If your server gets spammed like mine does and you get unsolicited spam like I do, set up a SpamVampire. Check out the one on my site. (Mad props to this guy for writing it.)
Running up their hosting costs is an effective means of reducing spam.
I too wanted a backlit keyboard, but I bought the 12" anyways, because I've been planning to for quite awhile. Imagine my surprise when I got the following line in the order confirmation e-mail:
Keyboard/Mac OS Language 065-5393 BkLit Keyboard/Mac OS
Schwing! Score one for me!
But it's still FireWire 400 and 10/100 ethernet. But I don't need the faster versions of those anyways.
Is it just me, or is Apple's site pretty much down? I was only able to follow one link to the iWork page, but I can't see anything else, I just get timeouts and all that jazz.
I was also hoping for slightly updated PowerBooks, because I need to buy one soon. Hopefully they just weren't announced by Steve because I've got $1,500 of pure education discount lovin' burning in my pocket (my wallet, perverts).
-Add another NIC so I can use it as a firewall... impossible on the iMac.
-Add an SATA card... impossible on the iMac.
-Add a 160 gb hard drive... impossible on the iMac as the ATA controllers of the time could not handle drives bigger than 128 gb.
-Use the drive at full speed... impossible on the iMac because the ATA controllers of the time were limited to ATA-33.
-Now using 2 hard drives... impossible on the iMac.
-Upgrade the second NIC to gigabit... impossible on the iMac. Impossible on current iMacs too.
-Upgrade the USB to USB 2.0... impossible on the iMac.
It sounds suspisciously like you don't want a consumer machine... If you wanted all this, would you buy a low level $600 Dell machine *then* upgrade everything? If you want pro-level equipment, you probably want to *buy* pro-level equipment.
It's not that Apple computers don't have all the spiffy ports, it's that they can't be upgraded later on when the definition of "spiffy port" changes.
Very true. However, that hasn't ever presented a problem to me. By the time the "spiffy port" has changed, I'm buying a new computer anyways. But as always, YMMV.
People usually argue that enthusiasts like myself should be buying PowerMacs, but the whole point is that a $500 PC is just as capable of doing these things as a $2000 PowerMac. PowerMacs have many benefits, but you pay for a lot of benefits that you don't need to buy the one benefit that you do.
I can see your point, but realize, your strategy is not Apple's strategy. Because people who want fancy things buy the fancy computers, Apple is able to make a profit. Imagine if their $499 Mac was as expandable as their PowerMac- it would cannabalize their PowerMac sales. Apple's formula seems to work for them. I'm too lazy to see if it's cheaper to buy a bare-bones computer and upgrade it to the equivalent high-end specs of some other machine.
In the end, if you don't like it- you don't have to buy it. What works best for you, be it a Mac or PC or NeXT Cube or whatever, is what you should use.
No they weren't. You need a Bungie history lesson.
Turn off the flame-thrower, it's just a company, let's not get emotional about it.
Bungie's first PC game was Marathon 2. It mostly fell flat on the PC side, but that was their first foray into the Windows world.
You're correct on the first count, but completely wrong on the second. Here's what Bungie has to say about the "flop" of the PC version of Marathon 2:
Marathon 2, released in November 1995, was also the first Bungie game to be ported to PC (Windows 95, in September 1996), marking Bungie's transition from Mac specialist to multiplatform publisher. It coincided with tremendous growth - the company's revenues shot up an astonishing 500%. This was now a company with a marketing staff, programmers, artists, desks, Post-It notes - the whole deal!
Next up was Myth, which was a simultaneous Mac/PC release. Myth 2 followed the same tradition. Oni was simultaneous or nearly so for the Mac and PC, and also came out for the PS2. All of this was before the Microsoft Unpleasantness.
But Oni was intended to be a Mac-only game. It wasn't until 1999 (Oni dates back to the creation of the west-coast office in 1997), that it was announced to be a Mac/PC/PS2 title. It was also to be Bungie's first real console game (Marathon was ported to Pippin, but we all know what happend to that, uhh, wildly succesful platform...)
