You could always just get a 6gb mini for $220 (scroll down). Or a 3d gen ipod 15gb for $190 -- that's what I did with the intention of puting linux on it (3d gen works, 4th isn't so hot right now), except it's such a great player, I ended up ripping every CD I own. It looks and behaves brand new BTW so either it is actually an unsold new device, or Apple's refurbishing is really good.
While I agree that war in Iraq is an utter waste of resources and a complete subversion of all good sense, I also think that New Orleans' issue is primarily a local issue. Why should people who live in relatively safer areas, subsidize the choices people who live in NO have made? I've never been in the south and I even I've heard that NO is below sea level -- surely the locals were very aware of their situation. What stopped them from raising taxes to pay for the needed protective measures? If the the local taxes were so astronomical as to make it financially impossible to build there... well isn't that a clue? Hiding the costs by shifting them to non-locals merely encourages local behavior that meshes poorly with the environment.
Anyway, my point is that economics can sometimes point to behaviors that are environmentally unwise. I'm all for helping people relocate and get back on their feet. By the same token, the money will just go down the drain if it is used to rebuild in the same spot. People want to do that, fine it's their business and their dime. Just don't take that dime to do stupid things from me.
Be careful, you are on your 7th life now. You do know it is impossible to drive across the midwest in one lifetime right? The monotony is actually lethal, and you are simply reincarnated slightly before you cross you hit a coastal region.
That's exactly what I mean by feeling stupid -- after a couple hours trying to figure out how to "config it", I accidentally did a left-click-drag on an icon and saw it go poof. So of course, I experimented with dragging them on. It was very easy once I was in the correct mindset -- and a real pain when I wasn't.
Tiger has a "Remove from Dock" option. Panther doesn't. I was using Panther -- perhaps this happened to other people too and they complained. I just felt slightly embarrassed.
Whoa there brother -- the parent poster didn't sound much like a republican to me. In fact, he was complaining about republican style "socialism". He sounds like a libertarian -- someone who doesn't fit in either the Dem or Rep camp in that both Democrats and Republicans are bent on imposing government will on the people, and in redistributing wealt, but with differing perspectives on what should be imposed and who should get the wealth. They're the same band of oppressive theives either way.
"That's what governments are for, to get in a man's way." Malcom Reynolds.
It turns out that all my problems stemmed from the fact that I have got into the habbit of doing things in a convoluted fashion (be it due to horrible GUI design, conf files or whatever).
So true. Now, there are some things about OSX I have a legitimate beef with, but there are also some things that were all about me applying the wrong knowledge. For example, when I got mine, the first thing I wanted to do was get rid of some icons on the doc. I did a right-click, no clues. I did a left-click hold, no clues. Middle-click -- nada. I started googling...
I was getting ticked off - this was supposed to be an easy system. Anyway, after a couple hours I had identified the text file that defines the dock -- getting rid of icons was easy: just delete sections. Adding them in was a bit harder because of some apparently necessary gibberish looking section. I couldn't understand why Apple made it so darn hard to modify the dock.... At one point during my search, my mouse slipped and I accidentally dragged one of the icons off the dock - it went POOF. Well, I felt like an idiot!
Laptops, while perhaps PCs, also aren't desktops (from an earlier poster's RTFE). I haven't looked at EULA nor do I intend to -- my point: the EULA is ambiguous and very little out there makes a lawyer's eye spin up dollar signs faster than ambiguity.
Widely held concerns that caffeine promotes dehydration during exercise, resulting in a negative effect on performance, have now been dismissed. A review paper by Ron Maughan, a professor of human physiology at Loughborough University, and Griffin, published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics two years ago, states that: "Any evidence that caffeine promotes the loss of water from the body has been overplayed. It makes no difference if people drink tea, cola, coffee or water when they exercise."
I've wanted to replace my 192 mb (w/ extra memory card) creative nomad mg II for a while. The other day I stopped into the local Apple store to poke around and I saw that they had 3g 15gb ipods for sale at $199. These include a dock and a wallwart charger (headphones, beltclip, and sync cable of course). It's a refurbished one (Apple has these on their website for $189 -- but I like the instant gratifaction of store buying). Anyway, I have a psychological barrier against paying more than $200 for a music player -- so this was perfect. I know the 20gb color model is only $100 more (more like $140 if you throw in the missing dock), but I'm not going to spend that much on music player... I learned my lesson w/ the nomad. I think it was about $250 (with base 64mbs, another $100 for the memor card) and I don't think I ever got my money's worth out of it.
