Although a price tag of $399 is listed on that page, but it is for a different piece of software called GoLive. Adobe is selling the full version of the software (at this page) for $699, which is the value Apple marked on their site and mail-in voucher.
Of course, you can probably find the software a bit cheaper through places like macmall.com, CDW or Insight. But if you are already in a market for a new Mac, free is still much better than $699:)
Apple is running a promotion that if someone buys a PowerMac G4, the person can get a free copy of Adobe InDesign 2.0 for free via mail. News.com has a blurb on this and that a Mac OS X-native version of Quark is still in the works.
IIRC - the EMC content addressed storage system, the Centera, uses IDE hard drives instead of more expensive SCSI hard drives. Of course, they include additional levels of redundancies to avoid data loss if a drive fails.
Maybe one reason is that say a developer is writing a program (be it command-line or X11 based) and wants to see if it will compile and run properly on Mac OS X without having to reboot into Mac OS X or deal with another machine to mess with.
It's use may be a bit limited for the LinuxPPC users, but it kind of fills a niche that Virtual PC and VMware fills (maybe not perfectly, but it's still usable, no?).
Another reason might be someone is required to access an Exchange server for calendar, mail, etc... and Outlook Web Access does cut it (OWA in 5.5 sucks, but OWA in 2000 is cleaner but still has dependencies on IE for some key features)... running Outlook 2001 or Entourage under Mac OS X could fill that part (though Entourage wouldn't provide access to public folders and other things).
Angstrom Microsystems has a quad Athlon MP system that resides in a single 1U chassis (consisting of two separate motherboards). The system specs can be found at http://www.angstrom.com/products/racer500_quad.htm; unfortunately, they do not provide a price for it.
I think there are some other companies that do the same thing, but the name escapes me now.
I'm not sure if it will meet some of their requirements though...
not use more than 64 MB of memory at any point in a game,
not consume more than 1 CPU second per move on average in a game on our 1.5GHz Pentium 4 processor.
Oh wait... I'm thinking of Java 1.1... my bad:)
Now try doing it all in one line;-)
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I agree that running a Windows machine out in the open with the NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP) enabled and un-filtered is asking for trouble... but it's also scary that some disgruntled employee can download the binary and start taking down servers that haven't been patched yet.
A lot of the security intrusions (I'm not talking only about the SSL exploits and Nimda/Code Red zombies pelting web servers, but also inadvertent privilege escalation, etc.) are done from behind a firewall. It just takes a curious person, a well-seasoned hacker, or someone not forgetting to disable the recently fired/resigned Joe User's account and remote dial-in access to wallop a server or get data that he/she isn't supposed to be able to view.
That would work as well:) Only problem is that it wouldn't hear the guy due to it screaming and writhing in pain. Still... it gets the job done, hopefully.
Verizon Wireless Guy to 300 pound (more like ton) RIAA/MPAA gorilla: Can you here me now? Good!
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Next up on the 11 o'clock news: Verizon cuts off Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti's cell, home, and office phone service due to some miscommunication problems. Verizon pleads innocent.
One... I don't record my MiniDiscs from MP3's but rather from the original CDs, that way I don't have to deal with the re-encoding of the song (thus adds another layer of lossy compression).
Two... I already have an MP3 jukebox (as stated in my post). It is a Nomad Jukebox 6GB and I'm looking at the Nomad Jukebox 3 40GB model. I have two completely different uses for the MD player and the MP3 jukebox. Sure, the iPod is nice and small, but I'd rather not risk a hard disk head crash while driving on the not-so-smooth roads of the Pacific NW.
Three... NetMD allows for fast transfers. Sure, it's not as fast as transfering files to the iPod via FireWire, but it's still fast enough for many people. There are even CD->MD units that rip and record CD tracks onto MD at rates of 2-8x.
Four... I do other things while I set the MD player to record off of my CDs like reading, coding, errands, chores, etc. Also, it gives me some background music while doing a lot of those things.
Five... working with 200+ MP3's on a jukebox isn't exactly an easy thing to do, mostly when trying to make playlists on the fly. With MD's, I already break out different song styles and moods onto sets of discs... if I feel like listening to depressing music, I just slap in a disc. The iPod has much better playlist control over the Nomad, but it still doesn't fit the way I choose which songs I want to listen on the fly.
The ATRAC3 encoding scheme has the copy protection scheme that is based on MagicGate, but that only implies to the NetMD version of the MiniDisc recorders. The non-MiniDisc recorders had SCMS (Serial Copy Management System) protection, required by the home recording act, on the digital in portion (you can make a digital copy from a master to a copy, but you can't make a digital copy from the copy to another copy without a SCMS stripper... yes, those are available).
