You can run them through iTunes on the local machine, though. In other words, I rip a cd on my desktop g4, and copy it to the iPod using iTunes. Later, at work, I use the manual mode to copy the same mp3s from the iPod to my iBook. I import them into iTunes, and all is well. There's no such thing as data that can't be manipulated. There may be some details that need to be changed in this plan (ie, you might need data mode and music mode copies of the mp3s to move them from machine to machine, etc), but it is completely workable.
All in all, it's not a bad upgrade. It's a great upgrade if you had a chance to use Mac OS X 10.1 and wished you owned a Mac.:P
Yeah, but you don't get a BSD system and a shell on XP... If I'm stuck with windows, I'll take 2k. Rebooting once a week is close enough to what a real operating system can do, and it'll run quake 3. For my money, though, it's all about OS X.
I'd bet cash money that if you plug an iPod into a Linux/BSD box with HFS+/HFS support, you'd have no problem whatsoever getting them to play nice. Remember, 1-800-applestore gets you phone monkeys. Not even necessarily phone monkeys interested in tech. Give it a week or two, then start Googling for ways to use your iPod with non-Mac OSes.
Go down to the nearest Apple store, take a look at the large flat panels that they have. Unbelievable. Truly amazing. I really wasn't that impressed by the notion of the 22" cinema display until I saw it up close and personal. I have a really nice 21" CRT at work, and it is tiny by comparison, not to mention far more eyestrain inducing. If I had the cash for the 22" Cinema Display, I'd buy it in a second.
You can re-evaluate _your_ freedoms. I'll keep mine, thanks. My freedoms aren't yours to sacrifice. Tell me I'm siding with the terrorists, I'll tell you I'm siding with the Bill of Rights.
I dunno, I think that fascist does apply in this case. All the idiots who are saying "sure, take my rights away, as long as we're doing this for the children/nation" Which is really the heart of Fascism. I mean, it's not the same as Italy of Germany in the 1930s, but it's a lot closer to those two than is comfortable...
Agreed. I have one of the 500mhz combo drive iBooks, and it's more than fine with 384 and OS 10.1 Now with the 600mhz iBooks available (with the 100mhz system bus, no less), the iBook is an even better deal. The only suggestion I would make would be a docking setup for home/office use - an external mouse & keyboard, as well as nice 19-21" monitor.
If I want to eject my music CD from the CDROM I should be able to press the button labeled EJECT and have it pop out, not have to drag it to the trash! - Ease of use people...
With OS X, if you click (as if to drag) on a cd icon, the trash can turns into the universal logo for eject. In addition, the f12 key doubles as an eject key under OS X, so you can take your pick. Or hit the hardware eject, if you have a machine with a hardware eject button. Also, your windowing complaints mostly resolved under OS X, although only minimized windows are actually independant items in the dock.
Just a minor factual correction - you can run BeOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Linux all natively on PPC. No emulators involved. Between those, OS X, and the older Mac OSes, that's all of the OSes that I'm willing to run on hardware I can afford. I'd love a DS20 on which to run Tru64, but a Mac is a bit cheaper, and has more OS flexibility... Nice sig, though. I'm not sure about the conclusions that are drawn, but that's me.
So when we try to scare and intimidate the Taleban into handing over bin Laden, what's that? Our good neighbor policy? A fucking tea party? Or maybe dropping high explosives by the ton is meant to scare them into doing what we want... Again, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. To fix your analogy, who's better, Malcom X of Osama bin Laden? MLK was a pacifist. I'm glad Malcom X did his thing, and he was hardly doing it out of selfish greed. I don't think that you can attribute bin Laden's actions to greed either - he's as pious as George "I'll say anything to manipulate the American sheeple" W, and bin Laden is very wealthy, so there's no greed motive there.
itachi, and while you're calling me un-american, remember that we're both using the same 1st ammendment rights...
