automotive CD/MP3 system, an iPod, and Macs running iTunes (in OS X) or XMMS (in Linux) can all handle:)
I think you've forgotten something in your mad rush to criticize anyone who drives something you don't like: STATION WAGONS.
They were big 6 or 8 passenger vehicles with V8 engines, body-on-frame construction, and lots of cargo room and towing capacity. Sounds awfully like a Tahoe, except for the ground clearance bit, doesn't it? And that's pretty much what that Tahoe is -- a station wagon on a pickup chassis, because they can't build a car like that anymore due to CAFE rules.
Cars have shrunk considerably, my Dad's GTO (a musclecar! He must be "an idiot"!) is 5" longer than my T-bird (is that close enough to a musclecar for me to be an idiot?) despite having far less interior room. The big sedans the wagons were based off of died. Minivans were supposed to take that place but they really don't have the abilities full-frame RWD V8 machines have in things like towing. Trucks got a lot more inviting, too, it used to be that an "SUV" was something like an IH Scout 800 -- small, basic, underpowered 4x4 trucks that couldn't go 60 on the highway and rode like crap on 4 leaf springs but could get farther off-road than a new Suburban ever could. Jeep went and came up with the idea of sticking 4 doors and a nice interior in a small truck and called it Cherokee, and it took off.
Here we are now with SUVs being a good chunk of new car production. Why? Because it meets people's needs, perceived and actual. If one of those perceived needs is "keeping up with the Joneses" so be it. That's driven the American economy for years. Now I'm just hoping that with the car based SUV trend maybe they'll get lower and faster and the station wagon can come back (and with the Dodge Magnum it may have already.)
I'm not convinced it's the best idea to conflate disagreeing with current scientific teachings, and unintelligence. Science shouldn't be about orthodoxy, it's about finding out how the universe works and figuring out what ideas best fit the evidence we have. (Are those who disagree with evolution wrong? Maybe. But that doesn't mean they're unintelligent any more than agreeing with evolution means someone is intelligent.)
Gasoline engines (unless they are FFVs) cannot switch their fuel source away from gasoline. Well, maybe a 10% ethanol blend would work, I'll admit I'm not that familiar with that side of the fence...
You must not drive in the Midwest much. 89-octane is almost always 10% ethanol here, and in the Dakotas it tends to be the same price as 87-octane. It works quite well. No needing to mess with anti-jelling additives in the winter.:)
The Jaguar update could have killed your battery. My iBook's battery developed that same problem after I installed 10.2.4 -- I was at a friends place downloading stuff from his fileserver and at 50% it just died. The next time, 65% remaining. Within a couple weeks it was gone at 95% remaining. I still had applecare (which I should have bought when the 1st year was up but didn't) and got a fresh battery out of it.
I've never watched more than a half episode of Enterprise but it's got to be pretty damn lame if they have to drag Shatner back to play Kirk. It was bad enough when TOS had the occasional send-the-ship-back-to-1968 moment (2 by my recollection) or that whale movie. I kind of liked the guest appearances of TOS characters in TNG because at least they made some SENSE. They were shown as being a good deal older to start out with, and I'd think that in 300 years we'd have figured out a way to let people live longer, so that Dr. McCoy blessing the Enterprise-D wasn't so far-fetched. From there it went downhill IMO. Scotty in a transporter loop and just happening to be picked up by Picard's Enterprise? yup sure mm-hmm. And how about the backwards-growth time rift thing in "All Good Things..."? The TNG movies seemingly were trapped in time loops of their own, the first two both had to resort to bizarrenesses in order to make anything work. Voyager was fun for about 5 episodes but that's about how long it took to realize that somehow they'd get back within a few seasons anyway. And now we're pulling someone from a LATER series to an EARLIER one and he looks OLDER now. Yeah. whatever. What's next? Voyager and Defiant show up to help beat off the Borg, who are supposed to still be on the other side of the galaxy (other than the TNG-movie time travel crap)?!? How about throw the freaking Andromeda Ascendant in there, it won't hurt ST's credibility much further, and it IS another Gene Roddenberry series.
