You just don't get it, do you? It takes some time for them to research the problem and get together the resources necessary to carry out a repair plan like this. A few weeks is a pretty good turnaround time. Most companies would leave you high and dry, since the warrenty DID RUN OUT in most cases. The class action lawsuits are a freakin joke...If Apple were looking out for themselves rather than their customers, they would have just let the lawsuit fly, it would cost them a hell of a lot less than replacing everyone's logic boards. The customers would have been screwed too, receiving maybe a $50 discount for Apple software or something pathetic. Microsoft's been selling people defective products for years, but I guess the M$ corporate cock is too far up most people's asses to actually do something about it, they just keep taking it.
18 months to a dead battery?
What the hell do you people do to your batteries to kill them so fast?!?!
I have a dual-USB iBook, the very first model, a 500mhz with a 12.1" screen (that's all they made back then) I got in 2001. The battery still works just fine and it's at least 2.5 years old...
1) I don't see anywhere where it's "clear" that they'd prefer to use ethernet. They merely mention it at the end as a last resort to get a new drop put in.
2) If he's doing this at work, he's more than likely going to be dependent on a computer that will be on the same desk as his laptop. If it crashes, he can restart it because he will be sitting right there.
3) Enabling NAT is by no means difficult. You simply check a box or click a button and it's turned on. Wow that was hard.
4) Setting up the FireWire network is just as easy as setting up the ethernet hub/switch, if not easier. You just attach the 1 FireWire cable to both computers. Configuration on the computer is just as easy as with ethernet since it is built into both OSes he is using.
Lastly, I don't think he was actually having any real trouble with it. He said he got FTP to work, so obviously the FireWire network was set up fine. All he really needed to know was how to enable internet sharing (NAT) over that connection.
I realize that it's intended for internet usage, but I was trying to tout the general advantages of using a FireWire connection to the parent of my first post.
As for the grandparent being correct, I beg to differ...why should the poster go out and buy a small hub or switch when he already has the FireWire cable needed to get the job done in a perfectly acceptable manner? Why would it be "correct" to buy a small hub or switch?
Once again, about the gigabit ethernet board, why go buy more hardware you already have FireWire ports on both computers that are perfectly capable of doing the same thing?
You are living in the stone age (or at least under a stone) my friend, if FireWire wasn't a viable medium for networking, why is support for it built in to both Windows XP and Mac OS X??? With built it support, it hardly requires ary "coersing" as you say. Just because you had some bad experience with SLIP back in the day doesn't prove anything about FireWire's networking capability/functionality. FireWire is much faster than a standard 10/100 connection, so it's use could be very advantageous in a 2 computer setup tranferring files. I think you are the one who needs to take advantage of these changed times.
lol, that's the exact thing that came to my mind when I read the story. Funny the first post said it:)
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The ESA also has a probe named Huygens headed for Titan, the largest moon of Saturn that will land on the surface in 2005 and send back photos. Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a thick atmosphere. It is believed it may be similar to that of Earth's millions of years ago.
What in hell are you talking about? how are BSD and Linux "more relevant"? more relvent to what??? And what are you talking about in terms of old hardware and software? News flash: Apple still makes Macs. Also, you say with linux and bsd you have "cool" operating systems...what makes them any "cooler" than Mac OS though? Especially if you consider Mac OS X, which is based on a variant of BSD at it's core...
My grade and middle school both had labs upon labs of them, with many in classrooms too. Too bad I'm only 18 right now so all of it was horribly horribly out of date.
Did the person who posted this article know what they were even talking about? This isn't news... as the parent said it's "obvious". But really the whole story is mistitled and makes no sense really. Exchange rates cannot play with the price of music, that's not possible. If you are getting charged $.99 a song it doesn't matter where in the world you are you're going to pay the equivilent of $.99 a song in whatever currency you use. Only when a company sets different prices for different countries do discrepencies in price arise. It has absolutely nothing to do with exchange rates. Sure if you charge x.99 where x is any currency symbol, then you are going to have fluctuations in price from country to country, but what company actually does that? None that I have seen. This isn't news, it's nothing noteworthy at all.
Yeah, your name is a totally different case. Mike Rowe's name just happens to sound like a completely made up word....Microsoft...So long as he doesn't go into selling operating systems or something under the company name mikerowesoft, he really shouldn't have a problem, because it's his name and he is legally entitled to a domain containing it. Remember those cases where famous people had their names registered as domains by some random guy looking to make a quick buck? This is quite similar, just that someone is trying to steal his domain. So long as his site doesn't try to imitate Microsoft's in some attempt to confuse a consumer, then he should be perfectly within his legal bounds.
Yeah it really is some of the worst logic...
I've come up with the perfect model/analogy for GWB's encomonic policies (war, space exploration, and marginal tax cuts). It's like eating your own feces and drinking your own urine. If you are really starved and dehydrated, it may benefit you in the short run to keep you alive slightly longer, but in the long run you're going nowhere. Each time it cycles through your body there will be less and less nutritional value to it (if any at all). Think about it - it may be quite disgusting, but it makes perfect sense when compared to Bush's economic strategy, which I find quite disgusting as well. Just replace feces and urine with money and your body with our economy.
