I went to Berlin last summer for two weeks and took my iBook along with me. More than anything else it turned out to be deadweight that I almost never used. I wrote one letter on it, which I burned to a CD to send at an internet cafe. Mostly, I was too busy *doing stuff* to be reflecting on anything. Visiting museums, eating at cafes, exploring the city--the time for writing about the journey is *afterwards*. The entire thing was burned into my memory so well I can still remember what I did each day of the trip, and I was able to make a pretty good set of web pages afterwards for family and friends to look at. You can spend your time in Europe however you want, but I hope (for your sake) that your memories of Europe are focused more on eating croissants at little streetside cafes than they are installing drivers on a PIII-500.
>odd data message "HELP ME! I'M TRAPPED IN THE INTERNET"
Good lord. Isn't this the sort of thing the Internet Task Force was put together to help? I've never actually seen the task force but with a name like that I imagine they're like a geek version of the Justice League. In fact right now I bet they're sitting around a table at the Hall of TCP/IP, debating what to do next before flying off to rescue that poor, brave soul who is "trapped in the internet."
I sleep better at night knowing we have heroes like that on our side.
I used to work at a public radio station and had a jazz shift in spite of knowing fairly little starting out about jazz. I don't really follow it anymore but I do know what sounds purty:
-Stan Getz. Not as well-known as Miles Davis but the man could play. It's mostly laid back stuff. Since his death a few years ago there have been some anthologies; I have The Best of the Verve Years Vol II and it's great.
-Chet Baker: A trumpeter I don't know a lot about but I do know that his rendition of My Funny Valentine is considered a classic.
-Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday are both wonderful if you're looking for jazz vocalists.
-Jimmie Lunceford rocks if you're going for early 20th century jazz. I think he did "Flying Home" which is an *excellent* dance song.
The Jazz anthology (from the Ken Burns PBS series) is a good overview if you're looking for artists to buy. Anyone appearing on discs 2-4 you can buy and know you're getting a great CD. With disc 1 you run into problems with the sound quality not being so great and with disc 5 you run into, well, 80's Herbie Hancock.
>This is the most recent example of this. Microsoft, in a previous slashdot story two weeks ago, announced IE 6 SP1 or whatever will be their last update ANYWAYS even for WINDOWS
Did you even bother to read your own link? If you would have you would see that IE6 SP1 will be the last STAND ALONE version of IE. They're still developing it.
And yes, you should read articles cynically, but you should also read postings cynically as well.
>do you really think the amount of Ghz is what really counts nowdays ?
It does count to me. I only expect to buy one Mac box every five years or so. The ramp from OS9 to OS X 10.2 has been kind of steep and some older computers have been left in the dust. Will that level out now or continue? I'd rather buy the fastest computer I can now rather than regret it when OS X 11 or whatever they call it makes my G3/500 iBook creep along.
> Best strategy is for IBM to make a public offer of $10M...
That's a good idea. Hey, while we're on the topic, I was looking through the Linux source code last week and found some stuff that was *exactly* like code I'd posted to Usenet back in the late 80's. I can't say what it was cuz it's my intellectual property, but I'm getting ready to sue anyone I can find who's invested in Linux. If anyone from IBM is reading this, I can be bought out for $10 million dollars.
PS. My brother-in-law Bob says he has some IP in the kernal too. $10 million for him too.
Thanks for posting the info, though. I just went to the posted Uplink link and saw nothing about a Mac version there. Heh, now I get to do some pseudo-hacking on my iBook...
The reason it's taking so long is because they were commodity parts to begin with. If you're Sony and you're creating your system from scratch, the first million or so systems are going to be very expensive simply because you're still working the kinks out. After that, economies of scale kick in and your per unit price starts to drop. However, if you're MS putting together an XBox and you go to your modem supplier to order another million modems, well, your supplier has already manufactured 20 million other modems exactly like the ones you're buying, so any savings with economies of scale long ago dried up. The problem MS is having is that by using commodity parts, the cost savings were there *from the beginning*, so the system that costs $400 to build now costs maybe $350 a year from now, instead of having a drop from $400 to $300, or $250.
