Aside from powerbook users, and a few people who said "oooh, gumdrop imac, cute" nobody switches because of the hardware. BTW, there are comparable PC laptops now that aren't too much of a step down from the PB.
I did. My new 800MHz iBook beats the hell out of my old Dell Inspiron PIII-600. Get this, I can shut the lid and it suspends! That's fucking awesome. The Dell wouldn't suspend. Win2k would just say 'going into standby' forever and lockup. What a piece of shit. The iBook just works... really. I know this is some horrible trivial thing, but it means a lot since I move around a lot and need to suspend.:-) I can't find any fix to get the Inspiron to suspend anymore. Fresh Win2k install, SP3, all the latest patches, latest Inspiron 4000 flash bios installed, etc. Only thing I could think of is maybe some program is running like a Virus scanner that is keeping it awake but Win2k should be smart enough to suspend anyway.. MacOS X certainly is.
If you can stomach newswires being read by teenagers who barely have any grasp of proper English or public speaking skills, college radio is a great way to find stuff off the mainstream, particularly if it's a station with a good-sized audience
I've seen college radio done good (Providence, RI has a nice alternative college radio station), and then I see some done just odd at others. Every couple of hours the entire format changes. One minute you could be listening to an actual good rock song, then the next the DJ changes and you're listening to African folk music from the plains of the Sahara. Then it switches to death metal in the middle of the night, then Irish clog dancing, then some feminist talk show, then a few hours of Latin music spinning into the Serbian hour. etc.:-) I guess if you want to experience new music that's the way to do it, but if you want to experience one kind of new music that you LIKE and stick with it then college radio can suck depending on your universities around you.
Not a troll, a different perspective held by many in the recording and motion picture industries. I love reading the emphatic replies. It stimulates the discussion and gets people to think. I of course agree with you that there is something horribly wrong with thinking of "intellectual property" as real property, but many in very powerful positions do and they perpetuate that definition to the masses. If someone continually preaches that something is wrong or immoral, chances are they'll dupe many people into believing it is even if they can't prove it.
These days it's all about who controls the information. It's like some bad plot out of Sneakers.
Well, but you have to see it from their perspective. They created content (or signed acts that created content) that brings in millions of dollars a year. Why should they have to suddenly at some arbitrary date no longer be able to exploit their intellectual property? It's like building a house and after 95 years of owning your house it suddenly becomes a historical landmark and you're evicted by the county. WTF? Wouldn't YOU be a little pissed off at getting kicked out of your house and having tourists romp around it?
The world operates on the principle of intellectual property more than ever today. Trillions of dollars of the economies of countries of the world revolves around this idea that a person's ideas are property and that they can exploit it as they wish without another stealing it. I wouldn't be suprised if in the future copyright expiration in the USA is abolished entirely. Don't get me wrong, I don't support this by any stretch of the imagination. I'm just trying to play Devil's advocate.
Whatever happened to the rule that one owner can't own more that X% of the stations in any one market? Whatever happened to the idea that in order to get a license, a station had to serve the public interest?
The answer is: The Telecommunications Act of 1996.
As for HDTV, count me as totally unimpressed. My 32" Toshiba TV I bought several years ago (non-HDTV) is just fine and looks beautiful. DVDs look crystal clear via S-VIDEO input, my audio gets piped in via a nice surround sound system, etc. I really honestly do not want a bigger TV since it'd be too big for my living room. I also couldn't care less about getting crystal clear broadcast HDTV of network programming for heaven's sake! Does the FCC think there are people dying to see Will and Grace in HDTV or they just can't get enough clarity in the picture watching Everybody Loves Raymond? Make a 50" widescreen TV that weighs 15lbs and that you can hand on the wall, price it at $350 and THEN come talk to me. Don't give me this bullshit about innovation and then try to sell me a $3000 TV because it's "clearer". Pffft.
People like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc. can be counted on one hand. While they're nice examples of where you can go without finishing school, or going the drug route and trancendental meditation... *ahem* They are 2 people of roughly 6 billion. (or 250 million-ish in the US alone)
What about rock stars or athletes? Most of them never go to college (and athletes going to college to play college sports doesn't really count;-) for an education. Most of them are millionaires and many of them are drop outs. Frankly, the popular view today is to drop out of school and concentrate of honing your skills in athletics or music or even computers and you will become rich.
One feature lacking from Chimera I can't seem to find is to stop animated GIFs. Mozilla has it and I'd like to see it added to Chimera as well. I can't stand reading pages with dozens of animated gifs all going off at the same time. ugh.:-)
Take interest in professional associations, ensure that in your work assignments you make use of the skills you learnt (analytical, critical thinking, good judgement), retain connections with your peers in the industry from university, etc. Make better use of your education.