I believe that the professional recorders do not include SCMS since I don't think they fall under the home recording act.
I personally love my three portable MiniDisc recorders (the MZ-R30, MZ-R90 and the MZ-R909) since they are quite portable, the discs are small yet rugged (compared to an SD card, or worse a hard drive or a CD), and the sound quality is very nice. I use an MP3 jukebox at work, but on trips... I'd rather take the portable MD and a small box of 20 MD's that can all fit in my car's glove box. Also try getting 15+ hours of playback on a single battery charge on a Nomad Jukebox.
mmm... Vegemite./me hugs his bottle of Vegemite... (and swearing under his breath for posting the parent as an AC:)
I'm not sure how much would be needed, but I think I'm safe after drinking a 6 or 7 shot caramel macchiato (or a 5 or 6 shot iced latte made from Black Tiger coffee beans).
Actually... they mentioned it in the article... although quite briefly though. From the last couple sentences of the second paragraph:
There's also been a recession, of course, and resistance to CD prices that have grown much faster than the inflation rate. Perhaps the most important factor, however, is the major labels' very success in dominating the market, which has squelched musical innovation.
I guess the fat rich execs don't even see a recession because they themselves have a load of cash somewhere (be it in stocks, banks or off-shore accounts).
Putting the whining and moaning about the cost of upgrading to 10.2, it is nice that Apple is providing such a package. At $199, the cost of each upgrade for five machines (be it an iBook, an older iMac, a new iMac, etc.) comes down to around $40 a pop. It is much cheaper than the cost of five upgrades to Windows XP Home Edition, as those go for $99 for the first one and $89 for each additiona license (more info can be found here); add $100 for each license/copy for Windows XP Professional.
Probably not, but you will have to pay an annual amount (outside of current loans and what-not) to keep your Bachelor's or Master's up to date. If you don't, then they will take it away from you and call you a pirate. When you call customer, er student services, they will require you to format your brain... just for the sake of not allowing the things that you learned to be shared via peer networks:)
It may not be a Rio 600/800/900, but FreeBSD has support for the Rio 500 MP3 player and the kernel can be built with the driver support. More information about the drive can be found at the project's home page or the urio(4) man page. I'm not sure if the driver will support the newer Rio players, but you might be able to find a decent Rio 500 on eBay or other sites.
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Of course, you can probably find the software a bit cheaper through places like macmall.com, CDW or Insight. But if you are already in a market for a new Mac, free is still much better than $699 :)
Apple is running a promotion that if someone buys a PowerMac G4, the person can get a free copy of Adobe InDesign 2.0 for free via mail. News.com has a blurb on this and that a Mac OS X-native version of Quark is still in the works.
IIRC - the EMC content addressed storage system, the Centera, uses IDE hard drives instead of more expensive SCSI hard drives. Of course, they include additional levels of redundancies to avoid data loss if a drive fails.
Taken from their User Guide:
What it will save you is having to by a second Mac or reboot each time you want to go into either Linux or Mac OS [X].Maybe one reason is that say a developer is writing a program (be it command-line or X11 based) and wants to see if it will compile and run properly on Mac OS X without having to reboot into Mac OS X or deal with another machine to mess with.
It's use may be a bit limited for the LinuxPPC users, but it kind of fills a niche that Virtual PC and VMware fills (maybe not perfectly, but it's still usable, no?).
Another reason might be someone is required to access an Exchange server for calendar, mail, etc... and Outlook Web Access does cut it (OWA in 5.5 sucks, but OWA in 2000 is cleaner but still has dependencies on IE for some key features)... running Outlook 2001 or Entourage under Mac OS X could fill that part (though Entourage wouldn't provide access to public folders and other things).
Just my thoughts.
There is always Bejeweled/Diamond Mines :)
That game is definitely a productivity virus... even more so than Solitaire (Minesweeper, Hearts, etc.).
I think there are some other companies that do the same thing, but the name escapes me now.
Now try doing it all in one line ;-)
I agree that running a Windows machine out in the open with the NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP) enabled and un-filtered is asking for trouble... but it's also scary that some disgruntled employee can download the binary and start taking down servers that haven't been patched yet.
A lot of the security intrusions (I'm not talking only about the SSL exploits and Nimda/Code Red zombies pelting web servers, but also inadvertent privilege escalation, etc.) are done from behind a firewall. It just takes a curious person, a well-seasoned hacker, or someone not forgetting to disable the recently fired/resigned Joe User's account and remote dial-in access to wallop a server or get data that he/she isn't supposed to be able to view.
