It's not that the drivers are lacking, it's that some hardware companies are making parts for PC's and adding "support" to MacOS on the off-hand without Apple collaboration. It costs a bit more to work with Apple, and that's why. But companies that work with Apple have an advantage over other manufacturers who are giving Mac Compatability as an afterthought...Apple helps you build it into the hardware.
It was one of the best things about the old Macs and I think it's still present in many other Mac stuff. Apple got PnP to work from the beginning by giving third-party hardware manufacturers the method for a hardwired driver. Even if it wasn't the full driver, companies could put a special chip on their hardware to AT LEAST let the hardware function in "safe mode" while you get it working, but most of the time, the chip contains the entire driver set for the hardware. That's why I've never had to install a single driver for any video card I've purchased for a Mac. I only go with companies that bother to work with Apple.
I paid dearly when I bought a cheapo mac Modem (designed for Mac w/o Apple's blessing) that I could never get to work. I bought a GeoPort (before drivers came standard in the OS install) and it worked perfectly!
Of course, I use a PC right now, because I can't afford a new Mac.
Well, noone likes taxes, but the question is as how much taxes must be taken and in what form? You know, long ago, our government operated 100% off of tariffs and non-income tax items. Now it's like 99.9% income tax.
I believe in a national sales tax, rather than a national income tax. Income taxes don't tax the wealthy (because the wealthy usually don't have jobs, they don't pay income taxes on money they've already earned in the past), instead they tax those on the way to becoming wealthy (middle-class up-and-comers and anyone else who higher tax brackets would hurt financially.
I mean, when people talk about taxes, or any other law designed to make the wealthy "pay their fair share", just remember: If Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi are for it, then the new law/tax won't affect the already-wealthy.
If Microsoft's approach to Software coding will be any indication of how it'll do in designing a 100% Microsoft Hardware console... I see headlines of "Kid burned to death in XBox2 fire". It'd be the first computer hardware with a surgeon general's warning. "SURGEON GENERALS WARNING: Use of XBox2 while CPU is powered is linked to cancer. Air used by XBox CPU is teratogenic (may cause birth defects). Keep away from small children, pregnant women, the elderly and anyone with a heart condition"
Imagine, not only that, but how DRM-riddled XBox2 will be.
...wait 6-8 weeks to recieve. Remember "Sea Monkeys"? Ship them off in May, recieve them in July. If it takes 2 months to ship Sea Monkeys, how long for a big-ass laptop?
But let's just say a criminal wants to use the gun to keep him clean. He cleans the memory with a few thousand pics of a gun range and goes to court and says "Well, look, there's no way I could've possibly killed him. All I've been shooting has been targets at the range!"
Okay, it's got the minicam, right? Well, here's the deal. If it's got a minicam that saves to onboard memory, it can only store so much, I'm sure. If it's hi-res enough to make a positive ID, it's going to take up alot of memory. If it's low-res, you can make a positive ID.
If the gun runs out of memory (Owner takes it to a shooting range and empties about 10 clips at 10 rounds a pop, that's 100 pics), does it dump the oldest pic and save over it? And if so, what stops the "bad guys" from killing someone and then emptying out a few hundred rounds at the nearest range (there are 3 of them I can use within 20 miles of where I live, for example) to eliminate the evidence?
I'm detecting sarcasm..meaning that you think Saddam is an upstanding citizen of the world community. What about Slobodan Milosevic? I bet you think he's a cool guy. And I'm sure you give props to Hitler, because you don't wanna leave any of these guys out.
and the U.S. is not interested in Iraq's oil fields
Nor is France hijacking the peace movements objectives to cover up the fact that "Made in France" is written over most of Iraq's missles, missile fuel and many of the warheads...in violation of UN sanctions, I may add.
Why bring war talk into the middle of a discussion over CIVILIAN firearms? Is it because everyone else ignored you when you posted on the message boards about the war?
Might as well bring up Martians in a discussion of BSD. It'd be about as on topic as your post.
You're assuming every smart person WANTS a job that requires high-level education. I know alot of smart people who take construction jobs because they are simple, require little to learn, and pay well. Work for a small portion of the year, and live frugally. Then you have much more time for what you REALLY love, not do 80-hour weeks for 90% of the year for something related to something you love.
In addition, anyone who has made a job of what they love most knows the truth. Once you make a job of it, it simply becomes WORK. And Work Sucks.
