bullshit. if your premise were true, why was BP's first decision to send a big-ass straw into the well to start collecting oil from the spill rather than doing something EVERY fucking day to stop the gash from leaking more oil?
macs are good for all kinds of tasks, not just art, electronic design, filmography, or music production. have you ever seen XCode? it's free with the OS and provides a fairly powerful IDE. don't knock it until you've tried it.
running multiple partitions on computers is probably a little too techie for most high school computer lab administrators to handle. with school budgets slashed and fewer techs available in almost every school district, multiple partitions = multiple headaches. there's really no need to run multiple partitions when you run virtual machines with different OSes. plus by using OSX as your base OS, it opens the door to running whatever OS you want in a VM.
computer hardware is probably a pain to procure at a high school, so i recommend the relatively inexpensive Mac mini. we're planning on converting our XP lab to Mac Minis running Windows 7 in a virtual machine (Virtualbox) which means our computer hardware won't be a limiting factor when selecting the software we teach students in our lab. Mini's are as much power as you'll need, and this makes more sense than iMacs when you factor in the cost of 22" or 24" LCDs. and by running Virtualbox, you can even set up multiple vm's so you can test out new versions of software without having to perform complete rebuilds if some microsoft update hoses the system. hell, you can even add some linux to your environment should their be some cool engineering or programming tools that would otherwise be too costly on the microsoft or apple platforms.
yep, you can buy a pc cheaper and of course you can run Linux for free, but it will probably help your students the most if they get a little bit of experience with multiple operating systems since once they graduate from college, they'll probably be using OSX 10.7 or Windows 8. running XP is a nightmare because of the security holes AND because Microsoft has already started to eliminate XP, say 2 years ago when they first discontinued it.
having dealt with apple dealer to school sales since 1991, I think the choice [Mac or PC] is a false choice. And since there are no viruses or malware that run on OSX, the schools we support who run OSX spend a shitload less on support costs, which can quickly suck up your budget, your time, and your patience in a school environment should you be running XP and get zapped by malware. since running vm's is easy, it's become a preferred way to quickly switch a lab from one group of students to the next.
not just a company that is making high profits, a company that has had the highest profits EVER in its history since they decided as an organization to put profits ahead of safety and good judgment. any company that relies too heavily on contractors (like BP) eventually suffers because there's nobody who can really be held accountable for their decisions and their actions. if neither the government nor the public will punish BP adequately, than maybe we should find another way to tax them for their sins.
leave it to BP to come up with the idea to use a big-ass straw to recover oil from the spill, recovering a small part of the oil that they're leaking into the gulf. the leak is now noted to be 14x bigger than they originally reported, and the catastrophic effect on the ocean, flora & fauna will be terrific over the next decade or more. maybe we should protest or something.
If someone creates hypercard for android, or a filemaker pro replacement, then i'll keep my stupid $300 g1 for another year. i can't believe manufacturers have talked us into paying 300 fucking dollars for a goddamned phone. or $500-$700 if you like.
we have a customer who purchased a drobopro and it is working very well for them. 16TB worth of drives but with the RAID/redundancy penalty i think it ends up being more like 12TB HFS+ (mac OSX format)
i recently purchased a used drobo 2nd generation (USB + fw800, 4 * 1tb drives = 3tb HFS+) and it's working well for my mac. i may even buy one for my pc DAW because the performance is good and golly gee, I really do need a copy of my samples on both mac & pc
gates is a fucking moron. i'm sorry, is that not LOUD ENOUGH?
when gates' buddy preznit Bush invaded the wrong fucking country [Iraq] and told everyone it's because they had WMDs (yet no deployment system to reach the US) we were told that it was to save America. but really the Iraq war has done just about nothing right and cost us BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars - funded by the chinese, since we don't really have the money for that war in the first place.
if gates wants to rightsize the military budget he should do so by gettting our troops the fuck out of iraq. NOW, not in 2012 or whatever bullshit obama has dreamed up. it's not our role to police iraq any longer; they've had plenty of time to realize that if they want the rule of law, they'll need to take care of their problems themselves.
initially, afghanistan appeared to be a good place to find the taliban/alqueda and get back at them for 9/11. now several years hence, we're in an intractible position: vietnam without the jungle. we should pull out of there as well to cut back on military expenses.
what this article fails to mention is that military spending funds a lot of our rural, gun-toting, conservative areas in America. cutting the military budget means putting a lot of factory workers out of work. what will they possibly do? we need a better plan for fixing america's economy, and if you're going to cut military spending, you need a plan to put people to work doing other valuable jobs.
the FCC should regulate the internet in america. the internet is a lot more than commerce, and that's why the FTC is the wrong organization to put in charge of our wires & wireless
i really don't think we need to take advice on living from the ex-nazi who thinks it's more important to shield child rapists than to protect the children. he won't be ashamed of himself because he and many of his followers believe the pope is infallible; but hell, even jesus was a man, and prone to making mistakes and bad choices.
