You are going to have twins. With one of each. I have a theory that when I have kids, I am going to have twins (past 3+ generations have been twins, and I was a twin myself).
Hardware, no matter how fast it is, is useless without decent software. Find me a userfriendly unix that runs on x86, and I may consider it. (I love linux, but it is nowhere near as userfriendly as os x).
It is happy running linux, believe me, I've asked. It's name is Casper, and because he is a ghost, he canno't have children and doesn't have a parter. The closest thing he has to a partner is the virus filled windows machine (not mine) next to him (which the whiskey bottles belong to).
A lot of businesses make their money by hiring developers and selling software. This is a business model many of us would like to see die.
I dunno, I kind of like the idea of getting paid to do what I love. I would love if everything were FOSS, but chances of that happening are slim to none. The only thing we have a *real* chance at is open standards, where hopefully the opensource client will be the best.
click on the release text. It first shows the build number, then your machine's serial number. Quite handy when calling apple so you don't have to bend around the machine / lift the keyboard etc.
Do it. I got my 512 meg iPod Shuffle in the mail last tuesday...I don't know how I lived without one before hand. It is just so small and so light..they rule..and for the "where will it end?"..it won't. Once you have a taste of good hardware/software intigration..you can't go back.
It cubes here on a 900MHz g3 iBook. It isn't cpu that the cube effect is concerned with, but rather the gpu. It runs smooth here with a Radeon 7500 (massive old).
I've had unicode working fine from every aim client to every aim client..minus trillian. e.g. it works fine from iChat (my client of choice) to aim/gaim (linux and windows)/ichat.
The thing that urked me about Trillian, and it still may be true today, is that it mangles UTF-8 text. Sending Japanese back and forth between trillian to trillian works fine, but trillian to aim/iChat/gaim and it gets mangled. Another thing that urks me, is that their audio/video chat don't "Just work" like it does with iChat (though it is compatible). [end rant]
I did that for my dad. He has been using linux for over 2 years now. I started by making him switch to Mozilla and Open Office on Windows 2000. About 6 months later, Windows was ready for a reinstall, I suggested that we install linux because it doesn't have all the security problems that plague windows. He said "OK". I put a few icons on his desktop for apps he already knew, and showed him where the games were.
Needless to say, he is now running Fedora Core and loaths using any windows machine because they always seem to screw up for random reasons. But he always gets a good chuckle out of all the latest and greatest worms and such.
That is not to say that the transition to linux has been fault free. There was some confusion because some applications were built with QT and other GTK and the icon differences between Gnome and KDE apps etc. All differences that are nothing for the power user, but a big deal to Average Joe.
When it is time for a new computer though, I think we will be getting him a Macintosh, so everything "Just works" better.
There is a big difference though. MS is taking measures in the hardware portion, while Apple is taking measures in the software portion. Oh, and the iPod isn't a generic PC ala XBox.
Threre aren't that many. My power out in California (Huntington Beach) was very reliable, much more so than here in Houston. I had a server plugged directly into the wall at my house in California, no ups no nothing. It was up for over a year and never got restarted because of a power outage. Keep in mind that this was during the whole rolling blackouts and such.
Pizza guys can make quite a bit of money. At this dominos close to me all of the drivers take in atleast 500 bucks a week. Not bad for carting pizza around town.
Actually, I am quite curious. I just changed my major from Computer Science to International Business and Japanese. The reason why I switched was primarly because of the disappearing jobs. I do not want to get a degree in something where I can't find a job (minus teaching English in Japan, but I would prefer to get over there another way).
I remember the first photoblog I went to was one from an american living in Japan. It has been amazing watching his photography improve. Check it out at http://www.sushicam.com
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As an american who saw that film, I thought it was fscking great. Please don't group all of us together.
Except they are all running IBM PowerPC chips...
If it was me, I would do what I did after I took my first C++ class (many many years ago), and learn to code on unix. mmmmm unix.
You are going to have twins. With one of each. I have a theory that when I have kids, I am going to have twins (past 3+ generations have been twins, and I was a twin myself).
