I have never meat ONE person that though ME was useful for ANYTHING.
Tie a string in a loop through the hole and hang it on the lifelines around a boat...it helps keep the birds from perching on the lifelines and leaving droppings on the deck.
Even if the birds keep shitting on your boat, at least it keeps the CD from shitting on your hard drive.
Then again, the last time I did it, I was upgrading from a PATA to a SATA drive, so I used the software that came with the drive to do it, then changed the device boot order in the BIOS. So... I actually did use a special software.
I should make a clarification to my "special software" statement. When I installed the new HD, it was unpartitioned. I booted using the boot DVD (which, for those that don't use OS X, is sort of like a live Linux CD, but it boots to a very, very limited OS X desktop; you're limited to installing the OS and running the Disk Utility, with one or two other thigns that escape me at the moment). Using the Disk Utility, I partitioned the new drive and copied the backup from an external drive connected via USB.
You could argue that booting off the boot DVD and running the Disk Utility is considered "special software," but I had to do it that way because I didn't have an external enclosure for a notebook HD (this was all on an iBook). If I had that enclosure, I could have saved a step and copied directly to the new drive. I don't consider it special software as it came with the machine; Disk Utility is part of OS X, not a third-party package.
In all seriousness, what do you guys actually do with your Macs that justifies the expense?
Get my work done without having to spend time periodically running spyware scanners, disk defragmenters, and not periodically wiping the hard drive and reinstalling the OS because some software didn't uninstall correctly and left a messed-up registry or some other lingering problem that required the aforementioned wipe and reinstall. I have to admit that System Restore saved my can on more than one occasion, but it bothers me that the simple act of uninstalling software required the can-saving.
When I upgraded my HD, all I had to do was copy the old drive to the new drive. No "reinstall the OS, run a bazillion updates, and then reinstall the apps and restore my files." A straight copy from the backup volume to the new drive was all it took, with no special ghosting software required.
And the granddaddy of them all..no activation or WGA validation.
Sleep on lid closure working? Check. Great battery life (4-6 hrs on a battery approaching 100 cycles)? Check. Maybe WinXP and Windows-running hardware has improved to meet these stats. I don't know, and I don't care. My MacBook does what I need it to do, with a feeling of reliability that I never had running Windows.
Yep, it has the aesthetics too...I was in a conversation about that very subject earlier today. I've seen quite a few laptops that just have a very busy design; buttons and lights for all sorts of rarely-used functions everywhere, I/O ports scattered hither and yon, cooling vents everywhere...a general case design where the different parts and colors just added a lot of visual noise. My MacBook is a nice, clean white; it is visually quiet, with none of the extras that distract from the useful functions.
Sorry to sound like a fanboy--I believe that you use what gets the job done. If Windows is what gets your job done, then use it. If Linux makes you more productive, use it. For me, it's the Mac.
Does it matter to the legal issue of whether selling unlocked iPhones can be stopped? Probably not. Does it matter to GGP's contention that unlocked iPhones taked revenue from AT&T but do not affect Apple's cash flow from iPhones? Yes.
I'd bet a donut that AT&T nor Apple will do much about this unlocking. Why? With nothing more than a gut feeling about it, I bet the cost in legal fees would be greater than the lost revenue from an unlocked iPhone being used somewhere other than on an AT&T network.
Even if AT&T won the lawsuit, imagine the public backlash. THAT would worry me more than a few dollars lost in monthly fees.
I'd have a hard time believing anybody would financially benefit (except for the lawyers).
I did that with a Dell laptop running Win2K in a docking station, with the "My Documents" folder mapped to my Win2K server directory. Worked marvelously.
After getting lazily deleted enough times, moderate the account. E.g. he posts, the post doesn't appear until it's seen as something not a waste of time.
So we would never see that poster again?
How do you determine if a post is not a waste of time until you read it, which you can't do until it's determined not to be a waste of time?
I know not everything bad Microsoft does is done with forethought and malice (..) but really now. After reading the 'cost analysis of Vista content protection [auckland.ac.nz]', can you not understand the apprehension? If some "multimedia" (albeit not 'premium content', but who's counting) is played, other parts of the system deliberately go into a 'limited' state? After reading that, does it sound like a bug to you?