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I went to Berlin last summer for two weeks and took my iBook along with me. More than anything else it turned out to be deadweight that I almost never used. I wrote one letter on it, which I burned to a CD to send at an internet cafe. Mostly, I was too busy *doing stuff* to be reflecting on anything. Visiting museums, eating at cafes, exploring the city--the time for writing about the journey is *afterwards*. The entire thing was burned into my memory so well I can still remember what I did each day of the trip, and I was able to make a pretty good set of web pages afterwards for family and friends to look at. You can spend your time in Europe however you want, but I hope (for your sake) that your memories of Europe are focused more on eating croissants at little streetside cafes than they are installing drivers on a PIII-500.
>odd data message "HELP ME! I'M TRAPPED IN THE INTERNET"
Good lord. Isn't this the sort of thing the Internet Task Force was put together to help? I've never actually seen the task force but with a name like that I imagine they're like a geek version of the Justice League. In fact right now I bet they're sitting around a table at the Hall of TCP/IP, debating what to do next before flying off to rescue that poor, brave soul who is "trapped in the internet."
I sleep better at night knowing we have heroes like that on our side.
I used to work at a public radio station and had a jazz shift in spite of knowing fairly little starting out about jazz. I don't really follow it anymore but I do know what sounds purty:
-Stan Getz. Not as well-known as Miles Davis but the man could play. It's mostly laid back stuff. Since his death a few years ago there have been some anthologies; I have The Best of the Verve Years Vol II and it's great.
-Chet Baker: A trumpeter I don't know a lot about but I do know that his rendition of My Funny Valentine is considered a classic.
-Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday are both wonderful if you're looking for jazz vocalists.
-Jimmie Lunceford rocks if you're going for early 20th century jazz. I think he did "Flying Home" which is an *excellent* dance song.
The Jazz anthology (from the Ken Burns PBS series) is a good overview if you're looking for artists to buy. Anyone appearing on discs 2-4 you can buy and know you're getting a great CD. With disc 1 you run into problems with the sound quality not being so great and with disc 5 you run into, well, 80's Herbie Hancock.
>This is the most recent example of this. Microsoft, in a previous slashdot story two weeks ago, announced IE 6 SP1 or whatever will be their last update ANYWAYS even for WINDOWS
Did you even bother to read your own link? If you would have you would see that IE6 SP1 will be the last STAND ALONE version of IE. They're still developing it.
And yes, you should read articles cynically, but you should also read postings cynically as well.
>do you really think the amount of Ghz is what really counts nowdays ?
It does count to me. I only expect to buy one Mac box every five years or so. The ramp from OS9 to OS X 10.2 has been kind of steep and some older computers have been left in the dust. Will that level out now or continue? I'd rather buy the fastest computer I can now rather than regret it when OS X 11 or whatever they call it makes my G3/500 iBook creep along.
> Best strategy is for IBM to make a public offer of $10M...
That's a good idea. Hey, while we're on the topic, I was looking through the Linux source code last week and found some stuff that was *exactly* like code I'd posted to Usenet back in the late 80's. I can't say what it was cuz it's my intellectual property, but I'm getting ready to sue anyone I can find who's invested in Linux. If anyone from IBM is reading this, I can be bought out for $10 million dollars.
PS. My brother-in-law Bob says he has some IP in the kernal too. $10 million for him too.
Thnx!
They pulled it from the web site. Expect to see other locations to download it from posted in this thread soon.
Thanks for posting the info, though. I just went to the posted Uplink link and saw nothing about a Mac version there. Heh, now I get to do some pseudo-hacking on my iBook...
>Its only on monochrome
You want color? Blasphemer!
The reason it's taking so long is because they were commodity parts to begin with. If you're Sony and you're creating your system from scratch, the first million or so systems are going to be very expensive simply because you're still working the kinks out. After that, economies of scale kick in and your per unit price starts to drop. However, if you're MS putting together an XBox and you go to your modem supplier to order another million modems, well, your supplier has already manufactured 20 million other modems exactly like the ones you're buying, so any savings with economies of scale long ago dried up. The problem MS is having is that by using commodity parts, the cost savings were there *from the beginning*, so the system that costs $400 to build now costs maybe $350 a year from now, instead of having a drop from $400 to $300, or $250.