I'm not going to dump $1500 or so for the priviledge of getting some overpriced, proprietary hardware platform.
I did. And I do not regret it. I've been a computer-user since the 70's, and as far as I'm concerned this tiBook has been the best computer I've ever invested in, and I've owned many. I've gotten more done with this than I ever did with a PC, I've had *NO* virus problems, no crashes (really, not a single system-failure type crash in the 3 years I've had it), and it has been around the world with me, twice, and still keeps on running.
I had to work on PC hardware today for a few hours. Man, I'm so sick of having to deal with PC hardware problems.
Just give me a machine that works, a decent operating system, and get out of the way. Thank you, Apple.
That said, if I could find an Intel laptop with the same design as a tiBook, I'd probably run Linux or FreeBSD on it - but, frankly, I doubt it would be more cost effective to do so than just upgrading to a newer 17" alBook... and all the reasons for running Linux (open source tools) are just as valid now under OSX, so...
Go to 'ichatters.com', for example, and see if you can find someone 'compatible' to chat with. Unless you are gay, enjoy 'frumpy' comp-sci types, and are willing to spend most of your time talking about technology, you won't be in your demographic for 'social ichatting'...
There are no chicks on the 'net, or if they are, you gotta pay for them.
This fact, plus the conclusions made from this MMORPG's, lead to the simple observation that the 'net is simply not complete. It needs more chicks.
DO NOT JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS ABOUT MY CHARACTER SIMPLY BASED ON A POSTING TO/.
The only thing that would give you right to pass such rapid judgement would be your own stupidity.
As for statistics - I know where I get my stats, I do not know where you get yours, but virile does *NOT* mean 'population growth'.
virile- Having or showing masculine spirit, strength, vigor, or power.
Now go back and re-read what I said.
The Chinese people have their own weapons of mass destruction, and their own reasons for doing things with them which may - or may NOT - have a large impact on the world. The point is: they have the weapons, those weapons *could* be used as a very large threat to the world, this *must* be planned for by any goverment elected to protect its people. NO, CHINA IS NOT THE ONLY THREAT TO THE WORLD, JUST -POTENTIALLY- ONE OF THE ABSOLUTE BIGGEST. Ranking right up there with good ol' United States of America, don't you worry...
Why, exactly, should we plan for such massive threats?
Think Chinese officials can't be corrupted just as easily as Westerners when it comes to free arms dealing on world weapons markets? How well do you know the Chinese keep control of their nuclear weapons - as well as you might now about the American/NATO stockpiles, perhaps?
And if you don't think the Chinese have Their Own Version of The New American Right Neo-Cons, willing (and able) to wage war on whoever they deem to be their own threat, then you're not just an illiterate pseudo-humanist-intellect weasle looking to make cheap shots, (I love name-calling, particularly when its my turn to serve...), you're a freaking moron as well.
Now, I'm not saying you are those things, just that you would be - in my eyes, say I actually knew you well enough to feel comfortable with such an assement - and were you not to share this view and become aware of its dangers.
With regards to the 'hunger of China' - yes, they have fed themselves, but if you haven't noticed how many times they *haven't* fed themselves, you haven't been paying any atention at all - and, as the population gets larger, the problems of its food supply get bigger. What, exactly, do you think the WTO gets together to discuss, if it isn't solutions to the "Earth Economic/Food Model" problem? I'll give you a clue: every human being needs to eat, so count em. Who has how many?
And as for this:
You are just another living proof that a low Slashdot ID doesn't give immunity from stupidity.
Typical Western Bourgeois bigotry.
Set up a false standard, and wound someone else with it, hypocrite!
Low sid indeed... as if that ever matters when it comes to stupidity. Twerp.
Linux: Helps achieve progressive strides in technological endeavours, from surf-board manufacturing to hydroponics, to flight control systems for handgliders. Terrorism: Doesn't.
I can think of plenty of good hacks for this thing that don't involve content-ripoff.
Just think: A SHAREWARE/OSS Market for Television. i.e., apps start springing up that are designed specifically to help you manage your television viewing experience.
I'd like to write an app which strips the laugh-track, for instance. Does this thing have the DSP for it?
Why? Because when you strip the laugh track, you can peer directly into the propaganda and social agenda of most modern television shows without being distracted by 'hilarity'... and when you do that, you start to see television in a very, very different way.
I'd like to write that app, for sure. Could this thing do it, maybe not, but the point is - not all hacks are designed to 'pilfer' content...
