You leave no room for the concept that a current employee has a job, gets up in the morning, goes to work, does their work, goes home, goes to bed just so they can get money to pay the rent.
And the German soldiers were just doing their jobs ushering the Jews into the gas chambers right? They're just trying to make a living.
Yes, indeed. My own iBook died 13 months after I purchased it -- just one month after the warranty expired.
Heh, mine died 11 months after I bought it so it was still under the original warranty. They really do NOT want to talk to you though unless you buy AppleCare and want to charge a per-call fee just to take your details. That kind of pisses me off. I ended up buying the $250 applecare warranty since I'll probably have the laptop at least 2 more years so it'll be worth having the protection in case the board dies again. So I guess the moral of the story is, buy the applecare warranty or you will get screwed when (not if) your Mac dies.
As a recent purchaser of a 15" Al PowerBook, I have to say that the display issues with this model have been pretty ugly. While the "seriousness" of the problem may not be as bad as the logic board faliures on the iBook,
Hmm, so I guess I'm not the only one who had their 800MHz G3 iBook go tits up? "Well, it doesn't lock up as long as I don't touch the wristwrest here.. GOD DAMNIT". I really wanted to upgrade to a 15" Al Powerbook when they came out and give the iBook to the wife, but the problems with build quality, displays, and battery life on the Powerbooks have really put me off. Maybe I'll just save my money, keep using the iBook for another year and buy a G5 desktop instead.
My head of IT stating that "Apple will be out of business by Christmas."
That was in 1997.
Actually if Jobs hadn't taken over the company again and resurrected Apple with the iMac that may very well have been a true statement. Apple's management was piss-poor on 1997 if I remember correctly. I'm amazed they weathered 10 years of horrible products and a massive egress of users to the Wintel platform as well as they did.
Still, I won't be buying anything from Apple until Macworld in January.. hopefully they'll announce a new round of price cuts so I can finally afford a low end G5.:-)
I have to admit, as a former apple hater, I spent an hour with a friend who has a new G5 and iPod. The G5 is slick, fast, has an OS I felt at home with in minutes, and just looks stunning. Price be damned, I'm buying one.
I'm torn between wanting the speed of a G5 and the portability of a Powerbook G4. Both would probably end up costing about $2500-$3000 configured at the midrange with decent specs. Still, that's a far cry from the $700 I could pick up an Athlon64 system for.
Technically, the maximum volume is the same for commercials and normal programming. If you watch the audio levels on a VU meter you will see that they peak at around the same level.
Perhaps in this one experiment, but I'm positive the sound is much higher during local commericals on my cable system than the network commercials. They almost always start with some god damn loud annoying noise or loud music and it gives me a heart attack. One minute you're watching Law and Order and trying to hear the dialog and the next minute some stupid bitch is complaining that if she would've filed a patent for a stupid spaghetti strainer she would be rich. I also love the advertisements for promoting cable advertising. *sigh*. It's like spammers spamming people to sell you spam software.
although I hardly play games now that I'm in my late teens, my old nVidia GEFORCE 2mx with 32MB RAM is more than enough for my daily computing.
You know, it's kind of funny. I used to have a GeForce 2 Pro with 32 megs of RAM and I was getting system lockups playing graphics intensive games like GTA3 and BF1942 so I went out and bought a $250 GeForce 5600FX card with 256 megs of DDR ram on it. The lockups are gone, but gameplay doesn't really seem to be much smoother than it was with the GeForce 2. I guess it's time to upgrade the tired old 1.4 GHz AMD Athlon under the hood... that's probably what's causing the slowness, not to mention the measely 4x AGP bus.
I can safely live in a world running
ps -waux
instead of
ps -ef
I don't get it. ps -waux works fine on my Debian GNU/Linux box. So does ps -ef. On the other hand, my braindead OpenBSD box doesn't support ps -ef and I assume FreeBSD probably doesn't either since you're all a bunch of flaming BSD zealots and won't accept the superiority of System V. For god's sake you probably haven't even adopted System V runlevels and/etc/init.d script directory structures. Savages.
Not one...TWO! Wow. Now what would you use those for?
"diskcopy A: B:" silly. Geez, kids these days. Also you can play multidisk games without switching disks as much.
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Nah, if you don't play games or do compute intensive work (CAE/graphics), whats the point?