What irks me is that people with a degree assume that they are more talented and educated than people who are self educated. In many cases, the only difference between someone with a degree and someone without one is that piece of paper. When you're 35 or 40 it's nothing but a worthless piece of paper when you have 15-20 years of experience behind you. "I see here you got a 4.0 GPA during your college years and have been working as a tech support person for 15 years. This other guy dropped out of college, became a sysadmin, worked his way up to network admin, and now is a CIO for the last 8 years. Hmm.. I think we'll hire him."
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If you're a real vegetarian you'd be applauding these efforts. In the future we wouldn't need to kill animals for meat. They can roam free across the open plains and starve to death like other wild animals do.
Actually I wouldn't be so quick to knock drugs. A healthy marijuana addiction can be quite a bit cheaper than a computer addiction. I've spent at least $5000 over the last 3 months on computers and upgrades and they basically just sit in my basement collecting dust. I don't know how far $5000 will go when buying marijuana but I imagine it should at least last a week.
It seems to me that as users get more and more used to multimedia on computers, homemade PVRs are going to be the norm. Especially considering the restrictions imposed by commercial boxes.
That reminds me, can anyone recommend a decent commercial PVR? I don't mean a full blown Tivo or anything where I have to sign my life away and let them view everything I watch. I don't even need to pause live TV. I just want to replace my tired old VCR with a nice box that can be programmed to record at on and off times and such in some standard format (mpeg). Also it'd be nice to have a built in CDRW drive and an easy way to burn video to SVCD format discs when you want to archive them. Currently the only way I know to do this is some custom PC but I would think someone has an itch to scratch in making something like this and affordably. If we can have $50 DVD players why not a nice $200 standalone PVR with archival capabilities?
... payphones are great to have in an emergency - and there are tens of millions of people in the US w/o a cellphone.
If you just want the convenience and safety though there are tons of plans for pay-as-you-go. Buy some minutes up front and leave it around for an emergency. If you just need it for 911 then just get someone's old disconnected phone like the battered women's shelters do for people since they can still dial 911.
Now, as I think about it, I've not used a payphone since I got a cell phone. Hell, I never have any change for the payphone anyway and it'd be easier to just borrow someone else's phone for a minute if you're in a group and give them a buck or two for the convenience. Payphones carry diseases and god knows what else on them. It'd be like putting a public urinal up to my mouth when you make a phone call. No thanks!
Additionally in terms of paying for Linux, I buy every good stable red hat major ( RH X.2) I buy one copy and put it on all machines, I can do that. I can not with Windows.
Why can't you do that with Windows? Is that a technical reason or a licensing issue? I'd hate to have to buy 5 copies of XP for all the computers in my house that use it. That seems ridiculous since I'm only using one at a time.
Why do people always run Linux on their crap PCs? I am personally opposite.
Windows Machine : PII 400Mhz with 256MB RAM
Linux Machine: AMD Athlon 2100+ 512MB RAM, and GeForce4 4200.
People run Linux on their crap PCs because they use their better machine to play games on. Games are almost always more system intensive than what you'd be doing with a Linux box. I use my Linux box (PIII-500, 512MB of ram) for file serving via NFS and Samba, occassional web browsing with Mozilla, internal BIND server, etc. Nothing major. The Windows box on the other hand is a 1.4GHz Athlon with 512MB of ram and it barely runs acceptably in my opinion for newer games. I guess dropping in a GeForce4 to replace the GeForce2 would solve some of the problems, but the point is still, the Windows box is always more powerful for gamers. Besides, for general web browsing and Quicken and such I've got my iBook.
In other words, it will either be a blockbuster success, help AMD a lot, and take some of the wind out of Intel's sails, or it will flop and AMD will wind up being bought out by someone like IBM. I really don't think it (and AMD) will just muddle along.
Well, on a similar subject, whatever happened to Intel's Merced/Itanium chips? I've never seen those in anything but supposedly they're being produced. It didn't kill Intel when that flopped horribly. Face it, nobody wants to leave the x86 chipset behind. There's just too much software available.
However, the #1 most shameful game in the list, Custer's Revenge, would be shameful no matter when it was made, and it doesn't matter much to me that it was made 20 years ago.
In fact, I can't think of any commercial videogame that I've ever heard of that is more shameful!
Oh that's easy, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Unless you think having sex with a prostitute then killing her to take back your money is not shameful. Certainly no better than raping some Indian chick. Not to mention killing cops, innocents, carjacking cars, etc. This game is absolutely criminal and should not be marketed to anyone under the age of 21. Anyway, I'm off to play more GTA.
