Most people looking at computers are looking for the cheapest thing (I know from shopping with my relatives). They don't know anything about specs or difference in experiance be it OSX vs Vista or customer service or just quality of manufacturing. A good analogy would be comparing Chevys vs BMW. If you are car savvy you will have your own opinions about the various cars, but if you know nothing about cars, you will probably shop on price alone on the advice of you friends. For their repective cheapest cars Chevy offers the Aveo for ~$10,500, where as BMW offers a 3 series for ~36,000+. If I were to shop on price alone, arguing that each will get me from point a to point b, the Aveo would win. But on the other hand, if I had to choose based on features and performance I'd probably lean towards the BMW. Just as BMW and Chevy does not offer possible car configuration under the sun, Apple does not offer every laptop configuration under the sun. The valid point the article makes is if you are tech savvy and know what you want and if Apple provides that configuration, Apple is price competitive. If you arn't tech savvy, you probably won't be choosing Applee.
I was working on a project Life in the Atacama whose goal was to do exacty that. The idea was to have scientists pick out waypoints which may be of interest but the robot can vear off and make decisions on locations that are of interest.
This happens in the physical world as well. Things which I buy may no longer work if the company goes out of business or the technology is deprecated. Whenever you buy something, you always loose the risk that it will be unsupported. The only valid argument i see against DRM is how it could be used for preventing the use of the software/media on your own computers, yet we do accept (for the most part) per computer/per user licenses of software and don't cry wolf every time a piece of software says you can only run it on one machine or you must buy another license.
No biggie. Microsoft now owns Connectix who wrote Virtual PC which can emulate x86 hardware. The next version (Virutal PC 7) will be able to do 3d hardware acceleration. WindowsXP ran fairly well on my Powerbook 1ghz, so I'd imagine a G5 will run circles around it.
Look around e-bay for an I-appliance and mod it. I bought a gateway connected touchpad for $75 and it works great. It runs linux from a compact flash and has a mount for the lcd to hang from a kitchen cabinet. Linux-hacker is a great place to look for advice on hacking as well as buying/trading i-appliances.
Sounds like MLDonkey where the client has plugins for edonkey2000, overnet, direct connect, gnutella, soulseek, and opennap networks. The gui is seperated from the core so you can run it on a server and check up on it via the web, telnet, or some other gui.
To you or I, yes. But plenty of people will buy 64-bit just for the bragging rights. Anyone who does case modding falls into this category. AMD will make a fortune if they include a flashy "64-bit eXXXtreme!" sticker with every processor sold.
Flame thrower linux is a similar project that I have been following. It seems to be slightly dead, but still fully funtional with a "pre alpha" version out.
"I'm surprised google hasn't come out with a spider at home client which goes out and searches the web caching sites as it goes. Sure distributed computing could help their venture and who doesn't love google?"
Our high school has a program called Real Science where some students volunteer to work on an interacive cd with movies on an area of science. The project is student run and is of fairly high quality.
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Something like Overshadow?
Most people looking at computers are looking for the cheapest thing (I know from shopping with my relatives). They don't know anything about specs or difference in experiance be it OSX vs Vista or customer service or just quality of manufacturing. A good analogy would be comparing Chevys vs BMW. If you are car savvy you will have your own opinions about the various cars, but if you know nothing about cars, you will probably shop on price alone on the advice of you friends. For their repective cheapest cars Chevy offers the Aveo for ~$10,500, where as BMW offers a 3 series for ~36,000+. If I were to shop on price alone, arguing that each will get me from point a to point b, the Aveo would win. But on the other hand, if I had to choose based on features and performance I'd probably lean towards the BMW. Just as BMW and Chevy does not offer possible car configuration under the sun, Apple does not offer every laptop configuration under the sun. The valid point the article makes is if you are tech savvy and know what you want and if Apple provides that configuration, Apple is price competitive. If you arn't tech savvy, you probably won't be choosing Applee.
I was working on a project Life in the Atacama whose goal was to do exacty that. The idea was to have scientists pick out waypoints which may be of interest but the robot can vear off and make decisions on locations that are of interest.
This happens in the physical world as well. Things which I buy may no longer work if the company goes out of business or the technology is deprecated. Whenever you buy something, you always loose the risk that it will be unsupported. The only valid argument i see against DRM is how it could be used for preventing the use of the software/media on your own computers, yet we do accept (for the most part) per computer/per user licenses of software and don't cry wolf every time a piece of software says you can only run it on one machine or you must buy another license.
No biggie. Microsoft now owns Connectix who wrote Virtual PC which can emulate x86 hardware. The next version (Virutal PC 7) will be able to do 3d hardware acceleration. WindowsXP ran fairly well on my Powerbook 1ghz, so I'd imagine a G5 will run circles around it.
I don't think that GPL say anything about compiled code, just the source code.
Patch that IIS server!!!
Most sites i have found in the past are geared towards windows. GameHippo is absolutley huge, but it only caters to windows.
Soon we might even have Debian GNU/Windows ;-)
Look around e-bay for an I-appliance and mod it. I bought a gateway connected touchpad for $75 and it works great. It runs linux from a compact flash and has a mount for the lcd to hang from a kitchen cabinet. Linux-hacker is a great place to look for advice on hacking as well as buying/trading i-appliances.
>... but just for the sake of completeness we decided to cover it again.
At least they know its a repost :P
Sounds like MLDonkey where the client has plugins for edonkey2000, overnet, direct connect, gnutella, soulseek, and opennap networks. The gui is seperated from the core so you can run it on a server and check up on it via the web, telnet, or some other gui.
Downloading DVDs are illegal.
Want porn with that chip?
Flame thrower linux is a similar project that I have been following. It seems to be slightly dead, but still fully funtional with a "pre alpha" version out.
I think they are fine the way they are. If you don't like em, a GOOD OS (think linux or BeOS) should allow you to redefine the keys.
Perl Poetry anyone?
I had to upgrade to quicktime 6 (I think I was using Quick Time 4 before) to get the movie to work. Maybe that will help some people out there.
Perhaps you are thinking about grub?
For all we know, it might be used one hell of an expensive Apple branded silicon chip cookie
Arstechnica did a review of it a while back http://arstechnica.com/reviews/02q2/gobe/gobe-1.ht ml
Ahhh I read the title as "Crossover gets Chicken". I guess I know what has been on my mind for the past few days.
Our high school has a program called Real Science where some students volunteer to work on an interacive cd with movies on an area of science. The project is student run and is of fairly high quality.
http://www.hut.fi/~jtpelto2/nethack.html has great graphics for nethack
http://www.demolinux.org/ has a disto that boots from cd, and doesnt modify your hard drive.