I think they would be most shocked to find out that the X-ray machine used at shoe stores to measure your feed and fit the shoes was actually bad for your health.
The anti-toy thing has nothing to do with the iPod. It has to do with the initial perception that people had about GUI that it was "like a video game". "Serious users" used command line. There were even lots of people that said the Mac was "only for games".
I kept hearing this over and over from idiots like John Dvorak up until Windows became popular. Since that time, I've heard the same people do nothing but dump on the Mac for not having enough games.
Yes, as I stated, I am aware of Disk Utility. I was just confused because you literally said you were using Ghost on the Mac and I was wondering if Symantec had started making it, or if somehow it works on Intel Macs (since it is a boot disk).
First, let me state that there is a very fine thing called "Disk Utility" that comes with MacOS X and does pretty much what Ghost does. However, you pretty much have to have your disk partitioned since you can't create a disk image off of the partition you've booted from. I guess this is like Ghost, but the convienient thing about Ghost is that you can boot from a floppy which I guess you can't do on the Mac anyway.
Next, I was unaware that Ghost worked on the Mac. Are you talking about Intel Macs or PPC, or both? And we're talking about the Synamtec product here, correct?
I'd appreciate information on this. I could not find any at Symantec's website on using Ghost for the Mac.
Apple already had a product called the Black Apple. And it was actually an Apple product - and I actually used one (and came close to buying one) when they were being sold.
It is too hard to tell right now whether blue ray or HD-DVD will win. It is also hard to tell exactly what the adoption of HD will look like. Part of the problem is that the HD market is confusing, there isn't that much HD programming available, etc. Still, it is coming - just like its been coming for about 12 years.
I have a second generation iPod (i.e. same layout as 1st gen, but with non-movable wheel - came in 20GB only). It still performs flawlessly and isn't even very scratched. Then again, I don't drop it on the ground or run over it with my car either.
I have purchased for my own personal use 8 new Macintoshes since 1993. The only problem I have ever had has been a hard disk failure in one (laptop) unit which Apple replaced under warranty and the airport card in my brand new Intel Mac Mini did not get very good reception and had to be replaced (again under warranty by Apple). All of them have continued to work to this day, except that some units I got rid of because of age (which were working fine the day I got rid of them.)
I have probably bought 5 times this many Mac for work. (I'm a Mac developer.) I bought 4 Macs so far this year (2006) for work and about 8 or 9 last year. I can't recall having a problem with ANY of these systems.
I had a very old powerbook fail when someone spilled a large cup of coffee on it. People have dropped powerbooks and they still quite often work.
Apple is no worse than any other consumer electronics manufacturer with regards to quality. However, if you REALLY don't want to take any chances, then simply buy models right before or right after they are discontinued. I have done that on occasion just to save money - or sometimes just because it worked out that way. I have NEVER had a problem with units that were late in the model. I have had occasional problems with units purchased the week they were first introduced. For example, my problem with the Intel mini - I bought it the day it was announced. Again, this is very unsurprising considering the fact that no QA department can ever be perfect. Come to think of it, the unit that had the hard disk failure was purchased the week it was introduced as well.
So, you can clearly save yourself some headache by waiting (and often I think they will make small improvements to the specifications which tend to be in the first 6 months after introduction, so you might even get a better unit.)
You're making a possibly invalid assumption. Macs are not from some bizzaro universe. There are a lot of less technical people who buy Macs who are not all that familiar with the differences between Windows and OS X, they just want a reliable PC to get on the internet.
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The reality is that if you buy anything on eBay costing more than about $20, your chances of being ripped off are very high. There is very little recourse available when this happens. This is why I will not buy anything more expensive than about $20 on eBay. I buy vintage video game carts on eBay, I buy laptops from the Apple Store.
You do know that commodore was run by a business genius (Jack Tramiel) who was forced out of the company in 1984 at the height of the success of the Commodore 64? Then the company was turned over to be run by idiots.
This is basically what happened to Apple about the same time. The main difference was age. After commodore, Jack Tramiel was pretty much ready to retire, whereas Steve Jobs was able to return to Apple and fix some things.
Tramiel did buy Atari, but after briefly returning it to profitability, he turned it over to be run by his two sons who did not quite have his talent for running a business.