Is that it's easy to skip past the parts in part two that you just saw in part one.
Not to mention you can just skip past that whole third movie altogether since it's irrelevent to the whole story. It's like somebody decided they needed to turn a two part series into a trilogy for no apparent reason so they tacked on some stupid story about traveling back to the old west. Clearly it was the worst of the three and should never have been made. I fear the same thing will happen with the last Matrix movie. Usually when they make two movies at once and release them so close together the last one sucks.
The problem is that NASA isn't that good at keeping secrets anymore and this would've leaked out a LONG time ago through retirees that don't fear their jobs anymore. You can't cover up something as big as faking a bunch of moon landings. Anybody can confirm it just by launching their own probe to the moon or using a high powered telescope to see the debris on the surface. They can even bounce a laser beam off the mirror on the moon used to measure earth-to-moon distance if they were really intent on it. They're just crackpots and giving them any press is just what they're looking for. Besides, if this had any credibility it'd be on www.nasawatch.com.
You're right you know. Now if MacOS X was available for x86 Apple might actually have a chance of switching people over to their OS. I've got a half dozen PCs I'd love to run OS X on but I have to settle for a combination of Linux and Windows2000. Oh well.
I think TF2 has been in development even longer than that. I remember playing the TF mod on Quake and they had a TF2 page up that never really changed. I suppose the work went into TFC for Half-Life, but still, they wanted to call it TF2. It's a toss up between TF2 and Duke Nukem Forever.
Then get a business account if you plan on a lot of upstream traffic and pay for what you use. I'm amazed people still believe they're entitled to $50/month 1Mbps uploads with no caps. God help the ISP if they try to cap it because they're suddenly the spawn of Satan. These leeches will ride them all the way under into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and then bitch when they go out of business that there are no alternatives for broadband. A constant 1Mbps of bandwidth is several hundred dollars a month at a minimum.. don't expect to get it for less and have the ISP stay in business. It's just a silly notion.
Which country would that be? Finland? In the USA I can receive as many text messages as I want via AT&T Wireless and don't get charged anything. People can even send me messages from a website or through an e-mail address. I'd only get charged if I sent messages, which I never do. Besides, I have a Motorola two-way pager with a mini-keyboard that's much easier to type on than my stupid 10 digit telephone keypad.
we'd continue this way, in 5 years a boss will be able to disrupt the Wi-Fi TV on the bedroom of an employee, saturday night, just to ask if everything is f*****g wired for tomorrow's presentation...
Sounds like something out of Back to the Future II: Marty gets up. Behind him, a Japanese man appears on the screen. It's Marty's boss, Iko Fujitsu - aka the JITZ!
Jitz: McFly!
Jennifer jumps at this. Marty turns around to see his boss.
Marty: Oh! Fujitsu-san! Konnichi wa! (this means "Hello Mr Fujitsu" more or less)
Jitz: McFly! I was monitoring that scan you just interfaced. You are terminated!
Marty: Terminated! No, no! It wasn't my fault sir, it was Needles, Needles was behind the whole thing!
Jitz: And you co-operated!
Marty: No I didn't! It was a sting operation! I was setting him up!
Jitz: McFly, read my fax!
The words You're Fired appear on screen, and the Jitz walks away.
Marty: Please no, I can't be fired - I'm fired!
Fax machines throughout the house print off You're Fired as well. One is near Jennifer. She takes it and look at it, horrified.
Welcome to the future Gentlemen. All your Wi-Fi interfaces are belong to us. Lets hope they have better encryption by 2015.:-)
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People who want a UNIX desktop but still want to run Photoshop, Quicken, Office, etc.? MacOS X can.
I did. My new 800MHz iBook beats the hell out of my old Dell Inspiron PIII-600. Get this, I can shut the lid and it suspends! That's fucking awesome. The Dell wouldn't suspend. Win2k would just say 'going into standby' forever and lockup. What a piece of shit. The iBook just works... really. I know this is some horrible trivial thing, but it means a lot since I move around a lot and need to suspend. :-) I can't find any fix to get the Inspiron to suspend anymore. Fresh Win2k install, SP3, all the latest patches, latest Inspiron 4000 flash bios installed, etc. Only thing I could think of is maybe some program is running like a Virus scanner that is keeping it awake but Win2k should be smart enough to suspend anyway.. MacOS X certainly is.
