"If you want a smaller drive just do as above but with a 2.5" laptop drive enclosure."
You can buy these as just enclosures, for $59--and that's why they are popular. It's very fast to swap 2.5" laptop drives in and out of them. I have two myself.
I have this drive--it doesn't need a power brick if you adjust the on switch on the back to the setting where it gets the power over the bus. I use variations of this drive design on FW400 and FW800 all the time.
This really doesn't have anything to do with the rational world where people actually live--no cell phone company in existence currently allows any degree of negotiation.
There's no review you need for a new OS X release except for John Siracusa's work--I don't know how this joke of a review got recommended on the front page instead. There should have just been another article on Siracusa's review, even if it was a dupe--it's that good.
This really isn't accurate. In practice, the author gets to choose the title in the vast majority of cases, and certainly I know of no cases where the author isn't consulted and signs off on the title in question.
Without knowing the size of the investment and circumstances, this could be a non-story. I believe that the Mozilla Foundation is a 501(c)3 now, and as such corporations can donate to them for tax relief--that may be all that's happening here, with a sprinkling of business sense that it's important to keep browser alternatives alive.
"Transferring your files from an old computer to a new computer on any sort of migration is a pain. I do not see how Mr. Reifman found that task any easier going from Windows [98?] to Mac OS X."
Apparently you don't use OS X--it's actually really quite easy compared to Windows. It could be easier, with a program that automates the copying, but it's pretty cake now.
"It's not like it's terribly hard to keep Windows stable."
Huh. That's funny--my parents, siblings, coworkers and acquaintances who are not tech inclined would disagree. Some of them would disagree vehemently.
This kind of attitude is prevalent at Microsoft--eye rolling and mutterings of "user error". At the end of the day this is your client base, though--if you sell to all the people, you need to support all the people.
"I think the biggest problem with american works vs. British is the lack of subtely."
This is a shopworn bias. On the American side it only considers Hollywood films--and it convienently forgets all the awful British TV and film that gets made every year.
There are differences between the British and American film canons, but it's nothing as simple as "subtlety".
I agree with your sentiment--I want a secure system, and seeing it challenged early will help it be so. But the fact of the matter is that OSX ships by default many degrees of magnitude more secure than Windows does.
Yes, this has resulted in some unnecessary gloating from Macheads, and it makes folks lazy with their security--that's unfortunate. But that doesn't diminish the security successes Apple's had with OS X.
I never understand these posts...they're written as though art happens in a void, and that Star Wars didn't go out into the world and change people's lives.
It did. And now, when the creator does a shitty job, and even fucks up the old films by changing them for the worse, expect people to complain.
It's not actually very similar-one is argueing about some inane facts, the other is argueing about whether a piece of music makes people want to throw up. One is trivia, the other is a disagreement with a major artistic decision in the show.
"I believe that the last episode was the most watched series finale since M.A.S.H. (though I'm sure Friends probably beat it)."
Ratings for the ST:TNG finale aren't posted anywhere because it didn't remotely rise to the level of MASH, Friends or Cheers. I can't find the ratings anywhere, but I have no doubt that if they were impressive they'd have been listed when TV Guide and others do rundowns.
That's not to say it wasn't a great show/episode--it was. It's just not quite the cultural force that some of us at/. feel it is.
"Looking back, the game's impact is probably close to the gaming equivalent of the first time one of our prehistoric ancestors discovered the benefits of fire. While this may sound like hyperbole, KOTOR can be seen as an impressive achievement on two levels."
That doesn't sound like hyperbole--it *is* hyperbole, and a ridiculous one at that. Does GameSpot pay so little that it can't find someone who writes better than that?
"Stop allowing companies, the federal, state and local governments to use your SSN for identification purposes."
An admirable resolve, though not terribly realistic, is it? I'm as rah-rah as the next/.er, but your "solution" is more of a political stance than it is a working solution in day-to-day life.
