When they start building satellite TV systems that don't need multiple horns on the dish for multiple TVs, and TVs with sattelite TV receivers built in, and you're not charged an extra fee for hooking up another TV yourself, *THEN* satellite will have an advantage.
Right now I can run to Radio Shack and pick up a $3 splitter and $5 of CATV cable and let my fiance's little brother watch TV in his own room in about a half hour. Can't do that with satellite!
If Apple really wants to sell these things, they should lower the prices by about $500 per machine.
Translation: If Apple really wants to drive IBM and its customers crazy with insane order numbers and more insane wait times, they should lower prices by about $500 per machine.
Steve was probably misinformed by IBM. They made claims of their miraculous fabrication plant that hasn't lived up to expectations. They can't make enough processors, and the errors in their new process makes the ones that get out the door expensive. Once it spools up, prices will drop and speeds will increase.
I use my Mac for actual work. I'm waiting for the PS3 to buy a console, and I've even put an Ethernet port next to my cable jack for it. Until then, I'm happy to play WarCraft III and UT2K4 in my spare time. They run wonderfully on my Powerbook. Through college I didn't have any trouble finding games to waste lots and lots of my time.
I would rather buy third party RAM than have Apple's profit margin cut. It's that 30% that allows them to put so much into hardware development. Sure, a $1600 G5 would be nice, but if it hurts development and bundled software (iLife is worth a whole lot more than $400), I will be patient.
I'm sure you could pick up a refurb, but that would involve extra effort, and you don't want to actually have to look for products, you just want them to be available.
You forget that your house is probably made of sticks, and we all know that pig got eaten, too. He just paid more for his house.
Mock me all you want but don't come crying to me when I'm living off the grid and growing my own food and you're paying out the ass for food, water, shelter, and gasoline.
There are lots of guides on the internet about how to build to code using these materials. And there is a lot of southern-exposure property about 15 miles north of my current residence that is available very cheap.
First, you encase the straw in adobe or a similar plaster-like substance. This keeps it dry and safe from rodents. The straw provides most of the structure, the plaster just protects the straw. Similar designs use logs stacked like cordwood with their ends exposed.
Second, the earth sheltering is only on three sides, leaving the southern exposure open for solar heating. Intelligent design permits free heating and cooling year round. The earth surrounding the house is 52 degrees year round, so A/C is used minimally, and you get free heat from the sun year-round. Oversized overhangs on the roof keep the summer sun at bay.
For more information, check out Mother Earth News. It's not about living like a caveman, it's about more intelligent use of renewable materials.
Most people, of course, have never heard of Firefox.
And a few who have heard of it don't use it. Case in point: My father complained of popups and spyware. I used AdAware and installed Firefox for him. After a few weeks, he said he didn't want to use it because pages "didn't work." (Provided no examples of what didn't work, probably ActiveX exploits.) He tried to remove AOL because he got broadband, and this broke IE. I tried to fix it, but that didn't work. So now he is paying $25/month for AOL just because he won't use Firefox.
No, it's the time you save by convincing the luddite CEO to move over to Linux. IBM commercials and marketing material are helpful in this. (IANASA, but I used to work closely with one on an Intranet project, and he got the CEO to switch to Linux. But I left before the implementation was done.)
How the hell is this getting modded funny? straw bales make excellent building material. Earth sheltered homes save on cooling and heating costs. Passive solar designs make use of the free heat from the sun. All are cheap and efficient. Living like this will allow me to work 20 hours a week and spend time with my family.
That is, until Longhorn comes out and the default desktop background is a real-time rendering of a fuzzy bunny jumping around. Then your two-year-old computer won't seem so hot!
In other words, for Internet and email, Linux is fine.
Except for the two homes and family of six, I am planning on doing that by not wasting my money burning dinosaurs. I plan on building an energy efficient home (which are very cheap to build, depending on the materials you use; straw bales make excellent walls) and driving energy efficient cars. I'm also going to make sure my kids spend more time outside than in front of the TV so that they're not exposed to the corporate consumption mindfuck that children's TV is. My ideal would be if they ask for books for Christmas... sigh.
It can be done, but you have to question your ideas of what's normal.
1) IBM is having trouble getting the G5s built in big enough numbers. It doesn't help that the first XServe G5s are going to Virginia Tech. It sucks they're not up to 3GHz, but it's probably not Apple's fault.
2) Fast video cards are nice, but if I want a gaming machine I'll get a PS2.
3) Yes, only 256MB of RAM on the 1.8GHz. You need more, buy it from somewhere else. Apple overprices their RAM
The real development here is the liquid cooling. It's a big step forward, because this means that they might be able to put faster processors into the Powerbooks, and they'll be ready for 3GHz and faster processors once IBM overcomes the Voodoo Curse.
I'm a little disappointed, but since I have to save for a wedding, I'm kind of glad they're waiting to release the dual 3GHz. It will be easier to convince my future wife that we need it when we aren't dropping $5000 next week for a payment.
Average Joe's don't drink beer. They drink "Bud" or "Coors" or "Miller" or "Busch", which are not beer. They are terms for fizzy piss water which probably taste better when they drool in it.
