Sure. You know that NeoOffice/J looks and works nothing like a Mac OS X application, and takes up hundreds of MB of RAM while running, right? I can load Microsoft Word in about 20 MB of RAM while NeoOffice/J is still bootstrapping another copy of the JVM.
(Oh, don't worry. The next version will be great and will do everything you want. Just don't buy Microsoft Office. Blah blah FUD blah.)
But you do need Java. NeoOffice/J is nice if you want something for free, but its performance is absolutely terrible.
Open-source applications like Firefox and NeoOffice/J are not Mac OS X native, so they will always be slow, inaccessible, and not compliant with whatever whizbang features Apple comes out with. (In Tiger, hit CMD+F5 to turn on VoiceOver and see how much of the Firefox or NeoOffice/J interface is actually Mac OS X native.)
Look up "Minimum Advertised Price" on the all-new MSN Search. Companies like Apple, Bose, etc. tell retailers that they may not advertise a product for less than a certain price. If the retailer does so anyway, then the manufacturer can stop selling to the retailer. This effectively stops the retailer from selling the product in question.
So direct them to where qualified techs can help them out. I imagine any savvy high-school kid could live off the income of a de-zombifying-computers job.
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The hostile behavior of self-proclaimed net.gods, looking down upon AOL "lusers" from their Linux "boxen," doesn't help matters any.
If you're upset about end-users ruining your ability to download new packages for your "boxen," then offer to help instead of bitching them out on Slashdot.
I am pleased to announce a new phenomenon in which users of recent-model camera phones can use publicly-visible markings to initiate a chat with each other about music. It is called Bluemochalkblogcasting.
Coming soon: The very first Bluemochalkblogcasting manifesto. Say goodbye to traditional media and bow down to Bluemochalkblogcasting!
Calling Slashdot a "blog" is like calling Candid Camera "reality television" or FM radio "streaming audio." A neologism loses some of its punch when you start retroactively applying it to pre-existing examples.
Slashdot is not a blog. There's no TrackBack, no comments urging you to play online poker and buy C|@L1S or V1@6RA, and more importantly people actually read Slashdot.
Slashdot has teetered dangerously close to the grand blog tradition of demonizing certain other websites with which its editors disagree. The second it does that, you can call Slashdot a blog.
Yes, exactly. If I posted a story called "saleenS281 eats babies for lunch" in a major news magazine and you came to my editors demanding justice, I would be fired right away. That's not censorship; that's just a reaction by a company to its employee.
Quicken for Mac, at $70, lacks features present in Quicken for Windows which costs $30. Furthermore, data files can only be converted by a VERY lossy process. They're really two different products entirely.
I have 256 MB of RAM and a DVD-ROM drive in my $300 Dell. There's a "2.4 GHz Celeron," whatever that means. I use the computer for running Quicken and a few other apps that are Windows-only. I don't play games on it. It works great as a basic home machine, and for $120 more they'll actually support it for two years.
The only irritant is all the upselling Dell tries to do: "We've preloaded McAfee Security Suite, but you're not truly secure unless you Go Pro for only $50!" By contrast, Apple just begs you for $30 to play QuickTime movies in full-screen until you figure out the AppleScript workaround or warez the stupid player.
The whole "no display flash MP3 player" crap was tried before and was panned. The iPod Shuffle is nothing more than a brand extension for people who want to say they own an iPod but can't afford a real iPod.
Even my $20 Discman has a more useful display than the iPod Shuffle does. It's not like it's difficult to put a screen and a kickass battery in the same form factor as a Shuffle, but Apple doesn't want you spending your money on such frivolities when you could be buying a higher-end player.
The Shuffle was made by someone else other than Apple. It was called the Creative MuVo and it came out in 2001 or 2002. Critics panned it for not having a screen and it was superseded by players like the MuVo TX that did have a screen. The end.
Most of the FM modulators on the market will work with any MP3 player. The original iTrip relied on specific MP3 files to be played to change the frequency; you can probably load these files onto another player and the iTrip will work.
The iPod has no built-in FM out capability. Anything with a headphone port will work with most FM transmitters.
With Mac OS X, you get a vendor that hand-picks the sound cards that go into their computers and makes sure that the drivers work flawlessly. With Linux, you get a thousand different HOWTOs, all in different phases of obsolescence, and so the only option you have is to use five-year-old hardware like a Sound Blaster Live! card because enough forum jockeys agree it "just works."
Nothing works in Windows, but there are vendors like Dell that will happily sell you a computer and an upgraded support package to give you real technical support in the event that something breaks.
Don't worry. I'm sure they just went with TeleAtlas during the beta period, and I've heard from several blogs that TrackBacked each other that Google is planning a better map system roll-out prior to general availability release.
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Sorry for suggesting that free software should be good. I should just stay with my $400 copy of Office then. Thank you for your sarcastic comment.
Sure. You know that NeoOffice/J looks and works nothing like a Mac OS X application, and takes up hundreds of MB of RAM while running, right? I can load Microsoft Word in about 20 MB of RAM while NeoOffice/J is still bootstrapping another copy of the JVM.
(Oh, don't worry. The next version will be great and will do everything you want. Just don't buy Microsoft Office. Blah blah FUD blah.)
My Yahoo! is my all-OS, all-browser RSS reader. There are other services like Bloglines that already exist.
Yahoo! Search already provides an option to "add this to My Yahoo" for search results. Take a look at a sample search.
