They can be so much more than music on the go.
I perform using mine. I can DJ 2,000 songs, in addition I record songs using garageband on my G5 iMac, a FOSTEX 8 track digital recorder and a mixing board. I then play them back over the PA while I sing and play the guitar. It works like a charm! I will probably use a laptop sometime in the future. But for now the ipod works great! Before I do a show I edit the play lists for each set. The great thing is when I DJ, I don't have to carry all my CD's and I'm no longer burning cd back ups all the time. CD's tend to get scratched too easy.
Ah yes, I too was enlisted Air Force then stationed Tague Korea. I couldn't afford a Mac either, I went to Yakota Japan and bought a stereo instead. I still have the Yamaha amp and preamp 800 watts and still going strong. I've since had Atari 800XL, Commadore 128, Commadore colt 286, several home builts from a 486SX up to an Athlon 850Mhz, an ibook G3, a Powerbook G4 and a brand new iMac G5. I'm glad I bought the stereo. After the AirForce I retired with CS degree and started work for SAIC. I now have 3 former Air Force officers working for me, one was in my unit. Gotta love the Karma!
They didn't have the patent on carousels just using them to hold bags in the checkout line. The patent for the lazy susan had long since expired. The original patent for the carousel was broad in the sense any turning hanger or shelf was covered. Notice they didn't sue over revolving carousel clothing racks. The geniuses at walmart patented using an already patented item that had expired, then limited it to bags and viola' new patent. That's like patenting using a car to haul groceries so they don't get sued by pizza deliverers or producers of vans. It couldn't possibly be used as a way to kick the competition when they're down and currently under bankruptcy.
Michael J. Meurer wrote the book on settling to avoid litigation of the issue of patent validity.
Otter Tail Power Co. v. United States, 410 U.S. 366, 368 (1973) the power company maintained monopoly by using litigation to prevent rival's entry into the market
Wal-Mart sued shrinking rival K-Mart in Federal court over little rotating carousels that hold plastic bags at the checkout lane.
If I only had mod points! That is exactly the problem! People cry about poverty, global warming etc. Well just maybe the world can't support billions of people! In countries that have $2 a week salaries, it would probably be wise not to have 15 frickin kids! I have a co-worker from India he is the youngest of 18 siblings. He says he was lucky, that doesn't still live there. Fourteen of his siblings do and are poor, yet better of than most where they live. China has had to take draconian measures to stop population growth. They refused to see the problem until it was way too late. But there are still many countries where over 6 kids is the norm.
I hate to break it to you, but this developer along with the majority of all developers don't use Eclipse at all.
You got some stats for that last part? I've been to quite a few conferences and have seen more than my share laptops sporting eclipse. Or did you just mean the majority of windows.net developers? My co-worker just got back from India, where there are quite a few developers using eclipse.
I would think you would see a whole operating system in a window like win4lin, long before you see a wine type of API mapping. But both are doable. It has taken a long time to get wine to where its at, and it's still a long way from perfect. One of the things apple is doing is changing long standing POSIX API's especially the networking API's. Tiger has just about destroyed Fink, gnome isn't compiling, there aren't any KDE packages in stable. The problem with mapping API's is they are a moving target.
You also have to realize that the data services provided are used world wide. You not only have the research centers crippled, you also have colleges, corporations and governments worldwide unable to get timely satelite data products.
It depends on who and what their duties are. Langley Research center hosts among alot of other things, satelite remote sensing data. There are alot of scientists doing atmospheric research into among other things climatology and global warming. Many of these people are highly passionate about their research. Alot of this data is shared openly world wide, a student in China might be working on a doctorial thesis, or like when the shuttle crashed they use atmospheric data to look for an anomoly or presence of "gravity waves". A single hacker can shut off access to this information for days. Important data can also be lost. Not to mention highly paid scientists unable to do anything. This really isn't meant as an ad for nasa, just a look into what really does go on.
