yeah, but your 604e is going to have a serious motherboard, and much better components in general - SCSI, right? A graphics card you picked out yourself? I suspect that in a component free environment, you'd find that the iMac was faster (ie, you took the processor out, and hooked it up to a big box o' magic, then did the same with the 604e). The iMac is using laptop components. When have you ever seen a laptop outrun a desktop? Although I agree with you on the G4. Those things sound like they'll be seriously slick....
For the past decade, the entire world has been watching genocide in the Balkans and turned a blind eye. I think that it is about time we did something. I don't think that NATO is going about this the right way, but how on earth can anyone justify standing back and doing nothing? Genocide is murder to the nth degree. These are people who are dying, and for the umpteenth time since World War Two, when we all said never again, we've been ignoring it. I'm sick and tired of people saying that this is US imperialism. Have you no consience? NATO is going about this in a less than ideal manner, but something needs to be done.
With the exception of two or three posts so far, everyone is talking about how evil apple is. QT4 server is apsl software, you can stream anything QT to any QT client, you can re-compile the server for whatever platform you like, all good things. Having seen QT4 streaming in action from an OS X server, I have to say, it beats the crap out of netshow or realplayer. Plus it has a lot more options, like bookmarking a spot in the middle of the stream and being able to open the stream from that point, and having the server side option of making the stream non-transferable. (ie, if you are serving a stream of stuff that, for one reason or another, you don't want being copied, you can stream it that way). Apple really isn't that bad. They're pretty responsive lately, which is a Good Thing.
How many civilized nations are there in the world today? I don't think the number is very high. Look at the way we treat each other. I don't think that guns are the solution, but they are far from being the only problem.....
It's one thing explain to someone who is interested, and to be calm and relaxed about it, and it's another thing alttogether to start the hard sell, and that pisses people off. Linux supporters as well. Especially don't preach about open source if you aren't going to code, or help write documentation.
Spring loaded folders in MacOS 8.x It's a thing of beauty. If you want to put a file somewhere else, you just move the icon over the folder, it pops the folder open, recurse until you get to your final destinatioon, leave it there, all the folders close up behind you. Of course, the CLI is missing, and there's other stuff that's way better with the CLI, but you have to admit that it's a cute and useful and fun feature.
Find a motor trend editor who writes car reviews who can't explain to you in a thorough manner how to rebuild an engine, or the inner workings of a six speed, or at the very least change the oil and a flat, and I'll buy you a pony. You really can't go criticizing other people's writing if you can't master basic grammar, which does seem to be a bit of a problem for some of us (myself certainly included). I mean, have you ever worked tech support, asked the client what os they were running and they swore up and down that m$ word was their os? You wouldn't let them tell you how to fix a cranky linux box with a buggy development kernel, hmmm? Not that I disagree entirely, just try to see the point, you know?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article 1, Section 8 The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; - snip some stuff that allows congress to borrow money, create the post office, and established the PTO -
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
So, having read that, my take on this would be that the founding fathers were pro social programs, and thought that a standing army (read defense budget) was a bad thing. Oddly enough, as far as I can tell from reading all 27 admendments, article 1 section 8 was never modified or nullified. I'm not an expert on the constitution, but doesn't that suggest that a standing military is illegal in the US?
Yeah, but one flat tax package is not the same as another. Forbes' package only taxed paycheck type income, not interest payment income. I don't know what Brown's tax package looked like, but looking at who we're talking about, my money is on a relatively progressive taxation - something along the lines of every income, no matter where it comes from, gets hit with an tax of a constant rate. Which is really excessive. BillG would be payiong through the nose, whereas someone with the same paycheck but nothing in the bank or otherwise earning interest would be paying way less. A very nice way to do flat taxes if you ask me.....
I find it highly unlikely that a dead-head who tray-surfs with the press corps on Air Force 2 would be pro censorship. The man might not know a pal pilot from a sparc station (the palm pilot's the little one, right?), but he's not all that bad when you try to find out more about him. He's downright cool, in fact.
