The diagram that the post links to looks oddly like a big PC case. Even the way the internal components are layed out is oddly reminiscent of a standard PC.
A later response from Dvorak in the user comments:
"I doubt that I would think much differently if I had a Mac. I already like aspects of the Mac -- especially its faux snappiness and its looks. Also since others have done this exercise I would naturally be inclined to be hyper-critical rather than agree with others unless the evidence was overwhelming. You also have to note that in much of the popular press the writers are ALL Mac users. They use Macs at Forbes, John Markoff of the Times is a Mac user. Steven Levy of Business Week. I can make a huge list. All these guys are worried sick that they'd have to change if Apple failed and it frightens them. Few are into computers although they write about them. My XP machine which is loaded to the gills now with oddball software has been running flawlessly 24/7 for weeks and weeks. Astonishing. I wonder when it's going to break. So I'd have to comapre it to XP. It's something I'll consider, but..."
Then why do you think you have a right to an opinion on the Mac?
If you go directly to webmail.mac.com, you can log in from a PC, no problem. I know there is a way to get into iTools, as well, but I haven't tried it. If you do some web scouring you can find out how.
Nuclear waste is not getting dumped in Africa. The U.S. is too concerned about terrorists getting their hands on spend nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste.
Excellent idea! Also, the toxicity problem from this electronic garbage is not from circuit boards in their normal benign state, but when the Chinese are extracting metals from them. It is being done by poor people and children using crude techniques and chemicals; they are poisoning their surroundings. The Chinese government is taking a positive step to halt this.
An earlier poster is correct that China was buying the stuff, so was their responsibility to do something about the problem. The stuff wasn't toxic when it was sent to them.
However, the U.S. needs to do something in general about it's production of consumer waste. Huge taxes on uncessary packaging would be a good start.
The article was on the development of electronic television, not mechanical television.
I would, though, tend to agree that the fact that Thomas Edision (multiplexing telegraph, phonograph, electric light bulb, motion picture, and much more) was American leaves a lot of Americans with the impression that everything was invented here. Most people in the U.S. think that Alexander Bell was American, but he was a Brit who emigrated with his family to the U.S.
If you run down the list of major modern inventions, you would see a pattern that most of them came from western Europe and the U.S. I would be interested in your list of modern inventions that came from the Arab world. (I'm not being provocative here. I just would like to know because I couln't find any on the Net.)
I understand your point of view, but how can the reprint of an article from the New Yorker in 1936 be revisionism and shoddy reporting? There was nothing said about who invented what. It was a writer's reaction to a demonstration of television being developed at RCA in 1936.
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In Netscape 7 rc1 there is a "Landscape" button in print preview. Margin controls, too.
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I hope you're just trolling. Netscape 6's speed is about where Mozilla was a year ago. Take the time out of your busy schedule and download a Mozilla release candidate. It's fast. Trust us.
If I am running a huge supermarket, keeping a live inventory of that deodorant and of everything else becomes much easier. Checkouts become faster and cheaper.
It's not about the usefulness to the consumer, but to manufacturers and retailers. They are the ones that need fast, easy, and accurate ways of keeping track of their goods.
As for the cost, there is work going on to create printable organic RFIDs that would remove the cost barrier for tagging inexpensive goods.
This will be great for burglars. Just drive down the street with a high-powered RF scanner and inventory every house before deciding on the one with the best stuff.
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I'd hate to see a Beowulf cluster of these.
"Man will never fly to the moon."
- Clive Rodney Fark, 1959
"Man will never fly to the moon without a rocket."
- Clive Rodney Fark, 1971
If they're ugly, I'd like to know what a troll would consider an attractive case.
Yes. Far more smarter.
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my works. I want to achieve immortality by not dying." -Woody Allen
The diagram that the post links to looks oddly like a big PC case. Even the way the internal components are layed out is oddly reminiscent of a standard PC.
A later response from Dvorak in the user comments: "I doubt that I would think much differently if I had a Mac. I already like aspects of the Mac -- especially its faux snappiness and its looks. Also since others have done this exercise I would naturally be inclined to be hyper-critical rather than agree with others unless the evidence was overwhelming. You also have to note that in much of the popular press the writers are ALL Mac users. They use Macs at Forbes, John Markoff of the Times is a Mac user. Steven Levy of Business Week. I can make a huge list. All these guys are worried sick that they'd have to change if Apple failed and it frightens them. Few are into computers although they write about them. My XP machine which is loaded to the gills now with oddball software has been running flawlessly 24/7 for weeks and weeks. Astonishing. I wonder when it's going to break. So I'd have to comapre it to XP. It's something I'll consider, but..." Then why do you think you have a right to an opinion on the Mac?
If you go directly to webmail.mac.com, you can log in from a PC, no problem. I know there is a way to get into iTools, as well, but I haven't tried it. If you do some web scouring you can find out how.
Try opening every QT movie in a differnet tab in Mozilla and play them at the same time. You won't feel so lonely.
They probably did that because of the stunt Orson Welles pulled back in the 30s with "War of the Worlds".
Nuclear waste is not getting dumped in Africa. The U.S. is too concerned about terrorists getting their hands on spend nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste.
Excellent idea! Also, the toxicity problem from this electronic garbage is not from circuit boards in their normal benign state, but when the Chinese are extracting metals from them. It is being done by poor people and children using crude techniques and chemicals; they are poisoning their surroundings. The Chinese government is taking a positive step to halt this. An earlier poster is correct that China was buying the stuff, so was their responsibility to do something about the problem. The stuff wasn't toxic when it was sent to them. However, the U.S. needs to do something in general about it's production of consumer waste. Huge taxes on uncessary packaging would be a good start.
The article was on the development of electronic television, not mechanical television. I would, though, tend to agree that the fact that Thomas Edision (multiplexing telegraph, phonograph, electric light bulb, motion picture, and much more) was American leaves a lot of Americans with the impression that everything was invented here. Most people in the U.S. think that Alexander Bell was American, but he was a Brit who emigrated with his family to the U.S. If you run down the list of major modern inventions, you would see a pattern that most of them came from western Europe and the U.S. I would be interested in your list of modern inventions that came from the Arab world. (I'm not being provocative here. I just would like to know because I couln't find any on the Net.)
I understand your point of view, but how can the reprint of an article from the New Yorker in 1936 be revisionism and shoddy reporting? There was nothing said about who invented what. It was a writer's reaction to a demonstration of television being developed at RCA in 1936.
In Netscape 7 rc1 there is a "Landscape" button in print preview. Margin controls, too.
I hope you're just trolling. Netscape 6's speed is about where Mozilla was a year ago. Take the time out of your busy schedule and download a Mozilla release candidate. It's fast. Trust us.
...and once I even saw Opera render a page properly.
I won't buy any game that won't run on my Vic-20. And don't expect me to pop for the "super-expander" cartridge. Why would anybody need 8k of RAM?
I was just being a smart-ass. I've made the same mistake before. Just assume severe irony around here when someone sounds too stupid.
So at what point in an "Ivy League" education do they completely remove the sense of humor?
If I am running a huge supermarket, keeping a live inventory of that deodorant and of everything else becomes much easier. Checkouts become faster and cheaper. It's not about the usefulness to the consumer, but to manufacturers and retailers. They are the ones that need fast, easy, and accurate ways of keeping track of their goods. As for the cost, there is work going on to create printable organic RFIDs that would remove the cost barrier for tagging inexpensive goods.
This will be great for burglars. Just drive down the street with a high-powered RF scanner and inventory every house before deciding on the one with the best stuff.