Actually, you're wrong. The battery is soldered in place for the Nanos and Shuffles, which makes it harder than simply prying the iPod apart and swapping it out.
Total, absolute non sequitur. By your reasoning, hosting facilities in space or on the bottom of the ocean should also be cheap, since there's not much demand for office space - or even any kind of function space - there, either.
Well, it would be pretty cheap if it existed because the government paid to build it, then dumped it on the market for far below cost.
A solution to that would be a small door that they could pass food (and whatever) through. It wouldn't even be very hard to make it an airlock-type configuration and make in mechanically impossible for both doors to be open at once.
It's not about the planes. I'm sure the planes are insured, and even if they weren't, the government would just bail out the airlines (again) anyway. Besides, I'm sure the cost of all this security theatre is a lot more than the cost of a few jumbojets per year.
Since cell phones can cause inference with instrumentation and the operation of the aircraft, I would argue that shooting anyone yapping on their cell phone would be entirely justified. The kids shooting themselves/others would be a another problem.
Hey, I still have my Windows 95 era scanner. Good thing I kept it around, as it's outlived 2 replacements. They just don't build them like they used to.
Actually, quite the opposite. The flaw with their tests is that the CPUs had different capabilities, and most programs only chech one CPU and assume the rest are identical. As such, many or most versions of Unix would probably barf too, unless they explicitly tracks the capabilities of each CPU. On the other hand, Windows ME and DOS would run just fine, as those OSes have no concept of multiple CPUs and would run entirely on just one of the cores.
Intel's "Quad Core" chips are nothing but two Core 2 Duo's stitched together in the same package. When Intel has one of the two cores bad on a piece of silicon, they throw it in the "Core 2 Solo" bin, which while rare, are out there. Since AMD's quad cores are actually one piece of silicon, they are currently the only ones that have a situation where making a 3 core chip makes sense.
Why would the ISP need to inspect every packet? I would imagine all that they would have to do is take a small random sampling of the traffic from any one customer, and if it finds P2P packets, simply throttle everything on that line. That's assuming they just wouldn't simply throttle anyone who uses more than a "fair share".
You should have tried plugging one into a Mac. I have a USB floppy drive from around 1998 sitting in my closet that my wife used on her G3 tower w/ OS 9. I think she needed it for Quark or something like that.
The ones I was thinking of were floppies from the variable speed drives, though I had forgotten that Apple had already dropped that format a while before the iMac entered the scene. AFAIK no one has ever made a USB variable speed floppy drive.
Your whole premise is a fallacy. Naturally, the Mac is the best at being a Mac, so making the PC as close as possible to the Mac will drive the price up. If you start with a PC configuration, and try to find the equilivent Mac, you'll almost always find that the Mac is more expensive. Since there is a lot more customization and configurability in the PC world, that means that the typical computer buyer is able to save more money by buying only what they want in a PC rather than buying on of Apple's package deals. The only time that the Mac is not expensive is when you happen to want something that is very close to what Apple happens to offer.
And Apple only selling the latest technology? Is that why the iMacs come with yesterday's video cards, the $2500 Mac Pro is underspec'd in ram, and the Mac Mini's specs read like something from 2006?
Besides, if you really needed a floppy drive you could always get a USB version.
I never remembered seeing anything other than 1.44MB "PC" USB floppy disk drives, which meant that there was no way to read Mac floppies on your iMac without using another Mac as a go-between.
Yes, but when I make tea, I pour the boiling water into a cup that's at room temperature, use a tea bag that's at room temperature, and use a metal spoon to stir that's also at room temperature. I'm pretty sure the resulting temperature of the beverage ends up being significantly less than the temperature of the boiling water I used to make it.
That's great for power users. However, telling the typical user how to edit some.xml files in OSX is pretty much like telling them to open regedit.exe in Windows. Their eyes glaze over and they get all confused and they don't know what the heck is going on. The point is not that you and I and the typical slashdot user can modify OSX's menus easily, or can screw around with.bashrc, or can even change DWORDS if we have to in Windows, it's that it's pretty much inaccessable to the regular user. Which is kind of bad for an operating system that's supposedly "easy to use". As for Linux, editting.kde and.gnome files are fine for the typical Linux user (for the moment), but that's one of the things that has to change if Linux is ever going to start picking up steam for the regular users out there.
I don't really see the point. While I'm all for taking things you don't need off of a server facing the internet, you often need a compiler, and if someone has broken into your server and is at the point where they could compile some code, you're already pretty screwed.
Your pricing is way off. For example, you can buy Vista Home Premium for $110 (link). That's $39 cheaper than OSX Tiger. And the upgrade version is even cheaper than that, which is pretty much the equilivent to what Apple is selling you anyway, since that OSX Tiger disk is only good for computers that originally came with OSX anyway.
Well yes you can, but you have to go to Disk Management. I suppose that they wouldn't check there but if you say it doesn't exist and they actually do check you would be in for trouble.
I would imagine that anyone who did that often enough would be used to hidden partitions on the typical laptop, due to restore partitions being so common. Though if it's too big, it may still be suspect.
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Actually, you're wrong. The battery is soldered in place for the Nanos and Shuffles, which makes it harder than simply prying the iPod apart and swapping it out.
Total, absolute non sequitur. By your reasoning, hosting facilities in space or on the bottom of the ocean should also be cheap, since there's not much demand for office space - or even any kind of function space - there, either.