It's true that when playing UT2004 I shut down everything else before playing, but I don't *have* to--and in 3 or 4 years, when I feel like breaking out the game my rig will be able to handle the game in its sleep, in a small window while I surf the web, etc. I like that choice.
If bootable games became big, what would be the difference between my computer and an XBox? Answer: none, except the XBox boots faster.
Given that, I'd prefer my computer games to run on computers and my console games to be console games.
"Yes, all hardware works on MP3s. However, (almost) nobody actually SELLS MP3s."
But they do. Every CD can be turned into an mp3, and that's the default currency of the players.
It'd be as if there was Betamax and VHS, but 70% of people actually used MPMatic, a format that worked in both perfectly and could be converted from any movie at any time.
Cute chart, but you neglect the most important aspect: the iMac got rid of legacy ports, which NO ONE was doing, and that daring move is what cemented acceptance of USB.
Without Apple, there'd be even more insistance on serial ports on what should be modern hardware...so while "luck" may have played a role, it'd be more apt to say that a company that takes risks took a chance on chucking legacy crap on their low-end, high-adopter model and won big.
As a big guy myself, I have the desire to support folks who go out and make audacious, geeky things and wear them even if it leads to ridicule.
At the same time, that is *really* an unflattering suit, it really is. Maybe he should have gone more interpretive and created TRON armor--something less lycra-based, because it simply doesn't work on his physique.
AAC is an open standard, and you can play them all over the place. Apple's tracks have DRM in them, which does mean you'll have to convert them to play them elsewhere, but that doesn't change the fact that the original comparison to Betamax doesn't make any sense.
Right--except that Apple already supports an open standard (AAC), as well as mp3, for their players. Since no one is insane enough to make a system that doesn't work with mp3s, there's little risk that Apple is going to end up "Betamaxed". Different dynamic.
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"If you want a smaller drive just do as above but with a 2.5" laptop drive enclosure."
You can buy these as just enclosures, for $59--and that's why they are popular. It's very fast to swap 2.5" laptop drives in and out of them. I have two myself.
I have this drive--it doesn't need a power brick if you adjust the on switch on the back to the setting where it gets the power over the bus. I use variations of this drive design on FW400 and FW800 all the time.
Why is this modded "insightful"? RTFA.
Hello, pointless liberarian comment!
This really doesn't have anything to do with the rational world where people actually live--no cell phone company in existence currently allows any degree of negotiation.
There's no review you need for a new OS X release except for John Siracusa's work--I don't know how this joke of a review got recommended on the front page instead. There should have just been another article on Siracusa's review, even if it was a dupe--it's that good.
This really isn't accurate. In practice, the author gets to choose the title in the vast majority of cases, and certainly I know of no cases where the author isn't consulted and signs off on the title in question.
Without knowing the size of the investment and circumstances, this could be a non-story. I believe that the Mozilla Foundation is a 501(c)3 now, and as such corporations can donate to them for tax relief--that may be all that's happening here, with a sprinkling of business sense that it's important to keep browser alternatives alive.
"Transferring your files from an old computer to a new computer on any sort of migration is a pain. I do not see how Mr. Reifman found that task any easier going from Windows [98?] to Mac OS X."
Apparently you don't use OS X--it's actually really quite easy compared to Windows. It could be easier, with a program that automates the copying, but it's pretty cake now.
"It's not like it's terribly hard to keep Windows stable."
Huh. That's funny--my parents, siblings, coworkers and acquaintances who are not tech inclined would disagree. Some of them would disagree vehemently.
This kind of attitude is prevalent at Microsoft--eye rolling and mutterings of "user error". At the end of the day this is your client base, though--if you sell to all the people, you need to support all the people.
"I think the biggest problem with american works vs. British is the lack of subtely."
This is a shopworn bias. On the American side it only considers Hollywood films--and it convienently forgets all the awful British TV and film that gets made every year.
There are differences between the British and American film canons, but it's nothing as simple as "subtlety".
