i went home for the weekend last week and my dad had just gotten directv installed (i.e. "Tom! set up the stereo so i can use it!") and i found myself setting up my profile in the unit...
i just kept deleting channels so fast, now i have maybe 10 channels and then the movie channels that he got free. surfing is actually easy now
my dad uses directv now....great picture and it seems to be pretty responsive
however, my ex switched over to TW digital cable; every time you change a channel it takes about 3 secods, then the picture becomes all blocky for a few while it descrambles
i agree somewhat...all the shows on there are good ideas but there's only so many way you can:
Screensavers: Talk about using bash Call for Help: Plug in a printer CyberCrime: TAlk to somebody about ID theft Fresh gear: The only 'fresh' show on the network TechLive: "Bill gates announced xyz today, yesterday he announced zyx!"
and speaking of TechTV, read on fuckedcompany that they just closed 3 bureaus..12 people canned
Apple Computer on Wednesday updated its entire portable line, most notably adding its first PowerBook capable of burning DVDs.
The PowerBook line now includes an 867MHz model, available now for $2,299, and a 1GHz model that can both burn and read CDs and DVDs. That model will be available later this month for $2,999.
"This is what our customers have been waiting for," Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of hardware marketing, said in a statement. He noted that the new PowerBook is the first notebook with a slot-loading drive that can burn DVDs.
As expected, Apple also bumped up the speed of all of its iBooks by 100MHz while dropping the price of each model by $200. The consumer portables also sport improved graphics now, using ATI Technologies' Mobility Radeon 7500 chip with up to 32MB of graphics memory.
With the faster ATI chip, the iBook can now take advantage of the improved Quartz Extreme graphics engine built into the latest version of Mac OS X.
The three iBook models consist of a $999 model with a 700MHz chip, a 12.1-inch screen, a CD-ROM drive, 128MB of memory and a 20GB hard drive; a $1,299 model with an 800MHz chip, a 12.1-inch screen, a combination CD-rewritable/DVD-ROM drive, 128MB of memory and a 30GB hard drive; and a $1,599 model with an 800MHz chip, a 14-inch screen, a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive, 256MB of memory and a 30GB hard drive.
As for the PowerBooks, the low-end model comes with a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive, 256MB of memory and a 40GB hard drive. In addition to the DVD burner, the high-end model includes 512MB of memory, a 60GB hard drive and a preinstalled Airport card for wireless networking.
no, of course you don't have to switch...I'm not forcing you =]
but you should take a look at them if you get the chance; I suggest the Apple stores, they are great ground for getting the "street cred" that Apple desperately needs
and finally, regarding games, that used to be the main reason that I have my WinXP desktop. Now, though, that id has released PR1.32 for Quake 3 that is fully OS X compatible, i think i'm finally ready to say good-bye forever to windows as my primary OS...I've really only been keeping it around for gaming anyway
I disagree; the lowest-priced inspiron from Dell is just at $899
personally, I would pay the extra $100 to get the iBook simply for OS X 10.2 and/or for the kickass look of ibooks
trust me, these things get looks from people when you walk into a lab here on campus, open it up and it's immediately ready, then close it down, drop it in your bag and split for lunch
it makes sense to me for Apple t still equip their iBooks with G3's for a couple of reasons:
-Other companies do it too...you can buy a Dell with a celeron as opposed to a speedy P4
-I can personally attest to, after using a G3 iBook, wanting something faster. Anybody that buys an apple these days has a pretty good chance of getting hooked for good, and right now I'm eyeing that new PowerBook just because my iBook seems a bit slow
oh, and i want to bust Quake 3 out on it at QuakeCon 2003 =]
never at all...any non geek people that I've been around usually just it call it "The Internet" or in the case of my mom: "www"...sigh...
Ok, so microsoft trides to do this now
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But I see that this, unlike browsers a few years back, as being pretty damn entrenched in the business and graphics world.
With browsers 6 years ago there was very little loyalty, so MSIE could move in before everyone realized just how powerful MS was going to be over Netscape and the other companies involved in browsers.
But with Adobe Acrobat we're talking about a refined and popular format. Actually, Acrobat is one of the best file ideas out there, IMHO. It is perfectly cross platform, well designed, and (neglecting to note the whole russian programmer fiasco) Adobe has a good business model behind it.
