I've got this little Casio alarm clock... I inherited it from my grandmother, who bought it some ungodly number of years ago. I believe it went around the world with her. Anyway, it looks cheap, so I kept on expecting it to break, but it hasn't. Somehow, it just keeps on going. Not only that but: A) It's had the same 3 AA batteries in it for longer than I can remember B) It play's Mozart's 14th to wake me up every morning. Which is unfortunate, because now I hate Mozart's 14th.
Oh, I think they'll listen to REASON. That is, if it ever gets out of beta testing.
If you don't get this, you need to read Neal Stephenson's novel 'Snow Crash', one of two defining works in the cyberpunk genre (the other being William Gibson's 'Neuromancer'). Reason is a nucleur-powered depleted-uranium-firing chaingun.
Asset management... not very hard to write, code wise. IMHO, I would think that your best option would be to hire a coder to write your web-based software for you. You're looking at a couple grand or more, depending on who you hire, but it'll be exactly what you want. I'm thinking PHP... MySQL... Apache... This is, of course, a shameless plug for myself.
The limitation is really over whether or not you want to use the MacOS. If you could use, say, yellow dog linux, then your job is much easier. Buy your processors from Sonnet, your motherboard from any school (they're getting rid of those old 6100/66 machines like crazy... I have 22), grab your ram from the same places... Basically take a bunch of old machines, assemble one that works from their parts, add a new processor. Or you can do what I'm doing and chain a bunch of stock machines together via ethernet. The only problem is they draw 60 amps of current. Oh, yeah... see if you can get your hand on a workgroup server.
I agree completely, but I find very few students with this broad basis. Most of my close friends have it, even knowledge of things not at all related to the computer field, but I find the number of others with a clue about the world outside their department depressing.
What a cool idea! I'm definitely willing to pay for the expensive paper, since this will make my everyday work so much easier. And $200 seems a little steep, but I'll buy it. What a cool idea... now I just have to lug around one notebook, and when I get home I can sort, file, and back up my notes for later retrieval. Unfortunately, I don't own a single Windows PC. I've got Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Debian, Redhat, Solaris, Plan 9... no Windows. Maybe I'll put this software on the same machine I'm going to buy to translate from my USB Satellite modem to my ethernet network. Seriously, what are the people at Logitech thinking? Developing drivers for only one software platform? Aaaarrrgh!
At the end of next year? Apple thinks I'm going to wait an entire year for a processor that's considered slow by today's PC standards? I'm sick and tired of being at the low end of the technology curve. Apple may not be switching to an intel processor, but I very well may be. I love my Mac, but I'm not about to pay $3,000 for a stick in the mud.
I can't figure out whether "Thank you, Theo, for always making sure we will have 100% free software at our disposal and for standing by your stated goals." is sarcastic or not...
I live in Hanover, NH (the home of Dartmouth College) and discovered their extensive wireless network about a year and a half ago. It is truly an impressive piece of work. There is a "green" of about two acres in the middle of town that is blanketed with 802.11, but that's not so exciting as the fact that almost anywhere in downtown Hanover an ambitious surfer can lock on to Dartmouth's connection. Eating a sandwich in out local Subway, I surf the web. Driving through town, I check my e-mail and cache Slashdot. The network is comprised of a vast number of Cisco Aironet access points with high-gain antennas. One can roam seamlessly on it, and the signal is consistently strong. There are, in fact, so many access points that one can pinpoint a computer's location on campus by getting latency from its MAC to three access points. The only problem is: the wireless network doesn't broadcast its name, so you have to know it or find it out. And I"m not going to tell you.
Many many (from my 18 year old standpoint) years ago, I recall having read about this same technology being used in laptops for paranoid business users. I don't remember the company or the product, but I recall it being touted as a great thing for people traveling coach. I don't see how this is so great, seeing as they just removed the polarization layer from the LCD and put it in some glasses. Won't any set of polarized glasses work? Hell, I've got some Oakleys that'll penetrate that security. That's why I only talk to my computer with the numlock light and the spacebar. Morse code all the way, man!
I dunno... I don't really have any problem with the case. My question is: Where the #^$%#$ is my G5? I'm sick and tired of this slow-processor bullshit!
Why don't we all just agree that none of us has any fucking clue what the four things at the base of the case are, and hope we are enlightened at some later point?
