Personally, I think the situation as you describe it--lack of hardware--is an improvement. I'm not a Linux user (I've tried, and failed, to install it on my Mac; I'll be dual-booting eventually, just give me another month or so) but I've been using Macs for more than a decade now, and we've gone through exactly this transition. It used to be that a lot of major software wasn't available for the Mac, making it hard to survive even as a geek who knew where to find what software there was. Then for a long time, especially when OS X was new, it was hardware that was incompatible--the drivers weren't there, or didn't come on the CD and had to be downloaded.
The situation now is that virtually everything is Mac-compatible, and the Macintosh is a respected platform, and even recognized by most end-users (as opposed to the old days, when often I would say I used Macs and people would ask, "Who's Max?"). It seems Linux is headed in the same direction, and I wish the Linux community much luck on that path.
I dropped a friend's PowerBook out of his car by accident.
It hit the pavement and slid about 25 feet. The battery compartment still doesn't work properly, but the optical drive started working again about a month later, and apart from some scratches that was the only damage.
But if I was overly concerned with the noise, I wouldn't really care about the vid. card. There are much noisier components in a system, mainly the powersupply and some hard drives can be quite loud.
Actually, I disagree. Right now, as I type this, I'm sitting two feet from my computer, yet I can't hear the video card fan, the optical drive fan, the three hard drives, the case fan, or the power supply fans. And this is the model of Power Mac G4 commonly known as the Windtunnel.
No, the noise that's bothering me right now is not due to any of the fans in my computer at all, but due to the fact that it heats up the room so much I have two large fans on. If I hadn't turned on the A/C an hour or so ago, I would also have several windows open, and I would still be sweating.
Currently, with my parents out of town for a week (w00t), I've moved my computer into a more spacious part of the house, but my bedroom is usually several degrees hotter than the rest of the house, and that's with a ceiling fan, a small but powerful fan on the floor, and either three large windows and a door wide open, or the air conditioning on.
I suppose it's the price I pay for having a (formerly) high-end desktop, but sometimes I almost wish I had gone with a PowerBook. Of course, a friend of mine who has a PowerBook complains that it gets too hot to have on his lap, so I guess there are trade-offs either way--or maybe an iMac is the only viable solution.
Pure water may not conduct, but if it spills on your motherboard, it won't remain pure for long. I'm sure ordinary house dust has the necessary ions to short out sensitive electronics when dissolved in water, and the inside of my case, at least, has no shortage of such dust.
That's true, but the concerned parties would have to bring a lawsuit against MS, which means they would have to have the money to do so. Maybe the EFF could help out, but otherwise it's a classic case of having to have money, in order to get money.
If such an accusation came up and had even the slightest whiff of legitimacy, I'd expect to see several MS developers fired immediately and MS offering a large settlement deal.
Are you implying, based on the date on this page (which came up in the Google search you linked to), that a sendmail root exploit brought down the WTC?
None. Well, a computer and a browser. Any browser. Netscape, IE, Safari, Opera, whatever. It could be NCSA Mosaic on a 386, GistIt on your Blackberry, or Lynx on a VT100 terminal. (Or, as I've just been informed by a reader, WAP on your cell phone.) Pure HTML, baby. Javascript is for sissies and posers.
I don't know about the rest of you, but i just clicked on "have sex" straightaway. I don't even know what the article is about yet, I just opened it in a new Safari tab to type this while it loaded.
Okay, I linked a friend of mine to your Web site, and we're both in. I'm looking for advice on how to help spread the gospel, as it were. I do not have a high-profile site on which to advertise. Is word of mouth the name of the game, here?
However even if it did I dont expect the result to be much superior than the analog RGB VGA output for the simple reason that the DVD disk doesn't have any more info than that.
The point of the digital connection is not that it transmits more information, but that it loses less information during the transfer. Analog signals degrade over the length of a cable. In fact, the more information is being sent, the faster it degrades, which may be why XGA looked worse on your projector than SVGA.
