Hey now, that's not fair. I read the article at Internet Week, and thought you all might be interested. I hadn't seen the previous article here (which, now that I've read it, isn't quite the same). Lucky me, it's my first article to actually get accepted. Quit trolling, or get your own damn site and don't allow any drunken karma whores on it.
I'd say it's a vocal minority (and a whiney one at that). I know many people who have iBooks (including 2 myself), and I've never seen or heard of this problem except on Slashdot and the Mac web.
If it's under warrantee, quit bitching and get it fixed. If it's not, you should've bought AppleCare. Learn how to fix it yourself, like this guy, or buy a new LCD. They aren't that hard to install, believe me.
I agree. Anyone who's ever bought an "explicit lyrics" CD from WalMart can tell you that it is filled with the radio-edited versions of songs.
http://www.massmic.com/walmart.html
It's about what one would expect from a Bible-belt-run company whose main source of income comes from the lowest 2 tax brackets. Not to be stereotypical, but it's true. Sometimes cliches are true. Hey, I'll buy some stuff at WalMart, but never music. Unless you're okay with edited, censored music, you'd best stick with iTunes. Apple has a better selection and doesn't use DRM'ed WMA files. AAC isn't very restrictive.
I've had my iPod for 2 years (it's an original 5 GB model), and the batteries are still as perfect as the day I bought them. I use it every day, and recharge it from all points of discharge. I don't know what all of these people are doing to kill their batteries...
Actually, you should check the figures. At Penn, Macs make up over 25% of the Faculty, Staff and Student computers in use. This makes what you're saying a bigger deal, don't you think? 3/4 is a much smaller number than 19/20, when you talk about statistics.
Furthermore, we need to get ovet this 5% myth. 5% of computers SOLD every year are Macs. Anywhere from 10%+ of the installed user base in this country are Macs, though - chalk it up to hardware integrity, lack of frustration, or just plain not becoming obsolete.
What about the students that DON'T use Windows? Believe me, there are plenty of us. Year after year, decision after decision, school administrations on every level create environments more inhospitable to non-MS users. This may be going too far - by using a service that mandates MS, and a service that EVERY college student is going to want to use - the use of Macs and Linux (there are a few of us using Linux, yes) is discouraged. This is unhealthy for both the integrity of networks and free thought itself.
Hopefully someone will come up with a multi-platform interface for the new Napster service. If not, you can bet that I'd be knocking on the door of the CTO, demanding matching funds for iTunes!
College students have been doing this for years. Ever hear of a keg stand? How about a funnel?
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When I was in high school, I hiked to the top of a mountain (in my hometown in the Adirondacks) with a couple friends and my girlfriend (now my fiancee) in the middle of August. I was a nerd then as well, so I brought my Celestron 8" telescope. We had some incredible views of Mars and Jupitor on that trip, although the telescope obviously didn't help much for meteorites.
Fantastic show. Do your best to see it, and you won't be disappointed. Unfortunately (and fortunately), it's not as good as the meteor shower in the fifth season of Stargate SG-1. But then again, we don't have catastrophic consequences either.
That's a very good point - that making these people "immune" to the effects of AIDS could cause certain mutations to occur at a more frequent rate within the individuals affected.
I do find it amusing that you chose the wording "error checking". You must be a networking professional. Hooray for the 802.3 and LLC!
I'm using it (firewalled, proxied, spoofed) to test out the OS, not as a security platform. I'm just sitting here at home fooling around. Nice joke, though.
I'm typing this right now in the "Links" browser. It's fast, it looks good, it has most of the tools I use (Nessus, Ethereal, XMMS, Firebird). I might just mod this and carry it with me instead of using other people's machines when I'm doing diagnostics. It picked up my wireless correctly and everything.
All the vaccine seems to do is allow people to continue to live with HIV for a longer time, without reaching full-blown AIDS. It's a nice step, but doesn't help with the main problem - that a significant portion of HIV cases are caused by ignorance and misbelief, especially in Africa. Furthermore, the places in Africa most hardly hit by HIV don't have enough money to buy cutting-edge treatments in the first place. They are too worried about food...
