One extra year so he can make friends and memories to last him a lifetime? I don't think so. He can do that on his dime, not mine. This stuff ain't cheap.
The problem is that he spent that first year goofing off and making friends and memories that last him a lifetime. The last year was for education.
If you were smart, you'd have had him enroll in a community college for years #2 and #3, then come back to the 4 year college for years 4 and maybe 5. Community colleges are *often* better equipped than the 4 year university. Mine was. Computers at every desk versus no computers at all except in the "computer lab".
I thought of it when DVDs first came out, way before netflix was popular.
You sound like those people on TV who bitch and moan because they thought of making a pot with a built-in strainer... "but I didn't get a patent".
Well, I implemented it before netflix was popular. The local family-owned video store was next to pizza hut. We set up a system where you could order movies *and* a pizza over the phone. They were delivered to your door, and you were given a fedex envelope to mail the movies back when you were done.
If you'd care to read the patent, neither my actual implementation, nor your "idea" are what the actual patents are about.
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Hide features behind a shortcut key, but provide zero UI to tell people they exist.
Ironically, over on the front page of digg right now is a story about a little-known OSX shortcut that has no UI to tell people it exists.
I find it strange that Gnome seems to be held to a completely different standard than OSX.
I agree. While those Apple Cinema Displays are practically HDTVs, they're also expensive, and not something the average person will ever own.
Personally, I think gaming is better on consoles. For one, you don't need to worry about not being able to play the game 10,20 or even 30 years from now. My kids can play the video games I played as a kid. The same can't be said for the computer games I owned.
Why does everyone quote the $600 price when the cheaper version of the PS3--quite unlike the cheaper version of the XBox 360--is not in any way crippled?
Probably because literally 9 out of 10 PS3s are going to be the $600 SKU?
You thought that Sony is going to make equal numbers of the $500 and $600 versions?
Would you consider running linux (or bsd or other) on those xserves, or in that case would you go for non-apple hardware?
We've more than considered it, we've tried it. The problem is that half of those xserves are Cluster Nodes. That means they don't have video cards. We're having a hell of a time getting linux to install on a Cluster Node... even after adding a video card. We've tried fc5, ubuntu, and ydl.
It looks like there's an enterprise YDL that will support it, but we haven't tried it yet.
But seriously, does anybody here on slashdot work with an xserve, or know anyone that does, and how it performs? And if the admins use OS X or another flavor of Unix on it?
We have 18 xserves, and one xraid. They perform poorly. Hardware-wise (they're dual G5) they're pretty good. However, OS X is a poor server. You are forced to use the GUI for quite a few common tasks. ARD is buggy and crappy. Even though ARDHelper and ARDAgent are running, it's hit and miss whether or not you'll actually be able to connect.
Another problem is that Software Update is soo poorly written and unoptimized. Just being open, not doing anything except displaying the "There are Updates Available" (to no one) is taking up 8.1% CPU and 106 megs of ram right now. If we were to actually install any updates, CPU usage would max out and this machine would stop serving web pages.
Our experiences reinforce that Anandtech article from last year showing serious problems with Apache and MySQL on OSX. Context switching on OSX is sooo slow. 250 threads use an abnormal amount of CPU on OSX compared to, say, solaris.
It's evident that Apple doesn't take the server seriously. Apple's default Apache configuration has a 5 minute expiration date on PHP scripts (via mod_expire). That means any php page that POSTs to itself will fail.
c'mon... that's just NOT ready for anyone but people who are dedicated to make it work on a daily basis.
First of all, there is a GUI for changing resolution. Secondly, SuSE can't probe your hardware to discover which resolutions are supported because... you're running under parallels! Sheesh.
$500 for an HD-DVD player isn't much higher than a simple progressive-scan DVD player
When was the last time you were at the store? I recently (6 months ago) bought a Philips progressive-scan DVD player that supports xvid and divx etc, for $80. That's right.. $80.
In fact, the *only* dvd players that were more than $120 were DVD recorders.
For those of you not in the know, AZ does not have daylight savings time. They're way too conservative to have to change their VCR clocks twice a year.
Nah, we just see DST as the waste of time it is.
The real reason, however, is air conditioning. It uses *way* more electricity than lighting, and an "extra hour of daylight" in the evening would cost a fortune in cooling.
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Ah, but here's the problem. Places like india won't give good jobs to non-indian natives.
If my programming job was outsourced to india, I could *not* move to india and do that same job. Why? Because I'm an american.
I hate that expression. Your time is worthless. No one ever pays you for your time.. they pay you to get something accomplished.
