That's what I got, too and it rocks. I never use os9 for anything, being a linux only user for years (since before rpm. Anyone remember Mother's Day?) But OSX seems nice, though I'm more comfy in linux.
Important: Warcraft 3 for mac will be released at the same time as the windows version. So you need not let that determine your hardware.
I got ydl 2.1 on it and I have learned to use OSX for a few things I never did in Linux, use itunes. If you have reservations about ppc, then you should find out exactly what software you think you can't use. (Mathematica? Oracle? I think you can use these in linux or OSX for example). I've found everything from Galeon to RealPlayer to work just fine in YDL. Ximian has a yellow dog channel in redcarpet, etc... If you need windows, you might be better off with something else, though.
The keyboard is nice, the screen is perfect---every pixel is live and it's so much brighter than my crt on my desk. Plus, a dvd/cdwriter, built in airport card, and a 100% titanium shell, and firewire make it simply the highest quality, most elegant hardware you can get.
Drawbacks: the bottom gets hot for a `lap'top, the audio track in vlc playing dvd's in linux is a bit off (software?, hardware?) making movies look dubbed, and I have trouble controlling the speaker volume (my solution: headphones with a volume conrol on the cord). Also, the keyboard has a great feel, but its layout will take a little adjustment. (function-command for alt, for example.)
A couple more nice thoughts about OSX.
You have built in wireless network searching, hotswapping usb devices are instantly recognized, and dhcp knows when to restart.
Bottom line, I couldn't be happier and I'd make the same purchase today. The TIBook is the best computer I've ever owned by far.
Bernstein's results are asymptotic. That is, he states that a key of length n is about a secure on his special hardware as a key of length 3n on standard hardware. But this is an approximation for very large n. It is completely possible that for n near the length commonly used, his hardware could actually take longer than other equiptment.
Bernstein's result isn't the RSA killer you hotheads are making it out to be. It's a very cool result, but it's not the biggest and the baddest in the last decade.
You said that "Information technology is not some kind of magic spell that will allow telepathic scanning of what goes on in a person's head." But this excerpt from the Washington Post article suggests that the experts feel differently:
"This is not fantasy stuff," said Joseph Del Balzo, a former acting administrator of the Federal
Aviation Administration and a security consultant working on one of the profiling projects. "This technology, based on transaction analysis, behavior analysis, gives us a pretty good idea of what's going on in a person's mind."
There are fifty seven terrorists in the state department right now!
Reminds me of Gore Vidal's great remark that we live in the United States of Amnesia. In fact, he begins his 1998 article in Vanity Fair (was it November?) about vanishing liberties by saying "Do you remember the first time you're personal liberties were infringed upon? I do---it was 1969 and I was travelling by airplane..." Well, I don't have the article here, so I'm paraphrasing from memory.
The point is that people have been choosing to compromise their liberties in exchange for easy travel, even between states within the US, for several decades. Airline security, for reasons you can work out on your own, has been the perfect doorway-to-oppression in which to force a wedge. Sure, people are always free to choose not to travel, but as long as it's easier to comply, ever time someone signs-off his or her liberties for conveniences, we're one step closer to our new MacCarthism.
The sad fact, which is frightfully plain, is this will do absolutely nothing to stop terrorism. This blow to liberty is horribly worse than the strike versus the WTC.
I've heard a lot of people say "I don't want content on my phone." I think you should wake up. It would be great to have a real wireless web browser on your phone. You stand in the middle of downtown Austin, TX and you google "Indian restaraunt and Austin" and "Austin Movie Theatres" to get the showtimes and decide if you have to time to eat before the show, or better yet after. I'm not talking about in your home town, I mean when you're outta town. Having the web in your palm makes everywhere seem more like home.
This goes for content too. No briefcase---you've got the three condensed matter preprints you want to read in your phone in your hand, you're favorite tunes to jog to, and a movie to watch on the flight home. Put your lecture notes there as well.
But what about your porn? I mean, at home you can just go into the adult bookstore and buy some DVDs and mags without identifying yourself. But with digital rights management, I find the most serious problem is that of remaining an anonymous consumer. Let's stipulate that you want content on your phone (you do, you do! trust me). Let's stipulate that you'll pay for it (why not? you pay for that shit now). Let's even say you're willing to pay to use it once (you go to concerts sometimes, or even movie theatres after all). But you DON'T want to identify yourself and you certainly don't want your phone company acting as a central broker with records of everything you do (except the meat stuff like eat).
Most every other content for which you pay and only get to enjoy one time can be done anonymously: such as attend a concert, sit in a movie theatre, go to a lecture, read a book (ok, sometime people reread books, but not too many).
