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  1. Re:Console Wars on How Mac OS X is Changing the Mac Community · · Score: 2
    Oh boy. The 1 Ghz G3 was not available 6 months ago, and it still isn't. To quote IBM's pdf:

    Initially disclosed at the Microprocessor Forum on October 17, 2001, sampling for this new processor is planned for January, 2002.

    If you look at the main page for PPC chips at IBM, you'll find no mention of the 750fx. If you search for "750FX" you'll find things like this announcment.

    Select customers are currently evaluating the hardware with general sampling available in January of 2002. The PowerPC 750FX is planned to initially debut at 700 MHz, with versions at speeds up to 1 Ghz later that year.
    You'll find no indication that the 750fx is shipping. Even the 700 MHz part is nowhere to be seen.

    Sorry, but "stodgy old IBM" blew it here.

  2. Re:Me and a Mac on How Mac OS X is Changing the Mac Community · · Score: 2

    You have two hands, so why don't you use two mice?

  3. Re:Console Wars on How Mac OS X is Changing the Mac Community · · Score: 2

    How would a 1GHz G3 be better than a 1GHz G4? Anyway, I can't find any mention of the 750fx on IBMs website anymore.

  4. Re:It's an I-cow on iMac LCD Impostors · · Score: 2

    Actually, the "old" Gateway reminds me quite a bit of the "old" iMac, with an LCD instead of the CRT and thinner (but still klutzy). Much too thick to be a clone of the TAM.

  5. Re:Atomic Train on Review: The Time Machine · · Score: 2

    The problem is that some people actually can't distinguish between a movie and reality and that some people want to blame others for whatever happens to them - and make a fast buck from it by sueing them.

  6. Re:It's an I-cow on iMac LCD Impostors · · Score: 5, Informative
    Bwahaha.

    Have you ever heard of the 20th Anniversary Mac (aka Spartacus)? Here's a nice picture and here's The 20th Anniversary Macintosh Web Site. That machine id from May 1997. Tell me about how Gateway beat them to the punch two years later.

  7. Re:Apple bites on Why So Many Mac Fanatics? · · Score: 2

    The registry (and the way you have to fiddle with it and how fragile it is) is unique to Windows, and running out of IRQs because the designer saved a few cents by using ISA components is specific to "the" PC.

  8. Re:china/us working together on Command and Conquer Generals · · Score: 2
    It's a more realistic scenario than the ones that pit US and Chinese forces (including the wargames on this scenario conducted by the US armed forces).

    Is It?

    The secret report, which was provided to Congress on Jan. 8, says the Pentagon needs to be prepared to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria. It says the weapons could be used in three types of situations: against targets able to withstand nonnuclear attack; in retaliation for attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons; or "in the event of surprising military developments.
  9. Re:Hurray for tornado filmers on How to Film a Tornado · · Score: 2

    Who needs FOX, when we've got MIT.

  10. Re:the bad guy is always a german... on To The Pain · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't know, because I only saw the Bond movies in the German dubbed version (and it is Fröbe talking there ;-). But according to this, many Bond villains were dubbed - including Gert.

  11. Re:the bad guy is always a german... on To The Pain · · Score: 2
    Brandauer (who played the villain Maximillian Largo in Never Say Never Again) is Austrian, but the character is - errm, Italian I guess. In the original Thunderbolt, Emilio Largo was played by Adolfo Celi, an Italian.

    Gert Fröbe was German, but the character Auric Goldfinger is supposed to be British.

  12. Re:Just in case you didn't know. on Liquid Nitrogen Cooling at Home? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, they do (Apple users have fans, that is). At least some of them have. Even some PC users have fans (like this guy ;-).

  13. Re:what apple did right on Why So Many Mac Fanatics? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, you're so l33t, I bet you pick your nose with more than one finger.

  14. Re:Apple bites on Why So Many Mac Fanatics? · · Score: 2

    IRQs are still an issue, because P'n'P won't help if you run out of IRQs. And the config files all migrated into the registry.

  15. Re:Apple bites on Why So Many Mac Fanatics? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, good for you if you bought DELL back than, if you bought Apple in the last 1.5 years you fared better than the dude who bought DULL. No matter if you bought stock or computers.

  16. Re:Apple bites on Why So Many Mac Fanatics? · · Score: 2
    Shocking! Let's see:

    'nother pattern

    YAP

    How 'bout that one?

  17. Re:Possible FUD? on Why So Many Mac Fanatics? · · Score: 2

    Very likely. But is this only because there are so many Windows-PCs, or because you can be sure so many of them are wide open to attacks?

  18. Re:Conspiracy theories on Why So Many Mac Fanatics? · · Score: 2

    The hot fumes from PC processors make you feel l33t.

  19. Jerry Bruckheimer on The Rise of CSI · · Score: 2

    I got the impression that Katz doesn't like the work of Bruckheimer too much (which is totaly OK). But CSI is from JB. Now why doesn't Katz mention Bruckheimer in his review, is it because he'd rather not mention him because he likes the show and is in denial about JB's involvment, or because he simply doesn't know?

  20. Re:Interoperability Rocks! on Apple Licenses CUPS · · Score: 2

    And Apple kept the Apple II alive even after they got rid of Jobs. They kept it alive until they hardly sold anymore. Then they stopped. Evil Apple.

  21. Re:Jef Raskin: the Interface Nazi? on Jef Raskin Talks Skins · · Score: 2

    Many OSs (not only MS's) don't care about case, and neither does HTTP, so why should anybody care about the shortcomings of Unics? Are you actually telling me that your web-server gets confused by different cases in filenames? The writer should stick to something simpler.

  22. Re:Now we know where to land on Lots of Ice On Mars · · Score: 2
    Privatize spaceflight. Grant treaty provisions for private enterprise to occupy and OWN portions of the solar system (homesteader clause, like the US government did with the old west.

    Yeah, that's what we need, make the big corporations richer. Sure, this time we won't have to kill the natives, but it's not like you can buy a couple of tools, and ride (or even walk) to a nice site to settle on.

  23. Re:Jef Raskin: the Interface Nazi? on Jef Raskin Talks Skins · · Score: 2

    Most VCR-UI designers are not from the GUI school-of-thought, they are from the my-way-of-doing-things-is-the-best school-of-thought.

  24. Re:Jef Raskin: the Interface Nazi? on Jef Raskin Talks Skins · · Score: 2

    Better yet, tell me why I'd want to do that? And no, dogs don't lick their balls because they can, it's part of their personal hygiene.

  25. Re:Jef Raskin: the Interface Nazi? on Jef Raskin Talks Skins · · Score: 2

    Most of all he is saying that some customizations (like same color for text and background) should simply not be possible. He also has the silly idea that some people may want to go to another computer and be able to do productive work right from th start.