I believe you can drag the radio stations into a playlist or at least copy and paste them there. I have a favorite stations playlist on my mac at home.
Well, at least now you have a decent player to play that music with. Playlist management and searching in winamp is a headache. iTunes makes it all so easy.
You can also (with 3rd party tools) convert it to AIFF. It's really easy. Why do people keep bringing up this burn to cd thing? It's like saying that you can copy a file by a combination of printing and ocr. Why not take the easy route? Hell, anyone can use audio hijack if they don't want to use one of the cli m4p -> AIFF converters.
I wonder how these machines would perform if the tasks were performed simultaneously. I often have time consuming tasks running in the background. I suspect that besides OS X's awesome process manager, the dual processors would really help in this case. It's the least they can do if they won't run apps that actually use both processors.
They did their best with the apps that would be commonly used
Isn't Premier discontinued? Why test with software that was discontinued before the hardware was released? Even bofore that, Adobe's video apps were poor performers on Apple's machines. People used to trick them into doing a "distributed" projects on a single machine to get it to use the second processor. Of course outdated apps that only use one of the processors will run slowly. Find some real applications that run in 64-bit mode and actually use both processors. That is how you test. In this case the apps chosen were all designed for previous processors. One was discontinued and another was written by Apple's direct competitor who has a vested interest in seeing x86 outperform ppc. Why not use a fair comparison?
The avereage BMW costs a lot more than the average Kia too. Dell makes some really cheap machines, so their average is low. Apple makes only moderately high to high-end machines, so their average is higher.
A better comparison would also consider what you get for the money. There is little price difference between similarly configured Dell and Apple machines -- and Apple usually comes out cheaper by a bit.
Lets say that Microsoft had developed some router code that Linksys had
licensed for a fee. If Linksys distributed their routers using Microsoft's software but stopped paying the license fees, Microsoft would sue Linksys and Forbes would run an article about Linksys stealing Microsoft's intellectual property.
In the case of the GPL, the "license fee" is sharing your code. When you copy GPL code into yours, the copyright holders don't ask for monetary compensation, they ask for any changes you make and distribute to be made public. That's the cost of using GPL intellectual property. The "free" software is not public domain. It is copyrighted software. If a company chooses to use this software in their products and refuses to abide by the license, they have committed a copyright violation. The offending company should face the same penalty for that, no matter who the copyright owner is.
The m4p files, by nature of the encryption, would require either cracking the encryption or partnering with Apple in order to play on a 3rd party music player.
Actually any program that uses QuickTime for MPEG reading can read them if you are logged in to the computer. It seems to be automatic. This is how the m4p -> AIFF converters work.
Strange, the only way I can make my mac crash is by using unusual kernel extensions to make my serial adapter work. Otherwise, it never crashes. We have infrequent but anoying WinXP crashes at my office.
X windows, native & fast PDF support, X code... are going to cost
You can run X Windows programs on any version of OS X. I do it under 10.1.5. That's right, I don't even have Jaguar. The native PDF support is also in every version of OS X. It got faster with 10.3, but it's plenty fast already. The only feature that you listed that's missing is XCode. So you have to deal with Project Builder for a while, is it really that big of a deal? If so, isn't it worth the $130 for the upgrade? I mean, you want the new development environment right? If you are going to be making money developing, then $130 is peanuts. If not, what's wrong with Project Builder?
The key part was "if it's a project you're doing anyway."
In other words, there are two scenarios:
You do the project. You don't get paid.
You do the project. You do get paid
Since pay is not the deciding factor on whether or not you do the project, the level of pay may not be that important.
I develop software for a living. I also do it for fun. If I wasn't getting paid, I would not work on the projects I do at work. Sure I enjoy doing it, but why would I do free work for someone else? I do free development, but only if the project interests me enough that I would do it regardless of pay.
At my current job, we have three developers. We work on projects as a group, on three seperate machines near each other.
The steps we follow:
We are all involved in project design.
One of us writes up the requirements.
The others review it.
Two of us write the code while the other designs tests.
The tester tests the system then works with the coders to fix the problems.
