If the call was blocked, it would bounce to voicemail and would be exactly the same as missing a call on a land line- if you're in a disrupted area, you're "out of the office", so to speak.
Personally, these should be installed in movie theaters. Depending on price and portability, I'd buy one just for personal use, and keep it in my backpack. Nothing is more obnoxious than someone on the bus with an annoying atonal nasal whine bitching out their kids or their mother or their whatever on a cel while you're trying to get from point A to point B.:|
Dude. I can go to wally world at four in the morning and walk out with batteries, underwear, action figures, a carton of cigarettes, food, t-shirts, blank CDs, blank VHS tapes, headphones, a fan, and compressed air.
At FOUR IN THE MORNING.
Compare to the rest of the stores in the area, which close at six or seven. Or the damned banks, which close at four.
If you're a night person, wally world is pretty much your only option.:P Unless you need toilet paper- the uni-mart will happilly sell you a roll of one-ply for the price of a four-pack of two-ply anywhere else.:P
I still use 9 on my powerbook, which is a G3/400. I use OS X on all of my other systems, because all of my other systems have at least two montiors on them. OS X feels incredibly claustrophobic at 1024x768- about as claustrophobic as Classic feels at 512x384. Then there's the speed issues- X boots a hell of a lot faster, but the 9 finder is generally vastly more responsive. I use the powerbook for email and looking at pr0n with an old version of mozilla- aside from that it's basically a hard drive to lug things between work and home.
I still use classic on all of my OS X machines, but it's only for photoshop. I can live with the rest of my applications no longer windowshading- but that and a trillion other issues of the OS X gui reach out and rape me in the face every time I try to use Photoshop 7 or CS (and nevermind the interface issues Adobe has introduced into the product since Days of Old).
Personally, Adobe has completely dropped the ball with the OS X versions of their software. Photoshop and Illustrator CS are a hell of a lot snappier on our 2ghz duron under win2k than they are on our dual 2ghz G5s.
I can, in fact, launch Classic and Photoshop 5.0.2 in roughly the same time it takes to launch Photoshop CS. And 5.0.2 is a hell of a lot more responsive.:|
If anything, what you see on TV is washed down, sterilized and rated G.
My high school experience was decidedly NC-17- violence and language, emphasis on blistering mindfuck.
There are basically three kinds of high school experiences:
1. Life ends when you get your diploma. (the popular kids) 2. It wasn't so bad, was it? (the middle ground) 3. I WILL NEVER FEEL SO MUCH HATE EVER AGAIN SO LONG AS I LIVE!!!! (Me, and hundreds of thousands of others just like me.)
And unlike a few kids out in the midwest, I had immediate and ready access to a plethora of high powered rifles and handguns, and the ethical sense to NOT use them.
I'm 24, and you have quite obviously never had it pounded into your face by half of the males in your class that you are worse than shit, thank you.
I went to a rural school district. Graduating class : 36 people. I use the term "people" loosely. Total student population was right around ~300- my sister's class was twice the size of mine and skewed the numbers considerably.
The district was too small for a middle school. There was Elementary (k-6) and High School (7-12). No Vo-Tech, no College Prep. Classes were split A (academic) and C (commercial). You could tell who was who just by looking at them.:P
You were in sports, or chorus, youth group, a redneck, or you were nobody. And that's all there was to it. Gym class was a fucking war zone- I still have scars. My nose was broken in study hall in ninth grade. My septum is still deviated- I still can't breath properly during allergy season.
And things DID chill out by the time I hit my senior year. That's because by tenth grade, I stopped taking shit. And not getting caught for it. Or when I was caught, not punished- several teachers and some of the administration had a thing for underdogs, apparently. The administration has a habit of looking the other way when the kid that's been shit on since he entered their workplace hits back- or at least they seemed to in my case.
I love my high school teachers (except for the german teacher- she and I hated each other from day one, and she deliberately kept me on the defficiency list for the brief span of time I actually had a C in the class)- they're good people, and it's not their fault that their given completely shitty material to work with.
