Good thing the FAA uses QNX, cause if they ran MS software, it would go something like this:
Air Traffic Boss: How's it going?
Air Traffic Controller: Fine.
Boss: What's That? (Points to blue screen)
Controller: Oh, that happens when we try to track more than three planes.
Boss: Why does it do that?
Controller: We only purchased a 3-plane license. If we try to track 4, Palladium kicks in, and the whole thing locks up.
Boss: Doesn't that sound, you know, dangerous?
Controller: Not as dangerous as this! (plays an illegal mp3, sirens blow, and all machines are shut down, power is cut off, forcing runway lights to turn off, while planes crash like crazy.)
Ms already announced that it wasn't going to release anymore browsers for older versions of Windows already. I am concerned that it might be a challenge to Apple and their iTMS, because Ms wants to build their own. They will say "Apple does not have access to the underlying source code, and therefore cannot compete". It might be a sacrifice play, giving up one product so that Apple willgive up one product for Windows. Or Ms might be pulling their support for other OS's in a futile grasp for the power that they are currently losing.
The only thing that I would miss are games. You get games for the Mac, but sure not the boatload you have for a PC. Although a Gamecube and an Xbox are in place to fill that gap now.
You dont' know how true that is. All the good PC games are being ported to Xbox, since it is so easy from a developers standpoint, due to the HDD and Nvidia GPU. Plus UT 2003 is out or coming out for Mac, and I heard Doom 3 will come out on Mac.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Windows fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which has crashed 8 times in the past 4 hours. My Mac has crashed like 1 time in the past 6 months. If that.
In addition to the OS failure, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Windows machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Windows machine that has run faster than its Macintosh counterpart, probably because of the Macs' faster chip architecture. My PPC with 16 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Windows is a superior OS (or arhitecture).
Windows addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Windows over other faster, cheaper, more stable OS's.
All the teachers like to use their iMacs and the occasional powerMac, but the school is now buying Dells, partly because they don't want to switch to OS X, and partly because the retards at my school want to use the same type of computer they have at home.
Now that a lot of hotels a wired for broadband in every room, they have 100base-T ethernet. It might be less of a hassle to have everyone shell out 50$ for a room per night. Then rent out the meeting rooms for gathering and talking to fellow attendees. If done right, it could be really cool.
My Uncle is a sysadmin for a university, and he lives in one of those tightly packed neighborhoods, and his neighbor left his WAP totally unsecured AND enabled remote wireless management. Luckily, my uncle is too nice to destroy their wireless kingdom, but god forbid that they ever park in his driveway!
It looks good for lan parties. He put a Radeon in there and a Sound blaster. It doesn't look the prettiest, but it probably works well, just like a Honda Element, which is ugly, but cool because it is just utikitarian.
In the study involving rats there were three groups:
Group 1: Every time they pressed a lever, food came out. Group 2: When lever was pulled, they sometimes got more food, but most of the time, none at all. Group 3: Did not get any food when they pushed the lever.
Groups 1 and 2 constantly pushed the levr in order to get food. Goup 3 stopped pressing the lever after the lack of food. At one point, the researchers stopped providing food. Group 1 stopped pressing levers, given tht there was no food. However, Group 2 thought that the big payoff and kept pushing levers anyway.
Some guys at MIT actually figured out a way to exploit the software code in the machines and got busted for fraud or some such thing. Maybe I have the story wrong, but I know in Vegas, the Mafia runs everything so you HAVE to play by the rules.
Obviously, Casinos are a tax for being bad at math. The people playing the games are the ones most likely not to be able to afford them. We did a whole unit on this in statistics (this was why statistics emerged as a subject of study). When you look at expected payoffs, you realy lose.
You are correct sir. Even if you have theoretically unbreakable encryption, or time consuming to break encryption, it is always breakable. There is the human factor. A computer to brute-force encryption algorithms costs millions, but a $1000 bribe can be just as effecive if you have a disgruntled employee who does not take security seriously.
...But technology can fail. Technology can also be "hacked". Technology should only be used as a supplement and taken wih a grain of salt when accuracy absolutely matters. Like the Naval saying: Satellites fail, compasses do not.
When iMacs came out, it was like that one Mac commercial where the woman destroys the huge screen with a hammer. iMacs totally changed the computing world. Who cares about expandability? Anyone who knew enough about computers to want to expand theirs probably knew this and shyed away. The iMac was not designed for the real world. When Apple pulled that off so successfully, the PC makers scrambled to catch up and make their own easy to use computer, because Apple had set the bar high.
These non-linear-editing programs made previously pro-level editing available to the masses, and cheaply I might add. I even read a story about a guy who quit his job, bought $10,000 worth of stuff, and was able to have his film accepted into the Sundance film festival. You don't even have to go that far though to see the value. If iMovie, FCP, and every other editing program were used by almost everyone, there would be WAY less boring Wedding/Baby/Graduation videos.
Obviously, you would not really be concerned with the screen size in Inches, but rather pixels. The 15" TiBook has a screen that is 1280x854. This is nice and wide and will be a little squished if you keep all the Photoshop pallettes open, but you can always hook up that extra monitor while you can, and plus it's DVI, so it will have a better quality picture and color calibration.
I am going to college next year, and I am going to get a new mac before I leave, cause Macs are good for 4 years compared to PC's, which only last 2. Although someone pointed out that I will probably have my laptop stolen, so maybe don't bring a laptop.
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Im torm between my hate of the man, and my dislike of censorship. I have no ideas as to who should win.
They are same ones who gave us that one fish that could walk and kill birds: The Snakefish!!!!!!
I can't wait for a PDA with a video camera and a memory stick slot, do when the 1Gb memory sticks come out, piracy will be really easy.