Halo was originally developed on Macs and intended for the same simultaneous Mac/PC release as all of their other stuff until Microsoft bought them out. Bungie hadn't been Mac-only for a long time at that point, and Microsoft's big change was making it an Xbox exclusive, and then finally allowing crappy ports to the PC and Mac worlds.
True. Even worse, it took forever for the crappy ports to come out. Bite me, Microsoft!
Remember, Halo and Oni were originally going to be Mac-only before Microsoft bought them out. Could you imagine if Bungie was still, well, good ol' Bungie? The Mac-gaming scene would sure be a lot better.
You could imagine the shock and horror from the devoted Mac community when this happened. It was wose than Shaq quitting the Lakers for the Heat. Bungie had given us some of the best games ever, my personal favorite being Myth II. They were like family, really.
Key distinctions come in the use of touch scroll controls that permit the H10 to store, download and find songs easier and faster than the Mini which uses touch pad controls, according to the manufacturer.
So, it's better than the iPod because iRiver's music player uses a touch scroll control whereas the iPod uses touch pad controls?
Actually, when you increment a number that is already at it's maximum value for its type, it starts from the bottom.
i.e. Take unsigned two-bit numbers for instance. You'd go like this: 00 01 10 11 (0 1 2 3), then, when you increment it by one, you'd wraparound to 00 (0).
Just buy an used computer. With used PCs being so freaking cheap, it's almost a no-brainer to snap one up if you're looking for an cheap machine.
I was looking for a cheap box to use as my web server etc. So, I bought a simple HP box that had a 550MHz Celeron, A CD-ROM drive, a 5GB HD (I later upgraded to 80GB), and 192MB RAM. I threw Debain on there and it's a flawless server, and it hasn't gone down once. The only time it's been off has been when I was moving it. It hosts 3 sites consisting of 3 WordPress installations, 1 phpBB installation, 1 Textpress installation, 2 Gallery installations, and 1 calendar thingy mo-bob.
So don't waste your time trying to put together a $100 machine from new parts. It was a fun story in The First $20 Million Is Always The Hardest, in reality, it's sort of a joke. I'm not saying that it's totally stupid, I just think it's a waste of time and effort.
You'll end up with a junky piece of crap that will be about as reliable as a Geo Metro.
The sheer fucking stupidity of this leaves me almost at a loss for words...
Almost.
What business is it of yours to shove your persistent commercials into eyes and minds that don't belong to you? Other people might want to breathe and think freely, and it sounds like the poster has a problem with figuring out that our urban spaces have become polluted with non-stop consumer messages that indiscriminately pelt young and old, male and female, black and white, with constant forced messages on how they're supposed to live (by buying our shit, of course!). Television was merely a conduit of information; now it has become an annoying and frustratingly intrusive bringer of conformity.
And it's the height of arrogance and bourgeoise elitism to think that people who are concerned about visual and audio pollution in their daily lives and think that they actually have a RIGHT to clarity of life are "elitists".
The parent post talks about "intellectual elitism". For fuck's sake, people...
Blatant parody aside, what does it take? What's too intrusive? I'm assuming the parent post author would have no problem sitting at his table in a resturant screaming "BUY BUY BUY! FORD AT&T DELL MICROSOFT ZOLOFT PEPSI! BUY BUY BUY!" while flashing my logo-tattooed ass in his face. Of course not. And if he told me to leave him alone, that would make him (horror of horrors) an INTELLECTUAL ELITIST!
That would be a wonderful anecdote if there actually existed a 15" iBook. Numbnuts.
*sigh*
If you're going to make stuff up, at least TRY to sound believeable.
What about No-Doz?! Pah! You people forget the classics all too easily.