And by material, I mean students.
I'm guessing my parent post was modded insightful by someone who knows what it's like to be on the complete bottom of the food chain- to be target practice, wedgie practice, victim, joke, unwanted, and made to feel like you don't even belong among the living.
Dude, nothing- and I mean NOTHING- fucked me up MORE in high school and grade school than the goddamned jocks. If you're not a jock, it doesn't matter if you're "on a team" or not- you're shafted into the shittiest position and made a target of opportunity by the opposing team, slammed into "By accident" and blamed for the failures of your own team, and generally shat on until you're ground into dust.
You want to fuck the kid up, stick him with a bunch of primates that play sports all day. See how he likes his life in a few years.
The closest thing I have to a TV is an NTSC monitor at work, for video capture and output monitoring. I watch the DVDs I borrow from my coworker on my computer- a 20" screen is just fine, thank you.
News flash: YOU DON'T NEED THE TV. There's plenty of OTHER things you could be doing- personally, I hate the thing and see it as an incredible waste of extremely valuable time. Gathering 'round with friends for a John Carpenter marathon is nice social thing, but watching TV alone is like going to the movies or a restaurant alone- an asocial act of mental masturbation.
I stopped watching TV for several reasons- most of it was shit, I didn't want to pay out the ass for 50 channels I don't want to get the three I do, and I REALLY HATE the advertising- specifically the difference in audio levels and overall brightness.
I don't miss TV at all. With technology like this being pushed, I miss it even less. I'll stick with software DVD playback once or twice a month, so I can watch movies and comment about how {good|bad} they are on IRC at the same time. Good use of existing hardware, excellent monetary savings (one of my machines has RCA/S inputs, so it's not like I need a TV for my old Nintendo, either...)
Install the firmware update.
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Our G5s whirred like guinea pigs fornicating while under the influence of copious amounts of amphetamines.
Then we installed the firmware update.
Now they make about as much noise as a slug on ketamine.
In fact, I've been passively looking for clean, good condition VHS or preferably Laserdisc copies of the ORIGINAL versions of the films so I can transfer them to DVD myself. I have most of the necessary hardware, and I really do NOT want to see the shitty "Special Edition" basardifiications again.:|
I like the original 4-6, and I'd pay good money for the original 4-6 on DVD. I wouldn't wipe my ass with the speditions.:|
I've used CCC on three different machines, and it's dutifully copied over everything but mach and mach.sym on all three.:| The only one that CCC actually worked on was my Powerbook- I cloned from the internall hdd to an expansion module drive and have never had any problems.:D
Probably op error on my part.:P
Nice if you don't have resource data.
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Which things like Photoshop still write out with their files, and which tar gleefully ignores. Tar and Stuff a site directory: untar, you have a bunch of Safari-defaulted HTML and a bunch of Imageviewer JPEGs. Unstuff and you have Dreamweaver HTML and Photoshop and Fireworks JPEGS (which is damned useful for determining which have been optimized).
Don't get me wrong, Tar is dandy- but not for resource-fork sensitive files and applications. Which is why I still do incremental DVD-R burns and have piles of CD-Rs full of data, not to mention hard drive images- I'm tied to my FILE and CREATOR typecodes.:)
Not to be trollish, but you'd be surprised how many people aren't using the GIMP on Linux- but rather, are using it in Windows or OS X. Neither of which has virts.
But then, Mac apps don't have one Giant Parent Window like Photoshop, etc. do on Windows, and I haven't had any problems using a colorful background on my desktop for the last five years....:P
The GIMP widgets need to be the same scale as Pro Graphics Apps widgets, instead of two to three times larger.:| Change that and I'm sure fewer people will be complaining about the ONE BIG WINDOW thing.
