Not quite, I've seen some rather bad run ins with my PC.
1) XP before SP1 was released would loose all network connectivity once a week as my router rolled the IPs over.
2) My soundcard, an SB Live, crapped out when I moved from 2k to XP (2k was giving me shit about the video card, an SiS which has since been replaced). Currently, my computer still does not play MIDI files, except ironicaly enough, through quicktime. I don't know why this is, and so far can't find a solution. Though I do know that when I try to do so (and thus turn on the MIDI support in the volume controls) all sound on my computer craps out. The fact that I had to use QT to play MIDIs and Other programs to edit them was a bitch and still is.
3) I have been hit with more viruses since plugging this PC into the internet that I have in my entire lifes usage of macs. In fact, I've recieved one mac virus so far and 8 PC ones. Granted I run stuff which is at risk for containing viruses, but I do that on both machines.
4) While I have never seen the settings on a PC or mac change for no reason (except when the internal battery gives out), I have seen the settings randomly change back to default or something else when I install a new program or update.
Granted these are rare problems in the PC world, but they are still much more common than on a mac. And even if they're uncommon, they're still a bitch to fix.
On a side note, putting together a PC with reputable components brings up the price point much closer to a mac.
Just out of curiosity, did it happen to mention which computers the linux boxes were? A Sun running linux, a mac running linux and a PC running linux are all linux boxes in my book.
Has Omni web improved it's load speeds though? I remember with early versions of Omniweb, the pages were amazing in terms of rendering, but it took forever to do anything, even worse than other browsers under OS X (the original release)
I don't doubt that there is potential to lose jobs and be living through tough times, but the fact of the matter is, it is possible to get work, it just may not be ideal. You may wind up having to take a job for which you didn't train, but that doesn't mean you can't take that job till new markets open up for you. I was just annoyed at the people that seem to think our economy is in a state of major crisis. It isn't. Yes, it's down, yes more people are unemployed. That's because we over saturated the jobs but the economy has never failed to recover. And it won't. People just have to be smart.
If you have 20 years of programming experience (and I'm assuming you don't mean you've held a job for those 20 years, if you had, this applies more so) and you fear that by next year you will be living homeless with no food, then you really never learned how to invest and save money did you? I'm not trying to belittle the fact that you may get fired, but there are other jobs out there, there's always good ol unemployment/welfare and if worst comes to worst, you can always take a job in a low wage area until you find a new job.
Are you out of a job, homeless and living in the streets with not food? Are you in danger of doing so in the imediate future? Do you fear that you may be in such a situation by next year? If not, I'd say the economy is doing pretty well. Let's face it, economies go up and down, not just up.
1) Very very very few programs ever REQUIERED you to start with extensions off before installing. While it was recomended, it was almost never ever required.
2) I have gone through all the error message resources in the classic OS (because I wanted to customize them) and there is not a single default error message that is "Like, Dude, something went wrong" which leads me to believe this error came from the program you were using which in that case is the program, not the computer's fault.
So then the rest of the market should be continuing to pay for an outdated, slow, and more or less useless data transfer system because I small minute percentage of people actualy have a valid need for them, and are to god damned cheap/lasy watever to go out and buy an external floppy.
1) A universe. An english teacher of mine was fond of saying "People don't exist in a vaccum" I believe that holds true for SF. People interact with other people and interact with the world arround them. If there isn't a world beyond the story, the SF isn't good. Everything can't automagicaly be connected.
2) People you can care about. If you have no caring for the characters, what they do or how they act. If you can't connect with the characters, it's not good.
3) It can't feel like SF. You should be able to read the book and never have it once cross your mind that you're reading SF. It has to have other plot elements that make it a story that just takes place in a world different from our own. Good examples of this are Ender's Game and Cobra. Both have an entire sublevel of politics and character interactions that make it so that the technology is written for the story, not the otherway arround.
Aside from the demands to pay for the legal team, I think Apple handled this situation better than they could have.
