Yeah, hey, Wal-Mart isn't looking to FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT and CRUSH THE EVIL RIAA with lower prices. This isn't for the benefit of the modern music lover.
They're looking to bottom-line everyone else, and they will. Who suffers?
The record companies? Not really, no. It's not like they're going to go out of business now or realize the error of their ways. They're already making posting more profits than they ever have, while actually shipping fewer CDs than in the recent past.
The artists are going to get their asses kicked by this. "Oh, hey, looks like we, the Mighty Record Label, are making less money on records now, thanks to the EVIL WAL-MART ENEMY, so we can't afford to pay you as much now (not that you were getting much of the profits to begin with). Sorry!"
Your local retailer? The awesome guy who knows your name and has that comfy record store that either has all the indie and eclectic artists you like but can't find elsewhere? Yeah, he's just had his nuts put in a vise because he can't bully distributors and Sony/EMI into cutting him breaks on bulk orders of a hundred gagillion copies of the latest J-Lo record.
I guess it's also a good time to keep Wal-Mart workers' wages and benefits down. I mean, profits on this segment of our product line are down this year! Raise? We can't afford/that/ when our profits are so thin!
The only people who/really/ win here sit on Wal-Mart's shareholders board.
As far as I know and can tell, NetRestore isn't multicast imaging, guys. I've imaged thousands of machines with NetRestore, and while it's a wonderful wrapper for ASR and such, it's not what this guy is asking for.
However, it would do his job just fine. If you've only 125 machines, and you're not pushing out more than one image, I bet you could do them all in a day or so by yourself. (A 2-gig image can be pushed to a new Mac in ten minutes or less, depending on its HD speed. If you do 24 at once--24 being a random switch port count I picked out of my head--you could do two to three sets in an hour, accounting for setup and breakdown time.) You're going to be limited by your network, mostly, as a single Xserve/NetRestore combo will tear through 20-40 machines at once, depending on image and client hardware (faster drives equals faster imaging).
Tips:
- Automate the shit out of it. NetRestore can run post-flight shell scripts and adjust computer/Rendezvous name on the way into the image process. You just gotta set it up.
- Gigabitgigabitgigabit. If you don't have a gigE uplink to the server, prepare for some/pain./
- Put your NetBoot image on one physical drive and your image(s) on another. Maximize those channels.
- Visit macosxlabs.org and read as much as you can before you start. They've been there, done it, and own the t-shirt factory.
NetRestore and NetRestore Helper are great tools, and should be just fine for 125 units.
I can't count the number of times I've had to say something to the effect of, "No, Such-and-Such is a third-party package that's not supported by Apple," to customers.
Apple/will/ get tech support calls about Real's stuff from confused users.
Compared to mechanical storage (oh shit, head crash! there goes my latest $10,000 shoot), high-capacity CF is worth what, to non-pros, looks to be ridiculously high prices. CF might not be as fast as a 15,000-RPM SCSI drive, but Lexar's 2-gig CF cards write at 4.8 MB KB/sec. That ain't too damn bad when you can store two gigs of data on your roll. (Lexar sells larger sizes, but that's the one that came to mind.)
You use CF cards with your PDA (doesn't need lots of storage space anyway), your notebook (you're not moving it around while it's trying to write to the drive, like you would with a camera a good deal of the time), and your desktop (doesn't move at all, doesn't follow you to photoshoots). You're not the market for this product.
I think you're confusing revolutionary with evolutionary.
Half-Life 2, while great-looking from the gameplay that's been shown so far, isn't revolutionary. It isn't using inverse kinematics for the first time in its physics engine, it isn't the first graphics engine to pass pixels more than once, and it isn't the first game to use vehicles in game play.
It might improve on these things, but it's not ushering in a new era of elements we've never seen before.
And while you're at it, don't forget to send back your G5 to Apple and build a PC from scratch so you don't void the warranty or fuck up the carefully engineered insides and cooling system with shit from Staples.
As many others have said here, don't mod the box. The key is keeping the noisy (though G5s are pretty quiet, really . . . have you looked into the power supply replacement program yet?) hardware away from the sensitive microphone(s).
Drop your cardioid and omnidirectional mics and get a good unidirectional Shure or something. Then run the mic cable (via big-time extension cableage) to another room with NO hardware in it for recording purposes.
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Right, because that's not going to alter the thermal properties of the case design.
Sticking a lint-laced towel inside your nine-fan, four-cooling-zone, twenty-one-temperature-sensor G5 surely isn't a bright way of going about cutting back on the noise--unless when it shuts off from choking on towel lint or overheats. Then it's/really/ quiet.