I agree whole-heartedly about the scripting languages, programming languages, TCP/UDP and the management thereof, but when was the last time you used OSI modelled networking? Admittedly, I'm a lowly student, and I like my mac as much as my linux box, but I've never seen anything based on OSI. Oddly enough, I know it, all 7 seven layers, but I really have no idea why or where I would ever end up using it.
> wouldnt doing a good job and helping >ppl be enough? i would certainly think so, but >then again i will
Let's just pretend for a moment that not everyone is nice, that there are people in the world who rip others off because they can, who act like jerks, and who don't help other people because it isn't convenient for them for whatever reason. Taking that into account, I'd much rather live in a capitialist nation.
Statistically? I'm curious, I mean, if you have some sort of figures you can show us for quality of life, life expectancy, happiness, all that jazz, I would really have to agree with you. But I do really think that you can say that most of northern europe is both capitalist and socialist. i mean, the two systems involve such different ways of operating. It's sort of like trying to run a computer with half of one OS and half of another, you know? Maybe capitalism with a lot of socialist touches - such as healthcare - might be a better description.
What other economic models have survived in the long run, other than capitalism or a modified capitalism based on some osrt of barter market? I don't want to tell you you're wrong, but I also feel like I should let you get away with a lie that obvious. Because there is no non-capitalist market in the world that has so far lasted more than 50-60 years. China, Cuba, and N Korea are the only ones I can think of at the moment, and all of them are moving more and more towards some variation on capitalism and free trade. Sure, there are many countries that have socialist health care or such, but that doesn't make a nation socialist. Look at the majority of communist or socialist experiments this century. The end result is far too many cases is economic ruin, suffering, and bloodshed. Take a look at the former Yugoslav states, Russia, N Korea, or so many others.
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yeah, but your 604e is going to have a serious motherboard, and much better components in general - SCSI, right? A graphics card you picked out yourself? I suspect that in a component free environment, you'd find that the iMac was faster (ie, you took the processor out, and hooked it up to a big box o' magic, then did the same with the 604e). The iMac is using laptop components. When have you ever seen a laptop outrun a desktop? Although I agree with you on the G4. Those things sound like they'll be seriously slick....
itachi
For the past decade, the entire world has been watching genocide in the Balkans and turned a blind eye. I think that it is about time we did something. I don't think that NATO is going about this the right way, but how on earth can anyone justify standing back and doing nothing? Genocide is murder to the nth degree. These are people who are dying, and for the umpteenth time since World War Two, when we all said never again, we've been ignoring it. I'm sick and tired of people saying that this is US imperialism. Have you no consience? NATO is going about this in a less than ideal manner, but something needs to be done.
With the exception of two or three posts so far, everyone is talking about how evil apple is. QT4 server is apsl software, you can stream anything QT to any QT client, you can re-compile the server for whatever platform you like, all good things. Having seen QT4 streaming in action from an OS X server, I have to say, it beats the crap out of netshow or realplayer. Plus it has a lot more options, like bookmarking a spot in the middle of the stream and being able to open the stream from that point, and having the server side option of making the stream non-transferable. (ie, if you are serving a stream of stuff that, for one reason or another, you don't want being copied, you can stream it that way). Apple really isn't that bad. They're pretty responsive lately, which is a Good Thing.
itachi
How many civilized nations are there in the world today? I don't think the number is very high. Look at the way we treat each other. I don't think that guns are the solution, but they are far from being the only problem.....
itachi
Quite right. I don't think that they should be ignored altogether, but having one's own opinion is much more worthwhile and such
itachi
fair enough.
It's one thing explain to someone who is interested, and to be calm and relaxed about it, and it's another thing alttogether to start the hard sell, and that pisses people off. Linux supporters as well. Especially don't preach about open source if you aren't going to code, or help write documentation.
