I don't think so. About a year ago, I purchased a 17" 1.33GHz PowerBook G4. It cost me about $3000. From almost day one, the machine would not resume from sleep, 1 out 2 times. I looked at the Apple Discussion Boards and found the problem listed there. It affects many, many users.
Apple still hasn't admitted there is a problem, not to mention providing a fix.
I gave up about 3 months ago and sold the damn thing.
Lucky you. 80euros/month for the provider + 64euros/month for the DSL landline (from the telco) for a 1024/256 dynamic IP DSL here in Greece. "Please to be feelink better" as Pitr (of User Friendly fame) would say.
I would *hope* that spammers start using DomainKeys, because when they do, to send their spam, they effectively "tag" their mails with their private/public key. So, when you get a "signed" spam email, you submit it to "version 2" of SpamHaus, which should now not only block IP addresses, but also domains based on the public key. That makes our lives a whole lot easier.
The point here is that DomainKeys is not by itself a solution, as is not an SPF or a SBL. You need both to be very effective.
Let's suppose for a moment that your points are true; and that because of Doom/Quake/etc, 100 people have been killed worldwide in events like the one you menton.
Now, let's suppose that Carmack worked for "the US military" instead. He could have developed a new incredible cluster bomb, that was first tested en masse in Iraq and killed 1000s of people.
Never forget the Butterfly effect. You can NEVER predict what your actions may trigger as a result. I'm sure Einstein didn't see it coming when his nuclear research was used to build the nuclear bomb and killed 100,000 people in Japan during WWII.
Nobody said that you should or that you must, for that matter. I just said that Rio would prefer that their player is in circulation, practically advertising itself, rather than it being in the trashcan. And yes, the guy did buy two of them, but then again, Rio would prefer that two different individuals bought one, and actually used it. That goes for every other company in the world, including (surprise!) Apple.
As for the car analogy, it's not the dealership sticker we're talking about here ("Joe's Ford Deals"), but rather the car's make and model (ie "Ford" and "Maverick").
Why should they care what you do with their product once they've sold it?
Because they actually prefer that you walk around listening to music with their player. Why? Because in this way, you advertise their player and their brand, and you will most propably tell all your friends how nice this 5G MP3 player is. But if you just pry it open, remove the microdrive, and then throw it in the trash, all this free advertising goes to, well, the trash.
I, like most people, have fell for the "it's past midnight, I'm wearing headphones so as not to disturb the spouse" situtation, when I visit this flash site, for which the author felt like a loud metal theme would do it justice. So you end up with jumping off your chair, waking up the wife, with a temporary buzzing in the ears, not to mention "pillow talk" for half an hour.
I, for one, download a no-cd crack for all the games I've bought, because I simply hate the fact that I have to swap CDs every now and then when I want to play different games. Not to mention games hanging because the drive has difficulties playing ie the CD music etc.
I had a dual Pentium 3 motherboard on my desk, all wired up to the power suppy which was still in the (full tower) case, which in turn, was on the floor (this case has wheels on it - think of it like a server case). While I was tinkering with the motherboard, I accidentally triped over the case, and caused it to tilt and eventually fall onto the floor. I closed my eyes as I watched the PSU cable (which was connected to the motherboard) pulling the motherboard down. To my surprise, when I opened my eyes, the motherboard was still on the desk, while the case was down
Why?
Because ALL the power pins of the power connector were stripped from the motherboard and left inside the connector of the PSU cable. Ouch.
So I pulled a dead mobo from the recycle closet, carefully de-soldered the required pins, and even more carefully soldered them back to the dual p3 motherboard. With a little twist and turn it worked, so long as you don't push or bend the PSU cable.
Well, yeah, they are just plain-old blackmailers, you can always negotiate with them. It's not like they are Mac zealots or C++ Object Methodologists or anything.
What if a spyware is packaged like a plugin for your app? For example, most "search bars" for Internet Explorer proxy their traffic through Internet Explorer. That kinda defeats this scheme. Also, what if I rename "my spyware" app to iexplorer.exe? Do Windows check the MD5 hash of the.exe app that claims to be "iexplorer.exe"?
It's normal, but it's also very annoying having to click yes/no everytime a process wants to create an outgoing connection. What the author suggests, is a hardware-based firewall (ie one that can't be switched off by a new generation virus - the current ones will terminate for instance any antivirus software they find running), that limits how many emails you can send per minute or hour.