So we're justified in starting a war because we don't like a guy who lives there? Did we declare war on Oklahoma after the Oklahome City bombing, because McVeigh had lived in Elohim City (in OK)? Did we declare war on California when we found out about Charles Manson? Or did we declare war on France once we found that that's where Ira Einhorn had run off to hide? We have attacked a sovreign nation, an act that is internationally criminal. The only difference between Manson and (allegedly, but I haven't seen any proof yet, have you?) bin Laden is scale. So where is the magic number where invasion is justified? Is it 5 people? Or is it 50? Or do you have to kill 500 people before it goes from murder to war? I note that we didn't declare war on any airline ever, so it must be more than a planeload. What do youy think, maybe 500 is that magic number? Or does it take more? Intent or not, we're killing innocents and blowing up their houses, the same crime that we;re so riled up about, what is the difference between the deaths? We claim we have a justification, the terrorists claimed to have a justification, why is our justification more valid than theirs? Why does our justification allow the deaths of innocent civilians and their justification somohow doesn't?
I'm not saying I belive we shouldn't be seeking justice, or that force is not justified. I just want to know how we are explaining our hipocrisy to ourselves and the rest of the world, that's all.
itachi, and remember, you can't call me a traitor bastard without using the 1st ammendment rights that allow me to rant like this...
Sorry. My memory seems to have mislead me. I recall them being cheaper and not all that different from the iMac of the same generation, but wrong is wrong.
No, it wasn't $500. It was dirt cheap, though. Not much more than the current iMacs, IIRC. The cube was basically an iMac with no monitor, and if you didn't buy an Apple monitor to go with it, it was still in that price range. My point was that they did sell a cheap, no monitor machine that was roughly iMac-ish.
I think that the anthrax scare now is certainly getting people more paranoid than the attacks on the 11th. I agree, what they did is not the best approach for accomplishing their stated goals, but then it's international politics, nobody ever takes the most rational approach. They take an approach that sort of achieves their stated goals, and also works towards their unstated goals. I'm not sure about your take on it, though - I don't think it's killing Americans as much as embarrassing or ridiculing the U.S. on a global stage. Sort of a "despite your military might and superpower status, a bunch of us got together and hurt you worse than anybody else did before" But yeah, that makes him the king of a whole lot more than just radical Islam.
Why don't you release an "iMac-Lite" as a G3 cube for $500?
They did, nobody bought the cube so they quit making it. I have to say, though, the iBook is a great way to go. They're nearly giving them away (for laptop prices, anyway). A laptop with a cd burner/dvd drive for less than $2k and with a *bsd factory installed... Of course, you are left with the expensive ram problem still, because it's a laptop, but adding 256mb is pretty reasonable - less then $80 right now. Nobody sells 512mb sticks very cheap. (also, check out Dells prices for ram, or gateway - Apple is priced competitively with them, just not with a real ram vendor).
The claims are true. I'm guessing that the tradeoff is that the CPU can compress the data faster than the difference between writing the compressed and writing the uncompressed, resulting in less total time taken. I noticed a significant speed difference when hiding an application and un-hiding another - a gross change of 10 or so windows took about half as much time as it used to. It's a limited speed change, to be sure, that only applies in very specific circumstances, but it's there.
Also wrong. Terrorists don't want to kill. Terrorists want to scare. If they scare the survivors into bending to their wishes, then they have succeeded. If they kill a bunch of people and nobody cares, then they haven't accomplished squat. They aren't killists, they're terrorists.
Check out washingtonpost.com Loads quick, it carries the print edition plus breaking news, plus is has links to the MSNBC/Newsweek stuff that's worth reading. And there's simply no better coverage of national politics...
Well, I don't know if you saw Congress singing God Bless America on the night of the 11th, or if you've seen all of the flag-waving advertising that's been going on since then, but I'd call those obscene and un-necessary. Then I'd point out that it wasn't America that was attacked, but a pair of buildings. Next, I'd point out that it wasn't exclusively U.S. citizens who died in the attacks, so unless we're going to sing patriotic songs from a whole mess of nations, it would be more respectful to refrain from singing any of them. Finally, I'd point out that all of these people who have gone out and bought a flag to hang on their car or out their window aren't patriots anyway. If they were genuinely patriotic, they'd have a flag already, and they'd know how to hang or fly the flag properly. They certainly wouldn't be hanging them on cars, or allowing the local sports team to put flags on their uniforms, etc. I would suggest that an appropriate sentiment might be to give blood, to help out friends/neighbors in need, to think about the human costs and work on being a better person, etc. Nationalism is a bad plan.
