Especially considering that in an issue of Wired, you have to flip through at least 75+ pages of ads before you even THINK about getting to an article which contains product placements...
I agree, but just for arguments sake, if you want to play a.mov file, you use QT, not Real, (or any others?). So while they're both movie file players, they're players of different formats. It's more of an added feature that they happen to be able to play other types of media than their native formats.
Yeah, I know. I spent a great deal of time trying to find work-arounds for that rotten limit. Quarterdeck made quite a bit of money off of that short-sightedness too.
Back in the Win3.1 days, I was actually pretty good at memory tweaking and stuff. There was some oddball db app that one of our departments use to run that required.... wtf was that again... it was an old IBM network protocol of some sort.
Anyway, between that and all the other network drivers that were required for the Novell network that this company ran, there wasn't enough memory left over for this db app. We had to load them all up with QEMM, start using video ram as part of conventional memory, that jacked it up to something like 720k and then the app would run. It was ridiculously unstable.
Thankfully people with your lack of vision don't run the company.
I wish I could remember where so that I could quote it, but I read somewhere that the average computer user can't use their computer any faster than would require a slow low-end 486. If you've ever watched an average computer user, this makes sense. They're slow, one-step-at-a-time folks. They aren't the types who are thinking 3, 4, TEN steps ahead of where they currently are like the people you see who can use their machine at a ridiculously fast pace.
So why do slow users want faster machines, faster network, faster internet, faster whatever...? Because people are coming up with newer and better ways of making their computers work for them. Think of a time that probably isn't too far away, when a digital video cam is affordable that can hold, say, 1.2GB. Since even average computer users are now housing multiple machines, it's not unreasonable for them to want to shovel a huge file around from one machine to the next.
Even at 100Mbps, 1.2GB takes a while (and don't start citing math about how at 100Mbps it should take exactly X number of seconds, it doesn't work that way...). So, every time someone has to wait a while for a big file to transfer, that's going to be someone who would rather not sit there waiting...
That's only one consumer-oriented possibility. Every single mac user that I personally know is a "media" professional of some sort. Some of the work with photoshop files that are hundreds of MB's in size. I'd wager that of the Apple's 25% (or so) of the marketshare, a huge percentage of that marketshare is media professionals and Apple probably makes significantly more money off of the media pro's than the low-end consumer market. Including 1Gbps nic's is just catering to the bigger picture.
It's not the sun blade's fault. It's up to the application to support the wheel. I remember reading somewhere how to get the wheel working in netscape. Google will likely turn it up for you easily enough.
I find it hard to believe that Mac's cpu speed is lagging behind Intel's all that much... Sure the Mhz might be lower, but it's still... well... apples and oranges.
I'm not that terribly experienced with Mac hardware, but I remember when the RC5-64 distributed.net client was really popular to run. A friend with a g3 (300 or 333 Mhz, I forget) could do a ridiculously high number of keys while idle. I don't remember the exact number, but it almost was beating a dual-processor 400Mhz Intel machine's total of both processors!
The other one I hear is g-nome, like the human genome. It bugs the living hell out of me, but people who correct other people bug me more. So I simply continue to say it correctly when discussing it...
I usually refer to gnu simply as g-n-u though. Might not be correct, but it's less problematic than, like you said, referring to New/Linux.
Another good way of protecting yourself from ads and bad javascript and the like is a free little app called Proxomitron. Because it's a proxy based app, it works with both Netscape and IE nicely. Since I tend to use both when I'm on a windows box, I find it makes my browsing much much cleaner.
Warcraft I: Play as humans fighting the Orcs, or fight as Orcs playing the humans, or as a human playing the humans playing the Orcs fighting the humans. Either way it will just end up with you building a really long highway until your serial connection gets yanked out by your college roommate's ugly girlfriend.
Diablo I: Point and click your way through a world full of monsters... monsters that want to KILL YOU but you must KILL THEM FIRST! Although your character's strength, intelligence, and dexterity stats will increase based on the number of times you repeatedly smash the left mouse button, you will personally experience a decrease in your own strength, intelligence, and hygiene stats based on the number of hours you play.
Starcraft: It's not at all like Warcraft in space! It's something different! For example, can you perform peon rushes in Warcraft? Yeah, that's what I thought! Also there are no trees or lumber to harvest in space because that would just be silly. Make sure you have a lot of Space Supply Barns because the only way to colonize small square sections of the galaxy is by constructing countless Space Supply Barns. In addition to playing as humans, you can either choose to play as the Zerg (gross aliens) or the Protoss (Egyptian poop-shaped guys who somehow launched themselves into space).
Warcraft II: This game is completely different from Warcraft I, except in the regard that it is exactly the same (without the road-building part). I think maybe the trees and goldmines look more realistic, but I don't remember. Oh, and there are turtle submarines.
Diablo II: Point and click your way through a world full of NEW monsters... NEW monsters that want to KILL YOU but you must KILL THEM FIRST! There are also a bunch of new character classes such as the Amazon, Barbarian, Necromancer, Neuromancer, Hamstermancer, and Haberdasher.