With the 15gb ipod I will get my money back -- I've copied over all my CDs and I've finally heard old beloved songs I hadn't heard in ages merely because digging through piles of CDs for one good song is such a pain. Anyway, shall I ramble even more?....
Wow - thank you for the link. Enlightenment never entered my consiousness before today. Needless to say... I'm not merely impressed, I'm amazed. The eye candy it puts out on the old pIII laptop I decided to test it on is amazing -- and that's with just 256mbs of ram. Now, I truly like my KDE and Gnome desktops (KDE a bit more though I do like Gnome too), but they aren't the kind of thing I can show someone and watch their eyes fall out in jealousy. They're like introducing a cute girlfriend to your buddies -- everyone likes her just fine. E17 is like a supermodel - stunning gorgeous.
Somewhere a few posts back someone (not you) was talking about how people should just work on building one perfect desktop environment. A dumb comment IMHO -- along the lines of "let's perfect Vanilla, forget about Mint Chocolate Chip."
Anyway... I too downloaded a multidesktop program within a couple days of getting my powerbook as well -- and I still use it. Compose just doesn't do it for me -- perhaps it's because I'm on a laptop (15"). I like having my procrastination junk on the first desktop -- mail/calendars on 2nd -- work stuff on the 3rd -- and 4th for a blank space if something comes up. Anyway, everyone works differently and for some Compose is cool, and for others it isn't so great. Thank goodness for alternatives.
Sounds drivers are still pretty weak in Linux too. While most cards have some support, most "advanced" features are still absent.
I won't disagree about the video, but I don't see sound as an issue. Obviously, my experience is merely anecdotal, but it encompases a number of systems.
My main system has a soundblaster -- obviously no problem there.
I have a mini-itx system, on-board sound works fine.
My SO has a pentium based system w/ some motherboard I can't recall -- onboard sound works fine.
I have Japanese model toshiba laptop -- sound works fine.
Clamshell ibook -- sound works fine.
A different AMD based system -- again, can't remember the motherboard manufacturer -- onboard sound works fine.
When I say "sound works fine", I mean it was configured without any help from me automagically during the install process. I'm covering a range of systems here, and I have no problems with any of them. A few years ago, life was different, but presently, sound is as easy as can be.
Maybe -- but a drive like that wouldn't be much more than a pair of sneakers. Let's say $40 for the firewire shell and $80 for a 40gb drive. That isn't a whole lot and a savvy shopper could likely trim off $20 or more.
Then there's always the option of begging for an ipod for christmas.
I don't know so much about booting off a firewire drive, so do your research to find out if it leaves tell-tale signs on the main HD, but nobody would ever know (assuming you do this where you won't get caught) if you booted ubuntu off a live CD and did not mount the internal drive.
Save that porn, er... data, to a USB thumb drive, lock the bathroom door......
Not sure if it would be making better criminals, but someone needs to explain to these kids about booting in target disc mode. Get a firewire HD shell, preferably a laptop size, a HD, and a copy of Panther of ebay for $30. Then, when they want to do their evil and nefarious iChatting, they can simply reboot off the external HD. Circumvents everything, lets the kids explore (while not at school), and the school should be none the wiser for it.
For about free, they could use an ubuntu live cd. Either way, non-destructive, untraceable cirvumvention is the key for these students.
The cost of postage does not represent the true cost of the disc. It obviously only represents the mailing cost.
Costs not included in postage include
the cost of maintaining a work force of refuse collectors,
the equipment they use to transport trash,
the cost of landfills to hold the trash,
the environmental costs not paid by the disc manufacturers in producing the discs.
I'm sure the list could go on. What is important is that it is taxpayers -- not AOL, who pay these costs. AOL's snail mail spam shifts costs just as much, perhaps even more, than common spam.
District of Columbia isn't a state or commonwealth, it is considered a district of Washington state
Hold on there! I live in the REAL Washington, the one next to the Pacific with trees and mountains sticking out of it. The other "washington", aka Mordor, is on the Atlantic.
The fact that this confuses some people now is because so many people mistakenly think that "state" is the American term for "province". The intent of the founders was always that these be a federation of independent states
A very astute point. In the paralance of international law, "state" is interchangeable with "nation" or "country". It is also the case that US states have become less and less independent over time though, which has had a subtle effect on us. The US states have lost so much power that it is somewhat natural for Americans to be confused over the real meaning of statehood. We Americans live in a world where "states" are so much less than nations, and so much more like provinces or even counties, that it is hardly surprising to find that people need to be educated on what statehood really means.