If you trust them, they will lie to you. A friend of mine works for one of the big 3 US networks. This friend works for their nightly world news program, and we were on vacation together on the 11th. I watched a local news rumor (we were nowhere near DC or NY) that my friend reported (specifying it as a rumor) to their boss get repeated by the network's anchor about 45 minutes later. It was completely unconfirmed, and my friend had made that very clear. But it made the news. And it was completely untrue. It works for print media, too - take a look at Gary Webb's wonderful SJMN series on the CIA and the drug trade, followed shortly thereafter by responses by the NYTimes and the Washington Post (and eventually Webb's own editor) claiming that the series was all wrong, despite a mountain of facts to the contrary. Never underestimate the influence that corporate and government interests have on the news that is reported.
Actually, in the article, they mentioned that the feild unit is 7500USD, and the home unit is 6500USD. Not too bad. As for the filtering, I think that the easiest way to do that is filter at the camera, or between the camera and the video phone (assuming that schelping some video mixing equipment would be feasible...)
I just upgraded from 10.0.4 to 10.1, and not only does it feel like a wicked different OS, it reports as a different one. Everything is much smoother, much faster, more responsive, etc. Also, from the shell, if you uname, you notice that you have bumped a minor kernel number, a la 2.2 to 2.4... Maybe not a majorly major rewrite, but very very different under the skin.
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You can run them through iTunes on the local machine, though. In other words, I rip a cd on my desktop g4, and copy it to the iPod using iTunes. Later, at work, I use the manual mode to copy the same mp3s from the iPod to my iBook. I import them into iTunes, and all is well. There's no such thing as data that can't be manipulated. There may be some details that need to be changed in this plan (ie, you might need data mode and music mode copies of the mp3s to move them from machine to machine, etc), but it is completely workable.
itachi
All in all, it's not a bad upgrade. It's a great upgrade if you had a chance to use Mac OS X 10.1 and wished you owned a Mac. :P
Yeah, but you don't get a BSD system and a shell on XP... If I'm stuck with windows, I'll take 2k. Rebooting once a week is close enough to what a real operating system can do, and it'll run quake 3. For my money, though, it's all about OS X.
itachi
D'oh! I stand corrected.
itachi
I'd bet cash money that if you plug an iPod into a Linux/BSD box with HFS+/HFS support, you'd have no problem whatsoever getting them to play nice. Remember, 1-800-applestore gets you phone monkeys. Not even necessarily phone monkeys interested in tech. Give it a week or two, then start Googling for ways to use your iPod with non-Mac OSes.
itachi
Go down to the nearest Apple store, take a look at the large flat panels that they have. Unbelievable. Truly amazing. I really wasn't that impressed by the notion of the 22" cinema display until I saw it up close and personal. I have a really nice 21" CRT at work, and it is tiny by comparison, not to mention far more eyestrain inducing. If I had the cash for the 22" Cinema Display, I'd buy it in a second.
itachi
There's an optional standalone power adapter, so I can't imagine that the pinnage would be too much of a problem...
itachi
You can re-evaluate _your_ freedoms. I'll keep mine, thanks. My freedoms aren't yours to sacrifice. Tell me I'm siding with the terrorists, I'll tell you I'm siding with the Bill of Rights.
itachi
I dunno, I think that fascist does apply in this case. All the idiots who are saying "sure, take my rights away, as long as we're doing this for the children/nation" Which is really the heart of Fascism. I mean, it's not the same as Italy of Germany in the 1930s, but it's a lot closer to those two than is comfortable...
itachi
Agreed. I have one of the 500mhz combo drive iBooks, and it's more than fine with 384 and OS 10.1 Now with the 600mhz iBooks available (with the 100mhz system bus, no less), the iBook is an even better deal. The only suggestion I would make would be a docking setup for home/office use - an external mouse & keyboard, as well as nice 19-21" monitor.
itachi
If I want to eject my music CD from the CDROM I should be able to press the button labeled EJECT and have it pop out, not have to drag it to the trash! - Ease of use people...
