Wrap it in plastic wrap* -- it's cheap and you can buy it anywhere!
* I high-school intern we had last summer wrapped his 20GB iPod in plastic wrap. When I asked him why, he said, "Because I'm Chinese. We wrap everything in plastic wrap. You should see the remote controls..." Flabergasted, I looked over at another intern, also Chinese, who was nodding in agreement. I thought nothing of it, ok that's a lie, until I went into the local Chinese take-out place the other day and saw their cash register wrapped in Saran-wrap.
Verizon is evil. Good coverage, but evil nonetheless. I'm sure there are a number of/. articles about it, but they force companies like Motorola and Nokia to cripple features on their phones that could hamper Verizon's revenue streams. (bluetooth data xfer directly to you computer for your phone book, pics, and ringtones)
"Obviously your not a buisness [sic] economics major."
I'm not. I was a chemistry major. Obviously you're not an English major. Don't you know the difference between "your" and "you're?":)
Break out of the recent items that Apple sells. Do you remember the dark days? You know, the days when Spindler and Amelio ran Apple? They were HORRIBLE at inventory. They would have massive overstocks of the Perfoma line (a very fragmented line at that) and massive shortages due to under estimating demand on things like the PowerMac 7100's. Apple has gotten much better at inventory control. I was poking fun at Apple and dredging up their past -- I do know the company.
It also looks like you underestimated demand for apostrophes in your post. Oh the joys of just-in-time posting! Did you decide to go ahead and write your post without them?
You can borrow a few from me until your shipment arrives.
No, Apple is very, very good at underestimating demand for its devices. That my friend, doesn't count as tight inventory control -- it's called poor forecasting. They're really, really good at that.
you beat me to it. I find Mossberg to be a very fair reviewer -- he doesn't pitch one platform over the other. A true Apple Fan Boy would answer all of the emails related to viruses on Windows by saying, "Get a Mac!" He doesn't do that.
Nice one. However, which method would you use to encode said track for the best possible playback quality? It's a serious question. What is recorded is the sound of the recording studio and the recording equipment, that's it. How does one encode that? Ogg? Apple-Loss-Less? WMV? MP3?
Why wouldn't they rip a t-shirt off your chest? Is it your mad informatics skills? Your knowledge of Star Trek? Your chatting on IRC? Why? Why would nobody in their right mind rip a T-shirt off your chest? I it because you're...DUTCH?
That's how TVs worked in the past. You wanted to make the image bigger? You installed a magnifying lense on the TV. Granted, this was in the 1950's, but things have a way of coming full circle.
One of things people forget when talking about DTV is this:
All High Definition TV is Digital TV. Not all Digital TV is High Definition.
People who have older, analog only sets will need to purchase a new TV that can decode digital signals or a set top box that can decode and output to the old TV.
People who have cable or sattelite will only need a new box if they want HDTV.
This is geek porn! How can you talk of a room full of computers running a popular MMORPG and NOT HAVE PICTURES?/. ppl get excited about pictures of cruddy wiring in LAN closets! This article might as well be a harlequin romance novel.
Actually, thank you. I was just having a conversation with an HVAC guy last weekend and he didn't exactly know what a ton of cooling really was. He estimated it at 12,000 BTU but didn't know what it referred to.
...but IBM is no longer manufacturing 8" Floppy Disks....Macs aren't shipping with 3.5" Floppy Disk Drives....Rosebud is a sled....the Gimp is Keyser Soze.
...and it's already paid off. (migrating from 10.2 to 10.3 mail server-server...)
However, I do have a few beefs with it:
1. Errors. There are misplaced words and sentences that make no sense all over the book. In the short time I've had the book; I've come across at least 20 errors. (I've reported some to O'Reilly already. I just haven't had the time to do more.)
2. Depth/Lack of diagrams. A picture is worth 1,000 words, right? Well, where the hell are all of the diagrams? The VPN section needs a little bit more help -- maybe a picture or two -- to make it better.
3. While I've only read through the section once, the whole part on setting up an Open Directory master is a bit confusing, especially when the author writes about the different passwords. To his credit, he did include a diagram; however, the text is this section is a bit awkward.
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I had FP and blew it...
Wrap it in plastic wrap* -- it's cheap and you can buy it anywhere!
* I high-school intern we had last summer wrapped his 20GB iPod in plastic wrap. When I asked him why, he said, "Because I'm Chinese. We wrap everything in plastic wrap. You should see the remote controls..." Flabergasted, I looked over at another intern, also Chinese, who was nodding in agreement. I thought nothing of it, ok that's a lie, until I went into the local Chinese take-out place the other day and saw their cash register wrapped in Saran-wrap.
Here is a link.
Verizon is evil. Good coverage, but evil nonetheless. I'm sure there are a number of /. articles about it, but they force companies like Motorola and Nokia to cripple features on their phones that could hamper Verizon's revenue streams. (bluetooth data xfer directly to you computer for your phone book, pics, and ringtones)
"Obviously your not a buisness [sic] economics major."
