Re:Another Reason NOT to buy an Apple
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>Now look where the grass is greener, on the Windows >PC you can get a PCI tuner card for less than $100 >bucks that will record your
Can I imply from this that you have never actually done it? Try it, then try it on a mac and see if you still think Mac is "obsolete".
-milo
Re:All the cool stuff is for Mac.
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>for the pc there are 20-30 vendors making the sutff
Conveniently insuring that almost none of it will actually work together.
-milo
Re:Great, except I don't want to make a Mac
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>Maybe when Apple comes out with a small form >computer (other than that silly cube) that looks >like a generic A/V peripheral and costs $300 I >will consider this.
Why? Are you too much of a wimp to put the board in a different case? I have my beige G3 in a custom box that looks great with my equipment, and controls the CD changer [slink-e] and plays mpegs and DVDs, all with an obviously better interface and no $$ to microsoft.
You are such an optimist. If your version of events is what occurs, I will be happy. The problem is that the internet does not take in new people and bring them up to a certain level of understanding. Idiots join the on-line community and bring it down to a lower level. Do you still find the same level of on-line discourse as 1995? Nope, it's one big bring-the-kids-and-the-pigs, flea market, low-brow, spam-buying, get rich quick, commercialised, hootananny, these days. And the trend continues...
All these comments and no one has pointed out that we already KNOW who (or what) live there?
I'm not going to mention it, since I would not want to be responsible for costing anyone else their sanity, but do a search and you'll see what I mean. (try "Fomalhaut" and "cult" for best results, but you have been warned)
beware the mouth of the fish!
Dr. Milo Voo Information Sciences Miskatonic University
"Joe Desktop" doesn't do full motion video or audio conversion, or net games, or really anything that you need over 500mghz for. Email, Word, PowerPoint, the occasional websurfing.
Most office machines are way overpowered or underutilized, depending on which end you are on.
(besides if he really wanted to get things done,
he'd get a mac, heh!)
OMG, you're right, the only way to really free my mind is to use windows,
then when the whole Palladium initiative
finally locks the user out of any real interface
or OS tinkering, I'll be used to it.
the Art of Human-Computer Interface Design edited by Brenda Laurel
It's apple-centric and a little dated, but the concepts are still well described and important to consider. I've gone through a couple of copies as I'm always loaning it to people who get started reading it and can't put it down, not bad for a tech-spec.
Well, if there was such a thing as an all-diamond ring maybe, but gold, white gold, silver, etc, are all easier to cut through or bend than titanium. It actually comes with a warning that emergency personnel may not have the right tools to remove it if your finger gets swollen for some reason, although they have special tools for the other kind of rings.
Rockwell hardness for titanium is around c100 (if I am understanding how that works), but since a diamond is used as the test probe, I can only imagine it's much harder. Anyone know?
>LA and New York have jewelry districts where competition drives down prices to close to wholesale >and you can save more than your plane ticket cost. Make it a special trip with your sweetie...
This is essentially correct, but before you book your trip, remember that unless you can avoid looking like a tourist and unless you know how to haggle with people who do it for a living, you may find yourself paying about the same price you would pay at the mall.
(that being said, I am generally anti-diamond. we got titanium wedding bands, the whole indestructible thing seemed kinda romantic)
Devalue Apple? Sure the macintosh is a mad h4x0r
tool, but, really, it would affect all platforms the same.
Joe Sixpack is hardly platform specific when he feels
the urge to download pirated movies or music. If the
Mac was the ONLY platform for doing this, the copyright
landscape would be quite a bit differant.
-milo
>The point is that legislation that would effectively
>devalue Apple Computer ( whose new iMacs are
>capable of copying music and video and sharing t
>hose copies over the Internet ) may well pass both
>houses of Congress.
>If it were looking for an opportunity, it had one on 9-11. >Did things change? >Yep. But it was nowhere near as drastic as it could have been."
Ummm, are you agreeing with me? The fact that we have not yet had to get a new national ID card, does not make me willing to endorse the current plan. Yup, it could be worse.
>Try to picture how this metaphor would be different if >we were living in Nazi Germany. You'd instantly >understand the way things could have been had the >US wanted to get rid of Free Speech and privacy.
Oh, my apologies, I didn't realize that you had lived through all that, I guess you're right, I just couldn't possibly understand. It's OBVIOUSLY totally different.
I yield, because:
a) I think you're not really reading what I wrote b) the whole "govt should be more conservative or
less conservative" argument is not likely to
generate new results c) I'm not sure if you invoked godwin's law on purpose
>"Don't bother using an over-simplified metaphor to prove me wrong. It means you don't understand my point."
Let's say I have a handful of marbles, and each marble represents a personal freedom. The nice man from the government wants to take one of your marbles so that he can make sure you are safe, and are not going to hurt yourself by having too many marbles. Fine, I still have a lot of marbles left. But if tomorrow the nice government man wants another one, and another one the day after that, I am going to start to want to resist a little bit to the government wanting my little freedom marbles, no matter how 'noble' the cause.
