What else can you really do with them? They are electronic chains that make the execs trip down stairs and run into things as they 'chat' away with each other.
I drive a large-ish truck (GMC Z71 xcab sierra). I love it.. but I would love to drive a golf cart to work instead. Work is only 5 km from my home and I hate having to start up the v8 engine so that I can carry all my crap back and forth from the office. Yes I could get a smaller vehicle but I have a large boat to pull (oooh a truck guy with an actual reason to own one!). I will be first in line when the hybrid Z71 becomes available in Canada. I just hope it has the power for the highways.
Only problem with golf cart type vehicles would be in the winter. When it gets to -20 C I bet the batteries don't last that long;)
..but ya I would have to agree with your truck guy mentality. Unless those who are driving the truck do it for a reason (pull things, work, etc) they might as well drive a neon with stainless tail pipes and cheesey paint job.
Notice every car/truck/vas a GM (General Motors) product? It was kinda funny on the freeway... They smashed one of each model, but that Olds breaking apart under the agent was really cool.
Not in Linux but.. I have seen the feature in software apps like Timbuktu for the Mac for years.. and PC Anywhere has been around for years too. Its not a new idea. Its just a bundled idea... but a cool feature. Hope X.3 has it.
Other than bundle, control, DRM to death your home PC.. I don't see anything original coming from Microsoft but that isn't what they do. They make things... umm.. expensive? unreliable? mass marketed? awkward?
Sure a few of those can go to apple.. but at least you don't have to worry so much about the script kiddies. Oh and OS X.3 is out in few months.. X.4 in 04? X.5 in 05? hope longhorn is *nix.. then maybe they could compete.
Only thing I wish apple had was remote desktop app built in.. like XP pro, but are you going to say that was MS originality too? or once again following the Open Source world.. which is the the true innovative arena.
On Air Canada and Air Transat I had my TiBook with me. Both times I 'accendently' had the airport card on for a bit before noticing my battery life was not as long as I would like. But they didn't ask, nor care about the laptop.
That would be super cool to have a little WC3 tourny over WiFi on the long flight across the Atlantic though.. hmmm.
... damn if my parents knew half of what I did, or didn't do in school...
I am sure to spy on my kids but I am damn happy my parents couldn't spy on me. Of course my real hope is that my kids are smart enough to figure out to circumvent the system like I did. There in is the real education.
Sorry light trucks... GMC/Ford/Dodge 1/2 and 3/4 tons. They are their bread and butter. The American companies make all their money with trucks.. well not Dodge.. eheh that is why they got Jeep.
cadillac = high end.. On-star is damn expensive and really isn't innovative.
Now night vision in cadillac is cool. But what about their affordable cars? You know middle class? Mazda and Toyota and Subaru even...now there is innovation.
Ok sorry.. their North American cars that are affordable are not as innovative as Jap or Korean cars.
The high cars are amazing - hence my reference to cadillac.
What blows my mind is that what will happen when stem cell research pays off with cures and treatments that vastly improve the quality of life of people? Will those who voted against the legislation benefit from it?
I have a dual 1.25 ghz at my feet that sounds like a plane taking off at start up. It maintains a very high noise level too.... The fan is huge and loud.
It heats up my office too. Call up apple and they say they do not know of any technology that could cool the dual g4 any bettter and quiter..
Or maybe its just me but.. Out of the last 8 Macs I have ordered in the past 6 months; Dual 1.25 Ghz - out of the box, DOA.. new iMac - dead backlight in a month... iBook - dead HD after 3 months... TiBook - does not do clam shell at all... AND to get them serviced? or even to have acknowledge the problem.. argh.. give me OS X, but give me choice of hardware!
A year ago order 12 machines, they still work. WTF apple???
If they do a good job and don't charge too much for it and don't throw in bandwidth caps.. I say good.
Getting a free network up and running costs too much. I just hope they don't try and punish the hobbyists for their forward thinking (cough Apple, Microsoft, IBM).
For $200 more - I would get the superdrive. Actually it is really odd that apple is offering a 1ghz without it... perhaps their price point is crap (as they already know).
But the 133 MHZ and 32 meg video diff is not worth the $500 USD..
What is proper English? The English have a different idea then the Americans who talk funny according to Canadians. The language changes... that is why it is modern.
I was a windoze/linux user until I started working here and they supplied me with Macs (thank God). I went from OS 9 to OS X in weeks and haven't looked back. I even moved the younger folks in the office over to X.
But the older folks... the OS 8/9 users? They can't stop using Netscape 4.x nevermind switch to OS X. They get crippled when a lable writer that has nothing to do with their daily routine, doesn't work properly.
Not sure if it has to do with teh OS or the age of the person using the OS. Once someone is set in their ways, they resist change. Most people don't get that twinkle in their eye when they see a new version, a new computer box, a new standard.
What I am more worried about is iTunes going that way. It is probably the best mp3 player and disk ripper out there (at least for mac). The RIAA can't be happy with how easy it is to 'mix, rip, burn.'
I wonder if Apple has thought about iTunes for Windows. They have iPod for windows and iPod and iTunes play so well together I couldn't imagine one without the other.