But if the key uses internal structures to route the light, you won't be able to make a clay press of the key. You computer will crunch away and get only a portion of the initial data correct. You need a way to visualize the internals of the key as well as the outside.
You spent a year "fighting Apple with Visa's help"--you know, as though Visa was some ally in a war or something--instead of sending the unit to Apple for repair after they told you that custom-configured units aren't eligible for returns? (Forgetting that it says this on the Apple Store site, anyway.)
Honestly, man. A week or two, TOPS, and you would have had a brand-new display assembly (at the time you bought your PowerBook, Apple's LCD replacement policy was a minimum of three dead pixels or six dead sub-pixels, and I think it's at least similar today--I haven't had to check in a while).
It's not like Apple won't service a unit after you buy it CTO or anything. They treat them just the same as stock units. This article summary, like so many others, is a bit FUDish and misleading, I'm afraid.
But what are the implications of this, you broadcasting your CD collection to the public air?
On most CDs you own, you can find this message:
Unauthorized copying, public performance, broadcasting, or rental of this recording is prohibited.
Emphasis mine, of course.
While the FCC's recommendation to Congress regarding low-power FM is a really good thing, we won't be able to make a playlist of our favourite records and light up the neighbourhood, since most records' legal errata prohibit this.
Actually, back in 2001, Intel had this to say about the future of floppy drives. While we haven't seen the death of floppy drives, sales of floppy disks are declining at a steady pace. The floppy drive has become an add-on, where it used to be a defacto, you-need-this-no-matter-what-you-say component when selecting your next computer--Apple's dropped them entirely, Intel's telling people not to use them, and Dell doesn't include them on all of their machines anymore (the Dimension 8300, for example, doesn't come with a floppy drive unless you add it).
Oh, and for reference, the word for which you're looking is "you're", not "your", but you're a troll, so I can forgive the obvious lack of understanding.
This guy is clearly looking for reasons to justify GNOME's eccentricities and poor design, and seems to be ignoring the immense research that Microsoft and Apple put into interface design.
The only reason Windows works the way it does in this regard is because the Mac OS has worked this way for a long time. I wouldn't call that "research", really.;-)
Unless you hit a character key, you can't screw up a file name in OS X. Hitting escape or return results in the name being confirmed (which confirms it back to the original if you didn't alter it with another keystroke or if you deleted the/entire/ name with the delete key). Hitting a modifier key--shift, control, etc--doesn't do anything at all to the name.
Unless you take your sweet-ass time double-clicking, you can double-click an icon's name in Mac OS X and have it open. I just did it, myself, and do it often. If you click--wait--then click again, you'll be editing.
PEBCAK, I say, since so many Mac users have been happy with this method for years.
If you click on the icon, it highlights. That's it. If you click on the name, you can edit the name. There's more than one thing you can do, here, because the icon and the name are separate objects, when you think about it. (Ever renamed an icon? No, you rename the icon's name.)
If you click on the name and then decide you want to move it, you can still drag the icon to wherever you want it to go. Furthermore, if you highlight the icon and hit return, you can begin editing the name.
If you control/right-click on an icon name, you get the same contextual menu that you see when you do the same on the icon. And yes, if you click and HOLD on an icon name, you can drag the icon normally.
Let's recap:
1. Click on the name to rename. 2. Click on the icon to highlight. 3. Press return while the icon is highlighted to rename. 4. Click and hold on the icon or the name to drag the icon. 5. Control/right-click on either the icon or the icon name to see a contextual menu of frequently used commands related specifically to that item type.
This seems pretty goddamned good to me. You get complete functionality without a lot to think about. It's been this way for years, and we Mac users seem happy with it. How is right-clicking and selecting "Rename" any better than just clicking the frickin' icon name and typing away?
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Yeah, hey, Wal-Mart isn't looking to FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT and CRUSH THE EVIL RIAA with lower prices. This isn't for the benefit of the modern music lover.
/that/ when our profits are so thin!
/really/ win here sit on Wal-Mart's shareholders board.
They're looking to bottom-line everyone else, and they will. Who suffers?
The record companies? Not really, no. It's not like they're going to go out of business now or realize the error of their ways. They're already making posting more profits than they ever have, while actually shipping fewer CDs than in the recent past.
The artists are going to get their asses kicked by this. "Oh, hey, looks like we, the Mighty Record Label, are making less money on records now, thanks to the EVIL WAL-MART ENEMY, so we can't afford to pay you as much now (not that you were getting much of the profits to begin with). Sorry!"
Your local retailer? The awesome guy who knows your name and has that comfy record store that either has all the indie and eclectic artists you like but can't find elsewhere? Yeah, he's just had his nuts put in a vise because he can't bully distributors and Sony/EMI into cutting him breaks on bulk orders of a hundred gagillion copies of the latest J-Lo record.