Well, with Lost I can pop over to abc.com and watch it the next day for *free* (ooh so I have to watch three 30 second ads on a 43 minute show)
He's probably a macroer.
The problem is that he spent that first year goofing off and making friends and memories that last him a lifetime. The last year was for education.
If you were smart, you'd have had him enroll in a community college for years #2 and #3, then come back to the 4 year college for years 4 and maybe 5. Community colleges are *often* better equipped than the 4 year university. Mine was. Computers at every desk versus no computers at all except in the "computer lab".
Your typography? What are you doing? Chiselling your posts into your monitor?
and how would you know?
If your argument is 160kbps AAC sounds as good as 192kbps mp3 then yes, they are "smaller".
But a 160kbps AAC is the exact same size as a 160kbps mp3.
People keep saying this, but really, what video rental place do you know of that charges a monthly fee instead of a per-rental fee?
Even if netflix were a brick and morter store down the street, their business model is vastly different from any of their competitors.
You sound like those people on TV who bitch and moan because they thought of making a pot with a built-in strainer... "but I didn't get a patent".
Well, I implemented it before netflix was popular. The local family-owned video store was next to pizza hut. We set up a system where you could order movies *and* a pizza over the phone. They were delivered to your door, and you were given a fedex envelope to mail the movies back when you were done.
If you'd care to read the patent, neither my actual implementation, nor your "idea" are what the actual patents are about.
Ironically, over on the front page of digg right now is a story about a little-known OSX shortcut that has no UI to tell people it exists.
I find it strange that Gnome seems to be held to a completely different standard than OSX.
Like the one that OSX plays on install? Can't skip it.
So once a week then?
I agree. While those Apple Cinema Displays are practically HDTVs, they're also expensive, and not something the average person will ever own.
Personally, I think gaming is better on consoles. For one, you don't need to worry about not being able to play the game 10,20 or even 30 years from now. My kids can play the video games I played as a kid. The same can't be said for the computer games I owned.
What? 1080p is 1920x1080 and 720p is 1280x720.
The crappiest $485 Dell laptop has a 1280x720 LCD.
The medium range Dell laptops (~$900 base) have LCDs with 1600x1200 resolution.
Probably because literally 9 out of 10 PS3s are going to be the $600 SKU?
You thought that Sony is going to make equal numbers of the $500 and $600 versions?
We've more than considered it, we've tried it. The problem is that half of those xserves are Cluster Nodes. That means they don't have video cards. We're having a hell of a time getting linux to install on a Cluster Node... even after adding a video card. We've tried fc5, ubuntu, and ydl.
It looks like there's an enterprise YDL that will support it, but we haven't tried it yet.
We have 18 xserves, and one xraid. They perform poorly. Hardware-wise (they're dual G5) they're pretty good. However, OS X is a poor server. You are forced to use the GUI for quite a few common tasks. ARD is buggy and crappy. Even though ARDHelper and ARDAgent are running, it's hit and miss whether or not you'll actually be able to connect.
Another problem is that Software Update is soo poorly written and unoptimized. Just being open, not doing anything except displaying the "There are Updates Available" (to no one) is taking up 8.1% CPU and 106 megs of ram right now. If we were to actually install any updates, CPU usage would max out and this machine would stop serving web pages.
Our experiences reinforce that Anandtech article from last year showing serious problems with Apache and MySQL on OSX. Context switching on OSX is sooo slow. 250 threads use an abnormal amount of CPU on OSX compared to, say, solaris.
It's evident that Apple doesn't take the server seriously. Apple's default Apache configuration has a 5 minute expiration date on PHP scripts (via mod_expire). That means any php page that POSTs to itself will fail.
First of all, there is a GUI for changing resolution. Secondly, SuSE can't probe your hardware to discover which resolutions are supported because... you're running under parallels! Sheesh.
When was the last time you were at the store? I recently (6 months ago) bought a Philips progressive-scan DVD player that supports xvid and divx etc, for $80. That's right.. $80.
In fact, the *only* dvd players that were more than $120 were DVD recorders.
You don't? My brother paid nearly $100 for Schindlers List on VHS when it first came out. VHS tapes used to be extremely expensive.
Nah, we just see DST as the waste of time it is.
The real reason, however, is air conditioning. It uses *way* more electricity than lighting, and an "extra hour of daylight" in the evening would cost a fortune in cooling.
Every light in my house (either lamp, or ceiling fan/lamp) is either 60 or 40 watts. Your house must be blinding.
"Nah, that's just too much work, let's just start daylight saving time earlier!"
(Lives in AZ, uses CFLs everywhere)
No. The artificial reliance on iTunes is the iPod's biggest drawback. See, I can state opinions as fact too!