Repeat last step until the bugs are gone and the project is ready for beta
Beta testers test.
All three developers work on the final bug fixes
The client approves a demo app after step 3. The client approves the beta version before the testers see it. The client is involved in beta testing.
This system seems to work well for us. The 3-way version of pair programming is beneficial to stringent testing. The fact that we use our own machines (but are free to walk over to any of the other developers) lets us parallelize the development project.
Since adopting this system at the suggestion of our manager, our turnaround time has dropped dramatically. Aditionally, our code is better before we hit the beta stage. The last project we did had almost no bugs turn up in beta. The constant black box testing durring development followed by white box testing and fixing before the beta ensured that the code was really good before the testers saw it.
To start getting useful images of a particular track requires more than a passing knowledge of disk formats, but these are well-documented, and once the correct location on the platter is found a single image would take approximately 2-10 minutes depending on the skill of the operator and the resolution required. With one of the more expensive MFM's it is possible to automate a collection sequence and theoretically possible to collect an image of the entire disk by changing the MFM controller software.
However, i live in Wash dc, the heat and humidity capitol of, well, the country.
Care to visit Miami? Take a trip into the Everglades and DC will seem like an airconditioned room.
Back to the topic: I did some networking work for a clothes company that designs a rapper's line of clothes. The manager gave me a stack of irregulars. The jeans have lots of hidden storage space in them. I can store a few paperbacks, a crimper, a pda, my wallet, and a big key ring easilly in ONE of the front pockets. There are also pockets near the knees, one INSIDE the pants, some on the sides of the thighs, etc. If I distribute my things evenly, most people don't know that I'm carrying that much stuff. I'd never have considered buying from a rapper's line of clothes, but they sure are convenient for carying tons of stuff.
Note: I don't usually carry more than my pda-phone, wallet, and keys.
That's not an implication, it's in the report. They actually say that the ducks will copulate with a dead mate. They've also identified a small percentage of gay mallards. This is just the first time that the two populations have intersected in front of a scientist that was willing to write a paper about it.
I've never done less that $40/hr when working on contract. Now my minimum is $50/hr. On most projects I set a minimum time as well. I also give estimates and take 33-50% up front followed by one or two more payments as necessary. If you know your stuff, you shouldn't sell yourself short.
On the other hand, if it's a project you're doing anyway, I could understand taking less. In that case part of your pay is the satisfaction you get. The question is, can you afford that?
You seem to have mistaken me for someone who disagrees with you.
I also think that handing out wireless devices to a crowd of people is a bad idea if you expect to get them back. I was just listing some ways that could be used to reduce losses. I even covered your "temporary glitch" problem by addin door sensors and making the alarm wait for a significant period of no signal.
If someone is going to go with wireless and untethered devices, they might want to look into something like what I suggested. If they want to stay wireless, but don't mind restricting movment, they could chain the damned things down. That way you avoid laying cable and theft at the same time.
One really simple way to get them back is to take a deposit. Either money or a driver's licence would suffice.
Before you jump on me again, please recall that I think you are right and that a wired solution would probably be better.
You could always make the things scream like hell when they loose a connection for more than a second. It won't eliminate theft, but having the thing yell "Help me, I'm being stolen" might reduce it a bit. Additionally you could have a sensor at the doors to the place like they do in book stores. Instead of just beeping, the sensor could turn on a siren and flashing lights. I think if you humiliate the thief enough, they'll think twice before they do it again.
Do they also prop open your eyelids (ala A Clockwork Orange) to make sure you don't take a nap?
I wish. Can you buy those things in stores? I have fallen asleep in all but two of the courses I've taken at my University. In most cases, I would fall asleep in every session. Many of my fellow students have the same problem.
My solution: play backgammon on my palm. That way I'm awake enough to hear the important part of the lecture. Paying partial attention to the prof. is better than paying total attention to the insides of my eyelids.
Back to the topic at hand: Consider the wireless trivia systems at Friday's and other such places. They seem robust and the company info is on the devices.
