Gates-ey loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
All have money in his sight,
Gates-ey loves the little children of the world.
Next week on Bill Gates' sing along:
The Beatles' "All You Need Is Cash"
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Not to mention the fact (ok, opinion) that the TAM was -- and still is -- much more attractive than this thing.
I worked at UPS for a few months. I never saw a box that trashed. Someone tried very hard to do that kind of damage. The RCA jack on the video capture card was bent. That didn't come from your run of the mill kicking the box to the end of the trailer. I can maybe see the G4's plastic extremities being broken, but a PowerTower? Man, those things were tanks.
What can you do?
If you buy a computer, keep the box and the dense sytrofoam packing blocks. I had a lot of Apple computers come through when I worked at UPS. Apple knows how to pack a computer. Thick cardboard, strong tape, packed very well. I never saw an Apple box that was screwed up in any way.
If you don't have the original box, buy a brand new box, don't use the old worn out christmas box. Buy new and double box if at all possible. What's stronger than a cardboard box? Two cardboard boxes.
Fragile? Don't bother. No one looks for a fragile tag. All packages are thrown and kicked equally.
Use lots of packing material. Try to find some big hunks to go on all six sides of the box. Wrap the item itself with lots of bubblewrap, and fill the excess space in the box with popcorn. Lots of it. Stuff the box.
For computers, it's probably a good idea to stuff the interior with popcorn, just to be safe. (Just make sure to remove it before you start to use it again.) Lots of good quality tape. Buy the good tape at the post office or wherever. Packing tape. Do not use masking tape dammit! A lot of tape may make it look like a giant box of anthrax, it ain't coming open until you open it. (Assuming you also used a good box)
If the box is big, write the to/from big. On all sides is good too.
If the items are big or fragile, one item per box. Two things in a box are bound to smash together. Not to mention the fact that the heavier a box is, the more pissed off the UPS employee will be.:)
And last but not least, if they won't insure your $2000 worth of computer equipment, tell 'em to shove it.
(BTW, if you wanna be really paranoid, crate it, and pay a ton of money.:) )
My Macintosh SE (8MHz 68000, circa 1988) can convert text to speech no problem. It's not necessarily smooth and natural, but it can't be *that* much of a jump...
Smaller hard drive than a Nomad. Yeah, doesn't it suck only having 2.3 DAYS (at 192kbps) worth of music? If it can't keep me entertained for a month straight, I don't want it.
No wireless? You mean I have to reach all the way behind the computer to plug in a cable? Oh forget it.
It's the size of a pack of cards? Bah! I want my gigantic mass-of-a-brick doorstop MP3 player!
(By the way, the preceding has been sarcasm, not a troll or a flame. The following, however, has no sarcasm.)
Look at the picture. It looks kinda doctored to begin with, but check out the shadows. One perfect shadow in one direction in what looks like a multi flourescent lit area. It doesn't even match up to the cigarette box's shadow. Bogus.
Not saying it isn't going to look like that, but that picture is definitely fake.
When we are talking about older Macs, we are talking about the PCI machines (604/604e based, plus the 7500), not Quadras.:)
My PM7500 does 1024x768 just fine. Would do more with more VRAM. It could do huge resolutions with a video card. Voodoo3 (Not OSX compatible), Rage 128, Radeon, etc.
So the recording industry wants to do something about piracy? Well, there are two things they could have done:
1. Easy and fairly effective. Lower the prices so that people can actually afford to buy CDs. CDs cost half what cassettes cost to make, yet cost twice as much retail. Hmm.
2. Retarded and worthless. Spend millions (billions?) developing a half-assed copy protection scheme. Raise the cost of CDs (If it hasn't happened already, it will) to pay for the stupid system. Watch hacker write about two lines of Perl that circumvents it. Rinse. Repeat.
And which one did the idiots in the recording industry choose? Duh.
Neither one will eliminate piracy altogether, but that isn't possible anyway.
Why not choose the route that will make your customers happy (and probably increase your revenue)?
Ahh.. Construx... That stuff was fun. I remember looking through the little booklets that came with the sets and seeing that you could buy sets with enough parts to build huge bridges and the like. Construx was cool in that the stuff you made was very rigid, so dune buggies didn't shatter when they flew off the curb...:)
Lately, stem cell research and cloning have caught the attention of Washington. Driven by ignorance, conservative thinking and fear of the unknown, our political leaders have undertaken to make laws that suppress this type of research.
To quote "That 70's Show": BURN!:)
Someone needed to say it. Now if only someone in such a high position would do something similar in regards to the DMCA...
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Gates-ey loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
All have money in his sight,
Gates-ey loves the little children of the world.
Next week on Bill Gates' sing along:
The Beatles' "All You Need Is Cash"
Not to mention the fact (ok, opinion) that the TAM was -- and still is -- much more attractive than this thing.
I worked at UPS for a few months. I never saw a box that trashed. Someone tried very hard to do that kind of damage. The RCA jack on the video capture card was bent. That didn't come from your run of the mill kicking the box to the end of the trailer. I can maybe see the G4's plastic extremities being broken, but a PowerTower? Man, those things were tanks.
:)
:) )
What can you do?
If you buy a computer, keep the box and the dense sytrofoam packing blocks. I had a lot of Apple computers come through when I worked at UPS. Apple knows how to pack a computer. Thick cardboard, strong tape, packed very well. I never saw an Apple box that was screwed up in any way.
If you don't have the original box, buy a brand new box, don't use the old worn out christmas box. Buy new and double box if at all possible. What's stronger than a cardboard box? Two cardboard boxes.
Fragile? Don't bother. No one looks for a fragile tag. All packages are thrown and kicked equally.
