But you can walk into any ethnic store and get a newspaper with DVD movie (very popular in europe right now) and it won't play on your region 0 DVD player.
Try explaining this to my parents who just plain don't care that the disc is region coded. They expect to see a movie. Afterall it is a DVD, right? They have a DVD player, right? So why can't they play their content.
Given this, the whole Blu/HD battle is silly since most consumers won't care for either if they can't just go to the store and buy any movie. Now they have to know the format they want, which disc type. Don't even get me started about 'gift' movies... That's a whole new ballgame. Think 8track vs. cassette.
I already use 20gb 4g iPod as a portable drive. The interface is very clunky if you ask me. I have to have spare batteries for the connector and pray to for it to work. In fact on my last trip, it just plain refused to work.
Disclaimer: never tried the iPodPhoto conection.
And the only way this would become a powerful offering was if there was either a cradle for the iPod to attach to the bottom of the camera (ala battery pack) or if it worked using wireless protocol. The first approach is not very feasible, as I already find my D70s + lens + speedlight to be rather heavy.
I'm not sure of the speed of the flash memory in these things but how long before photographers start buying these things to strip the CF cards? One word - Never.
Why? Because any self respecting photographer will not murk around with hacks (remember, you still have to provide the interface - be it compact flash, etc. soldering required) when near 100% reliability is needed - i.e. in their work.
Most photographers I know, myself included, will spend extra cash on memory based on its perfomance and reliability. So destroying nanos is not going to be popular at all.
An HP laptop w/ mobile chip still uses a 125W ps. That is a far cry (good) from ~450W power supply that a P4 desktop requires, but also way shy of the 45W mac needs.
Where I come from regular bulb is either 100W, or 60W (52W sometimes). They have 'energy efficent' bulbs - probably the 13W you are talking about, but they still run around 10x the cost of a regular bulb. I use them exclusively in my house, but I don't know many others that do.
So the 13W is not a regular bulb by any standards.
So you can boast about the Linksys, yet me mentioning Apple somehow is trolling.
And to be fair, 2W is wicked power optimization. Hell, even 15W w/ the external drives is great.
It's a device (much like my G4) that REPLACES the use of a power hungry P4 chip- let's face it any P4 system that can be replaced with either low power consumption devices saves us $$ and saves the environment.
Well that _is_ a different architecture. Then let's talk transmeta or geodes (now AMDs). They achieve the same idea via engineering around issues in the same arch.
After the tech crash, most companies here have severely cut their business. You may want to try, but most tech business around here is small beans.
Oh, and forget 5 weeks of vacation, forget even 3. If you get 2, you'd be lucky. If you can take them (consecutively, that is), well, I could only compare you to a lottery winner.
How often does Apple release patches and the like? I'm just curious to see how it compares to say Windows. -About once every 2 months we see security patch. They now name them 200x.00y (x - year, y - patch this year). -Software updates for apple software (non-OS related) come in about the same frequency. I usually get bugged to install something once every 2 weeks or so. -Software updates for apple OS (10.3.x, where x is the current update) come in about once a quarter, or so.
All of those are voulentary upgrades.
Do they have some sort of web-interface like Windows-update, or is it a self-contained program, or is it an open thing that you can use whatever browser/program you'd like to download?
-There is an automated, stand alone tool to deliver them. -They get posted as downloads to their site (apple.com) with documentation, description, etc. -Sometimes, multiple patches get rolled into an 'uber' patch, if you are installing (upgrading) from previous release of the os to current (not on the release day). Apple also re-issues their OS media w/ most patches as they get posted.
So you can use any number of ways to patch your system.
Are there lots of little patches all the time, or just big lumps of patches like this one?
See above. Small patches are released if they are important, as time progresses they get rolled into bigger, all inclusive patches (and still available as the small ones).
Note, Apple also uses this mechanism to install firmware for iPods, iSights and Airport Stations - which makes upgrading your kit really convinient.