I've only read the first few section of the linked document, and have come to the following conclusion:
"Thank goodness I left Windows behind!"
This helps to solidify my decision to go to OS X. Mind you, I'll don't have these issues because, quite frankly, high-def content doesn't really interest me enough to upgrade my home stereo, TV, and DVD player, and perhaps similar issues will come up someday with Apple hardware used as media center hardware, but to read about the lies, damn lies, and outright fraud (HDCP-"capable" cards that aren't? Thousands spent on hardware that couldn't perform the way it was advertised??) makes me glad I don't deal with any of it.
In the US, gambling on overseas casino websites is banned while certain domestic gambling websites (OTB, online lottery tickets) are allowed to operate. Antigua, where online casinos thrive, argues that the US policy is harming their trade. The WTO rules that the US must either all ow all forms of online gambling or ban all forms of online gambling.
Should the US disregard the WTO ruling and not allow US citizens to use overseas casino websites, Antigua would be granted the following as compensation: "permission for Antiguans to violate intellectual property laws by allowing them to distribute copies of American music, movie and software products, among others."
Isn't that like saying "Well, if I'm not allowed to sell to Peter, I'll steal from Paul to compensate!"? (Overlook the whole copyright-violation-isn't-stealing issue on this, and grab hold of the concept of stealing from an unrelated party as compensation.)
What's wrong with putting it on a server or, if you don't have one yourself, putting it on rapidshare or similar services and having people download it?
What's the difference between sending it as an attachment and getting it from the server? You still have to send x number of bits at some point.
Does an HTML or FTP download use that much less bandwidth? I ask because I don't know the answer.
In the AT&T contract details for the iPhone plans there is a little gem: You pay $0.50 for each "message" over 300KB. It doesn't clearly define what a "message" is. This kind of paper trail, however, would let you see exactly when you sent that "message", and would allow them a little firmness to the ground on which they'd be standing. "See? On 8/15/07 at 2150 you sent 302KB. That'll be $0.50 please."
I have several line items over 300k on my last (18 pages!) bill. They were substantially over 300k, as in 700k, 800k, even ne as large as 1.8 MB. The charge for all of them was exactly zero.
Care to point out in the contract where this charge is listed? I looked and I couldn't find it.
This issue has little to do with the iPhone and much to do with AT&T Mobility/Cingular Wireless' odd record keeping. My BlackBerry service also generates a massive bill -- length, not cost -- every month. Nothing new here, folks.
C'mon, you HAVE to mention the iPhone by name, otherwise it's not newsworthy.
I'm not opposed to temporarily disabling functionality to fix something potentially disastorous.
There are three options when implementing UPnP:
1. Implement it to Microsoft's spec. 2. Implement it correctly (by choosing a direction in places the spec contradicts itself or real implementations). 3. Implement it securely.
Choose only one.
I do not think it is possible to implement UPnP securely and have it based on the spec. Also, the specific code they removed existed only for legacy NAT traversals and may not even be needed any more.
Is this the same UPnP capability that the FBI recommeded disabling in any Windows environment due to security issues quite some time ago?
Well obviously all mp3 players support drm-free files. But you can't get music on your iPod from Rhapsody, Napster, Urge, or any other music download service.
Why not? Do these download services use some proprietary player or do they download clean mp3 files?
I ask because I don't know the answer; I don't use any of them.
I work in an office where there are nice projectors in every conference room and everyone has a lap top. Still, there are a few dinosaurs that bring stacks of printed slides for everyone in a meetingif they are presenting. Why do some people still do this?
There are plenty of reasons why paper is still useful, and in some cases easier to use than a full paperless solution.
(1) Paper doesn't have parts that can fail (2) Paper doesn't require a cable (3) Paper doesn't spontaneously crash (4) You can draw on paper faster than you can on a notebook PC (although tablet PCs are handy in this regard however) (5) Paper doesn't care if a Mac or PC running PowerPoint or NeoOffice or OpenOffice or Keynote, etc. was used to make the presentation (6) Paper can't get accidentally corrupted by a power surge or some other file error
Use an electronic voting machine with a paper receipt. one goes to the voter, the other one is displayed through a glass window to the voter to make sure that the system "tallies" it correctly.
No, no NO!