:)
I'm not. I was a chemistry major. Obviously you're not an English major. Don't you know the difference between "your" and "you're?"
Break out of the recent items that Apple sells. Do you remember the dark days? You know, the days when Spindler and Amelio ran Apple? They were HORRIBLE at inventory. They would have massive overstocks of the Perfoma line (a very fragmented line at that) and massive shortages due to under estimating demand on things like the PowerMac 7100's. Apple has gotten much better at inventory control. I was poking fun at Apple and dredging up their past -- I do know the company.
It also looks like you underestimated demand for apostrophes in your post. Oh the joys of just-in-time posting! Did you decide to go ahead and write your post without them?
You can borrow a few from me until your shipment arrives.
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--Mike
No, Apple is very, very good at underestimating demand for its devices. That my friend, doesn't count as tight inventory control -- it's called poor forecasting. They're really, really good at that.
you beat me to it. I find Mossberg to be a very fair reviewer -- he doesn't pitch one platform over the other. A true Apple Fan Boy would answer all of the emails related to viruses on Windows by saying, "Get a Mac!" He doesn't do that.
--Mike
Nice one. However, which method would you use to encode said track for the best possible playback quality? It's a serious question. What is recorded is the sound of the recording studio and the recording equipment, that's it. How does one encode that? Ogg? Apple-Loss-Less? WMV? MP3?
Why wouldn't they rip a t-shirt off your chest? Is it your mad informatics skills? Your knowledge of Star Trek? Your chatting on IRC? Why? Why would nobody in their right mind rip a T-shirt off your chest? I it because you're...DUTCH?
Don't leave us hanging...
--Mike
Now that I have a Mighty Mouse, I can right-click the HD icon and hit eject.
I'll Moderate you +1 MEAN. Thank you.
That's how TVs worked in the past. You wanted to make the image bigger? You installed a magnifying lense on the TV. Granted, this was in the 1950's, but things have a way of coming full circle.
I am correct. DTV and HDTV are digitial until they are converted to analog, which is what your illustration shows.
One of things people forget when talking about DTV is this:
All High Definition TV is Digital TV. Not all Digital TV is High Definition.
People who have older, analog only sets will need to purchase a new TV that can decode digital signals or a set top box that can decode and output to the old TV.
People who have cable or sattelite will only need a new box if they want HDTV.
--Mike
If I had mod points, you'd get them now. That comment made my day, thank you.
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Have anyone read drunkenbatman's Ham Story?
http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/0
This is geek porn! How can you talk of a room full of computers running a popular MMORPG and NOT HAVE PICTURES? /. ppl get excited about pictures of cruddy wiring in LAN closets! This article might as well be a harlequin romance novel.
--Mike
...even if it was on the Mac (and it was) it still wasn't for Windows. :)
...is the only reason I still have the Classic environment on my Mac. In fact, I was just playing yesterday. That game has legs!
As for Civ3, I couldn't get into it. It buzzed and beeped and annoyed the hell out of me.
My only goal is to conquer the world and build railroads on every square. If I had time, I'd mine every square as well.
--Mike
Actually, thank you. I was just having a conversation with an HVAC guy last weekend and he didn't exactly know what a ton of cooling really was. He estimated it at 12,000 BTU but didn't know what it referred to.
--mike
There's a town in Nordrhine Westfalen (Germany) named Lintel...
I have no ideal what this adds to the conversation.
What if you installed it on the dev mac and just moved the HD over to the generic PC?
--Mike
...but IBM is no longer manufacturing 8" Floppy Disks. ...Macs aren't shipping with 3.5" Floppy Disk Drives. ...Rosebud is a sled. ...the Gimp is Keyser Soze.
...and it's already paid off. (migrating from 10.2 to 10.3 mail server-server...)
However, I do have a few beefs with it:
1. Errors. There are misplaced words and sentences that make no sense all over the book. In the short time I've had the book; I've come across at least 20 errors. (I've reported some to O'Reilly already. I just haven't had the time to do more.)
2. Depth/Lack of diagrams. A picture is worth 1,000 words, right? Well, where the hell are all of the diagrams? The VPN section needs a little bit more help -- maybe a picture or two -- to make it better.
3. While I've only read through the section once, the whole part on setting up an Open Directory master is a bit confusing, especially when the author writes about the different passwords. To his credit, he did include a diagram; however, the text is this section is a bit awkward.
How do you measure success? Take a look at the NBA...quite a few successful drop out there, wouldn't you say?
--Mike
...and it worked for him AND Gates dropped out of Harvard and it worked for him, doesn't mean that it OK for everyone to drop out.
In general University/College is a GOOD thing. However, some people's paths take them elsewhere.
--Mike