..Orders placed on the new "iPod" music player from Apple Computers Inc, on it's "Applestore" online store will be delayed, sources confirmed. Rumours are that a high-priority customer ordered more than 1600 units of the new iPod, causing significant delays to end consumers. Angry Apple customers have once again, turned to sites like "Crazy Apple Rumours" for immediate relief.
When im podding down the street I get stopped by common folk
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"oh I want one of those..."
I wouldn't be surprised if the "...so hand it over or feel the pain that stabs at the center of your heart" encounters increase even more. Wear black generic earphones when in public!
I had a gen 3 iPod. I was very pleased with it, but the 10GB I had was somewhat limiting, considering that my music is at a mere 12-14GB in the last 3 years. So I sold mine, which was very scratched, and I'm now waiting for the new 20GB model. What I really like, is the mini's jog dial/key combo. It works REALLY well, I've tried it first-hand and I could really say that it's the only thing I would really want the gen 3 iPod to have.
20" Monitor does 1680x1050 at 24 bit color. That means that the whole screen estate is at about 5MB in size. Let's be fair, and say that the screen's refresh rate is at only 50Hz. That means that you need to trasfer to the screen about 250MB/s, or, 2GBit per second. Yes, you need a 2GBps wireless link. So, yes, you can continue dreaming. Didn't wanna wake you up there.
Am I the only person here who thinks that an iMac G5 is no good?
By the looks of it, they will be using the 1.6 and the 1.8 G5s. I had a 1.6 G5 PowerMac for two days, and all I can say is that it's really slow. The single 1.8 is kinda better, but I must admit - no difference from my 1.33 PowerBook G4. Not to mention my 1.42GHz G4 Cube. Anyway, the people looking for a "Digital Hub" (Web/Mail/iTunes/iPhoto/iMovie) will most certainly find that an 1.25GHz eMac will do the trick nicely. The only market I see is for the people who must have a TFT screen. Where I live, the 17" iMac has DOUBLE the price of an eMac! Many people find this unreasonable, hence the great sales of the eMac and the slow sales of the iMac.
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I don't think so. About a year ago, I purchased a 17" 1.33GHz PowerBook G4. It cost me about $3000. From almost day one, the machine would not resume from sleep, 1 out 2 times. I looked at the Apple Discussion Boards and found the problem listed there. It affects many, many users.
Apple still hasn't admitted there is a problem, not to mention providing a fix.
I gave up about 3 months ago and sold the damn thing.
Lucky you. 80euros/month for the provider + 64euros/month for the DSL landline (from the telco) for a 1024/256 dynamic IP DSL here in Greece. "Please to be feelink better" as Pitr (of User Friendly fame) would say.
...fire them!
I would *hope* that spammers start using DomainKeys, because when they do, to send their spam, they effectively "tag" their mails with their private/public key. So, when you get a "signed" spam email, you submit it to "version 2" of SpamHaus, which should now not only block IP addresses, but also domains based on the public key. That makes our lives a whole lot easier.
The point here is that DomainKeys is not by itself a solution, as is not an SPF or a SBL. You need both to be very effective.
But the XServers come at 2.0GHz, with the desktop powermacs at 2.5GHz. Is this a mistake?
Let's suppose for a moment that your points are true; and that because of Doom/Quake/etc, 100 people have been killed worldwide in events like the one you menton.
Now, let's suppose that Carmack worked for "the US military" instead. He could have developed a new incredible cluster bomb, that was first tested en masse in Iraq and killed 1000s of people.
Never forget the Butterfly effect. You can NEVER predict what your actions may trigger as a result. I'm sure Einstein didn't see it coming when his nuclear research was used to build the nuclear bomb and killed 100,000 people in Japan during WWII.
This is going to start another of those "But why leave the beautiful Mac OS X for Linux" flame wars, isn't it?
Thank God that is, I just happened to have tons of fresh pop corn near by, and nothing interest to watch. This will do nicely.
Nobody said that you should or that you must, for that matter. I just said that Rio would prefer that their player is in circulation, practically advertising itself, rather than it being in the trashcan. And yes, the guy did buy two of them, but then again, Rio would prefer that two different individuals bought one, and actually used it. That goes for every other company in the world, including (surprise!) Apple.
As for the car analogy, it's not the dealership sticker we're talking about here ("Joe's Ford Deals"), but rather the car's make and model (ie "Ford" and "Maverick").