NO RECEIPT goes with the voter. This would create a market for buying/selling/coercing votes. "Bring me a vote for X and I'll pay $5!" or "Bring me a vote for X or else your house may spontaneously catch fire."
It barely got better mileage, and that was on the highway; according to www.fueleconomy.gov, the 1989 CRX is rated(1) at 37/47/41 MPG (city/hwy/combined) where the 2007 Prius is rated at 48/45/46 MPG. The same site will also show that based on user reports, the CRX got better overall economy--based on two users reporting, with the Prius having 64 users reporting--hardly similar sample sizes.
(1) Using the newer means of estimating economy. If you're going to make comparisons, both sets of nymbers need to be calculated in the same fashion.
The Tesla Roadster also only has two seats, a trunk barely big enough for one set of golf clubs or a wheeled carry-on bag (check out the FAQS) with the remainder of space holding the big battery pack.
The Prius has a full rear seat and cargo area, which limits the amount of space that can hold the battery pack. In addition, as has been pointed out, the Tesla also costs nearly 4x a Prius.
Now, you show me a Tesla four-door hatchback that can carry more that a set of golf clubs, and still match the performance specs of the Roadster, then you might be able to say that Toyota "needs a little schooling."
And where do the batteries get the electricity to go those 2.5 miles?
Oh yeah, you put gas in the tank, and the engine will charge the battery, or you could put gas in the tank and drive it up a hill and brake all the way down. Either way it is powered by gasoline.
That electricity may have come from regenerative braking or that just-completed long downhill run.
In the end, you are correct in that all the energy ultimately comes from burning gasoline, but it's more efficient in the use of that energy. Consider a straight gas-powered car. It burns fuel to go up the hill, and you burn fuel coming down. You dissipate energy coming to a stop by turning motion into heat by the brakes. You burn fuel accelerating, cruising, stopping, or sitting idle. None of that energy is recovered
A hybrid will burn fuel going up hill, but then can recover some of that energy going back downhill for later use. The battery helps get the car up to speed when accelerating, periodically when cruising (sometimes taking over completely and allowing the engine to completely stop turning) and stores some of the recovered energy when stopping. Sitting idle at a stoplight or in traffic, and the engine shuts doen entirely.
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perching on the lifelines and leaving droppings on the deck.
Even if the birds keep shitting on your boat, at least it keeps the CD from shitting on your hard drive.
NOTE: This applies to AOL CDs.
You could argue that booting off the boot DVD and running the Disk Utility is considered "special software," but I had to do it that way because I didn't have an external enclosure for a notebook HD (this was all on an iBook). If I had that enclosure, I could have saved a step and copied directly to the new drive. I don't consider it special software as it came with the machine; Disk Utility is part of OS X, not a third-party package.
When I upgraded my HD, all I had to do was copy the old drive to the new drive. No "reinstall the OS, run a bazillion updates, and then reinstall the apps and restore my files." A straight copy from the backup volume to the new drive was all it took, with no special ghosting software required.
And the granddaddy of them all..no activation or WGA validation.
Sleep on lid closure working? Check. Great battery life (4-6 hrs on a battery approaching 100 cycles)? Check. Maybe WinXP and Windows-running hardware has improved to meet these stats. I don't know, and I don't care. My MacBook does what I need it to do, with a feeling of reliability that I never had running Windows.
Yep, it has the aesthetics too...I was in a conversation about that very subject earlier today. I've seen quite a few laptops that just have a very busy design; buttons and lights for all sorts of rarely-used functions everywhere, I/O ports scattered hither and yon, cooling vents everywhere...a general case design where the different parts and colors just added a lot of visual noise. My MacBook is a nice, clean white; it is visually quiet, with none of the extras that distract from the useful functions.
Sorry to sound like a fanboy--I believe that you use what gets the job done. If Windows is what gets your job done, then use it. If Linux makes you more productive, use it. For me, it's the Mac.
Even if AT&T won the lawsuit, imagine the public backlash. THAT would worry me more than a few dollars lost in monthly fees.
I'd have a hard time believing anybody would financially benefit (except for the lawyers).
Skill with a soldering iron is not required.
I did that with a Dell laptop running Win2K in a docking station, with the "My Documents" folder mapped to my Win2K server directory. Worked marvelously.