MS's only strong point could be integration, like they offer with all of their other 'solutions', but Adobe already has great integration wih their own suite of programs and even with Microsoft Word.
what I would love to see is a candidate running in the election in 8 days that openly talks about nerd issues
I'd like to see the response of a politician asked "Do you feel that ICANN's actions are justified in eliminating Karl Auerbach's position from their board?"
hey! i'm not giving up my desktop mouse any time soon! there's no way that after years of resting my whole arm on tables to use mice could i ever manage to lift it more than a coupe of centimeters to grab a swig of Mountain Dew
wow, you're really out of the loop when it comes to games
mods are THE reason that games have any longevity at all. for instance; the original Quake was a great game and all, but it shipped with support only for deathmatch (aka Kill-Em-All!), only because of modders like those that developed Team Fortress and the other popular mods did the game last as long as it did
right now my friends and I play a smorgasborg of mods on quake 3: Weapons Factory Arena, Instagib, Freeze Tag, Rocket Arena 3, QPong, and others.
Any smart game developer realizes that whatever they can create in their production timeline pales usually in comparison to what some clever fans can make in their spare time. That's why places like id and Valve release their SDKs freely and the tools to build maps/models/ annd other stuff for free:
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exactly, i see that as being a lot...i don't like to pay half the price of the device just to use it
which is why i dislike laser printers
i am poor
i'm not looking for another bill, just want one-time fee
look again, because now sonic blue does have a monthly fee of $9.99 i believe, or you can buy a lifetime subscription for $250....
i just came into some money and was thinking of buying one because of the no monthly fee, but then i saw that...back to VCR i suppose
competing companies working together?
prepare for meltdown in 3.....2....1....
the worst part about that story is that in my hometown we have a church that actually talks that way
they have half the city going there, so if you're one of the other 50,000 then you're with.....oh, who could it be....
oh yes!
SATAN
1. visit your friend at another animation studio
...Profit!!!
2. make your own movie
3.
that read this post and mis-read "cosmotologist"
quoth the raven " use the mousse.."
for slow hardware lots of stuff can be throttled back on the rendering side
my terminal window on my ibook, for instance, doesn't do the anti-aliasing...i find it distracting
and most of the cool effects like the genii minimize can be turned off really easily
"we need a web site hosted somewhere"
"how much bandwidth will we need?"
"no more than 1MB/sec should do it...no need to waste money."
cut to today as the website flames up
hell yeah for ADD/DELETE
i went home for the weekend last week and my dad had just gotten directv installed (i.e. "Tom! set up the stereo so i can use it!") and i found myself setting up my profile in the unit...
i just kept deleting channels so fast, now i have maybe 10 channels and then the movie channels that he got free. surfing is actually easy now
my dad uses directv now....great picture and it seems to be pretty responsive
however, my ex switched over to TW digital cable; every time you change a channel it takes about 3 secods, then the picture becomes all blocky for a few while it descrambles
fiber to the curb is what I'm waiting for
i agree somewhat...all the shows on there are good ideas but there's only so many way you can:
Screensavers: Talk about using bash
Call for Help: Plug in a printer
CyberCrime: TAlk to somebody about ID theft
Fresh gear: The only 'fresh' show on the network
TechLive: "Bill gates announced xyz today, yesterday he announced zyx!"
and speaking of TechTV, read on fuckedcompany that they just closed 3 bureaus..12 people canned
here's the story
Apple Computer on Wednesday updated its entire portable line, most notably adding its first PowerBook capable of burning DVDs.
The PowerBook line now includes an 867MHz model, available now for $2,299, and a 1GHz model that can both burn and read CDs and DVDs. That model will be available later this month for $2,999.
"This is what our customers have been waiting for," Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of hardware marketing, said in a statement. He noted that the new PowerBook is the first notebook with a slot-loading drive that can burn DVDs.
As expected, Apple also bumped up the speed of all of its iBooks by 100MHz while dropping the price of each model by $200. The consumer portables also sport improved graphics now, using ATI Technologies' Mobility Radeon 7500 chip with up to 32MB of graphics memory.
With the faster ATI chip, the iBook can now take advantage of the improved Quartz Extreme graphics engine built into the latest version of Mac OS X.