I, like most people, have fell for the "it's past midnight, I'm wearing headphones so as not to disturb the spouse" situtation, when I visit this flash site, for which the author felt like a loud metal theme would do it justice. So you end up with jumping off your chair, waking up the wife, with a temporary buzzing in the ears, not to mention "pillow talk" for half an hour.
I, for one, download a no-cd crack for all the games I've bought, because I simply hate the fact that I have to swap CDs every now and then when I want to play different games. Not to mention games hanging because the drive has difficulties playing ie the CD music etc.
I had a dual Pentium 3 motherboard on my desk, all wired up to the power suppy which was still in the (full tower) case, which in turn, was on the floor (this case has wheels on it - think of it like a server case). While I was tinkering with the motherboard, I accidentally triped over the case, and caused it to tilt and eventually fall onto the floor. I closed my eyes as I watched the PSU cable (which was connected to the motherboard) pulling the motherboard down. To my surprise, when I opened my eyes, the motherboard was still on the desk, while the case was down
Why?
Because ALL the power pins of the power connector were stripped from the motherboard and left inside the connector of the PSU cable. Ouch.
So I pulled a dead mobo from the recycle closet, carefully de-soldered the required pins, and even more carefully soldered them back to the dual p3 motherboard. With a little twist and turn it worked, so long as you don't push or bend the PSU cable.
Well, yeah, they are just plain-old blackmailers, you can always negotiate with them. It's not like they are Mac zealots or C++ Object Methodologists or anything.
What if a spyware is packaged like a plugin for your app? For example, most "search bars" for Internet Explorer proxy their traffic through Internet Explorer. That kinda defeats this scheme. Also, what if I rename "my spyware" app to iexplorer.exe? Do Windows check the MD5 hash of the .exe app that claims to be "iexplorer.exe"?
It's normal, but it's also very annoying having to click yes/no everytime a process wants to create an outgoing connection. What the author suggests, is a hardware-based firewall (ie one that can't be switched off by a new generation virus - the current ones will terminate for instance any antivirus software they find running), that limits how many emails you can send per minute or hour.
..Orders placed on the new "iPod" music player from Apple Computers Inc, on it's "Applestore" online store will be delayed, sources confirmed. Rumours are that a high-priority customer ordered more than 1600 units of the new iPod, causing significant delays to end consumers. Angry Apple customers have once again, turned to sites like "Crazy Apple Rumours" for immediate relief.
...hide!
Oh, I hear they are auctioning those Y2K Bunkers on eBay. I bet they are wonderful this time of year.
I wouldn't be surprised if the "...so hand it over or feel the pain that stabs at the center of your heart" encounters increase even more. Wear black generic earphones when in public!
Note how NONE of the iPods have a remote or a carrying case as standard anymore. They are both extras, thus the price drop.
I had a gen 3 iPod. I was very pleased with it, but the 10GB I had was somewhat limiting, considering that my music is at a mere 12-14GB in the last 3 years. So I sold mine, which was very scratched, and I'm now waiting for the new 20GB model. What I really like, is the mini's jog dial/key combo. It works REALLY well, I've tried it first-hand and I could really say that it's the only thing I would really want the gen 3 iPod to have.
...even if its for Microsoft. Personally, I would prefer that the money would go to, say, Spamhaus, for giving us the XBL and the SBL.
Now let's see:
20" Monitor does 1680x1050 at 24 bit color. That means that the whole screen estate is at about 5MB in size. Let's be fair, and say that the screen's refresh rate is at only 50Hz. That means that you need to trasfer to the screen about 250MB/s, or, 2GBit per second. Yes, you need a 2GBps wireless link. So, yes, you can continue dreaming. Didn't wanna wake you up there.
Am I the only person here who thinks that an iMac G5 is no good?
By the looks of it, they will be using the 1.6 and the 1.8 G5s. I had a 1.6 G5 PowerMac for two days, and all I can say is that it's really slow. The single 1.8 is kinda better, but I must admit - no difference from my 1.33 PowerBook G4. Not to mention my 1.42GHz G4 Cube. Anyway, the people looking for a "Digital Hub" (Web/Mail/iTunes/iPhoto/iMovie) will most certainly find that an 1.25GHz eMac will do the trick nicely. The only market I see is for the people who must have a TFT screen. Where I live, the 17" iMac has DOUBLE the price of an eMac! Many people find this unreasonable, hence the great sales of the eMac and the slow sales of the iMac.
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