Personally I like this display from Sun. It has a USB hub, Svideo, DVI, and VGA inputs. It's matched the G5 since before the G5 came out and doesn't reuire a special video card.
Actually democracy does NOT breed freedom - it leads to anarchy because everyone thinks that because it is a democracy they have the right to do anything and if they find they don't they PAY to put someone in power WHO WILL give them that right.
A Republic (which america is supposed to be is true freedom because EVERYONE has a say, not just the elite and not just the agenda pushers. The only thing you are forced to do in a republic is be involved and vote.
The only true value this movie WOULD have is if it were released on November 9th 2004 instead of a few months before an election. Moveon.org is handing out free tickets - so what you are basically getting is an infomercial rather than a documentary. This film would have been much more valued 12 months ago or 5 months from now.
There are other things that go into a bay besides optical drives - but a second optical drive that rips faster than the SuperDrive is a big plus.
A second bay on a Mac is different than a second bay on a PC. Apple chooses the drives for you by default and leaves no room for expansion.
I agree that external drives are actually better and more useful, but clutter is an issue with most of my clients in ad agencies. There are 15-20 packed in a 20x30 room. Having zip drives, card readers, CD burners strown about really makes for clutter.
As for the PCI slots - extra firewire - extra USB 2.0 ports and extra PCI video cards - where's the room for pro audio card, the IDE ATA card, the SCSI card?
I would say it's not most - it's actually about half - at least as far as the 300 to 400 people I serve here in Greenville SC with Apple technical service.
"Last year the company nabbed two Gold IDEAs (for its 12- and 17-inch PowerBooks) and one Silver (for its Xserve), while in 2002 it won five total: four Gold for its retail Apple Stores, its Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco presence, its flat-panel iMac and its iPod; and one Silver for its revamped iBook."
Servers and rackmount cases are included - there's just a lot of lackluster design on these fronts.
Sun and SGI used to win IKEA awards for their servers and their blades.
Best Buy is the number #2 distributor of the iPod, behind Apple. Why would they want to distribute a service that isn't even compatible with their NUMBER 4 selling product in the whole store and not sell a service that is compatible with the # one music store, the #1 player, and that is cross platform compatible.
It makes a big difference for me if the games are backwards compatible.
When I carry my laptop around, I also carry my playstation titles with me (vacations, business trips)
My iBook can play old PS1 titles very nicely under Connectix Virtual Gamestation and I can use a playstation style controller through USB.
There is a fairly decent PS2 emulator for OSX - if Sony were to drop backwards compatibility it might break some of the emulators for quite some time. (Something I'm sure THEY wouldn't mind)
But... I buy games so I can play them on my laptop and on consoles and occasionally on my desktop.
There are few games that beat some of the original PS1 games: like Geom Cube, Intelligent Qube, Devil Dice, Crash Bash, Super Puzzle Fighter, Tecmo Stackers.
The Xbox hasn't had many compelling games or even decent emulators for use on laptops, so I could care less - this will make a big difference if the PS3 isn't backward compatible.
Some games like Intelligent Qube (the only game better than Tetris in my opinion) will never come out on another system. The creator was really teed off at Sony over a licensing issue and vowed he would never license the game again.
The game Devil Dice is one of the most innovative games to ever come out for any system. It too will never come to another system or be reproduced as a classic.
As far universal play with all ages - there's hardly a game that can beat Crash Bash - because it's easy to pick up and is more of a cooperative game that requires only one player to be good.
Super Puzzle Fighter and Tecmo Stackers are also very very good games.
Plus I don't think any good light gun games have come out for the PS2 - especially non violent games like Point Blank.
I haven't purchased a PS2 because all the games that aare decent are covered under the PS1.
Actually I said that you shouldn't care because if you are producing content that YOU KNOW people are reading - your advertisers should care about that fact alone.
The point of the slashdot post is that Neilson ratings are very very inaccurate. Just because a lot of people are viewing the content, does NOT equate into a lot of people getting stuff from the advertisers.
The SuperBowl is NOT a good comparison because in the last 25 or so years the SuperBowl is watched more and more for the advertisements than the game.
Here's a good example. The website Xlr8yourmac.com is easiest the single most valuable website to me on the internet. I would imagine it's hit totals are pretty low. That said, it generates a good bit of revenue from advertisers, mainly Other World Computing.
My main website generates traffic through eBay sales and by posting in forums such as this around the internet.
I mention that I have a website in all my ebay winning bidder emails.
