Failure rate of 1 in 50 is an acceptable risk. That is not my issue with the space program. My problem is it is run by the government, in a heinous near spare no expense nature, with no real way of checking up on it to see that it has produced anything of real value to the people that are paying for it; namely every working citizen of the USA. The geek factor is high (hence my troll score versus your insightfull), but the benefit to society factor is negligible at best.
I would rather not have war, or space exploration. Both are tremendous wastes of money. How about spending some of that money on something everyone benefits from... schools for example. Or better health care (go public even). I am sure there are some homeless people that could use a break, or a warm meal.
The point is, neither war nor space exploration is profitable to most people on this planet. The "medical research" carried out on shuttle missions has proved out to be next to meaningless. Wars kill people, and allow the "winner" to write the history books, and oppress the "losers" of said war.
Too bad this stuff can't go to a public election... like a true Democracy would seem to allow. We elect the people, so they can do whatever they want, in our name.
Frankly, Apple does not make or design the logic boards. The might tell whomever that they want it to fit in a certain case design, and a little back and forth will ensue. But that is about it. All of the major chipsets on the board are not Apple made or designed either.
All they do is use a slightly unique CPU architecture, mainly to claim difference and "innovative" ideals. Pshaw.
That being said, I still paid for a iBook 800 G3 with combo drive and airport etc.
Although, I must say that my IBM ThinkPad 600X (P3 500MHz) never had a problem running Mandrake (7.x and up) with various wireless cards, and a generic pcmcia firewire card too. I am far from skilled when it comes to configuring my system. Nice basic install, load up windowmaker, and off I go. Today should be about 105 days of uptime on that ThinkPad though (sits on my nightstand running setiathome in verbose mode in a terminal, and occassionally runs mozilla for web surfing if the iBook is unavailable -- usually in another room and I am too darned lazy to go get it).
iPod mini does not compete with the flash based players. No way, no how. You can not compare a hdd based player to a solid state player. Different technology, different pricing, different reliability, and different markets.
That is why the mini iPod compares so well against the regular iPod, and why everyone with a brain has done that to death already.
Those that are truly in the market for a solid state player (bike riders for one) would never even consider a hdd player.
Just because the pricing is similar has nothing to do with it. Competitive markets aren't based on prices, they are based on competing products. Apples versus Apples. Not Apples versus Oranges.
At the time it was a 10GB model. They upped it to 15GB to make the difference greater. Otherwise nobody would have bought the 4GB at $249 when 10GB was $299. Marketing is a strange beast. Ick.
Expcting a US Senator that reads the paper and watches the news, but does not play video games (in my own haven't RTFA estimation), to intelligently comment on the content and intent of a specific game, is a bit ludicrous.
A few months back my roommate bought a TiVo. Before that, I watched very little TV anymore. It was too hard to keep up with all the schedule changes, new shows, cancelling of old/new shows, etc. My primary interest was SPEED and FoodNetwork. Now, I get to watch more of the good stuff (Monster Garage or Stargate SG-1 or Alias or whatnot) without missing an episode here or there. TiVo has put me back in control. That is something the networks can't do.
Very true. Also considering in his bio on IMDB it is stated that he charges $20 to sign a picture he supplies, or $15 to sign something or your own. Looks like a classic case of C.Y.A.
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AUDI, M-B, BMW, Volvo, Subaru all make good station wagons, all available as AWD, IIRC.
The point was it is the same processor for the 800MHz or 1GHz machines. The speed is limited on the motherboard. This is how processors from the same branch are made. Each is tested, the "good" ones are given higher speed rating, and sold as 1.33GHz, and the "average" are sold as 1GHz, and the "below average" were sold as 800/700MHz chips. Essentially, the chip was sold to be used in a underclocked application.
Work is work. In a depression, those that survive are the ones that adapt. Kind of like evolution. I would assume that nearly nobody goes through their professional lives doing the same thing from the beginning to the end of their careers. As you may have noticed, a CS degree isn't worth much more than the paper it was laser printed on. I know very few currently working successful IT people that have CS degrees. Most are people without a degree of any sort, that started at the bottom (data entry even) and worked their asses off for years, and now find themselves as indespensible employees at small to medium size companies, even in this time of cutbacks. If you are good, people find a way to keep you, or you can get a job elsewhere. If you are average, you're fucked. And it should be that way. I'm tired of all the average people doing average work complaining that they can't get their way above average ($70k+) paying jobs anymore. Face it, some of you suck, and people are starting to notice.
