I don't know if they still are, but for a long time you DID get a free copy of Appleworks with every iBook and iMac (not powermac or powerbook, though). My brother's iMac 400 DV came with it, as did my ibook 600.
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Sorry, you're gonna be out of luck. All of the titanium powerbooks have the CPU soldiered(sp?) directly to the motherboard. To upgrade, you'd have to completely disassemble the unit and get a new motherboard.
Not cheap or easy. What you want is a machine which has a processor daughtercard (G4 towers, G3 powerbooks). Those make it easy to upgrade the processors.
If you look at the tech specs page (www.apple.com/ipodmini), you'll see that the 4 gig iPod Mini is estimated to hold 1000 songs encoded at 128 AAC. The original 5 gig iPod storage was calculated using 128 MP3. If AAC's are smaller than MP3's for the same bitrate (don't know if they are), that would explain the discrepancy.
It's not solid state. I don't know where they got that from, but they made it up. If you look on the ipod mini page, you'll see that its a 4GB disk drive.
Where, exactly, can you get 4GB of solid state ANYTHING for less than $250?
My best friend did something similar for my bar mitzvah. It was the largest of all the boxes I'd received...50 layers of boxen later, I discovered an envelope with cash.
Fortunately, I got the knife out after the second layer.
UC Berkeley has already had a handful of Cocoa and mac development courses, most taught by my roommate. These courses, though student run, earned real CS credits and had labs, projects, etc. He just graduated, so someone else will have to take up the torch. And it won't be me.
Personally, I think its a great idea. Many, many students get out of CS schools with vague notions of how to write a compiler in LISP, or what the best way to implement XYZ (without understanding why it SHOULD be implemented). As if anyone cares. Macs may be a small market, but a Cocoa class is teaching a useful, marketable skill that can be directly applied to real-world application development.
Would it not be better to teach the students HOW to program well
There is. It's called the rest of the CS program at the school. They teach OOP-concepts, algorithms, etc.
This class is more specific. And optional. No one is forced to take it. And Cocoa isn't a language, its a set of API's. It just happens to use Objective-C. With macs being such a minority in schools, I don't see why its a problem to have an optional (probably student-run) class to each people how to develop for the mac.
Your book is a lot more predictable than mine. In my textbooks (graduate structural engineering), the only answers in the back of the book are the SHORT ones. So the first chapters have every 2nd or 3rd problem. The last chapters, where the problems are hard and you actually NEED the solutions, only have every 6th or 7th problem.
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the keyboard scratching the screen). But it's silvery and cost far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher quality!"
This is *so* not true. Mac Zealots would never say something like that. The iBook was built by AsusAlpha (AlphaTop recently merged with Asus). And it's white.;-)
First of all, Apple hasn't done (or not done) anything wrong. The eploit was publicized 3 days ago. Odds are they are working on a patch, it just isn't ready in 3 days. At the point, the publicity generated is enough to make them release a patch even if they weren't planning one (which I find unlikely, given that panther is less than a week old).
Not all OS's have a 40-hour turnaround time for bugfixes like microsoft;-)
You've got to modify the deflector dish to emit an inverse tachyon pulse. Geez, its like I'm the only one here who graduated from the Daystrom Institute...
...What?! Okay so it was UC Berkeley with a minor in watching too much SpikeTV.
In the installation options, you can specify that you want X11 installed. Its after you check/uncheck the gigabyte of printer drivers and asian language fonts.
"this could possibly include sites to do with mutilation etc"
Who defines mutilation? I mean, 8 days after I was born, some rabbi dude came in with a knife and cut the tip of my dick off!
I call it circumcision, and its "normal", but I can easily imagine someone saying its sick and twisted. I mean, surely if god had intended for us to be circumcised we'd have been born without foreskins, right?
When Lame Duck Governor Gray Davis signs a bill to let them vote (shortly after he signs a law to let illegal immigrants do the same, I'd imagine), will they only get 2/3rds of a vote?
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I don't know if they still are, but for a long time you DID get a free copy of Appleworks with every iBook and iMac (not powermac or powerbook, though). My brother's iMac 400 DV came with it, as did my ibook 600.
Sorry, you're gonna be out of luck. All of the titanium powerbooks have the CPU soldiered(sp?) directly to the motherboard. To upgrade, you'd have to completely disassemble the unit and get a new motherboard.
Not cheap or easy. What you want is a machine which has a processor daughtercard (G4 towers, G3 powerbooks). Those make it easy to upgrade the processors.
Wait, why is this *Apple's* fake system? Doesn't everyone who makes OR sells hard drives do this?
What confuses me is that they define their sizes differently. Some will say
a) 1GB = 1000 MB
b) 1GB = 1000000 KB
c) 1GB = 1000000000 Bytes
Is choice (a) really equal to 1000*1024*1024? See where I'm getting with this?