How do you determine if a post is not a waste of time until you read it, which you can't do until it's determined not to be a waste of time?
"Thank goodness I left Windows behind!"
This helps to solidify my decision to go to OS X. Mind you, I'll don't have these issues because, quite frankly, high-def content doesn't really interest me enough to upgrade my home stereo, TV, and DVD player, and perhaps similar issues will come up someday with Apple hardware used as media center hardware, but to read about the lies, damn lies, and outright fraud (HDCP-"capable" cards that aren't? Thousands spent on hardware that couldn't perform the way it was advertised??) makes me glad I don't deal with any of it.
Let me see if I get this straight...
In the US, gambling on overseas casino websites is banned while certain domestic gambling websites (OTB, online lottery tickets) are allowed to operate. Antigua, where online casinos thrive, argues that the US policy is harming their trade. The WTO rules that the US must either all ow all forms of online gambling or ban all forms of online gambling.
Should the US disregard the WTO ruling and not allow US citizens to use overseas casino websites, Antigua would be granted the following as compensation: "permission for Antiguans to violate intellectual property laws by allowing them to distribute copies of American music, movie and software products, among others."
Isn't that like saying "Well, if I'm not allowed to sell to Peter, I'll steal from Paul to compensate!"? (Overlook the whole copyright-violation-isn't-stealing issue on this, and grab hold of the concept of stealing from an unrelated party as compensation.)
Does an HTML or FTP download use that much less bandwidth? I ask because I don't know the answer.
Sadly, at this time, it doesn't have MMS; I've never had much use for it, but it would be nice to have the option.
Care to point out in the contract where this charge is listed? I looked and I couldn't find it.
Sheesh! You should know this by now.
I ask because I don't know the answer; I don't use any of them.
(1) Paper doesn't have parts that can fail
(2) Paper doesn't require a cable
(3) Paper doesn't spontaneously crash
(4) You can draw on paper faster than you can on a notebook PC (although tablet PCs are handy in this regard however)
(5) Paper doesn't care if a Mac or PC running PowerPoint or NeoOffice or OpenOffice or Keynote, etc. was used to make the presentation
(6) Paper can't get accidentally corrupted by a power surge or some other file error
NO RECEIPT goes with the voter. This would create a market for buying/selling/coercing votes. "Bring me a vote for X and I'll pay $5!" or "Bring me a vote for X or else your house may spontaneously catch fire."
It barely got better mileage, and that was on the highway; according to www.fueleconomy.gov, the 1989 CRX is rated(1) at 37/47/41 MPG (city/hwy/combined) where the 2007 Prius is rated at 48/45/46 MPG. The same site will also show that based on user reports, the CRX got better overall economy--based on two users reporting, with the Prius having 64 users reporting--hardly similar sample sizes.
(1) Using the newer means of estimating economy. If you're going to make comparisons, both sets of nymbers need to be calculated in the same fashion.
The Tesla Roadster also only has two seats, a trunk barely big enough for one set of golf clubs or a wheeled carry-on bag (check out the FAQS) with the remainder of space holding the big battery pack.
The Prius has a full rear seat and cargo area, which limits the amount of space that can hold the battery pack. In addition, as has been pointed out, the Tesla also costs nearly 4x a Prius.
Now, you show me a Tesla four-door hatchback that can carry more that a set of golf clubs, and still match the performance specs of the Roadster, then you might be able to say that Toyota "needs a little schooling."
In the end, you are correct in that all the energy ultimately comes from burning gasoline, but it's more efficient in the use of that energy. Consider a straight gas-powered car. It burns fuel to go up the hill, and you burn fuel coming down. You dissipate energy coming to a stop by turning motion into heat by the brakes. You burn fuel accelerating, cruising, stopping, or sitting idle. None of that energy is recovered
A hybrid will burn fuel going up hill, but then can recover some of that energy going back downhill for later use. The battery helps get the car up to speed when accelerating, periodically when cruising (sometimes taking over completely and allowing the engine to completely stop turning) and stores some of the recovered energy when stopping. Sitting idle at a stoplight or in traffic, and the engine shuts doen entirely.
We already do that periodically. They are called "elections."
Or try reading the printable version.