It's too bad the details are so scarce in the article. It would be nice to know exactly what this vaccine does (enhance T-cells, etc?). For the moment, this news isn't very helpful to the majority of HIV sufferers. I suppose any progress is progress, though.
I think that even if the spectrometer is only partially fixed, it could provide good data to scientists here on the ground - not to mention the dozen other sensors. From other reports (CNN, NYTimes), people are talking about this as "another one of NASA's failures". Not at all, the mission can be 95% successful even without this particular iron spectrometer.
Until we give NASA more money, they can't do a hell of a lot. They tried "faster, better, cheaper", and realized what NetAdmins have known all along - you can only have two out of three.
Bottom line - give 1% of the current defense spending to NASA instead, and we'd have a hell of a space program.
I see your point, but no one in most offices - I mean NO ONE - is going to start a remote SSH session to run their piddly MSN Messenger. My method works in 99.9% of the cases in a corporate environment, as long as the administration has had the foresight to use a software firewall on client-side machines.
My boss asked me to do this not long ago... We took several factors into our calculation at my corporation. We were doing it on a server by server basis, so keep that into mind.
1) Cost of server hardware as a function of the time it would be in use
2) Cost of server OS (Window 2000 Server) over same time and over users
3) Cost of bandwidth used (fraction of total bandwidth)
4) Cost of maintaining server (personnel, electricity, hazard prevention, security, upgrades, general analysis tools)
5) How important the server was to the overall network infrastructure (objective, as in the DHCP server is worth+)
Obviously, the equation will be different for every server and every organization, but that's a general overview.
I disagree. I've blocked MSN and Yahoo on several machines by using McAfee Desktop Firewall. You merely set a rule to disallow the application to run at all. This is the surest way to block it, and it's the only way I've found to be affective.
MSN has a tendency to reinstall, reactivate, and open itself. Without taking desperate measures such as setting rules, it will at the very least run itself in the background and take up cycles.
This ties into so many movies. The one that comes immediately to mind is "Ghost in the Shell", a popular Manga animovie. Throughout, the Major (a humanoid robot) struggles with issues of her rights and place in society as a robot. SHe doesn't technically have any organic components, but her thoughts and feelings are the same as if she was organic - yet she is tied to her creators, the government. She also deals with issues of uniqueness - ie, that she was created from a template, and is not physically unique, yet posseses a unique "ghost" (robot brain).
FOr those of you who haven't seen it and are intersted in these issues, I highly recommend it.
I'd be wary of that, though. The G3 processor - especially at lower-end iBook speeds of 500-700 MHz - really doesn't have the oomph to reliably master a DVD. I suspect owners of these aftermarket drives end up with a lot of $2 coasters.
Personally, I wouldn't burn a DVD on anything less than an 800 G4 unless I really had to. The processor just can't handle that much data that quickly. They may be available, but they're probably not a great idea unless you don't have an alternative.
Okay, here's the issue. The reason this is important is that it will increase the relative speed of the PowerMac 2-fold. Right now, the G4 is 1.5-2 times the efficiency of the P4 at the same clock speed. The 970 (G5) will be 1.5-2 times faster than the G4 at the same clock speed. If you do the math, this means the 970 will be 2.5-4 times as fast as the P4 - as well as having dual processors when using Altivec enabled apps, including the OS. Estimated initial clocks are 1.4-1.8. An dual 1.8 (3.6 total) 970 wouls be CONSERVATIVELY equal to a 9 GHz P4. Make sense yet why this is important?
It's in Cosmos, but it's about early life on earth. He forced a reaction between several gases and water with lightning, and it produced organic molecules. Interesting read.
Well, you're almost right. North Korea and Iraq both have uranium. But so does every other country in the world. If you check out the EPA site for uranium, there's a line (buried in a PDF file, I can't remember which) that states that "every country in the world has enough uranium occurring naturally to create at least a few large bombs". Uranium is a semi-common element in the earth's crust. It may not be in deposit form, but South Korea does have enough ore to chemically extract some for enrichment if they really needed to. The reason we don't worry about SK is because their technology is inadequate to create a nuclear device. NK's, maybe not.