Obviously there are good and bad aspects to this -- while CA may run afoul of the feds on medical marijuana, one hopes other states are kept in check in terms of their ultra-conservative tendancies. Or it means every state goes to hell at once, linked arm in arm.
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You could always just get a 6gb mini for $220 (scroll down). Or a 3d gen ipod 15gb for $190 -- that's what I did with the intention of puting linux on it (3d gen works, 4th isn't so hot right now), except it's such a great player, I ended up ripping every CD I own. It looks and behaves brand new BTW so either it is actually an unsold new device, or Apple's refurbishing is really good.
While I agree that war in Iraq is an utter waste of resources and a complete subversion of all good sense, I also think that New Orleans' issue is primarily a local issue. Why should people who live in relatively safer areas, subsidize the choices people who live in NO have made? I've never been in the south and I even I've heard that NO is below sea level -- surely the locals were very aware of their situation. What stopped them from raising taxes to pay for the needed protective measures? If the the local taxes were so astronomical as to make it financially impossible to build there ... well isn't that a clue? Hiding the costs by shifting them to non-locals merely encourages local behavior that meshes poorly with the environment.
Anyway, my point is that economics can sometimes point to behaviors that are environmentally unwise. I'm all for helping people relocate and get back on their feet. By the same token, the money will just go down the drain if it is used to rebuild in the same spot. People want to do that, fine it's their business and their dime. Just don't take that dime to do stupid things from me.
Spies and sabotage. I finally get it! That explains everything about the last election.
Be careful, you are on your 7th life now. You do know it is impossible to drive across the midwest in one lifetime right? The monotony is actually lethal, and you are simply reincarnated slightly before you cross you hit a coastal region.
That's exactly what I mean by feeling stupid -- after a couple hours trying to figure out how to "config it", I accidentally did a left-click-drag on an icon and saw it go poof. So of course, I experimented with dragging them on. It was very easy once I was in the correct mindset -- and a real pain when I wasn't.
Tiger has a "Remove from Dock" option. Panther doesn't. I was using Panther -- perhaps this happened to other people too and they complained. I just felt slightly embarrassed.
Whoa there brother -- the parent poster didn't sound much like a republican to me. In fact, he was complaining about republican style "socialism". He sounds like a libertarian -- someone who doesn't fit in either the Dem or Rep camp in that both Democrats and Republicans are bent on imposing government will on the people, and in redistributing wealt, but with differing perspectives on what should be imposed and who should get the wealth. They're the same band of oppressive theives either way.
"That's what governments are for, to get in a man's way." Malcom Reynolds.
So true. Now, there are some things about OSX I have a legitimate beef with, but there are also some things that were all about me applying the wrong knowledge. For example, when I got mine, the first thing I wanted to do was get rid of some icons on the doc. I did a right-click, no clues. I did a left-click hold, no clues. Middle-click -- nada. I started googling
I was getting ticked off - this was supposed to be an easy system. Anyway, after a couple hours I had identified the text file that defines the dock -- getting rid of icons was easy: just delete sections. Adding them in was a bit harder because of some apparently necessary gibberish looking section. I couldn't understand why Apple made it so darn hard to modify the dock
Laptops, while perhaps PCs, also aren't desktops (from an earlier poster's RTFE). I haven't looked at EULA nor do I intend to -- my point: the EULA is ambiguous and very little out there makes a lawyer's eye spin up dollar signs faster than ambiguity.
cite, and another.
On the otherhand, "reliable" sources disagree with the actual evidence. http://www.wellness.com/essential_info.asp
Here ya go:t e+healthy&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dark+chocola
I think you've been watching too many Bond movies.
I've wanted to replace my 192 mb (w/ extra memory card) creative nomad mg II for a while. The other day I stopped into the local Apple store to poke around and I saw that they had 3g 15gb ipods for sale at $199. These include a dock and a wallwart charger (headphones, beltclip, and sync cable of course). It's a refurbished one (Apple has these on their website for $189 -- but I like the instant gratifaction of store buying). Anyway, I have a psychological barrier against paying more than $200 for a music player -- so this was perfect. I know the 20gb color model is only $100 more (more like $140 if you throw in the missing dock), but I'm not going to spend that much on music player ... I learned my lesson w/ the nomad. I think it was about $250 (with base 64mbs, another $100 for the memor card) and I don't think I ever got my money's worth out of it.
....