China has been a threat to the stability of the United States since the 1800's, which is *why* there are such tight trading ties between the two countries - free trade agreements are the first defense, since it ties the economies of the two nations to a common cause.
Why is China a threat? Simple: its population, which is freakin' HUUUUGE. It is the hungriest, largest, most virile demographic of humanity on the planet. If that population gets hungry maybe, 2 or 3 years in a row (drought, epidemics, famine), then its time for war. There is no leeway.
Chinese leaders know this, and it is a fundamental cause for their Communist doctrines, which are geared to maintain control of the countrys' infrastructure during times of massive problems in the Chinese populace.
You'd better believe China is still a threat. It is the largest collection of humans under one flag, ever.
Perhaps Bush has read one book, one about the spanish inquisition.
Bush can't read, he is illiterate and requires aides to read him everything.
Also, this is why his speeches totally suck, because he doesn't use a teleprompter (can't read) and instead listens to his lines prompted to him over a hearing-piece he wears just for the occasion.
Yeah, I understand that. I've got a few 'big-memory' applications I've been meaning to build, myself, when I finally can get my hands on the hardware... closer... closer... closer...:)
How exactly, is this different? Its still pointless entertainment. I assume you mean soemthing like going out and hiking, what do you have at the end of it? Dirty clothes. Going out traveling, what does that net you? A few spotty memories, and slides and pictures to annoy your friends and family with. Again, nothing worth mentioning.
Hell, I don't know where you travel, but where I go is *always* worth the effort, definitely worth mentioning, and my spotty memory, slides and pictures, have so far proven definitely *not* to bore my family...
I certainly hope that this mess will make the PHB realize that patenting these things is bad.
Having worked in the US for 15 years (comp-sci), I can tell you that the majority - say, 95% - of the PHB's I met, were they faced with a "this small company is using its patent against us, successfully" scenario, will only conclude one thing:
"We must get more aggressive about getting patents for everything!"
I can think of plenty of uses for a 64-bit processor (and related instructions) which don't depend on the ability to address more than 32-bits of RAM...
I doubt if most./ers remember, but in the mid 1980s we roundly cursed SCO for being the only Intel hardware unix and being out of reach price wise, and we cheered when MWC's Coherent became available, even if it was constrained to 64k of code and 64k of data per application.
I remember those days all too well... in fact the reason I was on the minix list (and saw Linus' fateful first Linux message that day...) in the first place was because I was pissed off at the extraordinary high prices I would've had to pay for SCO on my system, and having no other options, turned to (what I considered at the time) academia for a decent kernel.
I'm so glad I got into Linux from the beginning, prompted by SCO's misdeeds, and it has been a long and wonderful road indeed, this one that goes nowhere near SCOville...
I've visited a few CAVE's in my time as well, and I find absolutely nothing wrong with the concept that the primary function of a CAVE is for the expression of art.
... based around the premise of an 'industry' of 'dataspace', where data is converted into radio waves, and 'flung' out into space to be 'stored', retreived on the other end, and bounced back again, repeatedly, over millions and millions of miles, as a way of getting 'cheap' storage for stuff that you want to have around only on a periodic basis.
I guess I should've made it a 'whitepaper' instead. I got a B, though, that was nice!
If you can't look at the source for a p2p system, then its not truly safe. It is as simple as that.
P2P opens up a whole different degree of responsibility for local system resource usage, and in fact the primary function of a p2p app is to manage local system resources on behalf of a 'greater good' of bigger resources provided to the community.
I wouldn't really put much faith in any p2p solution provider who didn't have full disclosure of source code as a priority in their front line for dealing with their users...
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Isn't that just an alienware re-branded?
...
I dunno, I don't think this would swing me towards x86, I've still got my eye on the top of the line 17" alBook
I'm an Apple customer, and if they move to Intel, I won't be.
... well, maybe XScale, but there ya go ...
...
I'm much, much happier writing code for the G5 than I am for anything that Intel has put out
The x86 architecture is a dog. Total and utter dog. There are far better CPU's out there for new applications to be written on
I'm not going to dump $1500 or so for the priviledge of getting some overpriced, proprietary hardware platform.
... and all the reasons for running Linux (open source tools) are just as valid now under OSX, so ...