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Hey now, that's not fair. I read the article at Internet Week, and thought you all might be interested. I hadn't seen the previous article here (which, now that I've read it, isn't quite the same). Lucky me, it's my first article to actually get accepted. Quit trolling, or get your own damn site and don't allow any drunken karma whores on it.
If it's under warrantee, quit bitching and get it fixed. If it's not, you should've bought AppleCare. Learn how to fix it yourself, like this guy, or buy a new LCD. They aren't that hard to install, believe me.
http://www.massmic.com/walmart.html
It's about what one would expect from a Bible-belt-run company whose main source of income comes from the lowest 2 tax brackets. Not to be stereotypical, but it's true. Sometimes cliches are true. Hey, I'll buy some stuff at WalMart, but never music. Unless you're okay with edited, censored music, you'd best stick with iTunes. Apple has a better selection and doesn't use DRM'ed WMA files. AAC isn't very restrictive.
I've had my iPod for 2 years (it's an original 5 GB model), and the batteries are still as perfect as the day I bought them. I use it every day, and recharge it from all points of discharge. I don't know what all of these people are doing to kill their batteries ...
Furthermore, we need to get ovet this 5% myth. 5% of computers SOLD every year are Macs. Anywhere from 10%+ of the installed user base in this country are Macs, though - chalk it up to hardware integrity, lack of frustration, or just plain not becoming obsolete.
Hopefully someone will come up with a multi-platform interface for the new Napster service. If not, you can bet that I'd be knocking on the door of the CTO, demanding matching funds for iTunes!
I'll stick to my iPod w/ iTrip, though. A lot less dremeling involved ...
College students have been doing this for years. Ever hear of a keg stand? How about a funnel?
When I was in high school, I hiked to the top of a mountain (in my hometown in the Adirondacks) with a couple friends and my girlfriend (now my fiancee) in the middle of August. I was a nerd then as well, so I brought my Celestron 8" telescope. We had some incredible views of Mars and Jupitor on that trip, although the telescope obviously didn't help much for meteorites.
Fantastic show. Do your best to see it, and you won't be disappointed. Unfortunately (and fortunately), it's not as good as the meteor shower in the fifth season of Stargate SG-1. But then again, we don't have catastrophic consequences either.
That's a very good point - that making these people "immune" to the effects of AIDS could cause certain mutations to occur at a more frequent rate within the individuals affected.
I do find it amusing that you chose the wording "error checking". You must be a networking professional. Hooray for the 802.3 and LLC!
I'm using it (firewalled, proxied, spoofed) to test out the OS, not as a security platform. I'm just sitting here at home fooling around. Nice joke, though.
I'm typing this right now in the "Links" browser. It's fast, it looks good, it has most of the tools I use (Nessus, Ethereal, XMMS, Firebird). I might just mod this and carry it with me instead of using other people's machines when I'm doing diagnostics. It picked up my wireless correctly and everything.
Have fun with this one, kids.
All the vaccine seems to do is allow people to continue to live with HIV for a longer time, without reaching full-blown AIDS. It's a nice step, but doesn't help with the main problem - that a significant portion of HIV cases are caused by ignorance and misbelief, especially in Africa. Furthermore, the places in Africa most hardly hit by HIV don't have enough money to buy cutting-edge treatments in the first place. They are too worried about food ...
It's too bad the details are so scarce in the article. It would be nice to know exactly what this vaccine does (enhance T-cells, etc?). For the moment, this news isn't very helpful to the majority of HIV sufferers. I suppose any progress is progress, though.
I think that even if the spectrometer is only partially fixed, it could provide good data to scientists here on the ground - not to mention the dozen other sensors. From other reports (CNN, NYTimes), people are talking about this as "another one of NASA's failures". Not at all, the mission can be 95% successful even without this particular iron spectrometer.
