And I suppose, that, to people like you, taking baths/showers and using deodorant are also unimportant details?
That's a perfect analogy! I don't care if people take a bath, or if it's a shower. Nor do I care if they use deodorant; if soap is enough for the job, that's great. What's important is that they clean themselves.
OK, maybe it's a bit of a stretch. Try to think of something better.
Well, given that I used to use a Nomad Jukebox with 6Gb of space on it, and I already filled that with half of my CD collection... I would already fill an iPod several times over.
Must be the new math. If half your collection fits on 6G, fair guess is that all would fit on 12G. I don't understand how 12G is "several times" 10G (the large iPod size).
Ummm.... he meant upgrade as in "increase disk size", not as in "update firmware".
My mistake.
Unless you'd like to suggest how you're going to replace your iPod drive with a 20Gb drive in a year or so?
I'm hoping that in a year or so, 3 solid days of music will still be enough to tide me over, and I won't feel a need to upgrade.
I can see where that would be a problem for your solution - I guess it might help if you had better software to manage what's on your player at any given time.
As it is, I have a nice organizational scheme called "a directory tree" and a sync system called "rsync". It might be missing a few frills
Usable software is not what YOU use. It is what is usable to "anyone". My girlfriend couldn't get along with rsync. iTunes is transparent to her.
Of course, the ability to slip it into any computer (give or take) isn't the only advantage of having a removable drive -- as I'm sure dozens of people have pointed out by now, it makes it easy to upgrade as well.
You seem to have forgotten that the iPod uses Firewire, and works as an external disk (in addition to it's transparent sync). Upgrades happen transparently to the user, and there is no need to 'remove the disk'. You just use a firewire cable and connect it.
Who needs iTunes -- or any other special software?
Anyone who wants to be able to easily organize and sync their music collection. You sound like someone who has not used iTunes. As any TiVo owner will tell you: "The difference IS the software."
I half agree with this. Syntax doesn't matter. If they can't get the syntax right, who cares. That's like saying that people who can't spell can't think - those are unimportant details. The important thing is that the know HOW TO WRITE push and pop. Not that they be able to type it once and have it compile.
I can't write a java main() statement. Just can't remember how - don't do it very often. But my emacs expands when I type 'main', so it's not a problem:-).
I couldn't write push and pop and get it to compile, either. But I know how. And I can communicate the design.
If you're talking about "can't design push and pop", then my sympathies. If you're talking about "can't get the {}'s right", then I don't want to work with you anyway.
It does make most sense for AMD to spend there time building a 64-bit x86 processor then it does a completely new architecture atm. But that doesn't mean we wouldn't all benifit greatly from dropping x86. Of course this can't be an overnight change, but it does need to happen.
I recommend buying an iBook for the "overnight change" problem:-)
Sigh - I do wish that Apple would ditch Moto and just get their chips from IBM - who seem to still be able to make them well...
It's just like running MacOS will make you immune to most viruses.
I don't get it. How does that follow?
Because MacOS is obscure, it gets less viruses? If that's your argument, you should have said linux, or freebsd, or something really obscure.
Because MacOS is running on a *nix[y] kernel? How is that different from any other *nix[y] system (like NT, say)?
Or did you mean MacOS before OSX, in which case you're talking about a dead OS, which would be closer to the article's suggestion of security through obsolescence.
It's sad that some companies in Asia are going to get away with making their own DVD players for the sole purpose of cheating the DVD patent holders while some European kid who writes DeCSS so that he can play his legally purchased DVDs on Linux gets crucified to the fullest extent of the law.
Edit mine.
Good grief, cut the crap. The reality is that these companies MAY get away with it, whereas I couldn't get a DVD player for Linux for love or money legally for a long long time.
Really, though, this is capitalism at its best, IMHO. It can be done cheaper, and in a way consumers actually want - it WILL be done.
Aw, damn. So you can only buy an iBook (THE CONSUMER LEVER LAPTOP) with a G3. But wait! You could buy a TiBook - and hey! That has a G4!
But I guess that only has one cpu in it, and not 2 [sigh].
Quit whining. It turns out that a G3 at 700 Mhz is plenty enough to run OSX. If you're planning on playing games -- maybe not (if they're hardcore 3D, anyway).
But I'm sitting here doing Dev work on mine, and it is FINE. If I had any complaint, it'd be the disk speed - but it can't be all that bad, or I'd have upgraded it myself by now. I do wish I could find a ramdisk for OSX, though. That'd suite me fine.
Step 1. Travel. Go to europe (or the US, depending on where you're not). See what life in the rest of the world is like. You can actually travel for pretty cheap, and when I was last on the road ('95), it was pretty easy to work under the table in much of europe. It won't be the high-life, but it's worth getting out there.
Step 2. Go to college. College is about learning what you don't know you don't know. Not about learning what you know you don't know.
I recommend working after the first year or 2 in college - even if you[r parents] can afford not to.
Step 3. Get a job - a real job. Not the one you worked in college. Even if that was a real job. Get away and get more experience elsewhere.
The important thing is to see a lot of different stuff.
