am still waiting for a subnotebook from Apple. My 12in Powerbook is nice, but what I would really like is a subnotebook, perhaps even an Newton replacement.
I highly doubt Apple would introduce a new PDA anytime soon, given that PDAs are becoming merged into other things like smartphones.
I would like to own a 'PDA' that ran OS X and the following attributes: * shaped like a scaled-up iPod Mini, but with a wide touchscreen (higher res but the size of the PSP's) instead of scroll wheel. Anodized aluminum. Maybe a multifunction click/tilt wheel on the top edge like my P800. Headphone jack and hold switch. * integrated wireless everything (GSM/GPRS and/or 3G, Bluetooth, Airport) * touchscreen can handle HWR via Inkwell, and gestures (like, say, emulating the iPod interface clickwheel) * new app iMedia, that integrates this device with DVD player, some form of DVR, and iTunes. * 60+GB HDD
Options: * Cradles that output analog and/or digital video and audio out, along with firewire and usb. * a bluetooth remote control and/or bluetooth IR repeater for IR remotes. * obviously, every current bluetooth peripheral, and maybe even a bluetooth 'headset' shaped like a telephone handset for the GSM function.
Modern for the Mac typically means 6-18 months behind Windows, and for those games yeah the 9600 should be adequate for standard gaming resolutions.
However, for Doom3, not so much (and D3, WoW, and a few other internally-ported games are available now for OS X).
Also, Apple's penchant for flat panels, and especially large ones, also makes lesser vidcards more painful. If I get a 1920x1200 cinema display, I want to run it native, and I want to run games on it. Even without any FSAA, 1920x1200 is pretty intensive for FPSes, and I would get only ~25-30fps at that res with FX5900 on UT2004 Linux...
It continues to annoy me that Apple can't offer better BTO options for its non-Powermac lines. Why not just pick a notebook video card format (like MXM or whatever) and put it into all their non-Powermac lines? Then offer BTO boards like the 6800go that could go in a mini, powerbook, or iMac? Is the BOM and formfactor _that_ horrible?
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Absolutely.
When did nVidia go and piss Apple off?
I guess the wait will continue for the PCI express (SLI-able) Macs. The sad irony is that the Mac market stands to gain more from the bidirectional nature of PCIe (just imagine integrated GPU acceleration within the coreimage and corevideo libs for rendering effects for stuff like film/tv CGI, photoshop, etc..) than Windows boxes, and yet they persist with AGP (and crap AGP cards at that!).
When oh when will Apple go PCIe with 2 (or more!) x16 slots?
And what was Vancouver back when NYC put in its first 49km of track, cocksucker?
Oh, and btw, the L was built from the BMT Canarsie line, which began life in 1867. What was Vancouver then, you fucking canuck hoser? A colony. That wasn't even rail-linked to the rest of the country 'til 1885. At which point New York had been a city for nearly 300 years, and had been 'New York' for 200.
We can forgive the TV version as the voice was perfect. But the movie should have done better than a moving light fitting.
If Stephen Moore were unavailable, I can think of none better than Alan Rickman for the part of Marvin. He can do frustrated, arrogant, indignant, and depressed as well as anyone including John Cleese, but his voice has a lower register which is more depressing than shrill.
However, from what I've seen, the Heart of Gold in the trailers is _not_ shaped like a sleek running shoe. Unless you have large balls for feet.
The new generation of South Koreans are f---ing whiny ingrates. The US should be completely off the Korean peninsula, with a nuclear umbrella treaty. The US presence is only a small percentage of the force anyway, and all I ever hear is the Euro-style whining about it. Pull back and redeploy.
The dancer shown is a Mon Calamari. They were very important in Return of the Jedi. The giant pod looking ships in the Rebel fleet were Mon Calamari Star Cruisers, and the attack was led by Admiral Ackbar, a Mon Calamari. You can see him in Return of the Jedi. Admiral Ackbar also made a cameo in the X-Wing game. He's the guy who orders "Launch the X-Wing fighters!" (I loved the game, what can I say).