Use lots of packing material. Try to find some big hunks to go on all six sides of the box. Wrap the item itself with lots of bubblewrap, and fill the excess space in the box with popcorn. Lots of it. Stuff the box.
For computers, it's probably a good idea to stuff the interior with popcorn, just to be safe. (Just make sure to remove it before you start to use it again.)
Lots of good quality tape. Buy the good tape at the post office or wherever. Packing tape. Do not use masking tape dammit! A lot of tape may make it look like a giant box of anthrax, it ain't coming open until you open it. (Assuming you also used a good box)
If the box is big, write the to/from big. On all sides is good too.
If the items are big or fragile, one item per box. Two things in a box are bound to smash together. Not to mention the fact that the heavier a box is, the more pissed off the UPS employee will be.
And last but not least, if they won't insure your $2000 worth of computer equipment, tell 'em to shove it.
(BTW, if you wanna be really paranoid, crate it, and pay a ton of money.
...throw DOS in there. :)
Ok, I am not a touch typist, but I'll give this a shot.
[plugs in virtual keyboard]
Qokw. rthsi isd xc00; IK KUV SD'Adeh@ jooiw kne,l klweok; osoi j ihkwe isdkl oidkl asjn trhs>? Nnkle.
Hmm. doesn't work too well. I'll go back to my old way.
[loads up speech recognition program]
Their, that setter. Eye ill just stack with speech recognition. It's just work batter. New paragraph. New paragraph. NEW PARAGRAPH!
I hate technology.
...it wasn't slow enough.
Damn Java.
Hurricane Force Wind And Its Affect On Bird Flight.
:)
Crank that sucker up to 150MPH or so and see how well the bird can fly.
*sniff* *sniff*
What's that smell?
Oh, yeah. It's the rancid stench of A Stupid Idea That Will Never Work.
Does anyone remember the MP3 watch? I didn't think so. I'll summarize:
kerrr-FLOP!
People just don't want huge clunky watches. Especially when they aren't very useful. (The MP3 watch had a whopping 32MB of storage...)
My Macintosh SE (8MHz 68000, circa 1988) can convert text to speech no problem. It's not necessarily smooth and natural, but it can't be *that* much of a jump...
So in other words, they are a company of 10 employees, but they have about $147 billion in capital?
What are the legal ramifications of this? Now that Palm owns Be, will they go after the theme makers, ala Microsoft and Apple?
This thing is cool, but I want a portable Genesis. It could be small, black, with 6 buttons and a battery pack.
:)
It could be called something cool... Like Nomad. Yeah!
Oh wait, why does that sound familiar?
Smaller hard drive than a Nomad. Yeah, doesn't it suck only having 2.3 DAYS (at 192kbps) worth of music? If it can't keep me entertained for a month straight, I don't want it.
No wireless? You mean I have to reach all the way behind the computer to plug in a cable? Oh forget it.
It's the size of a pack of cards? Bah! I want my gigantic mass-of-a-brick doorstop MP3 player!
(By the way, the preceding has been sarcasm, not a troll or a flame. The following, however, has no sarcasm.)
It doesn't play WMA files? Thank god.
Look at the picture. It looks kinda doctored to begin with, but check out the shadows. One perfect shadow in one direction in what looks like a multi flourescent lit area. It doesn't even match up to the cigarette box's shadow. Bogus.
Not saying it isn't going to look like that, but that picture is definitely fake.
And WTF is with the Dell (eww) logo?
I would like to know if A/UX runs on Basilisk II though.
:) (SE/30: 16MHz 68030)
Nope. Tried it. BII doesn't emulate a PMMU or some such, which A/UX requires.
Did get A/UX running on an SE/30, though. Very slow.
When we are talking about older Macs, we are talking about the PCI machines (604/604e based, plus the 7500), not Quadras. :)
My PM7500 does 1024x768 just fine. Would do more with more VRAM. It could do huge resolutions with a video card. Voodoo3 (Not OSX compatible), Rage 128, Radeon, etc.
Yep, Ryan Rempel's UUX rocks. I'd like to find a Daystar Genesis MP800+ to try OSX out on... (4 processors, woohoo!)
So the recording industry wants to do something about piracy? Well, there are two things they could have done:
1. Easy and fairly effective. Lower the prices so that people can actually afford to buy CDs. CDs cost half what cassettes cost to make, yet cost twice as much retail. Hmm.
2. Retarded and worthless. Spend millions (billions?) developing a half-assed copy protection scheme. Raise the cost of CDs (If it hasn't happened already, it will) to pay for the stupid system. Watch hacker write about two lines of Perl that circumvents it. Rinse. Repeat.
And which one did the idiots in the recording industry choose? Duh.
Neither one will eliminate piracy altogether, but that isn't possible anyway.
Why not choose the route that will make your customers happy (and probably increase your revenue)?
Imagine one of these things with force feedback. Online Arm Wrestling. :)
On a more serious note: More accurate long distance surgery.
Ahh.. Construx... That stuff was fun. I remember looking through the little booklets that came with the sets and seeing that you could buy sets with enough parts to build huge bridges and the like. Construx was cool in that the stuff you made was very rigid, so dune buggies didn't shatter when they flew off the curb... :)
A hundred and thirty watts?!? For just the chip?
Holy frickin' crap! I've got whole computers that use less juice than that!
"I'm sorry, sir. that 400 watt power supply is insufficient to run your new Itanium. You will have to buy at least a 1.2 kilowatt power supply..."
Lately, stem cell research and cloning have caught the attention of Washington. Driven by ignorance, conservative thinking and fear of the unknown, our political leaders have undertaken to make laws that suppress this type of research.
:)
To quote "That 70's Show": BURN!
Someone needed to say it. Now if only someone in such a high position would do something similar in regards to the DMCA...
...wouldn't a slot loading CD/DVD loading through the floppy slot be awesome?