With the 15gb ipod I will get my money back -- I've copied over all my CDs and I've finally heard old beloved songs I hadn't heard in ages merely because digging through piles of CDs for one good song is such a pain. Anyway, shall I ramble even more?
Wow - thank you for the link. Enlightenment never entered my consiousness before today. Needless to say ... I'm not merely impressed, I'm amazed. The eye candy it puts out on the old pIII laptop I decided to test it on is amazing -- and that's with just 256mbs of ram. Now, I truly like my KDE and Gnome desktops (KDE a bit more though I do like Gnome too), but they aren't the kind of thing I can show someone and watch their eyes fall out in jealousy. They're like introducing a cute girlfriend to your buddies -- everyone likes her just fine. E17 is like a supermodel - stunning gorgeous.
Somewhere a few posts back someone (not you) was talking about how people should just work on building one perfect desktop environment. A dumb comment IMHO -- along the lines of "let's perfect Vanilla, forget about Mint Chocolate Chip."
... I too downloaded a multidesktop program within a couple days of getting my powerbook as well -- and I still use it. Compose just doesn't do it for me -- perhaps it's because I'm on a laptop (15"). I like having my procrastination junk on the first desktop -- mail/calendars on 2nd -- work stuff on the 3rd -- and 4th for a blank space if something comes up. Anyway, everyone works differently and for some Compose is cool, and for others it isn't so great. Thank goodness for alternatives.
Anyway
I won't disagree about the video, but I don't see sound as an issue. Obviously, my experience is merely anecdotal, but it encompases a number of systems.
- My main system has a soundblaster -- obviously no problem there.
- I have a mini-itx system, on-board sound works fine.
- My SO has a pentium based system w/ some motherboard I can't recall -- onboard sound works fine.
- I have Japanese model toshiba laptop -- sound works fine.
- Clamshell ibook -- sound works fine.
- A different AMD based system -- again, can't remember the motherboard manufacturer -- onboard sound works fine.
When I say "sound works fine", I mean it was configured without any help from me automagically during the install process. I'm covering a range of systems here, and I have no problems with any of them. A few years ago, life was different, but presently, sound is as easy as can be.Maybe -- but a drive like that wouldn't be much more than a pair of sneakers. Let's say $40 for the firewire shell and $80 for a 40gb drive. That isn't a whole lot and a savvy shopper could likely trim off $20 or more.
Then there's always the option of begging for an ipod for christmas.
burning man comes to mind
I don't know so much about booting off a firewire drive, so do your research to find out if it leaves tell-tale signs on the main HD, but nobody would ever know (assuming you do this where you won't get caught) if you booted ubuntu off a live CD and did not mount the internal drive.
... data, to a USB thumb drive, lock the bathroom door ......
Save that porn, er
Not sure if it would be making better criminals, but someone needs to explain to these kids about booting in target disc mode. Get a firewire HD shell, preferably a laptop size, a HD, and a copy of Panther of ebay for $30. Then, when they want to do their evil and nefarious iChatting, they can simply reboot off the external HD. Circumvents everything, lets the kids explore (while not at school), and the school should be none the wiser for it.
For about free, they could use an ubuntu live cd. Either way, non-destructive, untraceable cirvumvention is the key for these students.
Costs not included in postage include
- the cost of maintaining a work force of refuse collectors,
- the equipment they use to transport trash,
- the cost of landfills to hold the trash,
- the environmental costs not paid by the disc manufacturers in producing the discs.
I'm sure the list could go on. What is important is that it is taxpayers -- not AOL, who pay these costs. AOL's snail mail spam shifts costs just as much, perhaps even more, than common spam.Of course they do, along with a short full motion video clip, and then you get that character unlocked so you can fight as him as well.
Hold on there! I live in the REAL Washington, the one next to the Pacific with trees and mountains sticking out of it. The other "washington", aka Mordor, is on the Atlantic.
A very astute point. In the paralance of international law, "state" is interchangeable with "nation" or "country". It is also the case that US states have become less and less independent over time though, which has had a subtle effect on us. The US states have lost so much power that it is somewhat natural for Americans to be confused over the real meaning of statehood. We Americans live in a world where "states" are so much less than nations, and so much more like provinces or even counties, that it is hardly surprising to find that people need to be educated on what statehood really means.
Obviously there are good and bad aspects to this -- while CA may run afoul of the feds on medical marijuana, one hopes other states are kept in check in terms of their ultra-conservative tendancies. Or it means every state goes to hell at once, linked arm in arm.
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