The PowerBook G4 can run 10.4 (and some even 10.5) and shipped with Mac OS 9 install media. As they will run 10.4+, they can run all those software titles you name.
*Any* MacBook can run any of that software, because the "MacBook" is the rebranding of their portables which all contain Intel processors.
You can be as careful as you want, but shit still happens. The argument you're presenting here is "why pay extra for airbags on your car? Just don't crash!"
The data they are working with consists of incoming freshmen.
How many average 17 and 18-year-olds do you know are running Linux, in comparison to just buying a machine at Best Buy and using what it already has on it?
Oh, and the Mac has that "scary black screen and gray text mode" too. Hold command-V while starting up to see the boot sequence. Type in ">console" at the loginwindow to go into full screen text mode. Or, use \Applications\Utilities\Terminal.app for a windowed terminal.
I just don't understand why someone would think that a product like this is only to serve one purpose. Clearly if it doesn't do that one minor thing, then the whole product is completely unusable and should be regarded as "inferior".
Hint: He probably is content with every single other aspect of the iPhone except for the ability for it to route from 3G to WiFi. As this is a relatively minor aspect of what a smartphone can do, he made a decision to go with the iPhone because of it's numerous other qualities that he finds to be advantageous. Now, he has a fix for the one negative that we know he has with the product.
You know, I have more than a little Irish ancestry, and I totally agree with your sentiment here. Perhaps being annoyed by this is a genetic predisposition...
Not to nitpick, but the US government hides nuclear reactors all the time, in the form of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. However, the naval reactors on these vessels are in no way optimized for production of weapons-grade fissile material.
The real question is if Microsoft will have some of their legendary pressure applied to people that already have competing smartphones to drop them in amnesty bins or suffer the social consequences of the Redmond zealotry for being seen with an Android phone, or an iPhone around campus...
Microsoft always admits that their products are flawed, after they release new versions. It's one of the ways they get people to get the next version.
Every version of Windows since 1995 have had what I call "purchase reassurance messages" during the install where they say "This is the best version of Windows yet!"; which is actually a backhanded way of saying "We know the previous version had many flaws and sucked out loud, but this one doesn't as much!"
Windows 95 is great! It will change everything! >>> Windows 95 is terrible! Windows 98 fixes all the problems! >>> Windows 98 has deep and serious flaws. Windows ME fixes that for the home user, and Windows 2000 is the ultimate answer for business! >>> Windows ME is shit! Windows XP will save the world! >>> Windows XP is old and outdated - just look at the UI. Windows Vista is the new way to do everything faster, and more reliably! >>> We realize that Windows Vista wasn't the best we could do, but Windows 7 is!
They've been doing this for decades, and people just keep buying in.
The big problem with nuclear power is radioactive waste. BZZZZT. What you call "radioactive waste" I call "nuclear fuel which needs to have the neutron poisons removed"
There is no way to recycle it BZZZZT. 100% incorrect. You can reprocess it and use it as fuel again. An average pressurized water reactor only uses 1% of the fuel before you need to swap out the rods due to trans-uranic neutron poisons. There are processes to remove these neutron-capturing elements and load the other 99% back into the reactor.
and no matter where you put there is always the risk that it will show up in drinking water or somewhere else in the environment in the long run. When we're discarding perfectly useable fuel? Yes. It lasts for tens of thousands of years. If we reprocess it? The stuff you have to worry about will only last a couple hundred, or will last a couple million years because it's as stable as iron. You know what ends up "in drinking water or somewhere else in the environment" all the time today? Fly ash containing uranium and thorium, and corrosive sulfur from burning coal. You want your nuclear waste in one small place, or everywhere including your lungs?
I guess that all these small reactors will produce a lot more waste. Whereas I guess that you really have no idea what you're talking about. Let me give you some stuff to read about, so you can stop spreading completely false FUD:
If it's like most high rise housing projects, the Nuke plant would be safer, cleaner, and more habitable for the community. You wouldn't be able to score drugs as easily though...
Seriously, stop with the FUD already. The reason why no one is doing Uranium exploration right now is because we have massive amounts available in the reserves we know about. There's no reason to look for more.
Combine those reserves with the almost-billion metric tons of depleted U238 that the US alone has (which can be bred into fuel), and you're talking about a problem that won't actually be a problem for thousands of years.
Because when people want more production of domestic energy sources, it clearly means that we don't care if it's not done in a safe and responsible manner.
A little hint: whether or not Sarah Palin and her zealot followers ever came up with that catch phrase, BP would have still been drilling there, they would have still ignored massive equipment failures, and would have still made amazingly bad decisions that led to this.
Part of the issue in this, is that the Pacific DC Intertie was proposed and built in the Kennedy Administration. It's been upgraded since, but we are talking about moving power from the Columbia River basin between Oregon and Washington, to Southern California - over 1000 miles. If I'm not mistaken, Denmark and Norway are only about 500 miles apart.
I believe that Apple is using Display PostScript to anti-alias the hell out of everything through Quartz. Someone more knowledgable might clue us both in though.