If not, well... they need to try using non-Microsoft operating systems.:P
Dear gods. Slicing in Fireworks and Imageready is HORRIBLE. I do all of my slicing by hand with the guides in Photoshop. I got sick of the shim gifs and whatnot that both apps would jam into my graphics, making them completely unuseable in terms of, say, integrating a menu bar into a solid interface. Yes, it's more time consuming.... but considering the amount of cleanup and kicking I've had to do to imageready and fireworks HTML to get the end result useable, well..... it's ten times faster to do it the hard way.:P
Heh. I do a lot of web graphics work, and I've NEVER found Adobe's products to be competetive, or even useable for that matter. I've been using Fireworks MX for image optimization- it does an awesome job of it in terms of file size and quality.... and if for some reason you want to, oh... do a rollover and write out some HTML, I was able to figure it out in Fireworks in about four seconds- compared to Imageready, in which I never actually found the process.:P
Price point is the problem, obviously- but Fireworks does things Right in terms of optimization, so if the GIMP can beat that (especially for batch processing), then it's something I'll have to look into. O_o
Now if only the interface dialogues weren't FREAKING HUGE.:| Side by side against Photoshop- as you can see here, the GIMP eats a MASSIVE amount of real estate.
(yes, that's The Gimp running in MacX, which is HORRIBLY OLD, but that's not the point- the gui is the same physical size on any screen.)
Aside from Script Fu, who cares? I'm a Photoshop artist- specifically, 5.0.2. Six royally screwed things over, and seven and eight are even worse. I'm stuck using 5 in Classic in OS X because later versions are horribly slow and godsawful BAD by comparison.
If the GIMP were as useable as Photoshop, I'd be using it. As it is, I pay attention to releases and feature additions, but they're a very long way from being what I need in a graphics application (which is, quite specifically, photoshop 5.0.2 with some fixes and improvements.... additions to 5.5 through 8 are not the kind of "improvements" I need.:P)
I may have heard of Paranoia once or twice in the past, but this is the first real discussion I've read of it, and it sounds like something worth looking into.
I used to be a hardcore tabletop gamer, but I stopped several years back for a whole heap of reasons. The only gaming supplies I still have are a set of stock DnD dice, a couple of first edition DnD books (my ex roommate needed money), the Lunch Money* CCG (best. CCG. EVAR.), and the HOL** manual and expansion.
If the Paranoia rulebook is even HALF as entertaining as the HOL manual, I'm buying two- the article links paint the game up into a similar category, which is good- this is the first I've even thought about tabletop gaming in months.
Good thing there's a gaming store about three blocks from work.:)
* Lunch Money : You play a catholic schoolgirl on a playground. You beat the crap out of your opponent(s). Suggested to use consumable items such as M&Ms as life counters. You buy the deck and you get the whole game- none of this Endless Diarrhea of Expansions that other CCGs suffer. Also an excellent card based hand-to-hand combat system.:)
** Human Occupied Landfill. The most heinously WRONG gaming manual ever written.
Apple's good at that. You can technically run 10.3 on beige G3s- assuming you use XPostFacto and a PCI video card. Motherboard video, which works in Jaguar, Doesn't Work in Panther. When Apple says "We're dropping support for $machine" they mean it.:P
Not that there aren't workarounds.
As for iMovie... doesn't surprise me. Software developers are famous for leaving features out in order to sucker you into upgrading later- heck, Adobe FINALLY added 16-bit image editing support into Photoshop. Four versions after what was current the first and only time I've needed the capability.:P
How's this bad?
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Dude. I'm the first to tell people to stop whining when they wind up for a bitch about everything that's wrong with them - especially since most of my friends either have medical insurance or make a healthy amount of side money reselling painkillers.:P
Having awesome amounts of medical information online is good for one VERY LARGE group of people- those of us who do NOT HAVE MEDICAL INSURANCE. I don't GET the luxury of being able to go to a doctor and tell him "hey, check it- my vision occasionally blurs out, sometimes I feel like I have bees in my head, most of the time I can't think straight, candy bars make me go insane, I get hangovers if I drink mountain dew, I get mood swings that vacillate between:| and @_@ every damned day, I know something is horribly wrong with my metabolism, so WHAT IS THE PROBLEM HERE?!"
