Check out Adobe Flex, its Flash for actual business applications. It is an astoundingly good programming language and is actively being supported by people like Google and SalesForce.
Yup, they (Paystar) are not breaking Apples license. However, anyone that trys to get support from Apple for these boxes is going to be in for a bit of a shock.
I fully expect there to be something in future OSX patches that will be incompatible with these computers.
Its still around, but its not progressed much or sold with the same fervor. Its a dead platform it seems. Course I'd still recommend it for a massive database platform. Nothing says sexy like hot swappable CPUs.
Propose a theory to explain an observable phenomenon. Then attempt to disprove it. If it stands up to scrutiny it stands until disproved or a better theory comes along. The base theory itself does not need to be tested, in fact by definition it can not be proven, only disproved.
Well, except global warming, obviously. That just gets accepted as is, since anyone who suggests otherwise is probably an oil company shill. Um, we have decades of direct testing and thousands of years of indirect data supporting global warming. It has been and continues be heavily tested.
Only reason I ever used Solaris was for the Sparc hardware. Soon as Sun went Intel based, they where dead to me. Why spend more money for the same level of hardware when the OS has less support then Free(tm) options?
Most are soldered on.
You don't have to send the iPod to replace the battery. I've not seen a soldered on motherboard battery since the days when 286s roamed the planet.
You mean the 1.50$ battery that I can replace without even using any tools? How is that relevant compared to a sealed consumer device that needs to be sent back to the manufacturer to have its battery replaced?
Any long term data I keep gets moved to new mediums as they become available. There is no single medium that will last for the times described. The good news is that digital data has a very low corruption rate and a copy can be reverified for a guarantied duplicate every time its needed. I've moved from floppy drives, 44MB WORM, to ZIP, to CD, to DVD and am now using a 12 drive 1TB RAID-5 with AIT backups.
Given what it costs to maintain let alone develop a MMORPG ($3 million would not have covered running it) the shear amount of "brand placement" required will be overwhelming.
Unless they're talking about branding outside of the game... the Pepsi shuttle?
Light is very penetrative, more so at the higher frequencies (near IR). Sunlight will even go through solid rock, so your skull doesn't pose much of a barrier. So you get about as much IR light in your brain from going outside. Of course, this being Slashdot, "outside" is a fearful place where the evil Day Star burns us.
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The number of books I would have to buy to make the Kindle worth buying makes me sad. Its a nifty device, but there's no way I'd ever get one.
Check out Adobe Flex, its Flash for actual business applications. It is an astoundingly good programming language and is actively being supported by people like Google and SalesForce.
I make a bit less, but I work from home and don't even need to get out of my pajamas till I want to go out to lunch.
Point is that people will often given up a higher salary for a more interesting position with better benefits.
People work at Apple because they want to, even if Jobs is a jerk (met him, he is).
Apple tried this once before. It did not go over so well. Why would this next time around be any different?
With what Apple charges for hard drives, they would be operating at a major loss.
My impression is that they dont pre-install the OS but provide Apple media.
Yup, they (Paystar) are not breaking Apples license. However, anyone that trys to get support from Apple for these boxes is going to be in for a bit of a shock.
I fully expect there to be something in future OSX patches that will be incompatible with these computers.
There are worldwide food riots, right now. So is converting food into fuel a good idea?
And now we're an over-weight, not-too-bright, not-too-strong, disease-ridden, sorry-assed bunch of H. Sapiens.
What a difference 70,000 years makes!
Its still around, but its not progressed much or sold with the same fervor. Its a dead platform it seems. Course I'd still recommend it for a massive database platform. Nothing says sexy like hot swappable CPUs.
So does the mass sometimes cling to the hairs?
Actually, "real science" goes like this.
Propose a theory to explain an observable phenomenon. Then attempt to disprove it. If it stands up to scrutiny it stands until disproved or a better theory comes along. The base theory itself does not need to be tested, in fact by definition it can not be proven, only disproved.
Ok, so its juvenile and stupid. But it still made me laugh.
Only reason I ever used Solaris was for the Sparc hardware. Soon as Sun went Intel based, they where dead to me. Why spend more money for the same level of hardware when the OS has less support then Free(tm) options?
You mean the 1.50$ battery that I can replace without even using any tools? How is that relevant compared to a sealed consumer device that needs to be sent back to the manufacturer to have its battery replaced?
All Honda cars should be forced to use my special "No park in my spot" tires to prevent this in the future. Only $999 per set of four!
I picked up a cheap (50$) Arena Indy RAID enclosure. Uses 12 IDE drives with a SCSI host interface.
Any long term data I keep gets moved to new mediums as they become available. There is no single medium that will last for the times described. The good news is that digital data has a very low corruption rate and a copy can be reverified for a guarantied duplicate every time its needed. I've moved from floppy drives, 44MB WORM, to ZIP, to CD, to DVD and am now using a 12 drive 1TB RAID-5 with AIT backups.
Given what it costs to maintain let alone develop a MMORPG ($3 million would not have covered running it) the shear amount of "brand placement" required will be overwhelming.
Unless they're talking about branding outside of the game... the Pepsi shuttle?
Light is very penetrative, more so at the higher frequencies (near IR). Sunlight will even go through solid rock, so your skull doesn't pose much of a barrier. So you get about as much IR light in your brain from going outside. Of course, this being Slashdot, "outside" is a fearful place where the evil Day Star burns us.
Stupidity is unlimited in any quantifiable sense.
I flash MY dilbert and I get four months.
The first Multi Touch style demo I ever saw was several years ago from Microsoft.