that was one of the coolest places i've ever volunteered. i did it a long time ago before they moved to oakland, pre-render farm, etc...but it was still amazing. you walk into this big warehouse, full of relics from the past that you haven't heard of in the past 5-10 years. companies that had only one super-proprietary, really weird product before they went out of business, and it was sitting right in front of you. a total geek's heaven. it used to be that working for them, your payment would be "james, can i take this vt220 terminal home?" they liked it because you could off load all the stuff they couldn't donate, and you liked it because you'd end up with amazingly cool random junk!
it's still cool today, and i encourage anyone in the bay area to go volunteer for them on the weekends.
you're missing the point....it's not that "that linux box was lame", but rather, "wow, i got to use a computer where otherwise i would not have had a chance to"
wrong. a lot of open source software such as gcc is getting apple engineers to improve since they are using it on os x, which means it needs to meet commercial software standards.
While apple likes to appeal to as many as possible, they really are attempting at stealing SGi's niche for the high-end academic markets with high-end video cards, good fpu performance, and fast opengl performance.
you couldn't be more wrong. in terms of quality apps os x still outnumbers linux in commercial applications, and apple is doing a very good job at reducing the bloat through the os x updates considering what they've taken on and can do. have you checked out gnome/kde lately? i use to claim linux ran faster than windows...not so much anymore. i attempted at putting linux on my 867mhz g4, then realized there was no point: os x gives me the ultimate desktop os.
while it did not come with my powermac g4 (probably because most mac users wouldn't know what the fuck it is), when I initially bought 10.0 when it came out I got a developer cd, along with my 10.1 update.
I don't know, if you use the janet proxy I've gotten 600k/s from the US, and usually at least 150k/s. For an ethernet connection in on-campus housing, that's pretty good. (better than my university in the US)
Enough people have commented on mcdonalds, so I don't need to be the only one that says europeans also go there, but in at least Birmingham, UK, I am VERY hard pressed to find a coffee shop that isn't either starbucks, café nero (brit chain) or coffee republic (brit chain). Sure people goto pubs instead for conversation, but where do you go if you just want a decent latée? Someone PLEASE correct me on this (with address, hopefully in the city centre), but until starbucks moved in the concept of café's doesn't really exist here. (i still refuse starbucks nevertheless)
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that was one of the coolest places i've ever volunteered. i did it a long time ago before they moved to oakland, pre-render farm, etc...but it was still amazing. you walk into this big warehouse, full of relics from the past that you haven't heard of in the past 5-10 years. companies that had only one super-proprietary, really weird product before they went out of business, and it was sitting right in front of you. a total geek's heaven. it used to be that working for them, your payment would be "james, can i take this vt220 terminal home?" they liked it because you could off load all the stuff they couldn't donate, and you liked it because you'd end up with amazingly cool random junk!
it's still cool today, and i encourage anyone in the bay area to go volunteer for them on the weekends.
you're missing the point....it's not that "that linux box was lame", but rather, "wow, i got to use a computer where otherwise i would not have had a chance to"
the land was big, but cheap. it's not exactly in a high-profile area.
first post! first time i've gotten this!
no, it's called they want solaris people to stay with solaris instead of switching to windows to use office.
wrong. a lot of open source software such as gcc is getting apple engineers to improve since they are using it on os x, which means it needs to meet commercial software standards.
your an idiot.
there is a bsd.slashdot.org already, so enough of your spouting off. think of this as a different type of bsd. besides, what do you care?
he's also an extreme right-wing homophobic twat.
i seriously doubt it. it is most likely the new geforce cards coming up, and it's probably not the absoulte top of the line...notice the MX.
While apple likes to appeal to as many as possible, they really are attempting at stealing SGi's niche for the high-end academic markets with high-end video cards, good fpu performance, and fast opengl performance.
its called marketing.
you couldn't be more wrong. in terms of quality apps os x still outnumbers linux in commercial applications, and apple is doing a very good job at reducing the bloat through the os x updates considering what they've taken on and can do. have you checked out gnome/kde lately? i use to claim linux ran faster than windows...not so much anymore. i attempted at putting linux on my 867mhz g4, then realized there was no point: os x gives me the ultimate desktop os.
ya except rpm based distros suck ass. long live debian! (and os x)
while it did not come with my powermac g4 (probably because most mac users wouldn't know what the fuck it is), when I initially bought 10.0 when it came out I got a developer cd, along with my 10.1 update.
I don't know, if you use the janet proxy I've gotten 600k/s from the US, and usually at least 150k/s. For an ethernet connection in on-campus housing, that's pretty good. (better than my university in the US)
Enough people have commented on mcdonalds, so I don't need to be the only one that says europeans also go there, but in at least Birmingham, UK, I am VERY hard pressed to find a coffee shop that isn't either starbucks, café nero (brit chain) or coffee republic (brit chain). Sure people goto pubs instead for conversation, but where do you go if you just want a decent latée? Someone PLEASE correct me on this (with address, hopefully in the city centre), but until starbucks moved in the concept of café's doesn't really exist here. (i still refuse starbucks nevertheless)
uhh...try gmake