Think about it for a second. Any thing that humans truly deem worthwhile for saving is copied an backed up. It's always been that way since the begining of time. How else do books like the Bible and the Quaran remain? If the future is truly interested in learning about us, they will find a way to read our crashed hard drives. Worrying about the loss of our information is like the greeks worrying that in the future, no one would be able to read their language. Anything that is truly relevent for humans is passed on from generation to generation, it may be different media, but it's still the same idea.
He wants to be able to do work on it. He doesnt' want to have to pick out a computer to match his drapes. I will give Apple credit for a better UI, but as for everything else...
OK, for one, macs are great for getting work done. Have you ever even used one? I don't have the link (nor do I feel like looking for it), but I have seen studies which show that companies which have macs as workstations generaly have more productive workers because the machines have a lower downtime over-all. The windows downtime may have improved since that report, but the point is, you can get work done very easily on the mac.
Apple's back-end is just a pimped-out unix. At least Micro$oft can write its own OS and doesn't go converting to *nix when they realize it sucks.
Linux's back end is just a pimped-out unix too. What's your point? UNIX is a tried an true system that works great. As a matter of opinion, windows still sucks, M$ just hasn't realized it yet. No, Apple has realized that with the advent of Linux and the continued success of SUN, UNIX (and it's varients) is becomming a more widely seen OS. It seems very likely that UNIX will become one of the most predominate OSes. To move the Mac OS to a UNIX underpinning is one of the best moves apple could make. The only reason M$ doesn't do it is because that would sacrifice most of it's control over the OS.
Hardware: Remember back when apple supported BeOS? Ever wonder why they dropped it? Because they realized that if people could run a MacOS on IBM hardware, they'd abandon Apple's hardware like investors from Arthur Anderson.
No I don't, so could you tell me when they supported BeOS? Last I knew, BeOS was simply writen to run on mac hardware, just like yellowdog and LinuxPPC. That doesn't mean Apple supports them. And Apple has made attempts to port to PCs in the past. Each time they did however, they killed the project because a) it went over budget, too many different things to support and b) it wouldn't provide a good source of income.
I don't really feel like getting my ass reamed out every time i want to upgrade my system. Getting raped on IBM hardware doens't make me gay, but pushing back by willingly getting more expensive apple hardware does.
To start, that statement is so blatently flame bait, it truly reveals the fact that you are 1 of 3 things.
1) Uneducated drone of microsoft who knows nothing about computers except how to turn them on and download viruses.
2) A 13 year old trying to be cool
3) A moron who doesn't care about their credability.
Either way, if you hadn't before, you lost all the respect of any reader right there. All macs are upgradeable, even the processor (http://www.sonnettech.com/). RAM, HDs, and just about everything else is standardized.
Buy an iMac, you don't need the tower. go for the high end one ($1,800 less if your smart) it's got enough RAM and all the hardware you could ever need in a machine. What else could you want to put in the computer? It's got the DVD drive, it burns CDs. It's got a decent graphics card for an entry-mid level system, a 15 inch LCD has almost the same viewable area as a good 17inch monitor (16 inch VA I believe). The sound system is good, the microphone is built in, it's got plenty of USB and Firewire ports. I can't think of much else you could really want. Sell your current PC, use that money and whatever else you have to buy the iMac (if you want more memory, don't go through Apple) and go for it (or you could lease the computer). If you don't like the machine, resell it, macs have highresale values.
Now that you mention it, there's another reason for apple to want to keep the rumor sites away from press passes. Time canada released their story about the LCD imacs before the announcement was made at the expo. That understandably pissed off Apple. If they restrict those that have press pass acesss, they can help control those leaks.
There's a difference. CNET is a new site, and is established as such. ThinkSecret and many other rumor sites are not, regardless of what they claim. Honestly it may not be the best PR move, but apple is perfectly within their bounds to restrict press passes to the press.
problem with your theory is, Apple lives off of hype. That's how the company runs. They don't have to have the greatest product in terms o technical specs, they just have to have the greatest product in terms of user experience. And whether you like apple or not, the hype is fun. It gets imaginations running, and gives you something other than the next speed processor for you to be excited about. Being an aple customer is fun, and the hype is all part of the experience.
As for not having anything good to release at their expos, when was the last time you saw any company with a great expo release? Hell, half the time, you never even know when the PC expos are.