With OS X, if you click (as if to drag) on a cd icon, the trash can turns into the universal logo for eject. In addition, the f12 key doubles as an eject key under OS X, so you can take your pick. Or hit the hardware eject, if you have a machine with a hardware eject button. Also, your windowing complaints mostly resolved under OS X, although only minimized windows are actually independant items in the dock.
itachi
Just a minor factual correction - you can run BeOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Linux all natively on PPC. No emulators involved. Between those, OS X, and the older Mac OSes, that's all of the OSes that I'm willing to run on hardware I can afford. I'd love a DS20 on which to run Tru64, but a Mac is a bit cheaper, and has more OS flexibility... Nice sig, though. I'm not sure about the conclusions that are drawn, but that's me.
itachi
So when we try to scare and intimidate the Taleban into handing over bin Laden, what's that? Our good neighbor policy? A fucking tea party? Or maybe dropping high explosives by the ton is meant to scare them into doing what we want... Again, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. To fix your analogy, who's better, Malcom X of Osama bin Laden? MLK was a pacifist. I'm glad Malcom X did his thing, and he was hardly doing it out of selfish greed. I don't think that you can attribute bin Laden's actions to greed either - he's as pious as George "I'll say anything to manipulate the American sheeple" W, and bin Laden is very wealthy, so there's no greed motive there.
itachi, and while you're calling me un-american, remember that we're both using the same 1st ammendment rights...
So we're justified in starting a war because we don't like a guy who lives there? Did we declare war on Oklahoma after the Oklahome City bombing, because McVeigh had lived in Elohim City (in OK)? Did we declare war on California when we found out about Charles Manson? Or did we declare war on France once we found that that's where Ira Einhorn had run off to hide? We have attacked a sovreign nation, an act that is internationally criminal. The only difference between Manson and (allegedly, but I haven't seen any proof yet, have you?) bin Laden is scale. So where is the magic number where invasion is justified? Is it 5 people? Or is it 50? Or do you have to kill 500 people before it goes from murder to war? I note that we didn't declare war on any airline ever, so it must be more than a planeload. What do youy think, maybe 500 is that magic number? Or does it take more? Intent or not, we're killing innocents and blowing up their houses, the same crime that we;re so riled up about, what is the difference between the deaths? We claim we have a justification, the terrorists claimed to have a justification, why is our justification more valid than theirs? Why does our justification allow the deaths of innocent civilians and their justification somohow doesn't?
I'm not saying I belive we shouldn't be seeking justice, or that force is not justified. I just want to know how we are explaining our hipocrisy to ourselves and the rest of the world, that's all.
itachi, and remember, you can't call me a traitor bastard without using the 1st ammendment rights that allow me to rant like this...
Sorry. My memory seems to have mislead me. I recall them being cheaper and not all that different from the iMac of the same generation, but wrong is wrong.
itachi
No, it wasn't $500. It was dirt cheap, though. Not much more than the current iMacs, IIRC. The cube was basically an iMac with no monitor, and if you didn't buy an Apple monitor to go with it, it was still in that price range. My point was that they did sell a cheap, no monitor machine that was roughly iMac-ish.
itachi
I think that the anthrax scare now is certainly getting people more paranoid than the attacks on the 11th. I agree, what they did is not the best approach for accomplishing their stated goals, but then it's international politics, nobody ever takes the most rational approach. They take an approach that sort of achieves their stated goals, and also works towards their unstated goals. I'm not sure about your take on it, though - I don't think it's killing Americans as much as embarrassing or ridiculing the U.S. on a global stage. Sort of a "despite your military might and superpower status, a bunch of us got together and hurt you worse than anybody else did before" But yeah, that makes him the king of a whole lot more than just radical Islam.
itachi
Why don't you release an "iMac-Lite" as a G3 cube for $500?
