Rural communities don't get broadband because there's no profit in it. Suburbs don't get 100Mb connections because there's no profit in it. Maybe if we get rid of the profit we could get some comparable connection speeds. How? Community based fiber to the home. It's already worked in dozens of places, and has helped to keep declining communities from fading out of existence.
You'll have to transmit using UDP, though. The round-trip time is way too long to get verified packets. So no pirating Vorbusoft Portals ME unless you want a hosed system!
You don't *have* to use an iPod. You can use any other MP3 player with your PC. An iPod is an option, not a requirement. Microsoft got in trouble by requiring (actually, not allowing the removal of) IE. Since you can play other Audio formats (like MP3) on an iPod, you have the ability to get music from other sources, including ripping it from legally owned CDs.
I propose we make every computer solve the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything. Computers that have figured this out already know it is 42, and it would take the fastest supercomputer in the universe eons to calculate it, making it ultra-secure!
Ahem... I'm a "white liberal." I don't feel we need to "protect" certain "classes" of people like they are children. I trust them to decide what is best for themselves. Unfortunately, they also must take what they are given by those in power; the government and corporations.
If someone can't make enough to live on while working minimum wage jobs, they will need help buying food, shelter and clothing. Or would you rather they starve? Alternatively, we could raise the minimum wage to somewhere above the poverty level and eliminate social programs for the working poor. Either way it will cost money.
What gets me is how many white conservatives think that people can fend for themselves when barriers are put in place that prevents them from doing so, like a minimum wage that doesn't put them above the poverty line. How is someone supposed to better themselves if they don't make enough to buy food, let alone an education?
I agree that poor people need jobs, but I make the distinction that they need jobs that pay them enough to make ends meet.
OO.o and Abiword both have "experimental" Mac OS X native versions. While you can run OO.o through X11, it doesn't support things like copy-paste from non-X11 applications, something everyone uses. I imagine that it won't be long until Apple uses some of the source for OO.o to create their own, iLife-compatible Office software that reads and writes MS file formats. They did it with KHTML (for Safari, my browser of choice), and if the folks who are making these fine products don't get cracking, they'll do it with their software as well.
I always thought my little town(ship) was a technological backwater until I started wardriving. Then I found 30 WiFi points within 2 miles of my house.
I might start giving out high-gain omni-directional antennas so I can get free bandwidth everywhere! (j/k: I don't use other people's bandwidth without permission.)
Yeah, until someone tries all 100,000,000 numbers and finds a few that work! Never underestimate the determination of a script kiddie who want's a 1337 PC.
A real digital life style would enable all things electronic to sync and talk to each other - not just apple producs. To Apple's defense, though, we have the opening of Rendezvous...and...little else.
Apple's Address Book uses the standard vCard format, so I can transfer those back and forth. iCal uses the vCal format, and is readable by any number of PIMs, except for Outlook. If you want to blame a company for not using interoperable file formats, blame Microsoft, not Apple.
I'm not a slave to one codec either. I just have all of my music in MP3 except for a couple CDs I've ripped and the iTMS songs. (Which aren't that 'encumbered' or 'filthy'.) Again, if you want to blame a company for creating unfair DRM, blame Microsoft, who created WMA-DRM to let you subscribe to your music instead of owning it.
And it's not like I couldn't us PlayFair to remove the DRM if it ever becomes a problem.
I also resent the assertion that I'm "a slave" to one operating system. I use Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, and Linux on a regular basis and interoperate between all four.
As for iLife, yeah I subscribed. However, I'm not doing it through Apple. I have my own web host. I used PHPiCalendar to put my iCals on the web, and wrote a shell script to upload them periodically. I'm working on a way for iPhoto to upload pictures to my online photo album which runs Menalto's Gallery. I sync wirelessly with my SonyEricsson T610, which is *GASP* not an Apple product. I even use VNC to help my parents work on their Windows machine.
I may be a fan boy, but I'm not blindly following Jobs. I'm choosing Macs because they do what I need them to do with minimal hassle. I mean, *real* Apple Fanbooys have.Mac subscriptions.
I'd pick Mary Ann. Geek girls are inherently curious and experimental. "Gee, professor, I didn't think it would even fit in there, let alone feel so good!"
I should add that I'll be marrying a 20-something in 30-something days. And she knows what she wants. And has pert breasts. All without the expense of surgery!
