I've been a mac user since 1984 (and apple user since 1980). Every mac I or my family has owned is still working today, except an iMac G4 that got fried by lightning) including a Lisa bought in 84 and an original imac 128K in 85. Sure, we've had HDDs and power suplies blow out, and they've been repaired, but since every component in a mac is basiccaly the same as a PC, except the motherboard of which I have NEVER had one fail (including the hundred or so macs in an advertising firm I ran IT for).
I've never had a PC fail. Sure, the harddrive craps out occasionally, and sometimes the power supply blows, but once it's repaired it's as good as new! Who are you kidding? At least when a power supply dies in a PC, I have a pretty good chance of finding a replacement without cannabalizing another Mac or paying Apple's replacement prices.
Besides, I find it extremely hard to believe that you've never had a logic board (that's Mac for motherboard) fail. Seems like the most common problem I've seen with Macs, and they are notoriously unreliable in the low end notebooks (Macbooks/iBooks).
I dare you, go to Dell's site, configure matching systems to an iMac, Powerbook Pro, and Mini.
I dare you to go to Dell (or pick any random PC manufacturer), find a model, then price out the closest equilivent Mac. Unless you limit yourself to the small subset of PC hardware that is most like the Mac hardware (such as niche products like the Dell One), you'll find that PC is almost always cheaper.
The other thing you could do is enable the Windows XP firewall before hooking it up to the network, in the case of a pre-SP2 install disk. The people who are more screwed are those reinstalling Windows 2000, where you really do need to have a 3rd party firewall handy or a CD with all the updates.
Not to mention, the mixing of work and fun. I wouldn't want my digital pictures, bookmarks, games, mp3's, personal information, etc. on my work computer, and I wouldn't think it appropiate to store a lot of that of stuff on there. I could see doing it in a pinch if my home PC went on the fritz, but not as a permanent replacement.
I don't see anyone here saying that you can't tap Joe Terrorist's phone. What's so hard about getting a warrant to do it? You can even get a warrant up to 3 days after the fact, so if you have to tap the phone now, you can. The whole thing is unreasonable - there needs to be oversight on the program.
Funny, I thought an attack on Iran in the waning days of the Bush administration would do exactly the opposite: ensure that the Republican brand would be radioactive for decades.
It would depend a lot on how it is sold. People are not going to put up with Bush starting another war, but if the perception is that Iran attacked the US and Bush responded, things could play out a lot differently.
rather than complain about a job leaving the usa, why not train for a job that can't be outsourced? that makes more money?
Like what, a gardener? What if you want to be a senior software developer, or a technical lead in a large project? How are you supposed to get the years of experience needed in the field when all the entry level jobs are sent overseas?
Outsourcing is selling off our future, for short-term profits today. Tomorrow's senior developers are today's code monkeys. You can think of hiring entry-level positions locally instead of farming them off overseas as an investment for the future. Attitudes like yours are going to turn the US into a 3rd world backwater in a few decades.
When they mean "skilled labor", they mean people with 3-5+ years of experience, senior level developers, very specific skills, and stuff like that. No one wants to hire the guy right out of college with little or no experience on the job - instead the tasks he would do get send overseas. It's very difficlut for the guy right out of college to get a job nowadays, and I've seen lots of them give up after a while and go back to retail/food service/whatever. With few entry-level jobs for the recent grads to build some "real-world" experience, is it any wonder there is a shortage of more experienced people in the field?
I just use a cheap Pentium 2 running Windows XP with Internet Connection Sharing. Disabled the automatic updates and firewalled it properly over 18 months ago, and haven't had to touch the machine since.
Around here, running a m0n0wall box at 30W for a year will cost me about $22. It'll take a while to save up to a "top shelf" commercial router at $22/year. Don't forget that most dedicated routers also draw 8-12W themselves, and it would probably cost me a year and a half worth of electricity to just to properly recycle the m0n0wall PC.