For the most part, there isn't much of a difference. That is, until you look closely at the descenders and serifs, then you can see the difference between the two. The right column looks better.
You aren't kidding about that. I used to have to test WiFi gear in a chamber like this for hours at a time. I wouldn't say that being in there was anything that would drive you nuts unless you were in there for weeks or months, but it was creepy.
You are perfectly within your own domain to want products that are 100% free and open. However, Apple is perfectly within their own domain to not consider you to be in their target market demographic.
I don't see what the conflict is here. You don't want their product, and they don't want you as a customer due to your deal-breaker issues with their products.
I guess I'm wondering how many countries were planning to break into Y-12 in Tennessee to get their weapons grade plutonium, but that damn Jimmy Carter foiled their plans with an executive order so now they have to breed it themselves... ?
This was supposed to be a "lead by example" thing, and it was a "look at those fools causing problems for themselves" thing.
Nuclear waste = nuclear fuel. Problem solved decades ago through the same physics that create the "waste" in the first place. I could go into how this works, but I'd rather you just google the nuclear fuel cycle and read about it yourself. Nuclear waste, in the form of spent fuel, is only a problem because the politicians won't let the nuclear industry solve it through reprocessing.
Availability? Sure, there's a limited amount of U-233 and U-235. Good thing that we can breed more U-233 from the way more plentiful Thorium-232, and breed Pu-239, Pu-240, and Pu-241 from the almost 1 billion metric tons of U-238 the US already has out of the ground. This 'depleted' uranium-238 represents enough fuel, if used properly, to give 80% of the world's current population the same average energy budget that the US currently enjoys, for a thousand years, without digging up a single lump of ore that we haven't already.
Yes, it can be manufactured from it, a.k.a. reprocessing.
Reprocessing cannot be done currently in the United States, due to boorish politicians making dumb arbitrary rules. Therefore, the spent fuel from PWR's sit in pools, with all the transuranic neutron poisons still in them, which is why they were removed from the reactor vessel to begin with.
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The PowerBook G4 can run 10.4 (and some even 10.5) and shipped with Mac OS 9 install media. As they will run 10.4+, they can run all those software titles you name.
*Any* MacBook can run any of that software, because the "MacBook" is the rebranding of their portables which all contain Intel processors.
Please try to get your "facts" straight.
You can be as careful as you want, but shit still happens. The argument you're presenting here is "why pay extra for airbags on your car? Just don't crash!"
Why buy an Acura when a Honda is just as good (and made by the same company besides)?
Because the Acura model is usually better equipped by default, and has options that are not available on the Honda.
Different products are different, regardless of if they are based on the same frame / unibody. See also: Nissan / Infiniti, Toyota / Lexus
The data they are working with consists of incoming freshmen.
How many average 17 and 18-year-olds do you know are running Linux, in comparison to just buying a machine at Best Buy and using what it already has on it?
Oh, and the Mac has that "scary black screen and gray text mode" too. Hold command-V while starting up to see the boot sequence. Type in ">console" at the loginwindow to go into full screen text mode. Or, use \Applications\Utilities\Terminal.app for a windowed terminal.
I just don't understand why someone would think that a product like this is only to serve one purpose. Clearly if it doesn't do that one minor thing, then the whole product is completely unusable and should be regarded as "inferior".
Hint: He probably is content with every single other aspect of the iPhone except for the ability for it to route from 3G to WiFi. As this is a relatively minor aspect of what a smartphone can do, he made a decision to go with the iPhone because of it's numerous other qualities that he finds to be advantageous. Now, he has a fix for the one negative that we know he has with the product.
You know, I have more than a little Irish ancestry, and I totally agree with your sentiment here. Perhaps being annoyed by this is a genetic predisposition...
Not to nitpick, but the US government hides nuclear reactors all the time, in the form of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. However, the naval reactors on these vessels are in no way optimized for production of weapons-grade fissile material.
Actually, net neutrality is exactly the government deciding what is allowed on the Internet, by definition.
It just so happens that they are deciding that all traffic should be treated equally by all carriers.
The real question is if Microsoft will have some of their legendary pressure applied to people that already have competing smartphones to drop them in amnesty bins or suffer the social consequences of the Redmond zealotry for being seen with an Android phone, or an iPhone around campus...
Microsoft always admits that their products are flawed, after they release new versions. It's one of the ways they get people to get the next version.
Every version of Windows since 1995 have had what I call "purchase reassurance messages" during the install where they say "This is the best version of Windows yet!"; which is actually a backhanded way of saying "We know the previous version had many flaws and sucked out loud, but this one doesn't as much!"
Windows 95 is great! It will change everything! >>> Windows 95 is terrible! Windows 98 fixes all the problems! >>> Windows 98 has deep and serious flaws. Windows ME fixes that for the home user, and Windows 2000 is the ultimate answer for business! >>> Windows ME is shit! Windows XP will save the world! >>> Windows XP is old and outdated - just look at the UI. Windows Vista is the new way to do everything faster, and more reliably! >>> We realize that Windows Vista wasn't the best we could do, but Windows 7 is!
