Also, how do they know that animal trials were successful?? let's see (no pun intended):
blind dogs kinda bump into stuff as they move about the yard. If they see squirrels in the nearby trees, you'll quickly know it by the barking and chasing. Squirrels down on the ground: I had a dog that would plot the path the squirrel would take to the nearest tree, and head right to that spot, and presto, he gets there just as the squirrel does (Then the fun begins). Has to see to do all that. With bionic eyes, same results in the dog vs squirrel tests. Now onto Cats: My cat chases another cat out of the yard. He's quite a distance away. I open the door, and call "Kitty-Cat!" and he turns to look at me and runs right up to me pronto. (Big cats, if worked with a bit, almost act like dogs) If he couldn't see, he would need further verbal guidance to reach my location. Again, with bionic eyes, same results in the calling the cat routine.
Well sure, they have to do it. Great Wall of China:
Hey, here's a hole! Several hundred chinese go patch it up. What eventually happened? Same bunch took over both sides of the wall, so no wall needed for a while. That won't happen to internet security, for there is always us vs. them. Then, the wall was in part, disassembled (whoah, short circuit) for building materials. Then, rebuilt during communist era to act as showpiece for Nixon visits, etc.
Gee, none of this applies... Well, anyway, I'm using
Mozilla with win 98 instead of ie6. I really don't have to keep utd on the patches, unless I have nothing else to do. Linux? Gave up long ago trying to keep up with the patches. Redhat swamped me with them. I just install the latest version, and for a few days, everythings patched!
I just did the "selective pop-3 email download" in
Pegasus. The headers (only) of 30 messages were downloaded. I marked most of them for deletion, and had Pegasus "Make it So". What's left is mail I would want, and I'll use Netscape 4.79 to look at it. That's how I do it.
As many do, I run a Windows partition or two on the same machine that I have a couple of Linux distributions. So, I have Windows 98, 3.11, Redhat 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0. The box has a 200 mhz processor, and 128 mb ram. I have a hard time, just running the various modern os's (ex 3.11) determining the difference between the speed of them. For instance, Opera and Mozilla run about the same on Mandrake 8.0 as it does on Windows 98. However, I have an old PS/1 with an Evergreen 586, and 32 mb ram, and tests between Windows 98 and Redhat 6.1 proved Windows to be faster, much faster. (Redhat 7.1 won't install on the non-pentium motherboard). I mainly prefer Redhat 7.1 to maintain web pages, but that is a toss up between Mandrake and Redhat. Programs I use to create and maintain the web site are gnotepad and gftp, gimp, also Opera. Redhat installs with more control, Mandrake installs what it wants to, and I find that undesirable.
Cars will be given away free if the buyer will pony up for the Insurance, where they make the real money. Kinda like HP giving away printers so you'll buy ink cartridges, where they make the real money.
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right. - Henry Ford
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -- Thomas Alva Edison
Success is 99% failure. - Soichiro Honda
There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something! - Thomas A. Edison
Hide not your talents, they for use were made; what's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin
Microsoft owns the software industry
And, as long as they pay, then there'll be a Microsoft. I can't pay. That's why I have Redhat 7.1 on this computer that I got from chguy.com (cheap).
I'll not have XP unless Santa Claus brings it and stuffs it in my stocking hung by the mantle with care. You know, "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there". Say, that's an idea, I'll call St. Nicholas and ask him for XP!
Ok, I'll put my lawnmower out front, you drop by, pay me $50.00, and I'll crank the mower for you, and you may knock yourself out having your very own "Mowing the Lawn Experience". This thrilling nature-discovery adventure is yours to enjoy, right here in the middle of West Nile Virus Land, with 100 degree heat indexes thrown in for good measure. As your adventure progresses, I'll crank up the Weed-Eater, and you'll have a go at that. Remember, I'm doing the hardest part, cranking up these one-cylinder beasts for you to enjoy. Ear plugs are provided, of course, for those not used to hearing cuss-words that are necessary to get these little &%*$# mowers and weed-eaters cranked.
All yours, for only $50.00! Imagine the stories that you'll be able to tell when you are back at poolside at the apartment complex! Offer good until it starts pouring down rain again, and the mosquitoes are encouraged to breed.