Besides, in the case of m0n0wall, if you find you really like it but want to ditch the old PC, m0n0wall will also run on "appliance" hardware from several vendors.
Why not use something like m0n0wall and have all three? It's fast, very stable, the software is free, and if you can't scare up an old PC to run it on then you don't belong here.
Another thing with these routers is that they do tend to run a bit warm, so making sure there is plenty of airflow may help with the stability issues and will prolong their life. I've always considered the fact that Linksys designs stuff to be stackable as some kind of form of planned obsolence on their part. There is a reason why the enterprise-level stuff like hubs and switches typically include a fan. Note that I'm not trying to imply there aren't other problems with the later WRT54G's.
How long ago was this? Windows XP SP2 removed the "Home" and "Professional" branding from the boot screen in XP. So if you saw those, you must have been looking at a SP0 or SP1 install.
It's not hard to keep Windows crap-free. My mother can do it, lots of people can do it. Most of it just common sense, the days of getting pwn3d by just connecting the PC to the internet of getting an email in Outlook are over. If you're one of the people who can only keep a computer crap-free by running an OS that isn't yet targetted heavily by malware, then you really can't be trusted with anything more complex than a WebTV.
Ulysses will get near Jupiter eventually. Maybe if instead of stating that "its current orbit takes it nowhere near Jupiter" you had tried to prove it by posting orbital elements, you would have seen the flaw in your thinking.
"Eventually" isn't going to help any, if by that time the RTG is cooled down enough so that the hydrazine has frozen to a solid so that the craft can't be manuevered for the fly-by. That would be the flaw in your thinking.
In the case of Flash, possibly a few more than you might think, after they find out how much of a buggy CPU hog it is. I would also make fun of the nVidia binary blobs, but they seem to have improved quite a bit since I first tried them. Now ATI on the other hand....
Physical size might be another reason why CF is seen on higher end cameras. Microdrives used to be a lot more popular back before flash became so cheap, and for Microdrives you need a CF slot as the SD form factor is way too small.
Well, it is important to point out that there are differences in memory cards people might want to consider. Most people I know consider all memory cards to be functionally equilivent and just buy the cheapest one they can find at the size they want.
Well, some people like myself have a speaker set up that doesn't have digital inputs, and the analog outputs on the motherboard are noticably noiser. And besides, few onboard sound cards have powerful enough amps to drive a good set of headphones at a decent volume.
Of course, you are probably right about the market. My sound card is an Aureal Vortex that I bought for my K6 system back in the days before onboard sound became ubiquitous. Quite possibly the oldest component in my computer, and I don't remember it costing very much either back in 1998.
The publicly stated goal is 10M in 2008, not by the end of 2008.
The "by the end of 2008" comment was stated by Jobs during the unveiling of iPhone at Macworld Expo, but in subsequent interviews and conferences, it's always "in 2008" goal, making it more likely that the "by the end of 2008" comment was a misstatement by Job
What's the difference? If they hit 10M units anytime during 2008, even if it was December 31st at 11:59PM, that would still fulfill both the "in 2008" and the "by the end of 2008" statements.
Even if you love writing code, do you also love optomizing code, debugging code, troubleshooting, checking for corner cases, and all that stuff you would want to do to a piece of code before you would consider it presentable as a code sample?
An easier way to do is to take advantage of the fact that Windows XP can only use the hardware to render one video stream at a time*. So:
1. Start up some video player and have it play any old video file. 2. Pause this video player (optional). 3. Start up another video player and have it play the file you want to take screenshots of. Windows will render this video using software. 4. Capture your screenshots.
*Some fancy video cards may have drivers to work around this limitation. It also probably won't work in Vista.
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I've been a mac user since 1984 (and apple user since 1980). Every mac I or my family has owned is still working today, except an iMac G4 that got fried by lightning) including a Lisa bought in 84 and an original imac 128K in 85. Sure, we've had HDDs and power suplies blow out, and they've been repaired, but since every component in a mac is basiccaly the same as a PC, except the motherboard of which I have NEVER had one fail (including the hundred or so macs in an advertising firm I ran IT for).