I also generate traffic by posting in forums about Apple or Mac Community topics.
Further I have a traffic generating site called JackWhispers that follows Mac Community Scams and provides different perspectives on Macintosh news. I could care less if anyone visits. All I know is that the target IS getting my message or at least finding it in Google.
My traffic to jackwhispers has risen from 400 to about 4000 a month.
I also sell to people here on slashdot - people that post in my journal and see my various postings.
Yahoo geocities premium accounts (as my site is) monitor traffic without cookies (if you want them too)
better yet get a Palm Pilot emulator - there is one for Linux, mac, and PC - they are free too and you can load any ROM from just about any Palm out there + if you have a palm you can even sync between the two.
OR
You could just download the Palm Desktop software - it works too.
"I wonder if each inflatable station module won't come with complimentary bibles."
Actually hotels sign contracts for the Gideon Bible. I would imagine Budget Suites/Bigelow Properties is under this contract.
The author of the slashdot post may not enjoy reading the Bible, the editor that didn't remove the blatant phishing comment may not enjoy reading the Bible, but there are those of us who do read. Even if it is for diversity rather than spiriutual growth.
I mean honestly, you are either going to have to take some reading material or a gameboy - you're not going to be able to go out on the beach for a stroll or to get a picture with Mickey.
I think you stated your own answer to your question...
Theaters will never be out of vogue -
1) theaters are a medium for instant gratification 2) most people WANT to get out of the house 3) movies are cheap enough to enjoy regularly 4) movie theaters offer sound systems & quality that takes big bucks to reproduce, even if prices come down on home components 5) most movies aren't worth owning personally or even watching the first time - less people are willing to own something bad if they hear a bad review, more people are willing to check out a movie with a bad review if it's a one time experience.
Say this again - are you saying you didn't agree to the terms of service therefore you are immune?
Most if not ALL broadband ISPs strictly prohibit servers - whether mail or DNS or FTP - without a business account. How are you claiming that you getting around that?
Your home mailserver may be illegal if you are using cable modem and DSL - and will most likely soon be outlawed from all consumer ISPs based on the fact that a lot of SPAM is produced from this type of "home mail server"
Currently, my local charter cable does NOT allow one to run a server from their account or a mailserver- you must acquire a business account for $120 more - even at that their are a lot of restrictions.
I am a religious man, but I have to say the Mark of the Beast is WAY overhyped with the RFID.
What you don't understand (or maybe you do) is that "even better" technology exists to facilitate such a "mark". You have thumbprints, you have unique DNA.
Watch the movie Gattaca - it will show you how we will be tracked in the future. There's nothing about RFID there. THis said, I think we will also be able to be located by thermal scan or biorythm as easily as GPS. This is already somewhat possible. All it would take is required thermal/biorythm monitors in all public places. These would be cameras, but identifiers. They could be pitched as "identification control" - see it wouldn't record that you did a crime, but if a crime were committed - your biorythm could be placed at the crimescene.
The future of payment lies within the "number of his name" as the mark of the beast.
Actually in case you didn't know - firewire is faster than the internal buses. And Apple PURPOSELY includes a Superdrive that can do what 90% of optical drive useage is for.
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Apple wants you to open up the case AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE... to me - I don't see it as a flaw, I do wish they would offer a custom configuration online though that gave you two bays.
I bought a big Mac yesterday to get one of the Sony Connect Songs. I noticed on the specs that it requires Windows ME/2000/XP - no Mac or Linux Support
At least in the Pepsi promotion - the songs worked on all three major platforms (Linux with a little hack)
I find it very ironic that a Big Mac with a song doesn't work on a Mac at all. The Sony Connect Store doesn't function properly under Virtual PC either.
So, the Sonny Connect songs won't be able to play on the machines the Germans just bought unless they boot into Windows.
"merican PUBLIC...DUMBASSES...there is a knob on the radio if you don't like what you are listening to, turn it!"
When I was 6, read that SIX, cable TV was new. The only channels were TBS, CNN, WGN, HBO, Showtime, and local TV. At 9PM Playboy would come on. Do you know who would try to sneak in and catch a peak late at night? My brothers and I. I would be HORRIFIED if my 6 year old was watching that!!
This is not censorship, nor is it a freedom of speech issue. Freedom of Speech (constitutionally) does NOT give you the right to say anything, "artistically" create anything for public display. It gives you the right to say it - PERIOD - YOU have the obligation to find an audience. PUBLIC PERFORMANCE or FREE performance in public is REGULATED - it always has been.
