I'd point out that the processors are "crippled" just like some of their graphics chips are "crippled" so that the computer does not overheat. It has nothing to do with Apple wanting to sell you bad hardware, and everything to do with giving you a computer that doesn't break down every 6 months.
All I know is that if there is any possible mention of wikileaks on slashdot, the tinfoil hat crowd will be out in force for Assenage.
I honestly don't understand this mentality, as wikileaks can still partake its mission without such a ego-driven leader; in fact, I'd imagine that they could be an even better organization. Maybe he's not the face an important organization like wikileaks should have at its head.
Slashdot may now mod me into oblivion and assume that I made some connection to covering up US military secrets in making this post.
Not to be overly pedantic, but 3M is twice as big as Dell in terms of market cap. I have used Scotch tape to hold Dell computers together, so maybe that's a valid investment the other way around...
Steve Jobs said during the keynote that iOS 4.1 fixes the performance problems with the iPhone 3G. (Yes, I have had them too.) The software update will be released in a week or two, so I'd try it out before purchasing a new phone.
I don't know why this is modded +5 insightful, but I really don't care if the US--or any other--military gets embarrassed. What I see is groupthink on slashdot drawing its own conclusions.
What I'm worried about is not military issues, but civilian ones. For example, lets say wikileaks gets ahold of a bunch of data from a corrupt police station, but that data contains the names and locations of people who are in the witness protection program. Obviously if they publish that data without properly redacting it, people innocent people are going to be put at risk. That is Not Good.
Everyone needs to take off their tinfoil hats, not everyone has an agenda against you.
This reminds me of the Slashdot story on several-thousand-dollar ethernet cables from Monster a few years back. *sigh*
That wasn't monster, it was Denon. But you are right in the fact that monster cables are ridiculously priced.
On another note, there are actually some computer cables, such as Ultra320 SCSI cables, that do really well in transferring small signal data. The reason is because they are in a twisted pair configuration (on the good cables), and that cuts down on electromagnetic leakage. That said, the frequencies Ultra320 SCSI operates at are way beyond what anyone would ever need for audio which is in the kHz range. Ultra320 and its cousin Ultra320 transmit at 80 and 160 MHz, respectively.
I had fun with a company awhile back. They are about 300 employees and ~90mil/year, so this is a small corporation.
Anyway, the company was trying to get a VPN tunnel established to their China office, and they were having a hell of a time at it. The employees on the China side had no IT experience so everything was done remotely.
It just so happens that one of the Chinese employees was recruited to make a change to the PIX firewall on the China side in order to get everything working. To our astonishment, it worked, and we had a secure VPN tunnel established.
The problem was accounts in the US started to get locked out, alphabetically, every 30 minutes. Our Active Directory was getting tons of password crack attempts from inside our internal network. I was using LDAP to develop an application at the time, so naturally I was suspect for causing all these lockouts.
Fast-forward a week. We look at the configuration of the Chinese firewall and it allowed all access from any IP address on the Chinese side. In other words, crackers were trying to get into our systems through our VPN tunnel in China. In effect, our corporate LAN had been directly connected to the Internet. Once we figured that out, I was free to go back to work and the network lived to see another day, but that incident caused major trouble for all our employees.
Moral of the story: Don't trust a Chinese firewall.
...and...so what? Jobs would have a hissy fit and stamp his feet and cry? He'd throw a bamboo latte at him?
A five-year-old girl could beat up Steve Jobs.
I can't believe how naïve you are. Everybody KNOWS that Steve Jobs has an army of iAutomatons ready to do his bidding. Not only that, but he's got Apple's fan base, too.
This is like the Emperor controlling both human and mechanical military forces in Revenge of the Sith and Attack of the Clones.
I just have to wonder what was in the conversation between Jobs and Papermaster. If Papermaster is the true mastermind of antennagate, may the heavens have mercy on his soul... Jobs would be pissed.