The sad thing is, the Mint spends millions in PSAs to advertise new coinage and banknotes..
The sadder thing is, they actually really need to.
Then again, I wouldn't go to best buy in the first place because their prices suck and they charge sales tax. Missing out on crap service and moronic cashiers is only gravy.
If you "tax the hell out of fuel guzzling monster cars," then you are skipping taxation of older fuel guzzling cars that are not as efficient as the newest SUVs.
Agreed.
If you tax gasoline more, you increase the burden on everyone, including poor people that cannot afford to buy a new gas-efficient car.
In the immortal words of the Roman Senate:
"Fuck the Poor!"
They drive guzzling clunkers and are underinsured. Let 'em take the bus. And in most areas, I'm sure the rich would be thrilled to have lower traffic and shorter commutes, and less chance of being in an accident against their light, sporty expensive cars vs. a big rusting underinsured crapulent barge.
You increase the cost of all goods that are shipped anywhere, or the cost of services that rely on those goods or shipping services.
Bullpoo. Transportation, agriculture and industry rely on Diesel and diesel variants (from heavy oil for those 3-story engines in cargo ships and tankers to diesel/kerosene jet fuel). Easy answer: don't tax those fuels the same. 123 quick. Doesn't hurt that I drive diesel either, because I'm so much smarter and more prescient than the masses;)
Additionally, Biodiesel is the best of the existing biofuels, in terms of compatibility, efficiency, and the ratio of energy used to produce it vs. the energy it produces. There should be no tax at all on it, and any taxes on bio/petro blends should be prorated percentage-inversely to the percentage of the blend (B20 taxed 80% of petro, B100 taxed 0% of petro). This would fuck the bad guys, and help wean American agribiz of price-propping grain subsidies since demand from fuel manufacturers would provide a solid pricing base.
And where does the tax money go? Does it fund research on alternative fuel sources? No, it is spent on pork barrel projects by Congress.
Frankly, I'd support outrageous gas taxes if they went explicity (by law) into (in rough order): * mandatory minimum liability insurance, so no more un(|der)insured drivers * Defense budget for deployments protecting and guaranteeing oil supplies (offsetting income taxes of course) * migrating current pay-as-you-go government benefits (social security, medic*) to something that works with changing demographics * alternative fuels and energy sources, including space-based reflectors, nuclear, and biofuel
This is _Linux_ we're talkin' bout here. Land of the Dead Parrot, Paranoid Android, Z'Ha'Dum, Muad'Dib and all the other stuff that are terrifying.. to Women..
Rodriguez will no doubt have little trouble finding work... but expect it to be via indie studios.
Fuck that studio shit.
Final Cut Pro HD + all those wicked new DVCPRO cams baby!!
At this point all the man has to do is stick a broom up his ass to sweep up behind him.. Writing, Directing, Editing, Producing, Lighting, Sound.. He does it all... And likes it that way...
(BTW, I did dig the _Sky Captain_ movie, which pioneered the techniques used in _Sin City_.. Decopunk is kewl...)
Having your development workflow at the whim of a single proprietary vendor? How.. What's the word I'm looking for here?
Let's hope the free tools are as far along as Linus et al. need them to be.. I guess there'll be a lot more hacking on them now that the crutch has been pulled away...
Lots of the MOT stuff currently will work with iSync if you buy software from mark/space (as indicated on Apple's isync compatibility charts). Dunno bout Tiger, though I've got a P800 which is already supported quite nicely;)
A few things to keep in mind: * Exports to the USA are a far larger percentage of the Chinese economy than Chinese imports are of the American economy * Wal-Mart pays in dollars * US-based contractors and vendors are paid in dollars * Oil is paid for in dollars
America gets a free ride, inflationwise, from all this. China is forced to take dollars and index their currency to maintain their torrid growth. Their banks are still quasi-governmental institutions, and their loan criteria go beyond ROI and into nationalist goals. Their citizens are becoming more and more accustomed to a higher standard of living, and increased agricultural efficency reduces the number of jobs on the farms, which until relatively recently was where most Chinese were employed.