I think the best way to decide issues APART from the FCC would be to let the public decide on Presidential ballots. Because to me, the only people WORTHY of living in the US and being GRANTED their constutional rights are those that vote.
Teachers originally were not meant to be "bread winners" - teaching used to be done as a societal benefit by those that cared for the education of our children.
You basically said this: "It's not the children's education that matters, it's the selfish needs of the teacher that matter"
Look, teachers can get by, and communities will take care of them - single mothers with 3 kids to support or a disabled husband with no income IS commonplace - but should NOT dictate how much someone earns or even deserves to earn.
Teacher pay was NEVER meant to be supportive of a family, but since teacher pay worldwide is well above minimum wage - even single mothers and fathers COULD support themselves and their children - they just can't have cable TV with HBO and Dinner at Outback every night.
Ha - I thought the same thing when I read the article. Tomorrow there will be an article about 90% of SPAM comes from get rich quick from your one bedroom apartment MLM schemes. (Which is where I think a significant portion comes from)
My theory is that that it is essentially an assault on the home user by marketting companies who (starting in 2000) scrambled due to mail costs going up and junk mail being investigated criminally more often. The National Do Not Call List also had a huge impact.
Now, telemarketers and the like (scum) have turned to hiring "at home" spammers. I know someone (read not liked) that worked for Opt In Real Big - he gave them 200,000 email addresses a month and made $1500 a month spamming his OWN customers from his OWN web site sales.
Realistically I would say all major sources of SPAM are 20%:
Viral SPAM China Direct marketting Hacking/Phishing/Piracy Everything else
Slashdot Mirror
Personally I like this display from Sun. It has a USB hub, Svideo, DVI, and VGA inputs. It's matched the G5 since before the G5 came out and doesn't reuire a special video card.
Actually democracy does NOT breed freedom - it leads to anarchy because everyone thinks that because it is a democracy they have the right to do anything and if they find they don't they PAY to put someone in power WHO WILL give them that right.
A Republic (which america is supposed to be is true freedom because EVERYONE has a say, not just the elite and not just the agenda pushers. The only thing you are forced to do in a republic is be involved and vote.
The only true value this movie WOULD have is if it were released on November 9th 2004 instead of a few months before an election. Moveon.org is handing out free tickets - so what you are basically getting is an infomercial rather than a documentary. This film would have been much more valued 12 months ago or 5 months from now.
There are other things that go into a bay besides optical drives - but a second optical drive that rips faster than the SuperDrive is a big plus.
A second bay on a Mac is different than a second bay on a PC. Apple chooses the drives for you by default and leaves no room for expansion.
I agree that external drives are actually better and more useful, but clutter is an issue with most of my clients in ad agencies. There are 15-20 packed in a 20x30 room. Having zip drives, card readers, CD burners strown about really makes for clutter.
As for the PCI slots - extra firewire - extra USB 2.0 ports and extra PCI video cards - where's the room for pro audio card, the IDE ATA card, the SCSI card?
I would say it's not most - it's actually about half - at least as far as the 300 to 400 people I serve here in Greenville SC with Apple technical service.
Actually the X Serve won it last year.
"Last year the company nabbed two Gold IDEAs (for its 12- and 17-inch PowerBooks) and one Silver (for its Xserve), while in 2002 it won five total: four Gold for its retail Apple Stores, its Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco presence, its flat-panel iMac and its iPod; and one Silver for its revamped iBook."
Servers and rackmount cases are included - there's just a lot of lackluster design on these fronts.
Sun and SGI used to win IKEA awards for their servers and their blades.
You can use it on a PC - but note that the windows key (command key) is out of place.
You might need a keyboard remapper kext to remedy tht and might want to take mineral oil to the two keys that are out of place.
It's the same thing though as PC keyboards.
I use an Eluminx glow keyboard that is PS2 with my Macs. The Windows key is on the keyboard and I just did what I told you above.
The Apple bluetooth keyboard even works with my Ericsson cellphone.
Actually in the past year or two -
Apple designs have been very lackluster in my opinion.
The G5 is nice looking but was a BIG step backwards. Removal of one PCI slot and removal of a second 5.25" expansion bay.
The keyboard that won here doesn't match - the white does not match the Pro line like the silver and black Pro input devices did.
The only real update to the iMac line in the last year has been a 20" screen - which is nice but that design one it's awards 2 years ago.
If the rumors are true about the new 20 23 & 30 inch displays coming - they too will be a step backward from the current design.