Liberal Arts is not about Theatre, Liberal Arts at the core is about thinking. This country needs more people who can think before they do, not more doers whose educations become obsolete before the ink on their diploma is dry.
Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender asks, "Can I get you a beer?" Descartes replies, "I think not!" and suddenly vanishes.
I'm in the exact same position... And my current plans are to strip the case and stick [in] an updated system.
This is why I read slashdot.:-)
For my old G5 2GHz I'm thinking about keeping it around--though offline--in case there are any PCI/PCI-X cards I need to interface with. This happens often to people who do audio work, or people who have to migrate very old equipment to something newer; basically, it's there if you need a broker computer to bridge a generation gap. The G5's power per computation efficiency is terrible for any practical task.
Honestly, especially on slashdot, I've noticed that there are a lot of anti-Apple people--more so than the pro Apple people. For every time I see a pro-Apple post here on slashdot I see at least 4-5 negative posts about evil Apple is. Then the people (like you) qualify their post by saying, "anybody who disagrees is just and Apple-hater," are essentially writing off your own bad behavior by deflecting blame on to a minority of apple zealots.
This is absolutely ridiculous and shows just how much slashdot has deteriorated over the years. I can understand if someone has a logical argument, lists valid points, and contributes to the discussion... but posts like yours do nothing to contribute to slashdot other than to have a big circle jerk with all the other Apple haters.
What makes this case so ridiculous is that the symptoms he describes are not those of Asperger's syndrome--they are classic symptoms of schizophrenia or paranoid personality disorder.
Some other people here referred to popped caps. and I thought, "Just what neighborhood have you been in???" I didn't think anyone from Dell would pop a cap in someone's computer.
Oh, you guys mean capacitors...
Life makes more sense now. Maybe I'm hanging out in the wrong places.
If Dell cut corners by using under-rated components (capacitors/power supplies), I have no sympathy for them.
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I'd point out that the processors are "crippled" just like some of their graphics chips are "crippled" so that the computer does not overheat. It has nothing to do with Apple wanting to sell you bad hardware, and everything to do with giving you a computer that doesn't break down every 6 months.
Steve Jobs does have stock options from a long time ago, but he also only gets paid $1.00 a year by Apple (since 2003, at least).
Why $1.00, you ask?
So he could use the same company insurance plans that Apple's salaried workers have. (interesting factoid)
What's scary is when companies like Google and Facebook get access to these devices.
All I know is that if there is any possible mention of wikileaks on slashdot, the tinfoil hat crowd will be out in force for Assenage.
I honestly don't understand this mentality, as wikileaks can still partake its mission without such a ego-driven leader; in fact, I'd imagine that they could be an even better organization. Maybe he's not the face an important organization like wikileaks should have at its head.
Slashdot may now mod me into oblivion and assume that I made some connection to covering up US military secrets in making this post.
Not to be overly pedantic, but 3M is twice as big as Dell in terms of market cap. I have used Scotch tape to hold Dell computers together, so maybe that's a valid investment the other way around...
No, but his stationary was scented.
Steve Jobs said during the keynote that iOS 4.1 fixes the performance problems with the iPhone 3G. (Yes, I have had them too.) The software update will be released in a week or two, so I'd try it out before purchasing a new phone.
Hey, at least they didn't say exorcise-I'd hate to have to do that on a regular basis.
I don't know why this is modded +5 insightful, but I really don't care if the US--or any other--military gets embarrassed. What I see is groupthink on slashdot drawing its own conclusions.
What I'm worried about is not military issues, but civilian ones.
For example, lets say wikileaks gets ahold of a bunch of data from a corrupt police station, but that data contains the names and locations of people who are in the witness protection program. Obviously if they publish that data without properly redacting it, people innocent people are going to be put at risk. That is Not Good.
Everyone needs to take off their tinfoil hats, not everyone has an agenda against you.
The only thing we really know is that the big dumb jocks you meet in high school only get bigger and dumber.
That wasn't monster, it was Denon. But you are right in the fact that monster cables are ridiculously priced.
