Of course if you can properly lock down your software, the hardware should last a lot longer than 3 years. Mac users get an average of 5 years out of a machine, and the windows machines I am using right now were bought in 1997.
he reality is the latest and greatest is rarely all it's cracked up to be.
If you read apple rumour sites, a new ipod is coming down the works. It will have a display on the front with Touch screen controls that appear only when a finger is near the screen.
That will be the real video ipod. And unlike MSFT Apple won't release it until they have at least the majority of the bugs worked out.
nope still get that kind of problem ia brick and motar store. Routinely i get emails asking for me to send 500+ smoke detectors to some place overseas.
Recently I got an IRC(internet relay call for deaf people)about a couple of random items plus 800 smokes. I gave the guy my email address, and thinking it was legit but suspiscous we passed one email back and forth and he forked over three credit card numbers just like that. Asked me to spilt the down paymet up between the three. I told him I couldn't do it over the net, and he needed to come into the store. Haven't heard from him since.
Scammers are branching out. IR calls aren't cheap. Also credit card companies are getting mroe and more stringent in how different companies accept cards.
While I personally didn't have any real problems moving cold turkey from Windows and Linux to OS X, and Neither did my brother, There are enough differences to confuse people.
the one thing I did figure out rather quickly was applescript. Programers have to include support for it, and it's not overly fast, but it works. Applescript with a combination of bash shell scripting, gives me command line modification of things like itunes, mail, ftp All from either the GUI or commandline. combine that with a bit of automator, and I can do things like tar-gzip a group of selected files, or my personal favorite extend the filenames on a group of files with just a couple of clicks (Say add in the artist name to a group of mp3 tracks).
Apple overly simplified a really massive cross network of options. If it get's any bigger they will turn OS X into the Newton 's system. Then again that might not be bad.
Not as long as MSFT is making the default OS. Heck MSFT can't even get away from the now ~25 year old tech of BIOS and floppy disks. Vista will finally kill the need floppy's but MSFT refuses to fully support EFI. You have to use a bios compatiblity module to boot vista.
Yet Apple is on their second major system architecture change in 15 years. and Linux. Well linux runs on nearly anythng.
You do realise apple is the only OS company that supports LIVE monitor switching right? I am talking about while the machine is running phyiscally unplugging one display and plugging in another.
Try that with windows or X. Both choke if you unplug the VGA connector and plug in a completely different resolution monitor or TV. My powerbook just blanks the screen and switches to the apporiate size.
haha that sucks. i 1985 at age 7, I had a TI 99/4a with the extended 32b memory unit. Of course I did manage to write a single program that filled all the memory. That was when i learned to create, and call seperate programs from within one. I still remember it. I had 8-10 games i had created/entered in from samples, and I had a menu Interface to switch games. So i could play for hours, I later added the word processor to it, so i could quickly switch to "doing homework"
while I agree with you for programing, IT, in genral is trying to figure out which part is bad out of so many possible combinations, ranging from hardware to software layers. Solving a riddle may not prove your worth as a programmer, but it won't hurt it either. it shows you can see things from more than just GIGO.
um how about the US has literally 10 times the number of people to deal with? New York state alone has some 22 million people and could field an army as large as Canada's.
Now what were you saying again? Paper ballots work well for small numbers of people. The mechaincal ones NY had were great for us and reliable literally for decades. The New and Improved Diebold electronic ones running Windows XP are nothing but a diaster in need of an event.
bring back the solid mechanical machines and all will be well.
Actually it fit, cockroaches aslo carry dieses which can hurt you just like windows. You need special protections (ie sealed plastic containers) to keep cockroaches out, and you need secial third party solutions to protect your data from windows viruses.
I wonder if Redmond would survive a nuclear explosion? hmm wait is that helicopters I am hearing......
You do realize that iMovieHD plugs that hole right? you are required to install a video file as well. I haven't tried seperating it out later but combining the two would result in quality and tme loss. Burning and then ripping would be faster.
It will be as tv signals are also transmitted via the same cable. I would much prefer one cable coming into my home than the 4 that currently are. It's also a lot easier to repair after a massive storm.
I personally can't wait(though it's many many years away) for the day when power and communications are transmitted through a hybrid cable(think fiber optic communcations line wrapped by Power conductors)You have one connector, and you get power and access to the net.
But there is way to much crap in the old way of doing things for such an upgrade to be even thought of, let alone done.
The problem is people are used to being able to record a tv program with their vcr. HDCP will fail in the market as people won't be allowed to do just that, as outlined by copyright law for fair use.
The only way around it will be if the media companies go to on demand tv for all their content after it's aired in it's normal time slot. But cable companies and the media giants aren't that smart.