Spring loaded folders in MacOS 8.x It's a thing of beauty. If you want to put a file somewhere else, you just move the icon over the folder, it pops the folder open, recurse until you get to your final destinatioon, leave it there, all the folders close up behind you. Of course, the CLI is missing, and there's other stuff that's way better with the CLI, but you have to admit that it's a cute and useful and fun feature.
Find a motor trend editor who writes car reviews who can't explain to you in a thorough manner how to rebuild an engine, or the inner workings of a six speed, or at the very least change the oil and a flat, and I'll buy you a pony. You really can't go criticizing other people's writing if you can't master basic grammar, which does seem to be a bit of a problem for some of us (myself certainly included). I mean, have you ever worked tech support, asked the client what os they were running and they swore up and down that m$ word was their os? You wouldn't let them tell you how to fix a cranky linux box with a buggy development kernel, hmmm? Not that I disagree entirely, just try to see the point, you know?
itachi.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article 1, Section 8
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
- snip some stuff that allows congress to borrow money, create the post office, and established the PTO -
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
So, having read that, my take on this would be that the founding fathers were pro social programs, and thought that a standing army (read defense budget) was a bad thing. Oddly enough, as far as I can tell from reading all 27 admendments, article 1 section 8 was never modified or nullified. I'm not an expert on the constitution, but doesn't that suggest that a standing military is illegal in the US?
itachi
Yeah, but one flat tax package is not the same as another. Forbes' package only taxed paycheck type income, not interest payment income. I don't know what Brown's tax package looked like, but looking at who we're talking about, my money is on a relatively progressive taxation - something along the lines of every income, no matter where it comes from, gets hit with an tax of a constant rate. Which is really excessive. BillG would be payiong through the nose, whereas someone with the same paycheck but nothing in the bank or otherwise earning interest would be paying way less. A very nice way to do flat taxes if you ask me.....
itachi
I find it highly unlikely that a dead-head who tray-surfs with the press corps on Air Force 2 would be pro censorship. The man might not know a pal pilot from a sparc station (the palm pilot's the little one, right?), but he's not all that bad when you try to find out more about him. He's downright cool, in fact.
itachi
I agree whole-heartedly about the scripting languages, programming languages, TCP/UDP and the management thereof, but when was the last time you used OSI modelled networking? Admittedly, I'm a lowly student, and I like my mac as much as my linux box, but I've never seen anything based on OSI. Oddly enough, I know it, all 7 seven layers, but I really have no idea why or where I would ever end up using it.
itachi
> wouldnt doing a good job and helping >ppl be enough? i would certainly think so, but >then again i will
Let's just pretend for a moment that not everyone is nice, that there are people in the world who rip others off because they can, who act like jerks, and who don't help other people because it isn't convenient for them for whatever reason. Taking that into account, I'd much rather live in a capitialist nation.
Statistically? I'm curious, I mean, if you have some sort of figures you can show us for quality of life, life expectancy, happiness, all that jazz, I would really have to agree with you. But I do really think that you can say that most of northern europe is both capitalist and socialist. i mean, the two systems involve such different ways of operating. It's sort of like trying to run a computer with half of one OS and half of another, you know? Maybe capitalism with a lot of socialist touches - such as healthcare - might be a better description.
itachi
What other economic models have survived in the long run, other than capitalism or a modified capitalism based on some osrt of barter market? I don't want to tell you you're wrong, but I also feel like I should let you get away with a lie that obvious. Because there is no non-capitalist market in the world that has so far lasted more than 50-60 years. China, Cuba, and N Korea are the only ones I can think of at the moment, and all of them are moving more and more towards some variation on capitalism and free trade. Sure, there are many countries that have socialist health care or such, but that doesn't make a nation socialist. Look at the majority of communist or socialist experiments this century. The end result is far too many cases is economic ruin, suffering, and bloodshed. Take a look at the former Yugoslav states, Russia, N Korea, or so many others.
itachi