I eagerly await Google's revolutionary imitation of all Yahoo's progress in RSS reading.
But you do need Java. NeoOffice/J is nice if you want something for free, but its performance is absolutely terrible.
Open-source applications like Firefox and NeoOffice/J are not Mac OS X native, so they will always be slow, inaccessible, and not compliant with whatever whizbang features Apple comes out with. (In Tiger, hit CMD+F5 to turn on VoiceOver and see how much of the Firefox or NeoOffice/J interface is actually Mac OS X native.)
Look up "Minimum Advertised Price" on the all-new MSN Search. Companies like Apple, Bose, etc. tell retailers that they may not advertise a product for less than a certain price. If the retailer does so anyway, then the manufacturer can stop selling to the retailer. This effectively stops the retailer from selling the product in question.
So direct them to where qualified techs can help them out. I imagine any savvy high-school kid could live off the income of a de-zombifying-computers job.
The hostile behavior of self-proclaimed net.gods, looking down upon AOL "lusers" from their Linux "boxen," doesn't help matters any.
If you're upset about end-users ruining your ability to download new packages for your "boxen," then offer to help instead of bitching them out on Slashdot.
Excuse me, this is Slashdot. Could you please restate those figures in mebipeople and gibidollars?
XviD to me has always seemed like "Bizarro DivX."
For example, play a DivX movie in an XviD player. The soundtrack gets replaced with five people shouting "bizarro" all the time.
What happened to the idea of the ultrasound as a medical diagnostic procedure?
It died earlier this year when companies started offering "recreational medical imaging" at the mall.
I am pleased to announce a new phenomenon in which users of recent-model camera phones can use publicly-visible markings to initiate a chat with each other about music. It is called Bluemochalkblogcasting.
Coming soon: The very first Bluemochalkblogcasting manifesto. Say goodbye to traditional media and bow down to Bluemochalkblogcasting!
Calling Slashdot a "blog" is like calling Candid Camera "reality television" or FM radio "streaming audio." A neologism loses some of its punch when you start retroactively applying it to pre-existing examples.
Slashdot is not a blog. There's no TrackBack, no comments urging you to play online poker and buy C|@L1S or V1@6RA, and more importantly people actually read Slashdot.
Slashdot has teetered dangerously close to the grand blog tradition of demonizing certain other websites with which its editors disagree. The second it does that, you can call Slashdot a blog.
Yes, exactly. If I posted a story called "saleenS281 eats babies for lunch" in a major news magazine and you came to my editors demanding justice, I would be fired right away. That's not censorship; that's just a reaction by a company to its employee.
Desktops starting at $299 plus shipping. I bought one. No rebates, AOL commitments, or any of that garbage. And the CPU speed is well above "1 MHz."
The $299 deal includes a 17" CRT, but I bought a $20 KVM switch to reuse my existing monitor.
Quicken for Mac, at $70, lacks features present in Quicken for Windows which costs $30. Furthermore, data files can only be converted by a VERY lossy process. They're really two different products entirely.
Nice referral link, though. Classy.
I have 256 MB of RAM and a DVD-ROM drive in my $300 Dell. There's a "2.4 GHz Celeron," whatever that means. I use the computer for running Quicken and a few other apps that are Windows-only. I don't play games on it. It works great as a basic home machine, and for $120 more they'll actually support it for two years.
The only irritant is all the upselling Dell tries to do: "We've preloaded McAfee Security Suite, but you're not truly secure unless you Go Pro for only $50!" By contrast, Apple just begs you for $30 to play QuickTime movies in full-screen until you figure out the AppleScript workaround or warez the stupid player.
The whole "no display flash MP3 player" crap was tried before and was panned. The iPod Shuffle is nothing more than a brand extension for people who want to say they own an iPod but can't afford a real iPod.
Even my $20 Discman has a more useful display than the iPod Shuffle does. It's not like it's difficult to put a screen and a kickass battery in the same form factor as a Shuffle, but Apple doesn't want you spending your money on such frivolities when you could be buying a higher-end player.
The Shuffle was made by someone else other than Apple. It was called the Creative MuVo and it came out in 2001 or 2002. Critics panned it for not having a screen and it was superseded by players like the MuVo TX that did have a screen. The end.
Most of the FM modulators on the market will work with any MP3 player. The original iTrip relied on specific MP3 files to be played to change the frequency; you can probably load these files onto another player and the iTrip will work.
The iPod has no built-in FM out capability. Anything with a headphone port will work with most FM transmitters.
Linux is only free if your hardware has no value.
I can't make it to the first commercial break without my brain melting -- not into water, but into delicious and refreshing Coca-Cola.
Hey, this whole article is "One man abandoned an operating system, so I guess that OS really sucks now." How much scientific thought did you expect?
With Mac OS X, you get a vendor that hand-picks the sound cards that go into their computers and makes sure that the drivers work flawlessly. With Linux, you get a thousand different HOWTOs, all in different phases of obsolescence, and so the only option you have is to use five-year-old hardware like a Sound Blaster Live! card because enough forum jockeys agree it "just works."
Nothing works in Windows, but there are vendors like Dell that will happily sell you a computer and an upgraded support package to give you real technical support in the event that something breaks.
Don't worry. I'm sure they just went with TeleAtlas during the beta period, and I've heard from several blogs that TrackBacked each other that Google is planning a better map system roll-out prior to general availability release.