You can set the stand alone utility to check daily/weekly, whatever, or disable it as well.
nothing brand-new So what do you call all the NEW applications that ship by default with the OS, that WERE NOT there in 10.3 version? I would call them brand new. But, that's just me.
The government would be forcing me to do what they want with my private property.
Any passport issued in any country is not your property. It's the property of the issueing government.
In Canada, even our health cards carry that infomation on the back. It says 'card is property of Minitsty of Health, issued to be used by:' and your name + address.
Sorry no 'property rights violations' here. Whatever those are.
I don't know when my virus checker was last updated... Wait, as a matter of fact, I don't even run one. Yet, I am 100% positive that my presence on the net is not disturbing (save for ocassional download fests) just as I am 100% sure I am virus & malware free.
This is nothing like the AirTunes. If anything you 'could' use this board to replace the iTrip for iPod. AirTunes works over WiFi, meaning digital music delivery (read no quality loss) vs. this FM lossy transmitter.
Besides, if you live in a large metropolitan area (Toronto) you'd never get enough juice out of this thing to drawn out the adjacent radio station frequencies.
Analog is fine for some, but what you are suggesting is in no way a replacement for a digital* utility like the AirTunes.
*Yes I am aware of the fact that WiFi uses the 2.4 GHz spectrum. The TCP/IP connection that travels over it however is 100% digital.
So, while your pbook is still quite adequate, much like my TiBook G4 800Mhz is too, the new machine is roughly 67% faster than your machine. and roughly 108% faster than mine.
Keep in mind the new video cards, faster ram and faster hdd (yours would be 4200rpm, while this is 5400rpm part afaik).
Should you upgrade? No. Wait till next revision with either dual core G4s or G5s.
The question I have is, why adopt whack-a-mole policies that are likely to replace current problems with other problems?
Reasonable response: We shouldn't, even more so, in ideal world we wouldn't.
Real world response: Because a whack study has to be done (read $$ change hands), that study debunked (read $$ change hands), then a commision set up to come up with recomendations (read $$ change hands), furthermore a set of regulations have to be proposed (read $$ changes hands), reviewed (read $$ changes hands) and ractified (read $$, $$, $$ change hands, some $$ under the table), after which, an overseeing body has to be set up (read $$ changes hands), proper disposal techniques researched (read $$ changes hands), and so forth at-nauseum.
In short, problems are best solved by other problems which in turn are solved by another set of problems. All at great $$ expense.
Most ISPs require a sign-up fee for the hardware. More often than not, the sign-up fee is greater than the cost of a new router.
Here in Canada I have never ever paid any sort of setup fee. At the very least if it exists, it is waived. Also there is no minimum time you have to wait between you re-signup for a new account. But if that is the case, I can see your point.
Again, you have a major flaw in that argument. Once you are educated on such topics, who is going to be around you to prevent you from having sex? If I teach my daughter about AIDS, the ONLY way to physically stop her from having sex (without silly ideas that I'm sure people are dreaming up right now in response) is to be around her 24/7. Not realistic.
So we agree that the user idiocy is the problem. I am trying to point out that in fact you cannot prevent disaster with education, you may at best curb it slightly.
The main problem with your argument and the examples that you gave is that there is no "gatekeeper" to physically force you from, in your examples, having sex or getting into an accident. When it comes to being a responsible Netizen, the ISP is the gatekeeper that you have to rely on. They can force people to lose their indifference by the click of a button.
Again, you are rehashing my points. There is no problem with my logic, just how you interpret it. As far as ISP being the 'gatekeeper', you make a good point, but I can still compare this 'gatekeeper' to a punctured condom. Every ISP I have been with has done very little to curb my usage or stop viruses. Only one has decided to 'filter' and censor newsgroups. They didn't last long.
In reply to the original post I was trying to point out that education and/or stricter rules will not prevent the spread of virii and other Internet bourne problems. Only utiopian society could fix this problem. Since we cannot have one, we may at least have a free society where we don't impose more rules just because some are too irresponsible to live. Just look at the outcome of the woman vs. McDonalds coffee case. This should never be in a truly educated society.
