This costs way too much. Hardware for a system like this would run you up to maybe $1200, since you're getting lots of storage and a top of the line sound card, but you don't need a display or a graphics card or anything like that. Then add in software to run an audio streaming app (free), software to run a networked filesystem (free), and software to control it remotely, both over 802.11b and IrDA (free, but proprietary IrDA software might work better). No way this would cost $2800. Nice idea, though. If I had enough money to spare, I might consider building a system like this myself. No way I'd pay $2800 for one, though.
Seems to me that what you want then is a dock for your iPod that you leave connected to your stereo. That'd be a lot more cost effective than a device that just combines the function of iTMS and the iPod. A device like the one in the article complicates things too much. You end having your music in 3 different places (PC, portable player, stereo) and unless it was all shared over a wireless network, it would be awkward to use.
No, because with everything they have already, a service like this would be redundant. Right now, you just download songs with iTMS, upload them to your iPod, and plug it into your stereo. There's no reason for Apple to provide another way of doing something that can be done already. They're more creative than that.
By the same argument, is Windows the most popular PC operating system? Most people didn't choose to use it, it was put in front of them. But pretty much anyone who uses Linux made a choice to use it, any many more of the people who use MacOS made a choice than did Windows users.
Lawmakers tend to have this belief that simply by passing legislation, technology can be made to do everything they want it to, and nothing they don't want it to. Somebody will point out to them that it would be impossible to enforce a law like this, and it will be the last we hear of it.
They've been actively working toward it. There's been a lot of work on getting Firebird and THunderbird stable. Once they get to the point where they're as good as Seamonkey, they will replace it as the new browser and mail components. From what I've seen of Firebird, it shouldn't be long now. (Though I still use Mozilla for the time being)
In this case, you can do the same thing with higher quality parts for less money. He doesn't seem all that impressed with the quality of the hardware in the review.
My current computer has at least one part from all those that came before it (Which currently is two computers). It's got the floppy drive from a c.1995 IBM Aptiva and a DVD drive from a 2000 Aptiva. It's also got the hard drive from the same 2000 Aptiva. That hard drive was shit on by countless mice, and was taken outside in the rain, and yet still works. I had thought it was dead, so I kicked it around a bit, then I figured I'd see if I could recover anything off it, and lo and behold, it worked perfectly. I don't store anything important on it, though.
If you have that kind of money, you'd be better off with a RAID array of smaller drives. If money were no object whatsoever, the best solution would be an array of 36GB 10,000RPM SATA drives. If you wanted to spend a little bit less, 80GB 7200RPM EIDE drives would still give incredible performance in a RAID-0 configuration. Not to mention, if you're using it for data storage, you probably wouldn't trust a drive with a 1 year warranty, unless you had two in a RAID-1 configuration.
There's no problem with VCRs. I never said anything about them. However, it would be nice if the school got a few DVD players. A few times last year, some of my teachers wanted to play DVDs, and had a very difficult time locating a TV with a DVD player.
As for film strips, the only class they've ever used those is in physics. We watched film loops last year, with no sound and everything. It was kind of amusing, actually.
I personally don't need it, I don't own a laptop. A lot of high school students do, though, and could benefit from wifi. In addition, the physics and chemistry classes use laptops in lab. They would benefit from wifi as well. Nobody in elementary school needs it, though. Teachers all use desktops, and no students carry laptops.
I might care more about this if the district had a legitimate use for wifi. It's an elementary school district, grades K-8. None of the students have laptops, and the majority of the teachers are incapable of using anything other than Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word and Gradequick.
Now the high school, on the other hand, could benefit from wifi. One student in my math class recently got a tablet PC, and we were talking a couple days ago about how nice it would be if there was a school-wide 802.11b network. Unfortunarly, our school is way behind the times as far as technology goes. We watched laserdiscs the other day in psych.
Money isn't an issue for either of them, though. Both the elementary schools and the high school have more money then they know what to do with. The middle schools just built two new buildings, and the high school got a new $3 million artificial turf football field, an artificial turf soccer field with stadium lighting, and built a parking garage. The issues are stupid parents and stupid administration.
(In case you couldn't tell, I attended the district the lawsuit was filed against)
I got that exact same printer, and it's great. Quiet, fast, and cheap. Though I haven't had much experience with ink cartridges, because in the 4 months or so I've had it, it hasn't even used a third of the original ink. Compare this to the old Epson I had, which was a festering puddle of vomit. Ran out of ink once a month, worked maybe half the time, spewed out page after page with nothing gibberish, etc.
There are probably a lot of services starting that you don't need. KDE has a good SysV Init editor you can use that has an interface kind of like the Windows service editor. Just get rid of all the stuff you don't need, and you should find that your bootup time is reduced drastically.