I guess it's also a good time to keep Wal-Mart workers' wages and benefits down. I mean, profits on this segment of our product line are down this year! Raise? We can't afford
The only people who
Why would I want to put Mac OS X on my Xbox? I bought my Xbox to play video games, after all . . .
As far as I know and can tell, NetRestore isn't multicast imaging, guys. I've imaged thousands of machines with NetRestore, and while it's a wonderful wrapper for ASR and such, it's not what this guy is asking for.
/pain./
However, it would do his job just fine. If you've only 125 machines, and you're not pushing out more than one image, I bet you could do them all in a day or so by yourself. (A 2-gig image can be pushed to a new Mac in ten minutes or less, depending on its HD speed. If you do 24 at once--24 being a random switch port count I picked out of my head--you could do two to three sets in an hour, accounting for setup and breakdown time.) You're going to be limited by your network, mostly, as a single Xserve/NetRestore combo will tear through 20-40 machines at once, depending on image and client hardware (faster drives equals faster imaging).
Tips:
- Automate the shit out of it. NetRestore can run post-flight shell scripts and adjust computer/Rendezvous name on the way into the image process. You just gotta set it up.
- Gigabitgigabitgigabit. If you don't have a gigE uplink to the server, prepare for some
- Put your NetBoot image on one physical drive and your image(s) on another. Maximize those channels.
- Visit macosxlabs.org and read as much as you can before you start. They've been there, done it, and own the t-shirt factory.
NetRestore and NetRestore Helper are great tools, and should be just fine for 125 units.
My favourite quote, by far:
"Well, basically, Apple isn't releasing Mac OS X 10.4 until 2005, so we've got to wait a little while longer before we can finish Longhorn."
Oh, wait, I guess they left that out of the article.
100% USDA-approved flamebait or your money back!
I knew it! Know how I knew it?
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You've never done end-user support, then.
/will/ get tech support calls about Real's stuff from confused users.
I can't count the number of times I've had to say something to the effect of, "No, Such-and-Such is a third-party package that's not supported by Apple," to customers.
Apple
Never had a girlfriend, have you?
Never been to Slashdot, have you?
You said it. That is something that probably won't be in the Olympics for a long while.
But trust that if it ever does become an Olympic sport, NBC will cover twelve hundred hours of it a day.
You're obviously not a professional photographer.
It's a simple equation:
value = capacity + speed + reliability
Compared to mechanical storage (oh shit, head crash! there goes my latest $10,000 shoot), high-capacity CF is worth what, to non-pros, looks to be ridiculously high prices. CF might not be as fast as a 15,000-RPM SCSI drive, but Lexar's 2-gig CF cards write at 4.8 MB KB/sec. That ain't too damn bad when you can store two gigs of data on your roll. (Lexar sells larger sizes, but that's the one that came to mind.)
You use CF cards with your PDA (doesn't need lots of storage space anyway), your notebook (you're not moving it around while it's trying to write to the drive, like you would with a camera a good deal of the time), and your desktop (doesn't move at all, doesn't follow you to photoshoots). You're not the market for this product.
Next poster, please.
Input:
Wow, the article just turned me on to the Summary Service. And I just used it to read a short and sweet summary of the article.
If you haven't played with it select a bunch of text (in a Cocoa app) and select Summary from the Services menu.
Very cool...
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Wow, the article just turned me on to the Summary Service. And I just used it to read a short and sweet summary of the article.
If you haven't played with it select a bunch of text (in a Cocoa app) and select Summary from the Services menu.
Wow, look at that! Impressive!
(I actually love Summary Service, but I couldn't resist that joke.)
Well, a rendition of one, anyway:
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8 94 803247/002-9348466-3390413?v=glance
http://students.biology.lsa.umich.edu/bio208_11
The image is taken from this book, which is definitely teh awesome:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
I think you're confusing revolutionary with evolutionary.
Half-Life 2, while great-looking from the gameplay that's been shown so far, isn't revolutionary. It isn't using inverse kinematics for the first time in its physics engine, it isn't the first graphics engine to pass pixels more than once, and it isn't the first game to use vehicles in game play.
It might improve on these things, but it's not ushering in a new era of elements we've never seen before.
For example, could being an IM buddy with someone later come back and haunt you?
I think you should give these people a call.
Perhaps if Slashdot submissions had a "track changes" function, we could see who screwed it up originally, the submitter or the editor. ;-)
And while you're at it, don't forget to send back your G5 to Apple and build a PC from scratch so you don't void the warranty or fuck up the carefully engineered insides and cooling system with shit from Staples.
