as much as ApPpLe would like you to throw away your common sense and buy their Brand Related Experience, calling something an IBook or iBook or IBOOK is ridiculous. ibook yes, Ibook maybe, but IBoOk? no.
So FreeBSD is also rediculous. Should it be Freebsd only? What about MySQL, it should obviously be the only true and correct form Mysql?
I see what's happened here. I have mentioned Apple, but I haven't mentioned anything about the one button mouse, or the supposed "stealing" from the OSS community, so you've had to be creative in finding things in my post to bash Apple. Two out of ten for effort. A bonus karma point for bashing use of a capital letter in the middle of a brand name whilst doing the exact same thing with your slashdot username.
It's a brand name. Much like McDonald's, or a person's name. If they wanted it to be ibook that's what they would have put on the box.
As a supposedly serious business (they are selling a laptop after all), I'd expect Lindows to adhere to the proper names of other products. I'm not going to buy anything from them if they don't bother to check their facts before trying to sell me something.
The second column is titled "ibook" incorrectly (missing the capital even) when the specs in the boxes are clearly for the 12" Powerbook.
As much as I want my iBook to have an 867Mhz G4, it's just not on the cards. All iBooks have G3 processors at 700 or 800MHz, and they cost a darn sight less than $1,700 - the most expensive 12" iBook is $1,300 and blows this Lindows things out of the water.
Chimera is as cocoa as IE is shit, so I don't know where your "Chimera is a crap carbon app" bollocks is coming from.
Also, just because an app is carbon, it doesn't make it any worse than a cocoa one. Photoshop 7 is carbon, for example, and I know I've seen positively hundreds of posts here on/. and in the real world about how much that app sucks. Maybe not.
Bad programming makes a poor app, not the APIs/language/type of candy the programmer eats.
To achieve maximum speed of 54 Mbps, all users must use AirPort Extreme Cards
This is ambiguous; it could mean that to get 54mbs transfers, you'll need two machines that have Extreme cards via an Extreme base station, regardless of any 802.11b products using it, or it could mean that if an 802.11b card is connected, the whole Base Station drops to 11Mbs.
From the above paragraph alone, it's difficult to say for sure.
The cable is going to be 90,000 miles long. The carriage doesn't have to go all the way to the end, but it can do - and beyond.
The cable stretches a third of the way to the Moon. You could get to the end, open the window and spit into the Sea of Tranquility. Well, almost.
When the car reaches the end of the cable it will be travelling at about 7 miles per second - fast enough to get to Mars in weeks, not months. It would also be cheap, so you could send a lot all at once, or every few days assuming the aiming/steering mid flight could be sorted out so you'd actually arrive on Mars.
Once we've been there, the rest of the solar system would be a snap.
I read this as "I would rather have the file in Real media or windows media so that the MPAA, M$ and Real can control me!"
Quicktime is a nice format, and its main app doesn't try to take over your system or install "start centre" or attempt to contact 'home' every time you're online, or force you to enter email addresses (no matter how fake) to watch content.
If you buy a desk you'll be paying a big premium for the conveineince, especially on the more simple designs.
If you have the tools, then building your own really isn't all that hard. A 10'x8', 3/4" MDF sheet is about 11 quid ($15) and should be adequate to build a desk to hold multiple machines.
You can use batons to wall mount it, backed up with tubular steel legs (again, fairly cheap) and since you're doing it yourself you can shape it precisely and plan where you're going to put holes, mount points, power points etc.
If I was bulding one, I'd set ethernet ports into the top, or build a vertical section to mount them to. Same with power points - get wall mounting sockets and fit them into the desk and have a single plug coming out near the bottom of the desk to plug it into the wall, making cabling much simpler.
Mounting rack-designed units would be pretty easy too. Stuff like ethernet switches and the like could be mounted vertically in the desk top off to one side, and if you had heavier stuff it wouldn't be hard to build a rack unit into the design in place of one of the legs - a 12U rack would be slightly too small for desk height, but modifying it to enable you to fit a desktop above it would be easy.
You can't be bored when the beachball is spinning, just amuse yourself while it's working by making the dock animate. Magnify it, drag icons around, but don't drop them making the other icons slide around underneath.
Sometimes I find myself doing it just for fun, and the next thing you know it's dawn, the birds are chirping and you've missed out on 6 hours of sleep.
Nope, since the computer only sees the data portion of the disc.
For example, if you burn 200mb of files to the disc, when you put it in a CD drive, the lead in says that the disc image is 200Mb in size, starts at point A, ends at pint B etc.