Plug the symptoms into google, and hey! Look! I'm hypoglycemic! Plug in "hypoglycemic" and "diet". Hey, look! By controlling what and when I eat, THE HEADBEES ARE GONE!
Google has saved me hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in medical bills for what boils down to common sense- if I don't want to feel like a slug coated in hydrocholiic acid (and bees), I need to eat X types of things, preferably Y times a day.
I totally heart the fact that Teh Intarweb solved a medical problem I can't afford to tackle otherwise.
So. Forget the hypocondriacs- they'll find something wrong with themselves regardless of how healthy they check out. It's a psychological disorder.:P Medical data being online is great for people like me who are shafted with annoying disorders and diseases that have no cures (THANK YOU SCIENCE!!!!)- and no medical insurance to treat the crap with.
If you duplicate a system folder, it should be automatically "blessed". The easy tell is Startup Disk- it shows all valid bootable operating systems.
Pretty odd to see 7.6.1, 8.1, 8.6, fifteen different iterations of 9.2.2, and 10.2.4 client when I went to change startup on a server I was using for data collection. o_o
You know, doing some reading on what hardware worked with the iSight before you bought it would have saved you a chunk of cash. Plenty of CHEAP webcams work with OS X and iChat A/V- and since most webcams are USB, then they'll work on the iMac and later.
Then there's the fact that iMovie comes installed on G5s. Already. You only need to pay for iLife if you're upgrading and/or you want something like Garage Band. If I have to shell out fiddy bux for it, why does it keep showing up in software update?:-)
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If the call was blocked, it would bounce to voicemail and would be exactly the same as missing a call on a land line- if you're in a disrupted area, you're "out of the office", so to speak.
:|
Personally, these should be installed in movie theaters. Depending on price and portability, I'd buy one just for personal use, and keep it in my backpack. Nothing is more obnoxious than someone on the bus with an annoying atonal nasal whine bitching out their kids or their mother or their whatever on a cel while you're trying to get from point A to point B.
Dude. I can go to wally world at four in the morning and walk out with batteries, underwear, action figures, a carton of cigarettes, food, t-shirts, blank CDs, blank VHS tapes, headphones, a fan, and compressed air.
:P Unless you need toilet paper- the uni-mart will happilly sell you a roll of one-ply for the price of a four-pack of two-ply anywhere else. :P
At FOUR IN THE MORNING.
Compare to the rest of the stores in the area, which close at six or seven. Or the damned banks, which close at four.
If you're a night person, wally world is pretty much your only option.
I still use 9 on my powerbook, which is a G3/400. I use OS X on all of my other systems, because all of my other systems have at least two montiors on them. OS X feels incredibly claustrophobic at 1024x768- about as claustrophobic as Classic feels at 512x384. Then there's the speed issues- X boots a hell of a lot faster, but the 9 finder is generally vastly more responsive. I use the powerbook for email and looking at pr0n with an old version of mozilla- aside from that it's basically a hard drive to lug things between work and home.
I still use classic on all of my OS X machines, but it's only for photoshop. I can live with the rest of my applications no longer windowshading- but that and a trillion other issues of the OS X gui reach out and rape me in the face every time I try to use Photoshop 7 or CS (and nevermind the interface issues Adobe has introduced into the product since Days of Old).
Personally, Adobe has completely dropped the ball with the OS X versions of their software. Photoshop and Illustrator CS are a hell of a lot snappier on our 2ghz duron under win2k than they are on our dual 2ghz G5s.
:|
I can, in fact, launch Classic and Photoshop 5.0.2 in roughly the same time it takes to launch Photoshop CS. And 5.0.2 is a hell of a lot more responsive.
THANK YOU. :)
If anything, what you see on TV is washed down, sterilized and rated G.