Let me start first by saying I understand where this is comming from. Software development takes time, and like any thing else, time is money. In today's day and age where major companies, not just hobyists are looking into using open source OSes. As a result, the demand for faster and "better" (but not always) development has increased. To help speed development along, you need to provide incentive for a developer to work more dilligently, otherwise known as paying them. Unfortunately for the opensource world this method of payent through ads will not work. And here's why:
1) As many people have pointed out, you can always comment the ad scripts out of the OS, and recompile.
2) Very limited advertising, the same reason web sites paid with ads don't work (unless they're loaded with ads). In broadcast radio and TV (which are free to the user), each radio and tv station is located in a particular area and the reach a known audience. Knowing your audience is near by and capabe of buying a product from you is what intises advertisers to by spots on radio and TV. But when you do something like a web site, a satelte radio or an ad run OS, your market is no longer ridgedly difinned. Suddenly, your only advertisers are those that sell a generaly universal product. For example, here in upstate NY, the radio is often filled with ads in the winter for various ice melts. Those advertisers will to pay to advertise however, if they don't knw for certain that the ad is reaching the desired people (who in Florida wants ice melt?)
3) Advertisements are annoying. Let's face it. We all hate ads. We accept them as a nessesary evil for broadcast, and even for te web. But hw many of us actuly pay attention? Most people flip channels when ads come on, or change stations. Most of us when we go to a page have our mouses trained on the exact spot the ad window will appear so that we can close is without it loading. No one likes ads and no one wants to be bomarded with them when they're using their computer.
We can come immensly close to it, but if data was to move from human readable to encrypted and back to human readable, than at some point it had to be decrypted, and if it can be decrypted it can be broken. It doesn't mean that the chances of it being broken are immensely small, but the chance is still there. Espesialy if the randomness is generated by computer, I have yet to see a random generator scheme for a computer that doesn't have some sort of formula to it. True randomness is very hard to come by.
Have you watched a couple consecutive episodes? That's really the only way to judge a series. The first couple Buffy Eps I saw, I thought it was dumb. After about 4 epsiodes though, I stared seeing a bit more in the program, the show actualy deals with real human events (baring the demons unless you speak metaphoricaly) and is immensely quoteable and funny.
But as I said, you need to watch multiple consecutive episodes of a series before you can judge it. When I saw the first episode of 24, i thought it was incredible, the idea was interesting, the show had cool action sequences and it just seemed great. But after the 5th epsiode, it got repetative and boring. Yeah, 24 was OK, but it wasn't great like my first impression said it would be,
Personaly, the random episode that hooked me (fortunately FX was running the etire series in reruns the next month) was an episode from I believe the 4th or 5th season in which we recieve the story of Spike as well as an interesting insight into the mind of the slayer (and potentialy any person who is trained to kill). It's a show you have to see a couple consecutive episodes, specificaly the ones without Riley (they had some rather obnoxious scenes).
Actualy, have you looked at most of the newest toasters and microwaves? Lot's of them are loaded with asthetic designs all made to make things look better. Look at most new fridges too. Curved handles, shiny black, silver lining etc etc etc. While there is a functionality, there is plenty of style to it as well, and so it is with a mac. The iMacs have colors for style, but the actual design was because a handle on top is the best way to cary an all in one.
The new iMacs look sleek for style, but an easily moveable LCD screen and a neck that can support the wieght of the computer is loads of functionality.
The old iBooks were bubbly for style, but also because they were touted as laptops for students, those damn things don't break when you drop em (I know believe me).
The new ones are compact for lots of functionality.
Personaly, with the exception of their towers, I find Apple's prices quite reasonable considering I've never had a mac seriously die on me. OTOH I've had my PCs randomly stop working all together after the addition of a sound card, I've had fans in powersupplies die and spark, I've had motherbords start smoking and in general have not had great experiences with any PC that I didn't build by hand. But seeing as how I can't build Apples by hand, compared with prebuilts from other companies, Apples computers a fairly reasonable.
Who are they fooling? In case you haven't noticed, Gandma Bessie doesn't need the latest quake cruncher. And personaly, I like a computer that not only is cool, but looks cool too. With the exception of some of the later iMacs (before the latest revision) Apple has generaly made very cool machines. Yeah colors look funky at first, but after a while, they're actualy great. Apple's machines look like they belong in a room, they don't look like a box you want to hide under a desk.