This article simply doesn't hold together. He [Dvorak] makes statements against the Mac in one paragraph and then contradicts or disproves them the very next. This article isn't worth discussing, even as something that makes people angry. In fact, that's the only reason I can see for him to write it... Personally, it sounds to me like a rant based on assumptions made from little or no research. I'm sorry, Mr. Dvorak, that you've come to this. There are a number of excellent online journalism classes... take one.
I don't know about the Mac being slower. You've got to look at the x86 processor vs. the G4 and how they differ in fundamental design. The x86 architecture tries to squeeze out more processor cycles per second. The G4 architecture tries to squeeze out more processing per cycle. If you're looking to do a large quantity of small things (like playing games, for instance, where you need to process a large number of processor unintensive tasks) sure the x86 is going to be better. However, that's not what I'm doing. I want to process fairly CPU-intensive data efficiently, and the G4 does that for me. So, I buy a dual CPU system and eat through full motion video because I can process at nearly 30 frames per second. One thing I'll say in Apple's favor: Their hardware is good. I buy a mac, I know I'm going to pick up reliable hardware that will take a beating. True, my UI may not be as snappy, but that's not what matters to me. I want a kick ass processing behemouth, and that's what I got.
Yeah, I would imagine that a broad spectrum broadcast at 500 watts would wipe out any nearby... anything. Fortunately, I don't think the lights are going to get very wide acceptance.
My school (A K-12 boarding institution with 2 T-1s and 550 students) had the same problem. The solution? A box called a "Packeteer" (brand name, unsure of the manufacturer) that sits between the firewall and the network and analyzes incoming and outgoing packets. All data for Kazaa, morpheus, etc. is throttled down so that all those services share the equivalent bandwidth of a 56k modem. We're not blocking it, so no tricky political situation, we're just keeping it from hogging our pipes. Of course, the services are rendered useless because 550 users cannot possibly compete for 56k worth of bandwidth and get many packets, but that's not our problem, is it?
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Ooooh. Banyan Vines. That was rough.
The question is, am I the only 18-year-old who got it?
Oh, yeah. Vinyl. VHS. Both still going strong. No idea why.
I've got this little Casio alarm clock... I inherited it from my grandmother, who bought it some ungodly number of years ago. I believe it went around the world with her. Anyway, it looks cheap, so I kept on expecting it to break, but it hasn't. Somehow, it just keeps on going. Not only that but:
A) It's had the same 3 AA batteries in it for longer than I can remember
B) It play's Mozart's 14th to wake me up every morning. Which is unfortunate, because now I hate Mozart's 14th.
Oh, I think they'll listen to REASON. That is, if it ever gets out of beta testing.
If you don't get this, you need to read Neal Stephenson's novel 'Snow Crash', one of two defining works in the cyberpunk genre (the other being William Gibson's 'Neuromancer').
Reason is a nucleur-powered depleted-uranium-firing chaingun.
Heh heh. In depth article. Heh.
Shut up, beavis.
I'm running software update, but I don't see it. I don't remember installing it.... anyone else having problems picking this update up?
Jesus christ! That's the scariest thing I've ever heard!
AAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I can just see the movies: The shopping cart massacre.
Asset management... not very hard to write, code wise. IMHO, I would think that your best option would be to hire a coder to write your web-based software for you. You're looking at a couple grand or more, depending on who you hire, but it'll be exactly what you want. I'm thinking PHP... MySQL... Apache...
This is, of course, a shameless plug for myself.
The limitation is really over whether or not you want to use the MacOS. If you could use, say, yellow dog linux, then your job is much easier. Buy your processors from Sonnet, your motherboard from any school (they're getting rid of those old 6100/66 machines like crazy... I have 22), grab your ram from the same places... Basically take a bunch of old machines, assemble one that works from their parts, add a new processor. Or you can do what I'm doing and chain a bunch of stock machines together via ethernet. The only problem is they draw 60 amps of current.
Oh, yeah... see if you can get your hand on a workgroup server.
I agree completely, but I find very few students with this broad basis. Most of my close friends have it, even knowledge of things not at all related to the computer field, but I find the number of others with a clue about the world outside their department depressing.
What a cool idea! I'm definitely willing to pay for the expensive paper, since this will make my everyday work so much easier. And $200 seems a little steep, but I'll buy it. What a cool idea... now I just have to lug around one notebook, and when I get home I can sort, file, and back up my notes for later retrieval.
Unfortunately, I don't own a single Windows PC. I've got Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Debian, Redhat, Solaris, Plan 9... no Windows. Maybe I'll put this software on the same machine I'm going to buy to translate from my USB Satellite modem to my ethernet network.