1) They didn't take it to court, which is a hell of an expense 2) They offered monetary compensation
It sorta sucks, but it's part of the business. If a mattress manufacturer developed a new very very soft matress and called themselves Micro-Soft Matresses they wouldn't get away with it. Since both companies are in the IT business, there is reasonable conflict.
OTOH, to start some rumors, Apple also has a tendency to shut things down when they plan on doing something similar themselves (buy outs of companies, law suit over DVD equiped eMacs). Be on the look out for a web service provided by Apple.
There was one, it was called eWorld. It went away.
There is of course Apple ISP (http://www.appleisp.com/) but so far Apple hasn't paid them much attention.
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Hmmm, maybe Apple cutting back on rumors is an attempt to stop the bitching that comes from the PC world and some mac users when the Expo releases don't live up to the multi Thz processors with liquid plasma displays. It's dammage control, so they're damned if they do and damned if they don't
Some of us, assuming we survive the fallout, will survive for another year as all macs can handle at least through 2040. Though maybe OS X cut that back a year.
Actualy, I like having a cell phone. In fact, it's essentialy my primary phone, my landline only used for business dealings. Why? Because I can turn off the cell phone and forget about it till whenever. Sure I can unplug the land line, but it's a hell of a lot easier to puch a button and never have to worry about a call. It also alows me to be in touch with people when I ootherwise could not be. The net presense idea isn't a bad one, I just want the option to turn it off.
A troll feeding we will go, a troll feeding we will go, hi ho the derio (WTF is that anyways?) a troll feeding we will go.
What's also amusing is, children have no problem using dos, linux, windows, MacOS or OSX. They have no preference to OS as long as it can play sound, let them personalise their desktop etc. what they favour is SOFTWARE
Yet for some unknown reason, if you put an average highschool computer user who's grown up on a windows PC all his life in front of a mac, and open up netscape, they can't seem to figure out how to make it work, despite it having an identical interface to the PC version. The reason I was given was becasue "It's a mac, I don't know how to use a mac"
I don't know what FFX you were playing, but I thought is was a great one. There were plenty of battles and I thought the level up system was a very interesting twist to the game. I also liked the new way of handling turns. In general, I thought FFX was a very good FF game (doesn't quite compare with VI or IV (IV was 2 in the US right?) But then again, I'm also one of those people that actualy enjoyed FF VIII
Not that you really care, but an attack on Iraq would simply be finishing what we started long ago. What the "make love not war" hippies fail to realize is that if you get into a conflict where the enemy want's you dead, there is no such thing as negotations. They want you dead. Period. There are only 2 ways to solve such a conflict. Obliterate and destroy your enemy or beat the living shit out of them so that they whole heartedly surrender. These may seem very harsh and evil tactics, but america has this little thing about cleaning up after it's messes. Case in point Japan and Germany after WWII. IN germany, we obliterated the Nazi party and it's army. Completely destroyed. Those who were not killed were captured and tried and scentenced to appropriate punishments. Germany itself was devistated, and we came back and helped clean up. In japan, we beat the shit out of them with the bomb. It scared them, it proved to them beyond a resonable doubt that we could destroy them instantly. They surrendered whole heartedly. We came back and helped clean up. Notice in both cases, we have had no problems since.
Now take a look at conflicts where we did not finish what we started. Vietnam & Korea. In both of those cases we fought, went to the "peace tables" talked, reached an agreement, left, and watched in disbelief as the people we had just had peace talks with turned arround and started all over again. If you do not stop the enemy completely, you can not win.
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Not quite, I've seen some rather bad run ins with my PC.
1) XP before SP1 was released would loose all network connectivity once a week as my router rolled the IPs over.
2) My soundcard, an SB Live, crapped out when I moved from 2k to XP (2k was giving me shit about the video card, an SiS which has since been replaced). Currently, my computer still does not play MIDI files, except ironicaly enough, through quicktime. I don't know why this is, and so far can't find a solution. Though I do know that when I try to do so (and thus turn on the MIDI support in the volume controls) all sound on my computer craps out. The fact that I had to use QT to play MIDIs and Other programs to edit them was a bitch and still is.