(I just wanted to see if it still held up with a really simple metaphor and I think it does)
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>Now look where the grass is greener, on the Windows
>PC you can get a PCI tuner card for less than $100
>bucks that will record your
Can I imply from this that you have never
actually done it? Try it, then try it on a
mac and see if you still think Mac is "obsolete".
-milo
>for the pc there are 20-30 vendors making the sutff
Conveniently insuring that almost none of
it will actually work together.
-milo
>Maybe when Apple comes out with a small form
>computer (other than that silly cube) that looks
>like a generic A/V peripheral and costs $300 I
>will consider this.
Why? Are you too much of a wimp to put
the board in a different case? I have
my beige G3 in a custom box that looks
great with my equipment, and controls
the CD changer [slink-e] and plays mpegs
and DVDs, all with an obviously better
interface and no $$ to microsoft.
-milo
What would you post instead?
(I'm serious - let's hear a real example)
Macs have more cool stuff, deal with it.
-milo
You are such an optimist. If your version of events ...
is what occurs, I will be happy. The problem is
that the internet does not take in new people and
bring them up to a certain level of understanding.
Idiots join the on-line community and bring it down
to a lower level. Do you still find the same level
of on-line discourse as 1995? Nope, it's one big
bring-the-kids-and-the-pigs, flea market, low-brow,
spam-buying, get rich quick, commercialised,
hootananny, these days. And the trend continues
All these comments and no one has pointed out
that we already KNOW who (or what) live there?
I'm not going to mention it, since I would not want to be
responsible for costing anyone else their sanity, but
do a search and you'll see what I mean.
(try "Fomalhaut" and "cult" for best results, but you
have been warned)
beware the mouth of the fish!
Dr. Milo Voo
Information Sciences
Miskatonic University
"Joe Desktop" doesn't do full motion video or
audio conversion, or net games, or really anything
that you need over 500mghz for. Email, Word,
PowerPoint, the occasional websurfing.
Most office machines are way overpowered
or underutilized, depending on which end you
are on.
(besides if he really wanted to get things done,
he'd get a mac, heh!)
-milo
OMG, you're right, the only way to really
free my mind is to use windows,
then when the whole Palladium initiative
finally locks the user out of any real interface
or OS tinkering, I'll be used to it.
-milo
there's a decent book
the Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
edited by Brenda Laurel
It's apple-centric and a little dated, but
the concepts are still well described and
important to consider. I've gone through a
couple of copies as I'm always loaning it
to people who get started reading it and
can't put it down, not bad for a tech-spec.
-milo
Well, if there was such a thing as an all-diamond ring maybe, but gold, white gold, silver, etc, are all easier to cut through or bend than titanium. It actually comes with a warning that emergency personnel may not have the right tools to remove it if your finger gets swollen for some reason, although they have special tools for the other kind of rings.
Rockwell hardness for titanium is around c100 (if I am understanding how that works), but since a diamond is used as the test probe, I can only imagine it's much harder. Anyone know?
-milo
>LA and New York have jewelry districts where competition drives down prices to close to wholesale
>and you can save more than your plane ticket cost. Make it a special trip with your sweetie...
This is essentially correct, but before you book your trip, remember that unless you can avoid looking
like a tourist and unless you know how to haggle with people who do it for a living, you may find
yourself paying about the same price you would pay at the mall.
(that being said, I am generally anti-diamond.
we got titanium wedding bands, the whole indestructible
thing seemed kinda romantic)
-milo
Devalue Apple? Sure the macintosh is a mad h4x0r tool, but, really, it would affect all platforms the same. Joe Sixpack is hardly platform specific when he feels the urge to download pirated movies or music. If the Mac was the ONLY platform for doing this, the copyright landscape would be quite a bit differant. -milo >The point is that legislation that would effectively >devalue Apple Computer ( whose new iMacs are >capable of copying music and video and sharing t >hose copies over the Internet ) may well pass both >houses of Congress.
>If it were looking for an opportunity, it had one on 9-11.
>Did things change?
>Yep. But it was nowhere near as drastic as it could have been."
Ummm, are you agreeing with me? The fact that we have not yet
had to get a new national ID card, does not make me willing to
endorse the current plan.
Yup, it could be worse.
>Try to picture how this metaphor would be different if
>we were living in Nazi Germany. You'd instantly
>understand the way things could have been had the
>US wanted to get rid of Free Speech and privacy.
Oh, my apologies, I didn't realize that you had lived through all
that, I guess you're right, I just couldn't possibly understand.
It's OBVIOUSLY totally different.
I yield, because:
a) I think you're not really reading what I wrote
b) the whole "govt should be more conservative or
less conservative" argument is not likely to
generate new results
c) I'm not sure if you invoked godwin's law on purpose
-milo
>"Don't bother using an over-simplified metaphor to prove me wrong. It means you don't understand my point."
Let's say I have a handful of marbles, and each marble represents a personal freedom. The nice man from the government wants to take one of your marbles so that he can make sure you are safe, and are not going to hurt yourself by having too many marbles. Fine, I still have a lot of marbles left. But if tomorrow the nice government man wants another one, and another one the day after that, I am going to start to want to resist a little bit to the government wanting my little freedom marbles, no matter how 'noble' the cause.
(I just wanted to see if it still held up with a really simple metaphor and I think it does)
-milo