Forget the rest. Ambrosia is porting Apeiron to OS X. I get a shiver up my spine thinking about the relief I used to feel when the sparse whooshing sound of my standard bullets transitioned into the steady dull beat of the triple-shot power-up.
I can hear it now... Bring it on baby!
Well after sitting in a room full of them at WWDC I can attest to them being nice and quiet. The drawback for imitators is the need to use a cheese grater for front and rear case panels.
Check the revision of the logic board. If it's a rev 1 you can only put 384MB in. The slots only recognise 128MB even if you put a 256MB stick in them.
Rev. 1: $77D.40F2
Rev. 2: $77D.45F1
Rev. 3: $77D.45F2
Look in the System Profiler. If you're rev 2 or better you can put in 768MB.
OK, you're right that the manufacturing and distribution costs aren't huge. What about retail though? Retailers of any product typically get the lion's share of the takings, don't they? I reckon you'd have to sell a lot of CDs to rent, power, staff and maintain a record store.
Has someone got a link to one of those pie charts showing where your record buying dollar goes? I bet it's been in Infoporn in an issue of Wired somewhere along the line.
I've got a home server plugged into the stereo, with all my music available via iTunes. I use a Powerbook G4 as my main machine, and I'd like to get a 30GB iPod to plug into my car stereo. This type of setup seems to be becoming increasingly common.
I buy my music on CD, although I only grab them off the shelf when I want to check out the cover art and lyrics. I suppose I might start buying electronically, but unless the price drops to reflect the savings on manufacturing and distribution, I don't really see the point. I still like having a tangible object to associate with the artist's work. (so much so that whenever there's a sale on I end up buying albums I like that I ripped from friends)
Steve must be pretty sure that he's got a killer reason if he's planning such a huge move. I suppose that killer reason could be big savings to the consumer, but somehow I doubt it. What else is he going to offer?
There's also one at Duxford just south of Cambridge. It's hard to picture what it would feel like with a first class cabin, since the interior is pretty shagged. The dimensions are really surprising though - the fuselage is so tiny it's almost claustrophobic.
I've never understood why Britons don't consider the UK to be part of Europe. To outside observers on all the other continents, it just goes without saying.
I was curious about the fares, so I went through the booking pages and found that LHR-JFK return is about £3700. It's a lot of money to you and me, but if you're used to paying for business or first class fares on subsonic flights, it's unlikely to be a huge shock. Certainly nothing like US$15k anyway.
True, definitions change, but it's still reasonable to encourage people to use a more appropriate word instead of morphing the meaning of a similar but different word.
An example is the American adoption of the word "momentarily" to mean "in a moment" when it really mans "for a moment". When an American Airlines hostess announces that "we will be landing momentarily" I always picture us doing a touch-and-go!
Actually, browsing through the posts here, I have to say that I was getting an NIH feeling of a different kind. It seems that there are a lot of Americans having a whinge about this big new plane costing so much and being launched in a recession. I wonder if they'd be saying the same thing if it were a Boeing.
You have to come to terms with the fact that the continued drop in price has been accompanied by a drop in reliability. Instead of drooling over the extra disk space you can afford because you put off buying a disk for six months, think about buying more than one. The only sensible solution in my opinion is a PCI RAID card with mirrored drives.
Well the catch to the great price deals in my opinion is that it's time to face up to the reliability issue and pay for mirroring. I just set up a home server to relieve my other machines of perpetual disk space worries, and chose to buy two drives and a PCI RAID card.
Yes, I'm halving my potential storage capacity, but the chances of me losing my data have plummetted. Break in and theft is now my biggest data loss threat.
So yes, drives have got a lot cheaper and maybe they're a lot less reliable, but you can still set up a large amount of storage that's quite safe for relatively little money.
For those interested, my choices were the ACARD PCI 6880M with two 120GB Barracuda Vs (non-SATA). Nice and quiet, and gives me the (perhaps false) reassurance that quiet bearings will translate into longer life.
> Why get rid of the old MOLEX?
Are you crazy? I can't think of a single electronic component that inspires hatred and loathing like every encounter with the Molex connector. Enough hatred to curse the fool that invented the damn thing every time I have to unplug one. The Molex connector inflicts pain on every disconnect, and its inventor deserves to be strung up by his thumbs.
Wiggle, waggle, wiggle, waggle, aaaaargh just come out you little bastard, aaaaaaargh!
The Seagate drives may be a tad slower, but if you want to build a home multimedia server that will sit in your living room, they have the benefit of being unbelievably quiet.
At 24dB, you have to put your ear to a Barracuda drive to hear it, whereas the Western Digital drives put out a whopping 39dB!
I don't think she meant that the Brits don't try as hard - simply that they can see the funny side when they fail. I'm neither British nor American, but having lived in both countries I find that the Brits' self deprecating humour makes them far more appealing.
