No seriously, the trouble is actually finding a pocket to put it in. Usually the CD is just too big to fit in.. if it was a more rectangle shape (but the same size one way) it would be fine. But it's not.
Wait until MacWorld, there is a rumor that a new form factor iMac will be released, which could possibly be headless.. which most people are waiting for (including me) to switch over to a Mac desktop. I'm currently using a Mac notebook, but I have a Linux/XP machine for desktop use...
Apple is working on adding Yahoo and MSN support to iChat AV (the IM client which is pretty excellent, apart from it only runs on AIM,.mac and Rendezvous). Which sucks bad if like me all of your friends use MSN.
I hope they add it as it's the best IM client I've used on any platform. It's flexible and it's also brilliantly simplistic. You never go looking for an option - it's always there in front of you, but you never have too many...
You could just copy and paste the HTML source into a local document, check that the ACTION of the tag is pointing to the right place and rip out the javascript. Always works:).
They don't plan to have it ported over to Aqua until 2006... which really is plain shit.
OpenOffice, for the good it does, IMO is useless at making good releases. I mean it took months to go from 1.0 to 1.1, and 1.1 has a PDF and Flash option and very few others...
Personally I think the Radeon 9200 is an excellent card. It's a directx 8 card so it can play all but the newest DX9 games. It's also got great OpenGL performance and the best thing is that it is fanless!
Exactly. Remember that the mobo and PSU (and therefore usually the case) are all deal specific and therefore can't be changed without getting rid of the whole lot. A real pain if for example the PSU fails and its usually just worth salvaging some stuff from Dell machines and putting it in a new case.
Also, you are paying $80 or something for a Windows XP Home license... something that's not really needed if you aren't that moral;).
That will also block anyone sending or recieving POP3 email - which is likley to be quite a lot of your client base.
However, I'd just get a Wireless access point with a MAC filtering blacklist so you can ban anyone spamming, using kazaa too much from the network...
You need a better mail program. Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple's mail.app both offer spam filtering and if a spam message is detected, images dont' load. The average plain-text spam mail message is something like 3kb..
While it may seem grave at the moment, you are forgetting two things:
1) They will have to compromise a hundred machines for the speed of email sending that 1 could of done before this method.
2) People will start to notice that they are infected if there CPU usage is constantly 100%. They will shutdown the machine and get it fixed, or buy a new one depending on the computing skill level they have.
Either way, making it harder for spammers to send stuff is always good.
Personally I think this is a pretty good method. It reduces the risk of false positives right down to zero, which is something the current filter methods can't do. I can't feel easy with a spam filter if it might bin some very important email.
Good old Daily 'racist' mail. Maybe they said it was the illegal immagrants fault for this iPod battery problem, as they came into your house at night and started listening to it, draining down the batteries?
Exactly. This behaviour is far better, I mean the 'newbies' won't ever use the iPod as a hard drive, and if they stumbled across the music on a folder on their desktop (the iPod mounted) then they might be tempted to start uploading through there, instead of keeping a proper libary of music sync'd up through iTunes...
Well, that's if you look at it from a pure unit point of view. Look at it from a revenue point of view and you will see that Apple is doing much better - the revenue of PCs slips and slips per unit while Apple keeps it pretty much the same.
Also, you've gotta realize that in this time they have made 2 huge changes - a _brand new_ OS, which is completely different to anything else they have done, and also getting rid of motorola.
Motorola held Apple back far more than any CEO did. I think we will see this trend reversed as the people who went over to x86 for the performance (which is totally valid) will start coming back. Especially with Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio. They are excellent applications and surpass anything Adobe or other companies do in that market.
I shifted to Mac due to the apple notebooks. They are very competitively priced and you know you are getting a good solution instead of a crappy flimsy piece of crap, which most PC notebooks are like.
Also, I like the fact i can bring up fink and install most decent unix apps. Hopefully someone will port Gnome 2.4 into it.
