$289 is for the pro quality inkjet. There is a big difference between bottom of the rung inkjet and pro quality inkjet. There bottom feeder inkjet is $139 with Scanner built in.
Got to agree with you on the Laser printer though, they are just so much better and very cheap laser printers are actually quite good quality and speed (eg 12ppm).
The replacement for windows NT4 *is* less than three years old!
You have to give people time to replace these things. If they had a constant upgrade cycle (with an easy upgrade path) then it would be fine, but Windows 2000 was only relase 2 and a bit years ago, it does take time to migrate systems.
Apple does this (they release the product not the code). Currently MacOS 8.0 is released free to people. Currently this is anything before 1st of Jan 1998. Have a look at what they have listed:
So if older Apple hardware you don't have to fork out dollars or break copyright to get stuff working. Although I note they don't have their old versin of unix (AUX) that ran on older hardware available:-(
I noticed that in this article that the guys at TI were having problems getting Wifi and Bluetooth to play nicely with each other. Which is coincidently is what Apple stated as a problem they had in the dev of the 12 and 17 inch notebooks which have integrated bluetooth and wifi. I wonder if ti need seperate attenaes for Wifi and Bluetooth?
I remember that the first or second version of Marathon (by bungie for the mac) had the ability to do voice communication to all players. Although you could only play that on a lan.
G4 Processors have a number of vector based units (known as Altivec) which process vectors (128) very very quickly. This is what gives the G4 the huge distributed.net advantage.
The whole point of cluster node is that you want it purely for the processing power of the node. The HD, video etc isn't important, typically it will have the OS and possibly the apps that it will run.
My guess is that a lot of people will actually network boot them (if possible) and then run everything from there. This machine is designed for people who need extra grunt for processor intensive stuff such as Shake.
It is off by default. I think it is a smart move, one problem when you get a lot of items on a dock or task bar is the 'click zone' for each item becomes very small. On Windows I avoid this by having the task bar on the left hand side of the desktop, dual monitors helps.
On the mac the items might be tiny (can end up with 40~50 items in the dock) and it is difficult to tell which item I am looking at. Especially web pages etc which are minimised to the dock.
The thing is that all those things are not defaults for the windows developer (esp Visual Studio) and the developer has to code all these things into there apps.
Compare that with Interface Builder on MacOSX where the developer can lock text boxes, buttons etc onto any part of the screen For example it takes no time, or coding to place a button in the lower right hand corner of the window and have it always stay in the bottom right hand corner as the window resizes. Also the layout manager displays guidance lines which make it a snap to place your buttons with Apples usage guidelines.
It is though windows developers are expected to always have windows the same size that they use, where MacOSX developer will always be thinking about how the window behaves at all sizes.
Also the magnification effect (if you have it turned on) is quite nice when you are running a lot of apps on OSX. I hardly ever quit apps (ram is cheap) and it means you can end up with 20~30 apps sitting in the dock. However with the magnification effect you can still see and click on the icons in your dock.
My definate all time pet hate with windows drag and drop is that you can drag and drop onto an icon on an app in the task bar, but if you wait the app will be brought to the forground.
But if you said to the client that putting a DB on the website would cost the thousands that it does for a MS SQL Server Web License then I am sure you would have more people asking for it.
I think they are talking about the buttons on the controller, similar to the PS2 X Square, Cirle, Triangle. That way a game can say press Pay MS Money button to continue;-)
On the Mac you just make a disc image of the CD, when you want to play a game just double click on the image and it looks for all intents and purposes like a CD.
Now I assume it wouldn't be to hard to implement a 'virtual cd drive' for the PC where CD images could be loaded.
From all reports Doom III will bring anything but the biggest ugliest box to its knees. If you don't want doom I am sure one of the games based on the doom engine will catch your eye.
I wonder what constitutes a computer? Is it the processor, the motherboard, or all of it stuck together?
Might be time to start up the 'almost a computer shop' where you sell cases with a mobo, ram, hd, cd drive, nic etc but no CPU, claim it is modern sculpture. Then you set a street cart outside where you can by processors. So people come in, by the computer, err sorry sculpture and then pop out to the street card and buy the proc for the box!
My guess is that the reason for the policy is to force people to the business account. The reason is to make people pay more money for the service. The old thing of the more you pay the more you get.