I'm gay and I don't want to identify myself as buying gay erotic fiction to read on my phone while I stay in hotels during professional conferences. I want the content, but not the way that digital rights management software will deliver. Anyway, you get the point.
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That's what I got, too and it rocks. I never use os9 for anything, being a linux only user for years (since before rpm. Anyone remember Mother's Day?) But OSX seems nice, though I'm more comfy in linux.
I got ydl 2.1 on it and I have learned to use OSX for a few things I never did in Linux, use itunes. If you have reservations about ppc, then you should find out exactly what software you think you can't use. (Mathematica? Oracle? I think you can use these in linux or OSX for example). I've found everything from Galeon to RealPlayer to work just fine in YDL. Ximian has a yellow dog channel in redcarpet, etc... If you need windows, you might be better off with something else, though.
The keyboard is nice, the screen is perfect---every pixel is live and it's so much brighter than my crt on my desk. Plus, a dvd/cdwriter, built in airport card, and a 100% titanium shell, and firewire make it simply the highest quality, most elegant hardware you can get.
Drawbacks: the bottom gets hot for a `lap'top, the audio track in vlc playing dvd's in linux is a bit off (software?, hardware?) making movies look dubbed, and I have trouble controlling the speaker volume (my solution: headphones with a volume conrol on the cord). Also, the keyboard has a great feel, but its layout will take a little adjustment. (function-command for alt, for example.)
A couple more nice thoughts about OSX. You have built in wireless network searching, hotswapping usb devices are instantly recognized, and dhcp knows when to restart.
Bottom line, I couldn't be happier and I'd make the same purchase today. The TIBook is the best computer I've ever owned by far.
Bernstein's results are asymptotic. That is, he states that a key of length n is about a secure on his special hardware as a key of length 3n on standard hardware. But this is an approximation for very large n. It is completely possible that for n near the length commonly used, his hardware could actually take longer than other equiptment.
Bernstein's result isn't the RSA killer you hotheads are making it out to be. It's a very cool result, but it's not the biggest and the baddest in the last decade.
You said that "Information technology is not some kind of magic spell that will allow telepathic scanning of what goes on in a person's head." But this excerpt from the Washington Post article suggests that the experts feel differently:
Reminds me of Gore Vidal's great remark that we live in the United States of Amnesia. In fact, he begins his 1998 article in Vanity Fair (was it November?) about vanishing liberties by saying "Do you remember the first time you're personal liberties were infringed upon? I do---it was 1969 and I was travelling by airplane..." Well, I don't have the article here, so I'm paraphrasing from memory.
The point is that people have been choosing to compromise their liberties in exchange for easy travel, even between states within the US, for several decades. Airline security, for reasons you can work out on your own, has been the perfect doorway-to-oppression in which to force a wedge. Sure, people are always free to choose not to travel, but as long as it's easier to comply, ever time someone signs-off his or her liberties for conveniences, we're one step closer to our new MacCarthism.
The sad fact, which is frightfully plain, is this will do absolutely nothing to stop terrorism. This blow to liberty is horribly worse than the strike versus the WTC.
I've heard a lot of people say "I don't want content on my phone." I think you should wake up. It would be great to have a real wireless web browser on your phone. You stand in the middle of downtown Austin, TX and you google "Indian restaraunt and Austin" and "Austin Movie Theatres" to get the showtimes and decide if you have to time to eat before the show, or better yet after. I'm not talking about in your home town, I mean when you're outta town. Having the web in your palm makes everywhere seem more like home. This goes for content too. No briefcase---you've got the three condensed matter preprints you want to read in your phone in your hand, you're favorite tunes to jog to, and a movie to watch on the flight home. Put your lecture notes there as well. But what about your porn? I mean, at home you can just go into the adult bookstore and buy some DVDs and mags without identifying yourself. But with digital rights management, I find the most serious problem is that of remaining an anonymous consumer. Let's stipulate that you want content on your phone (you do, you do! trust me). Let's stipulate that you'll pay for it (why not? you pay for that shit now). Let's even say you're willing to pay to use it once (you go to concerts sometimes, or even movie theatres after all). But you DON'T want to identify yourself and you certainly don't want your phone company acting as a central broker with records of everything you do (except the meat stuff like eat). Most every other content for which you pay and only get to enjoy one time can be done anonymously: such as attend a concert, sit in a movie theatre, go to a lecture, read a book (ok, sometime people reread books, but not too many). I'm gay and I don't want to identify myself as buying gay erotic fiction to read on my phone while I stay in hotels during professional conferences. I want the content, but not the way that digital rights management software will deliver. Anyway, you get the point.