Apple should be winning kudos for software lately. Hardware, I'm not so sure
The iPod has admittedly gotten better.
Best Buy is the number #2 distributor of the iPod, behind Apple. Why would they want to distribute a service that isn't even compatible with their NUMBER 4 selling product in the whole store and not sell a service that is compatible with the # one music store, the #1 player, and that is cross platform compatible.
It's just a bad marketing analysis in my opinion.
It makes a big difference for me if the games are backwards compatible.
When I carry my laptop around, I also carry my playstation titles with me (vacations, business trips)
My iBook can play old PS1 titles very nicely under Connectix Virtual Gamestation and I can use a playstation style controller through USB.
There is a fairly decent PS2 emulator for OSX - if Sony were to drop backwards compatibility it might break some of the emulators for quite some time. (Something I'm sure THEY wouldn't mind)
But... I buy games so I can play them on my laptop and on consoles and occasionally on my desktop.
There are few games that beat some of the original PS1 games: like Geom Cube, Intelligent Qube, Devil Dice, Crash Bash, Super Puzzle Fighter, Tecmo Stackers.
The Xbox hasn't had many compelling games or even decent emulators for use on laptops, so I could care less - this will make a big difference if the PS3 isn't backward compatible.
Now don't get cocky... ;) ;)
Some games like Intelligent Qube (the only game better than Tetris in my opinion) will never come out on another system. The creator was really teed off at Sony over a licensing issue and vowed he would never license the game again.
The game Devil Dice is one of the most innovative games to ever come out for any system. It too will never come to another system or be reproduced as a classic.
As far universal play with all ages - there's hardly a game that can beat Crash Bash - because it's easy to pick up and is more of a cooperative game that requires only one player to be good.
Super Puzzle Fighter and Tecmo Stackers are also very very good games.
Plus I don't think any good light gun games have come out for the PS2 - especially non violent games like Point Blank.
I haven't purchased a PS2 because all the games that aare decent are covered under the PS1.
Actually I said that you shouldn't care because if you are producing content that YOU KNOW people are reading - your advertisers should care about that fact alone.
The point of the slashdot post is that Neilson ratings are very very inaccurate. Just because a lot of people are viewing the content, does NOT equate into a lot of people getting stuff from the advertisers.
The SuperBowl is NOT a good comparison because in the last 25 or so years the SuperBowl is watched more and more for the advertisements than the game.
Advertisers shouldn't care how many people visit.
Here's a good example. The website Xlr8yourmac.com is easiest the single most valuable website to me on the internet. I would imagine it's hit totals are pretty low. That said, it generates a good bit of revenue from advertisers, mainly Other World Computing.
My main website generates traffic through eBay sales and by posting in forums such as this around the internet.
I mention that I have a website in all my ebay winning bidder emails.
I also generate traffic by posting in forums about Apple or Mac Community topics.
Further I have a traffic generating site called JackWhispers that follows Mac Community Scams and provides different perspectives on Macintosh news. I could care less if anyone visits. All I know is that the target IS getting my message or at least finding it in Google.
My traffic to jackwhispers has risen from 400 to about 4000 a month.
I also sell to people here on slashdot - people that post in my journal and see my various postings.
Yahoo geocities premium accounts (as my site is) monitor traffic without cookies (if you want them too)
better yet get a Palm Pilot emulator - there is one for Linux, mac, and PC - they are free too and you can load any ROM from just about any Palm out there + if you have a palm you can even sync between the two.
OR
You could just download the Palm Desktop software - it works too.
"I wonder if each inflatable station module won't come with complimentary bibles."
Actually hotels sign contracts for the Gideon Bible. I would imagine Budget Suites/Bigelow Properties is under this contract.
The author of the slashdot post may not enjoy reading the Bible, the editor that didn't remove the blatant phishing comment may not enjoy reading the Bible, but there are those of us who do read. Even if it is for diversity rather than spiriutual growth.
I mean honestly, you are either going to have to take some reading material or a gameboy - you're not going to be able to go out on the beach for a stroll or to get a picture with Mickey.
breach of contract is breaking the "law"
I think you stated your own answer to your question...
Theaters will never be out of vogue -
1) theaters are a medium for instant gratification
2) most people WANT to get out of the house
3) movies are cheap enough to enjoy regularly
4) movie theaters offer sound systems & quality that takes big bucks to reproduce, even if prices come down on home components
5) most movies aren't worth owning personally or even watching the first time - less people are willing to own something bad if they hear a bad review, more people are willing to check out a movie with a bad review if it's a one time experience.
