And I could make a portable music player with a plastic fish pasted onto it that lip-synched all the songs played on it, and that would be unique too, but it doesn't mean I get to patent the stupid thing.
I dunno... This is kind of like watching one of those old Edgerton films... We're currently viewing the penultimate frame to the bullet contacting the balloon.
How many people are running OS X off their Nomads at work and bringing their entire environment home at night? Vice versa? Reading RSS feeds on the subway? Checking their calendars on the go? Rating their music on the road?
Apple has created a portable platform with continual software enhancements on both the desktop and device ends--Creative has created a line of "dumb" music players.
The school wants to teach kids how to use the OS they're most likely to use in the workplace.
Damn f$cking straight!
While we're at it, let's get rid of all those $^%&@ Cuisinarts from the Home Ec labs... Everybody knows that KitchenAid is what's used in the 'industry'
As has been insinuated a hundred times already in these threads, the "Pick brand B, that's what's used out there in the Real World" argument just sounds more and more naive and idiotic as time progresses...
If your going to be sending someone into a market where probably in excess of 80% of the computers they'll come in contact with are Microsoft based, you owe it to them to at least include some of those computers in their educational experience.
Or, the most sensible solution would be to supply a sufficient amount of network licenses for VirtualPC/Windows to give kids said 'exposure'. That way, when the next Worm/Virus/Trojan comes along, all your Windows OS's are nicely encapsulated within emulation environments and the actual productivity machines they're running on top of will never suffer from "UPDATE SYMANTEC DEFINITIONS NOW!" downtimes etc. etc. etc.
So many small-minded school district administrators in this world, so few rational, foresighted ones. I think this issue has alot more to do with the Hegemonic "Apple's days are numbered" FUD of the last 10 years rather than actual tangible arguments like the above.
Being that you've apparently already got a copy of Illustrator in the office, I'd recommend Hot Door's CAD Tools, a package I've used in the past.
While OMNIGraffle and Stone's CREATE will take a smaller chunk out of the expense account, consider the notion that you'd be extending Illustrator's functionality rather than investing in a stopgap solution.
No L3... 256k L2 cache. Find me a Pentium/Centrino with L3 cache and you've got a valid point. Udderwize...
and on top of everything else lacks several legacy ports it abandons in favour of firewire and USB.
Uhh... That spells "modern laptop" moreso than a big bulky, ugly 9 Lb monster with parallel and PS2 ports... You're conveniently ignoring 802.11g as well...
In that perspective, it's struggling to stay a competitive deal even if it dropped another $100
Nobody could sue apple for producing a _server_ which could potentially used for distributing mp3s.
As I discovered in the debate over the spymac.com story from May 11th, the law appears stacked against the firm that creates software and doesn't cooperate in the prevention of 'selective broadcasting', as can be found in 17 USC 114, paragraph (d), sub-paragraph (2), article (v):
the transmitting entity cooperates to prevent, to the extent feasible without imposing substantial costs or burdens, a transmission recipient or any other person or entity from automatically scanning the transmitting entity's transmissions alone or together with transmissions by other transmitting entities in order to select a particular sound recording to be transmitted to the transmission recipient, except that the requirement of this clause shall not apply to a satellite digital audio service that is in operation, or that is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, on or before July 31, 1998;
Call me when they've updated to 1.x which defaults to the "Bad News" voice for all feeds that headline: *Microsoft* / *SCO* / *Motorola Semiconductor Division* / *Quark XPress*...
Apple didn't 'spearhead' the Maine laptop initiative... Gov. Angus King was partially responsible for that.
Apple simply won-out on the deal by offering a better package at a competitive price... Though I wonder what the Jaguar upgrades for any/all of the iBooks cost Maine last year...
Those kooky cats at Ambrosia Soft coined the acro-name "SPoD" back in the pre-10.0 era, which preceded the 'Beachball' copy-cat nickname. Now you know;)
One of my favorite television-watching moments was within a documentary on white supremacist compounds in the Southern U.S.A.
While a young 'ideologically-challenged' woman explained how "you don't see different races of animals interbreeding" there were two unmistakably mongrel dogs play-fighting in the background.