Dude, from http://www.somafm.com/ Yeah, the main page:
"SomaFM is commercial free and supported entirely by our listeners. Bandwidth is expensive! Your donation of any amount helps us stay on the air, providing commercial free music that can't be found anywhere else. Thanks!"
Right next to the PayPal and Amazon Honor System links...
Funny post - BSD is now the highest volume *nix in the computer biz. Thanks to Apple shipping on Darwin. What's more, users *REAL USERS* don't give a hoot about "basic *BSD questions". They just want it to work.
And it can. And it does.
OK, so maybe this is a troll. But maybe it's insightful, and maybe it's just funny...
not because it is free but because we desperately need an alternative to Office.
Yuppers.
we need to be prepared for when the Apple-M$ deal goes south (it's closer than many think).
What a load of crap. There is no indication the deal will go south, and when it does, 2 things will happen: 1. M$ will be ruled a monopoly and broken up, because M$/Intel will be the only game in town because: 2. Apple will die because it is not M$ compatable
So tell me, why would M$ dump a money making venture like OfficeX when they have already done the port? No, never mind, don't tell me.
Depending on your needs, OpenOffice is a great alternative to M$ Office. We used it on Windows instead of M$, and it has been sorely missed on OSX. I'm glad they have the X11 port done, as I do not fear X11 (see also fink.sf.net for an "easy" X11 install).
If you're looking for something that works, give it a shot - it is free, after all:-)
(I can't speak to the quality on OSX, but on Windows it was very stable)
HELLO!!! Apple CPU speeds are NOT increasing. Not much, anyway. Thus, it won't matter if the memory is in the core, at CPU clock speed, or off core across the bus - which is rapidly approaching Apple's CPU core speed.
I keep praying that they will just ditch moto and go with IBM. I know that IBM could up the Mhz.
It's simple. Users have whitelist, ignorelist, and blacklist. Anyone on a list gets the appropriate response. If you're not on a list, you get a confirmation email before your message gets to my inbox. This kills virtually all spam.
http://www.paganini.net/ask or http://sourcefo rge.net/projects/a-s-k/
Slashdot Mirror
Seems to work 100%. It sends mail back to any unknown sender to confirm that they really wanted to send me email. Of course spammers never confirm.
http://a-s-k.sf.net/
And I suppose, that, to people like you, taking baths/showers and using deodorant are also unimportant details?
That's a perfect analogy! I don't care if people take a bath, or if it's a shower. Nor do I care if they use deodorant; if soap is enough for the job, that's great. What's important is that they clean themselves.
OK, maybe it's a bit of a stretch. Try to think of something better.
Well, given that I used to use a Nomad Jukebox with 6Gb of space on it, and I already filled that with half of my CD collection... I would already fill an iPod several times over.
Must be the new math. If half your collection fits on 6G, fair guess is that all would fit on 12G. I don't understand how 12G is "several times" 10G (the large iPod size).
Ummm.... he meant upgrade as in "increase disk size", not as in "update firmware".
My mistake.
Unless you'd like to suggest how you're going to replace your iPod drive with a 20Gb drive in a year or so?
I'm hoping that in a year or so, 3 solid days of music will still be enough to tide me over, and I won't feel a need to upgrade.
I can see where that would be a problem for your solution - I guess it might help if you had better software to manage what's on your player at any given time.
As it is, I have a nice organizational scheme called "a directory tree" and a sync system called "rsync". It might be missing a few frills
Usable software is not what YOU use. It is what is usable to "anyone". My girlfriend couldn't get along with rsync. iTunes is transparent to her.
Of course, the ability to slip it into any computer (give or take) isn't the only advantage of having a removable drive -- as I'm sure dozens of people have pointed out by now, it makes it easy to upgrade as well.
You seem to have forgotten that the iPod uses Firewire, and works as an external disk (in addition to it's transparent sync). Upgrades happen transparently to the user, and there is no need to 'remove the disk'. You just use a firewire cable and connect it.
Who needs iTunes -- or any other special software?
Anyone who wants to be able to easily organize and sync their music collection. You sound like someone who has not used iTunes. As any TiVo owner will tell you: "The difference IS the software."
I half agree with this. Syntax doesn't matter. If they can't get the syntax right, who cares. That's like saying that people who can't spell can't think - those are unimportant details. The important thing is that the know HOW TO WRITE push and pop. Not that they be able to type it once and have it compile.
:-).
I can't write a java main() statement. Just can't remember how - don't do it very often. But my emacs expands when I type 'main', so it's not a problem
I couldn't write push and pop and get it to compile, either. But I know how. And I can communicate the design.
If you're talking about "can't design push and pop", then my sympathies. If you're talking about "can't get the {}'s right", then I don't want to work with you anyway.
It does make most sense for AMD to spend there time building a 64-bit x86 processor then it does a completely new architecture atm. But that doesn't mean we wouldn't all benifit greatly from dropping x86. Of course this can't be an overnight change, but it does need to happen.
:-)
I recommend buying an iBook for the "overnight change" problem
Sigh - I do wish that Apple would ditch Moto and just get their chips from IBM - who seem to still be able to make them well...
It's just like running MacOS will make you immune to most viruses.