Go NASA! Kick some ESA ass!
Doesn't this sounds a lot like how the Replicators got started on Stargate SG-1? Believe me, we don't need any damn replictors ...
My motto is, if the Asgard can't do it, I shouldn't attempt it.
Until we give NASA more money, they can't do a hell of a lot. They tried "faster, better, cheaper", and realized what NetAdmins have known all along - you can only have two out of three.
/rant
Bottom line - give 1% of the current defense spending to NASA instead, and we'd have a hell of a space program.
I see your point, but no one in most offices - I mean NO ONE - is going to start a remote SSH session to run their piddly MSN Messenger. My method works in 99.9% of the cases in a corporate environment, as long as the administration has had the foresight to use a software firewall on client-side machines.
My boss asked me to do this not long ago ... We took several factors into our calculation at my corporation. We were doing it on a server by server basis, so keep that into mind.
1) Cost of server hardware as a function of the time it would be in use
2) Cost of server OS (Window 2000 Server) over same time and over users
3) Cost of bandwidth used (fraction of total bandwidth)
4) Cost of maintaining server (personnel, electricity, hazard prevention, security, upgrades, general analysis tools)
5) How important the server was to the overall network infrastructure (objective, as in the DHCP server is worth+)
Obviously, the equation will be different for every server and every organization, but that's a general overview.
I disagree. I've blocked MSN and Yahoo on several machines by using McAfee Desktop Firewall. You merely set a rule to disallow the application to run at all. This is the surest way to block it, and it's the only way I've found to be affective. MSN has a tendency to reinstall, reactivate, and open itself. Without taking desperate measures such as setting rules, it will at the very least run itself in the background and take up cycles.
I am not going to trust a smart pill made by folks who think that back bacon and lager are the food pyramid.
... lager bacon ...
For god's sake, why not?!
Mmmmm
This ties into so many movies. The one that comes immediately to mind is "Ghost in the Shell", a popular Manga animovie. Throughout, the Major (a humanoid robot) struggles with issues of her rights and place in society as a robot. SHe doesn't technically have any organic components, but her thoughts and feelings are the same as if she was organic - yet she is tied to her creators, the government. She also deals with issues of uniqueness - ie, that she was created from a template, and is not physically unique, yet posseses a unique "ghost" (robot brain). FOr those of you who haven't seen it and are intersted in these issues, I highly recommend it.
I'd be wary of that, though. The G3 processor - especially at lower-end iBook speeds of 500-700 MHz - really doesn't have the oomph to reliably master a DVD. I suspect owners of these aftermarket drives end up with a lot of $2 coasters. Personally, I wouldn't burn a DVD on anything less than an 800 G4 unless I really had to. The processor just can't handle that much data that quickly. They may be available, but they're probably not a great idea unless you don't have an alternative.
Okay, here's the issue. The reason this is important is that it will increase the relative speed of the PowerMac 2-fold. Right now, the G4 is 1.5-2 times the efficiency of the P4 at the same clock speed. The 970 (G5) will be 1.5-2 times faster than the G4 at the same clock speed. If you do the math, this means the 970 will be 2.5-4 times as fast as the P4 - as well as having dual processors when using Altivec enabled apps, including the OS. Estimated initial clocks are 1.4-1.8. An dual 1.8 (3.6 total) 970 wouls be CONSERVATIVELY equal to a 9 GHz P4. Make sense yet why this is important?
It's in Cosmos, but it's about early life on earth. He forced a reaction between several gases and water with lightning, and it produced organic molecules. Interesting read.
Well, you're almost right. North Korea and Iraq both have uranium. But so does every other country in the world. If you check out the EPA site for uranium, there's a line (buried in a PDF file, I can't remember which) that states that "every country in the world has enough uranium occurring naturally to create at least a few large bombs". Uranium is a semi-common element in the earth's crust. It may not be in deposit form, but South Korea does have enough ore to chemically extract some for enrichment if they really needed to. The reason we don't worry about SK is because their technology is inadequate to create a nuclear device. NK's, maybe not.