I could swear that I had a reply to this earlier than must have gotten moderated out or something. Hey, I actually looked at the Lindows website, read their litigation story, felt sorry for them, emailed them with some 1985 info on windows before windows, etc. WOOPS! That's what did it! M$ had my post moderated! Quick! read this one while you can! Soon as "breaktime" is over, this post's toast!
Well, I got a PS/1 for $5.00, but had to upgrade the processor for about $75.00 and the memory for nearly $160.00, then salvage some junk computers for larger hard drive, sound card, modem,cdrom drive. $199.00 doesn't sound too bad. These old machines we get for a song require too much to upgrade them, especially if you want to run something like Redhat 6.1. (7.1 won't install unless you have pentium). Windows 98 runs a whole lot better. Opera for Windows is also good for 32 mb antiques.
You'll get a better deal locally on the Monitor.
The stores get theirs shipped on pallets, much
cheaper than one-at-a-time on UPS. You can pay
anything you want for a monitor, say $150-1000+
I got my monitors for $20.00 each. ADI MicroScan 4V, at a salvage store. I got lucky. A lindows
computer is still Linux, and a "hardware modem" has to be installed, included in the $199 price.
The hard drive has to be at least 20GB, so you
could install Redhat too if you wanted;-).
That reminds me. Do you suppose they don't have
a CD ROM drive for $199.00? That Warehouse setup
Lindows has will be a download off the internet deal, not an "install via cd". I have installed
Redhat without an "installed" CD ROM drive, but I have a $50.00 one that I temp-install until not
needed, then I unhook it. The typical user of a
$199.00 box might have only that one machine, however, and no spare cdrom drives, etc. Can't wait to see how they are going to market the $199
box, but looking at Lindows website leads me to believe that they will sell it direct, now thru
Walmart. Their legal dept is gathering info on the use of the term Windows before 1985 or so. I emailed them just now about the Coleco ADAM, with
8086 processor, than had ADAMCalc, a spreadsheet
program, very nice, and no toy, that used Windows.
You set up one window where you entered spreadsheet data, and another one down at the total's area. You could set up several. ADAMCalc was very very good for it's day, and considering that it ran on an ADAM, with no hard drive. ADAM's had two tape drives, and a floppy drive, and you could add more RAM. I had about 120K in mine, and
had a nice chess game that required more RAM than the stock 80K. Any of you that has any information on the ADAM, might consider emailing the Lindows folks. They did make about 200,000 ADAMS, and at one time, there was quite a following.
I can't afford a copy to find out, but isn't Windows XP tied to the motherboard, and other components so you can't change a whole lot without having to call Microsoft customer support and 'splaining what you did in order to
get it to boot again? I've taken a 500 mb hard drive with Redhat 6.1 on it, and installed it in a new computer (well, new to me) and have it boot right up, and be sending and receiving email from the new box in short order.
I have Arachne on a bunch of DOS machines, and it
surfs the web just fine with a graphical browser, sends and receives Email, and has a lot of other features. I often partition machines when I set them up to provide a small 30 mb DOS partition, and run Arachne 1.70 there. Other partitions are Windows 98, and perhaps Redhat 7.1 or Mandrake 8.
I can get booted up into Arachne very quickly, and
use it to nuke a bunch of spam;-). I have also run Caldera Opendos with Arachne, and find that it gives me more conventional memory than MSDOS to run Arachne. I have not tried OpenDOS, but I am hanging out by the dumpster when someone throws away their DELL box to see if I can get a copy.
None of my ISA sound cards work in Linux. When they do work in Windows 98, however, the results can be poor if the manufacturers drivers are not used. I got ahold of an old Packard Bell, couldn't boot it due to an expired Dallas clock-chip, but the sound card is very nice in another box, using the Packard Bell sound installation. This is windows 3.1 stuff. Redhat or Mandrake won't touch it.
As for GIMP, you're right, it's not PhotoShop; it's better.
I use GIMP. It's easy to make the graphics I want, and GIMP was free, included in Redhat 7.1.
(check my site, and you'll see some of them.)
I heard that squirrels in hibernation survive the wintertime temperatures by somehow removing the water from their cells and storing it somewhere in the body cavity, so the cells are not harmed by the low temperatures. btw, my link, rapidweather.com is not up yet, Tech support is working on it. I have thrown some money at them, and that has sparked some interest in the problem.