Of course it's illegal. Look up the word assault. Assault is usually used incorrectly to refer to the attacking of someone, which is actually called battery. That's why people are usually charged with "assault & battery."
Plus, "criminal threatening" is also against the law and is a punishable offense.
Dude, you really really need to get a clue before you stick to your guns when you're so completely wrong...
And BTW, if I hear you say "I'm going to kill you" and I happen to be exercising my right to bear arms, I can pull that weapon out and kill you on the spot. That's my right to defend myself because I felt that my life was threatened. Why? Because he told me flat out that he was going to kill me...
I used to have this framed and hung in my office at a previous job:
Shit happens:
In the beginning was
The Plan.
And then came The Assumptions.
And the Assumptions were without form.
And The Plan was without substance. And darkness was upon the face of the Workers.
And they spoke amongst themselves, saying, "it is a crock of Shit, and it stinketh."
And the workers went unto their supervisors and said "It is a pail of dung, and none may
abide the odour thereof."
And the supervisors went unto the managers, saying "It is a container of excrement, and
it is very strong, such that none may abide by it."
And the managers went unto their directors saying, "it is a vessel of fertilizer, and
none may abide it's strength."
And the Directors talked amongst themselves, saying to one another, "It contains that
which aids plant growth, and it is very powerful."
And the Vice Presidents went unto the President, saying unto him, "This New Plan will
actively promote the growth and vigour of the company, with powerful effects."
And the President looked upon The Plan, and saw that it was good.
I work for a broadband isp and here in our relatively small area we actually have the highest percentage of market penetration nationwide (percentage-wise, mind you, we're far far far from the biggest as far as total number of subscribers).
The thing is, we're still doing 100+ installs a day, average. We keep scratching our heads thinking, "It's gotta slow down sometime, doesn't it??" But it doesn't. We had our biggest install month ever a few months ago, and we've been in operation for nearly 5 years. We even figured when dsl came to town that it would slow us down, but it didn't touch us.
Other than having a much higher service quality than other broadband isp's, we don't really offer anything that unusual, no huge discounts for signing up, not anything significant in the way of coupons, no huge promotional deals. If anything, we have to avoid that type of thing just to keep it down to 100 installs a day.
I love watching TV shows on the PC. Movies, that's another story... I hate watching movies on the PC. If it's a movie worth watching, I tend to buy it on DVD.
But I love collecting episode files. I have every family guy episode, all four clerks cartoons, every friends episodes (ah shaddap, i think it's a funny show), every tick cartoon. Plus I've been collecting some of my old favorites from when I was a kid. I have about half of the thundercats episodes, ~20 voltron episodes. I want my kids to be able to enjoy some of the cartoons I used to love. And they're just cartoons so I don't really care about exceptional quality, my average episode size is probably 80MB.
But my point is that I can watch a TV episode of something while I'm doing other things. It's not it's a two hour movie, it's a ~21 minute episode of something. Big deal.
Of the 5 or so friends I have that got one, one of them did have trouble reading disks sometimes. After reading in some forum's and groups, he saw it was happening to a number of people, so he knew it wasn't just something he was doing wrong or a media problem. He just took it back to the store and the replacement worked fine. He was disappointed though, his xbox's name was Penguin.
It's probably just like xolox (also a fast track client).
They shut down a bit 'proactively' but if you simply block the client from accessing www.xolox.nl (or dig around a little bit for a slightly patched version someone made) it works just great.
I work for one of these cm isp's. When a customer pays the business rate here they DO get better QOS, ability to call our business help desk (which staffs local people who are much sharper folks than the retards at the nation helpdesk for residential customers).
They also get access to our other services, static ip, etc. We have even higher levels of service where your modem is basically watched ALL the time and if your modem goes down, there's someone on it before you can even pick up the phone, 24/7.
I know for a fact that probably 80% of the cm isp's out there aren't like us, but those of us who *are* customer satisfaction oriented cringe when we get lumped in with the ones who don't give a damn...
You're thinking small scale. We've had to renumber 6000 people at a time before... Think of the ramifications of calling 6000 people to give them a new ip address.
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Especially considering that in an issue of Wired, you have to flip through at least 75+ pages of ads before you even THINK about getting to an article which contains product placements...
I'm a solaris admin myself. Has anyone heard anything about x86 support for iplanet products, maybe netscape ldap, etc...?
Once again, fine line...
Back in the Win3.1 days, I was actually pretty good at memory tweaking and stuff. There was some oddball db app that one of our departments use to run that required.... wtf was that again... it was an old IBM network protocol of some sort.
Anyway, between that and all the other network drivers that were required for the Novell network that this company ran, there wasn't enough memory left over for this db app. We had to load them all up with QEMM, start using video ram as part of conventional memory, that jacked it up to something like 720k and then the app would run. It was ridiculously unstable.
I wish I could remember where so that I could quote it, but I read somewhere that the average computer user can't use their computer any faster than would require a slow low-end 486. If you've ever watched an average computer user, this makes sense. They're slow, one-step-at-a-time folks. They aren't the types who are thinking 3, 4, TEN steps ahead of where they currently are like the people you see who can use their machine at a ridiculously fast pace.