Or if you want to start a lot of services, you could do it the way I do it. I've got a script I run as soon as I log in to start most services. While that's initializing all that stuff, I go to tty2 and start my X session. This, as another poster has previously pointed out, is how Windows does it.
Or no-click searching, if you set up a keyword in mozilla. I just type "goto searchterms" in the location bar, and it works its magic. All it takes is a bookmark to the location "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=1" with a keyword of "goto".
If you can afford a Mac, then you can afford an iPod. As far as I can tell, only a complete idiot would choose this over an iPod. Dell sucks at design.
Chlorine isn't neccessary, it's the sodium that you need. Chlorine is the simplest means of delivering it. In water, the sodium and chlorine dissociate, and the sodium enters the blood stream as an electrolyte. The chlorine simply joins the rest of the chlorine in the stomach acid (H+(aq) + Cl-(aq)) and is disposed of whenever the excess acid is disposed of.
Flouride is similar. In water, you will find F-(aq), which is not flourine (which is a gas) but flouride (which is an ion). Flouride, because of its high electronegativity, binds to posivite ions the first chance it gets. The flouride, and any ion it carries with it, then passes through the digestive system and is disposed of, since it serves no useful purpose elsewhere.
Now then, what was this article about? Oh right, hard drives and Lindows. Right.
I tried it for about 2 weeks. I got reasonably proficient with it, I could type at a solid 40 wpm, but switching back and forth between dvorak at home and qwerty at school, I'd get really confused. My other problem is that my keycaps can't be moved, because they're angled for a specific row. If you mix them up they get all weird.
The other problem I had is that a lot of applications have shortcut keys designed for a certain layout. Try doing ctrl-c and ctrl-v in Dvorak. Then you get into stuff like GtkRadiant, where practically every button on the keyboard does something, and it's just a nightmare.
Not all game publishers will, though. Activision has been getting better in recent years with Linux and MacOS clients. They're not just going to DRM one platform. Maybe other publishers will, but I'd be willing to bet Activision will hold out on it. And hey, if they don't, Quake 3 will always have a community.
My Ti4800 running nVidia driver version 1.0-4496 disagrees with you. I average 80fps in Enemy Territory at 1280x1024. I don't think I'd do much better in Windows.
It doesn't work when there are so many proper nouns. All of the other words are either recognizable, or can be figured out from context, though. I only got caught up on the names.
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This costs way too much. Hardware for a system like this would run you up to maybe $1200, since you're getting lots of storage and a top of the line sound card, but you don't need a display or a graphics card or anything like that. Then add in software to run an audio streaming app (free), software to run a networked filesystem (free), and software to control it remotely, both over 802.11b and IrDA (free, but proprietary IrDA software might work better). No way this would cost $2800. Nice idea, though. If I had enough money to spare, I might consider building a system like this myself. No way I'd pay $2800 for one, though.
Seems to me that what you want then is a dock for your iPod that you leave connected to your stereo. That'd be a lot more cost effective than a device that just combines the function of iTMS and the iPod. A device like the one in the article complicates things too much. You end having your music in 3 different places (PC, portable player, stereo) and unless it was all shared over a wireless network, it would be awkward to use.
No, because with everything they have already, a service like this would be redundant. Right now, you just download songs with iTMS, upload them to your iPod, and plug it into your stereo. There's no reason for Apple to provide another way of doing something that can be done already. They're more creative than that.
$500 for a 19" monitor? Please tell me it was an LCD. You could get three 19" CRTs for that price.
By the same argument, is Windows the most popular PC operating system? Most people didn't choose to use it, it was put in front of them. But pretty much anyone who uses Linux made a choice to use it, any many more of the people who use MacOS made a choice than did Windows users.
Lawmakers tend to have this belief that simply by passing legislation, technology can be made to do everything they want it to, and nothing they don't want it to. Somebody will point out to them that it would be impossible to enforce a law like this, and it will be the last we hear of it.
How many slashdotters do you think even know what a mountain is, much less have climbed one?
They've been actively working toward it. There's been a lot of work on getting Firebird and THunderbird stable. Once they get to the point where they're as good as Seamonkey, they will replace it as the new browser and mail components. From what I've seen of Firebird, it shouldn't be long now. (Though I still use Mozilla for the time being)
In this case, you can do the same thing with higher quality parts for less money. He doesn't seem all that impressed with the quality of the hardware in the review.
My current computer has at least one part from all those that came before it (Which currently is two computers). It's got the floppy drive from a c.1995 IBM Aptiva and a DVD drive from a 2000 Aptiva. It's also got the hard drive from the same 2000 Aptiva. That hard drive was shit on by countless mice, and was taken outside in the rain, and yet still works. I had thought it was dead, so I kicked it around a bit, then I figured I'd see if I could recover anything off it, and lo and behold, it worked perfectly. I don't store anything important on it, though.
