What exactly is the deposit for? Can you damage the character in such a way that there needs to be monetary compensation?... *Hovers his mouse over the "Delete Character" button*...
For any ad-supported piece of software you can find, there is very likely to be an ad-free, cost-free program that does something similar. Even if it is somewhat clumsier to use and uglier and less featureful, it still exists.
Why would the web be any different? There was a web before ads. It was less flashy and more cumbersome to find things, and had slightly less content, yes, but it was still there and it was still usable and useful too.
Personally, after I've gotten worn out by much programming, the challenging thing I do is that I go on vacation, and not one of those stressful "let's make sure we see 150 different tourist attractions per day" kind. I'm talking the sit down and rest and go swimming in the ocean/lake/hotel's pool kind.
Works pretty well for me. Coding for 48 hours straight for no money doesn't really sound too relaxing or enticing to me.
Me, and most of the photographers I know, as well as some non-photographers? Many mid-range restaurants do it also. Nicely framed and matted, they are a fine wall hanging. They fall somewhere between posters and paintings on the 'affluence' scale.
Linux would be dead seems like the obvious answer. And yet BSD is still around despite their lawsuit. What's your point, exactly? What're you trying to say?
I love vi (vim, actually) but intuitive to new users it is NOT. pico/nano are the textmode equivalent to notepad.exe, you get a window, you type in it, you save the file. There's also search if you're feeling particularly ambitious. But that's about it.
The entire point of pico (and therefore nano) is to never be complex enough to require a menu or anything graphical. It's a nice, small, simple text editor. It edits text. That's all it does. It doesn't format code, it doesn't autocomplete, it doesn't have modes, it edits text. That's all some people really want their editor to do. As a bonus, this makes it very intuitive for new users.
By the way, pico was the internal editor used by the pine mail reader. If you haven't heard of pine, then I would contend that it is you who are lame, rather than the software. Sorry, the facts hurt sometimes!
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Great, just what I want: My roleplaying group to be flagged as terrorists.
Your definition of "phenomenally well" is different from mine. Knoppix and such do an acceptable job, but phenomenal is pushing it.
And yes, by the way, I can just use whatever crap my mobo manufacturer put on it in OSX. I don't even know what kind of soundcard in in my Mac. And I don't care. And this is how it should be.
It's not all about ground troops, you know. Modern naval warfare requires planes and pilots, ammunition and supplies and reconnaisance, repair materials and equipment, hospitals and airlifts. It's not just the lack of ground troops that are stretching the US Military thin right now, although it is a major factor. However, the lack of ground troops in Iraq also causes the military to step up the demands on their support services. Fighting wars also costs money -- another thing that you're very short on right now. You just haven't realized it yet. But you will. As long as the trade defecit continues to spiral ever upwards and the military budget soars, it's inevitable.
But hey, you're the sort of genius who spells the word "right" as "rite". Clearly, I am the retard here. (please note: I very much enjoy responding to ad-hominem attacks with ad-hominem attacks of my own, it's very enjoyable, please keep them coming!)
Because you know, the U.S. really needs a war on yet another front right now. There's just this abundance of military manpower that they don't know what to do with.
Apple has always survived the fact that they're a niche player (with a ton of development costs required to maintain their edge) by having high margins on their hardware. Yes, the hardware will be cheaper than it is now. But it'll still be much more expensive than a beige box. If you're saying they'll drop their high margins, then why would they bother making OS X run on their own computers only? If they're not making much profit on the hardware, wouldn't they be interested in selling OS X itself to a wider company? Maybe that's what they'll end up doing -- but it remains to be seen. Given what they've said so far, I'm betting on high-margin "Mactel" boxes.
Well, first of all I'm talking in Canadian dollars, I should've specified that but didn't think of it.
Secondly I'm using a 15" PowerBook G4 1.67GHz, which was $3,100 CDN about two months ago. I suspect I could get a similarly powered and equipped PC laptop for around $2,000. Which admittedly isn't quite $1,500 difference, but it's getting there.
It was just a number I made up on the spot, but thanks for your comments, they made me actually think about it.:)
Take your fear of people figuring out how to run X on beige boxes... Apple doesn't care about these folks. Simply by having not purchased a Mac, this portion of the market has already proven that they are unwilling to have ever paid the Apple premium so, in effect, Apple will virtually never loose a sale to this crowd.
You're wrong. I'm a UNIX geek turned OS X geek. I own a Mac (several, in fact). I own them because I adore OS X and because Apple makes laptops that sleep beautifully and instantly. I suspect the latter is more a function of OS X than it is of the hardware, but we'll have to see.
In any case, if a beige box (or PC laptop) ran OS X for $1500 less than my Mac cost... would I do that? You better believe I would. I'm not in it for the hardware. I'm in it for a UNIX with an awesome UI and great UI development tools, and that's what OS X is to me.
It's because you can only hear one side of the conversation. It sounds like I'm joking, but truthfully, that's a major part of it. I remember a study that was done which indicated this. It's one of those things that just causes the human brain to get very upset, kind of like computer generated characters that are close to human, but not quite. The brain knows that something's wrong and it just feels really uncomfortable.
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What exactly is the deposit for? Can you damage the character in such a way that there needs to be monetary compensation? ... *Hovers his mouse over the "Delete Character" button* ...
The "end" is a pretty big word to use.
For any ad-supported piece of software you can find, there is very likely to be an ad-free, cost-free program that does something similar. Even if it is somewhat clumsier to use and uglier and less featureful, it still exists.
Why would the web be any different? There was a web before ads. It was less flashy and more cumbersome to find things, and had slightly less content, yes, but it was still there and it was still usable and useful too.
Please be aware: SPF and Sender-Id are NOT THE SAME THING.