They've been doing this for decades, and people just keep buying in.
I'm talking about the guy who blew up a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.
It's now coming out that BP was involved in convincing the UK Government to release him, in order to get drilling rights in Libya.
The big problem with nuclear power is radioactive waste.
BZZZZT. What you call "radioactive waste" I call "nuclear fuel which needs to have the neutron poisons removed"
There is no way to recycle it
BZZZZT. 100% incorrect. You can reprocess it and use it as fuel again. An average pressurized water reactor only uses 1% of the fuel before you need to swap out the rods due to trans-uranic neutron poisons. There are processes to remove these neutron-capturing elements and load the other 99% back into the reactor.
and no matter where you put there is always the risk that it will show up in drinking water or somewhere else in the environment in the long run.
When we're discarding perfectly useable fuel? Yes. It lasts for tens of thousands of years. If we reprocess it? The stuff you have to worry about will only last a couple hundred, or will last a couple million years because it's as stable as iron. You know what ends up "in drinking water or somewhere else in the environment" all the time today? Fly ash containing uranium and thorium, and corrosive sulfur from burning coal. You want your nuclear waste in one small place, or everywhere including your lungs?
I guess that all these small reactors will produce a lot more waste.
Whereas I guess that you really have no idea what you're talking about. Let me give you some stuff to read about, so you can stop spreading completely false FUD:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel_cycle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_wave_reactor
If it's like most high rise housing projects, the Nuke plant would be safer, cleaner, and more habitable for the community. You wouldn't be able to score drugs as easily though...
Peak Uranium... Oh Noes!
Seriously, stop with the FUD already. The reason why no one is doing Uranium exploration right now is because we have massive amounts available in the reserves we know about. There's no reason to look for more.
Combine those reserves with the almost-billion metric tons of depleted U238 that the US alone has (which can be bred into fuel), and you're talking about a problem that won't actually be a problem for thousands of years.
Because when people want more production of domestic energy sources, it clearly means that we don't care if it's not done in a safe and responsible manner.
A little hint: whether or not Sarah Palin and her zealot followers ever came up with that catch phrase, BP would have still been drilling there, they would have still ignored massive equipment failures, and would have still made amazingly bad decisions that led to this.
Ironic that a mass murderer might be *out* of prison because of what BP did in another instance, no?
In the Hall of Fame of Corporate Asshole-ism, I think BP might get it's own wing, adjacent to AT&T's.
Part of the issue in this, is that the Pacific DC Intertie was proposed and built in the Kennedy Administration. It's been upgraded since, but we are talking about moving power from the Columbia River basin between Oregon and Washington, to Southern California - over 1000 miles. If I'm not mistaken, Denmark and Norway are only about 500 miles apart.
I believe that Apple is using Display PostScript to anti-alias the hell out of everything through Quartz. Someone more knowledgable might clue us both in though.
For the most part, there isn't much of a difference. That is, until you look closely at the descenders and serifs, then you can see the difference between the two. The right column looks better.
You aren't kidding about that. I used to have to test WiFi gear in a chamber like this for hours at a time. I wouldn't say that being in there was anything that would drive you nuts unless you were in there for weeks or months, but it was creepy.
You are perfectly within your own domain to want products that are 100% free and open. However, Apple is perfectly within their own domain to not consider you to be in their target market demographic.
I don't see what the conflict is here. You don't want their product, and they don't want you as a customer due to your deal-breaker issues with their products.
I guess I'm wondering how many countries were planning to break into Y-12 in Tennessee to get their weapons grade plutonium, but that damn Jimmy Carter foiled their plans with an executive order so now they have to breed it themselves... ?
This was supposed to be a "lead by example" thing, and it was a "look at those fools causing problems for themselves" thing.
Exactly - TMI proved that the safety systems can contain a runaway criticality. I believe the other unit at TMI is still in operation today.
Nuclear waste = nuclear fuel. Problem solved decades ago through the same physics that create the "waste" in the first place. I could go into how this works, but I'd rather you just google the nuclear fuel cycle and read about it yourself. Nuclear waste, in the form of spent fuel, is only a problem because the politicians won't let the nuclear industry solve it through reprocessing.
Availability? Sure, there's a limited amount of U-233 and U-235. Good thing that we can breed more U-233 from the way more plentiful Thorium-232, and breed Pu-239, Pu-240, and Pu-241 from the almost 1 billion metric tons of U-238 the US already has out of the ground. This 'depleted' uranium-238 represents enough fuel, if used properly, to give 80% of the world's current population the same average energy budget that the US currently enjoys, for a thousand years, without digging up a single lump of ore that we haven't already.
Yes, it can be manufactured from it, a.k.a. reprocessing.
Reprocessing cannot be done currently in the United States, due to boorish politicians making dumb arbitrary rules. Therefore, the spent fuel from PWR's sit in pools, with all the transuranic neutron poisons still in them, which is why they were removed from the reactor vessel to begin with.