Errm. Surely, they can't make you promise to buy something from them later, can they?
Anyway, the things come with the OS license already. As Steve was so pleased to point out, the competition offers more expensive, inferior servers without the software licenses.
He gets his hotdog, and hands the man a $10 bill. He waits a moment, but nothing is forthcoming. "Where is my change?" asks the buddhist. "Change must come from within." answers the hotdog seller.
I don't think Sony, or even SGI could come up with sexier than a G4 iMac. Considering this is a Gateway, it's surprisingly good, frankly.
As another responder pointed out, the surprising thing is, what a lousy deal this is - no DVD, less RAM, less HD... I guess that's what the Microsoft tax will do to ya.
Oh, yeah, one other thing - supermodels, curvy? They have the figures of 12-year-old boys. Curvy models all got fired in the mid-70's, when they hired the anorexic pill-freaks.
This was common in the Elizabethan Theatre too - publishers would go to a play two or three nights running, until they had the script pretty much written out, and then publish it. Of course, their are some inaccuracies, due to the way they were collecting the text.
The hacked scripts (called 'folio', I think) are often particularly interesting in that they give us a snapshot of the state of the plays at a particular time.
The 'authoritative' (called 'quarto', unless I have the two reversed) scripts were published after his death, by reassembling the individual actors' copies, trying to remember how bits went when some of the actors' copies were unavailable, editing things together when the different actors' scripts were from different versions/cuts of the play, etc. As a result of all this, they may well represent a state of the script that was never actually performed
What determines language - what people actually say, or what professors of linguistics or corporate spin-mongers want them to say?
Steve Jobs may have wanted us to pronounce SCSI "sexy" not "scuzzy", but SCSI is (unfortunately) "scuzzy". Similarly, he may want us to call it "Oh Ess Ten" - uncharacteristically, he wants us to avoid saying sex - but it is "Oh Ess Ex", because that's what millions of people call it.
By the same token, Hoover PLC may own the brand name Hoover, but if you're in the UK, a vacuum cleaner is just a hoover, no matter who makes it. Copyright law is insignificant - they're called hoovers, because people call them hoovers.
There is nothing hypocritical about it: it is international law.
Where do you get that? It can be perfectly legal and still hypoctritical. If hypocrisy were illegal, every US ex-president alive today would be in jail. (mind you, if everyone got caught and sentenced for doing illegal things, every US ex-president alive would probably be in jail, regardless of hypocrisy laws.)
Do you know if you always need dedicated machines for a SAN? Or could you, for example, spring for an extra 30 GB of disk space on twenty office/lab machines you were going to buy anyway, and have them run as a (slightly less than)600 GB SAN?
That way, the powerpoint presentations that your 20 middle managers are making instead of doing real work would be effectively indestructible...
I've never quite understood why people get all excited about increasing their fps when both the 'before' and 'after' frame rates are faster than their monitor's maximum refresh rate anyway.
I like fish. I don't like fishing. It doesn't matter, I get my fish at a store, and it tastes lovely. Linux users may fancy the real satisfaction of eating a fish just caught an hour ago, roast over a campfire, in sight of the canoes, and that's great for them. Most people, including me, would probably rather nip over to the store down the road and come back with some fish ten minutes later. To suggest that this is of lesser value is silly.
And, to overliteralize metaphor number 2:
Cars have dreadful interfaces, granted. The pedals on a standard transmission car are positioned in a very inefficient way - test after test has shown that making brakes and gas work by separate feet would speed reaction times significantly. If we had it to do over again, we would certainly arrange things differently, and doubtless save thousands of lives, but we don't have it to do over again - any major change to the interface would kill immense numbers of people before it saved anyone at all.
Since computer interfaces are usually not quite so critical, they can be rearranged at will, and frequently do get improved. To say that people will need 'retraining' is really overdoing it.
For (counter)example, thousands of Mac users (those nontechnical people/. loves to scorn for lacking a deep understanding of their computers) are successfully switching to a completely new OS, with interfaces redesigned in some pretty big ways, with only minor hitches. A well designed interface is not hard to learn, even to a nontechnical person who has no deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms they are manipulating than the average driver needs to have of auto mechanics.
Just what we need - defence of our civil rights via throwing away more plastic junk! Much more convenient than actually changing the system, and better for industry too.
I get bored when the same general tempo and melody get rehashed for too longer,... (It must not make that much of a difference when you're high on ecstacy:) )
Unfortunately, you're right - that's why 'raves' (actually haven't had what I'd call a rave in years) are getting dreadful boring and predictable in my part of the world. Same as a bar full of people too drunk to care about the music, as long as it's too loud to hear yourself think.
Hrm. I might suggest that Oakenfold is currently playing more or less what DJ 'heartbeat' would anyway - tracks already proven commercial successes, chosen without feeling, mixed with skill but not passion
3. Watch DVD's with no stuttering or slowdowns while working in the shell, editing code in BBEdit, listening to iTunes, and stress-testing the above Apache setup.
You can watch a movie, work in a shell, edit code, listen to music, test a website, and carry on a conversation at a normal pace, all at once? That's incredible! How many monitors do you have?
I have trouble keeping a lively conversation going if there's so much as a TV running in the background, it's just too distracting. Never mind actually watching the TV, let alone editing code while I talk.
Build a web page, using some suitably cookie cutter format. Put it on some server that your audience will have access to at home.
