Ever buy season tickets for a football team? They make you buy the preseason games that no one cares about. Either you buy them or you can't buy the tickets to the regular season.
This doesn't seem like a valid comparison to me. You still have the option of buying tickets for just the games that you want to go to. Though if you plan to attend all or most of the games, then I imagine that the season ticket package is still a better value than buying them individually (I'm not sure since I've never priced football tickets).
Imagine, if you will, you could only buy your football tickets in 5 game packages. If I only want to see one game, well, that's too bad, I have to pay for five even though it costs a lot more than buying just the one I want to see. Worse, what if I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and wanted to go to one 49ers game and one Raiders game? Now I have to buy tickets to 10 games when I only want to see 2!
My fear is that the cable companies will price a la carte offering such that unless I only want a couple of channels, you'll end up paying a lot more than you would with a regular package. So only those who are obsessed with not getting certain channels will buy it, then the cable companies will go back to the FCC and ask them to risk the requirement since "nobody wants it".
1. The technical reason. A service that can't gateway to the PSTN can't be expected to connect calls to 911, unless the 911 centers were hooked directly to that network. Which they are not and cannot be expected to.
2. If a service can't gateway to the PSTN, I don't consider it a viable land line replacement, since you can't call an arbitrary person/location on the PSTN, which is the lowest common denominator that "everyone" is hooked to. Vonage, Skypeout, etc. all gateway to the PSTN, as do cell phones, so they are all viable land line replacements, and thus should be required to provide 911 services comparable to them. If the incumbent government granted semi-monopoly incumbent carriers won't cooperate, then government legislation should require them too (and I'm not generally a big fan of government legislating stuff). Trading public safety to gain a competitive edge is not cool.
I'm not sure I'd recommend a clamshell. They're a bit thick and heavy. The early white iBooks shouldn't be much more expensive, are about 2 pounds lighter and are thinner. As a bonus, the 12" screen runs at 1024x768 versus 800x600 on the clamshells. I used to have a 466MHz clamshell, and replaced it with a 500MHz "Dual-USB" iBook, and have been quite happy with the change. Both were bought used, about 3 years after introduction.
You're right about the wirelss though. Both iBooks have phenominal wireless range. One time I had my white iBook sitting next to a titanium PowerBook G4, my signal was pretty strong and stable, while the PowerBook's was spotty. Another time I was in a location where my iBook got the signal just fine, but an HP iPaq had trouble seeing it.
Hell, for years I did all my internet stuff on a 486... after all, a dialup machine doesn't need to be any faster than the modem!
I've found that's not really the case. Web pages have gotten compicated enough that and old CPU takes more time to render the page than the modem takes to bring in the data. My parents for several years had a 160MHz PowerPC 603ev Mac clone, and I could notice the difference on how much worse it was than any of the various laptop's I'd use when I was visitng, all via dialup: PowerBook 3400, 466MHz and 500MHz G3 iBooks, and a Celeron 900 running Win2k.
Incidentally, the machine is now my webserver running Gentoo.
That's not going to happen, since iTunes uses QuickTime to handle the actual music playback. At least it does on the Mac; I'm guessing Windows is the same.
Reading the site a bit, MkLinux runs on PPC Macs, not 68k. Does look it's lost some steam, since the latest update to the main page was Sept 10, 2004, and the last update on the news page was Aug 11, 2002.
For 68k Macs, Apple had A/UX for those who wanted a Unix implementation.
Plus you can share with your friends and family and they can order and get them at their own local Costco (or they can pay to have them mailed).
Actually, standard shipping is free if you order through Costco's web site and want have them delivered in the mail rather than picking them up at the store.
Actually, I don't remember 2000 Home ever getting released. IIRC, they were having trouble with some of the game-related stuff worked, and ended up release ME as a warmed over 98SE to have something new to sell.
I'm not disagreeing with your point; I think we're reading the original post differently. The way I read it, sudo rm -rf/ was given as a (joke) method of securing the files on your computer from anyone breaking into them.
Like any other Unix system, you should take care who gets sudo access. In the case of OS X, and Admin user can use sudo, while a Standard account can not.
