The issue here isn't entirely reading requirements. It's the fact that a G3 isn't that out of date, but is still unable to run something. Well, by the same logic my P3 isn't that out of date, and still, it's no good for many applications.
You can get a 15" screen for nearly the same price with a PC Please point me to it. Oh, make sure it has comparable software bundle + battery life. And a non-shared video card and wifi.
Anyone who buys a scanner with a proprietary PCI card without researching it first isn't too bright, imo... Agreed, unless you are old enough to have been around since before USB and those were 'standard' - well, proprietary scsi cards really (which btw is the case I am describing).
i expected an appropriately configed G3 to do the same with OS X Did you read the install notes on the box, or the website or during the installation process??? No.. Right that's your problem. All the info and minimum requirements are posted there.
I'm also burnt out on the brushed metal look, the costly updates and dodgy performance unless your willing to fork out big $$$ Explain to me how $999 iBook is expensive? or $799 eMac? If you don't like the look of the hardware. Well, tough. I guess you can buy anything in the gray ai32 world.
I can buy an old PC and know it will be slow - but it will work - and with everything plugged in I won't even begin to digest this erronous statement. I will say one thing tho - minimum requirements. I have been burned by this before on the ai32 platform. Or have you ever tried using a scanner that had a proprietary pci card? I didn't think so.
So some guy figured out how to work WordPress webapp. Good for him. How is this news for nerds, or stuff that matters?
I really don't care if some guy has managed to set up his site correctly. Good for him, but why waste our time with this?
I will probably be modded as a troll, but someone has to go and say this. Slashdot has been slipping. There is so much good content out there, why do we have to read about this shite?
First, you have to remember the read/write cycles on them.
Second, given the extensibility of this product, and the fact that it is solid state plus low weight, it can now be used in places that no normal PC would be able to go. I.e. high pressure, high heat, etc. Why? Because it can easily be enclosed in a protective casing to do so.
That's why it's important to do all the minimization work. To enable a generation of tinkerers to take their dreams of exploration further.
I am writing this on Fedora Core 3 w/ Radeon 9200, and so far anything I might want to do with the card, including openGL is supported out of the box..
You'd think so.. But at my old apartment that kept on happening at irregular intervals for over 2 years. Used to drive me bonkers. And again, so number to call back.
Not at all actually, your extremedies (hands, feet) change temperature faster than the core of your body, and most people's extremedies are either colder (more common) or warmer (?) than the core of their body. So to make it heat sensitive would be to deny access to most users.
You wouldn't be my customer at all. You are right there. I wouldn't want to be your custormer. And if that would be your practice, I bet your business wouldn't have much chance at survival.
your ISP will can your account for downloading child porn. Yes, that might be true, but posession of child pron is illegal and punishable by law, whereas spam is not (in most places). So I say you are full of shite. I can see and do whatever I want publicly within the bounds of the law. That is what matters. Your 'banning of China' removes some of my rights and that is a problem, not wheateher you get your willies off to child pron or not.
If that were true, you wouldn't be posting to/. at all Huh? Come again? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard anyone say. First of all, Slashdot is providing a service, to which they have terms, I agree to those. They have reserved the right to remove all offensive material from their servers. That's fine. They are a business and they have their clients. Besides, if that were true, we'd have no goatse guy. So again, your point is wrong.
If you're my customer, you signed my terms of service. I wouldn't be your customer for long.
Complaining about them afterwards is stupid and whiney.
Huh? I'd never use a service that could restrict what I do, say or see in the first place. Lived in a comunist state. Don't need to belong to yours.
Sheesh.
In any case let me reiterate it for you again: I am saying it should be up to the consumer to moderate trafic on their private network, not the providers. If you disagree, thats your problem, but just remember that saying that is like saying you could only call persons in the east side of town, because the west is 'blocked' due to some criminal activity by one or two individuals.
Your freedom of speech ends at my firewall. Not if I am your customer.
When you're willing to pay for my mail server, and my bandwidth, and my electricity, then you can tell me what I have to do with them. In the meantime, As a customer I am paying for it.
I do block all mail from China (and Korea, and Nigera, and Russia, and a number of other criminal gangs pretending to be nations), and I will continue to do so. So do I on my home/internal network.
You have misconstruded my original post. I meant that no ISP should be blocking whole domains. That job should be left to either an organization paying for access for workers or individuals.
For example, my friend's site is located in Asia (don't know exactly where), but he's been born and raised on the American Continent. If you blocked the whole of Asia as you so diligently say we should, he could not run his site.
Besides, aren't we for freedom of speech? Or is it that only ourselves are allowed to say anything we want and if it originates outside the borders of the 'first' world it must be bad/propaganda/whatever.
Don't want to get spam, be smart with your e-mail. Get spam at work? - Get the proper solution. But never impose your rules on anyone else. Afterall we 'are' living in a free society aren't we?