The look and feel suit against Microsoft was over the fact that microsoft stole the code directly out of the old Macintosh computers (microsoft had access to prototypes for software development and reverse engineered the OS). And the lawsuit against eMachines was perfectly valid. That did look almost exactly like an iMac, and Apple owned the rights to that design, just like coke owns the rights to the coke bottle design.
With the minor exception that the Dell is almost guarenteed to break down within a month of use. While I agree that in standard desktop computers, PCs beat macs for initial costs, my experience with Dell machines has been that they are just absolutely horrible machines. Compare maybe Gateway and Apple, but not Dell and Apple.
Censorware is also rather pathetic in the things it doesn't filter. While out school's new firewall/censorware has the wonderful ability to block all free web mail sites (except submail.net) and sites like peacefire, cexx.org AIM.com etc. For some reason, these people completely skipped over sites such as cyberarmy.com, and defcon.org. But the icing on the cake was when they missed thehun.com, kittykats.com and of course whitehouse.com Let's hear it for good web filters.
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I often debate whether I should check "native american" My parents were born in the US, I was born in the US, that would make me a native to this land. Native american.
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Technicaly speaking, you are at your healthiest in your later teen years. Assuming of course you keep a regular exercise regimine.
S.F. and as you pointed out, Anime, has already covered these ideas. Star Trek had a whole planet who's wars were calculated on a computer, which then selected people to die, based on their productivity or something liek that.
And a short story I read had all wars being fought with insults, and teritory was lost or gained based on the superiority of the insults, as determined by aa computer.
But war is population control as well as teritory regulator.
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While it would be nice, consider we can't even get americans to realize that they are americans, and to drop the fsking hyphens (african-americans, itallian-americans etc etc). It don't matter, your either american or you aint. And if we can't get americans to see that, how do you expect the world to peacfuly co-exist?
I believe what you're trying to say is that "Zero Tollerence" is a way for aduts to shirk their responsibility to think and reason and just lock away anything that looks like it could hurt someone.
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That's the premise for Ender's Game if you haven't read it yet, DO SO NOW!
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Um, premium channels aren't real cable and satelite. They're extras, you can't get them without a regular subscription.
I would think it would be easier to dual boot X and Linux
Think about it for a second. Any thing that humans truly deem worthwhile for saving is copied an backed up. It's always been that way since the begining of time. How else do books like the Bible and the Quaran remain? If the future is truly interested in learning about us, they will find a way to read our crashed hard drives. Worrying about the loss of our information is like the greeks worrying that in the future, no one would be able to read their language. Anything that is truly relevent for humans is passed on from generation to generation, it may be different media, but it's still the same idea.
Everyone would sign up for an AOL account. Sure you'd have to pay $20 a month, but the payments from the spam would more than make up for it.
He wants to be able to do work on it. He doesnt' want to have to pick out a computer to match his drapes. I will give Apple credit for a better UI, but as for everything else...
OK, for one, macs are great for getting work done. Have you ever even used one? I don't have the link (nor do I feel like looking for it), but I have seen studies which show that companies which have macs as workstations generaly have more productive workers because the machines have a lower downtime over-all. The windows downtime may have improved since that report, but the point is, you can get work done very easily on the mac.
Apple's back-end is just a pimped-out unix. At least Micro$oft can write its own OS and doesn't go converting to *nix when they realize it sucks.
Linux's back end is just a pimped-out unix too. What's your point? UNIX is a tried an true system that works great. As a matter of opinion, windows still sucks, M$ just hasn't realized it yet. No, Apple has realized that with the advent of Linux and the continued success of SUN, UNIX (and it's varients) is becomming a more widely seen OS. It seems very likely that UNIX will become one of the most predominate OSes. To move the Mac OS to a UNIX underpinning is one of the best moves apple could make. The only reason M$ doesn't do it is because that would sacrifice most of it's control over the OS.
Hardware: Remember back when apple supported BeOS? Ever wonder why they dropped it? Because they realized that if people could run a MacOS on IBM hardware, they'd abandon Apple's hardware like investors from Arthur Anderson.
No I don't, so could you tell me when they supported BeOS? Last I knew, BeOS was simply writen to run on mac hardware, just like yellowdog and LinuxPPC. That doesn't mean Apple supports them. And Apple has made attempts to port to PCs in the past. Each time they did however, they killed the project because a) it went over budget, too many different things to support and b) it wouldn't provide a good source of income.
I don't really feel like getting my ass reamed out every time i want to upgrade my system. Getting raped on IBM hardware doens't make me gay, but pushing back by willingly getting more expensive apple hardware does.