Yes, the downtime is a problem. The point I was trying to make is that doing a sudo rm -rf/ or its equivalent on any system isn't secure, your files aren't really gone. A lot of people (maybe not people here, but in general) don't realize that. Buy a used hard drive on eBay sometime and see what you can find.
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No, it doesn't. It just marks as deleted all the inodes for all the files on your disk. Do this, then give the disk to someone with EnCase, and watch them promptly recreate every file on your disk.
Currently their wholesale connection fee alone is higher than their retail ISP's monthly plan.
Verizon does the same thing in the US. I know of one ISP that actually tells its users that it's cheaper to go directly to Verizon than go through them (though they'll still accept people that want to pay more, and for business customers who want a static IP, they're still cheaper). Verizon offers 3.0/768 at $29.95/month, and charges $37.50/month to connect you to a different ISP.
Like the guy that was bragging that he "won" $400 at the track - but if you prod a bit, it cost him $900 to win that $400. And this guy was a former accountant. Guess that's why he's no longer an accountant - his numbers don't add up.
Yeah, I suppose he's found that stint at Enron wasn't such a smart carrer move after all.
Exactly, the EULA says that OS X can only be run on Apple hardware (so yes, even if you buy it to run on PearPC, it's still technically not legal). However, there is no such thing as an "upgrade" version of OS X; every retail copy is a full install. Sometimes the discs that come with a new machine are machine-specific, though.
For some reason Firefox is hiding the standard xml header and the xmlns declaration. Just save the file to disk and open it in your favorite text editor, and you'll see it's there.
Yes, w: at the start of the XML tag indicates that the tag is part of a namespace, which would be defined somewhere in the file by adding an xmlns attribute to a tag. In this case, it's in the w:wordDocument tag, and in fact several namespaces are defined:
For Apple iPods, yes HFS+ is the default. But as far as I know, HP iPods come FAT32 formatted, but can be reformatted HFS+ on a Mac as easily as Apple iPods can be reformatted FAT32 on a PC.
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Ever buy season tickets for a football team? They make you buy the preseason games that no one cares about. Either you buy them or you can't buy the tickets to the regular season.
This doesn't seem like a valid comparison to me. You still have the option of buying tickets for just the games that you want to go to. Though if you plan to attend all or most of the games, then I imagine that the season ticket package is still a better value than buying them individually (I'm not sure since I've never priced football tickets).
Imagine, if you will, you could only buy your football tickets in 5 game packages. If I only want to see one game, well, that's too bad, I have to pay for five even though it costs a lot more than buying just the one I want to see. Worse, what if I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and wanted to go to one 49ers game and one Raiders game? Now I have to buy tickets to 10 games when I only want to see 2!
My fear is that the cable companies will price a la carte offering such that unless I only want a couple of channels, you'll end up paying a lot more than you would with a regular package. So only those who are obsessed with not getting certain channels will buy it, then the cable companies will go back to the FCC and ask them to risk the requirement since "nobody wants it".
And this makes sense to me, for two reasons:
1. The technical reason. A service that can't gateway to the PSTN can't be expected to connect calls to 911, unless the 911 centers were hooked directly to that network. Which they are not and cannot be expected to.
2. If a service can't gateway to the PSTN, I don't consider it a viable land line replacement, since you can't call an arbitrary person/location on the PSTN, which is the lowest common denominator that "everyone" is hooked to. Vonage, Skypeout, etc. all gateway to the PSTN, as do cell phones, so they are all viable land line replacements, and thus should be required to provide 911 services comparable to them. If the incumbent government granted semi-monopoly incumbent carriers won't cooperate, then government legislation should require them too (and I'm not generally a big fan of government legislating stuff). Trading public safety to gain a competitive edge is not cool.
I'm not sure I'd recommend a clamshell. They're a bit thick and heavy. The early white iBooks shouldn't be much more expensive, are about 2 pounds lighter and are thinner. As a bonus, the 12" screen runs at 1024x768 versus 800x600 on the clamshells. I used to have a 466MHz clamshell, and replaced it with a 500MHz "Dual-USB" iBook, and have been quite happy with the change. Both were bought used, about 3 years after introduction.