1) keeping the cooling on all day while you're at work uses LESS energy than having to re-cool the house when you return from being at work all day
2) it's kind of stupid to move to the FUCKING DESERT and then complain that it's too hot and you need cooling and water.
I also believe that pumping water into the desert to make lush golf courses is not just bad for the environment; if people need that water for drinking or raising crops, it's immoral
Also I suggest opening up.XXX and make all the porn guys move their sites to the.XXX namespace. Plus make them migrate to IPV6 so the rest of us can just stick with IPV4
I use photoshop, illustrator, acrobat, dreamweaver and on occasion, indesign. should adobe dump OSX as a platform, I will be negatively impacted. so would apple.
plenty of media can be generated on the Mac without Adobe products. Apple's Final Cut Pro Studio and Logic Pro Studio along with Aperture are reasonably mature products that can make wonderful movies, music, and photos. But since the feds allowed Adobe to swallow Aldus then Macromedia, there is noticeably less competition in the marketplace.
um, to pull out of a parking space you need to use the accelerator.
in my 3 incidents of rapid unexpected acceleration, i was at a stop in icy conditions. when i applied the gas gently, the car jerked forward much faster than anticipated. once was at a stoplight and no accident occurred. once was backing out of a parking space and i ended up hitting a lightpost hard enough to fuck up the bumper. the third (actually first) incident, i was at a red light behind a truck and whacked him pretty hard. after 120,000 miles driving this car, i know what to expect when i hit the accelerator. on these 3 incidents, it was quite a shock.
as much as i have enjoyed touching base with people on facebook, i deleted all my other social networking accounts except for facebook and linked in tonight. and i am seriously considering dumping the other two. i dunno, i'm kind of tired of being humped by business and then told it's a good thing for me to have happen.
if you can't give good service, then have your employees write nice reviews on yelp. no, i don't want the system to be gamed, but there's going to be people doing it.
my former landlord SCREWED ME for $1000 by taking my rent money then changing the locks on the doors and not letting me back into the place even though all my shit was there. so HELL YEAH i posted a negative review in yelp. they could give me my FUCKING MONEY BACK those dirtbags. the cops said it was a civil matter, not a criminal one, so for me to get my shit back or my money, i'd have to hire a goddamned lawyer and take them to court - which would cost way more than $1000 so I just took it up the ass.
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so there's no peer pressure on kids to pray?
let them secede, i don't give a fuck about texas anymore
bullshit. if your premise were true, why was BP's first decision to send a big-ass straw into the well to start collecting oil from the spill rather than doing something EVERY fucking day to stop the gash from leaking more oil?
i now believe that the ceo of bp should be waterboarded in the louisiana wetlands where the oil is now making its way onto shore.
perhaps we should organize a protest, and splash 10w40 on the doors of our local BP stations.
are you serious? open as in, "make it easy to open with a screwdriver or putty knife?"
macs are good for all kinds of tasks, not just art, electronic design, filmography, or music production. have you ever seen XCode? it's free with the OS and provides a fairly powerful IDE. don't knock it until you've tried it.
running multiple partitions on computers is probably a little too techie for most high school computer lab administrators to handle. with school budgets slashed and fewer techs available in almost every school district, multiple partitions = multiple headaches. there's really no need to run multiple partitions when you run virtual machines with different OSes. plus by using OSX as your base OS, it opens the door to running whatever OS you want in a VM.
computer hardware is probably a pain to procure at a high school, so i recommend the relatively inexpensive Mac mini. we're planning on converting our XP lab to Mac Minis running Windows 7 in a virtual machine (Virtualbox) which means our computer hardware won't be a limiting factor when selecting the software we teach students in our lab. Mini's are as much power as you'll need, and this makes more sense than iMacs when you factor in the cost of 22" or 24" LCDs. and by running Virtualbox, you can even set up multiple vm's so you can test out new versions of software without having to perform complete rebuilds if some microsoft update hoses the system. hell, you can even add some linux to your environment should their be some cool engineering or programming tools that would otherwise be too costly on the microsoft or apple platforms.
yep, you can buy a pc cheaper and of course you can run Linux for free, but it will probably help your students the most if they get a little bit of experience with multiple operating systems since once they graduate from college, they'll probably be using OSX 10.7 or Windows 8. running XP is a nightmare because of the security holes AND because Microsoft has already started to eliminate XP, say 2 years ago when they first discontinued it.
having dealt with apple dealer to school sales since 1991, I think the choice [Mac or PC] is a false choice. And since there are no viruses or malware that run on OSX, the schools we support who run OSX spend a shitload less on support costs, which can quickly suck up your budget, your time, and your patience in a school environment should you be running XP and get zapped by malware. since running vm's is easy, it's become a preferred way to quickly switch a lab from one group of students to the next.
not just a company that is making high profits, a company that has had the highest profits EVER in its history since they decided as an organization to put profits ahead of safety and good judgment. any company that relies too heavily on contractors (like BP) eventually suffers because there's nobody who can really be held accountable for their decisions and their actions. if neither the government nor the public will punish BP adequately, than maybe we should find another way to tax them for their sins.
leave it to BP to come up with the idea to use a big-ass straw to recover oil from the spill, recovering a small part of the oil that they're leaking into the gulf. the leak is now noted to be 14x bigger than they originally reported, and the catastrophic effect on the ocean, flora & fauna will be terrific over the next decade or more. maybe we should protest or something.
porn is in the eye of the beholder. some images of naked people do NOTHING for me. intravenus demilo.