If you have that kind of money, you'd be better off with a RAID array of smaller drives. If money were no object whatsoever, the best solution would be an array of 36GB 10,000RPM SATA drives. If you wanted to spend a little bit less, 80GB 7200RPM EIDE drives would still give incredible performance in a RAID-0 configuration. Not to mention, if you're using it for data storage, you probably wouldn't trust a drive with a 1 year warranty, unless you had two in a RAID-1 configuration.
There's no problem with VCRs. I never said anything about them. However, it would be nice if the school got a few DVD players. A few times last year, some of my teachers wanted to play DVDs, and had a very difficult time locating a TV with a DVD player.
As for film strips, the only class they've ever used those is in physics. We watched film loops last year, with no sound and everything. It was kind of amusing, actually.
I personally don't need it, I don't own a laptop. A lot of high school students do, though, and could benefit from wifi. In addition, the physics and chemistry classes use laptops in lab. They would benefit from wifi as well. Nobody in elementary school needs it, though. Teachers all use desktops, and no students carry laptops.
I might care more about this if the district had a legitimate use for wifi. It's an elementary school district, grades K-8. None of the students have laptops, and the majority of the teachers are incapable of using anything other than Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word and Gradequick.
Now the high school, on the other hand, could benefit from wifi. One student in my math class recently got a tablet PC, and we were talking a couple days ago about how nice it would be if there was a school-wide 802.11b network. Unfortunarly, our school is way behind the times as far as technology goes. We watched laserdiscs the other day in psych.
Money isn't an issue for either of them, though. Both the elementary schools and the high school have more money then they know what to do with. The middle schools just built two new buildings, and the high school got a new $3 million artificial turf football field, an artificial turf soccer field with stadium lighting, and built a parking garage. The issues are stupid parents and stupid administration.
(In case you couldn't tell, I attended the district the lawsuit was filed against)
I got that exact same printer, and it's great. Quiet, fast, and cheap. Though I haven't had much experience with ink cartridges, because in the 4 months or so I've had it, it hasn't even used a third of the original ink. Compare this to the old Epson I had, which was a festering puddle of vomit. Ran out of ink once a month, worked maybe half the time, spewed out page after page with nothing gibberish, etc.
There are probably a lot of services starting that you don't need. KDE has a good SysV Init editor you can use that has an interface kind of like the Windows service editor. Just get rid of all the stuff you don't need, and you should find that your bootup time is reduced drastically.
Or if you want to start a lot of services, you could do it the way I do it. I've got a script I run as soon as I log in to start most services. While that's initializing all that stuff, I go to tty2 and start my X session. This, as another poster has previously pointed out, is how Windows does it.
Which means the Athlon 64 is like light years ahead of the Pentium 5.
Or no-click searching, if you set up a keyword in mozilla. I just type "goto searchterms" in the location bar, and it works its magic. All it takes is a bookmark to the location "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=1" with a keyword of "goto".
If you can afford a Mac, then you can afford an iPod. As far as I can tell, only a complete idiot would choose this over an iPod. Dell sucks at design.
Chlorine isn't neccessary, it's the sodium that you need. Chlorine is the simplest means of delivering it. In water, the sodium and chlorine dissociate, and the sodium enters the blood stream as an electrolyte. The chlorine simply joins the rest of the chlorine in the stomach acid (H+(aq) + Cl-(aq)) and is disposed of whenever the excess acid is disposed of.
Flouride is similar. In water, you will find F-(aq), which is not flourine (which is a gas) but flouride (which is an ion). Flouride, because of its high electronegativity, binds to posivite ions the first chance it gets. The flouride, and any ion it carries with it, then passes through the digestive system and is disposed of, since it serves no useful purpose elsewhere.
Now then, what was this article about? Oh right, hard drives and Lindows. Right.
I tried it for about 2 weeks. I got reasonably proficient with it, I could type at a solid 40 wpm, but switching back and forth between dvorak at home and qwerty at school, I'd get really confused. My other problem is that my keycaps can't be moved, because they're angled for a specific row. If you mix them up they get all weird.
The other problem I had is that a lot of applications have shortcut keys designed for a certain layout. Try doing ctrl-c and ctrl-v in Dvorak. Then you get into stuff like GtkRadiant, where practically every button on the keyboard does something, and it's just a nightmare.
Not all game publishers will, though. Activision has been getting better in recent years with Linux and MacOS clients. They're not just going to DRM one platform. Maybe other publishers will, but I'd be willing to bet Activision will hold out on it. And hey, if they don't, Quake 3 will always have a community.
My Ti4800 running nVidia driver version 1.0-4496 disagrees with you. I average 80fps in Enemy Territory at 1280x1024. I don't think I'd do much better in Windows.
It doesn't work when there are so many proper nouns. All of the other words are either recognizable, or can be figured out from context, though. I only got caught up on the names.
Unless the entire chip is bad, all you'll see is rapidly blinking lights on all of the chips.