3) I have been hit with more viruses since plugging this PC into the internet that I have in my entire lifes usage of macs. In fact, I've recieved one mac virus so far and 8 PC ones. Granted I run stuff which is at risk for containing viruses, but I do that on both machines.
4) While I have never seen the settings on a PC or mac change for no reason (except when the internal battery gives out), I have seen the settings randomly change back to default or something else when I install a new program or update.
Granted these are rare problems in the PC world, but they are still much more common than on a mac. And even if they're uncommon, they're still a bitch to fix.
On a side note, putting together a PC with reputable components brings up the price point much closer to a mac.
Just out of curiosity, did it happen to mention which computers the linux boxes were? A Sun running linux, a mac running linux and a PC running linux are all linux boxes in my book.
Has Omni web improved it's load speeds though? I remember with early versions of Omniweb, the pages were amazing in terms of rendering, but it took forever to do anything, even worse than other browsers under OS X (the original release)
I don't doubt that there is potential to lose jobs and be living through tough times, but the fact of the matter is, it is possible to get work, it just may not be ideal. You may wind up having to take a job for which you didn't train, but that doesn't mean you can't take that job till new markets open up for you. I was just annoyed at the people that seem to think our economy is in a state of major crisis. It isn't. Yes, it's down, yes more people are unemployed. That's because we over saturated the jobs but the economy has never failed to recover. And it won't. People just have to be smart.
If you have 20 years of programming experience (and I'm assuming you don't mean you've held a job for those 20 years, if you had, this applies more so) and you fear that by next year you will be living homeless with no food, then you really never learned how to invest and save money did you? I'm not trying to belittle the fact that you may get fired, but there are other jobs out there, there's always good ol unemployment/welfare and if worst comes to worst, you can always take a job in a low wage area until you find a new job.
Dead link. Please try again.
Directx is Satan spawn. I would hate for this to be the primary graphic base for games on my mac
If linux x86 runs much more software than PPC Linux than the entire linux/OSS movement has failed. So sad, I thought it had a chance.
I call bullshit. Show me where and what you got for $250.
Also note that your athlon system did not come with:
A) A nice 12 inch LCD display
B) 4 hours standard batery life
C) OS X
D) Firewire
E) Gigabit ethernet
F) An easy to carry portable form
Are you out of a job, homeless and living in the streets with not food? Are you in danger of doing so in the imediate future? Do you fear that you may be in such a situation by next year? If not, I'd say the economy is doing pretty well. Let's face it, economies go up and down, not just up.
Not that steep, our college just bought a bunch of Dell 1U servers, at 2K a piece for the lowend model (of the ones we got anyways.)
1) Very very very few programs ever REQUIERED you to start with extensions off before installing. While it was recomended, it was almost never ever required.
2) I have gone through all the error message resources in the classic OS (because I wanted to customize them) and there is not a single default error message that is "Like, Dude, something went wrong" which leads me to believe this error came from the program you were using which in that case is the program, not the computer's fault.
So then the rest of the market should be continuing to pay for an outdated, slow, and more or less useless data transfer system because I small minute percentage of people actualy have a valid need for them, and are to god damned cheap/lasy watever to go out and buy an external floppy.
Mac users did this too. At least the less honest ones did. After OS X came out, they were bitching about ht eevils of Classic to no end.
1) A universe. An english teacher of mine was fond of saying "People don't exist in a vaccum" I believe that holds true for SF. People interact with other people and interact with the world arround them. If there isn't a world beyond the story, the SF isn't good. Everything can't automagicaly be connected.
2) People you can care about. If you have no caring for the characters, what they do or how they act. If you can't connect with the characters, it's not good.