I can see going metric on the roads making sense some places. But where I live (SE North Dakota) all the roads are on a grid with 1 mile spacing and land is usually divided up into.5x.5 mi units (.25 sq mi area -- a "quarter section" of 160 acres.) The metric equivalents get a little messy: the roads would be 1.609 km apart, hardly useful. Those quarter sections would be.805 km on a side, about.6472 sq km or 64.72 hectares. What a pain in the arse.
I haven't looked at the site, but I wonder if you couldn't just put in that you're sleeping from 11pm to 7am (about my sleep hours actually) and replace AM's with PM's for the most-tired times?:)
The flywheel used on manual transmission engines is heavier than the flexplate used on automatics. A flywheel and a flexplate look a lot alike in basic shape except a flexplate tends to be much thinner since automatic cars have the torque converter to act as rotating mass.
And there are places (like where I live!) where DSL is available but so expensive it's not worth it. The local telco here, an outfit called "Dickey Rural Networks" is also the cable company, and they've got DSL at 256k down/128k up for the low, low price of... $59.95/mo. A static IP is an extra $10/mo and higher performance is available for proportionally higher cost -- for example, the top package, 1.5M down/768k up, is $400/mo (about what some pay for a YEAR of service with a cable modem.) And the phone company wonders why they only have a few dozen subscribers...
Going from the grandparent post it looks like he mistyped the year, since he mentions the program began exactly a year from his buying the iBook, and the program started this January. There wasn't even an 800 MHz iBook available till November 02 (when i found myself wishing I'd waited another 3 months to get my laptop -- though my 700 mhz 12" has never exhibited the mobo problems.)
Don't ignore your state's job service or job service websites of states you'd be willing to move to -- while those sites are, admittedly, full of lower-level job listings than most slashdotters are interested in, there are still gems to be found there. I'm going to be starting work on Monday at a decently high quality job in my field that I found out about through a state Job Service site after months of using both Monster and personal networking. Before I hit that state job board I applied to about 30 jobs through Monster, some of which I was very well qualified for, and never heard anything back beyond the standard computer-generated thank you (if I even got that.) Personal networking netted me 3 interviews out of 4 positions I tried for, but unfortunately no job offers. (And for 2 of those jobs I interviewed for, I wasn't even necessarily what they needed -- I got in because of who I knew.) The only good Monster actually did me is it got a headhunter in touch with me about a job I already had learned about through networking.
You are generally taught by the people least qualified in the field, often by people who you can't understand the first word they say (Foreign Grad Students).
I've seen this statement before, about a significant fraction of classes being taught by grad students, and wonder where in the world it's true. I recently graduated from a good-sized Midwestern state university with a degree in agricultural engineering. In classes I attended that applied to my field of study, every single instructor had his or her PhD in an appropriate subject for their class, the few foreign-born profs were easy to understand, and most had worked outside of academia for a while. And the profs had to have a reasonable amount of office hours when one could go ask questions about homework or course material, even the ones who were appointed to positions more oriented toward research than instruction.
To me it's exactly like if, in the days before e-mail, an employer discriminated against an applicant simply because their return address indicated their home was in the bad part of town. Yes, people could use something better for their username than "crazydood2004" or whatever. But dismissing them just because they're on AOL/Hotmail/Yahoo/etc. is indefensible. Not every university HAS a studentname@alumni.school.edu system like he says would be more impressive to him. And if the author had taken the time to do research, he would find that (to use his example) yahoo users don't have any choice about the "Do you Yahoo!?" ad.
Old Macs are still worth something on places like eBay. Using the Mac Plus as an example, I typed that in eBay's search and came across one item going for $102.50 at the moment (admittedly, a very nice example that also has a good amount of acessories.)
Wrong about OS X: No, the G3 upgrade I had met the minimum requirements on the OS X box. Period. There is no argument here. It meet the minimum requirements on the box. Let me state that again, the configuration of the G3 met the requirements stated on the box.
The wording of this makes it seem like you're talking about a machine that originally had something other than a G3 (say a 603 or 604) in it. Is that the case or did the machine actually ship from Apple with a G3 processor?
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iOS 4.3 is still nowhere to be found, so the CDMA iPhone moves all the way up from 4.2.8 to 4.2.9.
