My parents live 12 miles up in the mountains facing Santa Barbara. Despite being 50 yards from the termination of a Verizon fiber optic line and being in a community of 50 densely-packed houses desperate for broadband, no company was willing to spend the tiny amount of money it would take to provide DSL for that area of the mountain. I convinced my dad that fixed wireless was an option and he found a company willing to shoot 1.5/1.5 broadband in a 13-mile line direct from a building near Santa Barbara Airport. He has pretty good latency (we do iChat AV video all the time, no problem) and no real slowdowns due to weather. He's paying $200 a month, but it's worth it (he had to buy the equipment, too, but $600 was worth it too). Look into fixed wireless.
I used to go to raves with Mr. Draper back in the 90's in the Bay Area. He was off his rocker then and seems about the same now. Really sweet guy, however. He's not crazy, just has the madness of genius.
I can't agree more. Couple those high-capacity NiMH MAHA cells with a good MAHA charger and it's a match made in heaven. I have been using some 2500 maH MAHA cells in some wireless Clear-Com and radios and wireless mics for a year now and have saved $500 in battery costs. At home, I use them in my digital camera, iPod speakers and portable radios. MAHA kick ass.
I recommend their new 8-bay AA/AAA charger: http://www.thomas-distributing.com/maha-mh-c801d-b attery-charger.htm
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Your math is a wee bit screwy. 60GB = 61,440MB. An uncompressed CD is about 780MB. 60GB will hold about 78 uncompressed albums. So FLAC or even Apple Lossless would make that nearly 160 albums. Just a friendly FYI.
I pay a lot of extra money ($99/month) for my Speakeasy 6Mbit/768Kbit DSL - but they offer a fast connection and specifically state - "you can what ever you want". I like that. They allow sharing of the connection, servers, whatever.
They have never throttled BitTorrent or blocked ANY ports. Their support staff are local and well-trained. I've had one unplanned outage in 2.5 years and it lasted 15 minutes.
Yeah, it's just too bad Windows Media Player for Mac completely sucks ass. Ever tried to skip ahead in a movie? It takes like 5 seconds for the video to catch up. Moronic. And the fact that when you close the player window it quits the program? Eew.
Yeah, reeeeeaaaally evil. Except for that annoying fact that Apple gets less than 20% of that $.99 for each song. This goes to pay for servers, storage, and bandwidth. NOT Steve Jobs' pockets. iPods line his pockets. The other 80% goes to the labels.
There's a $100 Superdrive option! Couple that with a good Firewire TV tuner/capture and you have a nice PVR with DVD burning capabilities. With a large external firewire drive, of course.
On the other hand, the 1GB RAM upgrade costs $50 less than the entire Mac Mini. Ouch. Don't buy RAM from Apple. Ever.
Considering Apple has sold MILLIONS of iPods, and are projected to sell 24 million NEXT YEAR, I think 6 or 7 percent is quite a nice chunk of switchers.
That's a GREAT idea! Someone write a Photoshop plugin which scatters the same dots randomly across the print so the true serial number is obfuscated....
Kind of hard to read this article at work with dumbass geekboy-Mrs. Claus fantasy pictures plastered everywhere.
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In the Seattle PI blog
page linked in the post, the Microsoft marketing team has done their part:
As expected, the world's greatest development team (Microsoft) have rewritten the search engine rules. The new MSN search blows EVERYTHING else out of the water, it's simply incredible. Google should be very worried. The "search builder" is a phenomenal development (hats off to MS research labs), no other search engine comes close. I was amazed at the accuracy of the "near me" feature - it correctly located a store just 25 miles from my house! I won't be going back to Google, I advise you to do the same. Search with the best, search with Microsoft Search.
Posted by: David Cross at November 12, 2004 08:43 AM
You are on crack. I've replaced 'industry standard' drives on several iBooks and Powerbooks and the only mounting braces in there are little rubber feet that slide onto the drive and act as shock mounts. They, uh, COME OFF the old drive and well, can GO BACK ON the new drive. Easy as pie. It takes 15 minutes to swap out a Powerbook drive, and about 2 hours on on iBook (but that's a different story).
Mounting braces come off. The drives do not ship with them, and the screw points on drives are all the same.
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My parents live 12 miles up in the mountains facing Santa Barbara. Despite being 50 yards from the termination of a Verizon fiber optic line and being in a community of 50 densely-packed houses desperate for broadband, no company was willing to spend the tiny amount of money it would take to provide DSL for that area of the mountain. I convinced my dad that fixed wireless was an option and he found a company willing to shoot 1.5/1.5 broadband in a 13-mile line direct from a building near Santa Barbara Airport. He has pretty good latency (we do iChat AV video all the time, no problem) and no real slowdowns due to weather. He's paying $200 a month, but it's worth it (he had to buy the equipment, too, but $600 was worth it too). Look into fixed wireless.