They're starting to get restless at the slave-wage and slave-treatment jobs, and are using what mobility they have to vote with their feet. Once workers climb the skill scale (from unskilled ex-farm labor into semiskilled industrial workers) they will demand more in terms of wages and benefits. Additionally, at some point in the next 30-40 years the Chinese one-child policy will push the large working cohort out of work age and it will be replaced by a much smaller cohort, driving up wages further.
What this means to the EU: China's largest export partner is already the EU. They will continue to beat Europe's cost structure pretty much forever, given Europe's even more aggressive aging and infertility. EU gas taxes will to some degree reduce the pain of Chinese demand for fuel driving gas prices up, since the cost of the base commodity is a smaller percentage of its retail cost. However, if the Euro maintains its strength against the dollar, given China's growing bucket of dollars, they won't be the target of the same kind of buying spree that the US will be (and was when Japan. Inc was buying up everything from Columbia Studios to Rockefeller Center).
The US is in a fairly good position IMHO. Threats of redemptions tend to ring hollow, though nationalist irrationality is a distinct worry. If the Chinese were to stop buying bonds, the currency would lose in value, so Chinese currency would go down in value too or they'd de-index, which would make their exports less attractive to the US. Keep in mind how many billions Japan and Korea had and have in US bonds. When those economies tanked (and Japan's tanked for over a _decade_) were there mass redemptions? Did they stop buying bonds? Again, I think mass bond redemption is an unlikely political threat, economically it doesn't make sense, at least as long as the buyers need to export to the US.
America _could_ pull off an Autarky, except for oil, if push came to shove, it's just that international trade is more efficient and better at keeping prices down. OTOH, a cheaper RMB would really kill the EU to the point where they'd need defensive tariffs merely to survive.
The danger starts when China grows wealthy enough to reduce its dependence on exports. As long as they're a somewhat fascist state (where individual liberty doesn't exist and where the state is in bed with corporations or even _owns_ part or all of those corporations) this probably won't be a problem.
Or, nationalism could rear its ugly head and we may have to toss a few nukes at 'em when they invade Taiwan. One or two Trident subs are all you need to ruin China's day.
There's so many moving parts to this, it's hard to put them all in your head and get a clear picture, which is why I'm glad I'm not an economist;)
Remember how the last Asian Crisis (tm) came about from lots of nonperforming loans of cheap money for phallic skyscrapers (among other things). Guess where the biggest concrete and steel dicks are these days? Shanghai, Chicom Hong Kong, and the coveted Taiwan ROC... I'm thinking Soros is chomping at the bit for the opportuninty to fuck China _and_ the US over in a spectacular fashion once the dike starts to crack...
Given that and recent reporting of labor shortages in Guangdong..
At any rate, there's enough dollars in China to support an interesting shopping spree. I'm thinking they'll buy GM after they declare bankrupcy, and use those brands plus Chinese labor (and, hopefully, American labor after the UAW is destroyed by bankrupcy renegotiation) to enter the US auto market.
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am still waiting for a subnotebook from Apple. My 12in Powerbook is nice, but what I would really like is a subnotebook, perhaps even an Newton replacement.
I highly doubt Apple would introduce a new PDA anytime soon, given that PDAs are becoming merged into other things like smartphones.
I would like to own a 'PDA' that ran OS X and the following attributes:
* shaped like a scaled-up iPod Mini, but with a wide touchscreen (higher res but the size of the PSP's) instead of scroll wheel. Anodized aluminum. Maybe a multifunction click/tilt wheel on the top edge like my P800. Headphone jack and hold switch.
* integrated wireless everything (GSM/GPRS and/or 3G, Bluetooth, Airport)
* touchscreen can handle HWR via Inkwell, and gestures (like, say, emulating the iPod interface clickwheel)
* new app iMedia, that integrates this device with DVD player, some form of DVR, and iTunes.