Here's my idea: You have to go before a "Baby Tribunal" of three guys who've raised successful children themselves. Kids who've managed to have no criminal background and have gone on to good careers. The parents-to-be must present a case that they actually have something to contribute to society by procreation.
Just a basic outline, but I think it'd work out pretty nicely.
Eugenics, no. But you have to admit that stupid people breed at a faster rate than smart people. Shit, in high school, all the smart kids were busy learning the things that'll get them REAL hot partners while all the stupid people were busy banging with mediocrity.
RTFA. It's not a filter. It's you sending a record to others frequently, so people can see if you look at pr0n. It's supposed to shame you into not looking at pr0n. Unfortunately, for guys who aren't married, odds are you have friends who are into pr0n, too.
If you thought PS2's memory card sucked, you should've got the package deal my friend got that screwed him over. His mom bought a Gamecube for him for Christmas, it came with a memory card, extra controller and "Animal Crossing" (A really sucky game). He used the memory card with Animal Crossing ONCE and it was full. FULL. No more space for you.
I'm at least able to have an archive of PSX game saves AND a ton of PS2 saves on the PS2 card...
I'm just wondering if any of you spend more than $5 on cases for these laptops, or do you carry them around in grocery bags?
The only mac laptop I've ever had fail on me was a Duo 280c (which wasn't designed anywhere near the stuff I put it through) which cracked its LCD when I was driving through Baltimore (more details on this city at my website) and it slammed against the back of the passenger side seat. The data was recoverable and everything worked fine, except the display. I now carry all my laptops in nice bags (About $20) rather than a bookbag or a "My-Arm" bag.
Honestly, I like the idea, to a point. I'm opposed to giving the NEA a dime. It's the one organization that single-handedly lowered educational standards nationwide. I'd like to see us institute Canadian education standards, with less anti-Americanism.
Perhaps you guys missed the demonstration where the Powerbook G4 was run over by an 18-wheeler, then it backed up (over the powerbook) and ran over it again...then someone walked up, picked it up and started it up fine? I've seen it done, and I've never met anyone who has had physical damage disable a powerbook, except when the LCD was directly struck (while it was open).
I personally do not believe in the idea of "desensitization" by watching something bad happen to someone else. I mean, I watched "We were soldiers" and I felt no need to go down to the local Vietnamese resturant and kill people.
If anything, I believe that seeing people go through horrible things like rape, torture, murder has made me MORE sensitive to the effects of those kinds of acts.
Maybe it's because I see the acts, and then I see the victim or the victims family afterward. Maybe it's NOT the violence, but rather the follow-up.
Perhaps it gives more credence to the "moral of the story" ending. I mean, if you're a literalist and you read some Aesop, I'm sure you'd think the message is that lions and mice talk, rather than the moral of helping people in need.
> Any person with a room temperature IQ will tell you if you travel to another country, try to hide the fact you are a tourist.
Remember the conversion factor. An american IQ of 70 is 20 here.:D
Which makes those Canadians who wear the maple leaf seem more idiotic. I, for note have taken 3 IQ tests. My average is 145. I was raised mostly in Germany, for note.
>Tourists get ripped off and tourists get jacked.
We call that going through Customs and paying Duty.
Well, I was referring to the fact that in some cities, Taxies have a little button the cabbie can press which switches to the "Tourist rate". Which, is usually about 150% of the normal rate.
In addition, I noticed that if I went around Mexico with one of my stepmothers family members (who are from Mexico), I usually paid a lot less (well, alot in pesos. it was like $4 difference in USD).
Yeah, you are correct about showing the Canadian flag in the US. Everywhere else it is akin to +5 Body Armour of Common Sense, but Americans seem to view it as a "Commie Patch."
I don't think of it as a "Commie Patch". More of a "We believe we're better because we wish we were European- Patch"
For some it's mock rivalry. For those Canadians who live here permanenetly, sure it is. They chose to move here, after all. But for those who are here for time periods shorter than 3 months, they still maintain the ACTUAL mentality which is mocked by your duo.
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It's not that the drivers are lacking, it's that some hardware companies are making parts for PC's and adding "support" to MacOS on the off-hand without Apple collaboration. It costs a bit more to work with Apple, and that's why. But companies that work with Apple have an advantage over other manufacturers who are giving Mac Compatability as an afterthought...Apple helps you build it into the hardware.