Seriously, what are the people at Logitech thinking? Developing drivers for only one software platform? Aaaarrrgh!
At the end of next year? Apple thinks I'm going to wait an entire year for a processor that's considered slow by today's PC standards? I'm sick and tired of being at the low end of the technology curve. Apple may not be switching to an intel processor, but I very well may be. I love my Mac, but I'm not about to pay $3,000 for a stick in the mud.
I can't figure out whether "Thank you, Theo, for always making sure we will have 100% free software at our disposal and for standing by your stated goals." is sarcastic or not...
I live in Hanover, NH (the home of Dartmouth College) and discovered their extensive wireless network about a year and a half ago. It is truly an impressive piece of work. There is a "green" of about two acres in the middle of town that is blanketed with 802.11, but that's not so exciting as the fact that almost anywhere in downtown Hanover an ambitious surfer can lock on to Dartmouth's connection. Eating a sandwich in out local Subway, I surf the web. Driving through town, I check my e-mail and cache Slashdot.
The network is comprised of a vast number of Cisco Aironet access points with high-gain antennas. One can roam seamlessly on it, and the signal is consistently strong. There are, in fact, so many access points that one can pinpoint a computer's location on campus by getting latency from its MAC to three access points.
The only problem is: the wireless network doesn't broadcast its name, so you have to know it or find it out. And I"m not going to tell you.
Many many (from my 18 year old standpoint) years ago, I recall having read about this same technology being used in laptops for paranoid business users. I don't remember the company or the product, but I recall it being touted as a great thing for people traveling coach. I don't see how this is so great, seeing as they just removed the polarization layer from the LCD and put it in some glasses. Won't any set of polarized glasses work? Hell, I've got some Oakleys that'll penetrate that security.
That's why I only talk to my computer with the numlock light and the spacebar. Morse code all the way, man!
Mmm hmm. He's me.
But I'd never sell it on eBay.
Wait! Wait! I know! Maybe... Nobody has any fucking clue?
I dunno... I don't really have any problem with the case. My question is: Where the #^$%#$ is my G5? I'm sick and tired of this slow-processor bullshit!
Personally, I feel that USB2 is the PC industry's way of trying to avoid firewire, but unfortunately, it [USB2] isn't anywhere near as good.
Why don't we all just agree that none of us has any fucking clue what the four things at the base of the case are, and hope we are enlightened at some later point?
This article simply doesn't hold together. He [Dvorak] makes statements against the Mac in one paragraph and then contradicts or disproves them the very next. This article isn't worth discussing, even as something that makes people angry. In fact, that's the only reason I can see for him to write it... Personally, it sounds to me like a rant based on assumptions made from little or no research.
I'm sorry, Mr. Dvorak, that you've come to this. There are a number of excellent online journalism classes... take one.
Yeah... we've got some money, but any decent quantity of funds usually has "For new gym" written on them.
I don't know about the Mac being slower. You've got to look at the x86 processor vs. the G4 and how they differ in fundamental design. The x86 architecture tries to squeeze out more processor cycles per second. The G4 architecture tries to squeeze out more processing per cycle.
If you're looking to do a large quantity of small things (like playing games, for instance, where you need to process a large number of processor unintensive tasks) sure the x86 is going to be better. However, that's not what I'm doing. I want to process fairly CPU-intensive data efficiently, and the G4 does that for me. So, I buy a dual CPU system and eat through full motion video because I can process at nearly 30 frames per second.
One thing I'll say in Apple's favor: Their hardware is good. I buy a mac, I know I'm going to pick up reliable hardware that will take a beating. True, my UI may not be as snappy, but that's not what matters to me. I want a kick ass processing behemouth, and that's what I got.
Yeah, I would imagine that a broad spectrum broadcast at 500 watts would wipe out any nearby... anything. Fortunately, I don't think the lights are going to get very wide acceptance.
My school (A K-12 boarding institution with 2 T-1s and 550 students) had the same problem. The solution? A box called a "Packeteer" (brand name, unsure of the manufacturer) that sits between the firewall and the network and analyzes incoming and outgoing packets. All data for Kazaa, morpheus, etc. is throttled down so that all those services share the equivalent bandwidth of a 56k modem. We're not blocking it, so no tricky political situation, we're just keeping it from hogging our pipes. Of course, the services are rendered useless because 550 users cannot possibly compete for 56k worth of bandwidth and get many packets, but that's not our problem, is it?