For example, my Tibook G4 400 has a broken front latch (the thing that holds the monitor down). Apple care would not cover it and apple wanted to charge me $1000 CDN to fix it.
I told them duct tape will do and called customer service. They of course offered to fix it for free - "but only this one time." Since it is a crappy part it will break again.
My question to apple, don't you thinkg a $5000 CDN laptop deserves a better warrenty??? If dell still shipped with Red Hat, that would be my next laptop.
He uses it for gaming so it is probably the games that crash the thing but IE freezes up every so often and he does have a driver conflict with his DVD that has been resolved so that it works but I am not sure if that isn't where his problem is.
My win2k box never crashes though.
I am not saying anything bad about XP, it is the second best effort by MS to date. I love win2k.
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What else can you really do with them? They are electronic chains that make the execs trip down stairs and run into things as they 'chat' away with each other.
Only problem with golf cart type vehicles would be in the winter. When it gets to -20 C I bet the batteries don't last that long ;)
Other than bundle, control, DRM to death your home PC.. I don't see anything original coming from Microsoft but that isn't what they do. They make things... umm.. expensive? unreliable? mass marketed? awkward?
Sure a few of those can go to apple.. but at least you don't have to worry so much about the script kiddies. Oh and OS X.3 is out in few months.. X.4 in 04? X.5 in 05? hope longhorn is *nix.. then maybe they could compete.
Only thing I wish apple had was remote desktop app built in.. like XP pro, but are you going to say that was MS originality too? or once again following the Open Source world.. which is the the true innovative arena.
That would be super cool to have a little WC3 tourny over WiFi on the long flight across the Atlantic though.. hmmm.
... damn if my parents knew half of what I did, or didn't do in school...
I am sure to spy on my kids but I am damn happy my parents couldn't spy on me. Of course my real hope is that my kids are smart enough to figure out to circumvent the system like I did. There in is the real education.
hehe.
Sorry light trucks... GMC/Ford/Dodge 1/2 and 3/4 tons. They are their bread and butter. The American companies make all their money with trucks.. well not Dodge.. eheh that is why they got Jeep.
cadillac = high end.. On-star is damn expensive and really isn't innovative. Now night vision in cadillac is cool. But what about their affordable cars? You know middle class? Mazda and Toyota and Subaru even.. .now there is innovation.
Ok sorry.. their North American cars that are affordable are not as innovative as Jap or Korean cars. The high cars are amazing - hence my reference to cadillac.
An SUV is the 4runner which was a much improved Scout.. .but I had my 88 4runner everywhere, 300K miles, and the body was my only complaint.
Love my GMC Sierra, but the Envoy is gay.
Of course they will..
GM only has the cadillac.. and you shouldn't have to go top end to get an innovative machine.
It heats up my office too. Call up apple and they say they do not know of any technology that could cool the dual g4 any bettter and quiter..
A year ago order 12 machines, they still work. WTF apple???
If they do a good job and don't charge too much for it and don't throw in bandwidth caps.. I say good.
Getting a free network up and running costs too much. I just hope they don't try and punish the hobbyists for their forward thinking (cough Apple, Microsoft, IBM).
For $200 more - I would get the superdrive. Actually it is really odd that apple is offering a 1ghz without it... perhaps their price point is crap (as they already know). But the 133 MHZ and 32 meg video diff is not worth the $500 USD..
What is proper English? The English have a different idea then the Americans who talk funny according to Canadians. The language changes... that is why it is modern.
I was a windoze/linux user until I started working here and they supplied me with Macs (thank God). I went from OS 9 to OS X in weeks and haven't looked back. I even moved the younger folks in the office over to X.
But the older folks... the OS 8/9 users? They can't stop using Netscape 4.x nevermind switch to OS X. They get crippled when a lable writer that has nothing to do with their daily routine, doesn't work properly.
Not sure if it has to do with teh OS or the age of the person using the OS. Once someone is set in their ways, they resist change. Most people don't get that twinkle in their eye when they see a new version, a new computer box, a new standard.
Too bad really...
Kitchener was named Berlin before WWI but then was named after General Kitchener for 'patriotic' reasons.
Will have to check that out.... .although I am 99% OS X, win2k server still runs my home - can't afford a new mac for my home yet :(
What I am more worried about is iTunes going that way. It is probably the best mp3 player and disk ripper out there (at least for mac). The RIAA can't be happy with how easy it is to 'mix, rip, burn.'
I wonder if Apple has thought about iTunes for Windows. They have iPod for windows and iPod and iTunes play so well together I couldn't imagine one without the other.
For example, my Tibook G4 400 has a broken front latch (the thing that holds the monitor down). Apple care would not cover it and apple wanted to charge me $1000 CDN to fix it.
I told them duct tape will do and called customer service. They of course offered to fix it for free - "but only this one time." Since it is a crappy part it will break again.
My question to apple, don't you thinkg a $5000 CDN laptop deserves a better warrenty??? If dell still shipped with Red Hat, that would be my next laptop.
My win2k box never crashes though.
I am not saying anything bad about XP, it is the second best effort by MS to date. I love win2k.