To start, that statement is so blatently flame bait, it truly reveals the fact that you are 1 of 3 things.
1) Uneducated drone of microsoft who knows nothing about computers except how to turn them on and download viruses.
2) A 13 year old trying to be cool
3) A moron who doesn't care about their credability.
Either way, if you hadn't before, you lost all the respect of any reader right there. All macs are upgradeable, even the processor (http://www.sonnettech.com/). RAM, HDs, and just about everything else is standardized.
Do research before you post.
Exactly! I tell you slashdot needs and "Amen Brother" mod. Congrats on joining the mac community. Just out of curiostity, which comp did you buy?
Buy an iMac, you don't need the tower. go for the high end one ($1,800 less if your smart) it's got enough RAM and all the hardware you could ever need in a machine. What else could you want to put in the computer? It's got the DVD drive, it burns CDs. It's got a decent graphics card for an entry-mid level system, a 15 inch LCD has almost the same viewable area as a good 17inch monitor (16 inch VA I believe). The sound system is good, the microphone is built in, it's got plenty of USB and Firewire ports. I can't think of much else you could really want. Sell your current PC, use that money and whatever else you have to buy the iMac (if you want more memory, don't go through Apple) and go for it (or you could lease the computer). If you don't like the machine, resell it, macs have highresale values.
Now that you mention it, there's another reason for apple to want to keep the rumor sites away from press passes. Time canada released their story about the LCD imacs before the announcement was made at the expo. That understandably pissed off Apple. If they restrict those that have press pass acesss, they can help control those leaks.
There's a difference. CNET is a new site, and is established as such. ThinkSecret and many other rumor sites are not, regardless of what they claim. Honestly it may not be the best PR move, but apple is perfectly within their bounds to restrict press passes to the press.
problem with your theory is, Apple lives off of hype. That's how the company runs. They don't have to have the greatest product in terms o technical specs, they just have to have the greatest product in terms of user experience. And whether you like apple or not, the hype is fun. It gets imaginations running, and gives you something other than the next speed processor for you to be excited about. Being an aple customer is fun, and the hype is all part of the experience.
As for not having anything good to release at their expos, when was the last time you saw any company with a great expo release? Hell, half the time, you never even know when the PC expos are.
Let me start first by saying I understand where this is comming from. Software development takes time, and like any thing else, time is money. In today's day and age where major companies, not just hobyists are looking into using open source OSes. As a result, the demand for faster and "better" (but not always) development has increased. To help speed development along, you need to provide incentive for a developer to work more dilligently, otherwise known as paying them. Unfortunately for the opensource world this method of payent through ads will not work. And here's why:
1) As many people have pointed out, you can always comment the ad scripts out of the OS, and recompile.
2) Very limited advertising, the same reason web sites paid with ads don't work (unless they're loaded with ads). In broadcast radio and TV (which are free to the user), each radio and tv station is located in a particular area and the reach a known audience. Knowing your audience is near by and capabe of buying a product from you is what intises advertisers to by spots on radio and TV. But when you do something like a web site, a satelte radio or an ad run OS, your market is no longer ridgedly difinned. Suddenly, your only advertisers are those that sell a generaly universal product. For example, here in upstate NY, the radio is often filled with ads in the winter for various ice melts. Those advertisers will to pay to advertise however, if they don't knw for certain that the ad is reaching the desired people (who in Florida wants ice melt?)
3) Advertisements are annoying. Let's face it. We all hate ads. We accept them as a nessesary evil for broadcast, and even for te web. But hw many of us actuly pay attention? Most people flip channels when ads come on, or change stations. Most of us when we go to a page have our mouses trained on the exact spot the ad window will appear so that we can close is without it loading. No one likes ads and no one wants to be bomarded with them when they're using their computer.
We can come immensly close to it, but if data was to move from human readable to encrypted and back to human readable, than at some point it had to be decrypted, and if it can be decrypted it can be broken. It doesn't mean that the chances of it being broken are immensely small, but the chance is still there. Espesialy if the randomness is generated by computer, I have yet to see a random generator scheme for a computer that doesn't have some sort of formula to it. True randomness is very hard to come by.
Have you watched a couple consecutive episodes? That's really the only way to judge a series. The first couple Buffy Eps I saw, I thought it was dumb. After about 4 epsiodes though, I stared seeing a bit more in the program, the show actualy deals with real human events (baring the demons unless you speak metaphoricaly) and is immensely quoteable and funny.
