It's the same in Pennsylvania. And here's the best part. Fully one-third of the points on the tests in my high school government class were based on being able to identify, from an unlabeled picture, the names and offices of various elected officials. Now, this was cake for the President and Vice-President. A little harder for the Supreme Court. U.S. Senators from PA, doable with a little work. But by the time you got down to the fucking county jury commisioners and coroner (yes, we actually had to identify the coroner by sight), it just got absurd, especially given that this class was given during senior year. Meaning that (A) since most of us were leaving the county for four years to go to college, this was possibly the time in our lives when knowledge of local officeholders had the absolute least value, and (B) most of these people would be different by the time we returned permanently, assuming we ever did.
Combine this with the fact that the pictures were driver's license-sized photos that were quite clearly several generations of photocopying away from anything resembling a clean copy, and the whole thing was just a sick joke. How does the US government function? How does its system compare to other world governments? I don't know, because I spent 75% of my study time for that class trying to remember that James Johnson the jury commissioner had a little black square blob of toner next to his armpit, but John Jameson the coroner had one shaped like a triangle right above his tie. This sort of shit is why the US is in the state it is. We're never taught that substance matters, and even what little vacuous bullshit we're made to regurgitate for the sake of a grade is made to be so utterly frustrating and useless that it turns most people off completely.
I guess that was a little rambly and long-winded. But my point is that even one semester of government at the high school level, as sad as that sounds to begin with, is actually far less useful than it sounds. Yuck.
Re:Whither the iMac?
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I haven't heard anything about the G4 iMac EOL (link?), but even if it's true, that doesn't necessarily mean G5. They could just be updating the thing with faster G4s, more memory and disk space, etc. Dualie G4 iMacs would be cool, especially given their current slow speed (1.25 Ghz? yuck), but I wouldn't count on G5 iMacs just yet. My brother has a G5, and that thing runs damn hot. I can't imagine putting it into an iMac case without a major redesign, and considering how much trouble they're having keeping up with tower production, it just seems unlikely that we're there yet.
Consider also that for a while, Apple had "pro" processors and "consumer" processors--G3 iMacs and iBooks, G4 towers and Powerbooks. I doubt we'll be seeing G5s in the iMac before the Powerbook, at the very least.
In OS X, as soon as you start to drag an icon for a storage device, the Dock Trash icon changes to an Eject icon. Granted, this isn't necessarily that much more intuitive, but maybe users will notice the little change in the corner and react accordingly.
The presence of icons in iTunes means nothing as far as the iPod. iTunes can already play ogg files with the help of a third-party QuickTime extension. That's probably why the ogg icon exists.
Re:That's the cheapest $400 yo-yo I've ever seen..
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If you'd read the article (hell, even the Slashdot blub!), you'd see that the $400 yo-yo has not yet been released. The $16 one you found is an example of the first model utilizing the design of a counterweight, which the $400 not-yet-released model also uses.
Couldn't you hit power key and then "s" to make it sleep? That always worked on my iBook, and if it works to hit return to shut down, "s" should work for sleep. It'd be faster than waiting for auto-sleep, surely. Good luck!
If the audience has to adjust their expectations, then there obviously is a difference, period. Whether you believe it to be a significant one or not (being a music student, I can say that my studies have led me to believe that it is) is a different argument. Even if the difference is entirely in the mind of the audience, that's still a difference, and still changes what the audience gets out of the experience.
Are you thinking of the lit keyboards on the newest PowerBooks? If so, the iBook doesn't have that. The "backlight" in this case refers to the light built into the LCD screen.
Dunno about ConcertWare importing, but Melody Assistant has to be the best cheap notation program I've ever used. It has all the other features you mention, and costs $15 (!) with indefinite free updates (which happen at regular intervals, with many new features). It's definitely worth a look.
His probably was closer to being slow than yours, since he started with an 800 Mhz processor rather than the 1 Ghz you have. Not a huge difference, but worth pointing out--he squeezed over 500 Mhz extra out of that little thing.
The Dock only gets that big when magnification is turned on and the cursor is over it. You can also set the Dock to be a smaller size normally, and control how big it gets when it magnifies--if you have magnification turned on at all. Also, you can set the Dock to auto-hide and only appear when the cursor is at the bottom of the screen.
My iBook's hard drive also began making a clicking noise, but after about a minute of (nails on chalkboard) clicking, it would finally spin up and run normally. Of course I immediately backed up, but it kept going like that for about a month before I replaced it. I'd run OS X for about six months when I first got it, and then used Linux for another nine or so.
I soon after bought a dualie G4, but that's probably not the solution for everyone.