Get a small web hosting plan (500 megs is only $50/year). Back up school stuff to that nightly in case your computer gets stolen. It's accessible from anywhere, and having PHP/MySQL available for projects on a professionally hosted site makes for good grades on projects.
The real thing was never readily available to me. Maybe I went to the wrong school... Or maybe I should have been a retarded frat boy who did nothing but drink and waste his parent's money.
I know it's hard for geeks like us to understand, but not everything is an either/or, one/zero proposition. Maybe we can have some socialism and some capitalism. It could work, and would probably be better than both situations.
First off, you do realize that President George W. Bush singlehandedly rendered the Democrat party a bunch of asses? At every point in his career where democrats moved in to destroy his reputation, he turned it around and it ended up burning the democrats.
George Bush took an appointment by the supreme court and made it gel the Democratic party under one banner: Beat him. George didn't make the Dems look like idiots, he gave them backbone.
Also, you do realize that President George W. Bush has conquered not just two countries, but several more, all with diplomacy? Pakistan and Libya are now working with us instead of against us. That wasn't true when Bush took office.
Bush took office having *zero* foreign policy experience. And now he's an expert? Pa-lease. What Bush showed us in Iraq is that he jumps on intelligence that isn't correct so he can go to war. I oppose war, and that's why I oppose the president.
And only barbarians measure their worth by how much they have conquered. Have we made more people in the Middle East turn away from terrorism or violent opposition to the US? No. That should be our goal, and we have only succeeded in stirring up a hornet's nest. You defeat terrorism with peace, not with more fighting.
Remember in 2000, when Bush went in to meet Gore for the debates? Bush absolutely trashed Gore, and Gore came out looking like an absolute crazy idiot.
I remember Gore looking forceful, and looking better than the rich, cokehead frat boy smirking next to him.
I want a president who, at the very least, can effectively read prepared statements. How can I have confidence in a man who screws up speeches that have been prepared for him? And don't even get me started on the fake Texas accent. Bush is as much a New Englander as Kerry. He's faking it to get the "heartland" vote.
Do the prices of macs typically fall after an initial release... or do they just stay a set price for quite a while?
I know you're asking about something else, but I'd like to add that Macs retain resale value a lot longer than PCs. I bought my 400MHz Power Mac for $1500, and I could probably get $500 for it. Try selling a bottom-rung PC from 2000 for $500.
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Rural communities don't get broadband because there's no profit in it. Suburbs don't get 100Mb connections because there's no profit in it. Maybe if we get rid of the profit we could get some comparable connection speeds. How? Community based fiber to the home. It's already worked in dozens of places, and has helped to keep declining communities from fading out of existence.
Why use Fed Ex when we have Planetary Express?
You'll have to transmit using UDP, though. The round-trip time is way too long to get verified packets. So no pirating Vorbusoft Portals ME unless you want a hosed system!
You don't *have* to use an iPod. You can use any other MP3 player with your PC. An iPod is an option, not a requirement. Microsoft got in trouble by requiring (actually, not allowing the removal of) IE. Since you can play other Audio formats (like MP3) on an iPod, you have the ability to get music from other sources, including ripping it from legally owned CDs.
I propose we make every computer solve the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything. Computers that have figured this out already know it is 42, and it would take the fastest supercomputer in the universe eons to calculate it, making it ultra-secure!
NeoOffice has the features, but it's *still* absolutely hideous. Apple made a great Interface system with Aqua. When will NeoOffice or OO.o use Aqua?
If someone can't make enough to live on while working minimum wage jobs, they will need help buying food, shelter and clothing. Or would you rather they starve? Alternatively, we could raise the minimum wage to somewhere above the poverty level and eliminate social programs for the working poor. Either way it will cost money.
What gets me is how many white conservatives think that people can fend for themselves when barriers are put in place that prevents them from doing so, like a minimum wage that doesn't put them above the poverty line. How is someone supposed to better themselves if they don't make enough to buy food, let alone an education?
I agree that poor people need jobs, but I make the distinction that they need jobs that pay them enough to make ends meet.
Children use pico.
Men use vi.
Heroes use emacs.
OO.o and Abiword both have "experimental" Mac OS X native versions. While you can run OO.o through X11, it doesn't support things like copy-paste from non-X11 applications, something everyone uses. I imagine that it won't be long until Apple uses some of the source for OO.o to create their own, iLife-compatible Office software that reads and writes MS file formats. They did it with KHTML (for Safari, my browser of choice), and if the folks who are making these fine products don't get cracking, they'll do it with their software as well.