My high school experience was decidedly NC-17- violence and language, emphasis on blistering mindfuck.
There are basically three kinds of high school experiences:
1. Life ends when you get your diploma. (the popular kids)
2. It wasn't so bad, was it? (the middle ground)
3. I WILL NEVER FEEL SO MUCH HATE EVER AGAIN SO LONG AS I LIVE!!!! (Me, and hundreds of thousands of others just like me.)
And unlike a few kids out in the midwest, I had immediate and ready access to a plethora of high powered rifles and handguns, and the ethical sense to NOT use them.
I thank my dad for that one.
I'm 24, and you have quite obviously never had it pounded into your face by half of the males in your class that you are worse than shit, thank you.
:P
I went to a rural school district. Graduating class : 36 people. I use the term "people" loosely. Total student population was right around ~300- my sister's class was twice the size of mine and skewed the numbers considerably.
The district was too small for a middle school. There was Elementary (k-6) and High School (7-12). No Vo-Tech, no College Prep. Classes were split A (academic) and C (commercial). You could tell who was who just by looking at them.
You were in sports, or chorus, youth group, a redneck, or you were nobody. And that's all there was to it. Gym class was a fucking war zone- I still have scars. My nose was broken in study hall in ninth grade. My septum is still deviated- I still can't breath properly during allergy season.
And things DID chill out by the time I hit my senior year. That's because by tenth grade, I stopped taking shit. And not getting caught for it. Or when I was caught, not punished- several teachers and some of the administration had a thing for underdogs, apparently. The administration has a habit of looking the other way when the kid that's been shit on since he entered their workplace hits back- or at least they seemed to in my case.
I love my high school teachers (except for the german teacher- she and I hated each other from day one, and she deliberately kept me on the defficiency list for the brief span of time I actually had a C in the class)- they're good people, and it's not their fault that their given completely shitty material to work with.
And by material, I mean students.
I'm guessing my parent post was modded insightful by someone who knows what it's like to be on the complete bottom of the food chain- to be target practice, wedgie practice, victim, joke, unwanted, and made to feel like you don't even belong among the living.
You quite obviously do NOT.
No, really. They did.
IF (Right tech + right size + right price point) = (convenience) THEN (ubiquity).
Dude, nothing- and I mean NOTHING- fucked me up MORE in high school and grade school than the goddamned jocks. If you're not a jock, it doesn't matter if you're "on a team" or not- you're shafted into the shittiest position and made a target of opportunity by the opposing team, slammed into "By accident" and blamed for the failures of your own team, and generally shat on until you're ground into dust.
You want to fuck the kid up, stick him with a bunch of primates that play sports all day. See how he likes his life in a few years.
O_O
Dude, that totally rules.
The closest thing I have to a TV is an NTSC monitor at work, for video capture and output monitoring. I watch the DVDs I borrow from my coworker on my computer- a 20" screen is just fine, thank you.
News flash: YOU DON'T NEED THE TV. There's plenty of OTHER things you could be doing- personally, I hate the thing and see it as an incredible waste of extremely valuable time. Gathering 'round with friends for a John Carpenter marathon is nice social thing, but watching TV alone is like going to the movies or a restaurant alone- an asocial act of mental masturbation.
I stopped watching TV for several reasons- most of it was shit, I didn't want to pay out the ass for 50 channels I don't want to get the three I do, and I REALLY HATE the advertising- specifically the difference in audio levels and overall brightness.
I don't miss TV at all. With technology like this being pushed, I miss it even less. I'll stick with software DVD playback once or twice a month, so I can watch movies and comment about how {good|bad} they are on IRC at the same time. Good use of existing hardware, excellent monetary savings (one of my machines has RCA/S inputs, so it's not like I need a TV for my old Nintendo, either...)
Our G5s whirred like guinea pigs fornicating while under the influence of copious amounts of amphetamines.
Then we installed the firmware update.
Now they make about as much noise as a slug on ketamine.