I've seen college radio done good (Providence, RI has a nice alternative college radio station), and then I see some done just odd at others. Every couple of hours the entire format changes. One minute you could be listening to an actual good rock song, then the next the DJ changes and you're listening to African folk music from the plains of the Sahara. Then it switches to death metal in the middle of the night, then Irish clog dancing, then some feminist talk show, then a few hours of Latin music spinning into the Serbian hour. etc. :-) I guess if you want to experience new music that's the way to do it, but if you want to experience one kind of new music that you LIKE and stick with it then college radio can suck depending on your universities around you.
These days it's all about who controls the information. It's like some bad plot out of Sneakers.
Well, but you have to see it from their perspective. They created content (or signed acts that created content) that brings in millions of dollars a year. Why should they have to suddenly at some arbitrary date no longer be able to exploit their intellectual property? It's like building a house and after 95 years of owning your house it suddenly becomes a historical landmark and you're evicted by the county. WTF? Wouldn't YOU be a little pissed off at getting kicked out of your house and having tourists romp around it? The world operates on the principle of intellectual property more than ever today. Trillions of dollars of the economies of countries of the world revolves around this idea that a person's ideas are property and that they can exploit it as they wish without another stealing it. I wouldn't be suprised if in the future copyright expiration in the USA is abolished entirely. Don't get me wrong, I don't support this by any stretch of the imagination. I'm just trying to play Devil's advocate.
The answer is: The Telecommunications Act of 1996. As for HDTV, count me as totally unimpressed. My 32" Toshiba TV I bought several years ago (non-HDTV) is just fine and looks beautiful. DVDs look crystal clear via S-VIDEO input, my audio gets piped in via a nice surround sound system, etc. I really honestly do not want a bigger TV since it'd be too big for my living room. I also couldn't care less about getting crystal clear broadcast HDTV of network programming for heaven's sake! Does the FCC think there are people dying to see Will and Grace in HDTV or they just can't get enough clarity in the picture watching Everybody Loves Raymond? Make a 50" widescreen TV that weighs 15lbs and that you can hand on the wall, price it at $350 and THEN come talk to me. Don't give me this bullshit about innovation and then try to sell me a $3000 TV because it's "clearer". Pffft.
What about rock stars or athletes? Most of them never go to college (and athletes going to college to play college sports doesn't really count ;-) for an education. Most of them are millionaires and many of them are drop outs. Frankly, the popular view today is to drop out of school and concentrate of honing your skills in athletics or music or even computers and you will become rich.
One feature lacking from Chimera I can't seem to find is to stop animated GIFs. Mozilla has it and I'd like to see it added to Chimera as well. I can't stand reading pages with dozens of animated gifs all going off at the same time. ugh. :-)
What irks me is that people with a degree assume that they are more talented and educated than people who are self educated. In many cases, the only difference between someone with a degree and someone without one is that piece of paper. When you're 35 or 40 it's nothing but a worthless piece of paper when you have 15-20 years of experience behind you. "I see here you got a 4.0 GPA during your college years and have been working as a tech support person for 15 years. This other guy dropped out of college, became a sysadmin, worked his way up to network admin, and now is a CIO for the last 8 years. Hmm.. I think we'll hire him."
If you're a real vegetarian you'd be applauding these efforts. In the future we wouldn't need to kill animals for meat. They can roam free across the open plains and starve to death like other wild animals do.
Actually I wouldn't be so quick to knock drugs. A healthy marijuana addiction can be quite a bit cheaper than a computer addiction. I've spent at least $5000 over the last 3 months on computers and upgrades and they basically just sit in my basement collecting dust. I don't know how far $5000 will go when buying marijuana but I imagine it should at least last a week.
That reminds me, can anyone recommend a decent commercial PVR? I don't mean a full blown Tivo or anything where I have to sign my life away and let them view everything I watch. I don't even need to pause live TV. I just want to replace my tired old VCR with a nice box that can be programmed to record at on and off times and such in some standard format (mpeg). Also it'd be nice to have a built in CDRW drive and an easy way to burn video to SVCD format discs when you want to archive them. Currently the only way I know to do this is some custom PC but I would think someone has an itch to scratch in making something like this and affordably. If we can have $50 DVD players why not a nice $200 standalone PVR with archival capabilities?
If you just want the convenience and safety though there are tons of plans for pay-as-you-go. Buy some minutes up front and leave it around for an emergency. If you just need it for 911 then just get someone's old disconnected phone like the battered women's shelters do for people since they can still dial 911. Now, as I think about it, I've not used a payphone since I got a cell phone. Hell, I never have any change for the payphone anyway and it'd be easier to just borrow someone else's phone for a minute if you're in a group and give them a buck or two for the convenience. Payphones carry diseases and god knows what else on them. It'd be like putting a public urinal up to my mouth when you make a phone call. No thanks!