We have that in the USA too. http://farm.ewg.org/farm/index.php
From what I've seen there are a few factors at work. One is wanting a consistent computing setup companywide. One is wanting high value out of the computers used. Another is maintaining momentum from the past. All three were addressed a few years ago where I work when the Sun engineering workstations were discarded in favor of Dell x86's, but Pro/E continued to be the CAD software of choice. Sun didn't have competitive performance for the price, the engineers got machines which could run anything that anyone else in the company could, but no one had to re-learn how to do CAD work.
You don't save much disk space when you need to generate the mp3s anyway, to have something that an automotive CD/MP3 system, an iPod, and Macs running iTunes (in OS X) or XMMS (in Linux) can all handle :)
Which version of OS X did it have? 10.3 Panther has the ability to show a tree view in Finder.
They were big 6 or 8 passenger vehicles with V8 engines, body-on-frame construction, and lots of cargo room and towing capacity. Sounds awfully like a Tahoe, except for the ground clearance bit, doesn't it? And that's pretty much what that Tahoe is -- a station wagon on a pickup chassis, because they can't build a car like that anymore due to CAFE rules.
Cars have shrunk considerably, my Dad's GTO (a musclecar! He must be "an idiot"!) is 5" longer than my T-bird (is that close enough to a musclecar for me to be an idiot?) despite having far less interior room. The big sedans the wagons were based off of died. Minivans were supposed to take that place but they really don't have the abilities full-frame RWD V8 machines have in things like towing. Trucks got a lot more inviting, too, it used to be that an "SUV" was something like an IH Scout 800 -- small, basic, underpowered 4x4 trucks that couldn't go 60 on the highway and rode like crap on 4 leaf springs but could get farther off-road than a new Suburban ever could. Jeep went and came up with the idea of sticking 4 doors and a nice interior in a small truck and called it Cherokee, and it took off.
Here we are now with SUVs being a good chunk of new car production. Why? Because it meets people's needs, perceived and actual. If one of those perceived needs is "keeping up with the Joneses" so be it. That's driven the American economy for years. Now I'm just hoping that with the car based SUV trend maybe they'll get lower and faster and the station wagon can come back (and with the Dodge Magnum it may have already.)
I'm not convinced it's the best idea to conflate disagreeing with current scientific teachings, and unintelligence. Science shouldn't be about orthodoxy, it's about finding out how the universe works and figuring out what ideas best fit the evidence we have. (Are those who disagree with evolution wrong? Maybe. But that doesn't mean they're unintelligent any more than agreeing with evolution means someone is intelligent.)
You must not drive in the Midwest much. 89-octane is almost always 10% ethanol here, and in the Dakotas it tends to be the same price as 87-octane. It works quite well. No needing to mess with anti-jelling additives in the winter. :)
The Jaguar update could have killed your battery. My iBook's battery developed that same problem after I installed 10.2.4 -- I was at a friends place downloading stuff from his fileserver and at 50% it just died. The next time, 65% remaining. Within a couple weeks it was gone at 95% remaining. I still had applecare (which I should have bought when the 1st year was up but didn't) and got a fresh battery out of it.
I've never watched more than a half episode of Enterprise but it's got to be pretty damn lame if they have to drag Shatner back to play Kirk. It was bad enough when TOS had the occasional send-the-ship-back-to-1968 moment (2 by my recollection) or that whale movie. I kind of liked the guest appearances of TOS characters in TNG because at least they made some SENSE. They were shown as being a good deal older to start out with, and I'd think that in 300 years we'd have figured out a way to let people live longer, so that Dr. McCoy blessing the Enterprise-D wasn't so far-fetched. From there it went downhill IMO. Scotty in a transporter loop and just happening to be picked up by Picard's Enterprise? yup sure mm-hmm. And how about the backwards-growth time rift thing in "All Good Things..."? The TNG movies seemingly were trapped in time loops of their own, the first two both had to resort to bizarrenesses in order to make anything work. Voyager was fun for about 5 episodes but that's about how long it took to realize that somehow they'd get back within a few seasons anyway. And now we're pulling someone from a LATER series to an EARLIER one and he looks OLDER now. Yeah. whatever. What's next? Voyager and Defiant show up to help beat off the Borg, who are supposed to still be on the other side of the galaxy (other than the TNG-movie time travel crap)?!? How about throw the freaking Andromeda Ascendant in there, it won't hurt ST's credibility much further, and it IS another Gene Roddenberry series.