What I want to know is what in hell they plan to drill for on Mars or even the Moon? There's no oil there...billions of years worth of dead organic material doesn't exist in either place to produce oil...
That's becase there really is nowhere to invest money in outer space right now. You can't buy stock in NASA. The only reason no profit has been generated from space yet is because we've only just begun to explore it in the very recent past. We're still not too good about it. We can hardly get a probe to Mars safely at this point, so of course there's no opportunity for revenue there. What you ave to see is that the earliest of exploration is always a dead "loss" if youre looking to make money. Early exploration of the America's wasn't profitable at all, it was done solely on grants from various European governments or rich folk. It takes a while to get set up and be in a position to generate revenue from newly explored regions. Eventually the America's became an extremely profitable venture for European nations, that's why they became settled and wars were fought for control over them. Right now we're not even close to making a profit directly from space, we're just beginning the initial set up to eventually do so. Everyone needs to realize this...then we will see some money flowing into a new 'space economy.' Now don't get me wrong, I think GWB's ideas for space exploration now are horribly wrong. Our economy is in no state to do such a thing, it can only happen in a time of true prosperity...which we are absolutely not in (unless you already were rich, in which case you want to keep all the money you can get your grubby hands on).
Well GWB already tried war to save the economy, so why the hell not space exploration? Neither of them make any real sound economic sense, but a lack of sense seems to be GWB's general policy for everything....
Don't you see this increase in GDP is just about solely because of this ridiculous war on Iraq/Afghanistan? He is using war to counter a recession. Admittedly it worked to pull the US out of the depression of the 30's, but that was a real imminent threat to the United States by formidable enemies. Saddam had no force outside of Iraq, and his arsenol was pretty much non-existant. All the biological weapons Bush claimed Saddam had were documented in the early 90's and only had a shelf life of a couple years at most, so it was impossible they survived to the present day, and weapons inspectors showed that they were truely gone. Back to my point, where's the ethics in starting wars to pull our country out of a recession? Especially when these wars have no real end in sight, and leave our troops vulnerable to attack each day...the death toll isn't levelling off after we "won" in Iraq, it is only growing.
Yes, "under Clintons watch" because he personally keeps on eye on every US asset. That's not Clinton's fault, more the fault of those in our military service. Get real.
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Except that Windowmaker stole it from NextStep/OpenStep...geez...
You just don't get it, do you? It takes some time for them to research the problem and get together the resources necessary to carry out a repair plan like this. A few weeks is a pretty good turnaround time. Most companies would leave you high and dry, since the warrenty DID RUN OUT in most cases. The class action lawsuits are a freakin joke...If Apple were looking out for themselves rather than their customers, they would have just let the lawsuit fly, it would cost them a hell of a lot less than replacing everyone's logic boards. The customers would have been screwed too, receiving maybe a $50 discount for Apple software or something pathetic. Microsoft's been selling people defective products for years, but I guess the M$ corporate cock is too far up most people's asses to actually do something about it, they just keep taking it.
18 months to a dead battery?
What the hell do you people do to your batteries to kill them so fast?!?!
I have a dual-USB iBook, the very first model, a 500mhz with a 12.1" screen (that's all they made back then) I got in 2001. The battery still works just fine and it's at least 2.5 years old...
Why is that funny? You have a perverse sense of humor.
...now just watch as the next big virus will attempt to emulate an e-mail from this gov't project, easily suckering in more people...
1) I don't see anywhere where it's "clear" that they'd prefer to use ethernet. They merely mention it at the end as a last resort to get a new drop put in.
2) If he's doing this at work, he's more than likely going to be dependent on a computer that will be on the same desk as his laptop. If it crashes, he can restart it because he will be sitting right there.
3) Enabling NAT is by no means difficult. You simply check a box or click a button and it's turned on. Wow that was hard. 4) Setting up the FireWire network is just as easy as setting up the ethernet hub/switch, if not easier. You just attach the 1 FireWire cable to both computers. Configuration on the computer is just as easy as with ethernet since it is built into both OSes he is using.
Lastly, I don't think he was actually having any real trouble with it. He said he got FTP to work, so obviously the FireWire network was set up fine. All he really needed to know was how to enable internet sharing (NAT) over that connection.
I realize that it's intended for internet usage, but I was trying to tout the general advantages of using a FireWire connection to the parent of my first post.
As for the grandparent being correct, I beg to differ...why should the poster go out and buy a small hub or switch when he already has the FireWire cable needed to get the job done in a perfectly acceptable manner? Why would it be "correct" to buy a small hub or switch?
Once again, about the gigabit ethernet board, why go buy more hardware you already have FireWire ports on both computers that are perfectly capable of doing the same thing?
You are living in the stone age (or at least under a stone) my friend, if FireWire wasn't a viable medium for networking, why is support for it built in to both Windows XP and Mac OS X??? With built it support, it hardly requires ary "coersing" as you say. Just because you had some bad experience with SLIP back in the day doesn't prove anything about FireWire's networking capability/functionality. FireWire is much faster than a standard 10/100 connection, so it's use could be very advantageous in a 2 computer setup tranferring files. I think you are the one who needs to take advantage of these changed times.
lol, that's the exact thing that came to my mind when I read the story. Funny the first post said it :)
The ESA also has a probe named Huygens headed for Titan, the largest moon of Saturn that will land on the surface in 2005 and send back photos. Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a thick atmosphere. It is believed it may be similar to that of Earth's millions of years ago.