Hey, to all you saying that Apple does not publish good howtos (CIP - customer install procedures) on their site: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=262 61 (for 12" Pbook, browse around for more) [Watch out for random space]
I don't believe you should be doing a full disassembly yourself anyways. Any parts you'd need you'd still have to order from manufacturer (Dell, IBM, Apple, no diff) and for everything else Apple has neat, clean and precise per model instructions for you..
Well, see here's your problem, you got suckered intot the 'special' new type of Futureshop warranty deal. Should have headed to bMac.
They used to be so good (over the counter, no questions), then 30 day (my Sony DSC-717 is under this warranty) and now the 60 day fix or replace for refurb kit. It's just not worth it. Better save the pennies spent on that and use it for future upgrades.
Good luck with getting the laptop back tho. When my cam broke (flash stopped popping up, they 'fixed' it by breaking the whole shebang- the camera wouldn't turn on at all, and then tried to make me sign the pick-up slip so that they can take it back for another 30 days.)
Haven't bought anything from FutureShock since. Their parent company (BestBuy) is even worse.
I know this is slightly off topic, but good info for anyone in Canada.
Only if they statically compile them into their application. Under GPL any code (including proprietary) can retain its licensing providing that they do not statically link or include directly any GPL'd code.
So any company can release a non-GPL DVD player which hides away the CSS codes within its own binary and link with system libs without running afoul.
Have you been on public transport in the last five years?
Enjoying it daily (sigh). And my post had nothing to do with ppl taking public transit, I was pionting out the stupidity of games at work/school or in your CAR.... You know, where games do not belong..
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Of course.. You can eat snacks.. Stock options are only useful for after-snacking :-)
You shouldn't. That has nothing to do with my reply to parent poster.
But on the same note, if you don't have a copy of Windows, presumably you have to pay for it too.
I suppose there are many ways of looking at a problem/solution.
Halflife 2: Does not. - See transgaming.org. They have it working.
Aside: hasn't this fact been posted on Slashdot recently?
Now if anyone would explain me how I can buy a new Apple here under 1500$, that would be great...
www.apple.com and have your pick.
eMac ~ 799
iBook ~ 999
iMac ~ 1299
need I go on?
The issue here isn't entirely reading requirements. It's the fact that a G3 isn't that out of date, but is still unable to run something.
Well, by the same logic my P3 isn't that out of date, and still, it's no good for many applications.
You can get a 15" screen for nearly the same price with a PC
Please point me to it. Oh, make sure it has comparable software bundle + battery life. And a non-shared video card and wifi.
Anyone who buys a scanner with a proprietary PCI card without researching it first isn't too bright, imo...
Agreed, unless you are old enough to have been around since before USB and those were 'standard' - well, proprietary scsi cards really (which btw is the case I am describing).
i expected an appropriately configed G3 to do the same with OS X
Did you read the install notes on the box, or the website or during the installation process??? No.. Right that's your problem. All the info and minimum requirements are posted there.
I'm also burnt out on the brushed metal look, the costly updates and dodgy performance unless your willing to fork out big $$$
Explain to me how $999 iBook is expensive? or $799 eMac? If you don't like the look of the hardware. Well, tough. I guess you can buy anything in the gray ai32 world.
I can buy an old PC and know it will be slow - but it will work - and with everything plugged in
I won't even begin to digest this erronous statement. I will say one thing tho - minimum requirements. I have been burned by this before on the ai32 platform. Or have you ever tried using a scanner that had a proprietary pci card? I didn't think so.
frequent www.dpreview.com and get professional reviews of cameras.
Dpreview carries digital camera reviews dating back to 1996. They are usually very detailed.
How does this constitute a story?
So some guy figured out how to work WordPress webapp. Good for him. How is this news for nerds, or stuff that matters?
I really don't care if some guy has managed to set up his site correctly. Good for him, but why waste our time with this?
I will probably be modded as a troll, but someone has to go and say this. Slashdot has been slipping. There is so much good content out there, why do we have to read about this shite?
No you do not use CF cards enough.
First, you have to remember the read/write cycles on them.
Second, given the extensibility of this product, and the fact that it is solid state plus low weight, it can now be used in places that no normal PC would be able to go. I.e. high pressure, high heat, etc. Why? Because it can easily be enclosed in a protective casing to do so.
That's why it's important to do all the minimization work. To enable a generation of tinkerers to take their dreams of exploration further.
Well, so far I am having NO PROBLEMS with the drivers.
As a matter of fact the drivers also work flawlessly on RedHat 7.2 with XFree 4.1.0 updates.
So they work GOOD.
Did you check out their driver's page?
I am writing this on Fedora Core 3 w/ Radeon 9200, and so far anything I might want to do with the card, including openGL is supported out of the box..
Let me introduce myself:
I am a developer,
I headbang.
There, now you have met a developer.