Apparently not enough money, or the site would be up and running;-)
Here's a site where awards were given by NAE for those satellites: http://www.nae.edu/nae/naehome.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4 NHMBM apparently, we would not have satellite dishes if it were not for Syncom I and II. I also notice that the same award was given in 2001 for the invention of the internet itself. Quite a milestone, Syncom I and II. tip: to get the link to work, when you paste it in your browser, remove the space between the "4" and the "N". IMHO this is a./ Post Comment bug that I have seen before. One puts the correct URL in the "Comment" box, and./ adds a space somewhere in the URL, making it unuseable. Off topic: My rapidweather.com site is down, tech support has been working to get it up, or so I'm told;-)
I used to search land title for a company in San Bernardino County, USA, and I found a few errors in old surveys, maps, etc. that resulted in a slice of land that didn't pass along with the deed as intended. Usually there would be a triangular slice of land only a few inches at the widest point, sometimes a foot or so. There were other combinations, too. I'm suprised that the gps system has uncovered big parcels of land that were not surveyed correctly. I do know that if you do not have your transit level, then it shoots an arc. You have to mark several points along the line to detect this, and that was probably done in nearly all cases. I'm sure most of the old surveys were done by very competent folks, and they were, for the most part, error free. Bringing new technology in, can change things, however. btw, here is a site that has some photos of antique surveying instruments: http://www.antiquesurveying.com/ Equipment such as shown there was what they worked with. Off topic: My website, linked below, is down, I have been told by aplus.net customer site that they are working on the problem. I inadvertently brought it down when accessing my directory with the ftp client. (It's not their fault, I did it.)
Can't say any more than that, you know the new rules;-) Isn't technology wonderful?
Anybody trying to get kids to eat vegetables will understand. They have to disguise the corn as something else, then they'll eat it.
off topic: Somehow, I blew up my site hosted by aplus.net. I'm trying to get customer support to fix it. For a laugh, click on the rapidweather link:-) This is the result of one of those "Don't try this at home" things.
The local car crusher runs non-stop (I watched it in operation this afternoon), and the compacted automobiles are taken off by flat-bed trailer about 20 or so at a time to a steel recycling plant a few miles away. So many cars are disposed of due to owners not having enough $ for maintenance, oil changes, etc. They just run them until they quit, and go get another car, and a payment book to go with it. Can't see many people spending $800 for a kit to enable their car to run on old fryer grease. Not many buy diesels to begin with, either, due to their maintence requirements. Much simpler to get a gas burner, and just fill it up. It's too bad, really, that electric cars cannot be made that the public will accept. Perhaps those would fill the bill for a low or no maintenance vehicle.
btw, this post is being made on a computer using Arachne 1.70 and MS-DOS 6.22 for the OS.
It's a Macintosh Quadra 660av. I got it for free, from people that could not do anything with it, internet wise, and went out and bought a $2,400.00 Dell. I had to go over and get the Dell set up and connected for them:-) I have a bunch of pc's, many with Redhat Linux and Windows on them, but the Mac can talk, so it is a bunch of fun to play with. I even used it to make a little internet start page for use with the various browsers that are installed on it, iCab, MSIE, and Netscape.
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/mac.html
As you can imagine, with Mac OS 7.5.3 installed, making a web page and getting it uploaded is not nearly as easy as it is on a pc running Redhat 7.1, with gnotepad and Opera! (btw, using Linux for that purpose is way easier than using Windows 98 and notepad, imho). So, in review, money is a big factor in getting a late-model Mac, of course. Getting an older one that you got for next-to-nothing to work for you can be as challenging as working with linux. That's where the fun is.
I believe an article in the Wall Street Journal told of folks that can get over 100 mpg out of a Honda Insight, with careful driving. One trick, driving barefoot, to be able to feel gas pedal feedback, if that is the right word. I have tried something similar (with shoes on) and it involves driving as if an egg (that would break if pressed too hard) were taped to the gas pedal. One guy got 106 mpg out of his Insight, but cannot for the life of him, duplicate that again.