I did. And I do not regret it. I've been a computer-user since the 70's, and as far as I'm concerned this tiBook has been the best computer I've ever invested in, and I've owned many. I've gotten more done with this than I ever did with a PC, I've had *NO* virus problems, no crashes (really, not a single system-failure type crash in the 3 years I've had it), and it has been around the world with me, twice, and still keeps on running.
I had to work on PC hardware today for a few hours. Man, I'm so sick of having to deal with PC hardware problems.
Just give me a machine that works, a decent operating system, and get out of the way. Thank you, Apple.
That said, if I could find an Intel laptop with the same design as a tiBook, I'd probably run Linux or FreeBSD on it - but, frankly, I doubt it would be more cost effective to do so than just upgrading to a newer 17" alBook
Go to 'ichatters.com', for example, and see if you can find someone 'compatible' to chat with. Unless you are gay, enjoy 'frumpy' comp-sci types, and are willing to spend most of your time talking about technology, you won't be in your demographic for 'social ichatting'...
There are no chicks on the 'net, or if they are, you gotta pay for them.
This fact, plus the conclusions made from this MMORPG's, lead to the simple observation that the 'net is simply not complete. It needs more chicks.
Pocket. Porn.
Enough said.
When I answered this question:
... to Americans?
"Now, remind me, who was the greatest threat on this planet?"
It was more like:
Now, remind me, who was the greatest threat on this planet
I'm not saying China is. I'm just saying its a big one.
Give me a freaking break.
/.
... as if that ever matters when it comes to stupidity. Twerp.
DO NOT JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS ABOUT MY CHARACTER SIMPLY BASED ON A POSTING TO
The only thing that would give you right to pass such rapid judgement would be your own stupidity.
As for statistics - I know where I get my stats, I do not know where you get yours, but virile does *NOT* mean 'population growth'.
virile-
Having or showing masculine spirit, strength, vigor, or power.
Now go back and re-read what I said.
The Chinese people have their own weapons of mass destruction, and their own reasons for doing things with them which may - or may NOT - have a large impact on the world. The point is: they have the weapons, those weapons *could* be used as a very large threat to the world, this *must* be planned for by any goverment elected to protect its people. NO, CHINA IS NOT THE ONLY THREAT TO THE WORLD, JUST -POTENTIALLY- ONE OF THE ABSOLUTE BIGGEST. Ranking right up there with good ol' United States of America, don't you worry...
Why, exactly, should we plan for such massive threats?
Think Chinese officials can't be corrupted just as easily as Westerners when it comes to free arms dealing on world weapons markets? How well do you know the Chinese keep control of their nuclear weapons - as well as you might now about the American/NATO stockpiles, perhaps?
And if you don't think the Chinese have Their Own Version of The New American Right Neo-Cons, willing (and able) to wage war on whoever they deem to be their own threat, then you're not just an illiterate pseudo-humanist-intellect weasle looking to make cheap shots, (I love name-calling, particularly when its my turn to serve...), you're a freaking moron as well.
Now, I'm not saying you are those things, just that you would be - in my eyes, say I actually knew you well enough to feel comfortable with such an assement - and were you not to share this view and become aware of its dangers.
With regards to the 'hunger of China' - yes, they have fed themselves, but if you haven't noticed how many times they *haven't* fed themselves, you haven't been paying any atention at all - and, as the population gets larger, the problems of its food supply get bigger. What, exactly, do you think the WTO gets together to discuss, if it isn't solutions to the "Earth Economic/Food Model" problem? I'll give you a clue: every human being needs to eat, so count em. Who has how many?
And as for this:
You are just another living proof that a low Slashdot ID doesn't give immunity from stupidity.
Typical Western Bourgeois bigotry.
Set up a false standard, and wound someone else with it, hypocrite!
Low sid indeed
Linux: Helps achieve progressive strides in technological endeavours, from surf-board manufacturing to hydroponics, to flight control systems for handgliders.
Terrorism: Doesn't.
Imagine that!
... ;)
Of course, you'd have to make the instructions for use idiot-proof, which is where the *really* amazing science happens
You just have to face the fact, which is that the only solution to Microsofts' security problems in Windows is:
A COMPLETE RE-WRITE.
I can think of plenty of good hacks for this thing that don't involve content-ripoff.
Just think: A SHAREWARE/OSS Market for Television. i.e., apps start springing up that are designed specifically to help you manage your television viewing experience.
I'd like to write an app which strips the laugh-track, for instance. Does this thing have the DSP for it?