It was one of the best things about the old Macs and I think it's still present in many other Mac stuff. Apple got PnP to work from the beginning by giving third-party hardware manufacturers the method for a hardwired driver. Even if it wasn't the full driver, companies could put a special chip on their hardware to AT LEAST let the hardware function in "safe mode" while you get it working, but most of the time, the chip contains the entire driver set for the hardware. That's why I've never had to install a single driver for any video card I've purchased for a Mac. I only go with companies that bother to work with Apple.
I paid dearly when I bought a cheapo mac Modem (designed for Mac w/o Apple's blessing) that I could never get to work. I bought a GeoPort (before drivers came standard in the OS install) and it worked perfectly!
Of course, I use a PC right now, because I can't afford a new Mac.
You forgot so many things, like the Apple III debacle, exploding PowerBook Batteries getting recalled...and then the recalls getting recalled.
Just to name a few things. I'm not going to do the litany,
Well, noone likes taxes, but the question is as how much taxes must be taken and in what form? You know, long ago, our government operated 100% off of tariffs and non-income tax items. Now it's like 99.9% income tax.
I believe in a national sales tax, rather than a national income tax. Income taxes don't tax the wealthy (because the wealthy usually don't have jobs, they don't pay income taxes on money they've already earned in the past), instead they tax those on the way to becoming wealthy (middle-class up-and-comers and anyone else who higher tax brackets would hurt financially.
I mean, when people talk about taxes, or any other law designed to make the wealthy "pay their fair share", just remember: If Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi are for it, then the new law/tax won't affect the already-wealthy.
I agree. Microsoft Bob is perfect proof of...oh, wait...
If Microsoft's approach to Software coding will be any indication of how it'll do in designing a 100% Microsoft Hardware console... I see headlines of "Kid burned to death in XBox2 fire". It'd be the first computer hardware with a surgeon general's warning. "SURGEON GENERALS WARNING: Use of XBox2 while CPU is powered is linked to cancer. Air used by XBox CPU is teratogenic (may cause birth defects). Keep away from small children, pregnant women, the elderly and anyone with a heart condition"
Imagine, not only that, but how DRM-riddled XBox2 will be.
...wait 6-8 weeks to recieve. Remember "Sea Monkeys"? Ship them off in May, recieve them in July. If it takes 2 months to ship Sea Monkeys, how long for a big-ass laptop?
But let's just say a criminal wants to use the gun to keep him clean. He cleans the memory with a few thousand pics of a gun range and goes to court and says "Well, look, there's no way I could've possibly killed him. All I've been shooting has been targets at the range!"
Okay, it's got the minicam, right? Well, here's the deal. If it's got a minicam that saves to onboard memory, it can only store so much, I'm sure. If it's hi-res enough to make a positive ID, it's going to take up alot of memory. If it's low-res, you can make a positive ID.
If the gun runs out of memory (Owner takes it to a shooting range and empties about 10 clips at 10 rounds a pop, that's 100 pics), does it dump the oldest pic and save over it? And if so, what stops the "bad guys" from killing someone and then emptying out a few hundred rounds at the nearest range (there are 3 of them I can use within 20 miles of where I live, for example) to eliminate the evidence?
If it's an "easy" smart gun, it'll give you a little "sad mac" icon.
Saddam is an evil, evil man
I'm detecting sarcasm..meaning that you think Saddam is an upstanding citizen of the world community. What about Slobodan Milosevic? I bet you think he's a cool guy. And I'm sure you give props to Hitler, because you don't wanna leave any of these guys out.
and the U.S. is not interested in Iraq's oil fields
Nor is France hijacking the peace movements objectives to cover up the fact that "Made in France" is written over most of Iraq's missles, missile fuel and many of the warheads...in violation of UN sanctions, I may add.
Why bring war talk into the middle of a discussion over CIVILIAN firearms? Is it because everyone else ignored you when you posted on the message boards about the war?
Might as well bring up Martians in a discussion of BSD. It'd be about as on topic as your post.
You're assuming every smart person WANTS a job that requires high-level education. I know alot of smart people who take construction jobs because they are simple, require little to learn, and pay well. Work for a small portion of the year, and live frugally. Then you have much more time for what you REALLY love, not do 80-hour weeks for 90% of the year for something related to something you love.
In addition, anyone who has made a job of what they love most knows the truth. Once you make a job of it, it simply becomes WORK. And Work Sucks.