But as I said, you need to watch multiple consecutive episodes of a series before you can judge it. When I saw the first episode of 24, i thought it was incredible, the idea was interesting, the show had cool action sequences and it just seemed great. But after the 5th epsiode, it got repetative and boring. Yeah, 24 was OK, but it wasn't great like my first impression said it would be,
Personaly, the random episode that hooked me (fortunately FX was running the etire series in reruns the next month) was an episode from I believe the 4th or 5th season in which we recieve the story of Spike as well as an interesting insight into the mind of the slayer (and potentialy any person who is trained to kill). It's a show you have to see a couple consecutive episodes, specificaly the ones without Riley (they had some rather obnoxious scenes).
Actualy, have you looked at most of the newest toasters and microwaves? Lot's of them are loaded with asthetic designs all made to make things look better. Look at most new fridges too. Curved handles, shiny black, silver lining etc etc etc. While there is a functionality, there is plenty of style to it as well, and so it is with a mac. The iMacs have colors for style, but the actual design was because a handle on top is the best way to cary an all in one.
The new iMacs look sleek for style, but an easily moveable LCD screen and a neck that can support the wieght of the computer is loads of functionality.
The old iBooks were bubbly for style, but also because they were touted as laptops for students, those damn things don't break when you drop em (I know believe me).
The new ones are compact for lots of functionality.
Personaly, with the exception of their towers, I find Apple's prices quite reasonable considering I've never had a mac seriously die on me. OTOH I've had my PCs randomly stop working all together after the addition of a sound card, I've had fans in powersupplies die and spark, I've had motherbords start smoking and in general have not had great experiences with any PC that I didn't build by hand. But seeing as how I can't build Apples by hand, compared with prebuilts from other companies, Apples computers a fairly reasonable.
Who are they fooling? In case you haven't noticed, Gandma Bessie doesn't need the latest quake cruncher. And personaly, I like a computer that not only is cool, but looks cool too. With the exception of some of the later iMacs (before the latest revision) Apple has generaly made very cool machines. Yeah colors look funky at first, but after a while, they're actualy great. Apple's machines look like they belong in a room, they don't look like a box you want to hide under a desk.
The look and feel suit against Microsoft was over the fact that microsoft stole the code directly out of the old Macintosh computers (microsoft had access to prototypes for software development and reverse engineered the OS). And the lawsuit against eMachines was perfectly valid. That did look almost exactly like an iMac, and Apple owned the rights to that design, just like coke owns the rights to the coke bottle design.
With the minor exception that the Dell is almost guarenteed to break down within a month of use. While I agree that in standard desktop computers, PCs beat macs for initial costs, my experience with Dell machines has been that they are just absolutely horrible machines. Compare maybe Gateway and Apple, but not Dell and Apple.
Censorware is also rather pathetic in the things it doesn't filter. While out school's new firewall/censorware has the wonderful ability to block all free web mail sites (except submail.net) and sites like peacefire, cexx.org AIM.com etc. For some reason, these people completely skipped over sites such as cyberarmy.com, and defcon.org. But the icing on the cake was when they missed thehun.com, kittykats.com and of course whitehouse.com Let's hear it for good web filters.
I often debate whether I should check "native american" My parents were born in the US, I was born in the US, that would make me a native to this land. Native american.
Technicaly speaking, you are at your healthiest in your later teen years. Assuming of course you keep a regular exercise regimine.
S.F. and as you pointed out, Anime, has already covered these ideas. Star Trek had a whole planet who's wars were calculated on a computer, which then selected people to die, based on their productivity or something liek that.
And a short story I read had all wars being fought with insults, and teritory was lost or gained based on the superiority of the insults, as determined by aa computer.
But war is population control as well as teritory regulator.
While it would be nice, consider we can't even get americans to realize that they are americans, and to drop the fsking hyphens (african-americans, itallian-americans etc etc). It don't matter, your either american or you aint. And if we can't get americans to see that, how do you expect the world to peacfuly co-exist?
I believe what you're trying to say is that "Zero Tollerence" is a way for aduts to shirk their responsibility to think and reason and just lock away anything that looks like it could hurt someone.
That's the premise for Ender's Game if you haven't read it yet, DO SO NOW!
Except it doesn't say "under Jesus". It says "under God" which the Jewish believe in.