Well, it would be pretty cheap if it existed because the government paid to build it, then dumped it on the market for far below cost.
I am fourteen, you insensitive clod!
A solution to that would be a small door that they could pass food (and whatever) through. It wouldn't even be very hard to make it an airlock-type configuration and make in mechanically impossible for both doors to be open at once.
It's not about the planes. I'm sure the planes are insured, and even if they weren't, the government would just bail out the airlines (again) anyway. Besides, I'm sure the cost of all this security theatre is a lot more than the cost of a few jumbojets per year.
Since cell phones can cause inference with instrumentation and the operation of the aircraft, I would argue that shooting anyone yapping on their cell phone would be entirely justified. The kids shooting themselves/others would be a another problem.
With that kind of logic, I suppose you also like to run around and throw rocks through windows?
Hey, I still have my Windows 95 era scanner. Good thing I kept it around, as it's outlived 2 replacements. They just don't build them like they used to.
Actually, quite the opposite. The flaw with their tests is that the CPUs had different capabilities, and most programs only chech one CPU and assume the rest are identical. As such, many or most versions of Unix would probably barf too, unless they explicitly tracks the capabilities of each CPU. On the other hand, Windows ME and DOS would run just fine, as those OSes have no concept of multiple CPUs and would run entirely on just one of the cores.
Both Intel and AMD have been doing this kind of thing for decades. Nothing new here at all.
Intel's "Quad Core" chips are nothing but two Core 2 Duo's stitched together in the same package. When Intel has one of the two cores bad on a piece of silicon, they throw it in the "Core 2 Solo" bin, which while rare, are out there. Since AMD's quad cores are actually one piece of silicon, they are currently the only ones that have a situation where making a 3 core chip makes sense.
Why would the ISP need to inspect every packet? I would imagine all that they would have to do is take a small random sampling of the traffic from any one customer, and if it finds P2P packets, simply throttle everything on that line. That's assuming they just wouldn't simply throttle anyone who uses more than a "fair share".
You should have tried plugging one into a Mac. I have a USB floppy drive from around 1998 sitting in my closet that my wife used on her G3 tower w/ OS 9. I think she needed it for Quark or something like that.
The ones I was thinking of were floppies from the variable speed drives, though I had forgotten that Apple had already dropped that format a while before the iMac entered the scene. AFAIK no one has ever made a USB variable speed floppy drive.
Self destruct systems have mass and volume. That is a very tight resource on something sent into space.
Keep in mind that it's financed and paid for by the US Government though.
Your whole premise is a fallacy. Naturally, the Mac is the best at being a Mac, so making the PC as close as possible to the Mac will drive the price up. If you start with a PC configuration, and try to find the equilivent Mac, you'll almost always find that the Mac is more expensive. Since there is a lot more customization and configurability in the PC world, that means that the typical computer buyer is able to save more money by buying only what they want in a PC rather than buying on of Apple's package deals. The only time that the Mac is not expensive is when you happen to want something that is very close to what Apple happens to offer.
And Apple only selling the latest technology? Is that why the iMacs come with yesterday's video cards, the $2500 Mac Pro is underspec'd in ram, and the Mac Mini's specs read like something from 2006?
Besides, if you really needed a floppy drive you could always get a USB version.
I never remembered seeing anything other than 1.44MB "PC" USB floppy disk drives, which meant that there was no way to read Mac floppies on your iMac without using another Mac as a go-between.
Why mine it? It's already the solar system's only working, zero-maintance fusion generator.
Yes, but when I make tea, I pour the boiling water into a cup that's at room temperature, use a tea bag that's at room temperature, and use a metal spoon to stir that's also at room temperature. I'm pretty sure the resulting temperature of the beverage ends up being significantly less than the temperature of the boiling water I used to make it.
Obviously you've never seen a 3.5" floppy disk, to name a successful Sony format.
That's great for power users. However, telling the typical user how to edit some .xml files in OSX is pretty much like telling them to open regedit.exe in Windows. Their eyes glaze over and they get all confused and they don't know what the heck is going on. The point is not that you and I and the typical slashdot user can modify OSX's menus easily, or can screw around with .bashrc, or can even change DWORDS if we have to in Windows, it's that it's pretty much inaccessable to the regular user. Which is kind of bad for an operating system that's supposedly "easy to use". As for Linux, editting .kde and .gnome files are fine for the typical Linux user (for the moment), but that's one of the things that has to change if Linux is ever going to start picking up steam for the regular users out there.
I don't really see the point. While I'm all for taking things you don't need off of a server facing the internet, you often need a compiler, and if someone has broken into your server and is at the point where they could compile some code, you're already pretty screwed.
And why? For most people, Home Premium is going to do everything they need while still giving them all the glitzy Vista eye candy.
Your pricing is way off. For example, you can buy Vista Home Premium for $110 (link). That's $39 cheaper than OSX Tiger. And the upgrade version is even cheaper than that, which is pretty much the equilivent to what Apple is selling you anyway, since that OSX Tiger disk is only good for computers that originally came with OSX anyway.
I'm sure you could probably disable the "adware" features of MS Office by poking around in the registry too. What's your point?
Well yes you can, but you have to go to Disk Management. I suppose that they wouldn't check there but if you say it doesn't exist and they actually do check you would be in for trouble.
I would imagine that anyone who did that often enough would be used to hidden partitions on the typical laptop, due to restore partitions being so common. Though if it's too big, it may still be suspect.