So you're moving into an apartment half the size of what you've currently got, but you're shelling out all this money to cram your lifestyle into half the space.
Have you thought about keeping the old apartment (or getting a new one) with more space and not spending so much money on tech (ten 400GB hard drives?!) and other stuff (400DVDs?!).
I got a Nokia 6820 first, and really, it's a neat phone, but the screen is too small to be useful. Then I got a Treo 600 and I've been using that since. I can't say I really care for it much, but the screen is big and PSSH is free and does what I need.
My problem with the Treo is emissions. If I have it near my PC and receive a call, I can always tell before it rings because my 19" monitor ripples and then my external DVD burner power cycles and Windows tells me I removed a device improperly. Makes me wonder what it might be doing to my body when it's in my pocket.
I'm probably just going to give up on smart devices eventually. I'll get a phone, and I'll get one of those Nokia Linux devices with wifi & bluetooth.
As I am a Mac user who owns a PC explicitly for the purpose of gaming, I am quite happy with the switch. Soon I'll be able to ditch my PC, and have a dual-booting Mac instead. I'll keep a Windows partition around as a gaming platform.
Shucks, I'll have to reboot to play games, until VirtualPC or another suitable product works well enough on Intel Macs.
Had IBM been able to get some lower power/heat G5s out the door sooner, Apple probably would have trickled the G5 down into every system, replacing the Freescale G4s. IBM would have had 100% of Apple's computer CPU orders rather than 1/4.
Yes, Office already exists on Mac OS X (for now), but there is a plethora of other software that exists only on Windows. Well, with CodeWeavers working on WINE for Mac OS X on Intel, we'll have all that other software running in Mac OS X.
If someone buys a Dell with Mac OS X, that's a lost sale for Windows. If Office:Mac runs on Intel, then, yes, they still get a sale for Office.
HOWEVER, if they remove Office:Mac from the equation, there's a greater chance that the buyer would opt for Windows instead of Mac OS X. Thus, two sales for Microsoft, none for Apple.
How many sales of Office:Mac would Microsoft lose? Compare that to how many more Windows licenses they could sell.
Apple has been developing builds of Mac OS X for Intel since day once. They obviously have the resources to handle both architectures at the same time. So they will be able to maintain builds for PowerPC as well as Intel for years to come but yes, they will eventually phase out PowerPC, yes.
If you've read about the keynote, or watched the video, you'll know that Apple will introduce the Intel line in 2006, and complete the transition of all Apple products to Intel in 2007. My guess is you'll have two years of OS X updates for PowerPC after that (about how long OS 9 was still maintained after OS X was introduced). Simple math says your PowerPC will probably be running Mac OS X 10.8 (Garfield?) in 2009 by the time PowerPC is EOL'd.
Of course, I don't know for sure. It's just speculation based on Apple's historical transitions. They're not going to leave you out in the cold.
We're still going to buy a bunch of Xserve G5s this summer regardless of Apple's future plans to switch to Intel. It doesn't make the G5s any less of a workhorse. It doesn't mean that Apple will suddenly stop supporting them. There's no reason not to buy an Apple today.
Caution: borderline spoilers (what? you haven't seen it yet?)
Personally, I just felt that Anakin's turning was too quick. There were three movies over which Lucas was going to tell the story of Anakin's turn to the dark side. My sense from viewing ep. 4-6 was that Vader was gradually turned, and it took a long time to "hunt down and destroy the Jedi." He did it in like 10 minutes! What "hunting" needed to be done? He just drove over to the temple and had at it. It took Anakin all of one minute to give in to the dark side completely.
... and I still didn't feel the connection at the end. I've re-watched ep. 4-6 after seeing ep. 3 and I just don't feel it. I keep getting caught on inconsistencies in the story. Example: in ep. 4 Ben tells Luke that his Uncle Owen thought Anakin should have stayed at home and not gotten involved in the war. Well, now that we have Lucas' full story, we know Anakin wasn't "home" on Tatooine. Hell, he only saw Owen Lars ONCE when his mother died and AFAIK, never saw him again. Discrepencies like that really fray the connection between the two trilogies. Broken.
Anakin's history as shown to us in ep. 1-3 does not seem to me like a reasonable history of the Darth Vader we see in ep. 4-6. It doesn't feel right.
Lucas should have focused more on connecting the story and all of its fine little threads instead of making beautiful lightsabre fights & space battles. The shiny special effects will wear off over time as the state-of-the-art advances, but the story will be forever disjointed.