It's funny this article appeared because I'm doing Relay For Life right now (the 24-hour walking relay to raise money for cancer research and patient support) and I had No-Doz not too long ago. I'm on my break right now, but that No-Doz sure helps keep me up. I've been trying to quit caffeine for the past month (it sucks, a lot) but I had to give in because I'm coming close to being up for 24 hours straight.
It's hard to quit caffeine when you're surrounded by damned Pepsi machines. (I go to CalPoly in San Luis Obispo, the college that Pepsi basically owns). I'm getting there though. It'll be nice when I can go a week without caffeine and not have migraines from hell.:-/
I love the environmentalists who drive electric cars, thinking that they're greener than regular cars. I read a white paper saying that electric cars, if their electricity comes from a coal power plant, get's an equivalent of 12 miles per gallon. It's just pushing the source of the energy out of the consumers mind, making them think that they're really being "greener".
If you want to be "greener", ride a bike, walk, run, carpool, etc. Isn't this obvious? I thought it would be by now.
It seems like such a capitalist idea: Sell people products to make them weaker and more prone to disease through lack of exercise then turn around and sell them healthcare and surgery and diet pills and diet books and insulin, etc etc.
Everytime Apple announces that, *gasp*, there will be an update to MacOS X, the same camp of people comes running out, crying about how awful it is. Let's get straight to the point: If you don't like it, DON'T BUY IT!
You'd think these people would figure that out, but appearantly not. I bought 10.1 and 10.2 and 10.3 because I *liked* them. You don't have to buy it if you think it's too expensive. Do you guys whine when Apple releases new desktop machines?
"Oh geez! Look at Apple! Now I have to spend another thousand dollars. *whine whine* Everytime I buy a new computer, they have to go and make a faster/better one. *cry* *whine*."
Get real. I don't buy new books everytime a new edition comes out. Puh.
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I'd rather see PICOutstanding Fedora, thank you.
Sue me!
"Ghostbusters 3: The day all patents on evil expired"
So what, like some day in 3001?
If your server gets spammed like mine does and you get unsolicited spam like I do, set up a SpamVampire. Check out the one on my site. (Mad props to this guy for writing it.)
Running up their hosting costs is an effective means of reducing spam.
I too wanted a backlit keyboard, but I bought the 12" anyways, because I've been planning to for quite awhile. Imagine my surprise when I got the following line in the order confirmation e-mail:
Keyboard/Mac OS Language 065-5393 BkLit Keyboard/Mac OS
Schwing! Score one for me!
But it's still FireWire 400 and 10/100 ethernet. But I don't need the faster versions of those anyways.
Seriously, the mac is back.
Where did it go? And why wasn't I notified of it leaving?
The researchers used motion capture to record the movements of a dancing master...
As opposed to a dancing idiot?
Is it just me, or is Apple's site pretty much down? I was only able to follow one link to the iWork page, but I can't see anything else, I just get timeouts and all that jazz.
I was also hoping for slightly updated PowerBooks, because I need to buy one soon. Hopefully they just weren't announced by Steve because I've got $1,500 of pure education discount lovin' burning in my pocket (my wallet, perverts).
If this new Mac is real Mac is back!
Did it ever go away? Where did it go?
-Add another NIC so I can use it as a firewall... impossible on the iMac.
-Add an SATA card... impossible on the iMac.
-Add a 160 gb hard drive... impossible on the iMac as the ATA controllers of the time could not handle drives bigger than 128 gb.
-Use the drive at full speed... impossible on the iMac because the ATA controllers of the time were limited to ATA-33.
-Now using 2 hard drives... impossible on the iMac.
-Upgrade the second NIC to gigabit... impossible on the iMac. Impossible on current iMacs too.
-Upgrade the USB to USB 2.0... impossible on the iMac.
It sounds suspisciously like you don't want a consumer machine... If you wanted all this, would you buy a low level $600 Dell machine *then* upgrade everything? If you want pro-level equipment, you probably want to *buy* pro-level equipment.