I think that Apple should try and get more games developers on board. Sadly, without direct X, most of the processing power of the Radeon 9600/9800 Pro's are going to waste. Maybe Apple should work on some sort of official wine port... it would be very interesting indeed.
Well, IMO, nothing is better than the iTunes jukebox. I'm not going to use WMP nor Musicmatch - iTunes is kickass at pretty much everything.
Therefore I have to use an iPod.
I doubt that the 'snow white' thing will fall on its ass. The iBook snow white model has been out for 3 or 4 years now and my iBook looks far far better than 99% of wintel ones.
I agree.
I'm a massive fan of Apple stuff but it will never become 'mass market' unless apple cut back on the price.
Not only that, it charges about 10-15% more (excluding taxes) for UK people to buy Apple stuff. A similar story with the Canada and Australia stores. (They tend not to do this that much in Europe with the Euro as it is very obvious with the Euro being nearly 1:1 with the dollar).
The trouble is, the minute Apple makes the stuff cheaper, it means they loose the 'executive' edge. Would you still think a 17" powerbook was of the same quality if it was $500 less (something that apple could probably easily do if they wanted)?
Well, laptop drives are usually built to a higher standard as they have to be shock resistant to a certain level.
Not only that, the ipod stores about 32mb of data within its RAM while its running, so it's going to be accessing the drive for less than a second to fill the buffer...
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No seriously, the trouble is actually finding a pocket to put it in. Usually the CD is just too big to fit in.. if it was a more rectangle shape (but the same size one way) it would be fine. But it's not.
Wait until MacWorld, there is a rumor that a new form factor iMac will be released, which could possibly be headless.. which most people are waiting for (including me) to switch over to a Mac desktop. I'm currently using a Mac notebook, but I have a Linux/XP machine for desktop use...
Apple is working on adding Yahoo and MSN support to iChat AV (the IM client which is pretty excellent, apart from it only runs on AIM, .mac and Rendezvous). Which sucks bad if like me all of your friends use MSN.
I hope they add it as it's the best IM client I've used on any platform. It's flexible and it's also brilliantly simplistic. You never go looking for an option - it's always there in front of you, but you never have too many...
I would agree. But Safari integrates (like everything Apple wise) so well you just feel like you are missing out if you don't use it....
Appleworks is appalling. It looks like an OS9 app, and I hate OS9 with a passion.
;).
It took me 2 years to shrug off the stigma of OS9 and consider getting an iBook (which I did when I played with OSX in-depth).
I'm hopeful that Apple will release an updated version of AppleWorks (or a new product that does the same job) at Macworld SF this January coming.
Also, both Abiword and OOo are racing to get an Aqua port done. KOffice might beat them, however
You could just copy and paste the HTML source into a local document, check that the ACTION of the tag is pointing to the right place and rip out the javascript. Always works :).
They don't plan to have it ported over to Aqua until 2006... which really is plain shit.
OpenOffice, for the good it does, IMO is useless at making good releases. I mean it took months to go from 1.0 to 1.1, and 1.1 has a PDF and Flash option and very few others...
Personally I think the Radeon 9200 is an excellent card. It's a directx 8 card so it can play all but the newest DX9 games. It's also got great OpenGL performance and the best thing is that it is fanless!
Exactly. Remember that the mobo and PSU (and therefore usually the case) are all deal specific and therefore can't be changed without getting rid of the whole lot. A real pain if for example the PSU fails and its usually just worth salvaging some stuff from Dell machines and putting it in a new case.
;).
Also, you are paying $80 or something for a Windows XP Home license... something that's not really needed if you aren't that moral
That will also block anyone sending or recieving POP3 email - which is likley to be quite a lot of your client base. However, I'd just get a Wireless access point with a MAC filtering blacklist so you can ban anyone spamming, using kazaa too much from the network...
Exactly. 99% of this 'American-English' is just common misspellings of silent letters in English words, eg FlavoUr and ColoUr.
No, because usually the clustering takes more overhead. Especially on low end hardware.
You will have to have a main machine which is very powerful to hand the tasks out correctly...