Sorry for the rant, but some people (not you specifically) just don't have a clue about reality. 1999 was 5 years ago...
Inventing needs to get the economy out of a depression/recession!?! What a crap idea. Think of all the things in your town that have been left undone (anything from sidelwalks, to potholes, to adding that stoplight at Main and 4th Ave, to picking up litter, cutting back brush/trees near roadways, etc etc). There is _always_ something that needs doing, as my farmer friends say.
Sad, but yet so true. I have worked on machines that have win98se and Norton 2002, where Norton is updated daily, but Windows hasn't been checked since 1999 (when the machine was purchased).
Worst case, all those old Packard Bell boxes that run win98se and haven't been touched (other than using AOL and napster/p2p.app flavor of the week) for years.
fwiw i do have a 401(k) account. of course the (my projection) market slump at the end of this year will make that account worthless as a earner goes...:(
also, my job has bonuses, of large amounts, that can bump my overall tax bracket up for the year (similar to being on commission). that extra money usually comes back, but not every year. cya i say.
I go to the library (live in CT) and get the forms, go home, spend some quality time with the TI-81 graphing calculator that gets used exactly one time per year (original batteries from 1993 by the way), a pencil, staples, and a manilla envelope when I'm done. There are very few things I don't trust a computer to do. My taxes are one of them.
Security through obscurity I suppose.
The nice thing is I can do the state form on the phone, and the fed form isn't a big deal as I don't own a house yet. One W2, and the tax from my car, and I am all set.
Hope I made enough this year to warrant a $1000+ combined return. That extra $20 a pay period that I rarely notice through the year really adds up!
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Failure rate of 1 in 50 is an acceptable risk. That is not my issue with the space program. My problem is it is run by the government, in a heinous near spare no expense nature, with no real way of checking up on it to see that it has produced anything of real value to the people that are paying for it; namely every working citizen of the USA. The geek factor is high (hence my troll score versus your insightfull), but the benefit to society factor is negligible at best.
I would rather not have war, or space exploration. Both are tremendous wastes of money. How about spending some of that money on something everyone benefits from... schools for example. Or better health care (go public even). I am sure there are some homeless people that could use a break, or a warm meal.
The point is, neither war nor space exploration is profitable to most people on this planet. The "medical research" carried out on shuttle missions has proved out to be next to meaningless. Wars kill people, and allow the "winner" to write the history books, and oppress the "losers" of said war.
Too bad this stuff can't go to a public election... like a true Democracy would seem to allow. We elect the people, so they can do whatever they want, in our name.
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Changing the name to Winux and putting "Formerly known as LINDOWS" stickers on the boxes for a couple years.
Frankly, Apple does not make or design the logic boards. The might tell whomever that they want it to fit in a certain case design, and a little back and forth will ensue. But that is about it. All of the major chipsets on the board are not Apple made or designed either.
All they do is use a slightly unique CPU architecture, mainly to claim difference and "innovative" ideals. Pshaw.
That being said, I still paid for a iBook 800 G3 with combo drive and airport etc.
Although, I must say that my IBM ThinkPad 600X (P3 500MHz) never had a problem running Mandrake (7.x and up) with various wireless cards, and a generic pcmcia firewire card too. I am far from skilled when it comes to configuring my system. Nice basic install, load up windowmaker, and off I go. Today should be about 105 days of uptime on that ThinkPad though (sits on my nightstand running setiathome in verbose mode in a terminal, and occassionally runs mozilla for web surfing if the iBook is unavailable -- usually in another room and I am too darned lazy to go get it).
I own a 2nd gen 10GB iPod dude. For my needs it is quite good (28 yrs old and not much play time anymore).
Nice try though.
I read the fscking article you twit.
iPod mini does not compete with the flash based players. No way, no how. You can not compare a hdd based player to a solid state player. Different technology, different pricing, different reliability, and different markets.
That is why the mini iPod compares so well against the regular iPod, and why everyone with a brain has done that to death already.
Those that are truly in the market for a solid state player (bike riders for one) would never even consider a hdd player.
Just because the pricing is similar has nothing to do with it. Competitive markets aren't based on prices, they are based on competing products. Apples versus Apples. Not Apples versus Oranges.
At the time it was a 10GB model. They upped it to 15GB to make the difference greater. Otherwise nobody would have bought the 4GB at $249 when 10GB was $299. Marketing is a strange beast. Ick.
