Any time someone declares the "scientific debate over" run for the hills, because whatever the topic is has passed out of the realm of scientific discussion and into the realm of blind zealotry.
Between the cross-like symbols and the music I was having flashbacks to Equilibrium...
That all aside, I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. The trailer looks interesting, the story is interesting, and so it has the potential to be very very good.
It also has the potential to be excruciatingly bad. The Law of Hype will tell us more as we get closer (i.e., if it gets 15 different versions of trailers on trailers.apple.com and has a huge marketing campaign in everything from fast food to office supplies then I'll avoid it like the plague).
I can already search inside them and I produce them in TeXShop--TextEdit would be an unnecessary step if all I wanted was to search inside the files. What I want is for them to index keys such as "author," "date," and "documenttype" so that I that (ideally) I could search for "that report I am writing for next June using the web package."
For what it is worth I haven't had most of the problems being described. I use spotlight every day and while advanced queries are nice (and a manual would be even nicer) simple queries are *far* from "not powerful enough to be really useful."
Sure, it has some issues (report them to apple as bugs when you find them, it is the only way they know about them), but it is fast and it Works For Me(TM).
Now if only someone would create a LaTeX mdimporter...
>You can look at the design of creatures and think, "would this >be the sort of thing that an intelligent designer would make? >Or does it look more like the result of random alteration and >natural selection?"
Well, no, you can't.
Grab a layperson off of the street and ask him to tell you if a house in progress is "well designed."
Good luck getting an educated answer on the matter.
Now talk to a scheduler or an architect and ask the same question. Different perspective, no?
You are assuming, with your statements, that:
a) We are looking at the finished products (not a valid assumption).
b) That the final goal is intelligible to us (it wouldn't necessarily be).
c) That we can make a fair evaluation of the designs as they stand now, taking into account "metabenefits" that relate directly to the design and how the design happens (we can't).
d) That the designer knew exactly where It was going from the get go and knew perfectly what It wanted the final result to be and what would work given the circumstances (as anyone who has ever designed software or a scientific experiment, or better yet had to deal with someone else's, can tell you: omniscience- Hel, even competence--is not a prerequisite for design).
>Evolution predicts that you ought to find certain things in the >fossil record as we more completely fill out the fossil record. >Those predictions in the past have been borne out.
Not really. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/14418 79.stm
What happens is, when a fossil is found that doesn't fit the theory, the theory is changed. There is nothing wrong with this, but it helps to be honest that such is what is actually going on and not claiming that evolution has been "borne out repeatedly."
>ID doesn't predict anything about the fossil record,
Neither does Naturalism or the theory of evolution happening through Random Mutation + Natural Selection.
>This is incorrect. First, mutation is not "random."
From what I remember in Genetics, mutation *is* random. It has tendencies (IIRC transitions are more common than transversions), but "random" doesn't necessarily (or even usually) mean "uniformly variate."
>Finally, and I cannot scream this loud enough, ID IS NOT >SCIENCE!!!
Right, neither is the naturalist assumption. It is simply a framework under which people choose work.
- Henry Ford wasn't the first person to build a car. - Henry Ford wasn't the first person to commercialize it. - Henry Ford wasn't the first person to have the exterior be black. - Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly line. - Henry Ford wasn't the first person to apply the assembly line to cars.
More seriously, you might want to elaborate on your comments, because I haven't found any of them to have ever been true. Maybe I'm just used to working around the "stupid configuration issues" and "crippled GUI" (I *do* use the Terminal a lot, after all) and it is just that the apps I specifically use never crash, but...
"Do you really think people that the Mac Mini is targeting are looking to play Halo or World of Warcraft or Half-Life 2? Can you play any of your games on the Dell listed here?"
Just a note: The MacMini, with a RAM upgrade, meets or beats all of the requirements for World of Warcraft. Of course, I'm not entirely sure how it *runs* given those requirements, but it does meet or beat them.
* A full version of Windows XP Professional costs $290.
* You don't ever need to upgrade MacOS X. 10.3 will keep working the day 10.4 is released, and it will be the same price to upgrade to 10.5 as it is to upgrade to 10.5 from 10.4
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Actually I suspect that the reason there isn't a spreadsheet app included is because Apple just hasn't developed one that is currently ready to ship out the door.
We'll probably see one eventually (maybe next year at this time), if for no other reason than that they want to replace most of the functionality of AppleWorks.
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Any time someone declares the "scientific debate over" run for the hills, because whatever the topic is has passed out of the realm of scientific discussion and into the realm of blind zealotry.
Maybe I'm just blind, but I don't see "Vista" anywhere on that list.
Between the cross-like symbols and the music I was having flashbacks to Equilibrium...
That all aside, I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. The trailer looks interesting, the story is interesting, and so it has the potential to be very very good.
It also has the potential to be excruciatingly bad. The Law of Hype will tell us more as we get closer (i.e., if it gets 15 different versions of trailers on trailers.apple.com and has a huge marketing campaign in everything from fast food to office supplies then I'll avoid it like the plague).
Anyone else just hear a swooshing sound?
I can already search inside them and I produce them in TeXShop--TextEdit would be an unnecessary step if all I wanted was to search inside the files. What I want is for them to index keys such as "author," "date," and "documenttype" so that I that (ideally) I could search for "that report I am writing for next June using the web package."
For what it is worth I haven't had most of the problems being described. I use spotlight every day and while advanced queries are nice (and a manual would be even nicer) simple queries are *far* from "not powerful enough to be really useful."
Sure, it has some issues (report them to apple as bugs when you find them, it is the only way they know about them), but it is fast and it Works For Me(TM).