It's not that Apple computers don't have all the spiffy ports, it's that they can't be upgraded later on when the definition of "spiffy port" changes.
Very true. However, that hasn't ever presented a problem to me. By the time the "spiffy port" has changed, I'm buying a new computer anyways. But as always, YMMV.
People usually argue that enthusiasts like myself should be buying PowerMacs, but the whole point is that a $500 PC is just as capable of doing these things as a $2000 PowerMac. PowerMacs have many benefits, but you pay for a lot of benefits that you don't need to buy the one benefit that you do.
I can see your point, but realize, your strategy is not Apple's strategy. Because people who want fancy things buy the fancy computers, Apple is able to make a profit. Imagine if their $499 Mac was as expandable as their PowerMac- it would cannabalize their PowerMac sales. Apple's formula seems to work for them. I'm too lazy to see if it's cheaper to buy a bare-bones computer and upgrade it to the equivalent high-end specs of some other machine.
In the end, if you don't like it- you don't have to buy it. What works best for you, be it a Mac or PC or NeXT Cube or whatever, is what you should use.
No they weren't. You need a Bungie history lesson.
Turn off the flame-thrower, it's just a company, let's not get emotional about it.
Bungie's first PC game was Marathon 2. It mostly fell flat on the PC side, but that was their first foray into the Windows world.
You're correct on the first count, but completely wrong on the second. Here's what Bungie has to say about the "flop" of the PC version of Marathon 2:
Next up was Myth, which was a simultaneous Mac/PC release. Myth 2 followed the same tradition. Oni was simultaneous or nearly so for the Mac and PC, and also came out for the PS2. All of this was before the Microsoft Unpleasantness.
But Oni was intended to be a Mac-only game. It wasn't until 1999 (Oni dates back to the creation of the west-coast office in 1997), that it was announced to be a Mac/PC/PS2 title. It was also to be Bungie's first real console game (Marathon was ported to Pippin, but we all know what happend to that, uhh, wildly succesful platform...)
Halo was originally developed on Macs and intended for the same simultaneous Mac/PC release as all of their other stuff until Microsoft bought them out. Bungie hadn't been Mac-only for a long time at that point, and Microsoft's big change was making it an Xbox exclusive, and then finally allowing crappy ports to the PC and Mac worlds.
True. Even worse, it took forever for the crappy ports to come out. Bite me, Microsoft!
Remember, Halo and Oni were originally going to be Mac-only before Microsoft bought them out. Could you imagine if Bungie was still, well, good ol' Bungie? The Mac-gaming scene would sure be a lot better.
You could imagine the shock and horror from the devoted Mac community when this happened. It was wose than Shaq quitting the Lakers for the Heat. Bungie had given us some of the best games ever, my personal favorite being Myth II. They were like family, really.
Oh, the memories.
So, it's better than the iPod because iRiver's music player uses a touch scroll control whereas the iPod uses touch pad controls?
Imagine a Beowolf cluster of these! You could keep a repair shop the size of Texas in operation for years!
Actually, when you increment a number that is already at it's maximum value for its type, it starts from the bottom.
i.e. Take unsigned two-bit numbers for instance. You'd go like this: 00 01 10 11 (0 1 2 3), then, when you increment it by one, you'd wraparound to 00 (0).
Just buy an used computer. With used PCs being so freaking cheap, it's almost a no-brainer to snap one up if you're looking for an cheap machine.
I was looking for a cheap box to use as my web server etc. So, I bought a simple HP box that had a 550MHz Celeron, A CD-ROM drive, a 5GB HD (I later upgraded to 80GB), and 192MB RAM. I threw Debain on there and it's a flawless server, and it hasn't gone down once. The only time it's been off has been when I was moving it. It hosts 3 sites consisting of 3 WordPress installations, 1 phpBB installation, 1 Textpress installation, 2 Gallery installations, and 1 calendar thingy mo-bob.