And for goodness sakes, why did Lucas have to put Christiansen in at the end of ep. 6 as Anakin's "ghost"? He didn't replace who we see when Luke takes off Vader's helmet earlier in the movie. And now we know Obi Wan & Yoda spent 20 years talking to Qui-Gon in the beyond and figuring out how to become that ghost-person. And all of a sudden Vader knew how?
I could go on... but I won't. It was nice to finally see the battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan. That, at least, was believable.
and look where they got, pretty much the #2 position. The Xbox has been a pretty big success. Seriously. Microsoft just up and decided to pop into the gaming market and bumped Nintendo into third place, really. As much as I personally dislike the Xbox, I have to admit it's been a success.
Nintendo really just needs to attract more big name brands to their console again.
Exactly. Lots of people used them as DVD players. Hell, my first DVD player was a Lombard PowerBook G3 (first PB to include DVD) and then after that I used my PS2 to play DVDs. I wasn't about to drop another $300 on a DVD player when I still wasn't sure of the technology yet. I finally broke down and bought a DVD/VHS player last year. Up until then I was still using my original PS2 to play DVDs. I had to clean the lense of the PS2 once, but other than that it worked like a charm.
If you properly MIME encode the email, and provide a plain text alternative, you don't have to care whether or not the recipients will be able to receive it.
Honestly, you've got more to worry about with AOL thinking everything under the sun is spam (seriously, they're a big problem for legitimate mailers).
Get the Cybertool. It doesn't have USB, but it's still a great utility tool to have around. I use mine at least once or twice a day. I can't believe I ever got along without one before.
Bonus, it fits in that little pocket on the right side of your jeans. You know, that one that you never have any use for?
Of course Zend is trying to make money. They're a company. Companies exist to create products and make money. Do you get on MySQL AB's case for selling commercial licenses?
That looks like a minor bug to me, and one that could be worked around by writing your own replacement for extract(), at least until the bug is fixed. What is insecure about PHP 4.3.10?
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I wouldn't bother basing a security decision on a field whose value is supplied by the client you're not trusting in the first place. ;)
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So you're moving into an apartment half the size of what you've currently got, but you're shelling out all this money to cram your lifestyle into half the space.
Have you thought about keeping the old apartment (or getting a new one) with more space and not spending so much money on tech (ten 400GB hard drives?!) and other stuff (400DVDs?!).
I got a Nokia 6820 first, and really, it's a neat phone, but the screen is too small to be useful. Then I got a Treo 600 and I've been using that since. I can't say I really care for it much, but the screen is big and PSSH is free and does what I need.
My problem with the Treo is emissions. If I have it near my PC and receive a call, I can always tell before it rings because my 19" monitor ripples and then my external DVD burner power cycles and Windows tells me I removed a device improperly. Makes me wonder what it might be doing to my body when it's in my pocket.
I'm probably just going to give up on smart devices eventually. I'll get a phone, and I'll get one of those Nokia Linux devices with wifi & bluetooth.
Didn't the Department of Homeland Security recommend people stop using Internet Explorer?
How many of the millions of AOL customers do you think asked "What's wrong with it?"
Oh. Right...
As I am a Mac user who owns a PC explicitly for the purpose of gaming, I am quite happy with the switch. Soon I'll be able to ditch my PC, and have a dual-booting Mac instead. I'll keep a Windows partition around as a gaming platform.
Shucks, I'll have to reboot to play games, until VirtualPC or another suitable product works well enough on Intel Macs.
You left out the all-powerful DEC/Alpha.
Had IBM been able to get some lower power/heat G5s out the door sooner, Apple probably would have trickled the G5 down into every system, replacing the Freescale G4s. IBM would have had 100% of Apple's computer CPU orders rather than 1/4.
I second the IT Watchdogs products. We have a WeatherGoose hooked up to Cacti. Works like a charm.
Of course, you really mean a two faced cat.
Yes, Office already exists on Mac OS X (for now), but there is a plethora of other software that exists only on Windows. Well, with CodeWeavers working on WINE for Mac OS X on Intel, we'll have all that other software running in Mac OS X.
(Half-Life in Mac OS X?)
The point is, Microsoft wants to sell Windows.
If someone buys a Dell with Mac OS X, that's a lost sale for Windows. If Office:Mac runs on Intel, then, yes, they still get a sale for Office.
HOWEVER, if they remove Office:Mac from the equation, there's a greater chance that the buyer would opt for Windows instead of Mac OS X. Thus, two sales for Microsoft, none for Apple.
How many sales of Office:Mac would Microsoft lose? Compare that to how many more Windows licenses they could sell.