4: In my statement about Beowulf beating this, What's the cost/performance of 4 Athlon 1.5GHz with 1 gig of ram each (on 100MBps) versus one of these? I bet the name of "server" raises that cost atleast 1000$.
For me, the irony lies in the fact that file sharers on Kazaa are having their lives ruined, while Macrosquash, a convicted criminal, pays pocket change and goes on raping millions of people's wallets.
A person who commits a felony goes to prison, right? Why do corporations that commit felonies get slaps on the wrist and fines that, to them, are petty change? I say Microsoft should go to a corporate jail, where, for instance, a sentence of two years means that for that length of time, their tax rate is 300% (just to dig into their cash reserves a little bit) and the CEO has to get raped in the ass on a daily basis.
Well, MS no longer has anything to bitch about, because the contract between the two companies, in which IE got a place on every new Mac's desktop and Apple got a bunch of MS's money, no longer exists. There is no longer anything MS can threaten Apple with to change Apple's behavior; they don't even bring anything to the bargaining table any more, because they have nothing that Apple wants or needs. So Apple can act with impunity.
Conclusion: Your guess is as good as mine whether the feature will be included.
Nobody knows anything about Apple's plans until they tell us. The rumors sites think they have the scoop, but they don't really know what's coming. Lots of people speculate, some with great insight, but they don't really know what's coming. The wonderful thing about following Apple's actions is that nobody, ever, has really known where they were headed or how they planned to get there--but they always end up someplace interesting, where everybody else eventually follows them.
Slashdot Mirror
The Morse code one got me thinking...there isn't a single 'n' in "slashdot"! How unfortunate...
Personally, I think the situation as you describe it--lack of hardware--is an improvement. I'm not a Linux user (I've tried, and failed, to install it on my Mac; I'll be dual-booting eventually, just give me another month or so) but I've been using Macs for more than a decade now, and we've gone through exactly this transition. It used to be that a lot of major software wasn't available for the Mac, making it hard to survive even as a geek who knew where to find what software there was. Then for a long time, especially when OS X was new, it was hardware that was incompatible--the drivers weren't there, or didn't come on the CD and had to be downloaded.
The situation now is that virtually everything is Mac-compatible, and the Macintosh is a respected platform, and even recognized by most end-users (as opposed to the old days, when often I would say I used Macs and people would ask, "Who's Max?"). It seems Linux is headed in the same direction, and I wish the Linux community much luck on that path.
Now if only I could join that community...
You know you're a geek if you've ever replied to a tagline.
Hey! I resemble that remark!
<ducks>
I dropped a friend's PowerBook out of his car by accident.
It hit the pavement and slid about 25 feet. The battery compartment still doesn't work properly, but the optical drive started working again about a month later, and apart from some scratches that was the only damage.
EULA? I'm compliant. I made my changes to it and clicked "AGREE".
I made my changes, too. I'm now on the boards of several large companies.
This is why I think that all sub-standard open source mail servers should be outlawed in favor of Exchange 2000,
Isn't that throwing the baby out with the bathwater, as they say? I don't want to get spam, but I would like to continue receiving legitimate email...
But if I was overly concerned with the noise, I wouldn't really care about the vid. card. There are much noisier components in a system, mainly the powersupply and some hard drives can be quite loud.
Actually, I disagree. Right now, as I type this, I'm sitting two feet from my computer, yet I can't hear the video card fan, the optical drive fan, the three hard drives, the case fan, or the power supply fans. And this is the model of Power Mac G4 commonly known as the Windtunnel.
No, the noise that's bothering me right now is not due to any of the fans in my computer at all, but due to the fact that it heats up the room so much I have two large fans on. If I hadn't turned on the A/C an hour or so ago, I would also have several windows open, and I would still be sweating.
Currently, with my parents out of town for a week (w00t), I've moved my computer into a more spacious part of the house, but my bedroom is usually several degrees hotter than the rest of the house, and that's with a ceiling fan, a small but powerful fan on the floor, and either three large windows and a door wide open, or the air conditioning on.