* 60+GB HDD
Options:
* Cradles that output analog and/or digital video and audio out, along with firewire and usb.
* a bluetooth remote control and/or bluetooth IR repeater for IR remotes.
* obviously, every current bluetooth peripheral, and maybe even a bluetooth 'headset' shaped like a telephone handset for the GSM function.
Depends on your definition of modern.
Modern for the Mac typically means 6-18 months behind Windows, and for those games yeah the 9600 should be adequate for standard gaming resolutions.
However, for Doom3, not so much (and D3, WoW, and a few other internally-ported games are available now for OS X).
Also, Apple's penchant for flat panels, and especially large ones, also makes lesser vidcards more painful. If I get a 1920x1200 cinema display, I want to run it native, and I want to run games on it. Even without any FSAA, 1920x1200 is pretty intensive for FPSes, and I would get only ~25-30fps at that res with FX5900 on UT2004 Linux...
It continues to annoy me that Apple can't offer better BTO options for its non-Powermac lines. Why not just pick a notebook video card format (like MXM or whatever) and put it into all their non-Powermac lines? Then offer BTO boards like the 6800go that could go in a mini, powerbook, or iMac? Is the BOM and formfactor _that_ horrible?
Absolutely.
When did nVidia go and piss Apple off?
I guess the wait will continue for the PCI express (SLI-able) Macs. The sad irony is that the Mac market stands to gain more from the bidirectional nature of PCIe (just imagine integrated GPU acceleration within the coreimage and corevideo libs for rendering effects for stuff like film/tv CGI, photoshop, etc..) than Windows boxes, and yet they persist with AGP (and crap AGP cards at that!).
When oh when will Apple go PCIe with 2 (or more!) x16 slots?
And what was Vancouver back when NYC put in its first 49km of track, cocksucker?
Oh, and btw, the L was built from the BMT Canarsie line, which began life in 1867. What was Vancouver then, you fucking canuck hoser? A colony. That wasn't even rail-linked to the rest of the country 'til 1885. At which point New York had been a city for nearly 300 years, and had been 'New York' for 200.
So back the fuck up, eh?
So how many miles of track and how many stations is the Vancouver system then, eh?
Cause of death: Heart Attack while working out at a gym.
Rumpole would say 'I told you so'... Though I must admit to still hoping that DNA has only been spending the last few years dead for tax reasons..
We can forgive the TV version as the voice was perfect. But the movie should have done better than a moving light fitting.
If Stephen Moore were unavailable, I can think of none better than Alan Rickman for the part of Marvin. He can do frustrated, arrogant, indignant, and depressed as well as anyone including John Cleese, but his voice has a lower register which is more depressing than shrill.
However, from what I've seen, the Heart of Gold in the trailers is _not_ shaped like a sleek running shoe. Unless you have large balls for feet.
The new generation of South Koreans are f---ing whiny ingrates. The US should be completely off the Korean peninsula, with a nuclear umbrella treaty. The US presence is only a small percentage of the force anyway, and all I ever hear is the Euro-style whining about it. Pull back and redeploy.
Same goes for Germany and Okinawa too.
The dancer shown is a Mon Calamari. They were very important in Return of the Jedi. The giant pod looking ships in the Rebel fleet were Mon Calamari Star Cruisers, and the attack was led by Admiral Ackbar, a Mon Calamari. You can see him in Return of the Jedi. Admiral Ackbar also made a cameo in the X-Wing game. He's the guy who orders "Launch the X-Wing fighters!" (I loved the game, what can I say).
But the most important question is...
Cocktail, Marinara, or Garlic sauce?
IT'S A TRAP!!!!!!!!
The sad thing is, the Mint spends millions in PSAs to advertise new coinage and banknotes..
The sadder thing is, they actually really need to.
Then again, I wouldn't go to best buy in the first place because their prices suck and they charge sales tax. Missing out on crap service and moronic cashiers is only gravy.
"She's a dancer, not a Coke machine..."