Here is an interesting Insight website:
All of us would love to be able to do all those wonderful things, but we are, by our own hand, chained to our "jobs", and will never, I repeat, never find the time to do any that. History books will be written, and we will be left out.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, how do they know that animal trials were successful??
let's see (no pun intended): blind dogs kinda bump into stuff as they move about the yard. If they see squirrels in the nearby trees, you'll quickly know it by the barking and chasing. Squirrels down on the ground: I had a dog that would plot the path the squirrel would take to the nearest tree, and head right to that spot, and presto, he gets there just as the squirrel does (Then the fun begins). Has to see to do all that. With bionic eyes, same results in the dog vs squirrel tests. Now onto Cats: My cat chases another cat out of the yard. He's quite a distance away. I open the door, and call "Kitty-Cat!" and he turns to look at me and runs right up to me pronto. (Big cats, if worked with a bit, almost act like dogs) If he couldn't see, he would need further verbal guidance to reach my location. Again, with bionic eyes, same results in the calling the cat routine.
I have a couple of those disks around, find them useful now and then...
Well sure, they have to do it. Great Wall of China: Hey, here's a hole! Several hundred chinese go patch it up. What eventually happened? Same bunch took over both sides of the wall, so no wall needed for a while. That won't happen to internet security, for there is always us vs. them. Then, the wall was in part, disassembled (whoah, short circuit) for building materials. Then, rebuilt during communist era to act as showpiece for Nixon visits, etc. Gee, none of this applies... Well, anyway, I'm using Mozilla with win 98 instead of ie6. I really don't have to keep utd on the patches, unless I have nothing else to do. Linux? Gave up long ago trying to keep up with the patches. Redhat swamped me with them. I just install the latest version, and for a few days, everythings patched!
I just did the "selective pop-3 email download" in Pegasus. The headers (only) of 30 messages were downloaded. I marked most of them for deletion, and had Pegasus "Make it So". What's left is mail I would want, and I'll use Netscape 4.79 to look at it. That's how I do it.
As many do, I run a Windows partition or two on the same machine that I have a couple of Linux distributions. So, I have Windows 98, 3.11, Redhat 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0. The box has a 200 mhz processor, and 128 mb ram. I have a hard time, just running the various modern os's (ex 3.11) determining the difference between the speed of them. For instance, Opera and Mozilla run about the same on Mandrake 8.0 as it does on Windows 98. However, I have an old PS/1 with an Evergreen 586, and 32 mb ram, and tests between Windows 98 and Redhat 6.1 proved Windows to be faster, much faster. (Redhat 7.1 won't install on the non-pentium motherboard). I mainly prefer Redhat 7.1 to maintain web pages, but that is a toss up between Mandrake and Redhat. Programs I use to create and maintain the web site are gnotepad and gftp, gimp, also Opera. Redhat installs with more control, Mandrake installs what it wants to, and I find that undesirable.
Cars will be given away free if the buyer will pony up for the Insurance, where they make the real money. Kinda like HP giving away printers so you'll buy ink cartridges, where they make the real money.
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right. - Henry Ford
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -- Thomas Alva Edison
Success is 99% failure. - Soichiro Honda
There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something! - Thomas A. Edison
Hide not your talents, they for use were made; what's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin
Microsoft owns the software industry
And, as long as they pay, then there'll be a Microsoft. I can't pay. That's why I have Redhat 7.1 on this computer that I got from chguy.com (cheap). I'll not have XP unless Santa Claus brings it and stuffs it in my stocking hung by the mantle with care. You know, "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there". Say, that's an idea, I'll call St. Nicholas and ask him for XP!
Ok, I'll put my lawnmower out front, you drop by, pay me $50.00, and I'll crank the mower for you, and you may knock yourself out having your very own "Mowing the Lawn Experience". This thrilling nature-discovery adventure is yours to enjoy, right here in the middle of West Nile Virus Land, with 100 degree heat indexes thrown in for good measure. As your adventure progresses, I'll crank up the Weed-Eater, and you'll have a go at that. Remember, I'm doing the hardest part, cranking up these one-cylinder beasts for you to enjoy. Ear plugs are provided, of course, for those not used to hearing cuss-words that are necessary to get these little &%*$# mowers and weed-eaters cranked. All yours, for only $50.00! Imagine the stories that you'll be able to tell when you are back at poolside at the apartment complex! Offer good until it starts pouring down rain again, and the mosquitoes are encouraged to breed.