Simple solution, really.
In fact, I've been passively looking for clean, good condition VHS or preferably Laserdisc copies of the ORIGINAL versions of the films so I can transfer them to DVD myself. I have most of the necessary hardware, and I really do NOT want to see the shitty "Special Edition" basardifiications again. :|
:|
I like the original 4-6, and I'd pay good money for the original 4-6 on DVD. I wouldn't wipe my ass with the speditions.
I've used CCC on three different machines, and it's dutifully copied over everything but mach and mach.sym on all three. :| The only one that CCC actually worked on was my Powerbook- I cloned from the internall hdd to an expansion module drive and have never had any problems. :D
:P
Probably op error on my part.
Which things like Photoshop still write out with their files, and which tar gleefully ignores. Tar and Stuff a site directory: untar, you have a bunch of Safari-defaulted HTML and a bunch of Imageviewer JPEGs. Unstuff and you have Dreamweaver HTML and Photoshop and Fireworks JPEGS (which is damned useful for determining which have been optimized).
:)
Don't get me wrong, Tar is dandy- but not for resource-fork sensitive files and applications. Which is why I still do incremental DVD-R burns and have piles of CD-Rs full of data, not to mention hard drive images- I'm tied to my FILE and CREATOR typecodes.
Not to be trollish, but you'd be surprised how many people aren't using the GIMP on Linux- but rather, are using it in Windows or OS X. Neither of which has virts.
:P
:| Change that and I'm sure fewer people will be complaining about the ONE BIG WINDOW thing.
:P
But then, Mac apps don't have one Giant Parent Window like Photoshop, etc. do on Windows, and I haven't had any problems using a colorful background on my desktop for the last five years....
The GIMP widgets need to be the same scale as Pro Graphics Apps widgets, instead of two to three times larger.
If not, well... they need to try using non-Microsoft operating systems.
Dear gods. Slicing in Fireworks and Imageready is HORRIBLE. I do all of my slicing by hand with the guides in Photoshop. I got sick of the shim gifs and whatnot that both apps would jam into my graphics, making them completely unuseable in terms of, say, integrating a menu bar into a solid interface. Yes, it's more time consuming.... but considering the amount of cleanup and kicking I've had to do to imageready and fireworks HTML to get the end result useable, well..... it's ten times faster to do it the hard way. :P
Heh. I do a lot of web graphics work, and I've NEVER found Adobe's products to be competetive, or even useable for that matter. I've been using Fireworks MX for image optimization- it does an awesome job of it in terms of file size and quality.... and if for some reason you want to, oh... do a rollover and write out some HTML, I was able to figure it out in Fireworks in about four seconds- compared to Imageready, in which I never actually found the process. :P
Price point is the problem, obviously- but Fireworks does things Right in terms of optimization, so if the GIMP can beat that (especially for batch processing), then it's something I'll have to look into. O_o
Now if only the interface dialogues weren't FREAKING HUGE. :| Side by side against Photoshop- as you can see here, the GIMP eats a MASSIVE amount of real estate.
(yes, that's The Gimp running in MacX, which is HORRIBLY OLD, but that's not the point- the gui is the same physical size on any screen.)
Aside from Script Fu, who cares? I'm a Photoshop artist- specifically, 5.0.2. Six royally screwed things over, and seven and eight are even worse. I'm stuck using 5 in Classic in OS X because later versions are horribly slow and godsawful BAD by comparison.
:P)
If the GIMP were as useable as Photoshop, I'd be using it. As it is, I pay attention to releases and feature additions, but they're a very long way from being what I need in a graphics application (which is, quite specifically, photoshop 5.0.2 with some fixes and improvements.... additions to 5.5 through 8 are not the kind of "improvements" I need.
I may have heard of Paranoia once or twice in the past, but this is the first real discussion I've read of it, and it sounds like something worth looking into.