I love the sentiment, but I hate standing in line behind folks like you :/
... Xinerama for Xorg will work properly with OpenGL, so I can buy 3 cheap monitors and have TONS of FPS peripheral vision and GL flying toaster room.
I don't think it is, but cromulent is...
If you "tax the hell out of fuel guzzling monster cars," then you are skipping taxation of older fuel guzzling cars that are not as efficient as the newest SUVs.
;)
Agreed.
If you tax gasoline more, you increase the burden on everyone, including poor people that cannot afford to buy a new gas-efficient car.
In the immortal words of the Roman Senate:
"Fuck the Poor!"
They drive guzzling clunkers and are underinsured. Let 'em take the bus. And in most areas, I'm sure the rich would be thrilled to have lower traffic and shorter commutes, and less chance of being in an accident against their light, sporty expensive cars vs. a big rusting underinsured crapulent barge.
You increase the cost of all goods that are shipped anywhere, or the cost of services that rely on those goods or shipping services.
Bullpoo. Transportation, agriculture and industry rely on Diesel and diesel variants (from heavy oil for those 3-story engines in cargo ships and tankers to diesel/kerosene jet fuel). Easy answer: don't tax those fuels the same. 123 quick. Doesn't hurt that I drive diesel either, because I'm so much smarter and more prescient than the masses
Additionally, Biodiesel is the best of the existing biofuels, in terms of compatibility, efficiency, and the ratio of energy used to produce it vs. the energy it produces. There should be no tax at all on it, and any taxes on bio/petro blends should be prorated percentage-inversely to the percentage of the blend (B20 taxed 80% of petro, B100 taxed 0% of petro). This would fuck the bad guys, and help wean American agribiz of price-propping grain subsidies since demand from fuel manufacturers would provide a solid pricing base.
And where does the tax money go? Does it fund research on alternative fuel sources? No, it is spent on pork barrel projects by Congress.
Frankly, I'd support outrageous gas taxes if they went explicity (by law) into (in rough order):
* mandatory minimum liability insurance, so no more un(|der)insured drivers
* Defense budget for deployments protecting and guaranteeing oil supplies (offsetting income taxes of course)
* migrating current pay-as-you-go government benefits (social security, medic*) to something that works with changing demographics
* alternative fuels and energy sources, including space-based reflectors, nuclear, and biofuel
There'd probably be more fuel saved if everyone vowed to stay well groomed and take a nice big dump before getting in a vehicle...
What females?
This is _Linux_ we're talkin' bout here. Land of the Dead Parrot, Paranoid Android, Z'Ha'Dum, Muad'Dib and all the other stuff that are terrifying.. to Women..
.. Like the distro. The name? Not so much.
Then again, I like Gentoo, but at least that name isn't made up.
Rodriguez will no doubt have little trouble finding work... but expect it to be via indie studios.
Fuck that studio shit.
Final Cut Pro HD + all those wicked new DVCPRO cams baby!!
At this point all the man has to do is stick a broom up his ass to sweep up behind him.. Writing, Directing, Editing, Producing, Lighting, Sound.. He does it all... And likes it that way...
(BTW, I did dig the _Sky Captain_ movie, which pioneered the techniques used in _Sin City_.. Decopunk is kewl...)
Makes sense, since all his fucking MOVIES look like TV COMMERCIALS..
There are whole sequences of 'Armageddon' that look like they've been brought to you by AT&T.. Or Chevrolet the Sprit of America..
The fact that I got suckered into 'Armageddon' alone is enough for me to want him dead. He's got all the sincerity of Paris Hilton without the talent.
... Someone, for the sake of all humanity, kill Michael Bay before he makes movies again.
I mean, how else is he going to be stopped?
Someone needs to tear out his black, oozing, horrible-movie-loving heart and toss into the cleansing fires of Kali.
Did I mention he should die?
(and he should take Uwe Boll with him.)
... be the best choice?
Having your development workflow at the whim of a single proprietary vendor? How.. What's the word I'm looking for here?
Let's hope the free tools are as far along as Linus et al. need them to be.. I guess there'll be a lot more hacking on them now that the crutch has been pulled away...