Taxonomy is an indefinite science... Weren't we ourselves classified as Phylum: Vertebrata until we discovered predating Chordata fossil specimens, thus producing the "Chordata, Sub-Phylum Vertebrata" phylification?
In any event, Canus lupus is 'genetically wired' to distrust anybody that they haven't been familliarized with in the first 6 months of their lives. Canus familiaris (or Canus lupus familiaris) tend to run with their tails held high, Canus latrans (Coyote) run with their tails between their legs and Canus lupus with their tails straight out...
OS X features Multilink Multihoming, which allows multiple concurrent interfaces to IP ports. Conceivably, if you wished to cluster two Macs you could use 1394b, 802.11g and 1000BaseT (and even the 56k modems, I guess) simultaneously to pass packets to the client machine, thereby alleviating your bandwidth bottleneck by a huge margin.
I wouldn't say "better," I'd say "extends the functionailty of the machine"
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I dunno... This is kind of like watching one of those old Edgerton films... We're currently viewing the penultimate frame to the bullet contacting the balloon.
Apple has created a portable platform with continual software enhancements on both the desktop and device ends--Creative has created a line of "dumb" music players.
Hence the price differentiation.
Here's a nice copyright-free panther-X within the slashtopicon proportions...
While we're at it, let's get rid of all those $^%&@ Cuisinarts from the Home Ec labs... Everybody knows that KitchenAid is what's used in the 'industry'
As has been insinuated a hundred times already in these threads, the "Pick brand B, that's what's used out there in the Real World" argument just sounds more and more naive and idiotic as time progresses...
So many small-minded school district administrators in this world, so few rational, foresighted ones. I think this issue has alot more to do with the Hegemonic "Apple's days are numbered" FUD of the last 10 years rather than actual tangible arguments like the above.
While OMNIGraffle and Stone's CREATE will take a smaller chunk out of the expense account, consider the notion that you'd be extending Illustrator's functionality rather than investing in a stopgap solution.
3. Computer Science. Of or relating to the production of images on video displays.
Would you like your ass for here or to go?
Makes you wonder why the Combo Drive iBook is still $1,299 base...
Call me when they've updated to 1.x which defaults to the "Bad News" voice for all feeds that headline: *Microsoft* / *SCO* / *Motorola Semiconductor Division* / *Quark XPress*...
Apple simply won-out on the deal by offering a better package at a competitive price... Though I wonder what the Jaguar upgrades for any/all of the iBooks cost Maine last year...
Hmm... I'm getting a vision of a "Hogan's Heroes" parody with Steve Jobs as Hogan...
Tom Bombadil who? What?
Those kooky cats at Ambrosia Soft coined the acro-name "SPoD" back in the pre-10.0 era, which preceded the 'Beachball' copy-cat nickname. Now you know ;)
While a young 'ideologically-challenged' woman explained how "you don't see different races of animals interbreeding" there were two unmistakably mongrel dogs play-fighting in the background.
In any event, Canus lupus is 'genetically wired' to distrust anybody that they haven't been familliarized with in the first 6 months of their lives. Canus familiaris (or Canus lupus familiaris) tend to run with their tails held high, Canus latrans (Coyote) run with their tails between their legs and Canus lupus with their tails straight out...
Are there $25 bills? Nope. Are there $50 bills? Yep!
An interesting thing to think about - in order to acheive $100:
One, $100 bill
Two, $50 bills
Five, $20 bills
Ten, $10 bills
Twenty, $5 bills
Fifty, $2 bills
One-Hundred, $1 bills
Makes a little more sense now, eh?
OS X features Multilink Multihoming, which allows multiple concurrent interfaces to IP ports. Conceivably, if you wished to cluster two Macs you could use 1394b, 802.11g and 1000BaseT (and even the 56k modems, I guess) simultaneously to pass packets to the client machine, thereby alleviating your bandwidth bottleneck by a huge margin.
I wouldn't say "better," I'd say "extends the functionailty of the machine"
Our DEC Pro350 didn't have no fancy-pants tape backup!
...And Dad insisted on running some strange UNIX flavor on the summbitch. No LodeRunner for us! We had to write MadLibs in Basic!
And MS' "consumer" OS (9x-->Me) multitasked like Win 3.1 until: 2001? uhh...