Actually Ebay is an Open aired Flea-market. It always has been. Filled with thieves, liars, and cheats. Sure you can occasionally get a good deal, but you had better watch your wallet. Sure Ebay pretends to stop the thieves but since everyone comes and goes as they like there is little to stop them. In reality Ebay is only in it for the fees they generate with every sale/nonsale. if it takes you twice as long to sell your product now that's good for ebay as they get to charge you more.
black boxes are designed to be removed, like removable hard drives. Just unplug it. I won't. as having it plugged in would be a bonus. As long as the data stays on the device until an accident. As it can't be used against you when you go for your annual car inspections(for the areas in which that applies).
While it isn't a replacement for a keyboard, the bulk of today's input is actually being done on touch sensitive displays just like star trek. Or do you not count the thousands, of restaurants, movies theaters, and retail stores who have touch sensitive displays for their primary input device, with a keyboard/number pad? Those are taking off precisely because of inherit limitations in keyboards, and their limited input abilities. Keyboards won't go anywhere. people will still have to create reports, and input long strings of text, but can you imagine dual or quad touch input on a tabletPC? The ability to toss out the mouse, and just touch the screen of that style input would be great. with the keyboard tucked away in a drawer ready to be used when needed.
don't tell you would want the mouse around for game play? that has long been beaten by better controllers. Try it. reach up and touch the close button on this window with your finger, now click on (start/applications/K, etc), combine that with a keyboard input system in the form of an enhanced command line and you might be able to see just how we can make computing without as much repetitive stress injuries.
The only reason my brother got one when he was 16(he's now 19 and stil doesn't have his license) was the fact that our grandmother forgot to pick him up and left him stranded. He ended up walking the 6 miles home, after 4 hours of lacrosse practice.
So there are times when having a phone but no car is useful, but he also had a lot of limits on how many minutes he could use. The punishment for going over was more than he could bare. (our parents believed in punishments that were actually punishments, and not slaps on the wrist)
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Of course if you can properly lock down your software, the hardware should last a lot longer than 3 years. Mac users get an average of 5 years out of a machine, and the windows machines I am using right now were bought in 1997.
he reality is the latest and greatest is rarely all it's cracked up to be.
Um NY hasn't passed a tax plan on time for the past 25 or 26 years. It's a running joke through two govenours.
If you read apple rumour sites, a new ipod is coming down the works. It will have a display on the front with Touch screen controls that appear only when a finger is near the screen.
That will be the real video ipod. And unlike MSFT Apple won't release it until they have at least the majority of the bugs worked out.
Heck 500,000 workers on bicycle generators would be enough power to warm up the reactor.
nope still get that kind of problem ia brick and motar store. Routinely i get emails asking for me to send 500+ smoke detectors to some place overseas.
Recently I got an IRC(internet relay call for deaf people)about a couple of random items plus 800 smokes. I gave the guy my email address, and thinking it was legit but suspiscous we passed one email back and forth and he forked over three credit card numbers just like that. Asked me to spilt the down paymet up between the three. I told him I couldn't do it over the net, and he needed to come into the store. Haven't heard from him since.
Scammers are branching out. IR calls aren't cheap. Also credit card companies are getting mroe and more stringent in how different companies accept cards.
and Linux geeks getting the joke rush to make them both.
They are both on the same frontpage for me. I literally scrolled down the front page to see them both.
What's worse is that there are 5 more articles to go on my front page before that one scrolls off.
While I personally didn't have any real problems moving cold turkey from Windows and Linux to OS X, and Neither did my brother, There are enough differences to confuse people.
the one thing I did figure out rather quickly was applescript. Programers have to include support for it, and it's not overly fast, but it works. Applescript with a combination of bash shell scripting, gives me command line modification of things like itunes, mail, ftp All from either the GUI or commandline. combine that with a bit of automator, and I can do things like tar-gzip a group of selected files, or my personal favorite extend the filenames on a group of files with just a couple of clicks (Say add in the artist name to a group of mp3 tracks).
Apple overly simplified a really massive cross network of options. If it get's any bigger they will turn OS X into the Newton 's system. Then again that might not be bad.
Yes but is there hope for Micheal Jackson to ever have a human face?
My two thoughts.
1) that really does bear striking resemblence to a face. Not perfect but just an odd rock formation.
2) where are the other mountians? It's like hiawii. a (mostly)lonely mountian in a sea of flat. While there is precendant it is an oddity.
Yes, x86 is horrible, but that too will pass.
Not as long as MSFT is making the default OS. Heck MSFT can't even get away from the now ~25 year old tech of BIOS and floppy disks. Vista will finally kill the need floppy's but MSFT refuses to fully support EFI. You have to use a bios compatiblity module to boot vista.
Yet Apple is on their second major system architecture change in 15 years. and Linux. Well linux runs on nearly anythng.