And if you'd even bothered to read the TITLE of the article, you'd see that an example of talking out of your "@$$" is exactly what the submitter was looking for.
The slowest MDD powermacs are somewhere around 1 Ghz (can't remember the exact figure). Apple had definitely stopped selling 450 Mhz G4 systems by the time the MDD case came, out, though. Not that there are huge differences between any two given G4 case designs, but nitpicking is fun.
Wow, that's rough, man. Especially since you could have just lifted up the keyboard and the RAM shield, and put the card in the proper slot that way. You know, how everyone else does it.
Not very, unfortunately...Panther is supposed to be coming out pretty soon, and that leaves them quite a bit of time to stick with 10.2.8 (I guess it'll be 10.2.9, now). If there are any gaping security flaws, they'll probably release a security update, but I doubt they'll go over 10.2.9 this close to Panther's release.
Doesn't matter--any bootable OS 9 system folder should be useable as a Classic startup folder. I had this same problem a while back, and I wish I could tell you what fixed it--suddenly, it started working.
They still build and ship G4s. I got a custom-built tower (basically took the low-end 1.25 Ghz model and added dual processors, without any other changes) just a week ago.
My father has a Dell Dimension 4100. When he needed to reinstall Windows ME, he not only had to get it from this special partition, but he had to call Dell to get instructions on how to access it.
That's accurate. The top two models only have eight RAM slots, and 1 gig sticks are quite expensive enough as it is
Re:Don't ya just hate em?
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I work at a movie theater. We're getting killed because we sell our popcorn for $1. Why? Because concessions are the only place that any movie theater in the world makes any money. The studios take some obscene percentage of the ticket price (around 80% for new releases I think?), and so theaters have to sell you that popcorn for $5 to stay afloat. Sad, but true:-\
Fourth! One of the great things about Melody Assistant is the registration system. $15, free upgrades for life. Even when they changed the code format, they sent all registered users a new code in the new format, and each update brings substantial improvements to the program. It also has an intuitive lyric-entering interface, and it even has (for an extra price) a Virtual Singer that will sing the lyrics back to you in many languages. Playback is simple and will work with either MIDI or with an included sound base. If you're just doing casual arrangements for yourself and others, Melody is the way to go. It never lags behind the PC version, either.
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It's the same in Pennsylvania. And here's the best part. Fully one-third of the points on the tests in my high school government class were based on being able to identify, from an unlabeled picture, the names and offices of various elected officials. Now, this was cake for the President and Vice-President. A little harder for the Supreme Court. U.S. Senators from PA, doable with a little work. But by the time you got down to the fucking county jury commisioners and coroner (yes, we actually had to identify the coroner by sight), it just got absurd, especially given that this class was given during senior year. Meaning that (A) since most of us were leaving the county for four years to go to college, this was possibly the time in our lives when knowledge of local officeholders had the absolute least value, and (B) most of these people would be different by the time we returned permanently, assuming we ever did.
Combine this with the fact that the pictures were driver's license-sized photos that were quite clearly several generations of photocopying away from anything resembling a clean copy, and the whole thing was just a sick joke. How does the US government function? How does its system compare to other world governments? I don't know, because I spent 75% of my study time for that class trying to remember that James Johnson the jury commissioner had a little black square blob of toner next to his armpit, but John Jameson the coroner had one shaped like a triangle right above his tie. This sort of shit is why the US is in the state it is. We're never taught that substance matters, and even what little vacuous bullshit we're made to regurgitate for the sake of a grade is made to be so utterly frustrating and useless that it turns most people off completely.
I guess that was a little rambly and long-winded. But my point is that even one semester of government at the high school level, as sad as that sounds to begin with, is actually far less useful than it sounds. Yuck.
I haven't heard anything about the G4 iMac EOL (link?), but even if it's true, that doesn't necessarily mean G5. They could just be updating the thing with faster G4s, more memory and disk space, etc. Dualie G4 iMacs would be cool, especially given their current slow speed (1.25 Ghz? yuck), but I wouldn't count on G5 iMacs just yet. My brother has a G5, and that thing runs damn hot. I can't imagine putting it into an iMac case without a major redesign, and considering how much trouble they're having keeping up with tower production, it just seems unlikely that we're there yet.
Consider also that for a while, Apple had "pro" processors and "consumer" processors--G3 iMacs and iBooks, G4 towers and Powerbooks. I doubt we'll be seeing G5s in the iMac before the Powerbook, at the very least.
In OS X, as soon as you start to drag an icon for a storage device, the Dock Trash icon changes to an Eject icon. Granted, this isn't necessarily that much more intuitive, but maybe users will notice the little change in the corner and react accordingly.