Obviously you have never had all work completely stop while the sysadmins wiped every machine clean and restored files from backup. A hacker at Langley Research Center easily wasted $1 million dollars a day for 4 days, just in the pay to unproductive employees.
why not make one graphics layer for all applications like Mac OS X
There are two graphics sets quartz & carbon. It also has X11, for anyone who uses gimp or fink or needs to do an ssh into a unix box and run a gui app. Then there are a large number of java apps for the mac. Java uses it's own graphics layer. That's why it can be damn slow! Just because the themes are all the same doesn't mean that they are the same. I run a fedora box with both kde & gnome similairly themed. Event open office is using kde themed widgets and it looks every bit as coherent as windows or my mac. It's not hard to do.
Linux apps will (by and large) run on OSX with nothing more than a recompile
Until Tiger came out I would agree that statement.
Tiger changed long standix POSIX networking API's.
I upgraded to Tiger and nothing but the very trivial of apps runs. Gnome to took forcibly removing gnome-vfs-ssl and replacing it with gnome-vfs. Gnome apps still take about 1 - 2 minutes to display on the screen after which they run fine except for gnome-terminal which doesn't work at all. There are no kde apps in fink for Tiger due to message passing being crippled in kdeinit. The apps compile but nothing except nedit, grace and gimp seem to run normally at all and gimp has slowed considerably. I've been waiting for the fixes in fink but they have been extremely hampered.
And according these benchmarks
Nobody would consider OS X a superior server solution.
If I were king for a day I would make copyright non-transferable. Meaning I would not be able to sell my rights to a corporation and all rights end on after 20 years. In addition, only in the event of an untimely death, copyright then can then be tranferred like any estate to your heir(s) for a maximum of 20 years.
1) Artist would have leverage of the RIAA, and couldn't be taken advantage of by selling their rights away.
2) What entitles anyone, even your heirs continued support from you long after you die? If you wanted to take care of your widow, plan ahead.
3) Want more money? Here is a novel idea perform!
What part of the word "if" didn't you understand.
Why would you expect them to drop PPC support in 2 years when there is tons of PPC hardware already out there?
Oh! I don't know how about forced upgrades ala MS. Really I'm hoping that PPC binaries or FAT binaries will be available for at least 4 years. I'm quite upset that they kept it secret. I would have waited to buy the powerbook, there was alot more information about G5's not being available for the powerbook. At over 2k for a 15" powerbook it was more expensive than the G5 iMac. Had they let customers know, or at least quit denying the rumors, they still would have had a sale, just one year later! How they handle this transition will decide if they remain in the personal computer business or just sell iPods and other iGadgets.
It's alot more than just "eye candy", quartz, web core, video core etc. If I were concerned with xservers i would agree. But comparing OpenSTEP to OS X is like comparing DOS to Windows95, while there is still alot of old code in there, they are not equal.
how the fuck does this decision now entail you to any sort of lawsuit or compensation?
How about failing to disclose something that they have admitted to planning for 5 years to in order to continue selling ppc systems. Screwing your customers because you don't want them to wait until a supported system can be shipped. Customers are harmed when they a tricked into purchasing an item with the expectation of support for a reasonable period. Two years is not reasonable, even microsoft supported windows 98 for 4+ years!
Shit doesn't just happen, they decided to keep it a secret because they wanted customers to continue paying high dollar for their hardware.
In the last 6 months I have purchased an iMac G5 and a powerbook G4. I previously had a dual boot linux, windows 2k machine that had an 850Mhz athlon. I had that machine for 6+ years, built it from scratch for about $500. I have spent over 4k on apple pppc hardware. Needless to say I would like to kick Steve Jobs square in his balls! If I end up replacing my hardware in the next 2 years, I'll be the first one to sign up for any class action lawsuits demanding continued ppc support or compensation.
"The hope is that people will modify the code or add some new capabilities". AgentCell has possible applications in cancer research, drug development and combating bioterrorism
And with the addition of malware modules and networking might be used to promote cyberterrorism said lead engineer 133t h@x0r.