:)
:)
I used to be a hardcore tabletop gamer, but I stopped several years back for a whole heap of reasons. The only gaming supplies I still have are a set of stock DnD dice, a couple of first edition DnD books (my ex roommate needed money), the Lunch Money* CCG (best. CCG. EVAR.), and the HOL** manual and expansion.
If the Paranoia rulebook is even HALF as entertaining as the HOL manual, I'm buying two- the article links paint the game up into a similar category, which is good- this is the first I've even thought about tabletop gaming in months.
Good thing there's a gaming store about three blocks from work.
* Lunch Money : You play a catholic schoolgirl on a playground. You beat the crap out of your opponent(s). Suggested to use consumable items such as M&Ms as life counters. You buy the deck and you get the whole game- none of this Endless Diarrhea of Expansions that other CCGs suffer. Also an excellent card based hand-to-hand combat system.
** Human Occupied Landfill. The most heinously WRONG gaming manual ever written.
Apple's good at that. You can technically run 10.3 on beige G3s- assuming you use XPostFacto and a PCI video card. Motherboard video, which works in Jaguar, Doesn't Work in Panther. When Apple says "We're dropping support for $machine" they mean it. :P
:P
Not that there aren't workarounds.
As for iMovie... doesn't surprise me. Software developers are famous for leaving features out in order to sucker you into upgrading later- heck, Adobe FINALLY added 16-bit image editing support into Photoshop. Four versions after what was current the first and only time I've needed the capability.
Dude. I'm the first to tell people to stop whining when they wind up for a bitch about everything that's wrong with them - especially since most of my friends either have medical insurance or make a healthy amount of side money reselling painkillers. :P
:| and @_@ every damned day, I know something is horribly wrong with my metabolism, so WHAT IS THE PROBLEM HERE?!"
:P Medical data being online is great for people like me who are shafted with annoying disorders and diseases that have no cures (THANK YOU SCIENCE!!!!)- and no medical insurance to treat the crap with.
Having awesome amounts of medical information online is good for one VERY LARGE group of people- those of us who do NOT HAVE MEDICAL INSURANCE. I don't GET the luxury of being able to go to a doctor and tell him "hey, check it- my vision occasionally blurs out, sometimes I feel like I have bees in my head, most of the time I can't think straight, candy bars make me go insane, I get hangovers if I drink mountain dew, I get mood swings that vacillate between
Plug the symptoms into google, and hey! Look! I'm hypoglycemic! Plug in "hypoglycemic" and "diet". Hey, look! By controlling what and when I eat, THE HEADBEES ARE GONE!
Google has saved me hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in medical bills for what boils down to common sense- if I don't want to feel like a slug coated in hydrocholiic acid (and bees), I need to eat X types of things, preferably Y times a day.
I totally heart the fact that Teh Intarweb solved a medical problem I can't afford to tackle otherwise.
So. Forget the hypocondriacs- they'll find something wrong with themselves regardless of how healthy they check out. It's a psychological disorder.
(the internet)++
If you duplicate a system folder, it should be automatically "blessed". The easy tell is Startup Disk- it shows all valid bootable operating systems.
Pretty odd to see 7.6.1, 8.1, 8.6, fifteen different iterations of 9.2.2, and 10.2.4 client when I went to change startup on a server I was using for data collection. o_o
My Pismo is four years old and runs 10.3.2 like a slug on ketamine. I don't suppose you make a living in Photoshop?
I keep my Pismo in 9.2 and use an older version of photoshop simply for the speed benefits over using PS 7 or CS in OS X on the same hardware.
You know, doing some reading on what hardware worked with the iSight before you bought it would have saved you a chunk of cash. Plenty of CHEAP webcams work with OS X and iChat A/V- and since most webcams are USB, then they'll work on the iMac and later.
:-)
Then there's the fact that iMovie comes installed on G5s. Already. You only need to pay for iLife if you're upgrading and/or you want something like Garage Band. If I have to shell out fiddy bux for it, why does it keep showing up in software update?