I'm sure that the vast majority would find a way to get that $50.
Nope. They would not. They would cancel their subscription and either switch to competiton who will give them a free router, or re-signup with the provider to get the 'firewall' enabled modem. Simple laws of economics.
Finally, the users absolutely MUST be educated. There are enough free tools out there that no one should be unprotected. But again who should be responsible for teaching these end users?
Noble goal.. What about AIDS or teen pregnancies? We are tought about them at a very young age and yet both still exist/happen. The problem lies with the user's indifference.
At this point I would actually welcome something like a drivers license for broadband access.
Listen to the radio. See how many car accidents licenced drivers have caused in your area this moring. This is not the answer nor a deterrant.
and of course pass those charges onto us.
Now you got it.. It's called business:-)
You are right in your reasoning. The only weak link is people. I used to think the same until I have helped some 'users'.
I like this analogy: For a computer guy, a virus is like a stalled engine to a mechanic. Both professionals know what to do in the respective cases, but don't ask them to fix the other's problem, they will be lost at the onset. And if that is the case with professionals, what can be said about laymen?
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But you can walk into any ethnic store and get a newspaper with DVD movie (very popular in europe right now) and it won't play on your region 0 DVD player.
Try explaining this to my parents who just plain don't care that the disc is region coded. They expect to see a movie. Afterall it is a DVD, right? They have a DVD player, right? So why can't they play their content.
Given this, the whole Blu/HD battle is silly since most consumers won't care for either if they can't just go to the store and buy any movie. Now they have to know the format they want, which disc type. Don't even get me started about 'gift' movies... That's a whole new ballgame. Think 8track vs. cassette.
Damn, never seen this one before.
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I already use 20gb 4g iPod as a portable drive. The interface is very clunky if you ask me. I have to have spare batteries for the connector and pray to for it to work.
In fact on my last trip, it just plain refused to work.
Disclaimer: never tried the iPodPhoto conection.
And the only way this would become a powerful offering was if there was either a cradle for the iPod to attach to the bottom of the camera (ala battery pack) or if it worked using wireless protocol. The first approach is not very feasible, as I already find my D70s + lens + speedlight to be rather heavy.
I'm not sure of the speed of the flash memory in these things but how long before photographers start buying these things to strip the CF cards?
One word - Never.
Why? Because any self respecting photographer will not murk around with hacks (remember, you still have to provide the interface - be it compact flash, etc. soldering required) when near 100% reliability is needed - i.e. in their work.
Most photographers I know, myself included, will spend extra cash on memory based on its perfomance and reliability. So destroying nanos is not going to be popular at all.
Just my 2 cents.
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very vibrant community, many plugins, breeze to deploy and maintain.
I currently run my site on it. The initial setup and deployment took a little bit less than an hour.
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Not even close.
An HP laptop w/ mobile chip still uses a 125W ps. That is a far cry (good) from ~450W power supply that a P4 desktop requires, but also way shy of the 45W mac needs.
Where I come from regular bulb is either 100W, or 60W (52W sometimes). They have 'energy efficent' bulbs - probably the 13W you are talking about, but they still run around 10x the cost of a regular bulb. I use them exclusively in my house, but I don't know many others that do.
So the 13W is not a regular bulb by any standards.
please do not troll
???
So you can boast about the Linksys, yet me mentioning Apple somehow is trolling.
And to be fair, 2W is wicked power optimization. Hell, even 15W w/ the external drives is great.
It's a device (much like my G4) that REPLACES the use of a power hungry P4 chip- let's face it any P4 system that can be replaced with either low power consumption devices saves us $$ and saves the environment.
Well that _is_ a different architecture.
Then let's talk transmeta or geodes (now AMDs). They achieve the same idea via engineering around issues in the same arch.