Say this again - are you saying you didn't agree to the terms of service therefore you are immune?
Most if not ALL broadband ISPs strictly prohibit servers - whether mail or DNS or FTP - without a business account. How are you claiming that you getting around that?
Your home mailserver may be illegal if you are using cable modem and DSL - and will most likely soon be outlawed from all consumer ISPs based on the fact that a lot of SPAM is produced from this type of "home mail server"
Currently, my local charter cable does NOT allow one to run a server from their account or a mailserver- you must acquire a business account for $120 more - even at that their are a lot of restrictions.
I am a religious man, but I have to say the Mark of the Beast is WAY overhyped with the RFID.
What you don't understand (or maybe you do) is that "even better" technology exists to facilitate such a "mark". You have thumbprints, you have unique DNA.
Watch the movie Gattaca - it will show you how we will be tracked in the future. There's nothing about RFID there. THis said, I think we will also be able to be located by thermal scan or biorythm as easily as GPS. This is already somewhat possible. All it would take is required thermal/biorythm monitors in all public places. These would be cameras, but identifiers. They could be pitched as "identification control" - see it wouldn't record that you did a crime, but if a crime were committed - your biorythm could be placed at the crimescene.
The future of payment lies within the "number of his name" as the mark of the beast.
Actually in case you didn't know - firewire is faster than the internal buses. And Apple PURPOSELY includes a Superdrive that can do what 90% of optical drive useage is for.
... to me - I don't see it as a flaw, I do wish they would offer a custom configuration online though that gave you two bays.
+
Apple wants you to open up the case AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE
I bought a big Mac yesterday to get one of the Sony Connect Songs. I noticed on the specs that it requires Windows ME/2000/XP - no Mac or Linux Support
At least in the Pepsi promotion - the songs worked on all three major platforms (Linux with a little hack)
I find it very ironic that a Big Mac with a song doesn't work on a Mac at all. The Sony Connect Store doesn't function properly under Virtual PC either.
So, the Sonny Connect songs won't be able to play on the machines the Germans just bought unless they boot into Windows.
"merican PUBLIC...DUMBASSES...there is a knob on the radio if you don't like what you are listening to, turn it!"
When I was 6, read that SIX, cable TV was new. The only channels were TBS, CNN, WGN, HBO, Showtime, and local TV. At 9PM Playboy would come on. Do you know who would try to sneak in and catch a peak late at night? My brothers and I. I would be HORRIFIED if my 6 year old was watching that!!
This is not censorship, nor is it a freedom of speech issue. Freedom of Speech (constitutionally) does NOT give you the right to say anything, "artistically" create anything for public display. It gives you the right to say it - PERIOD - YOU have the obligation to find an audience. PUBLIC PERFORMANCE or FREE performance in public is REGULATED - it always has been.
I think the best way to decide issues APART from the FCC would be to let the public decide on Presidential ballots. Because to me, the only people WORTHY of living in the US and being GRANTED their constutional rights are those that vote.
The problem is this:
Teachers originally were not meant to be "bread winners" - teaching used to be done as a societal benefit by those that cared for the education of our children.
You basically said this: "It's not the children's education that matters, it's the selfish needs of the teacher that matter"
Look, teachers can get by, and communities will take care of them - single mothers with 3 kids to support or a disabled husband with no income IS commonplace - but should NOT dictate how much someone earns or even deserves to earn.
Teacher pay was NEVER meant to be supportive of a family, but since teacher pay worldwide is well above minimum wage - even single mothers and fathers COULD support themselves and their children - they just can't have cable TV with HBO and Dinner at Outback every night.
Ha - I thought the same thing when I read the article. Tomorrow there will be an article about 90% of SPAM comes from get rich quick from your one bedroom apartment MLM schemes. (Which is where I think a significant portion comes from)
My theory is that that it is essentially an assault on the home user by marketting companies who (starting in 2000) scrambled due to mail costs going up and junk mail being investigated criminally more often. The National Do Not Call List also had a huge impact.
Now, telemarketers and the like (scum) have turned to hiring "at home" spammers. I know someone (read not liked) that worked for Opt In Real Big - he gave them 200,000 email addresses a month and made $1500 a month spamming his OWN customers from his OWN web site sales.
Realistically I would say all major sources of SPAM are 20%:
Viral SPAM
China
Direct marketting
Hacking/Phishing/Piracy
Everything else