Now if only someone would create a LaTeX mdimporter...
>You can look at the design of creatures and think, "would this
>be the sort of thing that an intelligent designer would make?
>Or does it look more like the result of random alteration and
>natural selection?"
Well, no, you can't.
Grab a layperson off of the street and ask him to tell you if a house in progress is "well designed."
Good luck getting an educated answer on the matter.
Now talk to a scheduler or an architect and ask the same question. Different perspective, no?
You are assuming, with your statements, that:
a) We are looking at the finished products (not a valid assumption).
b) That the final goal is intelligible to us (it wouldn't necessarily be).
c) That we can make a fair evaluation of the designs as they stand now, taking into account "metabenefits" that relate directly to the design and how the design happens (we can't).
d) That the designer knew exactly where It was going from the get go and knew perfectly what It wanted the final result to be and what would work given the circumstances (as anyone who has ever designed software or a scientific experiment, or better yet had to deal with someone else's, can tell you: omniscience- Hel, even competence--is not a prerequisite for design).
>Evolution predicts that you ought to find certain things in the
8 79.stm
>fossil record as we more completely fill out the fossil record.
>Those predictions in the past have been borne out.
Not really.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1441
What happens is, when a fossil is found that doesn't fit the theory, the theory is changed. There is nothing wrong with this, but it helps to be honest that such is what is actually going on and not claiming that evolution has been "borne out repeatedly."
>ID doesn't predict anything about the fossil record,
Neither does Naturalism or the theory of evolution happening through Random Mutation + Natural Selection.
Evolution is not and never was counter to ID.
>This is incorrect. First, mutation is not "random."
From what I remember in Genetics, mutation *is* random. It has tendencies (IIRC transitions are more common than transversions), but "random" doesn't necessarily (or even usually) mean "uniformly variate."
>Finally, and I cannot scream this loud enough, ID IS NOT
>SCIENCE!!!
Right, neither is the naturalist assumption. It is simply a framework under which people choose work.
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IANAL, but somehow I don't see how TigerDirect has a leg to stand on here....
Erm, AU$1.20 ~= US$0.93, take out the GST and you get around 85 US cents.
So buy the RAM from a third party and install it yourself.
If you throwing $2000-3000 into a computer, I somehow doubt $65 bucks to upgrade it by a gig of RAM is going to break the bank.
- Henry Ford wasn't the first person to build a car.
- Henry Ford wasn't the first person to commercialize it.
- Henry Ford wasn't the first person to have the exterior be black.
- Henry Ford didn't invent the assembly line.
- Henry Ford wasn't the first person to apply the assembly line to cars.
Yes, because every mac comes with the web server enabled by default.
Slight clarification.
It is a logical impossibility to make one that dodges the pigeonhole principle, i.e., one that is "collisionless."
This is different from whether one can be "broken," i.e., a message can be found that collides in less than brute force time (2^80 for SHA1).
Ransome Olds introduced the assembly line to automobile production years before Ford.
> it looks like I'll be able to do some half-decent document
> processing without spending a fortune.
Have you tried publicon?
Yeah, I tried Windows XP once too.
More seriously, you might want to elaborate on your comments, because I haven't found any of them to have ever been true. Maybe I'm just used to working around the "stupid configuration issues" and "crippled GUI" (I *do* use the Terminal a lot, after all) and it is just that the apps I specifically use never crash, but...
"Do you really think people that the Mac Mini is targeting are looking to play Halo or World of Warcraft or Half-Life 2? Can you play any of your games on the Dell listed here?"
Just a note: The MacMini, with a RAM upgrade, meets or beats all of the requirements for World of Warcraft. Of course, I'm not entirely sure how it *runs* given those requirements, but it does meet or beat them.
"it is obvious, you'll see it, no problems" :-)
It should come up pretty quickly and inform you what's what.
Configuring a Mocha P4 7042 with:
* Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor @ 2.00GHz / 512K Cache
* PC2100 DDR RAM 256MB
* 40GB 2.5" Ultra DMA 33/66 5400RPM Hard Drive
* Slim 24x12x24x8 CD-ReWritable Drive + DVD Combo (slot loading)
* Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
*  Integrated SiS 651 High Performance 3D/2D 64M Video RAM (Shared Memory)
I get a price of $1,143.00
Major differences with the Mac Mini:
* Two 4 pin Firewire ports (IIRC the MacMini has 1 six pin Firewire port)
* PC2100 RAM (MacMini uses PC2700)
* 2.00GHz Pentium 4 / 512K Cache vs. 1.25 GHz G4 / 512K Cache.
* Cappuccino machine supports 2 GB of RAM, MacMini supports 1 GB.
* 64 MB Shared/Integrated vs. 32 MB Dedicated / Radeon 9200.
* I don't know the details of the hard drive in the MacMini.
LyX/Mac is okay, but saying that it runs "well on the mac" is a vast overstatement.
TeXmacs requires X11, IIRC.
Neither of which is anywhere close to something I would use for production as part of a suite of applications.
Two things:
* A full version of Windows XP Professional costs $290.
* You don't ever need to upgrade MacOS X. 10.3 will keep working the day 10.4 is released, and it will be the same price to upgrade to 10.5 as it is to upgrade to 10.5 from 10.4
Actually I suspect that the reason there isn't a spreadsheet app included is because Apple just hasn't developed one that is currently ready to ship out the door.
We'll probably see one eventually (maybe next year at this time), if for no other reason than that they want to replace most of the functionality of AppleWorks.
Buy 1 GB of RAM.
Go to store.
Get it installed.
Easy.