Good thing the FAA uses QNX, cause if they ran MS software, it would go something like this:
Air Traffic Boss: How's it going?
Air Traffic Controller: Fine.
Boss: What's That? (Points to blue screen)
Controller: Oh, that happens when we try to track more than three planes.
Boss: Why does it do that?
Controller: We only purchased a 3-plane license. If we try to track 4, Palladium kicks in, and the whole thing locks up.
Boss: Doesn't that sound, you know, dangerous?
Controller: Not as dangerous as this! (plays an illegal mp3, sirens blow, and all machines are shut down, power is cut off, forcing runway lights to turn off, while planes crash like crazy.)
Ms already announced that it wasn't going to release anymore browsers for older versions of Windows already. I am concerned that it might be a challenge to Apple and their iTMS, because Ms wants to build their own. They will say "Apple does not have access to the underlying source code, and therefore cannot compete". It might be a sacrifice play, giving up one product so that Apple willgive up one product for Windows. Or Ms might be pulling their support for other OS's in a futile grasp for the power that they are currently losing.
The only thing that I would miss are games. You get games for the Mac, but sure not the boatload you have for a PC. Although a Gamecube and an Xbox are in place to fill that gap now.
You dont' know how true that is. All the good PC games are being ported to Xbox, since it is so easy from a developers standpoint, due to the HDD and Nvidia GPU. Plus UT 2003 is out or coming out for Mac, and I heard Doom 3 will come out on Mac.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Windows fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which has crashed 8 times in the past 4 hours. My Mac has crashed like 1 time in the past 6 months. If that.
In addition to the OS failure, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Windows machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Windows machine that has run faster than its Macintosh counterpart, probably because of the Macs' faster chip architecture. My PPC with 16 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Windows is a superior OS (or arhitecture).
Windows addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Windows over other faster, cheaper, more stable OS's.
There! My own counter-troll!
All the teachers like to use their iMacs and the occasional powerMac, but the school is now buying Dells, partly because they don't want to switch to OS X, and partly because the retards at my school want to use the same type of computer they have at home.
Now that a lot of hotels a wired for broadband in every room, they have 100base-T ethernet. It might be less of a hassle to have everyone shell out 50$ for a room per night. Then rent out the meeting rooms for gathering and talking to fellow attendees. If done right, it could be really cool.
My Uncle is a sysadmin for a university, and he lives in one of those tightly packed neighborhoods, and his neighbor left his WAP totally unsecured AND enabled remote wireless management. Luckily, my uncle is too nice to destroy their wireless kingdom, but god forbid that they ever park in his driveway!
It looks good for lan parties. He put a Radeon in there and a Sound blaster. It doesn't look the prettiest, but it probably works well, just like a Honda Element, which is ugly, but cool because it is just utikitarian.
In the study involving rats there were three groups:
Group 1: Every time they pressed a lever, food came out.
Group 2: When lever was pulled, they sometimes got more food, but most of the time, none at all.
Group 3: Did not get any food when they pushed the lever.
Groups 1 and 2 constantly pushed the levr in order to get food. Goup 3 stopped pressing the lever after the lack of food. At one point, the researchers stopped providing food. Group 1 stopped pressing levers, given tht there was no food. However, Group 2 thought that the big payoff and kept pushing levers anyway.
Some guys at MIT actually figured out a way to exploit the software code in the machines and got busted for fraud or some such thing. Maybe I have the story wrong, but I know in Vegas, the Mafia runs everything so you HAVE to play by the rules.
Obviously, Casinos are a tax for being bad at math. The people playing the games are the ones most likely not to be able to afford them. We did a whole unit on this in statistics (this was why statistics emerged as a subject of study). When you look at expected payoffs, you realy lose.
Fortunately, not as often as batteries go dead!
You are correct sir. Even if you have theoretically unbreakable encryption, or time consuming to break encryption, it is always breakable. There is the human factor. A computer to brute-force encryption algorithms costs millions, but a $1000 bribe can be just as effecive if you have a disgruntled employee who does not take security seriously.
...But technology can fail. Technology can also be "hacked". Technology should only be used as a supplement and taken wih a grain of salt when accuracy absolutely matters. Like the Naval saying: Satellites fail, compasses do not.
How is it accessible, a combination of keys, and what type of vending machines?
When iMacs came out, it was like that one Mac commercial where the woman destroys the huge screen with a hammer. iMacs totally changed the computing world. Who cares about expandability? Anyone who knew enough about computers to want to expand theirs probably knew this and shyed away. The iMac was not designed for the real world. When Apple pulled that off so successfully, the PC makers scrambled to catch up and make their own easy to use computer, because Apple had set the bar high.
These non-linear-editing programs made previously pro-level editing available to the masses, and cheaply I might add. I even read a story about a guy who quit his job, bought $10,000 worth of stuff, and was able to have his film accepted into the Sundance film festival. You don't even have to go that far though to see the value. If iMovie, FCP, and every other editing program were used by almost everyone, there would be WAY less boring Wedding/Baby/Graduation videos.
It's called spyware. These eople have obviously installed KaZaa.
I got banned in march on the saturday after black LUEsday (March 8). I heard what dark cobra wrote about CJayC was hella funny.
Obviously, you would not really be concerned with the screen size in Inches, but rather pixels. The 15" TiBook has a screen that is 1280x854. This is nice and wide and will be a little squished if you keep all the Photoshop pallettes open, but you can always hook up that extra monitor while you can, and plus it's DVI, so it will have a better quality picture and color calibration.
I am going to college next year, and I am going to get a new mac before I leave, cause Macs are good for 4 years compared to PC's, which only last 2. Although someone pointed out that I will probably have my laptop stolen, so maybe don't bring a laptop.
I have bills to pay and I have some money lying around the house. I can't afford all of these price drop topics!