I could swear that I had a reply to this earlier than must have gotten moderated out or something. Hey, I actually looked at the Lindows website, read their litigation story, felt sorry for them, emailed them with some 1985 info on windows before windows, etc. WOOPS! That's what did it! M$ had my post moderated! Quick! read this one while you can! Soon as "breaktime" is over, this post's toast!
Well, I got a PS/1 for $5.00, but had to upgrade the processor for about $75.00 and the memory for nearly $160.00, then salvage some junk computers for larger hard drive, sound card, modem,cdrom drive. $199.00 doesn't sound too bad. These old machines we get for a song require too much to upgrade them, especially if you want to run something like Redhat 6.1. (7.1 won't install unless you have pentium). Windows 98 runs a whole lot better. Opera for Windows is also good for
32 mb antiques.
You'll get a better deal locally on the Monitor. The stores get theirs shipped on pallets, much cheaper than one-at-a-time on UPS. You can pay anything you want for a monitor, say $150-1000+ I got my monitors for $20.00 each. ADI MicroScan 4V, at a salvage store. I got lucky. A lindows computer is still Linux, and a "hardware modem" has to be installed, included in the $199 price. The hard drive has to be at least 20GB, so you could install Redhat too if you wanted ;-).
That reminds me. Do you suppose they don't have
a CD ROM drive for $199.00? That Warehouse setup
Lindows has will be a download off the internet deal, not an "install via cd". I have installed
Redhat without an "installed" CD ROM drive, but I have a $50.00 one that I temp-install until not
needed, then I unhook it. The typical user of a
$199.00 box might have only that one machine, however, and no spare cdrom drives, etc. Can't wait to see how they are going to market the $199
box, but looking at Lindows website leads me to believe that they will sell it direct, now thru
Walmart.
Their legal dept is gathering info on the use of the term Windows before 1985 or so. I emailed them just now about the Coleco ADAM, with 8086 processor, than had ADAMCalc, a spreadsheet program, very nice, and no toy, that used Windows. You set up one window where you entered spreadsheet data, and another one down at the total's area. You could set up several. ADAMCalc was very very good for it's day, and considering that it ran on an ADAM, with no hard drive. ADAM's had two tape drives, and a floppy drive, and you could add more RAM. I had about 120K in mine, and had a nice chess game that required more RAM than the stock 80K. Any of you that has any information on the ADAM, might consider emailing the Lindows folks.
They did make about 200,000 ADAMS, and at one time, there was quite a following.
I can't afford a copy to find out, but isn't Windows XP tied to the motherboard, and other components so you can't change a whole lot without having to call Microsoft customer support and 'splaining what you did in order to get it to boot again?
I've taken a 500 mb hard drive with Redhat 6.1 on it, and installed it in a new computer (well, new to me) and have it boot right up, and be sending and receiving email from the new box in short order.
I have Arachne on a bunch of DOS machines, and it surfs the web just fine with a graphical browser, sends and receives Email, and has a lot of other features. I often partition machines when I set them up to provide a small 30 mb DOS partition, and run Arachne 1.70 there. Other partitions are Windows 98, and perhaps Redhat 7.1 or Mandrake 8. I can get booted up into Arachne very quickly, and use it to nuke a bunch of spam ;-). I have also run Caldera Opendos with Arachne, and find that it gives me more conventional memory than MSDOS to run Arachne. I have not tried OpenDOS, but I am hanging out by the dumpster when someone throws away their DELL box to see if I can get a copy.
None of my ISA sound cards work in Linux. When they do work in Windows 98, however, the results can be poor if the manufacturers drivers are not used. I got ahold of an old Packard Bell, couldn't boot it due to an expired Dallas clock-chip, but the sound card is very nice in another box, using the Packard Bell sound installation. This is windows 3.1 stuff. Redhat or Mandrake won't touch it.
As for GIMP, you're right, it's not PhotoShop; it's better.
I use GIMP. It's easy to make the graphics I want, and GIMP was free, included in Redhat 7.1.
(check my site, and you'll see some of them.)