I've never had a PC fail. Sure, the harddrive craps out occasionally, and sometimes the power supply blows, but once it's repaired it's as good as new! Who are you kidding? At least when a power supply dies in a PC, I have a pretty good chance of finding a replacement without cannabalizing another Mac or paying Apple's replacement prices.
Besides, I find it extremely hard to believe that you've never had a logic board (that's Mac for motherboard) fail. Seems like the most common problem I've seen with Macs, and they are notoriously unreliable in the low end notebooks (Macbooks/iBooks).
I dare you, go to Dell's site, configure matching systems to an iMac, Powerbook Pro, and Mini.
I dare you to go to Dell (or pick any random PC manufacturer), find a model, then price out the closest equilivent Mac. Unless you limit yourself to the small subset of PC hardware that is most like the Mac hardware (such as niche products like the Dell One), you'll find that PC is almost always cheaper.
That's great, it means I can keep using User Agent Switcher to fool Slashdot into displaying useful pages.
I wonder if the slashdot admins are going to notice the sudden spike of IE6 users?
The other thing you could do is enable the Windows XP firewall before hooking it up to the network, in the case of a pre-SP2 install disk. The people who are more screwed are those reinstalling Windows 2000, where you really do need to have a 3rd party firewall handy or a CD with all the updates.
If I really need to remember something, I leave it in front of the front door, so I can't open the door without at least seeing it.
I've done this. Nothing like coming home to be greeted by that envelope you were supposed to mail with a footprint on it.
Not to mention, the mixing of work and fun. I wouldn't want my digital pictures, bookmarks, games, mp3's, personal information, etc. on my work computer, and I wouldn't think it appropiate to store a lot of that of stuff on there. I could see doing it in a pinch if my home PC went on the fritz, but not as a permanent replacement.
I don't see anyone here saying that you can't tap Joe Terrorist's phone. What's so hard about getting a warrant to do it? You can even get a warrant up to 3 days after the fact, so if you have to tap the phone now, you can. The whole thing is unreasonable - there needs to be oversight on the program.
Funny, I thought an attack on Iran in the waning days of the Bush administration would do exactly the opposite: ensure that the Republican brand would be radioactive for decades.
It would depend a lot on how it is sold. People are not going to put up with Bush starting another war, but if the perception is that Iran attacked the US and Bush responded, things could play out a lot differently.
rather than complain about a job leaving the usa, why not train for a job that can't be outsourced? that makes more money?
Like what, a gardener? What if you want to be a senior software developer, or a technical lead in a large project? How are you supposed to get the years of experience needed in the field when all the entry level jobs are sent overseas?
Outsourcing is selling off our future, for short-term profits today. Tomorrow's senior developers are today's code monkeys. You can think of hiring entry-level positions locally instead of farming them off overseas as an investment for the future. Attitudes like yours are going to turn the US into a 3rd world backwater in a few decades.
That site seems to be 404-compliant. Did they outsource that too?
When they mean "skilled labor", they mean people with 3-5+ years of experience, senior level developers, very specific skills, and stuff like that. No one wants to hire the guy right out of college with little or no experience on the job - instead the tasks he would do get send overseas. It's very difficlut for the guy right out of college to get a job nowadays, and I've seen lots of them give up after a while and go back to retail/food service/whatever. With few entry-level jobs for the recent grads to build some "real-world" experience, is it any wonder there is a shortage of more experienced people in the field?
I just use a cheap Pentium 2 running Windows XP with Internet Connection Sharing. Disabled the automatic updates and firewalled it properly over 18 months ago, and haven't had to touch the machine since.
In which case, this article is for you:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/11/003251
Around here, running a m0n0wall box at 30W for a year will cost me about $22. It'll take a while to save up to a "top shelf" commercial router at $22/year. Don't forget that most dedicated routers also draw 8-12W themselves, and it would probably cost me a year and a half worth of electricity to just to properly recycle the m0n0wall PC.