I suppose it's the price I pay for having a (formerly) high-end desktop, but sometimes I almost wish I had gone with a PowerBook. Of course, a friend of mine who has a PowerBook complains that it gets too hot to have on his lap, so I guess there are trade-offs either way--or maybe an iMac is the only viable solution.
Pure water may not conduct, but if it spills on your motherboard, it won't remain pure for long. I'm sure ordinary house dust has the necessary ions to short out sensitive electronics when dissolved in water, and the inside of my case, at least, has no shortage of such dust.
I think you're on the wrong site. Try here.
That's true, but the concerned parties would have to bring a lawsuit against MS, which means they would have to have the money to do so. Maybe the EFF could help out, but otherwise it's a classic case of having to have money, in order to get money.
If such an accusation came up and had even the slightest whiff of legitimacy, I'd expect to see several MS developers fired immediately and MS offering a large settlement deal.
To whom?
Are you implying, based on the date on this page (which came up in the Google search you linked to), that a sendmail root exploit brought down the WTC?
I like the front page:
System Requirements
None. Well, a computer and a browser. Any browser. Netscape, IE, Safari, Opera, whatever. It could be NCSA Mosaic on a 386, GistIt on your Blackberry, or Lynx on a VT100 terminal. (Or, as I've just been informed by a reader, WAP on your cell phone.) Pure HTML, baby. Javascript is for sissies and posers.
I don't know about the rest of you, but i just clicked on "have sex" straightaway. I don't even know what the article is about yet, I just opened it in a new Safari tab to type this while it loaded.
Okay, I linked a friend of mine to your Web site, and we're both in. I'm looking for advice on how to help spread the gospel, as it were. I do not have a high-profile site on which to advertise. Is word of mouth the name of the game, here?
That's true. My laundry always fits in the drawer better when I fold it first, so why shouldn't that work for bits?
They could rate them based on reviews, and you could sort them by that.
However even if it did I dont expect the result to be much superior than the analog RGB VGA output for the simple reason that the DVD disk doesn't have any more info than that.
The point of the digital connection is not that it transmits more information, but that it loses less information during the transfer. Analog signals degrade over the length of a cable. In fact, the more information is being sent, the faster it degrades, which may be why XGA looked worse on your projector than SVGA.
That's a lot of designers! Are they planning on making the site look a little better?
Did you mean BLT?
Does this help explain things?
For me, the irony lies in the fact that file sharers on Kazaa are having their lives ruined, while Macrosquash, a convicted criminal, pays pocket change and goes on raping millions of people's wallets.
A person who commits a felony goes to prison, right? Why do corporations that commit felonies get slaps on the wrist and fines that, to them, are petty change? I say Microsoft should go to a corporate jail, where, for instance, a sentence of two years means that for that length of time, their tax rate is 300% (just to dig into their cash reserves a little bit) and the CEO has to get raped in the ass on a daily basis.
Overrated? It was scored 1, the default score, with no moderations yet either way.
Come on, people--if you're going to moderate, use it to express an opinion. "Overrated" is meaningless.
Well, MS no longer has anything to bitch about, because the contract between the two companies, in which IE got a place on every new Mac's desktop and Apple got a bunch of MS's money, no longer exists. There is no longer anything MS can threaten Apple with to change Apple's behavior; they don't even bring anything to the bargaining table any more, because they have nothing that Apple wants or needs. So Apple can act with impunity.
Conclusion: Your guess is as good as mine whether the feature will be included.
No.
Nobody knows anything about Apple's plans until they tell us. The rumors sites think they have the scoop, but they don't really know what's coming. Lots of people speculate, some with great insight, but they don't really know what's coming. The wonderful thing about following Apple's actions is that nobody, ever, has really known where they were headed or how they planned to get there--but they always end up someplace interesting, where everybody else eventually follows them.