You could also put keep commercials current. If you have a commercial for an event next Thursday and the person is watching the Saturday after they could 'refresh' the commercials so that they are newer.
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Got to agree with you on the Laser printer though, they are just so much better and very cheap laser printers are actually quite good quality and speed (eg 12ppm).
The replacement for windows NT4 *is* less than three years old! You have to give people time to replace these things. If they had a constant upgrade cycle (with an easy upgrade path) then it would be fine, but Windows 2000 was only relase 2 and a bit years ago, it does take time to migrate systems.
http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelis t.html
So if older Apple hardware you don't have to fork out dollars or break copyright to get stuff working. Although I note they don't have their old versin of unix (AUX) that ran on older hardware available :-(
I remember reading that Apple uses the same antenna in the screen for both bluetooth and Airport, not seperate.
I noticed that in this article that the guys at TI were having problems getting Wifi and Bluetooth to play nicely with each other. Which is coincidently is what Apple stated as a problem they had in the dev of the 12 and 17 inch notebooks which have integrated bluetooth and wifi. I wonder if ti need seperate attenaes for Wifi and Bluetooth?
That would have been 97 or 98.
It cannot convert an arbitary file (say a word doc) to a PDF document. There are alternative PDF printer drivers now available for the PC.
G4 Processors have a number of vector based units (known as Altivec) which process vectors (128) very very quickly. This is what gives the G4 the huge distributed.net advantage.
My guess is that a lot of people will actually network boot them (if possible) and then run everything from there. This machine is designed for people who need extra grunt for processor intensive stuff such as Shake.
It is off by default. I think it is a smart move, one problem when you get a lot of items on a dock or task bar is the 'click zone' for each item becomes very small. On Windows I avoid this by having the task bar on the left hand side of the desktop, dual monitors helps. On the mac the items might be tiny (can end up with 40~50 items in the dock) and it is difficult to tell which item I am looking at. Especially web pages etc which are minimised to the dock.
Just drop it onto the application, exactly as what should happen if the file was dropped onto the application icon, or the open with command was used.
aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhh! they are a scurge on this earth.
Compare that with Interface Builder on MacOSX where the developer can lock text boxes, buttons etc onto any part of the screen For example it takes no time, or coding to place a button in the lower right hand corner of the window and have it always stay in the bottom right hand corner as the window resizes. Also the layout manager displays guidance lines which make it a snap to place your buttons with Apples usage guidelines.
It is though windows developers are expected to always have windows the same size that they use, where MacOSX developer will always be thinking about how the window behaves at all sizes.
Also the magnification effect (if you have it turned on) is quite nice when you are running a lot of apps on OSX. I hardly ever quit apps (ram is cheap) and it means you can end up with 20~30 apps sitting in the dock. However with the magnification effect you can still see and click on the icons in your dock.
My definate all time pet hate with windows drag and drop is that you can drag and drop onto an icon on an app in the task bar, but if you wait the app will be brought to the forground.
But if you said to the client that putting a DB on the website would cost the thousands that it does for a MS SQL Server Web License then I am sure you would have more people asking for it.
I think they are talking about the buttons on the controller, similar to the PS2 X Square, Cirle, Triangle. That way a game can say press Pay MS Money button to continue ;-)
Now I assume it wouldn't be to hard to implement a 'virtual cd drive' for the PC where CD images could be loaded.
It could also be a convient way to download games onto peoples PCs.
From all reports Doom III will bring anything but the biggest ugliest box to its knees. If you don't want doom I am sure one of the games based on the doom engine will catch your eye.
Might be time to start up the 'almost a computer shop' where you sell cases with a mobo, ram, hd, cd drive, nic etc but no CPU, claim it is modern sculpture. Then you set a street cart outside where you can by processors. So people come in, by the computer, err sorry sculpture and then pop out to the street card and buy the proc for the box!
My guess is that the reason for the policy is to force people to the business account. The reason is to make people pay more money for the service. The old thing of the more you pay the more you get.
IIRC Apple has had the Java 1.4 beta on the ADC website since the start of the year, you could have got it from there.
You could also put keep commercials current. If you have a commercial for an event next Thursday and the person is watching the Saturday after they could 'refresh' the commercials so that they are newer.
They probably also have to cover an escalating professional indemnity insurance bill as well.
For people who aren't sure/don't want to do it themselves then 39.99 is probably a good deal.