It will also mean that the future iPhones, iPads and Mac computers will be even more locked down than previously. For example if you take a picture, it's directly uploaded "to the cloud". This is a huge privacy violation and means you don't really own your data anymore.
If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, purchase the Mac Box Set, which is a single, affordable package that includes Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard; iLife '09, with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD; and iWork '09, Apple's productivity suite for home and office including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
I've been fed up with DH for a while, but this is the final straw. I'll be moving all of my sites in the near future (as soon as I find a host that I can afford with the features that I need) and canceling my DH accounts.
The packing list is pretty simple: - iPod - Digital Camera - GPS - CHEAP Laptop *or* wifi-enabled PDA. The MBP is too big and too heavy. Get an old 12" iBook or something. - GSM cell phone
Plan to burn your photos and notes to CD-R or DVD-R and mail them home periodically. That'll give you a backup, just in case you lose the iPod or the laptop (both of which should be housing full copies of all your photos).
Don't forget power adaptors, USB cables, etc. If you're going to carry a laptop, it might be worth it to get USB charging cables for all your devices. At the same time, you're then creating a single point of failure. Weigh the pros and cons.
I carried a 12" PowerBook, iPod, and digital camera with me in Greece a few years ago. I opted to leave the laptop at home when I went to Italy last summer and regretted it quite a few times. Next time, I'll be packing a used 12" iBook with a big fat hard drive and a CD-R burner.
Or you could buy SIX HUNDRED CHEESEBURGERS. Imagine all the paperclips. Wow.
The "Wii60 propaganda fud", as you put it, is nothing more than an accurate contextualization of the problem with the PS3's cost. That, alone, is why I will most likely never own one. $600 is ridiculous.
> [...] we'll see who eventually comes out on top...
Considering that you can buy a Wii and an Xbox 360 Core for the price of a "real" PS3, I suspect that it's pretty easy to figure out who *won't* be coming out on top.
I don't think Nintendo can afford to release a lemon.
They're a gaming company, not a software or media juggernaut that has money to burn on fixing bad PR. If the Revolution looks bad, Nintendo will sink as a hardware company.
They may still make handhelds, but a bad debut for the Revolution will sink their home console business.
The frisbee toss is relatively easy once you get the hang of it, but the control for the obstacle course is terrible. Even with practice it's hard to know what the dog is going to do. Whether it's going to understand your stylus clicks enough to go through the little doggie tube in a timely fashion is critical to success in the contest, and the control just isn't there.
Take a walk and visit the gym before trying the Agility Trial. You'll have a chance to run your dog through each obstacle enough times to really get the hang of it.
After a while, the dog will run through the tube on his own, learn to manage the see-saw on his own, and even do the slalom on his own.
Hell, mine's started to figure out where the next obstacle is... almost running parts of the course on his own.
One of Linux's biggest barriers to the consumer desktop market, IMO, is its absurd level of fragmentation. There are more than half a dozen "major" distros and an impossibly large number of "minor" distros. How the hell do you just pick one and use it?
Then you've got nutcases like Stallman and his war on semantics and ESR and his general dumbass tendencies weighing down the entire community.
Dvorak tends to be a bit off the wall, but he's right. MS really needs to take a(nother) note from Apple here and realize they only need one flavor of OS. There's nothing wrong with a "server" version, but consumers don't need seven different choices for a standard OS.
There's enough trouble these days with XP Home, XP Pro, XP 64-bit, and XP Media Center. Adding more variants to the mix just sounds like suicide to me.
I wish Ninetndo would port this to other consoles like PS2.
And give one of their killer apps away? I suspect you'll see Halo 2 on the GC before you'll see Zelda on anything not built by Nintendo.
In the case where there is just the CLI and a list of programs spawned from a single input line, having a whole collection of tools that work well together is a must. But when you move to a graphical interface, so huge is the change in interface mechanics that the idea of the end-user setting up a chain of programs to run from one mouse click should be alien.
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It will also mean that the future iPhones, iPads and Mac computers will be even more locked down than previously. For example if you take a picture, it's directly uploaded "to the cloud". This is a huge privacy violation and means you don't really own your data anymore.
What in the hell are you talking about?
> People think that 0.999... is not 1 but that there is an infinitely small space between those two (.999... and 1).
Just tell them that there are no non-zero infinitesimals in the real number system.
> .3333 + .3333 + .3333 = .9999
This is incorrect.
You want this:
0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333... = 0.999...
The notation is incredibly important here. 0.999 is strictly smaller than 0.9999, 0.99999, and 0.999...
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
Upgrading from Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.