Lots of the MOT stuff currently will work with iSync if you buy software from mark/space (as indicated on Apple's isync compatibility charts). Dunno bout Tiger, though I've got a P800 which is already supported quite nicely ;)
A few things to keep in mind:
;)
* Exports to the USA are a far larger percentage of the Chinese economy than Chinese imports are of the American economy
* Wal-Mart pays in dollars
* US-based contractors and vendors are paid in dollars
* Oil is paid for in dollars
America gets a free ride, inflationwise, from all this. China is forced to take dollars and index their currency to maintain their torrid growth. Their banks are still quasi-governmental institutions, and their loan criteria go beyond ROI and into nationalist goals. Their citizens are becoming more and more accustomed to a higher standard of living, and increased agricultural efficency reduces the number of jobs on the farms, which until relatively recently was where most Chinese were employed.
They're starting to get restless at the slave-wage and slave-treatment jobs, and are using what mobility they have to vote with their feet. Once workers climb the skill scale (from unskilled ex-farm labor into semiskilled industrial workers) they will demand more in terms of wages and benefits. Additionally, at some point in the next 30-40 years the Chinese one-child policy will push the large working cohort out of work age and it will be replaced by a much smaller cohort, driving up wages further.
What this means to the EU: China's largest export partner is already the EU. They will continue to beat Europe's cost structure pretty much forever, given Europe's even more aggressive aging and infertility. EU gas taxes will to some degree reduce the pain of Chinese demand for fuel driving gas prices up, since the cost of the base commodity is a smaller percentage of its retail cost. However, if the Euro maintains its strength against the dollar, given China's growing bucket of dollars, they won't be the target of the same kind of buying spree that the US will be (and was when Japan. Inc was buying up everything from Columbia Studios to Rockefeller Center).
The US is in a fairly good position IMHO. Threats of redemptions tend to ring hollow, though nationalist irrationality is a distinct worry. If the Chinese were to stop buying bonds, the currency would lose in value, so Chinese currency would go down in value too or they'd de-index, which would make their exports less attractive to the US. Keep in mind how many billions Japan and Korea had and have in US bonds. When those economies tanked (and Japan's tanked for over a _decade_) were there mass redemptions? Did they stop buying bonds? Again, I think mass bond redemption is an unlikely political threat, economically it doesn't make sense, at least as long as the buyers need to export to the US.
America _could_ pull off an Autarky, except for oil, if push came to shove, it's just that international trade is more efficient and better at keeping prices down. OTOH, a cheaper RMB would really kill the EU to the point where they'd need defensive tariffs merely to survive.
The danger starts when China grows wealthy enough to reduce its dependence on exports. As long as they're a somewhat fascist state (where individual liberty doesn't exist and where the state is in bed with corporations or even _owns_ part or all of those corporations) this probably won't be a problem.
Or, nationalism could rear its ugly head and we may have to toss a few nukes at 'em when they invade Taiwan. One or two Trident subs are all you need to ruin China's day.
There's so many moving parts to this, it's hard to put them all in your head and get a clear picture, which is why I'm glad I'm not an economist
.. when they end up having to deindex the RMB in order to clean up their banking structure..
s ia/03china.html
http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2263.html
Remember how the last Asian Crisis (tm) came about from lots of nonperforming loans of cheap money for phallic skyscrapers (among other things). Guess where the biggest concrete and steel dicks are these days? Shanghai, Chicom Hong Kong, and the coveted Taiwan ROC... I'm thinking Soros is chomping at the bit for the opportuninty to fuck China _and_ the US over in a spectacular fashion once the dike starts to crack...
Given that and recent reporting of labor shortages in Guangdong..
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/international/a
The next few years should be interesting indeed.
At any rate, there's enough dollars in China to support an interesting shopping spree. I'm thinking they'll buy GM after they declare bankrupcy, and use those brands plus Chinese labor (and, hopefully, American labor after the UAW is destroyed by bankrupcy renegotiation) to enter the US auto market.