Apple has been developing builds of Mac OS X for Intel since day once. They obviously have the resources to handle both architectures at the same time. So they will be able to maintain builds for PowerPC as well as Intel for years to come but yes, they will eventually phase out PowerPC, yes.
If you've read about the keynote, or watched the video, you'll know that Apple will introduce the Intel line in 2006, and complete the transition of all Apple products to Intel in 2007. My guess is you'll have two years of OS X updates for PowerPC after that (about how long OS 9 was still maintained after OS X was introduced). Simple math says your PowerPC will probably be running Mac OS X 10.8 (Garfield?) in 2009 by the time PowerPC is EOL'd.
Of course, I don't know for sure. It's just speculation based on Apple's historical transitions. They're not going to leave you out in the cold.
We're still going to buy a bunch of Xserve G5s this summer regardless of Apple's future plans to switch to Intel. It doesn't make the G5s any less of a workhorse. It doesn't mean that Apple will suddenly stop supporting them. There's no reason not to buy an Apple today.
Caution: borderline spoilers (what? you haven't seen it yet?)
... and I still didn't feel the connection at the end. I've re-watched ep. 4-6 after seeing ep. 3 and I just don't feel it. I keep getting caught on inconsistencies in the story. Example: in ep. 4 Ben tells Luke that his Uncle Owen thought Anakin should have stayed at home and not gotten involved in the war. Well, now that we have Lucas' full story, we know Anakin wasn't "home" on Tatooine. Hell, he only saw Owen Lars ONCE when his mother died and AFAIK, never saw him again. Discrepencies like that really fray the connection between the two trilogies. Broken.
Personally, I just felt that Anakin's turning was too quick. There were three movies over which Lucas was going to tell the story of Anakin's turn to the dark side. My sense from viewing ep. 4-6 was that Vader was gradually turned, and it took a long time to "hunt down and destroy the Jedi." He did it in like 10 minutes! What "hunting" needed to be done? He just drove over to the temple and had at it. It took Anakin all of one minute to give in to the dark side completely.
Anakin's history as shown to us in ep. 1-3 does not seem to me like a reasonable history of the Darth Vader we see in ep. 4-6. It doesn't feel right.
Lucas should have focused more on connecting the story and all of its fine little threads instead of making beautiful lightsabre fights & space battles. The shiny special effects will wear off over time as the state-of-the-art advances, but the story will be forever disjointed.
And for goodness sakes, why did Lucas have to put Christiansen in at the end of ep. 6 as Anakin's "ghost"? He didn't replace who we see when Luke takes off Vader's helmet earlier in the movie. And now we know Obi Wan & Yoda spent 20 years talking to Qui-Gon in the beyond and figuring out how to become that ghost-person. And all of a sudden Vader knew how?
I could go on... but I won't. It was nice to finally see the battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan. That, at least, was believable.
and look where they got, pretty much the #2 position. The Xbox has been a pretty big success. Seriously. Microsoft just up and decided to pop into the gaming market and bumped Nintendo into third place, really. As much as I personally dislike the Xbox, I have to admit it's been a success.
Nintendo really just needs to attract more big name brands to their console again.
Exactly. Lots of people used them as DVD players. Hell, my first DVD player was a Lombard PowerBook G3 (first PB to include DVD) and then after that I used my PS2 to play DVDs. I wasn't about to drop another $300 on a DVD player when I still wasn't sure of the technology yet. I finally broke down and bought a DVD/VHS player last year. Up until then I was still using my original PS2 to play DVDs. I had to clean the lense of the PS2 once, but other than that it worked like a charm.
If you properly MIME encode the email, and provide a plain text alternative, you don't have to care whether or not the recipients will be able to receive it.
Honestly, you've got more to worry about with AOL thinking everything under the sun is spam (seriously, they're a big problem for legitimate mailers).
Seriously, look right here. It's just a way for Apple to glue together C++ code (like KHTML) and their preferred language, Objective C.
Get the Cybertool. It doesn't have USB, but it's still a great utility tool to have around. I use mine at least once or twice a day. I can't believe I ever got along without one before.
Bonus, it fits in that little pocket on the right side of your jeans. You know, that one that you never have any use for?
I can already played mp3, ogg, real media, aac, etc. on my Treo. with a my 512MB SD card.
Well... this one did.
"Give 'em the razor, then sell 'em the blades" That's PHP and Java.
Except there are free alterantives to Zend's products.
Of course Zend is trying to make money. They're a company. Companies exist to create products and make money. Do you get on MySQL AB's case for selling commercial licenses?
That looks like a minor bug to me, and one that could be worked around by writing your own replacement for extract(), at least until the bug is fixed. What is insecure about PHP 4.3.10?