I agree, just basic optics and I thought it was determined to be that long ago. Don't harvest moons appear larger because of the same effect. The same effect that makes a pencil appear split in a glass of water perhaps.
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They came out of the box with the problem. Not related to a heat problem at all.
The day we got our first one, another salesman showed me what he had to do (lift and drop) to get it to work.
I actually sold one the first day, word processing machine. Never a complaint from the buyer.
Well said. Profoundly. Since the days of Telidon and Qube the technology has allowed us to be publishers, producers and comsumers and to create our own communities using the awesome power of the personal computer outside of their structures.
They will either have to regulate (read control) our power or they become irrelevent.
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This hard disk utility was in the HD controller ROM, with different values for different manufacturers following the colon. To call it and easter egg is a really big stretch.
It gave you no more "instant drive space" than an unconditional format.
I'll get one, put it next to the TV, hook up the home entertainment system to listen to music and watch DVD's. It will pretty much be a server for my tunes and photos. My cable box has a "record to VHS" command and with my camcorder, I am able to transfer any recorded or live show onto my Mac. I will get some type of converter (ideally a video to firewire converter, that's all I need) so that I can use iMovie to capture the show. Edit as necessary (removing commercials, trim, etc.) and use iDVD to create a CD. My own movie store. I have all the recording capabilities I need in my cable box. I use my Mac to create the final product, which I want to keep, the DVD.
The only display I will have on it will be the TV. I imagine the only desktop use I will have on it will be maintenance and a bit of editing in iMovie.
I have my G4 for any heavy duty stuff. I won't have thousands of photos and music files on my G4.
The aftermarket is going to do incredible things with and for this computer. Not just because a lot of people will be switching but because grandparents will roll into the campground in their motorhome on their vacation with the grandkids. In minutes they will be able to edit some of the days video, Connect with iSight and iChat with the parents at home and tell em how how the day went. As they say bye before going for a walk, grandma says she is going to email a video she cut of the hilarious moment that had at the grand canyon. Grandma edited it between while they were looking for a Dennys.
Don't you think one of these would be nice if you had a motor home. Wall mounted display. iSight camera recording your trip.
Or maybe an in dash unit in your car. (although I would think that hot the sun would be a big problem) Or maybe one in every room. No desk, just a display mounted on an arm, the unit velcroed to the wall (for example).
My digital cable box has a record to VCR function so any shows saved can be moved into my G4, through my camcorder. I haven't purchased a TV card, or converter because of the price of a good one is right now out of reach. (Unemployed as my job was sent to Canada)
What I would like is a straight video to firewire converter, It doesn't need to change channels. I just needs to convert the video. Basically what is built into my camcorder in a cable.
I control what I want to record and what I whether I want it on my Mac. I then use iMovie to remove commercials and to add menus and I can write it to DVD. I've also used my G4, 1.25ghz (same as the Mac Mini) to convert all my VHS tapes to DVD.
When I can I will get a Mac Mini, connect it to my TV and home entertainment center and use it as my music and photo server as well as DVD player. The only time I will work on it is to do maintenance.
Impulse purchase? What makes you think that is a criteria a Mac user would base a purchase on. Apple doesn't want to sell you a computer for you to tinker with when you get bored or whatever maintaining your PC. A $500.00 dollar Mac in the hands of people who can only afford a $500.00 computer will probably go a long way towards increasing market share and help entrench some more Apple consumer technology.
Sell them at Radio Shack. Sell them at Wal-Mart if they should prove popular. I'll buy one for a server. (since my iMac died)
What about all those people out there with Pentium 2's and Windows98 that haven't upgraded to the latest and greatest.
n 1983 there was a parody magazine done called ConfuserWorld. The main headline was "IBM Calls It Quit!" and went on to say they the PC business was no fun so they were getting out. Who'd a thunk it.
But seriously folks this can only benefit Apple as this and other simpler solutions are adopted by companies and others.
Micro$oft has the most to lose hence their focus on locking everyone into their DRM schemes and recurring revenue.
Apple is strong because they offer a solution that people recognize the value of.
I remember in 81, we were trying to get approved to sell IBM PC's, and we were working on the business plans and we were looking for a kick. Something to make us, The Byte Shop NW, stand out from the crowd so I came up with training. Every CPU sold would come with a class, hardware and software training, before it went out the door. It worked and the rest is history but I never thought that IBM would "call it quits", to paraphrase Confuserworld.
"If the court decision had gone the other way (which it might today!) we would have more expensive PCs, probably composed of IBM PCs and Apples. Minicomputers would probably still walk the earth, and the overall technology level of computing would be far below what it is today"
Good points and probably right on except I would think that PC would be much more advanced as it wouldn't have been held back by DOS compatility.
B. Record companies that think that just because Walmart doesn't sell it, fans won't find it somewhere else.
A very true statement and in a world that made sense, the record companies would just not sell to Wal-Mart. The question is not whether more music is sold because Wal-Mart sells CDs, but how Wal-Mart lowers their costs.
Music will be sold no matter what. I think as a matter of principle and from a business standpoint the labels should just say no.