I agree with your sentiment--I want a secure system, and seeing it challenged early will help it be so. But the fact of the matter is that OSX ships by default many degrees of magnitude more secure than Windows does.
Yes, this has resulted in some unnecessary gloating from Macheads, and it makes folks lazy with their security--that's unfortunate. But that doesn't diminish the security successes Apple's had with OS X.
Good--we intend to complain then.
I never understand these posts...they're written as though art happens in a void, and that Star Wars didn't go out into the world and change people's lives.
It did. And now, when the creator does a shitty job, and even fucks up the old films by changing them for the worse, expect people to complain.
It's not actually very similar-one is argueing about some inane facts, the other is argueing about whether a piece of music makes people want to throw up. One is trivia, the other is a disagreement with a major artistic decision in the show.
"I believe that the last episode was the most watched series finale since M.A.S.H. (though I'm sure Friends probably beat it)."
Ratings for the ST:TNG finale aren't posted anywhere because it didn't remotely rise to the level of MASH, Friends or Cheers. I can't find the ratings anywhere, but I have no doubt that if they were impressive they'd have been listed when TV Guide and others do rundowns.
That's not to say it wasn't a great show/episode--it was. It's just not quite the cultural force that some of us at
From the GameSpot preview:
"Looking back, the game's impact is probably close to the gaming equivalent of the first time one of our prehistoric ancestors discovered the benefits of fire. While this may sound like hyperbole, KOTOR can be seen as an impressive achievement on two levels."
That doesn't sound like hyperbole--it *is* hyperbole, and a ridiculous one at that. Does GameSpot pay so little that it can't find someone who writes better than that?
"Stop allowing companies, the federal, state and local governments to use your SSN for identification purposes."
/.er, but your "solution" is more of a political stance than it is a working solution in day-to-day life.
An admirable resolve, though not terribly realistic, is it? I'm as rah-rah as the next
D'oh! That's what I get for posting in haste, forgetting I have a (small) profile. Thanks for not raking me over the coles.
It's just some bad fiction--don't bother with the journal entry.
It's true that when playing UT2004 I shut down everything else before playing, but I don't *have* to--and in 3 or 4 years, when I feel like breaking out the game my rig will be able to handle the game in its sleep, in a small window while I surf the web, etc. I like that choice.
If bootable games became big, what would be the difference between my computer and an XBox? Answer: none, except the XBox boots faster.
Given that, I'd prefer my computer games to run on computers and my console games to be console games.
"Yes, all hardware works on MP3s. However, (almost) nobody actually SELLS MP3s."
But they do. Every CD can be turned into an mp3, and that's the default currency of the players.
It'd be as if there was Betamax and VHS, but 70% of people actually used MPMatic, a format that worked in both perfectly and could be converted from any movie at any time.
Cute chart, but you neglect the most important aspect: the iMac got rid of legacy ports, which NO ONE was doing, and that daring move is what cemented acceptance of USB.
Without Apple, there'd be even more insistance on serial ports on what should be modern hardware...so while "luck" may have played a role, it'd be more apt to say that a company that takes risks took a chance on chucking legacy crap on their low-end, high-adopter model and won big.
As a big guy myself, I have the desire to support folks who go out and make audacious, geeky things and wear them even if it leads to ridicule.
At the same time, that is *really* an unflattering suit, it really is. Maybe he should have gone more interpretive and created TRON armor--something less lycra-based, because it simply doesn't work on his physique.
AAC is an open standard, and you can play them all over the place. Apple's tracks have DRM in them, which does mean you'll have to convert them to play them elsewhere, but that doesn't change the fact that the original comparison to Betamax doesn't make any sense.
This isn't arrogance: this is a measured response to Glaser, a blowhard who called Jobs a coward and who threatened Apple just a few days ago.
"Apple puilled a Sony!"
Right--except that Apple already supports an open standard (AAC), as well as mp3, for their players. Since no one is insane enough to make a system that doesn't work with mp3s, there's little risk that Apple is going to end up "Betamaxed". Different dynamic.