Why can't you do that with Windows? Is that a technical reason or a licensing issue? I'd hate to have to buy 5 copies of XP for all the computers in my house that use it. That seems ridiculous since I'm only using one at a time.
People run Linux on their crap PCs because they use their better machine to play games on. Games are almost always more system intensive than what you'd be doing with a Linux box. I use my Linux box (PIII-500, 512MB of ram) for file serving via NFS and Samba, occassional web browsing with Mozilla, internal BIND server, etc. Nothing major. The Windows box on the other hand is a 1.4GHz Athlon with 512MB of ram and it barely runs acceptably in my opinion for newer games. I guess dropping in a GeForce4 to replace the GeForce2 would solve some of the problems, but the point is still, the Windows box is always more powerful for gamers. Besides, for general web browsing and Quicken and such I've got my iBook.
Well, on a similar subject, whatever happened to Intel's Merced/Itanium chips? I've never seen those in anything but supposedly they're being produced. It didn't kill Intel when that flopped horribly. Face it, nobody wants to leave the x86 chipset behind. There's just too much software available.
Oh that's easy, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Unless you think having sex with a prostitute then killing her to take back your money is not shameful. Certainly no better than raping some Indian chick. Not to mention killing cops, innocents, carjacking cars, etc. This game is absolutely criminal and should not be marketed to anyone under the age of 21. Anyway, I'm off to play more GTA.
You forgot the smiley at the end of the paragraph. :-)
Not to mention you can just skip past that whole third movie altogether since it's irrelevent to the whole story. It's like somebody decided they needed to turn a two part series into a trilogy for no apparent reason so they tacked on some stupid story about traveling back to the old west. Clearly it was the worst of the three and should never have been made. I fear the same thing will happen with the last Matrix movie. Usually when they make two movies at once and release them so close together the last one sucks.
The problem is that NASA isn't that good at keeping secrets anymore and this would've leaked out a LONG time ago through retirees that don't fear their jobs anymore. You can't cover up something as big as faking a bunch of moon landings. Anybody can confirm it just by launching their own probe to the moon or using a high powered telescope to see the debris on the surface. They can even bounce a laser beam off the mirror on the moon used to measure earth-to-moon distance if they were really intent on it. They're just crackpots and giving them any press is just what they're looking for. Besides, if this had any credibility it'd be on www.nasawatch.com.
You're right you know. Now if MacOS X was available for x86 Apple might actually have a chance of switching people over to their OS. I've got a half dozen PCs I'd love to run OS X on but I have to settle for a combination of Linux and Windows2000. Oh well.
I think TF2 has been in development even longer than that. I remember playing the TF mod on Quake and they had a TF2 page up that never really changed. I suppose the work went into TFC for Half-Life, but still, they wanted to call it TF2. It's a toss up between TF2 and Duke Nukem Forever.
Then get a business account if you plan on a lot of upstream traffic and pay for what you use. I'm amazed people still believe they're entitled to $50/month 1Mbps uploads with no caps. God help the ISP if they try to cap it because they're suddenly the spawn of Satan. These leeches will ride them all the way under into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and then bitch when they go out of business that there are no alternatives for broadband. A constant 1Mbps of bandwidth is several hundred dollars a month at a minimum.. don't expect to get it for less and have the ISP stay in business. It's just a silly notion.
Which country would that be? Finland? In the USA I can receive as many text messages as I want via AT&T Wireless and don't get charged anything. People can even send me messages from a website or through an e-mail address. I'd only get charged if I sent messages, which I never do. Besides, I have a Motorola two-way pager with a mini-keyboard that's much easier to type on than my stupid 10 digit telephone keypad.
Sounds like something out of Back to the Future II:
Marty gets up. Behind him, a Japanese man appears on the screen. It's Marty's boss, Iko Fujitsu - aka the JITZ!
Jitz: McFly!
Jennifer jumps at this. Marty turns around to see his boss.
Marty: Oh! Fujitsu-san! Konnichi wa! (this means "Hello Mr Fujitsu" more or less)
Jitz: McFly! I was monitoring that scan you just interfaced. You are terminated!
Marty: Terminated! No, no! It wasn't my fault sir, it was Needles, Needles was behind the whole thing!
Jitz: And you co-operated!
Marty: No I didn't! It was a sting operation! I was setting him up!
Jitz: McFly, read my fax!
The words You're Fired appear on screen, and the Jitz walks away.
Marty: Please no, I can't be fired - I'm fired!
Fax machines throughout the house print off You're Fired as well. One is near Jennifer. She takes it and look at it, horrified.
Welcome to the future Gentlemen. All your Wi-Fi interfaces are belong to us. Lets hope they have better encryption by 2015.