They did, nobody bought the cube so they quit making it. I have to say, though, the iBook is a great way to go. They're nearly giving them away (for laptop prices, anyway). A laptop with a cd burner/dvd drive for less than $2k and with a *bsd factory installed... Of course, you are left with the expensive ram problem still, because it's a laptop, but adding 256mb is pretty reasonable - less then $80 right now. Nobody sells 512mb sticks very cheap. (also, check out Dells prices for ram, or gateway - Apple is priced competitively with them, just not with a real ram vendor).
itachi
The claims are true. I'm guessing that the tradeoff is that the CPU can compress the data faster than the difference between writing the compressed and writing the uncompressed, resulting in less total time taken. I noticed a significant speed difference when hiding an application and un-hiding another - a gross change of 10 or so windows took about half as much time as it used to. It's a limited speed change, to be sure, that only applies in very specific circumstances, but it's there.
itachi
Also wrong. Terrorists don't want to kill. Terrorists want to scare. If they scare the survivors into bending to their wishes, then they have succeeded. If they kill a bunch of people and nobody cares, then they haven't accomplished squat. They aren't killists, they're terrorists.
itachi
Check out washingtonpost.com Loads quick, it carries the print edition plus breaking news, plus is has links to the MSNBC/Newsweek stuff that's worth reading. And there's simply no better coverage of national politics...
itachi
Well, I don't know if you saw Congress singing God Bless America on the night of the 11th, or if you've seen all of the flag-waving advertising that's been going on since then, but I'd call those obscene and un-necessary. Then I'd point out that it wasn't America that was attacked, but a pair of buildings. Next, I'd point out that it wasn't exclusively U.S. citizens who died in the attacks, so unless we're going to sing patriotic songs from a whole mess of nations, it would be more respectful to refrain from singing any of them. Finally, I'd point out that all of these people who have gone out and bought a flag to hang on their car or out their window aren't patriots anyway. If they were genuinely patriotic, they'd have a flag already, and they'd know how to hang or fly the flag properly. They certainly wouldn't be hanging them on cars, or allowing the local sports team to put flags on their uniforms, etc. I would suggest that an appropriate sentiment might be to give blood, to help out friends/neighbors in need, to think about the human costs and work on being a better person, etc. Nationalism is a bad plan.
itachi
If you trust them, they will lie to you. A friend of mine works for one of the big 3 US networks. This friend works for their nightly world news program, and we were on vacation together on the 11th. I watched a local news rumor (we were nowhere near DC or NY) that my friend reported (specifying it as a rumor) to their boss get repeated by the network's anchor about 45 minutes later. It was completely unconfirmed, and my friend had made that very clear. But it made the news. And it was completely untrue. It works for print media, too - take a look at Gary Webb's wonderful SJMN series on the CIA and the drug trade, followed shortly thereafter by responses by the NYTimes and the Washington Post (and eventually Webb's own editor) claiming that the series was all wrong, despite a mountain of facts to the contrary. Never underestimate the influence that corporate and government interests have on the news that is reported.
itachi
That or neighborhood watch. "Hey there local law enforcement type, that corporation just abused monopoly power!" Semantics are boring, though.
itachi
Actually, in the article, they mentioned that the feild unit is 7500USD, and the home unit is 6500USD. Not too bad. As for the filtering, I think that the easiest way to do that is filter at the camera, or between the camera and the video phone (assuming that schelping some video mixing equipment would be feasible...)
itachi
I just upgraded from 10.0.4 to 10.1, and not only does it feel like a wicked different OS, it reports as a different one. Everything is much smoother, much faster, more responsive, etc. Also, from the shell, if you uname, you notice that you have bumped a minor kernel number, a la 2.2 to 2.4... Maybe not a majorly major rewrite, but very very different under the skin.
itachi