One thing I can think of is that in Washington (and other states) they regulate casinos in order to make sure the games are fair.
How can the state make sure the online games are not rigged?
Why is this not a problem that bothers online gamblers? If you gamble online, please reply and tell me how you know the virtual cards or virtual dice or virtual roulette wheel is not rigged. I am curious to know as I don't gamble at all.
Are they charging people who use progressive.com and geico.com now, too?
If the local prosecutor has it in for you, yeah probably.
I used to live in Washington. I once sat on a Jury there where a guy was on trial facing prison time over an allegation that he called someone a "nigger". And they had no evidence other than one guy's word against another.
There are some countries in the world and states within the US where such games are simply prohibited. The way they wanted to do the promotion would not have allowed for this.
When the original iMac was introduced (Bondi Blue), Jobs wanted to do a contest where there would be five Golden Tickets hidden inside iMac boxes. The people who found them would have received a tour of Apple by Jobs and one free Mac every year for the rest of their lives.
Unfortunately, running a contest in this manner is not legal, so they couldn't do it:-(
Right. If all Sony does is say, "you are forbidden to resell this game", then obviously it won't work. They would need to have some technical thing to back it up with.
The primary problem with public schools is underfunding.
Not where I live! I just moved from Oregon (very low taxes and very low school funding) to New York (very high school funding) and the school is MUCH WORSE. They spend 5X what Oregon spends and the school is TERRIBLE.
There is an optimum amount of money to spend. If you spend more than that, you just start to attract thieves which is the case here in NY.
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I think they would be most shocked to find out that the X-ray machine used at shoe stores to measure your feed and fit the shoes was actually bad for your health.
The anti-toy thing has nothing to do with the iPod. It has to do with the initial perception that people had about GUI that it was "like a video game". "Serious users" used command line. There were even lots of people that said the Mac was "only for games". I kept hearing this over and over from idiots like John Dvorak up until Windows became popular. Since that time, I've heard the same people do nothing but dump on the Mac for not having enough games.
Apple had grossly incompetent management at the time the Pippin was created.
Yes, as I stated, I am aware of Disk Utility. I was just confused because you literally said you were using Ghost on the Mac and I was wondering if Symantec had started making it, or if somehow it works on Intel Macs (since it is a boot disk).
First, let me state that there is a very fine thing called "Disk Utility" that comes with MacOS X and does pretty much what Ghost does. However, you pretty much have to have your disk partitioned since you can't create a disk image off of the partition you've booted from. I guess this is like Ghost, but the convienient thing about Ghost is that you can boot from a floppy which I guess you can't do on the Mac anyway. Next, I was unaware that Ghost worked on the Mac. Are you talking about Intel Macs or PPC, or both? And we're talking about the Synamtec product here, correct? I'd appreciate information on this. I could not find any at Symantec's website on using Ghost for the Mac.
That gives me an idea for a new diet fad - IPv4.
Apple already had a product called the Black Apple. And it was actually an Apple product - and I actually used one (and came close to buying one) when they were being sold.
Does that mean we can shoot Jack Thompson in the face?
I hereby give you permission. Go for it.
It is too hard to tell right now whether blue ray or HD-DVD will win. It is also hard to tell exactly what the adoption of HD will look like. Part of the problem is that the HD market is confusing, there isn't that much HD programming available, etc. Still, it is coming - just like its been coming for about 12 years.
You think no one makes them anymore?)
Actually, I am in the process of writing some interactive fiction on my Mac using Inform.
You can play any Infocom game on the Mac. Who cares about anything else?
I'm a man fanboy.
At first I couldn't tell whether you mistyped "mac", were referring to man pages, or were just gay.
I have a second generation iPod (i.e. same layout as 1st gen, but with non-movable wheel - came in 20GB only). It still performs flawlessly and isn't even very scratched. Then again, I don't drop it on the ground or run over it with my car either.
I have purchased for my own personal use 8 new Macintoshes since 1993. The only problem I have ever had has been a hard disk failure in one (laptop) unit which Apple replaced under warranty and the airport card in my brand new Intel Mac Mini did not get very good reception and had to be replaced (again under warranty by Apple). All of them have continued to work to this day, except that some units I got rid of because of age (which were working fine the day I got rid of them.)