On another note, there are actually some computer cables, such as Ultra320 SCSI cables, that do really well in transferring small signal data. The reason is because they are in a twisted pair configuration (on the good cables), and that cuts down on electromagnetic leakage. That said, the frequencies Ultra320 SCSI operates at are way beyond what anyone would ever need for audio which is in the kHz range. Ultra320 and its cousin Ultra320 transmit at 80 and 160 MHz, respectively.
That is the one of the most insightful quotes I have ever read on slashdot. Well done.
...but he also needs to be held accountable if things go wrong.
I had fun with a company awhile back. They are about 300 employees and ~90mil/year, so this is a small corporation.
Anyway, the company was trying to get a VPN tunnel established to their China office, and they were having a hell of a time at it. The employees on the China side had no IT experience so everything was done remotely.
It just so happens that one of the Chinese employees was recruited to make a change to the PIX firewall on the China side in order to get everything working. To our astonishment, it worked, and we had a secure VPN tunnel established.
The problem was accounts in the US started to get locked out, alphabetically, every 30 minutes. Our Active Directory was getting tons of password crack attempts from inside our internal network. I was using LDAP to develop an application at the time, so naturally I was suspect for causing all these lockouts.
Fast-forward a week. We look at the configuration of the Chinese firewall and it allowed all access from any IP address on the Chinese side. In other words, crackers were trying to get into our systems through our VPN tunnel in China. In effect, our corporate LAN had been directly connected to the Internet. Once we figured that out, I was free to go back to work and the network lived to see another day, but that incident caused major trouble for all our employees.
Moral of the story: Don't trust a Chinese firewall.
At great risk to my karma, I will answer that question: the rest of the world is stupid enough to allow the United States to do whatever it wants.
You may throw rocks at me now.
I can't believe how naïve you are. Everybody KNOWS that Steve Jobs has an army of iAutomatons ready to do his bidding. Not only that, but he's got Apple's fan base, too.
This is like the Emperor controlling both human and mechanical military forces in Revenge of the Sith and Attack of the Clones.
I just have to wonder what was in the conversation between Jobs and Papermaster.
If Papermaster is the true mastermind of antennagate, may the heavens have mercy on his soul... Jobs would be pissed .
Hey, at least NAMCO didn't force the student to wear a big scarlet ©
What I want to know is how the fuck they got my picture. I'm calling my lawyer.
Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender asks, "Can I get you a beer?" Descartes replies, "I think not!" and suddenly vanishes.
This is why I read slashdot. :-)
For my old G5 2GHz I'm thinking about keeping it around--though offline--in case there are any PCI/PCI-X cards I need to interface with. This happens often to people who do audio work, or people who have to migrate very old equipment to something newer; basically, it's there if you need a broker computer to bridge a generation gap. The G5's power per computation efficiency is terrible for any practical task.
Honestly, especially on slashdot, I've noticed that there are a lot of anti-Apple people--more so than the pro Apple people. For every time I see a pro-Apple post here on slashdot I see at least 4-5 negative posts about evil Apple is. Then the people (like you) qualify their post by saying, "anybody who disagrees is just and Apple-hater," are essentially writing off your own bad behavior by deflecting blame on to a minority of apple zealots.
This is absolutely ridiculous and shows just how much slashdot has deteriorated over the years. I can understand if someone has a logical argument, lists valid points, and contributes to the discussion... but posts like yours do nothing to contribute to slashdot other than to have a big circle jerk with all the other Apple haters.
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What makes this case so ridiculous is that the symptoms he describes are not those of Asperger's syndrome--they are classic symptoms of schizophrenia or paranoid personality disorder.
It's called liposuction.
Some other people here referred to popped caps. and I thought, "Just what neighborhood have you been in???"
I didn't think anyone from Dell would pop a cap in someone's computer.
Oh, you guys mean capacitors...
Life makes more sense now. Maybe I'm hanging out in the wrong places.
If Dell cut corners by using under-rated components (capacitors/power supplies), I have no sympathy for them.