I don't get it. How does that follow?
Because MacOS is obscure, it gets less viruses? If that's your argument, you should have said linux, or freebsd, or something really obscure.
Because MacOS is running on a *nix[y] kernel? How is that different from any other *nix[y] system (like NT, say)?
Or did you mean MacOS before OSX, in which case you're talking about a dead OS, which would be closer to the article's suggestion of security through obsolescence.
Last time I looked at webdav, it sounded a lot like a fair read solution, but writes sounded really iffy. Has it improved (in the past 9 months)?
I use vtun - vtun.sf.net.
I understand that openvpn.sf.net is nice, too.
I think they should go for it. More power to them!
'Course they'll go down in flames...
It's sad that some companies in Asia are going to get away with making their own DVD players for the sole purpose of cheating the DVD patent holders while some European kid who writes DeCSS so that he can play his legally purchased DVDs on Linux gets crucified to the fullest extent of the law.
Edit mine.
Good grief, cut the crap. The reality is that these companies MAY get away with it, whereas I couldn't get a DVD player for Linux for love or money legally for a long long time.
Really, though, this is capitalism at its best, IMHO. It can be done cheaper, and in a way consumers actually want - it WILL be done.
Aw, damn. So you can only buy an iBook (THE CONSUMER LEVER LAPTOP) with a G3. But wait! You could buy a TiBook - and hey! That has a G4!
But I guess that only has one cpu in it, and not 2 [sigh].
Quit whining. It turns out that a G3 at 700 Mhz is plenty enough to run OSX. If you're planning on playing games -- maybe not (if they're hardcore 3D, anyway).
But I'm sitting here doing Dev work on mine, and it is FINE. If I had any complaint, it'd be the disk speed - but it can't be all that bad, or I'd have upgraded it myself by now. I do wish I could find a ramdisk for OSX, though. That'd suite me fine.
Step 1. Travel. Go to europe (or the US, depending on where you're not). See what life in the rest of the world is like. You can actually travel for pretty cheap, and when I was last on the road ('95), it was pretty easy to work under the table in much of europe. It won't be the high-life, but it's worth getting out there.
Step 2. Go to college. College is about learning what you don't know you don't know. Not about learning what you know you don't know.
I recommend working after the first year or 2 in college - even if you[r parents] can afford not to.
Step 3. Get a job - a real job. Not the one you worked in college. Even if that was a real job. Get away and get more experience elsewhere.
The important thing is to see a lot of different stuff.
IMHO...
Dude, from http://www.somafm.com/ Yeah, the main page:
"SomaFM is commercial free and supported entirely by our listeners. Bandwidth is expensive! Your donation of any amount helps us stay on the air, providing commercial free music that can't be found anywhere else. Thanks!"
Right next to the PayPal and Amazon Honor System links...
Slashdot the site.
As troll, ignorant, redundant.
Funny post - BSD is now the highest volume *nix in the computer biz. Thanks to Apple shipping on Darwin. What's more, users *REAL USERS* don't give a hoot about "basic *BSD questions". They just want it to work.
And it can. And it does.
OK, so maybe this is a troll. But maybe it's insightful, and maybe it's just funny...
not because it is free but because we desperately need an alternative to Office.
Yuppers.
we need to be prepared for when the Apple-M$ deal goes south (it's closer than many think).
What a load of crap. There is no indication the deal will go south, and when it does, 2 things will happen:
1. M$ will be ruled a monopoly and broken up, because M$/Intel will be the only game in town because:
2. Apple will die because it is not M$ compatable
So tell me, why would M$ dump a money making venture like OfficeX when they have already done the port? No, never mind, don't tell me.
Depending on your needs, OpenOffice is a great alternative to M$ Office. We used it on Windows instead of M$, and it has been sorely missed on OSX. I'm glad they have the X11 port done, as I do not fear X11 (see also fink.sf.net for an "easy" X11 install).
:-)
If you're looking for something that works, give it a shot - it is free, after all
(I can't speak to the quality on OSX, but on Windows it was very stable)
HELLO!!! Apple CPU speeds are NOT increasing. Not much, anyway. Thus, it won't matter if the memory is in the core, at CPU clock speed, or off core across the bus - which is rapidly approaching Apple's CPU core speed.
I keep praying that they will just ditch moto and go with IBM. I know that IBM could up the Mhz.
Bus speeds are catching up with Apple's CPU speed. I guess that CPU cache will become less important :-/
This is a pet peeve of mine of late. I tried to wade through this stuff to do secure IMAP, and it was a royal pain - so much so that I gave up.
This stuff ought to just work.
Disagree with me? Security should be hard?
All the sshd distys I've used have simply installed and run. It CAN be that easy.
It's simple. Users have whitelist, ignorelist, and blacklist. Anyone on a list gets the appropriate response. If you're not on a list, you get a confirmation email before your message gets to my inbox. This kills virtually all spam.
o rge.net/projects/a-s-k/
http://www.paganini.net/ask
or
http://sourcef
I also have a car (two, if you count my partner's), and it's (their) stereo does not have a line in. Nor does the boom-box in the guest bedroom...