Why? Because when you strip the laugh track, you can peer directly into the propaganda and social agenda of most modern television shows without being distracted by 'hilarity'... and when you do that, you start to see television in a very, very different way.
I'd like to write that app, for sure. Could this thing do it, maybe not, but the point is - not all hacks are designed to 'pilfer' content...
Never sleeps.
Video games are now the agitprop primordial soup of a society that may too soon find itself to be populated entirely with drones.
Oh, wait, its Art. Never mind what I just said.
... and make a few bucks, you mean.
China has been a threat to the stability of the United States since the 1800's, which is *why* there are such tight trading ties between the two countries - free trade agreements are the first defense, since it ties the economies of the two nations to a common cause.
Why is China a threat? Simple: its population, which is freakin' HUUUUGE. It is the hungriest, largest, most virile demographic of humanity on the planet. If that population gets hungry maybe, 2 or 3 years in a row (drought, epidemics, famine), then its time for war. There is no leeway.
Chinese leaders know this, and it is a fundamental cause for their Communist doctrines, which are geared to maintain control of the countrys' infrastructure during times of massive problems in the Chinese populace.
You'd better believe China is still a threat. It is the largest collection of humans under one flag, ever.
Perhaps Bush has read one book, one about the spanish inquisition.
Bush can't read, he is illiterate and requires aides to read him everything.
Also, this is why his speeches totally suck, because he doesn't use a teleprompter (can't read) and instead listens to his lines prompted to him over a hearing-piece he wears just for the occasion.
Bush is the ultimate puppet president.
Yeah, I understand that. I've got a few 'big-memory' applications I've been meaning to build, myself, when I finally can get my hands on the hardware ... closer ... closer ... closer ... :)
Is it really that different from watching a movie, or that hour or two spent watching tv.
Nope. All of that passive entertainment is a complete and utter waste of time as well.
How exactly, is this different? Its still pointless entertainment. I assume you mean soemthing like going out and hiking, what do you have at the end of it? Dirty clothes. Going out traveling, what does that net you? A few spotty memories, and slides and pictures to annoy your friends and family with. Again, nothing worth mentioning.
Hell, I don't know where you travel, but where I go is *always* worth the effort, definitely worth mentioning, and my spotty memory, slides and pictures, have so far proven definitely *not* to bore my family...
Unlike video gaming.
Cheaters go far in the current job market.
I certainly hope that this mess will make the PHB realize that patenting these things is bad.
Having worked in the US for 15 years (comp-sci), I can tell you that the majority - say, 95% - of the PHB's I met, were they faced with a "this small company is using its patent against us, successfully" scenario, will only conclude one thing:
"We must get more aggressive about getting patents for everything!"
I can think of plenty of uses for a 64-bit processor (and related instructions) which don't depend on the ability to address more than 32-bits of RAM ...
I doubt if most ./ers remember, but in the mid 1980s we roundly cursed SCO for being the only Intel hardware unix and being out of reach price wise, and we cheered when MWC's Coherent became available, even if it was constrained to 64k of code and 64k of data per application.
... in fact the reason I was on the minix list (and saw Linus' fateful first Linux message that day ...) in the first place was because I was pissed off at the extraordinary high prices I would've had to pay for SCO on my system, and having no other options, turned to (what I considered at the time) academia for a decent kernel.
...
I remember those days all too well
I'm so glad I got into Linux from the beginning, prompted by SCO's misdeeds, and it has been a long and wonderful road indeed, this one that goes nowhere near SCOville
I've visited a few CAVE's in my time as well, and I find absolutely nothing wrong with the concept that the primary function of a CAVE is for the expression of art.
... based around the premise of an 'industry' of 'dataspace', where data is converted into radio waves, and 'flung' out into space to be 'stored', retreived on the other end, and bounced back again, repeatedly, over millions and millions of miles, as a way of getting 'cheap' storage for stuff that you want to have around only on a periodic basis.
I guess I should've made it a 'whitepaper' instead. I got a B, though, that was nice!
If you can't look at the source for a p2p system, then its not truly safe. It is as simple as that.
...
P2P opens up a whole different degree of responsibility for local system resource usage, and in fact the primary function of a p2p app is to manage local system resources on behalf of a 'greater good' of bigger resources provided to the community.
I wouldn't really put much faith in any p2p solution provider who didn't have full disclosure of source code as a priority in their front line for dealing with their users
I mean this as a potential professional user of p2p, as well as a personal user too.