At 5-6 knots this boat will be passed by even the slowest sail boat that can safely cross the atlantic today.
sailboats themselves use solar, and sometimes even a mini wind turbine to keep their electronic systems charged while saving gas for real emergencies.
You do realise apple is the only OS company that supports LIVE monitor switching right? I am talking about while the machine is running phyiscally unplugging one display and plugging in another.
Try that with windows or X. Both choke if you unplug the VGA connector and plug in a completely different resolution monitor or TV. My powerbook just blanks the screen and switches to the apporiate size.
haha that sucks. i 1985 at age 7, I had a TI 99/4a with the extended 32b memory unit. Of course I did manage to write a single program that filled all the memory. That was when i learned to create, and call seperate programs from within one. I still remember it. I had 8-10 games i had created/entered in from samples, and I had a menu Interface to switch games. So i could play for hours, I later added the word processor to it, so i could quickly switch to "doing homework"
while I agree with you for programing, IT, in genral is trying to figure out which part is bad out of so many possible combinations, ranging from hardware to software layers. Solving a riddle may not prove your worth as a programmer, but it won't hurt it either. it shows you can see things from more than just GIGO.
um how about the US has literally 10 times the number of people to deal with? New York state alone has some 22 million people and could field an army as large as Canada's.
Now what were you saying again? Paper ballots work well for small numbers of people. The mechaincal ones NY had were great for us and reliable literally for decades. The New and Improved Diebold electronic ones running Windows XP are nothing but a diaster in need of an event.
bring back the solid mechanical machines and all will be well.
Actually it fit, cockroaches aslo carry dieses which can hurt you just like windows. You need special protections (ie sealed plastic containers) to keep cockroaches out, and you need secial third party solutions to protect your data from windows viruses.
I wonder if Redmond would survive a nuclear explosion? hmm wait is that helicopters I am hearing......
You do realize that iMovieHD plugs that hole right? you are required to install a video file as well. I haven't tried seperating it out later but combining the two would result in quality and tme loss. Burning and then ripping would be faster.
It will be as tv signals are also transmitted via the same cable. I would much prefer one cable coming into my home than the 4 that currently are. It's also a lot easier to repair after a massive storm.
I personally can't wait(though it's many many years away) for the day when power and communications are transmitted through a hybrid cable(think fiber optic communcations line wrapped by Power conductors)You have one connector, and you get power and access to the net.
But there is way to much crap in the old way of doing things for such an upgrade to be even thought of, let alone done.
The problem is people are used to being able to record a tv program with their vcr. HDCP will fail in the market as people won't be allowed to do just that, as outlined by copyright law for fair use.
The only way around it will be if the media companies go to on demand tv for all their content after it's aired in it's normal time slot. But cable companies and the media giants aren't that smart.
Actually Ebay is an Open aired Flea-market. It always has been. Filled with thieves, liars, and cheats. Sure you can occasionally get a good deal, but you had better watch your wallet. Sure Ebay pretends to stop the thieves but since everyone comes and goes as they like there is little to stop them. In reality Ebay is only in it for the fees they generate with every sale/nonsale. if it takes you twice as long to sell your product now that's good for ebay as they get to charge you more.
And you keep going back.
black boxes are designed to be removed, like removable hard drives. Just unplug it. I won't. as having it plugged in would be a bonus. As long as the data stays on the device until an accident. As it can't be used against you when you go for your annual car inspections(for the areas in which that applies).
Here just play this sony music cd on your computer.
It's not Apple's or MSFT's fault for faulty software someone else wrote.
While it isn't a replacement for a keyboard, the bulk of today's input is actually being done on touch sensitive displays just like star trek. Or do you not count the thousands, of restaurants, movies theaters, and retail stores who have touch sensitive displays for their primary input device, with a keyboard/number pad? Those are taking off precisely because of inherit limitations in keyboards, and their limited input abilities. Keyboards won't go anywhere. people will still have to create reports, and input long strings of text, but can you imagine dual or quad touch input on a tabletPC? The ability to toss out the mouse, and just touch the screen of that style input would be great. with the keyboard tucked away in a drawer ready to be used when needed.
don't tell you would want the mouse around for game play? that has long been beaten by better controllers. Try it. reach up and touch the close button on this window with your finger, now click on (start/applications/K, etc), combine that with a keyboard input system in the form of an enhanced command line and you might be able to see just how we can make computing without as much repetitive stress injuries.
The only reason my brother got one when he was 16(he's now 19 and stil doesn't have his license) was the fact that our grandmother forgot to pick him up and left him stranded. He ended up walking the 6 miles home, after 4 hours of lacrosse practice.
So there are times when having a phone but no car is useful, but he also had a lot of limits on how many minutes he could use. The punishment for going over was more than he could bare. (our parents believed in punishments that were actually punishments, and not slaps on the wrist)