That would work as well :) Only problem is that it wouldn't hear the guy due to it screaming and writhing in pain. Still... it gets the job done, hopefully.
I know... s/here/hear/g
Next up on the 11 o'clock news: Verizon cuts off Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti's cell, home, and office phone service due to some miscommunication problems. Verizon pleads innocent.
One... I don't record my MiniDiscs from MP3's but rather from the original CDs, that way I don't have to deal with the re-encoding of the song (thus adds another layer of lossy compression).
Two... I already have an MP3 jukebox (as stated in my post). It is a Nomad Jukebox 6GB and I'm looking at the Nomad Jukebox 3 40GB model. I have two completely different uses for the MD player and the MP3 jukebox. Sure, the iPod is nice and small, but I'd rather not risk a hard disk head crash while driving on the not-so-smooth roads of the Pacific NW.
Three... NetMD allows for fast transfers. Sure, it's not as fast as transfering files to the iPod via FireWire, but it's still fast enough for many people. There are even CD->MD units that rip and record CD tracks onto MD at rates of 2-8x.
Four... I do other things while I set the MD player to record off of my CDs like reading, coding, errands, chores, etc. Also, it gives me some background music while doing a lot of those things.
Five... working with 200+ MP3's on a jukebox isn't exactly an easy thing to do, mostly when trying to make playlists on the fly. With MD's, I already break out different song styles and moods onto sets of discs... if I feel like listening to depressing music, I just slap in a disc. The iPod has much better playlist control over the Nomad, but it still doesn't fit the way I choose which songs I want to listen on the fly.
The ATRAC3 encoding scheme has the copy protection scheme that is based on MagicGate, but that only implies to the NetMD version of the MiniDisc recorders. The non-MiniDisc recorders had SCMS (Serial Copy Management System) protection, required by the home recording act, on the digital in portion (you can make a digital copy from a master to a copy, but you can't make a digital copy from the copy to another copy without a SCMS stripper... yes, those are available).
I believe that the professional recorders do not include SCMS since I don't think they fall under the home recording act.
I personally love my three portable MiniDisc recorders (the MZ-R30, MZ-R90 and the MZ-R909) since they are quite portable, the discs are small yet rugged (compared to an SD card, or worse a hard drive or a CD), and the sound quality is very nice. I use an MP3 jukebox at work, but on trips... I'd rather take the portable MD and a small box of 20 MD's that can all fit in my car's glove box. Also try getting 15+ hours of playback on a single battery charge on a Nomad Jukebox.
Oops... I didn't mean the parent as in what I replied to but the AC post. I'm officially losing it...
mmm... Vegemite. /me hugs his bottle of Vegemite... (and swearing under his breath for posting the parent as an AC :)
I'm not sure how much would be needed, but I think I'm safe after drinking a 6 or 7 shot caramel macchiato (or a 5 or 6 shot iced latte made from Black Tiger coffee beans).
"He is such a pig", "Pig-headed bastard!", "Quit being such a pig, leave some for us", and "Everything seems so muddy...".
hmm... maybe NZ might be added to my permanant vacation list then :)
If you thought people were mindless sheeps here, I think you will be even more disappointed in New Zealand.
So that's why it's beating around the bush and there were grass stains on the bamboo shoots. Also, why do I have this $100 bill for some oil/lube?
Putting the whining and moaning about the cost of upgrading to 10.2, it is nice that Apple is providing such a package. At $199, the cost of each upgrade for five machines (be it an iBook, an older iMac, a new iMac, etc.) comes down to around $40 a pop. It is much cheaper than the cost of five upgrades to Windows XP Home Edition, as those go for $99 for the first one and $89 for each additiona license (more info can be found here); add $100 for each license/copy for Windows XP Professional.
Does that mean that we will get cordless optical (aka: balless) mice (the input device, not the rodentia) that will go forever without a recharge?
Probably not, but you will have to pay an annual amount (outside of current loans and what-not) to keep your Bachelor's or Master's up to date. If you don't, then they will take it away from you and call you a pirate. When you call customer, er student services, they will require you to format your brain... just for the sake of not allowing the things that you learned to be shared via peer networks :)
It may not be a Rio 600/800/900, but FreeBSD has support for the Rio 500 MP3 player and the kernel can be built with the driver support. More information about the drive can be found at the project's home page or the urio(4) man page. I'm not sure if the driver will support the newer Rio players, but you might be able to find a decent Rio 500 on eBay or other sites.