And honestly if you're using a Mac you're not a gamer anyway. Yea yea, I know, there are a whole 10 decent games for the Mac, but there are hundreds for Windows. If you're a gamer you run Windows, period. Personally I've always been of the "use the right tool for the right job" perspective. My gaming machine runs Windows, my laptop (iBook) runs MacOS X, and my servers and PVR run Linux. People need to stop being such OS bigots and just learn to use the best tool instead of shoe-horning everything into one operating system. I don't try to do digital video work with Linux or file serving with Windows or game playing with a Mac.
Plus, they found Photoshop CS slower then 7.0.1 w/ G5 patches.
Well maybe they should wait for Photoshop 8.0 to come out before complaining. I wish companies would stop coming up with these ridiculous version naming schemes and just increment the god damn version number. F*** you Windows95. It's all your fault.
DVD burner included, eh? So now you don't even need a computer to pirate your playstation games?
I never understood Sony's purpose in putting a DVD drive in their Playstation 2 or a CD-ROM drive in the PS1. Why not just use some proprietary drive like Nintendo did with the Game Cube? I imagine Game Cube piracy isn't that rampant since you probably have no way of making those mini discs. Game piracy of carts was probably non-existent. So again, why not use a proprietary game cartridge/disc?
I call it PS1 now, but you must have been awfully insightful if you were calling it that before the PS2 was even released. Lots and lots of people on the internet called it PSX, which will make any web searches for PSX return confusing results.
Man, we're really starting to run out of acronyms. PS1 and PS2 confuse me into thinking you're talking about the old IBM computers or the PS/2 style mouse/keyboards. What's next, the Microsoft XT Box? The Nintendo Intellistation with MCA bus architecture for plugging in accessories?
Err , given that you have to phone up onstar to find your location , hence use a phone anyway , what
exactly is the issue here? YOu stop the car to read your had held GPS and pay nothing , or you stop the car to phone onstar and pay $$$$$$.
Have you ever used Onstar before? At least with my Grand Prix you just push the blue button, it cuts out the radio and you have hands-free communication with the person. It's kind of neat, but I've never used it so I didn't renew it when my free 1 year was up. The only advantage I saw was that if you're in an accident and the airbags deploy they'll call you to make sure emergency services gets to you. I didn't think it was worth $17 for this safety package though since I have a cell phone already. I never used it for directions since I'm a man... we never ask for directions!!! Now, if I could use my otherwise useless onstar system built into my car with a laptop then I find it interesting.
A captain has the authority to refuse to take you on board for whatever reason he/she thinks is appropriate and no-one can do anything about it.
So why don't they just kick all the arabs off the plane? Oh right, we can't racially profile people but we can force el-nerdo geek boy to turn on his Powerbook, root around his porn files, and then send him on his way? Where is the justice in the world? When's the last time a geek blew up an airplane?
Maybe the Beagle 2 is working fine, with exception to the communication link. I guess this would be just as well, but it still leaves hope to contact it in the future.
This is why I never liked the idea of colocating a machine in one of those remote data centers that are hundreds of miles away from you. Sure, most of the time you expect the box to work, but if it goes tits up you've got a hell of a long way to drive/fly to fix it.
Don't you geeks celebrate Christmas? My God.. can't slashdot just not post stories during the Holidays so then I don't have to visit so often
Most of the world does not celebrate Christmas, so why do you find it so amazing that people may be reading Slashdot on December 25th? Hell, I celebrate Christmas and am reading Slashdot because I don't feel like dealing with family.
Trying to get something for as little as possible is called capitalism and competitive marketing. It's what corporations and businesses and tycoons get rich doing.
No, businesses get rich by selling consumers things for more than they pay for them. Period. Businesses do not make money by selling someone a $150 hard drive for $40, they go out of business.
If you want to keep something really safe, protect it well and don't tell anyone where it is. Also, if all you're trying to protect is data, rather than physical artifacts, you're better off replicating it all over the place than trying to bomb-proof it at a single site.
I try to tell that to the RIAA goons, but they just don't believe me. The safest place for your data backup needs is on Kazaa or Gnutella!
Ho ho ho, ZAP, BANG! *several seconds later, a 9 cooked reigndeer, 1 cooked fat guy and a slegh fall through some poor youngsters roof*
You missed the South Park repeat last night of Red Sleigh Down. It is a very funny Christmas episode about the Iraqis shooting down that fat bastard and then torturing him with electro-shock to his testicles. It brought back wonderful memories of Blackhawk Down and Three Kings.