The later use came about because it is the only sequence that cannot be hijacked
I love that security message from MS. I'm still waiting for someone to make a bootable linux CD (or hell, a DOS disk) that displays the same screen, looking like win2k and harvesting logins. It's not that hard to intercept ctrl-alt-del. I wonder if you could do it by messing with the keyboard drivers too. If you can change the signal the OS sees when ctrl-alt-del is pressed, you could intercept the interupt w/out resorting to using another OS.
Of course not! Instead of Jeb excluding thousands of blacks from the polls, Diebold can simply declare GW the winner in every district. It's much simpler this way and King George can stay in power.
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I believe you can drag the radio stations into a playlist or at least copy and paste them there. I have a favorite stations playlist on my mac at home.
Well, at least now you have a decent player to play that music with. Playlist management and searching in winamp is a headache. iTunes makes it all so easy.
You can also (with 3rd party tools) convert it to AIFF. It's really easy. Why do people keep bringing up this burn to cd thing? It's like saying that you can copy a file by a combination of printing and ocr. Why not take the easy route? Hell, anyone can use audio hijack if they don't want to use one of the cli m4p -> AIFF converters.
I wonder how these machines would perform if the tasks were performed simultaneously. I often have time consuming tasks running in the background. I suspect that besides OS X's awesome process manager, the dual processors would really help in this case. It's the least they can do if they won't run apps that actually use both processors.
They did their best with the apps that would be commonly used
Isn't Premier discontinued? Why test with software that was discontinued before the hardware was released? Even bofore that, Adobe's video apps were poor performers on Apple's machines. People used to trick them into doing a "distributed" projects on a single machine to get it to use the second processor. Of course outdated apps that only use one of the processors will run slowly. Find some real applications that run in 64-bit mode and actually use both processors. That is how you test. In this case the apps chosen were all designed for previous processors. One was discontinued and another was written by Apple's direct competitor who has a vested interest in seeing x86 outperform ppc. Why not use a fair comparison?
The avereage BMW costs a lot more than the average Kia too. Dell makes some really cheap machines, so their average is low. Apple makes only moderately high to high-end machines, so their average is higher.
A better comparison would also consider what you get for the money. There is little price difference between similarly configured Dell and Apple machines -- and Apple usually comes out cheaper by a bit.
I hope someone reads it.
The m4p files, by nature of the encryption, would require either cracking the encryption or partnering with Apple in order to play on a 3rd party music player.
Actually any program that uses QuickTime for MPEG reading can read them if you are logged in to the computer. It seems to be automatic. This is how the m4p -> AIFF converters work.
Strange, the only way I can make my mac crash is by using unusual kernel extensions to make my serial adapter work. Otherwise, it never crashes. We have infrequent but anoying WinXP crashes at my office.
X windows, native & fast PDF support, X code ... are going to cost
You can run X Windows programs on any version of OS X. I do it under 10.1.5. That's right, I don't even have Jaguar. The native PDF support is also in every version of OS X. It got faster with 10.3, but it's plenty fast already. The only feature that you listed that's missing is XCode. So you have to deal with Project Builder for a while, is it really that big of a deal? If so, isn't it worth the $130 for the upgrade? I mean, you want the new development environment right? If you are going to be making money developing, then $130 is peanuts. If not, what's wrong with Project Builder?
In other words, there are two scenarios:
Since pay is not the deciding factor on whether or not you do the project, the level of pay may not be that important.
I develop software for a living. I also do it for fun. If I wasn't getting paid, I would not work on the projects I do at work. Sure I enjoy doing it, but why would I do free work for someone else? I do free development, but only if the project interests me enough that I would do it regardless of pay.
The steps we follow:
The client approves a demo app after step 3. The client approves the beta version before the testers see it. The client is involved in beta testing.
This system seems to work well for us. The 3-way version of pair programming is beneficial to stringent testing. The fact that we use our own machines (but are free to walk over to any of the other developers) lets us parallelize the development project. Since adopting this system at the suggestion of our manager, our turnaround time has dropped dramatically. Aditionally, our code is better before we hit the beta stage. The last project we did had almost no bugs turn up in beta. The constant black box testing durring development followed by white box testing and fixing before the beta ensured that the code was really good before the testers saw it.