As many others have said here, don't mod the box. The key is keeping the noisy (though G5s are pretty quiet, really . . . have you looked into the power supply replacement program yet?) hardware away from the sensitive microphone(s).
Drop your cardioid and omnidirectional mics and get a good unidirectional Shure or something. Then run the mic cable (via big-time extension cableage) to another room with NO hardware in it for recording purposes.
Right, because that's not going to alter the thermal properties of the case design.
/really/ quiet.
Sticking a lint-laced towel inside your nine-fan, four-cooling-zone, twenty-one-temperature-sensor G5 surely isn't a bright way of going about cutting back on the noise--unless when it shuts off from choking on towel lint or overheats. Then it's
But if the key uses internal structures to route the light, you won't be able to make a clay press of the key. You computer will crunch away and get only a portion of the initial data correct. You need a way to visualize the internals of the key as well as the outside.
You spent a year "fighting Apple with Visa's help"--you know, as though Visa was some ally in a war or something--instead of sending the unit to Apple for repair after they told you that custom-configured units aren't eligible for returns? (Forgetting that it says this on the Apple Store site, anyway.)
Honestly, man. A week or two, TOPS, and you would have had a brand-new display assembly (at the time you bought your PowerBook, Apple's LCD replacement policy was a minimum of three dead pixels or six dead sub-pixels, and I think it's at least similar today--I haven't had to check in a while).
It's not like Apple won't service a unit after you buy it CTO or anything. They treat them just the same as stock units. This article summary, like so many others, is a bit FUDish and misleading, I'm afraid.
But what are the implications of this, you broadcasting your CD collection to the public air?
On most CDs you own, you can find this message:
Unauthorized copying, public performance, broadcasting, or rental of this recording is prohibited.
Emphasis mine, of course.
While the FCC's recommendation to Congress regarding low-power FM is a really good thing, we won't be able to make a playlist of our favourite records and light up the neighbourhood, since most records' legal errata prohibit this.
Actually, back in 2001, Intel had this to say about the future of floppy drives. While we haven't seen the death of floppy drives, sales of floppy disks are declining at a steady pace. The floppy drive has become an add-on, where it used to be a defacto, you-need-this-no-matter-what-you-say component when selecting your next computer--Apple's dropped them entirely, Intel's telling people not to use them, and Dell doesn't include them on all of their machines anymore (the Dimension 8300, for example, doesn't come with a floppy drive unless you add it).
Oh, and for reference, the word for which you're looking is "you're", not "your", but you're a troll, so I can forgive the obvious lack of understanding.
". . . A plus B plus C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
I wouldn't sniff that SCSI vagina that the parent was talking about, either.
This guy is clearly looking for reasons to justify GNOME's eccentricities and poor design, and seems to be ignoring the immense research that Microsoft and Apple put into interface design.
;-)
The only reason Windows works the way it does in this regard is because the Mac OS has worked this way for a long time. I wouldn't call that "research", really.
Unless you hit a character key, you can't screw up a file name in OS X. Hitting escape or return results in the name being confirmed (which confirms it back to the original if you didn't alter it with another keystroke or if you deleted the /entire/ name with the delete key). Hitting a modifier key--shift, control, etc--doesn't do anything at all to the name.
Unless you take your sweet-ass time double-clicking, you can double-click an icon's name in Mac OS X and have it open. I just did it, myself, and do it often. If you click--wait--then click again, you'll be editing.
PEBCAK, I say, since so many Mac users have been happy with this method for years.
Can't believe this got insightful moderations.
If you click on the icon, it highlights. That's it. If you click on the name, you can edit the name. There's more than one thing you can do, here, because the icon and the name are separate objects, when you think about it. (Ever renamed an icon? No, you rename the icon's name.)
If you click on the name and then decide you want to move it, you can still drag the icon to wherever you want it to go. Furthermore, if you highlight the icon and hit return, you can begin editing the name.
If you control/right-click on an icon name, you get the same contextual menu that you see when you do the same on the icon. And yes, if you click and HOLD on an icon name, you can drag the icon normally.
Let's recap:
1. Click on the name to rename.
2. Click on the icon to highlight.
3. Press return while the icon is highlighted to rename.
4. Click and hold on the icon or the name to drag the icon.
5. Control/right-click on either the icon or the icon name to see a contextual menu of frequently used commands related specifically to that item type.
This seems pretty goddamned good to me. You get complete functionality without a lot to think about. It's been this way for years, and we Mac users seem happy with it. How is right-clicking and selecting "Rename" any better than just clicking the frickin' icon name and typing away?