I heard that squirrels in hibernation survive the wintertime temperatures by somehow removing the water from their cells and storing it somewhere in the body cavity, so the cells are not harmed by the low temperatures. ;-)
btw, my link, rapidweather.com is not up yet, Tech support is working on it. I have thrown some money at them, and that has sparked some interest in the problem. Apparently not enough money, or the site would be up and running
Here's a site where awards were given by NAE for those satellites:4 NHMBM ./ Post Comment bug that I have seen before. One puts the correct URL in the "Comment" box, and ./ adds a space somewhere in the URL, making it unuseable. ;-)
http://www.nae.edu/nae/naehome.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-
apparently, we would not have satellite dishes if it were not for Syncom I and II. I also notice that the same award was given in 2001 for the invention of the internet itself. Quite a milestone, Syncom I and II.
tip: to get the link to work, when you paste it in your browser, remove the space between the "4" and the "N". IMHO this is a
Off topic: My rapidweather.com site is down, tech support has been working to get it up, or so I'm told
I used to search land title for a company in San Bernardino County, USA, and I found a few errors in old surveys, maps, etc. that resulted in a slice of land that didn't pass along with the deed as intended. Usually there would be a triangular slice of land only a few inches at the widest point, sometimes a foot or so. There were other combinations, too. I'm suprised that the gps system has uncovered big parcels of land that were not surveyed correctly. I do know that if you do not have your transit level, then it shoots an arc. You have to mark several points along the line to detect this, and that was probably done in nearly all cases. I'm sure most of the old surveys were done by very competent folks, and they were, for the most part, error free. Bringing new technology in, can change things, however. ;-)
btw, here is a site that has some photos of antique surveying instruments:
http://www.antiquesurveying.com/
Equipment such as shown there was what they worked with.
Off topic: My website, linked below, is down, I have been told by aplus.net customer site that they are working on the problem. I inadvertently brought it down when accessing my directory with the ftp client. (It's not their fault, I did it.) Can't say any more than that, you know the new rules
Isn't technology wonderful?
Anybody trying to get kids to eat vegetables will understand. They have to disguise the corn as something else, then they'll eat it. :-) This is the result of one of those "Don't try this at home" things.
off topic: Somehow, I blew up my site hosted by aplus.net. I'm trying to get customer support to fix it. For a laugh, click on the rapidweather link
The local car crusher runs non-stop (I watched it in operation
this afternoon), and the
compacted automobiles are taken off by flat-bed
trailer about 20 or so at a time to a steel
recycling plant a few miles away. So many cars
are disposed of due to owners not having enough
$ for maintenance, oil changes, etc. They just
run them until they quit, and go get another
car, and a payment book to go with it. Can't see
many people spending $800 for a kit to enable
their car to run on old fryer grease. Not many
buy diesels to begin with, either, due to their
maintence requirements. Much simpler to get a
gas burner, and just fill it up. It's too bad,
really, that electric cars cannot be made that
the public will accept. Perhaps those would fill
the bill for a low or no maintenance
vehicle.
btw, this post is being made on a
computer using Arachne 1.70 and MS-DOS 6.22 for
the OS.
What? You mean there is more to writing web pages than gnotepad and Opera 6.02 for Linux?
What is this world coming to?<br></haha>
I got it for free, from people that could not do anything with it, internet wise, and went out and bought a $2,400.00 Dell. I had to go over and get the Dell set up and connected for them
I have a bunch of pc's, many with Redhat Linux and Windows on them, but the Mac can talk, so it is a bunch of fun to play with. I even used it to make a little internet start page for use with the various browsers that are installed on it, iCab, MSIE, and Netscape.
- http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/mac.html
As you can imagine, with Mac OS 7.5.3 installed, making a web page and getting it uploaded is not nearly as easy as it is on a pc running Redhat 7.1, with gnotepad and Opera! (btw, using Linux for that purpose is way easier than using Windows 98 and notepad, imho). So, in review, money is a big factor in getting a late-model Mac, of course. Getting an older one that you got for next-to-nothing to work for you can be as challenging as working with linux. That's where the fun is.Here is an interesting Insight website:
All of us would love to be able to do all those wonderful things, but we are, by our own hand, chained to our "jobs", and will never, I repeat, never find the time to do any that. History books will be written, and we will be left out.