So don't waste your time trying to put together a $100 machine from new parts. It was a fun story in The First $20 Million Is Always The Hardest, in reality, it's sort of a joke. I'm not saying that it's totally stupid, I just think it's a waste of time and effort.
You'll end up with a junky piece of crap that will be about as reliable as a Geo Metro.
My favorite is the integral of e to the x equals the functions (the 'f') of u to the n.
Write it out.
The sheer fucking stupidity of this leaves me almost at a loss for words...
Almost.
What business is it of yours to shove your persistent commercials into eyes and minds that don't belong to you? Other people might want to breathe and think freely, and it sounds like the poster has a problem with figuring out that our urban spaces have become polluted with non-stop consumer messages that indiscriminately pelt young and old, male and female, black and white, with constant forced messages on how they're supposed to live (by buying our shit, of course!). Television was merely a conduit of information; now it has become an annoying and frustratingly intrusive bringer of conformity.
And it's the height of arrogance and bourgeoise elitism to think that people who are concerned about visual and audio pollution in their daily lives and think that they actually have a RIGHT to clarity of life are "elitists".
The parent post talks about "intellectual elitism". For fuck's sake, people...
Blatant parody aside, what does it take? What's too intrusive? I'm assuming the parent post author would have no problem sitting at his table in a resturant screaming "BUY BUY BUY! FORD AT&T DELL MICROSOFT ZOLOFT PEPSI! BUY BUY BUY!" while flashing my logo-tattooed ass in his face. Of course not. And if he told me to leave him alone, that would make him (horror of horrors) an INTELLECTUAL ELITIST!
RUN FOR THE HILLS KIDS!
*sigh*
That would be a wonderful anecdote if there actually existed a 15" iBook. Numbnuts. *sigh* If you're going to make stuff up, at least TRY to sound believeable.
What about No-Doz?! Pah! You people forget the classics all too easily.
:-/
It's funny this article appeared because I'm doing Relay For Life right now (the 24-hour walking relay to raise money for cancer research and patient support) and I had No-Doz not too long ago. I'm on my break right now, but that No-Doz sure helps keep me up. I've been trying to quit caffeine for the past month (it sucks, a lot) but I had to give in because I'm coming close to being up for 24 hours straight.
It's hard to quit caffeine when you're surrounded by damned Pepsi machines. (I go to CalPoly in San Luis Obispo, the college that Pepsi basically owns). I'm getting there though. It'll be nice when I can go a week without caffeine and not have migraines from hell.
Ok Steve, Hell realy *has* frozen over now.
I love the environmentalists who drive electric cars, thinking that they're greener than regular cars. I read a white paper saying that electric cars, if their electricity comes from a coal power plant, get's an equivalent of 12 miles per gallon. It's just pushing the source of the energy out of the consumers mind, making them think that they're really being "greener".
If you want to be "greener", ride a bike, walk, run, carpool, etc. Isn't this obvious? I thought it would be by now.
It seems like such a capitalist idea: Sell people products to make them weaker and more prone to disease through lack of exercise then turn around and sell them healthcare and surgery and diet pills and diet books and insulin, etc etc.
We all know that P2P is a trustworthy source. *rolls eyes*
Although they don't "support" Safari, it works brilliantly .
Everytime Apple announces that, *gasp*, there will be an update to MacOS X, the same camp of people comes running out, crying about how awful it is. Let's get straight to the point: If you don't like it, DON'T BUY IT!
You'd think these people would figure that out, but appearantly not. I bought 10.1 and 10.2 and 10.3 because I *liked* them. You don't have to buy it if you think it's too expensive. Do you guys whine when Apple releases new desktop machines?
"Oh geez! Look at Apple! Now I have to spend another thousand dollars. *whine whine* Everytime I buy a new computer, they have to go and make a faster/better one. *cry* *whine*."
Get real. I don't buy new books everytime a new edition comes out. Puh.
I use MacOS X. I don't have to re-install my crap, you insensitive clod!