Then, instead of having all this text, and forcing people to pretty much choose between writing it down, or listening to you, you can just say, "This is all on the web, at this address, so you don't need to write it down." I had a couple of profs do that, and it was sooo much better than all this powerpoint nonsense.
Plus, with a browser, you can scroll back half a page, and let the slow writer in the room get that last figure, while you go on with the talk. With ppt, it's back the whole page, and wait for the one slow guy, or the hell with the slow guy and go ahead with the talk
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do shell script "/usr/bin/ssh-add"
Anyway, the things come with the OS license already. As Steve was so pleased to point out, the competition offers more expensive, inferior servers without the software licenses.
He gets his hotdog, and hands the man a $10 bill. He waits a moment, but nothing is forthcoming. "Where is my change?" asks the buddhist. "Change must come from within." answers the hotdog seller.
As another responder pointed out, the surprising thing is, what a lousy deal this is - no DVD, less RAM, less HD... I guess that's what the Microsoft tax will do to ya.
Oh, yeah, one other thing - supermodels, curvy? They have the figures of 12-year-old boys. Curvy models all got fired in the mid-70's, when they hired the anorexic pill-freaks.
Interesting. I guess that must just have been how the respective versions happened to be printed.
That's what I said. Et c'est vous qui êtes bète.
The hacked scripts (called 'folio', I think) are often particularly interesting in that they give us a snapshot of the state of the plays at a particular time.
The 'authoritative' (called 'quarto', unless I have the two reversed) scripts were published after his death, by reassembling the individual actors' copies, trying to remember how bits went when some of the actors' copies were unavailable, editing things together when the different actors' scripts were from different versions/cuts of the play, etc. As a result of all this, they may well represent a state of the script that was never actually performed
Steve Jobs may have wanted us to pronounce SCSI "sexy" not "scuzzy", but SCSI is (unfortunately) "scuzzy". Similarly, he may want us to call it "Oh Ess Ten" - uncharacteristically, he wants us to avoid saying sex - but it is "Oh Ess Ex", because that's what millions of people call it.
By the same token, Hoover PLC may own the brand name Hoover, but if you're in the UK, a vacuum cleaner is just a hoover, no matter who makes it. Copyright law is insignificant - they're called hoovers, because people call them hoovers.
Where do you get that? It can be perfectly legal and still hypoctritical. If hypocrisy were illegal, every US ex-president alive today would be in jail. (mind you, if everyone got caught and sentenced for doing illegal things, every US ex-president alive would probably be in jail, regardless of hypocrisy laws.)
That way, the powerpoint presentations that your 20 middle managers are making instead of doing real work would be effectively indestructible...
I've never quite understood why people get all excited about increasing their fps when both the 'before' and 'after' frame rates are faster than their monitor's maximum refresh rate anyway.
Contained in a 3cm low-profile expansion, three 80mm dual-ball bearing fans maintain airflow to the radiator.
I like fish. I don't like fishing. It doesn't matter, I get my fish at a store, and it tastes lovely. Linux users may fancy the real satisfaction of eating a fish just caught an hour ago, roast over a campfire, in sight of the canoes, and that's great for them. Most people, including me, would probably rather nip over to the store down the road and come back with some fish ten minutes later. To suggest that this is of lesser value is silly.
And, to overliteralize metaphor number 2:
Cars have dreadful interfaces, granted. The pedals on a standard transmission car are positioned in a very inefficient way - test after test has shown that making brakes and gas work by separate feet would speed reaction times significantly. If we had it to do over again, we would certainly arrange things differently, and doubtless save thousands of lives, but we don't have it to do over again - any major change to the interface would kill immense numbers of people before it saved anyone at all.
Since computer interfaces are usually not quite so critical, they can be rearranged at will, and frequently do get improved. To say that people will need 'retraining' is really overdoing it.
For (counter)example, thousands of Mac users (those nontechnical people
Am I the only one who finds this disgusting?
Unfortunately, you're right - that's why 'raves' (actually haven't had what I'd call a rave in years) are getting dreadful boring and predictable in my part of the world. Same as a bar full of people too drunk to care about the music, as long as it's too loud to hear yourself think.
Hrm. I might suggest that Oakenfold is currently playing more or less what DJ 'heartbeat' would anyway - tracks already proven commercial successes, chosen without feeling, mixed with skill but not passion
Hm! That's really interesting. /bin/csh is the same file as /bin/tcsh too (as you presumably know). Many wrinkles...
Unlike those silly Linux systems - they use a monolithic kernel, you can imagine how top-heavy that would make your computer's case.
You can watch a movie, work in a shell, edit code, listen to music, test a website, and carry on a conversation at a normal pace, all at once? That's incredible! How many monitors do you have?
I have trouble keeping a lively conversation going if there's so much as a TV running in the background, it's just too distracting. Never mind actually watching the TV, let alone editing code while I talk.
Then, instead of having all this text, and forcing people to pretty much choose between writing it down, or listening to you, you can just say, "This is all on the web, at this address, so you don't need to write it down." I had a couple of profs do that, and it was sooo much better than all this powerpoint nonsense.
Plus, with a browser, you can scroll back half a page, and let the slow writer in the room get that last figure, while you go on with the talk. With ppt, it's back the whole page, and wait for the one slow guy, or the hell with the slow guy and go ahead with the talk