I can see going metric on the roads making sense some places. But where I live (SE North Dakota) all the roads are on a grid with 1 mile spacing and land is usually divided up into .5x.5 mi units (.25 sq mi area -- a "quarter section" of 160 acres.) The metric equivalents get a little messy: the roads would be 1.609 km apart, hardly useful. Those quarter sections would be .805 km on a side, about .6472 sq km or 64.72 hectares. What a pain in the arse.
I haven't looked at the site, but I wonder if you couldn't just put in that you're sleeping from 11pm to 7am (about my sleep hours actually) and replace AM's with PM's for the most-tired times? :)
Must have wrote this during those hours, eh? :)
Haven't you ever used an Apple Pro mouse? No discernable button -- the entire shell moves :)
The flywheel used on manual transmission engines is heavier than the flexplate used on automatics. A flywheel and a flexplate look a lot alike in basic shape except a flexplate tends to be much thinner since automatic cars have the torque converter to act as rotating mass.
And there are places (like where I live!) where DSL is available but so expensive it's not worth it. The local telco here, an outfit called "Dickey Rural Networks" is also the cable company, and they've got DSL at 256k down/128k up for the low, low price of... $59.95/mo. A static IP is an extra $10/mo and higher performance is available for proportionally higher cost -- for example, the top package, 1.5M down/768k up, is $400/mo (about what some pay for a YEAR of service with a cable modem.) And the phone company wonders why they only have a few dozen subscribers...
Going from the grandparent post it looks like he mistyped the year, since he mentions the program began exactly a year from his buying the iBook, and the program started this January. There wasn't even an 800 MHz iBook available till November 02 (when i found myself wishing I'd waited another 3 months to get my laptop -- though my 700 mhz 12" has never exhibited the mobo problems.)
Don't ignore your state's job service or job service websites of states you'd be willing to move to -- while those sites are, admittedly, full of lower-level job listings than most slashdotters are interested in, there are still gems to be found there. I'm going to be starting work on Monday at a decently high quality job in my field that I found out about through a state Job Service site after months of using both Monster and personal networking. Before I hit that state job board I applied to about 30 jobs through Monster, some of which I was very well qualified for, and never heard anything back beyond the standard computer-generated thank you (if I even got that.) Personal networking netted me 3 interviews out of 4 positions I tried for, but unfortunately no job offers. (And for 2 of those jobs I interviewed for, I wasn't even necessarily what they needed -- I got in because of who I knew.) The only good Monster actually did me is it got a headhunter in touch with me about a job I already had learned about through networking.
only when you're 14?!? uh-oh. i'm 9 years too old for my car then :)
I've seen this statement before, about a significant fraction of classes being taught by grad students, and wonder where in the world it's true. I recently graduated from a good-sized Midwestern state university with a degree in agricultural engineering. In classes I attended that applied to my field of study, every single instructor had his or her PhD in an appropriate subject for their class, the few foreign-born profs were easy to understand, and most had worked outside of academia for a while. And the profs had to have a reasonable amount of office hours when one could go ask questions about homework or course material, even the ones who were appointed to positions more oriented toward research than instruction.
To me it's exactly like if, in the days before e-mail, an employer discriminated against an applicant simply because their return address indicated their home was in the bad part of town. Yes, people could use something better for their username than "crazydood2004" or whatever. But dismissing them just because they're on AOL/Hotmail/Yahoo/etc. is indefensible. Not every university HAS a studentname@alumni.school.edu system like he says would be more impressive to him. And if the author had taken the time to do research, he would find that (to use his example) yahoo users don't have any choice about the "Do you Yahoo!?" ad.
Old Macs are still worth something on places like eBay. Using the Mac Plus as an example, I typed that in eBay's search and came across one item going for $102.50 at the moment (admittedly, a very nice example that also has a good amount of acessories.)
Re: your sig... Wed Jul 9 23:49:41 GMT 2003, perhaps?
My g3/700 iBook comes up with a speed of 66666666 bytes/sec. Should I call an exorcist? :)
The wording of this makes it seem like you're talking about a machine that originally had something other than a G3 (say a 603 or 604) in it. Is that the case or did the machine actually ship from Apple with a G3 processor?