The three iBook models consist of a $999 model with a 700MHz chip, a 12.1-inch screen, a CD-ROM drive, 128MB of memory and a 20GB hard drive; a $1,299 model with an 800MHz chip, a 12.1-inch screen, a combination CD-rewritable/DVD-ROM drive, 128MB of memory and a 30GB hard drive; and a $1,599 model with an 800MHz chip, a 14-inch screen, a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive, 256MB of memory and a 30GB hard drive.
As for the PowerBooks, the low-end model comes with a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive, 256MB of memory and a 40GB hard drive. In addition to the DVD burner, the high-end model includes 512MB of memory, a 60GB hard drive and a preinstalled Airport card for wireless networking.
no, of course you don't have to switch...I'm not forcing you =]
but you should take a look at them if you get the chance; I suggest the Apple stores, they are great ground for getting the "street cred" that Apple desperately needs
and finally, regarding games, that used to be the main reason that I have my WinXP desktop. Now, though, that id has released PR1.32 for Quake 3 that is fully OS X compatible, i think i'm finally ready to say good-bye forever to windows as my primary OS...I've really only been keeping it around for gaming anyway
I disagree; the lowest-priced inspiron from Dell is just at $899
personally, I would pay the extra $100 to get the iBook simply for OS X 10.2 and/or for the kickass look of ibooks
trust me, these things get looks from people when you walk into a lab here on campus, open it up and it's immediately ready, then close it down, drop it in your bag and split for lunch
it makes sense to me for Apple t still equip their iBooks with G3's for a couple of reasons:
-Other companies do it too...you can buy a Dell with a celeron as opposed to a speedy P4
-I can personally attest to, after using a G3 iBook, wanting something faster. Anybody that buys an apple these days has a pretty good chance of getting hooked for good, and right now I'm eyeing that new PowerBook just because my iBook seems a bit slow
oh, and i want to bust Quake 3 out on it at QuakeCon 2003 =]
never at all...any non geek people that I've been around usually just it call it "The Internet" or in the case of my mom: "www" ...sigh...
But I see that this, unlike browsers a few years back, as being pretty damn entrenched in the business and graphics world.
With browsers 6 years ago there was very little loyalty, so MSIE could move in before everyone realized just how powerful MS was going to be over Netscape and the other companies involved in browsers.
But with Adobe Acrobat we're talking about a refined and popular format. Actually, Acrobat is one of the best file ideas out there, IMHO. It is perfectly cross platform, well designed, and (neglecting to note the whole russian programmer fiasco) Adobe has a good business model behind it.
MS's only strong point could be integration, like they offer with all of their other 'solutions', but Adobe already has great integration wih their own suite of programs and even with Microsoft Word.
They should call it Bob...
so where's the trailer for this?
what I would love to see is a candidate running in the election in 8 days that openly talks about nerd issues
I'd like to see the response of a politician asked "Do you feel that ICANN's actions are justified in eliminating Karl Auerbach's position from their board?"
good game....but damn those 56k users slowing us all down :(
interesting that this demonstrates just how stable OS X is...when something that happens every reboot people don't know what it looks like :)
I almost never reboot my iBook, for me it's just: close the lid, go somewhere, open it up and keep going
hey! i'm not giving up my desktop mouse any time soon! there's no way that after years of resting my whole arm on tables to use mice could i ever manage to lift it more than a coupe of centimeters to grab a swig of Mountain Dew
wow, you're really out of the loop when it comes to games
mods are THE reason that games have any longevity at all. for instance; the original Quake was a great game and all, but it shipped with support only for deathmatch (aka Kill-Em-All!), only because of modders like those that developed Team Fortress and the other popular mods did the game last as long as it did
right now my friends and I play a smorgasborg of mods on quake 3: Weapons Factory Arena, Instagib, Freeze Tag, Rocket Arena 3, QPong, and others.
Any smart game developer realizes that whatever they can create in their production timeline pales usually in comparison to what some clever fans can make in their spare time. That's why places like id and Valve release their SDKs freely and the tools to build maps/models/ annd other stuff for free:
it keeps their games selling
i think the scariest part of that story is that you have a copy ready for posting all the way back from 1998