3) It can't feel like SF. You should be able to read the book and never have it once cross your mind that you're reading SF. It has to have other plot elements that make it a story that just takes place in a world different from our own. Good examples of this are Ender's Game and Cobra. Both have an entire sublevel of politics and character interactions that make it so that the technology is written for the story, not the otherway arround.
I would have thought that too, but the kid honestly did not seem to be able to figure out how he was supposed to navigate.
Aside from the demands to pay for the legal team, I think Apple handled this situation better than they could have.
1) They didn't take it to court, which is a hell of an expense
2) They offered monetary compensation
It sorta sucks, but it's part of the business. If a mattress manufacturer developed a new very very soft matress and called themselves Micro-Soft Matresses they wouldn't get away with it. Since both companies are in the IT business, there is reasonable conflict.
OTOH, to start some rumors, Apple also has a tendency to shut things down when they plan on doing something similar themselves (buy outs of companies, law suit over DVD equiped eMacs). Be on the look out for a web service provided by Apple.
There was one, it was called eWorld. It went away.
There is of course Apple ISP (http://www.appleisp.com/) but so far Apple hasn't paid them much attention.
Hmmm, maybe Apple cutting back on rumors is an attempt to stop the bitching that comes from the PC world and some mac users when the Expo releases don't live up to the multi Thz processors with liquid plasma displays. It's dammage control, so they're damned if they do and damned if they don't
Some of us, assuming we survive the fallout, will survive for another year as all macs can handle at least through 2040. Though maybe OS X cut that back a year.
Actualy, I like having a cell phone. In fact, it's essentialy my primary phone, my landline only used for business dealings. Why? Because I can turn off the cell phone and forget about it till whenever. Sure I can unplug the land line, but it's a hell of a lot easier to puch a button and never have to worry about a call. It also alows me to be in touch with people when I ootherwise could not be. The net presense idea isn't a bad one, I just want the option to turn it off.
A troll feeding we will go, a troll feeding we will go, hi ho the derio (WTF is that anyways?) a troll feeding we will go.
What's also amusing is, children have no problem using dos, linux, windows, MacOS or OSX. They have no preference to OS as long as it can play sound, let them personalise their desktop etc. what they favour is SOFTWARE
Yet for some unknown reason, if you put an average highschool computer user who's grown up on a windows PC all his life in front of a mac, and open up netscape, they can't seem to figure out how to make it work, despite it having an identical interface to the PC version. The reason I was given was becasue "It's a mac, I don't know how to use a mac"
I agree that QT takes far too long to start up, but there is an option in the preferences to only have one movie open at a time.
I don't know what FFX you were playing, but I thought is was a great one. There were plenty of battles and I thought the level up system was a very interesting twist to the game. I also liked the new way of handling turns. In general, I thought FFX was a very good FF game (doesn't quite compare with VI or IV (IV was 2 in the US right?) But then again, I'm also one of those people that actualy enjoyed FF VIII
Not that you really care, but an attack on Iraq would simply be finishing what we started long ago. What the "make love not war" hippies fail to realize is that if you get into a conflict where the enemy want's you dead, there is no such thing as negotations. They want you dead. Period. There are only 2 ways to solve such a conflict. Obliterate and destroy your enemy or beat the living shit out of them so that they whole heartedly surrender. These may seem very harsh and evil tactics, but america has this little thing about cleaning up after it's messes. Case in point Japan and Germany after WWII. IN germany, we obliterated the Nazi party and it's army. Completely destroyed. Those who were not killed were captured and tried and scentenced to appropriate punishments. Germany itself was devistated, and we came back and helped clean up. In japan, we beat the shit out of them with the bomb. It scared them, it proved to them beyond a resonable doubt that we could destroy them instantly. They surrendered whole heartedly. We came back and helped clean up. Notice in both cases, we have had no problems since.
Now take a look at conflicts where we did not finish what we started. Vietnam & Korea. In both of those cases we fought, went to the "peace tables" talked, reached an agreement, left, and watched in disbelief as the people we had just had peace talks with turned arround and started all over again. If you do not stop the enemy completely, you can not win.