I heard this on NPR yesterday, and thought it was awesome: "If voting worked they'd make it illegal."
I might start giving out high-gain omni-directional antennas so I can get free bandwidth everywhere! (j/k: I don't use other people's bandwidth without permission.)
No thanks, I'll keep my 3GB webmail with IMAP and SpamAssassin.
Yeah, until someone tries all 100,000,000 numbers and finds a few that work! Never underestimate the determination of a script kiddie who want's a 1337 PC.
Apple's Address Book uses the standard vCard format, so I can transfer those back and forth. iCal uses the vCal format, and is readable by any number of PIMs, except for Outlook. If you want to blame a company for not using interoperable file formats, blame Microsoft, not Apple.
I'm not a slave to one codec either. I just have all of my music in MP3 except for a couple CDs I've ripped and the iTMS songs. (Which aren't that 'encumbered' or 'filthy'.) Again, if you want to blame a company for creating unfair DRM, blame Microsoft, who created WMA-DRM to let you subscribe to your music instead of owning it.
And it's not like I couldn't us PlayFair to remove the DRM if it ever becomes a problem.
I also resent the assertion that I'm "a slave" to one operating system. I use Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, and Linux on a regular basis and interoperate between all four.
As for iLife, yeah I subscribed. However, I'm not doing it through Apple. I have my own web host. I used PHPiCalendar to put my iCals on the web, and wrote a shell script to upload them periodically. I'm working on a way for iPhoto to upload pictures to my online photo album which runs Menalto's Gallery. I sync wirelessly with my SonyEricsson T610, which is *GASP* not an Apple product. I even use VNC to help my parents work on their Windows machine.
I may be a fan boy, but I'm not blindly following Jobs. I'm choosing Macs because they do what I need them to do with minimal hassle. I mean, *real* Apple Fanbooys have .Mac subscriptions.
"You never tell the captain how long it will really take!" - ST:TNG - "Relics"
Fuckin' A.
I'd pick Mary Ann. Geek girls are inherently curious and experimental. "Gee, professor, I didn't think it would even fit in there, let alone feel so good!"
I should add that I'll be marrying a 20-something in 30-something days. And she knows what she wants. And has pert breasts. All without the expense of surgery!
Get a small web hosting plan (500 megs is only $50/year). Back up school stuff to that nightly in case your computer gets stolen. It's accessible from anywhere, and having PHP/MySQL available for projects on a professionally hosted site makes for good grades on projects.
The real thing was never readily available to me. Maybe I went to the wrong school... Or maybe I should have been a retarded frat boy who did nothing but drink and waste his parent's money.
Yes, but do they have pert breasts?
I know it's hard for geeks like us to understand, but not everything is an either/or, one/zero proposition. Maybe we can have some socialism and some capitalism. It could work, and would probably be better than both situations.
George Bush took an appointment by the supreme court and made it gel the Democratic party under one banner: Beat him. George didn't make the Dems look like idiots, he gave them backbone.
Also, you do realize that President George W. Bush has conquered not just two countries, but several more, all with diplomacy? Pakistan and Libya are now working with us instead of against us. That wasn't true when Bush took office.
Bush took office having *zero* foreign policy experience. And now he's an expert? Pa-lease. What Bush showed us in Iraq is that he jumps on intelligence that isn't correct so he can go to war. I oppose war, and that's why I oppose the president.
And only barbarians measure their worth by how much they have conquered. Have we made more people in the Middle East turn away from terrorism or violent opposition to the US? No. That should be our goal, and we have only succeeded in stirring up a hornet's nest. You defeat terrorism with peace, not with more fighting.
Remember in 2000, when Bush went in to meet Gore for the debates? Bush absolutely trashed Gore, and Gore came out looking like an absolute crazy idiot.
I remember Gore looking forceful, and looking better than the rich, cokehead frat boy smirking next to him.
I want a president who, at the very least, can effectively read prepared statements. How can I have confidence in a man who screws up speeches that have been prepared for him? And don't even get me started on the fake Texas accent. Bush is as much a New Englander as Kerry. He's faking it to get the "heartland" vote.
The white space at the bottom, I'd imagine, is for the speakers, as it doesn't seem to have external speakers.
I know you're asking about something else, but I'd like to add that Macs retain resale value a lot longer than PCs. I bought my 400MHz Power Mac for $1500, and I could probably get $500 for it. Try selling a bottom-rung PC from 2000 for $500.