Amen!
Did you ever think for a moment that maybe he doesn't want to learn anything, but rather get the job done in a timely and simple fashion.
What in hell are you talking about? how are BSD and Linux "more relevant"? more relvent to what??? And what are you talking about in terms of old hardware and software? News flash: Apple still makes Macs. Also, you say with linux and bsd you have "cool" operating systems...what makes them any "cooler" than Mac OS though? Especially if you consider Mac OS X, which is based on a variant of BSD at it's core...
My grade and middle school both had labs upon labs of them, with many in classrooms too. Too bad I'm only 18 right now so all of it was horribly horribly out of date.
So sue me
You shouldn't beep at people!
If you don't get this, then you have no right to mod it down.
Did the person who posted this article know what they were even talking about? This isn't news... as the parent said it's "obvious". But really the whole story is mistitled and makes no sense really. Exchange rates cannot play with the price of music, that's not possible. If you are getting charged $.99 a song it doesn't matter where in the world you are you're going to pay the equivilent of $.99 a song in whatever currency you use. Only when a company sets different prices for different countries do discrepencies in price arise. It has absolutely nothing to do with exchange rates. Sure if you charge x.99 where x is any currency symbol, then you are going to have fluctuations in price from country to country, but what company actually does that? None that I have seen. This isn't news, it's nothing noteworthy at all.
Yeah, your name is a totally different case. Mike Rowe's name just happens to sound like a completely made up word....Microsoft...So long as he doesn't go into selling operating systems or something under the company name mikerowesoft, he really shouldn't have a problem, because it's his name and he is legally entitled to a domain containing it. Remember those cases where famous people had their names registered as domains by some random guy looking to make a quick buck? This is quite similar, just that someone is trying to steal his domain. So long as his site doesn't try to imitate Microsoft's in some attempt to confuse a consumer, then he should be perfectly within his legal bounds.
Yeah it really is some of the worst logic...
I've come up with the perfect model/analogy for GWB's encomonic policies (war, space exploration, and marginal tax cuts). It's like eating your own feces and drinking your own urine. If you are really starved and dehydrated, it may benefit you in the short run to keep you alive slightly longer, but in the long run you're going nowhere. Each time it cycles through your body there will be less and less nutritional value to it (if any at all). Think about it - it may be quite disgusting, but it makes perfect sense when compared to Bush's economic strategy, which I find quite disgusting as well. Just replace feces and urine with money and your body with our economy.
What I want to know is what in hell they plan to drill for on Mars or even the Moon? There's no oil there...billions of years worth of dead organic material doesn't exist in either place to produce oil...
That's becase there really is nowhere to invest money in outer space right now. You can't buy stock in NASA. The only reason no profit has been generated from space yet is because we've only just begun to explore it in the very recent past. We're still not too good about it. We can hardly get a probe to Mars safely at this point, so of course there's no opportunity for revenue there. What you ave to see is that the earliest of exploration is always a dead "loss" if youre looking to make money. Early exploration of the America's wasn't profitable at all, it was done solely on grants from various European governments or rich folk. It takes a while to get set up and be in a position to generate revenue from newly explored regions. Eventually the America's became an extremely profitable venture for European nations, that's why they became settled and wars were fought for control over them. Right now we're not even close to making a profit directly from space, we're just beginning the initial set up to eventually do so. Everyone needs to realize this...then we will see some money flowing into a new 'space economy.' Now don't get me wrong, I think GWB's ideas for space exploration now are horribly wrong. Our economy is in no state to do such a thing, it can only happen in a time of true prosperity...which we are absolutely not in (unless you already were rich, in which case you want to keep all the money you can get your grubby hands on).
You got it wrong too buddy...
Save Manned Spaceflight. Can George Bush!
You must not pay attention to the mass media..
Well GWB already tried war to save the economy, so why the hell not space exploration? Neither of them make any real sound economic sense, but a lack of sense seems to be GWB's general policy for everything....
Don't you see this increase in GDP is just about solely because of this ridiculous war on Iraq/Afghanistan? He is using war to counter a recession. Admittedly it worked to pull the US out of the depression of the 30's, but that was a real imminent threat to the United States by formidable enemies. Saddam had no force outside of Iraq, and his arsenol was pretty much non-existant. All the biological weapons Bush claimed Saddam had were documented in the early 90's and only had a shelf life of a couple years at most, so it was impossible they survived to the present day, and weapons inspectors showed that they were truely gone. Back to my point, where's the ethics in starting wars to pull our country out of a recession? Especially when these wars have no real end in sight, and leave our troops vulnerable to attack each day...the death toll isn't levelling off after we "won" in Iraq, it is only growing.
Yes, "under Clintons watch" because he personally keeps on eye on every US asset. That's not Clinton's fault, more the fault of those in our military service. Get real.