Expcting a US Senator that reads the paper and watches the news, but does not play video games (in my own haven't RTFA estimation), to intelligently comment on the content and intent of a specific game, is a bit ludicrous.
A few months back my roommate bought a TiVo. Before that, I watched very little TV anymore. It was too hard to keep up with all the schedule changes, new shows, cancelling of old/new shows, etc. My primary interest was SPEED and FoodNetwork. Now, I get to watch more of the good stuff (Monster Garage or Stargate SG-1 or Alias or whatnot) without missing an episode here or there. TiVo has put me back in control. That is something the networks can't do.
Very true. Also considering in his bio on IMDB it is stated that he charges $20 to sign a picture he supplies, or $15 to sign something or your own. Looks like a classic case of C.Y.A.
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AUDI, M-B, BMW, Volvo, Subaru all make good station wagons, all available as AWD, IIRC.
BIGGER == BETTER (for most Aemricans)
The point was it is the same processor for the 800MHz or 1GHz machines. The speed is limited on the motherboard. This is how processors from the same branch are made. Each is tested, the "good" ones are given higher speed rating, and sold as 1.33GHz, and the "average" are sold as 1GHz, and the "below average" were sold as 800/700MHz chips. Essentially, the chip was sold to be used in a underclocked application.
He ran at 1.33GHz instead of 1.0 that yours is at now. He reported reliability at 1.33GHz, but crashed at 1.4(2?)GHz after only 2 or 3 minutes.
Like every other hdd on the market? How rude!
Unless you own a 12" powerbook or ibook; as both are strangled by 1024*768 max resolutions.
Work is work. In a depression, those that survive are the ones that adapt. Kind of like evolution. I would assume that nearly nobody goes through their professional lives doing the same thing from the beginning to the end of their careers. As you may have noticed, a CS degree isn't worth much more than the paper it was laser printed on. I know very few currently working successful IT people that have CS degrees. Most are people without a degree of any sort, that started at the bottom (data entry even) and worked their asses off for years, and now find themselves as indespensible employees at small to medium size companies, even in this time of cutbacks. If you are good, people find a way to keep you, or you can get a job elsewhere. If you are average, you're fucked. And it should be that way. I'm tired of all the average people doing average work complaining that they can't get their way above average ($70k+) paying jobs anymore. Face it, some of you suck, and people are starting to notice.
Sorry for the rant, but some people (not you specifically) just don't have a clue about reality. 1999 was 5 years ago...
Or JFK and his moon announcement? As if the Republicans have a strangle hold on stupid ideas (Vietnam too). Oh, that's right, ALL POLITICIANS SUCK.
inventing needs to make jobs
Inventing needs to get the economy out of a depression/recession!?! What a crap idea. Think of all the things in your town that have been left undone (anything from sidelwalks, to potholes, to adding that stoplight at Main and 4th Ave, to picking up litter, cutting back brush/trees near roadways, etc etc). There is _always_ something that needs doing, as my farmer friends say.
Sad, but yet so true. I have worked on machines that have win98se and Norton 2002, where Norton is updated daily, but Windows hasn't been checked since 1999 (when the machine was purchased).
Worst case, all those old Packard Bell boxes that run win98se and haven't been touched (other than using AOL and napster/p2p.app flavor of the week) for years.
*shudder*
They do make something like what you want. It's called the TR series.
Unlike Apple, Sony makes more than 2 different laptop ranges.
For this model, yes. It has a trackpoint instead.
fwiw i do have a 401(k) account. of course the (my projection) market slump at the end of this year will make that account worthless as a earner goes... :(
also, my job has bonuses, of large amounts, that can bump my overall tax bracket up for the year (similar to being on commission). that extra money usually comes back, but not every year. cya i say.
I go to the library (live in CT) and get the forms, go home, spend some quality time with the TI-81 graphing calculator that gets used exactly one time per year (original batteries from 1993 by the way), a pencil, staples, and a manilla envelope when I'm done. There are very few things I don't trust a computer to do. My taxes are one of them.
Security through obscurity I suppose.
The nice thing is I can do the state form on the phone, and the fed form isn't a big deal as I don't own a house yet. One W2, and the tax from my car, and I am all set.
Hope I made enough this year to warrant a $1000+ combined return. That extra $20 a pay period that I rarely notice through the year really adds up!
I bet you do the same (make cash off of others work). Welcome to capitalistic society my friend.
toolbar.google.com (works with IE, and now blocks pop-ups) is another option from mozilla etc (which may not work with certain sites).