If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, purchase the Mac Box Set, which is a single, affordable package that includes Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard; iLife '09, with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD; and iWork '09, Apple's productivity suite for home and office including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
Apple's prices are inline with the compeition on RAM upgrades these days.
But to say that apt is complex and difficult is laughable.
I'll say it again: This attitude is what's wrong with the Linux community.
This is a perfect example of why Linux will never supplant Windows or Mac OS X. The Linux crowd needs a major mindshift.
Setup a caching proxy server, disable images by default, and install a decent ad blocker.
Nobody is addressing real problem. Students are facing hard time downloading music.
This is total FUD. These are civil suits, which incur civil penalties (read: this is a money grab).
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Well-said and well-written.
Even if resold on eBay, they were either activated or unlocked.
The packing list is pretty simple:
- iPod
- Digital Camera
- GPS
- CHEAP Laptop *or* wifi-enabled PDA. The MBP is too big and too heavy. Get an old 12" iBook or something.
- GSM cell phone
Plan to burn your photos and notes to CD-R or DVD-R and mail them home periodically. That'll give you a backup, just in case you lose the iPod or the laptop (both of which should be housing full copies of all your photos).
Don't forget power adaptors, USB cables, etc. If you're going to carry a laptop, it might be worth it to get USB charging cables for all your devices. At the same time, you're then creating a single point of failure. Weigh the pros and cons.
I carried a 12" PowerBook, iPod, and digital camera with me in Greece a few years ago. I opted to leave the laptop at home when I went to Italy last summer and regretted it quite a few times. Next time, I'll be packing a used 12" iBook with a big fat hard drive and a CD-R burner.
Or you could buy SIX HUNDRED CHEESEBURGERS. Imagine all the paperclips. Wow.
The "Wii60 propaganda fud", as you put it, is nothing more than an accurate contextualization of the problem with the PS3's cost. That, alone, is why I will most likely never own one. $600 is ridiculous.
> [...] we'll see who eventually comes out on top...
Considering that you can buy a Wii and an Xbox 360 Core for the price of a "real" PS3, I suspect that it's pretty easy to figure out who *won't* be coming out on top.
I don't think Nintendo can afford to release a lemon.
They're a gaming company, not a software or media juggernaut that has money to burn on fixing bad PR. If the Revolution looks bad, Nintendo will sink as a hardware company.
They may still make handhelds, but a bad debut for the Revolution will sink their home console business.
The frisbee toss is relatively easy once you get the hang of it, but the control for the obstacle course is terrible. Even with practice it's hard to know what the dog is going to do. Whether it's going to understand your stylus clicks enough to go through the little doggie tube in a timely fashion is critical to success in the contest, and the control just isn't there.
... almost running parts of the course on his own.
Take a walk and visit the gym before trying the Agility Trial. You'll have a chance to run your dog through each obstacle enough times to really get the hang of it.
After a while, the dog will run through the tube on his own, learn to manage the see-saw on his own, and even do the slalom on his own.
Hell, mine's started to figure out where the next obstacle is
The nutcases are those who think the purpose of Free Software is to create a good quality/price ratio of software.
I was talking more from an aspect of PR. The average user doesn't give a damn what you call it, as long as it's free and they can figure it out.
Which leads back to my original point here. Who at Microsoft seriously thought that giving Vista seven different SKUs was a good idea?
I'd have to disagree with you here.
One of Linux's biggest barriers to the consumer desktop market, IMO, is its absurd level of fragmentation. There are more than half a dozen "major" distros and an impossibly large number of "minor" distros. How the hell do you just pick one and use it?
Then you've got nutcases like Stallman and his war on semantics and ESR and his general dumbass tendencies weighing down the entire community.
Dvorak tends to be a bit off the wall, but he's right. MS really needs to take a(nother) note from Apple here and realize they only need one flavor of OS. There's nothing wrong with a "server" version, but consumers don't need seven different choices for a standard OS.
There's enough trouble these days with XP Home, XP Pro, XP 64-bit, and XP Media Center. Adding more variants to the mix just sounds like suicide to me.
I wish Ninetndo would port this to other consoles like PS2. And give one of their killer apps away? I suspect you'll see Halo 2 on the GC before you'll see Zelda on anything not built by Nintendo.
I found this app, called GMail Loader:
http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/
Thanks.
Doesn't AOL provide IMAP access to their mailboxes?
If so, you may be able to use a mail client (Thunderbird, maybe?) for proxy between the IMAP link to AOL and the POP link to Gmail.
The only caveat is that Gmail may not upload those messages once you drop them into the inbox on your mail client.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/automator/