The Buddhists? Unitarians?
I used to go to raves with Mr. Draper back in the 90's in the Bay Area. He was off his rocker then and seems about the same now. Really sweet guy, however. He's not crazy, just has the madness of genius.
I can't agree more. Couple those high-capacity NiMH MAHA cells with a good MAHA charger and it's a match made in heaven. I have been using some 2500 maH MAHA cells in some wireless Clear-Com and radios and wireless mics for a year now and have saved $500 in battery costs. At home, I use them in my digital camera, iPod speakers and portable radios. MAHA kick ass. I recommend their new 8-bay AA/AAA charger: http://www.thomas-distributing.com/maha-mh-c801d-b attery-charger.htm
iLife '06 does NOT require a license key.
Yeah, really. Please be quiet.
Your math is a wee bit screwy. 60GB = 61,440MB. An uncompressed CD is about 780MB. 60GB will hold about 78 uncompressed albums. So FLAC or even Apple Lossless would make that nearly 160 albums. Just a friendly FYI.
I pay a lot of extra money ($99/month) for my Speakeasy 6Mbit/768Kbit DSL - but they offer a fast connection and specifically state - "you can what ever you want". I like that. They allow sharing of the connection, servers, whatever.
They have never throttled BitTorrent or blocked ANY ports. Their support staff are local and well-trained. I've had one unplanned outage in 2.5 years and it lasted 15 minutes.
It takes $18 and 10 minutes to replace the battery in your iPod.
not *much* cheaper these days.
Yeah, it's just too bad Windows Media Player for Mac completely sucks ass. Ever tried to skip ahead in a movie? It takes like 5 seconds for the video to catch up. Moronic. And the fact that when you close the player window it quits the program? Eew.
Yeah, reeeeeaaaally evil. Except for that annoying fact that Apple gets less than 20% of that $.99 for each song. This goes to pay for servers, storage, and bandwidth. NOT Steve Jobs' pockets. iPods line his pockets. The other 80% goes to the labels.
...the head of Intel visited by the Mafia, changes story next day. "I meant Windows! Windows!!" he bleats.
Where is the advertising campaign touting the lack of spyware and viruses? Apple should be screaming it from the tops of buildings right now.
Dumbasses.
Not crippled at all. In fact, Apple has never sold a crippled version of their OS.
There's a $100 Superdrive option! Couple that with a good Firewire TV tuner/capture and you have a nice PVR with DVD burning capabilities. With a large external firewire drive, of course.
On the other hand, the 1GB RAM upgrade costs $50 less than the entire Mac Mini. Ouch. Don't buy RAM from Apple. Ever.
Yes. 10.3 (Panther), and iLife '05 and Pages and a bunch of other stuff.
Dumbass. $50 gets you a new battery you can install yourself in 5 minutes.
I can't reburn it without adding silence or rearanging the tracks
No. All you have to do it delete the playlist and just re-create the same one again.
Considering Apple has sold MILLIONS of iPods, and are projected to sell 24 million NEXT YEAR, I think 6 or 7 percent is quite a nice chunk of switchers.
That's a GREAT idea! Someone write a Photoshop plugin which scatters the same dots randomly across the print so the true serial number is obfuscated....
My job isn't all that conducive to outsourcing. Lucky me. So I will keep reading Slashdot at work.
Kind of hard to read this article at work with dumbass geekboy-Mrs. Claus fantasy pictures plastered everywhere.
In the Seattle PI blog page linked in the post, the Microsoft marketing team has done their part:
As expected, the world's greatest development team (Microsoft) have rewritten the search engine rules. The new MSN search blows EVERYTHING else out of the water, it's simply incredible. Google should be very worried. The "search builder" is a phenomenal development (hats off to MS research labs), no other search engine comes close. I was amazed at the accuracy of the "near me" feature - it correctly located a store just 25 miles from my house! I won't be going back to Google, I advise you to do the same. Search with the best, search with Microsoft Search.
Posted by: David Cross at November 12, 2004 08:43 AM
Blatant, much?
You are on crack. I've replaced 'industry standard' drives on several iBooks and Powerbooks and the only mounting braces in there are little rubber feet that slide onto the drive and act as shock mounts. They, uh, COME OFF the old drive and well, can GO BACK ON the new drive. Easy as pie. It takes 15 minutes to swap out a Powerbook drive, and about 2 hours on on iBook (but that's a different story).
Mounting braces come off. The drives do not ship with them, and the screw points on drives are all the same.