So why do slow users want faster machines, faster network, faster internet, faster whatever...? Because people are coming up with newer and better ways of making their computers work for them. Think of a time that probably isn't too far away, when a digital video cam is affordable that can hold, say, 1.2GB. Since even average computer users are now housing multiple machines, it's not unreasonable for them to want to shovel a huge file around from one machine to the next.
Even at 100Mbps, 1.2GB takes a while (and don't start citing math about how at 100Mbps it should take exactly X number of seconds, it doesn't work that way...). So, every time someone has to wait a while for a big file to transfer, that's going to be someone who would rather not sit there waiting...
That's only one consumer-oriented possibility. Every single mac user that I personally know is a "media" professional of some sort. Some of the work with photoshop files that are hundreds of MB's in size. I'd wager that of the Apple's 25% (or so) of the marketshare, a huge percentage of that marketshare is media professionals and Apple probably makes significantly more money off of the media pro's than the low-end consumer market. Including 1Gbps nic's is just catering to the bigger picture.
Yeah, people didn't need more than 640K of RAM, either...
It's not the sun blade's fault. It's up to the application to support the wheel. I remember reading somewhere how to get the wheel working in netscape. Google will likely turn it up for you easily enough.
I'm not that terribly experienced with Mac hardware, but I remember when the RC5-64 distributed.net client was really popular to run. A friend with a g3 (300 or 333 Mhz, I forget) could do a ridiculously high number of keys while idle. I don't remember the exact number, but it almost was beating a dual-processor 400Mhz Intel machine's total of both processors!
I usually refer to gnu simply as g-n-u though. Might not be correct, but it's less problematic than, like you said, referring to New/Linux.
Another good way of protecting yourself from ads and bad javascript and the like is a free little app called Proxomitron. Because it's a proxy based app, it works with both Netscape and IE nicely. Since I tend to use both when I'm on a windows box, I find it makes my browsing much much cleaner.
Nah, I disagree. But of course you have a right to say it. :)
They poked fun at Blizzard a few months ago.
Excerpt:
Plus, "criminal threatening" is also against the law and is a punishable offense.
And BTW, if I hear you say "I'm going to kill you" and I happen to be exercising my right to bear arms, I can pull that weapon out and kill you on the spot. That's my right to defend myself because I felt that my life was threatened. Why? Because he told me flat out that he was going to kill me...
Shit happens:
You're right six... forgot to count the two extras. :)
The thing is, we're still doing 100+ installs a day, average. We keep scratching our heads thinking, "It's gotta slow down sometime, doesn't it??" But it doesn't. We had our biggest install month ever a few months ago, and we've been in operation for nearly 5 years. We even figured when dsl came to town that it would slow us down, but it didn't touch us.
Other than having a much higher service quality than other broadband isp's, we don't really offer anything that unusual, no huge discounts for signing up, not anything significant in the way of coupons, no huge promotional deals. If anything, we have to avoid that type of thing just to keep it down to 100 installs a day.
But I love collecting episode files. I have every family guy episode, all four clerks cartoons, every friends episodes (ah shaddap, i think it's a funny show), every tick cartoon. Plus I've been collecting some of my old favorites from when I was a kid. I have about half of the thundercats episodes, ~20 voltron episodes. I want my kids to be able to enjoy some of the cartoons I used to love. And they're just cartoons so I don't really care about exceptional quality, my average episode size is probably 80MB.
But my point is that I can watch a TV episode of something while I'm doing other things. It's not it's a two hour movie, it's a ~21 minute episode of something. Big deal.
"Windows sucks!" said Tom, trollingly. -naChoZ-
Ever try anagrams of his name?
My favorites are:
Vi Tweaks Zone
Steak Oven Wiz
Size Two Knave
(sorry, bored today I guess)
Underneath in the related stories:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5240238742.html
Of the 5 or so friends I have that got one, one of them did have trouble reading disks sometimes. After reading in some forum's and groups, he saw it was happening to a number of people, so he knew it wasn't just something he was doing wrong or a media problem. He just took it back to the store and the replacement worked fine. He was disappointed though, his xbox's name was Penguin.
They shut down a bit 'proactively' but if you simply block the client from accessing www.xolox.nl (or dig around a little bit for a slightly patched version someone made) it works just great.
I work for one of these cm isp's. When a customer pays the business rate here they DO get better QOS, ability to call our business help desk (which staffs local people who are much sharper folks than the retards at the nation helpdesk for residential customers). They also get access to our other services, static ip, etc. We have even higher levels of service where your modem is basically watched ALL the time and if your modem goes down, there's someone on it before you can even pick up the phone, 24/7.
I know for a fact that probably 80% of the cm isp's out there aren't like us, but those of us who *are* customer satisfaction oriented cringe when we get lumped in with the ones who don't give a damn...
You're thinking small scale. We've had to renumber 6000 people at a time before... Think of the ramifications of calling 6000 people to give them a new ip address.