Besides, in the case of m0n0wall, if you find you really like it but want to ditch the old PC, m0n0wall will also run on "appliance" hardware from several vendors.
Why not use something like m0n0wall and have all three? It's fast, very stable, the software is free, and if you can't scare up an old PC to run it on then you don't belong here.
Another thing with these routers is that they do tend to run a bit warm, so making sure there is plenty of airflow may help with the stability issues and will prolong their life. I've always considered the fact that Linksys designs stuff to be stackable as some kind of form of planned obsolence on their part. There is a reason why the enterprise-level stuff like hubs and switches typically include a fan. Note that I'm not trying to imply there aren't other problems with the later WRT54G's.
How long ago was this? Windows XP SP2 removed the "Home" and "Professional" branding from the boot screen in XP. So if you saw those, you must have been looking at a SP0 or SP1 install.
It's not hard to keep Windows crap-free. My mother can do it, lots of people can do it. Most of it just common sense, the days of getting pwn3d by just connecting the PC to the internet of getting an email in Outlook are over. If you're one of the people who can only keep a computer crap-free by running an OS that isn't yet targetted heavily by malware, then you really can't be trusted with anything more complex than a WebTV.
Ulysses will get near Jupiter eventually. Maybe if instead of stating that "its current orbit takes it nowhere near Jupiter" you had tried to prove it by posting orbital elements, you would have seen the flaw in your thinking.
"Eventually" isn't going to help any, if by that time the RTG is cooled down enough so that the hydrazine has frozen to a solid so that the craft can't be manuevered for the fly-by. That would be the flaw in your thinking.
In the case of Flash, possibly a few more than you might think, after they find out how much of a buggy CPU hog it is. I would also make fun of the nVidia binary blobs, but they seem to have improved quite a bit since I first tried them. Now ATI on the other hand....
Physical size might be another reason why CF is seen on higher end cameras. Microdrives used to be a lot more popular back before flash became so cheap, and for Microdrives you need a CF slot as the SD form factor is way too small.
Well, it is important to point out that there are differences in memory cards people might want to consider. Most people I know consider all memory cards to be functionally equilivent and just buy the cheapest one they can find at the size they want.
Well, some people like myself have a speaker set up that doesn't have digital inputs, and the analog outputs on the motherboard are noticably noiser. And besides, few onboard sound cards have powerful enough amps to drive a good set of headphones at a decent volume.
Of course, you are probably right about the market. My sound card is an Aureal Vortex that I bought for my K6 system back in the days before onboard sound became ubiquitous. Quite possibly the oldest component in my computer, and I don't remember it costing very much either back in 1998.
The publicly stated goal is 10M in 2008, not by the end of 2008.
The "by the end of 2008" comment was stated by Jobs during the unveiling of iPhone at Macworld Expo, but in subsequent interviews and conferences, it's always "in 2008" goal, making it more likely that the "by the end of 2008" comment was a misstatement by Job
What's the difference? If they hit 10M units anytime during 2008, even if it was December 31st at 11:59PM, that would still fulfill both the "in 2008" and the "by the end of 2008" statements.
Even if you love writing code, do you also love optomizing code, debugging code, troubleshooting, checking for corner cases, and all that stuff you would want to do to a piece of code before you would consider it presentable as a code sample?
Indeed he did. What's with the all the Windows XP work-arounds? They're valid, mind you.. for Windows XP; but that's not going to help for OS X?
OSX is going to be a bit trickier, because you're fighting Apple's DRM instead of some technical limitation as with Windows XP.
An easier way to do is to take advantage of the fact that Windows XP can only use the hardware to render one video stream at a time*. So:
1. Start up some video player and have it play any old video file.
2. Pause this video player (optional).
3. Start up another video player and have it play the file you want to take screenshots of. Windows will render this video using software.
4. Capture your screenshots.
*Some fancy video cards may have drivers to work around this limitation. It also probably won't work in Vista.