Hardware, no matter how fast it is, is useless without decent software. Find me a userfriendly unix that runs on x86, and I may consider it. (I love linux, but it is nowhere near as userfriendly as os x).
It is happy running linux, believe me, I've asked. It's name is Casper, and because he is a ghost, he canno't have children and doesn't have a parter. The closest thing he has to a partner is the virus filled windows machine (not mine) next to him (which the whiskey bottles belong to).
I do, a 500MHz K6-II runs Linux happily serving up web pages and file serving for me.
A lot of businesses make their money by hiring developers and selling software. This is a business model many of us would like to see die.
I dunno, I kind of like the idea of getting paid to do what I love. I would love if everything were FOSS, but chances of that happening are slim to none. The only thing we have a *real* chance at is open standards, where hopefully the opensource client will be the best.
click on the release text. It first shows the build number, then your machine's serial number. Quite handy when calling apple so you don't have to bend around the machine / lift the keyboard etc.
ssshhh. They beat us once...besides..our army is in the middle east. A perfect time to come and kick our yankee asses.
Do it. I got my 512 meg iPod Shuffle in the mail last tuesday...I don't know how I lived without one before hand. It is just so small and so light..they rule..and for the "where will it end?"..it won't. Once you have a taste of good hardware/software intigration..you can't go back.
No, he wanted to *cook* his eggs and bacon by playing Doom 3.
*rimshot*
Actually roadrunner just upped the cap in the Houston area to 6mbit down and keeping the 384 up.
Mrs. Badcrumble of course. If this is unfunny to you, got rent Eddie Izzard: Glorious and Sexy Live. It is a hoot.
It cubes here on a 900MHz g3 iBook. It isn't cpu that the cube effect is concerned with, but rather the gpu. It runs smooth here with a Radeon 7500 (massive old).
It's the end of the world I tell ya. End of cheap PC's, an affordable mac. What's next? 100 dollar iPods?
I found step three.
3) Make it not suck
I've had unicode working fine from every aim client to every aim client..minus trillian. e.g. it works fine from iChat (my client of choice) to aim/gaim (linux and windows)/ichat.
The thing that urked me about Trillian, and it still may be true today, is that it mangles UTF-8 text. Sending Japanese back and forth between trillian to trillian works fine, but trillian to aim/iChat/gaim and it gets mangled. Another thing that urks me, is that their audio/video chat don't "Just work" like it does with iChat (though it is compatible).
[end rant]
I did that for my dad. He has been using linux for over 2 years now. I started by making him switch to Mozilla and Open Office on Windows 2000. About 6 months later, Windows was ready for a reinstall, I suggested that we install linux because it doesn't have all the security problems that plague windows. He said "OK". I put a few icons on his desktop for apps he already knew, and showed him where the games were.
Needless to say, he is now running Fedora Core and loaths using any windows machine because they always seem to screw up for random reasons. But he always gets a good chuckle out of all the latest and greatest worms and such.
That is not to say that the transition to linux has been fault free. There was some confusion because some applications were built with QT and other GTK and the icon differences between Gnome and KDE apps etc. All differences that are nothing for the power user, but a big deal to Average Joe.
When it is time for a new computer though, I think we will be getting him a Macintosh, so everything "Just works" better.
There is a big difference though. MS is taking measures in the hardware portion, while Apple is taking measures in the software portion. Oh, and the iPod isn't a generic PC ala XBox.
Threre aren't that many. My power out in California (Huntington Beach) was very reliable, much more so than here in Houston. I had a server plugged directly into the wall at my house in California, no ups no nothing. It was up for over a year and never got restarted because of a power outage. Keep in mind that this was during the whole rolling blackouts and such.
Pizza guys can make quite a bit of money. At this dominos close to me all of the drivers take in atleast 500 bucks a week. Not bad for carting pizza around town.
Expiring minds want to know!
Actually, I am quite curious. I just changed my major from Computer Science to International Business and Japanese. The reason why I switched was primarly because of the disappearing jobs. I do not want to get a degree in something where I can't find a job (minus teaching English in Japan, but I would prefer to get over there another way).
I remember the first photoblog I went to was one from an american living in Japan. It has been amazing watching his photography improve. Check it out at http://www.sushicam.com