You're right about the wirelss though. Both iBooks have phenominal wireless range. One time I had my white iBook sitting next to a titanium PowerBook G4, my signal was pretty strong and stable, while the PowerBook's was spotty. Another time I was in a location where my iBook got the signal just fine, but an HP iPaq had trouble seeing it.
Hell, for years I did all my internet stuff on a 486... after all, a dialup machine doesn't need to be any faster than the modem!
I've found that's not really the case. Web pages have gotten compicated enough that and old CPU takes more time to render the page than the modem takes to bring in the data. My parents for several years had a 160MHz PowerPC 603ev Mac clone, and I could notice the difference on how much worse it was than any of the various laptop's I'd use when I was visitng, all via dialup: PowerBook 3400, 466MHz and 500MHz G3 iBooks, and a Celeron 900 running Win2k.
Incidentally, the machine is now my webserver running Gentoo.
iTunes also runs on Windows 2000.
That's not going to happen, since iTunes uses QuickTime to handle the actual music playback. At least it does on the Mac; I'm guessing Windows is the same.
For 68k Macs, Apple had A/UX for those who wanted a Unix implementation.
Federation President: Suppose you instigate a full scale war?
Colonel West: Quite frankly, Mr. President, we can clean their chronometers.
Actually, standard shipping is free if you order through Costco's web site and want have them delivered in the mail rather than picking them up at the store.
Actually, I don't remember 2000 Home ever getting released. IIRC, they were having trouble with some of the game-related stuff worked, and ended up release ME as a warmed over 98SE to have something new to sell.
Like any other Unix system, you should take care who gets sudo access. In the case of OS X, and Admin user can use sudo, while a Standard account can not.
Yes, the downtime is a problem. The point I was trying to make is that doing a sudo rm -rf / or its equivalent on any system isn't secure, your files aren't really gone. A lot of people (maybe not people here, but in general) don't realize that. Buy a used hard drive on eBay sometime and see what you can find.
No, it doesn't. It just marks as deleted all the inodes for all the files on your disk. Do this, then give the disk to someone with EnCase, and watch them promptly recreate every file on your disk.
Good thing they've got the hills taken care of.
Mac users would have to go out and buy a Windows PC, since none of the WMA based stores work with Macs.
Verizon does the same thing in the US. I know of one ISP that actually tells its users that it's cheaper to go directly to Verizon than go through them (though they'll still accept people that want to pay more, and for business customers who want a static IP, they're still cheaper). Verizon offers 3.0/768 at $29.95/month, and charges $37.50/month to connect you to a different ISP.
If you thought car model years seemed a bit early now, wait until the summer of 2011, when automakers who are not Official Sponsors(TM)®© release their 2013 product line.
Don't forget their major international airline.
Yeah, I suppose he's found that stint at Enron wasn't such a smart carrer move after all.
Exactly, the EULA says that OS X can only be run on Apple hardware (so yes, even if you buy it to run on PearPC, it's still technically not legal). However, there is no such thing as an "upgrade" version of OS X; every retail copy is a full install. Sometimes the discs that come with a new machine are machine-specific, though.
You're not going to teach them to save their files before they quit?
For some reason Firefox is hiding the standard xml header and the xmlns declaration. Just save the file to disk and open it in your favorite text editor, and you'll see it's there.
Yes, w: at the start of the XML tag indicates that the tag is part of a namespace, which would be defined somewhere in the file by adding an xmlns attribute to a tag. In this case, it's in the w:wordDocument tag, and in fact several namespaces are defined:
/ 2003/2/wordml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:SL="http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibra ry/2003/2/core" xmlns:aml="http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/c ore" xmlns:wx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word /2003/2/auxHint" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C1488 2" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smartt ags" xml:space="preserve">
<w:wordDocument xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word
For Apple iPods, yes HFS+ is the default. But as far as I know, HP iPods come FAT32 formatted, but can be reformatted HFS+ on a Mac as easily as Apple iPods can be reformatted FAT32 on a PC.
I did, because Costco sold them at a little discount.