Actually, I'm not sure about that 3rd one.
You forgot one non-x86-desktop effort: Mac Business Unit. This is a huge money maker for MS.
If you look at the tech specs page (www.apple.com/ipodmini), you'll see that the 4 gig iPod Mini is estimated to hold 1000 songs encoded at 128 AAC. The original 5 gig iPod storage was calculated using 128 MP3. If AAC's are smaller than MP3's for the same bitrate (don't know if they are), that would explain the discrepancy.
It's not solid state. I don't know where they got that from, but they made it up. If you look on the ipod mini page, you'll see that its a 4GB disk drive.
Where, exactly, can you get 4GB of solid state ANYTHING for less than $250?
My best friend did something similar for my bar mitzvah. It was the largest of all the boxes I'd received...50 layers of boxen later, I discovered an envelope with cash.
Fortunately, I got the knife out after the second layer.
Next? If you'll notice my other post in this thread, Berkeley has already been here. A few times over.
UC Berkeley has already had a handful of Cocoa and mac development courses, most taught by my roommate. These courses, though student run, earned real CS credits and had labs, projects, etc. He just graduated, so someone else will have to take up the torch. And it won't be me.
Personally, I think its a great idea. Many, many students get out of CS schools with vague notions of how to write a compiler in LISP, or what the best way to implement XYZ (without understanding why it SHOULD be implemented). As if anyone cares. Macs may be a small market, but a Cocoa class is teaching a useful, marketable skill that can be directly applied to real-world application development.
Would it not be better to teach the students HOW to program well
There is. It's called the rest of the CS program at the school. They teach OOP-concepts, algorithms, etc.
This class is more specific. And optional. No one is forced to take it. And Cocoa isn't a language, its a set of API's. It just happens to use Objective-C. With macs being such a minority in schools, I don't see why its a problem to have an optional (probably student-run) class to each people how to develop for the mac.
The parent answered that question already: genetic therapy. GATTACA here we come!
Your book is a lot more predictable than mine. In my textbooks (graduate structural engineering), the only answers in the back of the book are the SHORT ones. So the first chapters have every 2nd or 3rd problem. The last chapters, where the problems are hard and you actually NEED the solutions, only have every 6th or 7th problem.
Geez, professors are lazy these days.
"regular entertainment provided by Britney, Beyonce, Kylie etc. and a large collection of expensive playthings..."
::insert quote about how I for one welcome our new pop-star-lovin' overlord::
You mean like "Britney, Beyonce, Kylie etc."?
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the keyboard scratching the screen). But it's silvery and cost far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher quality!"
;-)
This is *so* not true. Mac Zealots would never say something like that. The iBook was built by AsusAlpha (AlphaTop recently merged with Asus). And it's white.
First of all, Apple hasn't done (or not done) anything wrong. The eploit was publicized 3 days ago. Odds are they are working on a patch, it just isn't ready in 3 days. At the point, the publicity generated is enough to make them release a patch even if they weren't planning one (which I find unlikely, given that panther is less than a week old).
;-)
Not all OS's have a 40-hour turnaround time for bugfixes like microsoft
You've got to modify the deflector dish to emit an inverse tachyon pulse. Geez, its like I'm the only one here who graduated from the Daystrom Institute...
...What?! Okay so it was UC Berkeley with a minor in watching too much SpikeTV.
In the installation options, you can specify that you want X11 installed. Its after you check/uncheck the gigabyte of printer drivers and asian language fonts.
And you get free copies of the OS 2-3 times a year too! I got 10.2, 10.2.3, and 10.2.6, I think, over the course of last year.
Student membership is the best $99 I've ever spent. Of course, I'm in the SF Bay Area so I can get scholarships to WWDC too.
"There's nothing like being able to carry the functionality of my calculator with me wherever I go"
;-)
You mean, like, by carrying a calculator? A real geek keeps his calculator next to his leatherman
Sure, except that Windows ALSO has 100 security holes a year.
No, its "two to the one-hundred and twenty-eighth power". Those other words are just made up.
I mean, really. Six? Whoever heard of such a thing?
"this could possibly include sites to do with mutilation etc"
Who defines mutilation? I mean, 8 days after I was born, some rabbi dude came in with a knife and cut the tip of my dick off!
I call it circumcision, and its "normal", but I can easily imagine someone saying its sick and twisted. I mean, surely if god had intended for us to be circumcised we'd have been born without foreskins, right?
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
When Lame Duck Governor Gray Davis signs a bill to let them vote (shortly after he signs a law to let illegal immigrants do the same, I'd imagine), will they only get 2/3rds of a vote?
Clearly, a problem of this type has only ONE logical and cost-effective solution:
a 50 inch television.