The presence of icons in iTunes means nothing as far as the iPod. iTunes can already play ogg files with the help of a third-party QuickTime extension. That's probably why the ogg icon exists.
If you'd read the article (hell, even the Slashdot blub!), you'd see that the $400 yo-yo has not yet been released. The $16 one you found is an example of the first model utilizing the design of a counterweight, which the $400 not-yet-released model also uses.
Couldn't you hit power key and then "s" to make it sleep? That always worked on my iBook, and if it works to hit return to shut down, "s" should work for sleep. It'd be faster than waiting for auto-sleep, surely. Good luck!
Wish I'd discovered this before Valentine's Day, since everyone I know seems to be sick...
If the audience has to adjust their expectations, then there obviously is a difference, period. Whether you believe it to be a significant one or not (being a music student, I can say that my studies have led me to believe that it is) is a different argument. Even if the difference is entirely in the mind of the audience, that's still a difference, and still changes what the audience gets out of the experience.
Are you thinking of the lit keyboards on the newest PowerBooks? If so, the iBook doesn't have that. The "backlight" in this case refers to the light built into the LCD screen.
Dunno about ConcertWare importing, but Melody Assistant has to be the best cheap notation program I've ever used. It has all the other features you mention, and costs $15 (!) with indefinite free updates (which happen at regular intervals, with many new features). It's definitely worth a look.
His probably was closer to being slow than yours, since he started with an 800 Mhz processor rather than the 1 Ghz you have. Not a huge difference, but worth pointing out--he squeezed over 500 Mhz extra out of that little thing.
The Dock only gets that big when magnification is turned on and the cursor is over it. You can also set the Dock to be a smaller size normally, and control how big it gets when it magnifies--if you have magnification turned on at all. Also, you can set the Dock to auto-hide and only appear when the cursor is at the bottom of the screen.
If you were at a university store in person, woulnd't they probably ask to see your student ID? I know my college bookstore does...
My iBook's hard drive also began making a clicking noise, but after about a minute of (nails on chalkboard) clicking, it would finally spin up and run normally. Of course I immediately backed up, but it kept going like that for about a month before I replaced it. I'd run OS X for about six months when I first got it, and then used Linux for another nine or so.
I soon after bought a dualie G4, but that's probably not the solution for everyone.
And if you'd even bothered to read the TITLE of the article, you'd see that an example of talking out of your "@$$" is exactly what the submitter was looking for.
The slowest MDD powermacs are somewhere around 1 Ghz (can't remember the exact figure). Apple had definitely stopped selling 450 Mhz G4 systems by the time the MDD case came, out, though. Not that there are huge differences between any two given G4 case designs, but nitpicking is fun.
Wow, that's rough, man. Especially since you could have just lifted up the keyboard and the RAM shield, and put the card in the proper slot that way. You know, how everyone else does it.
Not very, unfortunately...Panther is supposed to be coming out pretty soon, and that leaves them quite a bit of time to stick with 10.2.8 (I guess it'll be 10.2.9, now). If there are any gaping security flaws, they'll probably release a security update, but I doubt they'll go over 10.2.9 this close to Panther's release.
Doesn't matter--any bootable OS 9 system folder should be useable as a Classic startup folder. I had this same problem a while back, and I wish I could tell you what fixed it--suddenly, it started working.
Yeah, I tried to use TransparentDock immediately after booting into 10.2.8, and the Dock wouldn't even start up--good thing I did another backup!
They still build and ship G4s. I got a custom-built tower (basically took the low-end 1.25 Ghz model and added dual processors, without any other changes) just a week ago.
My father has a Dell Dimension 4100. When he needed to reinstall Windows ME, he not only had to get it from this special partition, but he had to call Dell to get instructions on how to access it.
They don't make it easy on you.
That's accurate. The top two models only have eight RAM slots, and 1 gig sticks are quite expensive enough as it is
I work at a movie theater. We're getting killed because we sell our popcorn for $1. Why? Because concessions are the only place that any movie theater in the world makes any money. The studios take some obscene percentage of the ticket price (around 80% for new releases I think?), and so theaters have to sell you that popcorn for $5 to stay afloat. Sad, but true :-\
Fourth! One of the great things about Melody Assistant is the registration system. $15, free upgrades for life. Even when they changed the code format, they sent all registered users a new code in the new format, and each update brings substantial improvements to the program. It also has an intuitive lyric-entering interface, and it even has (for an extra price) a Virtual Singer that will sing the lyrics back to you in many languages. Playback is simple and will work with either MIDI or with an included sound base. If you're just doing casual arrangements for yourself and others, Melody is the way to go. It never lags behind the PC version, either.
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