In Spokane Wash. there used to be loophole in the mid 1980's where if you filed a motion to subpoena the person who calibrated the radar, it was free ticket out of traffic court. The reason was they were calibrated out of state. After too many releases, they closed that loop but doing "verification of calibration" testing at a facility in the county.
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They can be so much more than music on the go. I perform using mine. I can DJ 2,000 songs, in addition I record songs using garageband on my G5 iMac, a FOSTEX 8 track digital recorder and a mixing board. I then play them back over the PA while I sing and play the guitar. It works like a charm! I will probably use a laptop sometime in the future. But for now the ipod works great! Before I do a show I edit the play lists for each set. The great thing is when I DJ, I don't have to carry all my CD's and I'm no longer burning cd back ups all the time. CD's tend to get scratched too easy.
Ah yes, I too was enlisted Air Force then stationed Tague Korea. I couldn't afford a Mac either, I went to Yakota Japan and bought a stereo instead. I still have the Yamaha amp and preamp 800 watts and still going strong. I've since had Atari 800XL, Commadore 128, Commadore colt 286, several home builts from a 486SX up to an Athlon 850Mhz, an ibook G3, a Powerbook G4 and a brand new iMac G5. I'm glad I bought the stereo. After the AirForce I retired with CS degree and started work for SAIC. I now have 3 former Air Force officers working for me, one was in my unit. Gotta love the Karma!
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country. -- Benjamin Franklin
And a Hollywood studio who only proposed the idea would know that how?
They didn't have the patent on carousels just using them to hold bags in the checkout line. The patent for the lazy susan had long since expired. The original patent for the carousel was broad in the sense any turning hanger or shelf was covered. Notice they didn't sue over revolving carousel clothing racks. The geniuses at walmart patented using an already patented item that had expired, then limited it to bags and viola' new patent. That's like patenting using a car to haul groceries so they don't get sued by pizza deliverers or producers of vans. It couldn't possibly be used as a way to kick the competition when they're down and currently under bankruptcy.
Michael J. Meurer wrote the book on settling to avoid litigation of the issue of patent validity.
Otter Tail Power Co. v. United States, 410 U.S. 366, 368 (1973) the power company maintained monopoly by using litigation to prevent rival's entry into the market
Wal-Mart sued shrinking rival K-Mart in Federal court over little rotating carousels that hold plastic bags at the checkout lane.
If I only had mod points! That is exactly the problem! People cry about poverty, global warming etc. Well just maybe the world can't support billions of people! In countries that have $2 a week salaries, it would probably be wise not to have 15 frickin kids! I have a co-worker from India he is the youngest of 18 siblings. He says he was lucky, that doesn't still live there. Fourteen of his siblings do and are poor, yet better of than most where they live. China has had to take draconian measures to stop population growth. They refused to see the problem until it was way too late. But there are still many countries where over 6 kids is the norm.
You got some stats for that last part? I've been to quite a few conferences and have seen more than my share laptops sporting eclipse. Or did you just mean the majority of windows .net developers? My co-worker just got back from India, where there are quite a few developers using eclipse.
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I would think you would see a whole operating system in a window like win4lin, long before you see a wine type of API mapping. But both are doable. It has taken a long time to get wine to where its at, and it's still a long way from perfect. One of the things apple is doing is changing long standing POSIX API's especially the networking API's. Tiger has just about destroyed Fink, gnome isn't compiling, there aren't any KDE packages in stable. The problem with mapping API's is they are a moving target.
You also have to realize that the data services provided are used world wide. You not only have the research centers crippled, you also have colleges, corporations and governments worldwide unable to get timely satelite data products.
It depends on who and what their duties are. Langley Research center hosts among alot of other things, satelite remote sensing data. There are alot of scientists doing atmospheric research into among other things climatology and global warming. Many of these people are highly passionate about their research. Alot of this data is shared openly world wide, a student in China might be working on a doctorial thesis, or like when the shuttle crashed they use atmospheric data to look for an anomoly or presence of "gravity waves". A single hacker can shut off access to this information for days. Important data can also be lost. Not to mention highly paid scientists unable to do anything. This really isn't meant as an ad for nasa, just a look into what really does go on.