It ignores the unburnt portion of the disc, which as far as the computer is concerned, doesn't exist, so it doesn't matter what is on it.
Yamaha released an burner that allowed you to burn an image to the blank portion of a CD-R
So, if you only filled half the disc with data, you'd have a portion of empty space around the outside where the burner could write an image - say your company logo, or some text or graphics.
It was slow, however, and only monochromatic. It looked cool though.
Two strings walk into a bar and the first one asks for a drink. The bartender says "I'm sorry, we don't serve string in here", so the string goes outside, rubs himself against the wall any twists about like a possessed yoga instructor.
He walks back into the bar and says "I'll have a beer please bartender"
The bartender says "Look, I told you, we don't serve string, and you're a string aren't you?"
Three engineers are sitting in a bar, discussing their research.
E1: "I spent $50,000 on my research, and I have concluded that the reason the head of a man's penis is wider than the shaft is to provide more pleasure for the man during sex."
The second engineer pipes up:
E2: "No, no, you're all wrong. I spent $50,000 on my research, and the reason the head of a man's penis is wider than the shaft is to provide more pleasure for the woman during sex."
The third engineer interrupts:
E3: "No, you're both wrong. I spent $5 on my research, and the reason the head of a man's penis is wider than the shaft is so he doesn't smack himself in the forehead while masturbating."
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Oops, another spelling error attributed to my name in the public eye.
Yes, my name is jo_ham, my website is jo-ham.com.
Anonymous Coward's name is... ah, wait, we don't know.
Of course I make spelling errors and typos. I'm not perfect. I am, however, not afraid to post with a name.
I might suck ass, but at least I do it with a name.
..they'll have trouble pouring oil on troubled waters, it'll just mix in.
How did the parent post get any "insightful" mods at all?
Bloody hell. Bush is winning. Never misunderestimate the unliteracy of supposed geeks.
"then" is the correct word there, although it could have been ommited entirely because of the comma.
as much as ApPpLe would like you to throw away your common sense and buy their Brand Related Experience, calling something an IBook or iBook or IBOOK is ridiculous. ibook yes, Ibook maybe, but IBoOk? no.
So FreeBSD is also rediculous. Should it be Freebsd only? What about MySQL, it should obviously be the only true and correct form Mysql?
I see what's happened here. I have mentioned Apple, but I haven't mentioned anything about the one button mouse, or the supposed "stealing" from the OSS community, so you've had to be creative in finding things in my post to bash Apple. Two out of ten for effort. A bonus karma point for bashing use of a capital letter in the middle of a brand name whilst doing the exact same thing with your slashdot username.
Teach me how to be cool like you!
It's a brand name. Much like McDonald's, or a person's name. If they wanted it to be ibook that's what they would have put on the box.
As a supposedly serious business (they are selling a laptop after all), I'd expect Lindows to adhere to the proper names of other products. I'm not going to buy anything from them if they don't bother to check their facts before trying to sell me something.
The second column is titled "ibook" incorrectly (missing the capital even) when the specs in the boxes are clearly for the 12" Powerbook.
As much as I want my iBook to have an 867Mhz G4, it's just not on the cards. All iBooks have G3 processors at 700 or 800MHz, and they cost a darn sight less than $1,700 - the most expensive 12" iBook is $1,300 and blows this Lindows things out of the water.
Chimera is as cocoa as IE is shit, so I don't know where your "Chimera is a crap carbon app" bollocks is coming from.
/. and in the real world about how much that app sucks. Maybe not.
Also, just because an app is carbon, it doesn't make it any worse than a cocoa one. Photoshop 7 is carbon, for example, and I know I've seen positively hundreds of posts here on
Bad programming makes a poor app, not the APIs/language/type of candy the programmer eats.
To achieve maximum speed of 54 Mbps, all users must use AirPort Extreme Cards
This is ambiguous; it could mean that to get 54mbs transfers, you'll need two machines that have Extreme cards via an Extreme base station, regardless of any 802.11b products using it, or it could mean that if an 802.11b card is connected, the whole Base Station drops to 11Mbs.
From the above paragraph alone, it's difficult to say for sure.
Oops!
/. tradition, I did actually RTFA. heh.
I cna't tpye for siht!
That was a typo there. In the antithesis of
The cable is going to be 90,000 miles long. The carriage doesn't have to go all the way to the end, but it can do - and beyond.
The cable stretches a third of the way to the Moon. You could get to the end, open the window and spit into the Sea of Tranquility. Well, almost.