Here's my idea: You have to go before a "Baby Tribunal" of three guys who've raised successful children themselves. Kids who've managed to have no criminal background and have gone on to good careers. The parents-to-be must present a case that they actually have something to contribute to society by procreation.
Just a basic outline, but I think it'd work out pretty nicely.
Eugenics, no. But you have to admit that stupid people breed at a faster rate than smart people. Shit, in high school, all the smart kids were busy learning the things that'll get them REAL hot partners while all the stupid people were busy banging with mediocrity.
Now, where's my $30 million and a supermodel?
...more people would ask permission to have kids, the world would be a better place.
RTFA. It's not a filter. It's you sending a record to others frequently, so people can see if you look at pr0n. It's supposed to shame you into not looking at pr0n. Unfortunately, for guys who aren't married, odds are you have friends who are into pr0n, too.
You must've seen my journal! Ha ha. My memes are spreading like a Windows Worm.
If you thought PS2's memory card sucked, you should've got the package deal my friend got that screwed him over. His mom bought a Gamecube for him for Christmas, it came with a memory card, extra controller and "Animal Crossing" (A really sucky game). He used the memory card with Animal Crossing ONCE and it was full. FULL. No more space for you.
I'm at least able to have an archive of PSX game saves AND a ton of PS2 saves on the PS2 card...
I'm just wondering if any of you spend more than $5 on cases for these laptops, or do you carry them around in grocery bags?
The only mac laptop I've ever had fail on me was a Duo 280c (which wasn't designed anywhere near the stuff I put it through) which cracked its LCD when I was driving through Baltimore (more details on this city at my website) and it slammed against the back of the passenger side seat. The data was recoverable and everything worked fine, except the display. I now carry all my laptops in nice bags (About $20) rather than a bookbag or a "My-Arm" bag.
his DVD drive will be toast if he uses it too much.
New Army officers directive: Do not watch pr0n during sandstorms?
Honestly, I like the idea, to a point. I'm opposed to giving the NEA a dime. It's the one organization that single-handedly lowered educational standards nationwide. I'd like to see us institute Canadian education standards, with less anti-Americanism.
Perhaps you guys missed the demonstration where the Powerbook G4 was run over by an 18-wheeler, then it backed up (over the powerbook) and ran over it again...then someone walked up, picked it up and started it up fine? I've seen it done, and I've never met anyone who has had physical damage disable a powerbook, except when the LCD was directly struck (while it was open).
I personally do not believe in the idea of "desensitization" by watching something bad happen to someone else. I mean, I watched "We were soldiers" and I felt no need to go down to the local Vietnamese resturant and kill people.
If anything, I believe that seeing people go through horrible things like rape, torture, murder has made me MORE sensitive to the effects of those kinds of acts.
Maybe it's because I see the acts, and then I see the victim or the victims family afterward. Maybe it's NOT the violence, but rather the follow-up.
Perhaps it gives more credence to the "moral of the story" ending. I mean, if you're a literalist and you read some Aesop, I'm sure you'd think the message is that lions and mice talk, rather than the moral of helping people in need.
I would if it would move from the theater 40 miles from my house and on to DVD already.
> Any person with a room temperature IQ will tell you if you travel to another country, try to hide the fact you are a tourist.
:D
Remember the conversion factor. An american IQ of 70 is 20 here.
Which makes those Canadians who wear the maple leaf seem more idiotic. I, for note have taken 3 IQ tests. My average is 145. I was raised mostly in Germany, for note.
>Tourists get ripped off and tourists get jacked.
We call that going through Customs and paying Duty.
Well, I was referring to the fact that in some cities, Taxies have a little button the cabbie can press which switches to the "Tourist rate". Which, is usually about 150% of the normal rate.
In addition, I noticed that if I went around Mexico with one of my stepmothers family members (who are from Mexico), I usually paid a lot less (well, alot in pesos. it was like $4 difference in USD).
Yeah, you are correct about showing the Canadian flag in the US. Everywhere else it is akin to +5 Body Armour of Common Sense, but Americans seem to view it as a "Commie Patch."
I don't think of it as a "Commie Patch". More of a "We believe we're better because we wish we were European- Patch"
For some it's mock rivalry. For those Canadians who live here permanenetly, sure it is. They chose to move here, after all. But for those who are here for time periods shorter than 3 months, they still maintain the ACTUAL mentality which is mocked by your duo.