I found an interesting article with mention of the origin of NORAD tracking Santa..
You know, it may have once been funny or interesting, but in these days of heightened security how in the hell can they justify allowing some fat foreigner to fly at jet speeds over US airspace without filing a flight plan? For all they know he'll alter course and fly right into the god damn Sears Tower. Maybe it's the Scrooge in me, but tracking Santa via NORAD has got to be the biggest waste of time I've ever heard of. THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS. Stop lying to your children for god's sake! Just tell them you give them presents instead of creating some elaborate international lie about a fat guy in a red suit flying at impossibly fast speeds to deliver presents to all the "good" Christian boys and girls on one night. It's just stupid for you to expect that your children are that gullible. God I hate Christmas and it's rampantly over-commercialized bullshit like Santa Claus. Christmas is about celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you don't believe in Jesus then DON'T FUCKING PRETEND TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS!
I put all my old parts, working or not on ebay People are actually willing to buy them In fact I read an article a while back that NASA has been trolling Ebay for old computers to power our space shuttle..
If you've got any old Cisco 2501 routers be sure to put them on eBay too since NASA is especially looking for those for their shuttles... yea, their shuttles, that's the ticket. Make sure not to priced it more than $150 with the buy now option.
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And the German soldiers were just doing their jobs ushering the Jews into the gas chambers right? They're just trying to make a living.
Heh, mine died 11 months after I bought it so it was still under the original warranty. They really do NOT want to talk to you though unless you buy AppleCare and want to charge a per-call fee just to take your details. That kind of pisses me off. I ended up buying the $250 applecare warranty since I'll probably have the laptop at least 2 more years so it'll be worth having the protection in case the board dies again. So I guess the moral of the story is, buy the applecare warranty or you will get screwed when (not if) your Mac dies.
Hmm, so I guess I'm not the only one who had their 800MHz G3 iBook go tits up? "Well, it doesn't lock up as long as I don't touch the wristwrest here.. GOD DAMNIT". I really wanted to upgrade to a 15" Al Powerbook when they came out and give the iBook to the wife, but the problems with build quality, displays, and battery life on the Powerbooks have really put me off. Maybe I'll just save my money, keep using the iBook for another year and buy a G5 desktop instead.
That was in 1997.
Actually if Jobs hadn't taken over the company again and resurrected Apple with the iMac that may very well have been a true statement. Apple's management was piss-poor on 1997 if I remember correctly. I'm amazed they weathered 10 years of horrible products and a massive egress of users to the Wintel platform as well as they did.
Still, I won't be buying anything from Apple until Macworld in January.. hopefully they'll announce a new round of price cuts so I can finally afford a low end G5. :-)
I'm torn between wanting the speed of a G5 and the portability of a Powerbook G4. Both would probably end up costing about $2500-$3000 configured at the midrange with decent specs. Still, that's a far cry from the $700 I could pick up an Athlon64 system for.
Perhaps in this one experiment, but I'm positive the sound is much higher during local commericals on my cable system than the network commercials. They almost always start with some god damn loud annoying noise or loud music and it gives me a heart attack. One minute you're watching Law and Order and trying to hear the dialog and the next minute some stupid bitch is complaining that if she would've filed a patent for a stupid spaghetti strainer she would be rich. I also love the advertisements for promoting cable advertising. *sigh*. It's like spammers spamming people to sell you spam software.
You know, it's kind of funny. I used to have a GeForce 2 Pro with 32 megs of RAM and I was getting system lockups playing graphics intensive games like GTA3 and BF1942 so I went out and bought a $250 GeForce 5600FX card with 256 megs of DDR ram on it. The lockups are gone, but gameplay doesn't really seem to be much smoother than it was with the GeForce 2. I guess it's time to upgrade the tired old 1.4 GHz AMD Athlon under the hood... that's probably what's causing the slowness, not to mention the measely 4x AGP bus.
ps -waux
instead of
ps -ef
I don't get it. ps -waux works fine on my Debian GNU/Linux box. So does ps -ef. On the other hand, my braindead OpenBSD box doesn't support ps -ef and I assume FreeBSD probably doesn't either since you're all a bunch of flaming BSD zealots and won't accept the superiority of System V. For god's sake you probably haven't even adopted System V runlevels and /etc/init.d script directory structures. Savages.
Well, the flag should also have 13 stripes, not 12. I second the "cropped very badly" conclusion.