A friend and I had our Atari 800's over his house doing some programming in the early eighties. He had a 5 1/4 inch floppy with with a pin hole in it and wanted to make a copy. So we connected my drive to his computer and made a copy ok.
As the night passed we took the floppy disk apart, opening the sleeve, taking out the media, crushing it, twisting it, pulling the central ring with our fingers and eventually put it in the trash. We smoked alot and drank soda and of course some spilled on the disk.
Well, I left for the night taking my drive but we hadn't taken the copy out of my drive, so when I left, I took it with me. He needed it that night so he took the one out of the trash and rinsed it with water, dried it off, put it in a sleeve and made a one disk drive copy. We truly abused that disk and that Atari 810 drive read it like a champ.
About Atari, they were a company ahead of their time along with Warner Brothers. Atari described themselves as a communications company, not a computer company. Warner Brothers had the cable system in Ohio testing the QUBE system, a precusor of some of the services offered by your cable company.
create a playlist...drag selections to it... burn, burn, burn.... are you manually selecting the songs with the cmd key or have you grouped them into a playlist?
Well said. It's all about subscriptions ultimately. Buying trusted products and taxing us to use them. In a digital world everybody is a producer and their only control is in a false distribution scheme and the real money is in recurring revenue.
Add the fact that they need to weasel in measures for homeland security. The collapse of communism wasn't because of Reagan but the fax machine, video, the copier. They have to control all this stuff which means we will have no control.
I also think we need to open up a number of alternate nets. Can money be made? That in itself opens it ot government intrusion and regulation. At the minimum I think we need to protect ourselves.
I've always said that the simplest solution is the best and that ISP's should pretty much only sell me internet access, and not add a bunch of features that I probably won't use.
Just give me a fast connection for a low price and I can find all my content elsewhere. There is too much outside of their "portal" for me to really find that what they provide is truly relevant to me and my internet habits. Hence the root of the problem of the dot com boom and bust.
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Nuclear waste also includes gloves, syringes, hospital uniforms. It's not just fuel rods.
Iran had stopped any enrichment activities and was abiding by the Treaty. Your denial changes nothing.
Actually it was a UN agreement and as Treaty members of the UN, it does have the force of law. See the Supremacy Clause.
Is surprisingly strong on slashdot.
Not true at least in my experience with my MacBook. From sleep I am connected pretty much immediately to my own network and any open network.
uhhhh... I remember $1300 for 16k
I agree, just basic optics and I thought it was determined to be that long ago. Don't harvest moons appear larger because of the same effect. The same effect that makes a pencil appear split in a glass of water perhaps.
Hey Hawk
They came out of the box with the problem. Not related to a heat problem at all.
The day we got our first one, another salesman showed me what he had to do (lift and drop) to get it to work.
I actually sold one the first day, word processing machine. Never a complaint from the buyer.
"What will change is our society."
Well said. Profoundly. Since the days of Telidon and Qube the technology has allowed us to be publishers, producers and comsumers and to create our own communities using the awesome power of the personal computer outside of their structures.
They will either have to regulate (read control) our power or they become irrelevent.
This hard disk utility was in the HD controller ROM, with different values for different manufacturers following the colon. To call it and easter egg is a really big stretch.
It gave you no more "instant drive space" than an unconditional format.
yeah... I like the product placement on COPS. Some old WinTel machine, sitting in the corner, the Win98 screensaver running.
Hey,
I'll get one, put it next to the TV, hook up the home entertainment system to listen to music and watch DVD's. It will pretty much be a server for my tunes and photos. My cable box has a "record to VHS" command and with my camcorder, I am able to transfer any recorded or live show onto my Mac. I will get some type of converter (ideally a video to firewire converter, that's all I need) so that I can use iMovie to capture the show. Edit as necessary (removing commercials, trim, etc.) and use iDVD to create a CD. My own movie store. I have all the recording capabilities I need in my cable box. I use my Mac to create the final product, which I want to keep, the DVD.
The only display I will have on it will be the TV. I imagine the only desktop use I will have on it will be maintenance and a bit of editing in iMovie.
I have my G4 for any heavy duty stuff. I won't have thousands of photos and music files on my G4.
The aftermarket is going to do incredible things with and for this computer. Not just because a lot of people will be switching but because grandparents will roll into the campground in their motorhome on their vacation with the grandkids. In minutes they will be able to edit some of the days video, Connect with iSight and iChat with the parents at home and tell em how how the day went. As they say bye before going for a walk, grandma says she is going to email a video she cut of the hilarious moment that had at the grand canyon. Grandma edited it between while they were looking for a Dennys.
Don't you think one of these would be nice if you had a motor home. Wall mounted display. iSight camera recording your trip.
Or maybe an in dash unit in your car. (although I would think that hot the sun would be a big problem) Or maybe one in every room. No desk, just a display mounted on an arm, the unit velcroed to the wall (for example).
This is going to be huge (relatively speaking).
My digital cable box has a record to VCR function so any shows saved can be moved into my G4, through my camcorder. I haven't purchased a TV card, or converter because of the price of a good one is right now out of reach. (Unemployed as my job was sent to Canada)
What I would like is a straight video to firewire converter, It doesn't need to change channels. I just needs to convert the video. Basically what is built into my camcorder in a cable.