If someone creates hypercard for android, or a filemaker pro replacement, then i'll keep my stupid $300 g1 for another year. i can't believe manufacturers have talked us into paying 300 fucking dollars for a goddamned phone. or $500-$700 if you like.
we have a customer who purchased a drobopro and it is working very well for them. 16TB worth of drives but with the RAID/redundancy penalty i think it ends up being more like 12TB HFS+ (mac OSX format)
i recently purchased a used drobo 2nd generation (USB + fw800, 4 * 1tb drives = 3tb HFS+) and it's working well for my mac. i may even buy one for my pc DAW because the performance is good and golly gee, I really do need a copy of my samples on both mac & pc
We should share some of ours with them.
gates is a fucking moron. i'm sorry, is that not LOUD ENOUGH?
when gates' buddy preznit Bush invaded the wrong fucking country [Iraq] and told everyone it's because they had WMDs (yet no deployment system to reach the US) we were told that it was to save America. but really the Iraq war has done just about nothing right and cost us BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars - funded by the chinese, since we don't really have the money for that war in the first place.
if gates wants to rightsize the military budget he should do so by gettting our troops the fuck out of iraq. NOW, not in 2012 or whatever bullshit obama has dreamed up. it's not our role to police iraq any longer; they've had plenty of time to realize that if they want the rule of law, they'll need to take care of their problems themselves.
initially, afghanistan appeared to be a good place to find the taliban/alqueda and get back at them for 9/11. now several years hence, we're in an intractible position: vietnam without the jungle. we should pull out of there as well to cut back on military expenses.
what this article fails to mention is that military spending funds a lot of our rural, gun-toting, conservative areas in America. cutting the military budget means putting a lot of factory workers out of work. what will they possibly do? we need a better plan for fixing america's economy, and if you're going to cut military spending, you need a plan to put people to work doing other valuable jobs.
the FCC should regulate the internet in america. the internet is a lot more than commerce, and that's why the FTC is the wrong organization to put in charge of our wires & wireless
i really don't think we need to take advice on living from the ex-nazi who thinks it's more important to shield child rapists than to protect the children. he won't be ashamed of himself because he and many of his followers believe the pope is infallible; but hell, even jesus was a man, and prone to making mistakes and bad choices.
i think this is a terrible idea.
1) keeping the cooling on all day while you're at work uses LESS energy than having to re-cool the house when you return from being at work all day
2) it's kind of stupid to move to the FUCKING DESERT and then complain that it's too hot and you need cooling and water.
I also believe that pumping water into the desert to make lush golf courses is not just bad for the environment; if people need that water for drinking or raising crops, it's immoral
I agree.
Also I suggest opening up .XXX and make all the porn guys move their sites to the .XXX namespace. Plus make them migrate to IPV6 so the rest of us can just stick with IPV4
I use photoshop, illustrator, acrobat, dreamweaver and on occasion, indesign. should adobe dump OSX as a platform, I will be negatively impacted. so would apple.
plenty of media can be generated on the Mac without Adobe products. Apple's Final Cut Pro Studio and Logic Pro Studio along with Aperture are reasonably mature products that can make wonderful movies, music, and photos. But since the feds allowed Adobe to swallow Aldus then Macromedia, there is noticeably less competition in the marketplace.
or calling nasal tissue "Kleenex"
um, to pull out of a parking space you need to use the accelerator.
in my 3 incidents of rapid unexpected acceleration, i was at a stop in icy conditions. when i applied the gas gently, the car jerked forward much faster than anticipated. once was at a stoplight and no accident occurred. once was backing out of a parking space and i ended up hitting a lightpost hard enough to fuck up the bumper. the third (actually first) incident, i was at a red light behind a truck and whacked him pretty hard. after 120,000 miles driving this car, i know what to expect when i hit the accelerator. on these 3 incidents, it was quite a shock.
as much as i have enjoyed touching base with people on facebook, i deleted all my other social networking accounts except for facebook and linked in tonight. and i am seriously considering dumping the other two. i dunno, i'm kind of tired of being humped by business and then told it's a good thing for me to have happen.
if you can't give good service, then have your employees write nice reviews on yelp. no, i don't want the system to be gamed, but there's going to be people doing it.
my former landlord SCREWED ME for $1000 by taking my rent money then changing the locks on the doors and not letting me back into the place even though all my shit was there. so HELL YEAH i posted a negative review in yelp. they could give me my FUCKING MONEY BACK those dirtbags. the cops said it was a civil matter, not a criminal one, so for me to get my shit back or my money, i'd have to hire a goddamned lawyer and take them to court - which would cost way more than $1000 so I just took it up the ass.
the Man Hole is a gay bar in Chicago :-)