Except that they ship both IE and Safari and ask you which one you'd prefer.
Hmm, yea...
You'd think so.. But at my old apartment that kept on happening at irregular intervals for over 2 years. Used to drive me bonkers. And again, so number to call back.
Wish I did have a modem tho..
Good luck with this problem.
Not at all actually, your extremedies (hands, feet) change temperature faster than the core of your body, and most people's extremedies are either colder (more common) or warmer (?) than the core of their body. So to make it heat sensitive would be to deny access to most users.
You wouldn't be my customer at all.
/. at all
You are right there. I wouldn't want to be your custormer. And if that would be your practice, I bet your business wouldn't have much chance at survival.
your ISP will can your account for downloading child porn.
Yes, that might be true, but posession of child pron is illegal and punishable by law, whereas spam is not (in most places). So I say you are full of shite. I can see and do whatever I want publicly within the bounds of the law. That is what matters. Your 'banning of China' removes some of my rights and that is a problem, not wheateher you get your willies off to child pron or not.
If that were true, you wouldn't be posting to
Huh? Come again? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard anyone say. First of all, Slashdot is providing a service, to which they have terms, I agree to those. They have reserved the right to remove all offensive material from their servers. That's fine. They are a business and they have their clients. Besides, if that were true, we'd have no goatse guy. So again, your point is wrong.
If you're my customer, you signed my terms of service.
I wouldn't be your customer for long.
Complaining about them afterwards is stupid and whiney.
Huh? I'd never use a service that could restrict what I do, say or see in the first place. Lived in a comunist state. Don't need to belong to yours.
Sheesh.
In any case let me reiterate it for you again: I am saying it should be up to the consumer to moderate trafic on their private network, not the providers. If you disagree, thats your problem, but just remember that saying that is like saying you could only call persons in the east side of town, because the west is 'blocked' due to some criminal activity by one or two individuals.
Your freedom of speech ends at my firewall.
Not if I am your customer.
When you're willing to pay for my mail server, and my bandwidth, and my electricity, then you can tell me what I have to do with them. In the meantime,
As a customer I am paying for it.
I do block all mail from China (and Korea, and Nigera, and Russia, and a number of other criminal gangs pretending to be nations), and I will continue to do so.
So do I on my home/internal network.
You have misconstruded my original post. I meant that no ISP should be blocking whole domains. That job should be left to either an organization paying for access for workers or individuals.
How would that work for Colo servers?
For example, my friend's site is located in Asia (don't know exactly where), but he's been born and raised on the American Continent. If you blocked the whole of Asia as you so diligently say we should, he could not run his site.
Besides, aren't we for freedom of speech? Or is it that only ourselves are allowed to say anything we want and if it originates outside the borders of the 'first' world it must be bad/propaganda/whatever.
Don't want to get spam, be smart with your e-mail.
Get spam at work? - Get the proper solution. But never impose your rules on anyone else. Afterall we 'are' living in a free society aren't we?
Hey, to all you saying that Apple does not publish good howtos (CIP - customer install procedures) on their site: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=262 61 (for 12" Pbook, browse around for more) [Watch out for random space]
I don't believe you should be doing a full disassembly yourself anyways. Any parts you'd need you'd still have to order from manufacturer (Dell, IBM, Apple, no diff) and for everything else Apple has neat, clean and precise per model instructions for you..
Well, see here's your problem, you got suckered intot the 'special' new type of Futureshop warranty deal. Should have headed to bMac.
They used to be so good (over the counter, no questions), then 30 day (my Sony DSC-717 is under this warranty) and now the 60 day fix or replace for refurb kit. It's just not worth it. Better save the pennies spent on that and use it for future upgrades.
Good luck with getting the laptop back tho. When my cam broke (flash stopped popping up, they 'fixed' it by breaking the whole shebang- the camera wouldn't turn on at all, and then tried to make me sign the pick-up slip so that they can take it back for another 30 days.)
Haven't bought anything from FutureShock since. Their parent company (BestBuy) is even worse.
I know this is slightly off topic, but good info for anyone in Canada.
They would need to link with Libs that are GPL
Only if they statically compile them into their application. Under GPL any code (including proprietary) can retain its licensing providing that they do not statically link or include directly any GPL'd code.
So any company can release a non-GPL DVD player which hides away the CSS codes within its own binary and link with system libs without running afoul.
So I wonder what makes this event deserve an announcement on Slashdot, versus OSW (Canadian event) for which my story has been rejected.
I am glad that stuff like this gets posted, but seriously, why can't we have equality around here?
Have you been on public transport in the last five years?
Enjoying it daily (sigh). And my post had nothing to do with ppl taking public transit, I was pionting out the stupidity of games at work/school or in your CAR.... You know, where games do not belong..
Yep.
The one's I know are wicked at it.
But I guess I am 'different' having had the continouing pleasure of working with real software engineers. (ettes?)