Obviously you have never had all work completely stop while the sysadmins wiped every machine clean and restored files from backup. A hacker at Langley Research Center easily wasted $1 million dollars a day for 4 days, just in the pay to unproductive employees.
There are two graphics sets quartz & carbon. It also has X11, for anyone who uses gimp or fink or needs to do an ssh into a unix box and run a gui app. Then there are a large number of java apps for the mac. Java uses it's own graphics layer. That's why it can be damn slow! Just because the themes are all the same doesn't mean that they are the same. I run a fedora box with both kde & gnome similairly themed. Event open office is using kde themed widgets and it looks every bit as coherent as windows or my mac. It's not hard to do.
Until Tiger came out I would agree that statement. Tiger changed long standix POSIX networking API's. I upgraded to Tiger and nothing but the very trivial of apps runs. Gnome to took forcibly removing gnome-vfs-ssl and replacing it with gnome-vfs. Gnome apps still take about 1 - 2 minutes to display on the screen after which they run fine except for gnome-terminal which doesn't work at all. There are no kde apps in fink for Tiger due to message passing being crippled in kdeinit. The apps compile but nothing except nedit, grace and gimp seem to run normally at all and gimp has slowed considerably. I've been waiting for the fixes in fink but they have been extremely hampered.
And according these benchmarks Nobody would consider OS X a superior server solution.
1) Artist would have leverage of the RIAA, and couldn't be taken advantage of by selling their rights away.
2) What entitles anyone, even your heirs continued support from you long after you die? If you wanted to take care of your widow, plan ahead.
3) Want more money? Here is a novel idea perform!
Oh! I don't know how about forced upgrades ala MS. Really I'm hoping that PPC binaries or FAT binaries will be available for at least 4 years. I'm quite upset that they kept it secret. I would have waited to buy the powerbook, there was alot more information about G5's not being available for the powerbook. At over 2k for a 15" powerbook it was more expensive than the G5 iMac. Had they let customers know, or at least quit denying the rumors, they still would have had a sale, just one year later! How they handle this transition will decide if they remain in the personal computer business or just sell iPods and other iGadgets.
It's alot more than just "eye candy", quartz, web core, video core etc. If I were concerned with xservers i would agree. But comparing OpenSTEP to OS X is like comparing DOS to Windows95, while there is still alot of old code in there, they are not equal.
How about failing to disclose something that they have admitted to planning for 5 years to in order to continue selling ppc systems. Screwing your customers because you don't want them to wait until a supported system can be shipped. Customers are harmed when they a tricked into purchasing an item with the expectation of support for a reasonable period. Two years is not reasonable, even microsoft supported windows 98 for 4+ years! Shit doesn't just happen, they decided to keep it a secret because they wanted customers to continue paying high dollar for their hardware.
In the last 6 months I have purchased an iMac G5 and a powerbook G4. I previously had a dual boot linux, windows 2k machine that had an 850Mhz athlon. I had that machine for 6+ years, built it from scratch for about $500. I have spent over 4k on apple pppc hardware. Needless to say I would like to kick Steve Jobs square in his balls! If I end up replacing my hardware in the next 2 years, I'll be the first one to sign up for any class action lawsuits demanding continued ppc support or compensation.
And with the addition of malware modules and networking might be used to promote cyberterrorism said lead engineer 133t h@x0r.
In Spokane Wash. there used to be loophole in the mid 1980's where if you filed a motion to subpoena the person who calibrated the radar, it was free ticket out of traffic court. The reason was they were calibrated out of state. After too many releases, they closed that loop but doing "verification of calibration" testing at a facility in the county.
I see, checking other threads it seems to be getting worse. I reported it to the site admin.
That has to do with AOL & SQL Lite how?
You must have beat up often as child, considering your snide remarks. "Anonymous Coward"