Admiral Ackbar. "It's a [speed] Trap". Too bad this wasn't on Fark.
"diskcopy A: B:" silly. Geez, kids these days. Also you can play multidisk games without switching disks as much.
And honestly if you're using a Mac you're not a gamer anyway. Yea yea, I know, there are a whole 10 decent games for the Mac, but there are hundreds for Windows. If you're a gamer you run Windows, period. Personally I've always been of the "use the right tool for the right job" perspective. My gaming machine runs Windows, my laptop (iBook) runs MacOS X, and my servers and PVR run Linux. People need to stop being such OS bigots and just learn to use the best tool instead of shoe-horning everything into one operating system. I don't try to do digital video work with Linux or file serving with Windows or game playing with a Mac.
Well maybe they should wait for Photoshop 8.0 to come out before complaining. I wish companies would stop coming up with these ridiculous version naming schemes and just increment the god damn version number. F*** you Windows95. It's all your fault.
I never understood Sony's purpose in putting a DVD drive in their Playstation 2 or a CD-ROM drive in the PS1. Why not just use some proprietary drive like Nintendo did with the Game Cube? I imagine Game Cube piracy isn't that rampant since you probably have no way of making those mini discs. Game piracy of carts was probably non-existent. So again, why not use a proprietary game cartridge/disc?
Man, we're really starting to run out of acronyms. PS1 and PS2 confuse me into thinking you're talking about the old IBM computers or the PS/2 style mouse/keyboards. What's next, the Microsoft XT Box? The Nintendo Intellistation with MCA bus architecture for plugging in accessories?
Have you ever used Onstar before? At least with my Grand Prix you just push the blue button, it cuts out the radio and you have hands-free communication with the person. It's kind of neat, but I've never used it so I didn't renew it when my free 1 year was up. The only advantage I saw was that if you're in an accident and the airbags deploy they'll call you to make sure emergency services gets to you. I didn't think it was worth $17 for this safety package though since I have a cell phone already. I never used it for directions since I'm a man... we never ask for directions!!! Now, if I could use my otherwise useless onstar system built into my car with a laptop then I find it interesting.
So why don't they just kick all the arabs off the plane? Oh right, we can't racially profile people but we can force el-nerdo geek boy to turn on his Powerbook, root around his porn files, and then send him on his way? Where is the justice in the world? When's the last time a geek blew up an airplane?
This is why I never liked the idea of colocating a machine in one of those remote data centers that are hundreds of miles away from you. Sure, most of the time you expect the box to work, but if it goes tits up you've got a hell of a long way to drive/fly to fix it.
Most of the world does not celebrate Christmas, so why do you find it so amazing that people may be reading Slashdot on December 25th? Hell, I celebrate Christmas and am reading Slashdot because I don't feel like dealing with family.
No, businesses get rich by selling consumers things for more than they pay for them. Period. Businesses do not make money by selling someone a $150 hard drive for $40, they go out of business.
I try to tell that to the RIAA goons, but they just don't believe me. The safest place for your data backup needs is on Kazaa or Gnutella!
Hahaha, just kidding. Merry Christmas you magnificent bastard.
You missed the South Park repeat last night of Red Sleigh Down. It is a very funny Christmas episode about the Iraqis shooting down that fat bastard and then torturing him with electro-shock to his testicles. It brought back wonderful memories of Blackhawk Down and Three Kings.
You know, it may have once been funny or interesting, but in these days of heightened security how in the hell can they justify allowing some fat foreigner to fly at jet speeds over US airspace without filing a flight plan? For all they know he'll alter course and fly right into the god damn Sears Tower. Maybe it's the Scrooge in me, but tracking Santa via NORAD has got to be the biggest waste of time I've ever heard of. THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS. Stop lying to your children for god's sake! Just tell them you give them presents instead of creating some elaborate international lie about a fat guy in a red suit flying at impossibly fast speeds to deliver presents to all the "good" Christian boys and girls on one night. It's just stupid for you to expect that your children are that gullible. God I hate Christmas and it's rampantly over-commercialized bullshit like Santa Claus. Christmas is about celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you don't believe in Jesus then DON'T FUCKING PRETEND TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS!
If you've got any old Cisco 2501 routers be sure to put them on eBay too since NASA is especially looking for those for their shuttles... yea, their shuttles, that's the ticket. Make sure not to priced it more than $150 with the buy now option.