You need a better mail program. Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple's mail.app both offer spam filtering and if a spam message is detected, images dont' load. The average plain-text spam mail message is something like 3kb..
While it may seem grave at the moment, you are forgetting two things:
1) They will have to compromise a hundred machines for the speed of email sending that 1 could of done before this method.
2) People will start to notice that they are infected if there CPU usage is constantly 100%. They will shutdown the machine and get it fixed, or buy a new one depending on the computing skill level they have.
Either way, making it harder for spammers to send stuff is always good.
Personally I think this is a pretty good method. It reduces the risk of false positives right down to zero, which is something the current filter methods can't do. I can't feel easy with a spam filter if it might bin some very important email.
Get it slash-dotted? Hack his server, plant a 'in soviet russia, spam sends you!' joke page and submit it to slashdot ;).
It would be pretty much like playing on a 14k modem, due to the latency of the connection. Lots of bandwidth != low latency...
Good old Daily 'racist' mail. Maybe they said it was the illegal immagrants fault for this iPod battery problem, as they came into your house at night and started listening to it, draining down the batteries?
Exactly. This behaviour is far better, I mean the 'newbies' won't ever use the iPod as a hard drive, and if they stumbled across the music on a folder on their desktop (the iPod mounted) then they might be tempted to start uploading through there, instead of keeping a proper libary of music sync'd up through iTunes...
Well, that's if you look at it from a pure unit point of view. Look at it from a revenue point of view and you will see that Apple is doing much better - the revenue of PCs slips and slips per unit while Apple keeps it pretty much the same.
Also, you've gotta realize that in this time they have made 2 huge changes - a _brand new_ OS, which is completely different to anything else they have done, and also getting rid of motorola.
Motorola held Apple back far more than any CEO did. I think we will see this trend reversed as the people who went over to x86 for the performance (which is totally valid) will start coming back. Especially with Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio. They are excellent applications and surpass anything Adobe or other companies do in that market.
I shifted to Mac due to the apple notebooks. They are very competitively priced and you know you are getting a good solution instead of a crappy flimsy piece of crap, which most PC notebooks are like. Also, I like the fact i can bring up fink and install most decent unix apps. Hopefully someone will port Gnome 2.4 into it. I think that Apple should try and get more games developers on board. Sadly, without direct X, most of the processing power of the Radeon 9600/9800 Pro's are going to waste. Maybe Apple should work on some sort of official wine port... it would be very interesting indeed.
Not if (like deus ex 2) the whole thing is designed to be played with a controller.
Sad, really, as it could of been a great game.
Well, IMO, nothing is better than the iTunes jukebox. I'm not going to use WMP nor Musicmatch - iTunes is kickass at pretty much everything.
Therefore I have to use an iPod.
I doubt that the 'snow white' thing will fall on its ass. The iBook snow white model has been out for 3 or 4 years now and my iBook looks far far better than 99% of wintel ones.
I agree. I'm a massive fan of Apple stuff but it will never become 'mass market' unless apple cut back on the price. Not only that, it charges about 10-15% more (excluding taxes) for UK people to buy Apple stuff. A similar story with the Canada and Australia stores. (They tend not to do this that much in Europe with the Euro as it is very obvious with the Euro being nearly 1:1 with the dollar). The trouble is, the minute Apple makes the stuff cheaper, it means they loose the 'executive' edge. Would you still think a 17" powerbook was of the same quality if it was $500 less (something that apple could probably easily do if they wanted)?
Well, laptop drives are usually built to a higher standard as they have to be shock resistant to a certain level. Not only that, the ipod stores about 32mb of data within its RAM while its running, so it's going to be accessing the drive for less than a second to fill the buffer...
Uh sorry, wrong.
Most British people (including me) SUPPORTED the war. It was a slim majority, but a majority nevertheless.
Just because the people who supported the war didn't want to go out and make a fuss about it doesn't make their opinions any less valid.
Personally I think the further we get away from the euro faggots the better. I'd rather give my tax pounds to Japan than the French.