I have probably bought 5 times this many Mac for work. (I'm a Mac developer.) I bought 4 Macs so far this year (2006) for work and about 8 or 9 last year. I can't recall having a problem with ANY of these systems.
I had a very old powerbook fail when someone spilled a large cup of coffee on it. People have dropped powerbooks and they still quite often work.
Apple is no worse than any other consumer electronics manufacturer with regards to quality. However, if you REALLY don't want to take any chances, then simply buy models right before or right after they are discontinued. I have done that on occasion just to save money - or sometimes just because it worked out that way. I have NEVER had a problem with units that were late in the model. I have had occasional problems with units purchased the week they were first introduced. For example, my problem with the Intel mini - I bought it the day it was announced. Again, this is very unsurprising considering the fact that no QA department can ever be perfect. Come to think of it, the unit that had the hard disk failure was purchased the week it was introduced as well.
So, you can clearly save yourself some headache by waiting (and often I think they will make small improvements to the specifications which tend to be in the first 6 months after introduction, so you might even get a better unit.)
You're making a possibly invalid assumption. Macs are not from some bizzaro universe. There are a lot of less technical people who buy Macs who are not all that familiar with the differences between Windows and OS X, they just want a reliable PC to get on the internet.
The reality is that if you buy anything on eBay costing more than about $20, your chances of being ripped off are very high. There is very little recourse available when this happens. This is why I will not buy anything more expensive than about $20 on eBay. I buy vintage video game carts on eBay, I buy laptops from the Apple Store.
You do know that commodore was run by a business genius (Jack Tramiel) who was forced out of the company in 1984 at the height of the success of the Commodore 64? Then the company was turned over to be run by idiots.
This is basically what happened to Apple about the same time. The main difference was age. After commodore, Jack Tramiel was pretty much ready to retire, whereas Steve Jobs was able to return to Apple and fix some things.
Tramiel did buy Atari, but after briefly returning it to profitability, he turned it over to be run by his two sons who did not quite have his talent for running a business.
One thing I can think of is that in Washington (and other states) they regulate casinos in order to make sure the games are fair.
How can the state make sure the online games are not rigged?
Why is this not a problem that bothers online gamblers? If you gamble online, please reply and tell me how you know the virtual cards or virtual dice or virtual roulette wheel is not rigged. I am curious to know as I don't gamble at all.
Are they charging people who use progressive.com and geico.com now, too?
If the local prosecutor has it in for you, yeah probably.
I used to live in Washington. I once sat on a Jury there where a guy was on trial facing prison time over an allegation that he called someone a "nigger". And they had no evidence other than one guy's word against another.
There are some countries in the world and states within the US where such games are simply prohibited. The way they wanted to do the promotion would not have allowed for this.
The problem can be solved by picking the elevator up and dropping it on a table. That will cause the chips to reseat themselves.
(For those who do not get this joke, that was the field troubleshooting "solution" to the Apple III's overheating problem.)
When the original iMac was introduced (Bondi Blue), Jobs wanted to do a contest where there would be five Golden Tickets hidden inside iMac boxes. The people who found them would have received a tour of Apple by Jobs and one free Mac every year for the rest of their lives.
:-(
Unfortunately, running a contest in this manner is not legal, so they couldn't do it
though apparently not enough for some flights -- see EgyptAir
My advice - never fly with any Arab in the cockpit.
Had both listened to the air control tower or the onboard warning systems everything would have worked.
And this new system will not solve that problem, because it would require all aircraft to be equipped with it to work, not just Airbus.
They should just have one rule - for both planes to stop. That would solve it.
Right. If all Sony does is say, "you are forbidden to resell this game", then obviously it won't work. They would need to have some technical thing to back it up with.
The primary problem with public schools is underfunding.
Not where I live! I just moved from Oregon (very low taxes and very low school funding) to New York (very high school funding) and the school is MUCH WORSE. They spend 5X what Oregon spends and the school is TERRIBLE.
There is an optimum amount of money to spend. If you spend more than that, you just start to attract thieves which is the case here in NY.