Better yet, look at a mac. My Power Book G4 requires a whopping 45W power supply. Yes, 45W. That's less than 1/2 of a regular light bulb!
That includes chip, drive(s), wi-fi and display.. 45W max power requirement. Can't get much greener than that.
The energy that the P4s need alone in an hour will drive my whole system for number of hours!
Nonono.. It's $499 + $699 for linux licence. get your numbers straight!
After the tech crash, most companies here have severely cut their business. You may want to try, but most tech business around here is small beans.
Oh, and forget 5 weeks of vacation, forget even 3. If you get 2, you'd be lucky. If you can take them (consecutively, that is), well, I could only compare you to a lottery winner.
Stay in Sweden. You are much better off.
That is correct. They have all those fixes in 10.4 already, and now they issued them for the previous release 10.3.
How often does Apple release patches and the like? I'm just curious to see how it compares to say Windows.
-About once every 2 months we see security patch. They now name them 200x.00y (x - year, y - patch this year).
-Software updates for apple software (non-OS related) come in about the same frequency. I usually get bugged to install something once every 2 weeks or so.
-Software updates for apple OS (10.3.x, where x is the current update) come in about once a quarter, or so.
All of those are voulentary upgrades.
Do they have some sort of web-interface like Windows-update, or is it a self-contained program, or is it an open thing that you can use whatever browser/program you'd like to download?
-There is an automated, stand alone tool to deliver them.
-They get posted as downloads to their site (apple.com) with documentation, description, etc.
-Sometimes, multiple patches get rolled into an 'uber' patch, if you are installing (upgrading) from previous release of the os to current (not on the release day). Apple also re-issues their OS media w/ most patches as they get posted.
So you can use any number of ways to patch your system.
Are there lots of little patches all the time, or just big lumps of patches like this one?
See above. Small patches are released if they are important, as time progresses they get rolled into bigger, all inclusive patches (and still available as the small ones).
Note, Apple also uses this mechanism to install firmware for iPods, iSights and Airport Stations - which makes upgrading your kit really convinient.
You can set the stand alone utility to check daily/weekly, whatever, or disable it as well.
nothing brand-new
So what do you call all the NEW applications that ship by default with the OS, that WERE NOT there in 10.3 version? I would call them brand new. But, that's just me.
For the record: I am a mac user. Using 10.4.
You aren't forced. In fact, I dare you to stop right now.
The sooner you realize you are not free, the better off you will be.
The government would be forcing me to do what they want with my private property.
Any passport issued in any country is not your property. It's the property of the issueing government.
In Canada, even our health cards carry that infomation on the back. It says 'card is property of Minitsty of Health, issued to be used by:' and your name + address.
Sorry no 'property rights violations' here. Whatever those are.
I don't know when my virus checker was last updated... Wait, as a matter of fact, I don't even run one. Yet, I am 100% positive that my presence on the net is not disturbing (save for ocassional download fests) just as I am 100% sure I am virus & malware free.
Quit equating computers with Windows.
This is nothing like the AirTunes. If anything you 'could' use this board to replace the iTrip for iPod.
AirTunes works over WiFi, meaning digital music delivery (read no quality loss) vs. this FM lossy transmitter.
Besides, if you live in a large metropolitan area (Toronto) you'd never get enough juice out of this thing to drawn out the adjacent radio station frequencies.
Analog is fine for some, but what you are suggesting is in no way a replacement for a digital* utility like the AirTunes.
*Yes I am aware of the fact that WiFi uses the 2.4 GHz spectrum. The TCP/IP connection that travels over it however is 100% digital.
Then you have plenty of power for years to come. I'd wait until the 2nd or 3rd generation G5 Pbooks come out.
I do photgraphy (along with coding, and some light gaming) my my ti pbook 800mhz and I will be waiting that long.
Ok, I'll byte.
.67, or 67%
(1.67-1.00)/1.00 ~
So, while your pbook is still quite adequate, much like my TiBook G4 800Mhz is too, the new machine is roughly 67% faster than your machine.
and roughly 108% faster than mine.