I control what I want to record and what I whether I want it on my Mac. I then use iMovie to remove commercials and to add menus and I can write it to DVD. I've also used my G4, 1.25ghz (same as the Mac Mini) to convert all my VHS tapes to DVD.
When I can I will get a Mac Mini, connect it to my TV and home entertainment center and use it as my music and photo server as well as DVD player. The only time I will work on it is to do maintenance.
Impulse purchase? What makes you think that is a criteria a Mac user would base a purchase on. Apple doesn't want to sell you a computer for you to tinker with when you get bored or whatever maintaining your PC. A $500.00 dollar Mac in the hands of people who can only afford a $500.00 computer will probably go a long way towards increasing market share and help entrench some more Apple consumer technology.
Sell them at Radio Shack. Sell them at Wal-Mart if they should prove popular. I'll buy one for a server. (since my iMac died)
What about all those people out there with Pentium 2's and Windows98 that haven't upgraded to the latest and greatest.
but it's the difference between a 3% margin business and a 28% margin business. (all figures approximate)
I could see lots of benefits especially with dominance in the home entertainment area undecided.
n 1983 there was a parody magazine done called ConfuserWorld. The main headline was "IBM Calls It Quit!" and went on to say they the PC business was no fun so they were getting out. Who'd a thunk it.
But seriously folks this can only benefit Apple as this and other simpler solutions are adopted by companies and others.
Micro$oft has the most to lose hence their focus on locking everyone into their DRM schemes and recurring revenue.
Apple is strong because they offer a solution that people recognize the value of.
I remember in 81, we were trying to get approved to sell IBM PC's, and we were working on the business plans and we were looking for a kick. Something to make us, The Byte Shop NW, stand out from the crowd so I came up with training. Every CPU sold would come with a class, hardware and software training, before it went out the door. It worked and the rest is history but I never thought that IBM would "call it quits", to paraphrase Confuserworld.
"If the court decision had gone the other way (which it might today!) we would have more expensive PCs, probably composed of IBM PCs and Apples. Minicomputers would probably still walk the earth, and the overall technology level of computing would be far below what it is today"
Good points and probably right on except I would think that PC would be much more advanced as it wouldn't have been held back by DOS compatility.
B. Record companies that think that just because Walmart doesn't sell it, fans won't find it somewhere else.
A very true statement and in a world that made sense, the record companies would just not sell to Wal-Mart. The question is not whether more music is sold because Wal-Mart sells CDs, but how Wal-Mart lowers their costs.
Music will be sold no matter what. I think as a matter of principle and from a business standpoint the labels should just say no.
I sold some 16kb, S-100 memory boards for $1300.00 each in 1980. In those days $81,250,000,000, would have purchased a GB.
$50.00 for a box of disk or a printer cable. My Ratshack Model 1 had a memory upgrade of 4kb for $499.00.
A friend and I had our Atari 800's over his house doing some programming in the early eighties. He had a 5 1/4 inch floppy with with a pin hole in it and wanted to make a copy. So we connected my drive to his computer and made a copy ok.
As the night passed we took the floppy disk apart, opening the sleeve, taking out the media, crushing it, twisting it, pulling the central ring with our fingers and eventually put it in the trash. We smoked alot and drank soda and of course some spilled on the disk.
Well, I left for the night taking my drive but we hadn't taken the copy out of my drive, so when I left, I took it with me. He needed it that night so he took the one out of the trash and rinsed it with water, dried it off, put it in a sleeve and made a one disk drive copy. We truly abused that disk and that Atari 810 drive read it like a champ.
About Atari, they were a company ahead of their time along with Warner Brothers. Atari described themselves as a communications company, not a computer company. Warner Brothers had the cable system in Ohio testing the QUBE system, a precusor of some of the services offered by your cable company.
I get 26mbs on my laptop. dlink router, PowerBook G3 series with a 3rd party wireless card. I don't see how you could even operate on 500kbs.
I have no problem with the DRM.
create a playlist.. .drag selections to it... burn, burn, burn.... are you manually selecting the songs with the cmd key or have you grouped them into a playlist?
Well said. It's all about subscriptions ultimately. Buying trusted products and taxing us to use them. In a digital world everybody is a producer and their only control is in a false distribution scheme and the real money is in recurring revenue.
Add the fact that they need to weasel in measures for homeland security. The collapse of communism wasn't because of Reagan but the fax machine, video, the copier. They have to control all this stuff which means we will have no control.
I also think we need to open up a number of alternate nets. Can money be made? That in itself opens it ot government intrusion and regulation. At the minimum I think we need to protect ourselves.
I've always said that the simplest solution is the best and that ISP's should pretty much only sell me internet access, and not add a bunch of features that I probably won't use.
Just give me a fast connection for a low price and I can find all my content elsewhere. There is too much outside of their "portal" for me to really find that what they provide is truly relevant to me and my internet habits. Hence the root of the problem of the dot com boom and bust.