Whose idea was it to pepper the commentary with so much alliteration? I love the show, but I find myself cringing and the tiresome tendency to talk in tedious tones.
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Forget the rest. Ambrosia is porting Apeiron to OS X. I get a shiver up my spine thinking about the relief I used to feel when the sparse whooshing sound of my standard bullets transitioned into the steady dull beat of the triple-shot power-up. I can hear it now... Bring it on baby!
Well after sitting in a room full of them at WWDC I can attest to them being nice and quiet. The drawback for imitators is the need to use a cheese grater for front and rear case panels.
Check the revision of the logic board. If it's a rev 1 you can only put 384MB in. The slots only recognise 128MB even if you put a 256MB stick in them. Rev. 1: $77D.40F2 Rev. 2: $77D.45F1 Rev. 3: $77D.45F2 Look in the System Profiler. If you're rev 2 or better you can put in 768MB.
Got VPL? Try wearing a G instead.
Has someone got a link to one of those pie charts showing where your record buying dollar goes? I bet it's been in Infoporn in an issue of Wired somewhere along the line.
I buy my music on CD, although I only grab them off the shelf when I want to check out the cover art and lyrics. I suppose I might start buying electronically, but unless the price drops to reflect the savings on manufacturing and distribution, I don't really see the point. I still like having a tangible object to associate with the artist's work. (so much so that whenever there's a sale on I end up buying albums I like that I ripped from friends)
Steve must be pretty sure that he's got a killer reason if he's planning such a huge move. I suppose that killer reason could be big savings to the consumer, but somehow I doubt it. What else is he going to offer?
There's also one at Duxford just south of Cambridge. It's hard to picture what it would feel like with a first class cabin, since the interior is pretty shagged. The dimensions are really surprising though - the fuselage is so tiny it's almost claustrophobic.
I've never understood why Britons don't consider the UK to be part of Europe. To outside observers on all the other continents, it just goes without saying.
I was curious about the fares, so I went through the booking pages and found that LHR-JFK return is about £3700. It's a lot of money to you and me, but if you're used to paying for business or first class fares on subsonic flights, it's unlikely to be a huge shock. Certainly nothing like US$15k anyway.
Surely the home of Concorde is Toulouse?
Anyone know if this thing comes in PAL format?
True, definitions change, but it's still reasonable to encourage people to use a more appropriate word instead of morphing the meaning of a similar but different word. An example is the American adoption of the word "momentarily" to mean "in a moment" when it really mans "for a moment". When an American Airlines hostess announces that "we will be landing momentarily" I always picture us doing a touch-and-go!
Actually, browsing through the posts here, I have to say that I was getting an NIH feeling of a different kind. It seems that there are a lot of Americans having a whinge about this big new plane costing so much and being launched in a recession. I wonder if they'd be saying the same thing if it were a Boeing.
You have to come to terms with the fact that the continued drop in price has been accompanied by a drop in reliability. Instead of drooling over the extra disk space you can afford because you put off buying a disk for six months, think about buying more than one. The only sensible solution in my opinion is a PCI RAID card with mirrored drives.
Oh great. I suppose these things will produce about 40dB going by the rest of WD's range. I'll wait for Seagate's thanks.
Yes, I'm halving my potential storage capacity, but the chances of me losing my data have plummetted. Break in and theft is now my biggest data loss threat.
So yes, drives have got a lot cheaper and maybe they're a lot less reliable, but you can still set up a large amount of storage that's quite safe for relatively little money.
For those interested, my choices were the ACARD PCI 6880M with two 120GB Barracuda Vs (non-SATA). Nice and quiet, and gives me the (perhaps false) reassurance that quiet bearings will translate into longer life.
> Why get rid of the old MOLEX? Are you crazy? I can't think of a single electronic component that inspires hatred and loathing like every encounter with the Molex connector. Enough hatred to curse the fool that invented the damn thing every time I have to unplug one. The Molex connector inflicts pain on every disconnect, and its inventor deserves to be strung up by his thumbs. Wiggle, waggle, wiggle, waggle, aaaaargh just come out you little bastard, aaaaaaargh!
The Seagate drives may be a tad slower, but if you want to build a home multimedia server that will sit in your living room, they have the benefit of being unbelievably quiet.
At 24dB, you have to put your ear to a Barracuda drive to hear it, whereas the Western Digital drives put out a whopping 39dB!
Get Seagate drives. They're amazingly quiet. See Storage Review for good comparisons.
I don't think she meant that the Brits don't try as hard - simply that they can see the funny side when they fail. I'm neither British nor American, but having lived in both countries I find that the Brits' self deprecating humour makes them far more appealing.
Whose idea was it to pepper the commentary with so much alliteration? I love the show, but I find myself cringing and the tiresome tendency to talk in tedious tones.