Keep in mind the new video cards, faster ram and faster hdd (yours would be 4200rpm, while this is 5400rpm part afaik).
Should you upgrade? No. Wait till next revision with either dual core G4s or G5s.
The question I have is, why adopt whack-a-mole policies that are likely to replace current problems with other problems?
Reasonable response: We shouldn't, even more so, in ideal world we wouldn't.
Real world response: Because a whack study has to be done (read $$ change hands), that study debunked (read $$ change hands), then a commision set up to come up with recomendations (read $$ change hands), furthermore a set of regulations have to be proposed (read $$ changes hands), reviewed (read $$ changes hands) and ractified (read $$, $$, $$ change hands, some $$ under the table), after which, an overseeing body has to be set up (read $$ changes hands), proper disposal techniques researched (read $$ changes hands), and so forth at-nauseum.
In short, problems are best solved by other problems which in turn are solved by another set of problems. All at great $$ expense.
What about the German QWERTZ layout.. Can't forget that one.
I mean who wouldn't want to play GTA3 (or something with new content) as a portable
Me. I thought the game was boring to begin with.
Don't generalize if you aren't 100% sure of your data.
Most ISPs require a sign-up fee for the hardware. More often than not, the sign-up fee is greater than the cost of a new router.
Here in Canada I have never ever paid any sort of setup fee. At the very least if it exists, it is waived. Also there is no minimum time you have to wait between you re-signup for a new account. But if that is the case, I can see your point.
Again, you have a major flaw in that argument. Once you are educated on such topics, who is going to be around you to prevent you from having sex? If I teach my daughter about AIDS, the ONLY way to physically stop her from having sex (without silly ideas that I'm sure people are dreaming up right now in response) is to be around her 24/7. Not realistic.
So we agree that the user idiocy is the problem. I am trying to point out that in fact you cannot prevent disaster with education, you may at best curb it slightly.
The main problem with your argument and the examples that you gave is that there is no "gatekeeper" to physically force you from, in your examples, having sex or getting into an accident. When it comes to being a responsible Netizen, the ISP is the gatekeeper that you have to rely on. They can force people to lose their indifference by the click of a button.
Again, you are rehashing my points. There is no problem with my logic, just how you interpret it. As far as ISP being the 'gatekeeper', you make a good point, but I can still compare this 'gatekeeper' to a punctured condom. Every ISP I have been with has done very little to curb my usage or stop viruses. Only one has decided to 'filter' and censor newsgroups. They didn't last long.
In reply to the original post I was trying to point out that education and/or stricter rules will not prevent the spread of virii and other Internet bourne problems. Only utiopian society could fix this problem. Since we cannot have one, we may at least have a free society where we don't impose more rules just because some are too irresponsible to live. Just look at the outcome of the woman vs. McDonalds coffee case. This should never be in a truly educated society.
I'm sure that the vast majority would find a way to get that $50.
:-)
Nope. They would not. They would cancel their subscription and either switch to competiton who will give them a free router, or re-signup with the provider to get the 'firewall' enabled modem. Simple laws of economics.
Finally, the users absolutely MUST be educated. There are enough free tools out there that no one should be unprotected. But again who should be responsible for teaching these end users?
Noble goal.. What about AIDS or teen pregnancies? We are tought about them at a very young age and yet both still exist/happen. The problem lies with the user's indifference.
At this point I would actually welcome something like a drivers license for broadband access.
Listen to the radio. See how many car accidents licenced drivers have caused in your area this moring. This is not the answer nor a deterrant.
and of course pass those charges onto us.
Now you got it.. It's called business
You are right in your reasoning. The only weak link is people. I used to think the same until I have helped some 'users'.
I like this analogy:
For a computer guy, a virus is like a stalled engine to a mechanic. Both professionals know what to do in the respective cases, but don't ask them to fix the other's problem, they will be lost at the onset. And if that is the case with professionals, what can be said about laymen?