Take a look at these and say that again.
It took me a few days to realize my thinkpad has the light, but it is the coolest thing I have ever seen.
Then you must not have seen this.
Here's a video.
However, i live in Wash dc, the heat and humidity capitol of, well, the country.
Care to visit Miami? Take a trip into the Everglades and DC will seem like an airconditioned room.
Back to the topic: I did some networking work for a clothes company that designs a rapper's line of clothes. The manager gave me a stack of irregulars. The jeans have lots of hidden storage space in them. I can store a few paperbacks, a crimper, a pda, my wallet, and a big key ring easilly in ONE of the front pockets. There are also pockets near the knees, one INSIDE the pants, some on the sides of the thighs, etc. If I distribute my things evenly, most people don't know that I'm carrying that much stuff. I'd never have considered buying from a rapper's line of clothes, but they sure are convenient for carying tons of stuff.
Note: I don't usually carry more than my pda-phone, wallet, and keys.
That's not an implication, it's in the report. They actually say that the ducks will copulate with a dead mate. They've also identified a small percentage of gay mallards. This is just the first time that the two populations have intersected in front of a scientist that was willing to write a paper about it.
I was doing contract work for a company in '98 that I was making $40/hr on. They billed their client $150/hr for my work.
I've never done less that $40/hr when working on contract. Now my minimum is $50/hr. On most projects I set a minimum time as well. I also give estimates and take 33-50% up front followed by one or two more payments as necessary. If you know your stuff, you shouldn't sell yourself short.
On the other hand, if it's a project you're doing anyway, I could understand taking less. In that case part of your pay is the satisfaction you get. The question is, can you afford that?
You seem to have mistaken me for someone who disagrees with you.
I also think that handing out wireless devices to a crowd of people is a bad idea if you expect to get them back. I was just listing some ways that could be used to reduce losses. I even covered your "temporary glitch" problem by addin door sensors and making the alarm wait for a significant period of no signal.
If someone is going to go with wireless and untethered devices, they might want to look into something like what I suggested. If they want to stay wireless, but don't mind restricting movment, they could chain the damned things down. That way you avoid laying cable and theft at the same time.
One really simple way to get them back is to take a deposit. Either money or a driver's licence would suffice.
Before you jump on me again, please recall that I think you are right and that a wired solution would probably be better.
You could always make the things scream like hell when they loose a connection for more than a second. It won't eliminate theft, but having the thing yell "Help me, I'm being stolen" might reduce it a bit. Additionally you could have a sensor at the doors to the place like they do in book stores. Instead of just beeping, the sensor could turn on a siren and flashing lights. I think if you humiliate the thief enough, they'll think twice before they do it again.
Do they also prop open your eyelids (ala A Clockwork Orange) to make sure you don't take a nap?
I wish. Can you buy those things in stores? I have fallen asleep in all but two of the courses I've taken at my University. In most cases, I would fall asleep in every session. Many of my fellow students have the same problem.
My solution: play backgammon on my palm. That way I'm awake enough to hear the important part of the lecture. Paying partial attention to the prof. is better than paying total attention to the insides of my eyelids.
Back to the topic at hand:
Consider the wireless trivia systems at Friday's and other such places. They seem robust and the company info is on the devices.
The later use came about because it is the only sequence that cannot be hijacked
I love that security message from MS. I'm still waiting for someone to make a bootable linux CD (or hell, a DOS disk) that displays the same screen, looking like win2k and harvesting logins. It's not that hard to intercept ctrl-alt-del. I wonder if you could do it by messing with the keyboard drivers too. If you can change the signal the OS sees when ctrl-alt-del is pressed, you could intercept the interupt w/out resorting to using another OS.
I miss THINK Pascal's debugger. I have yet to find anything similar. Not even CodeWarrior or Symantec's late C++ IDE come close.
Of course not! Instead of Jeb excluding thousands of blacks from the polls, Diebold can simply declare GW the winner in every district. It's much simpler this way and King George can stay in power.