When the car reaches the end of the cable it will be travelling at about 7 miles per second - fast enough to get to Mars in weeks, not months. It would also be cheap, so you could send a lot all at once, or every few days assuming the aiming/steering mid flight could be sorted out so you'd actually arrive on Mars.
Once we've been there, the rest of the solar system would be a snap.
In about 2100. Although I think that's the estimated start date of the project.
Just the base tower is going to be 30 miles high, the cable itself is going to be collosal.
By the time the carriage reaches the end it should be doing about 7 miles per second.
Worked the first time, I'm sure it will again.
I read this as "I would rather have the file in Real media or windows media so that the MPAA, M$ and Real can control me!"
Quicktime is a nice format, and its main app doesn't try to take over your system or install "start centre" or attempt to contact 'home' every time you're online, or force you to enter email addresses (no matter how fake) to watch content.
If you buy a desk you'll be paying a big premium for the conveineince, especially on the more simple designs.
If you have the tools, then building your own really isn't all that hard. A 10'x8', 3/4" MDF sheet is about 11 quid ($15) and should be adequate to build a desk to hold multiple machines.
You can use batons to wall mount it, backed up with tubular steel legs (again, fairly cheap) and since you're doing it yourself you can shape it precisely and plan where you're going to put holes, mount points, power points etc.
If I was bulding one, I'd set ethernet ports into the top, or build a vertical section to mount them to. Same with power points - get wall mounting sockets and fit them into the desk and have a single plug coming out near the bottom of the desk to plug it into the wall, making cabling much simpler.
Mounting rack-designed units would be pretty easy too. Stuff like ethernet switches and the like could be mounted vertically in the desk top off to one side, and if you had heavier stuff it wouldn't be hard to build a rack unit into the design in place of one of the legs - a 12U rack would be slightly too small for desk height, but modifying it to enable you to fit a desktop above it would be easy.
Plus, building stuff is fun!
your = belonging to subject - I like your beowulf cluster, your windows computer is rubbish etc
/., then at least get your grammar right.
you're = contraction of you are - You're flaming again, aren't you (note the advanced use of "aren't" , we'll learn about that in the next lesson).
If you're going to try and be a smart ass on
...The Beachball of Rumination.
You can't be bored when the beachball is spinning, just amuse yourself while it's working by making the dock animate. Magnify it, drag icons around, but don't drop them making the other icons slide around underneath.
Sometimes I find myself doing it just for fun, and the next thing you know it's dawn, the birds are chirping and you've missed out on 6 hours of sleep.
I thought the Russians sent a probe to Mars too.
Vostock 2 or something?
So in this case, in Soviet Russia, Mars probes YOU.
or something..
Nope, since the computer only sees the data portion of the disc.
For example, if you burn 200mb of files to the disc, when you put it in a CD drive, the lead in says that the disc image is 200Mb in size, starts at point A, ends at pint B etc.
It ignores the unburnt portion of the disc, which as far as the computer is concerned, doesn't exist, so it doesn't matter what is on it.
Yamaha released an burner that allowed you to burn an image to the blank portion of a CD-R
So, if you only filled half the disc with data, you'd have a portion of empty space around the outside where the burner could write an image - say your company logo, or some text or graphics.
It was slow, however, and only monochromatic. It looked cool though.
..Klingon, you insensitive clod!
I'd have followed it up with something on the lines of:
/. community, the government turned the aliens away after they refused to open source their software"
"however, under advice from the
Genuine Windows dialog box.
Two strings walk into a bar and the first one asks for a drink. The bartender says "I'm sorry, we don't serve string in here", so the string goes outside, rubs himself against the wall any twists about like a possessed yoga instructor.
He walks back into the bar and says "I'll have a beer please bartender"
The bartender says "Look, I told you, we don't serve string, and you're a string aren't you?"
He replies "no, I'm a frayed knot".
Three engineers are sitting in a bar, discussing their research.
E1: "I spent $50,000 on my research, and I have concluded that the reason the head of a man's penis is wider than the shaft is to provide more pleasure for the man during sex."
The second engineer pipes up:
E2: "No, no, you're all wrong. I spent $50,000 on my research, and the reason the head of a man's penis is wider than the shaft is to provide more pleasure for the woman during sex."
The third engineer interrupts:
E3: "No, you're both wrong. I spent $5 on my research, and the reason the head of a man's penis is wider than the shaft is so he doesn't smack himself in the forehead while masturbating."