I don't think any major ISP has adopted Sender-Id, which is Microsoft's ill-advised attempt to embrace-and-extend SPF in a heavily encumbered way.
Joke's on you. You don't get karma for funny mods.
Holy nitpicking, batman!
Personally, after I've gotten worn out by much programming, the challenging thing I do is that I go on vacation, and not one of those stressful "let's make sure we see 150 different tourist attractions per day" kind. I'm talking the sit down and rest and go swimming in the ocean/lake/hotel's pool kind.
Works pretty well for me. Coding for 48 hours straight for no money doesn't really sound too relaxing or enticing to me.
Me, and most of the photographers I know, as well as some non-photographers? Many mid-range restaurants do it also. Nicely framed and matted, they are a fine wall hanging. They fall somewhere between posters and paintings on the 'affluence' scale.
Because hanging LCD monitors on your wall is expensive.
Paramount Chinook in Calgary was $13.50 CDN for an adult ticket at one point. Prices at Silver City Country Hills are $13.95And we don't even have provincial tax.
Linux would be dead seems like the obvious answer. And yet BSD is still around despite their lawsuit. What's your point, exactly? What're you trying to say?
That's Russia, actually. Maybe this map will clear things up a little.
I love vi (vim, actually) but intuitive to new users it is NOT. pico/nano are the textmode equivalent to notepad.exe, you get a window, you type in it, you save the file. There's also search if you're feeling particularly ambitious. But that's about it.
If power management is disabled, what prompted you to do so?
Some of them are servers. The rest run Folding@Home.
and what would make you enable power management?
Being completely unable to afford not to. We've got quite a ways to go before energy becomes that expensive.
I hate idle computers, and by definition a computer in power-saving mode is idle.
The entire point of pico (and therefore nano) is to never be complex enough to require a menu or anything graphical. It's a nice, small, simple text editor. It edits text. That's all it does. It doesn't format code, it doesn't autocomplete, it doesn't have modes, it edits text. That's all some people really want their editor to do. As a bonus, this makes it very intuitive for new users.
By the way, pico was the internal editor used by the pine mail reader. If you haven't heard of pine, then I would contend that it is you who are lame, rather than the software. Sorry, the facts hurt sometimes!
Great, just what I want: My roleplaying group to be flagged as terrorists.
Your definition of "phenomenally well" is different from mine. Knoppix and such do an acceptable job, but phenomenal is pushing it.
And yes, by the way, I can just use whatever crap my mobo manufacturer put on it in OSX. I don't even know what kind of soundcard in in my Mac. And I don't care. And this is how it should be.
It's not all about ground troops, you know. Modern naval warfare requires planes and pilots, ammunition and supplies and reconnaisance, repair materials and equipment, hospitals and airlifts. It's not just the lack of ground troops that are stretching the US Military thin right now, although it is a major factor. However, the lack of ground troops in Iraq also causes the military to step up the demands on their support services. Fighting wars also costs money -- another thing that you're very short on right now. You just haven't realized it yet. But you will. As long as the trade defecit continues to spiral ever upwards and the military budget soars, it's inevitable.
But hey, you're the sort of genius who spells the word "right" as "rite". Clearly, I am the retard here. (please note: I very much enjoy responding to ad-hominem attacks with ad-hominem attacks of my own, it's very enjoyable, please keep them coming!)
So you must be a user of one of those newfangled "other" editors?
Listen, if anyone ever needed anything more powerful than Notepad, they could simply use Microsoft Word!
Because you know, the U.S. really needs a war on yet another front right now. There's just this abundance of military manpower that they don't know what to do with.
Her name is actually Velma, not Thelma.
Apple has always survived the fact that they're a niche player (with a ton of development costs required to maintain their edge) by having high margins on their hardware. Yes, the hardware will be cheaper than it is now. But it'll still be much more expensive than a beige box. If you're saying they'll drop their high margins, then why would they bother making OS X run on their own computers only? If they're not making much profit on the hardware, wouldn't they be interested in selling OS X itself to a wider company? Maybe that's what they'll end up doing -- but it remains to be seen. Given what they've said so far, I'm betting on high-margin "Mactel" boxes.
Well, first of all I'm talking in Canadian dollars, I should've specified that but didn't think of it.
:)
Secondly I'm using a 15" PowerBook G4 1.67GHz, which was $3,100 CDN about two months ago. I suspect I could get a similarly powered and equipped PC laptop for around $2,000. Which admittedly isn't quite $1,500 difference, but it's getting there.
It was just a number I made up on the spot, but thanks for your comments, they made me actually think about it.
Take your fear of people figuring out how to run X on beige boxes... Apple doesn't care about these folks. Simply by having not purchased a Mac, this portion of the market has already proven that they are unwilling to have ever paid the Apple premium so, in effect, Apple will virtually never loose a sale to this crowd.
You're wrong. I'm a UNIX geek turned OS X geek. I own a Mac (several, in fact). I own them because I adore OS X and because Apple makes laptops that sleep beautifully and instantly. I suspect the latter is more a function of OS X than it is of the hardware, but we'll have to see.
In any case, if a beige box (or PC laptop) ran OS X for $1500 less than my Mac cost... would I do that? You better believe I would. I'm not in it for the hardware. I'm in it for a UNIX with an awesome UI and great UI development tools, and that's what OS X is to me.
I sincerely doubt I'm alone.
It's because you can only hear one side of the conversation. It sounds like I'm joking, but truthfully, that's a major part of it. I remember a study that was done which indicated this. It's one of those things that just causes the human brain to get very upset, kind of like computer generated characters that are close to human, but not quite. The brain knows that something's wrong and it just feels really uncomfortable.
Would planes really be flying here because of the mountains are everywhere
Yes.