I've flown on Mars in simulation. (X-Plane Rules!) It's quite difficult, because inertia is the same, but the low density atmosphere means you have very large turning radii. For going in straight lines, it's not bad. Turning, landing, taking off, or anything else that requires velocity changes made using normal airplane controls (rudder, aileron, etc) is difficult.
Solar is good, but for deep space exploration you need nuclear power, because it's the only way to pack enough energy into a small enough space. Unless you find some way to generate energy out of empty space.
But a combined NASA/DARPA project to enhance solar panels (because there are military benefits to solar panels, like power for micro-surveillance vehicles.) is an excellent idea. If we funded a program to eliminate our need for fossil fuels as much as we funded Apollo, we could be fossil-fuel-free in 10 years.
But that's not to say they're the solution to everything, especially space exploration. Close to the sun they provide a benefit, but you can't expect to use them out past the asteroid belt.
As compared to a capitolistic society where companies always overstate their goals and products just incase their compeditor does the same.
I'll attribute the misspellings to the post time, but what happens when a company overstates goals and misses? Isn't that worse than understating goals and achieving more? It's at least more honest. Of course, there's not much profit in honesty.
My cast iron does a great job at getting hot fast, and heats very evenly. I can put it on a medium-high burner and the olive oil is hot before I can chop an onion, and I chop fast. (I'd say about 30 seconds per onion, including peeling.)
The retention factor depends on the density of the substance. If it's dense, it can hold heat for longer. Brick can conduct heat, which is faster than convection, but if you heat a volume of air and the same amount of rock to the same temperature, the rock will be warm much longer than the air, because it takes more energy to heat up the rock because there's more mass in that volume.
Cast iron is dense like rock, but since it's also a metal, it conducts heat well (crystalline structures do this better than amorphous structures).
But really, I use it to heat things evenly, and because it's slicker than teflon without having to use plastic (melty) utensils.
Not only that, look at the culture and attitude of the people around you. If they all have kids and aren't obsessed with working 80 hours per week you should be okay. But watch out if they say that you are loyal to the company first, or you even get that inkling.
The labor market is a race to the bottom in wages and to the top in hours worked. My fiance works for a company where people regularly work 140 hours per pay period (70 hours per week). They can't understand why she's leaving or why she won't work two shifts in a row. In the meantime, she comes home from work, helps me cook dinner and do the dishes, then either works on finishing our basement with me, or works on our wedding plans while I finish the basement. See my journal for more info.
I imagine the investment in time for a child is even greater than this, and I can't imagine working for a company where 70-80 hours per week was the norm and I was looked down on for having a life.
Friend, I have asked myself that question many times.
Handy Design Maxim: The IQ of the user group is the IQ of the stupidest user divided by the number of users in the group. Design your system accordingly.
Copper is better than aluminium, but nothing beats cast iron for heat conduction and retention. I've got a 12" Lodge cast-iron skillet I do almost all of my cooking in (searing, sauteing, making sauces and one-pan meals) and a 4 quart dutch oven from the same manufacturer I do almost all the rest of my cooking in (soups, stews, braising, roasts). About the only thing I don't use cast iron for is boiling water for pasta and tea.
And they're so well made that they'll be passed down to my children.
Copper is too expensive for anything but whipping egg whites in. Mmmmm.... ionic.
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Right now I can run to Radio Shack and pick up a $3 splitter and $5 of CATV cable and let my fiance's little brother watch TV in his own room in about a half hour. Can't do that with satellite!
Translation: If Apple really wants to drive IBM and its customers crazy with insane order numbers and more insane wait times, they should lower prices by about $500 per machine.
I use my Mac for actual work. I'm waiting for the PS3 to buy a console, and I've even put an Ethernet port next to my cable jack for it. Until then, I'm happy to play WarCraft III and UT2K4 in my spare time. They run wonderfully on my Powerbook. Through college I didn't have any trouble finding games to waste lots and lots of my time.
I would rather buy third party RAM than have Apple's profit margin cut. It's that 30% that allows them to put so much into hardware development. Sure, a $1600 G5 would be nice, but if it hurts development and bundled software (iLife is worth a whole lot more than $400), I will be patient.
I'm sure you could pick up a refurb, but that would involve extra effort, and you don't want to actually have to look for products, you just want them to be available.
Apparently I missed a lucrative career in marketing!
It's an intuitive design that uses visuals to display what even the best log-analysis tool could never display.
Mock me all you want but don't come crying to me when I'm living off the grid and growing my own food and you're paying out the ass for food, water, shelter, and gasoline.
There are lots of guides on the internet about how to build to code using these materials. And there is a lot of southern-exposure property about 15 miles north of my current residence that is available very cheap.
Second, the earth sheltering is only on three sides, leaving the southern exposure open for solar heating. Intelligent design permits free heating and cooling year round. The earth surrounding the house is 52 degrees year round, so A/C is used minimally, and you get free heat from the sun year-round. Oversized overhangs on the roof keep the summer sun at bay.
For more information, check out Mother Earth News. It's not about living like a caveman, it's about more intelligent use of renewable materials.
Don't worry, I will fully indoctrinate them in the wonder that is Buy Nothing Day.
And a few who have heard of it don't use it. Case in point: My father complained of popups and spyware. I used AdAware and installed Firefox for him. After a few weeks, he said he didn't want to use it because pages "didn't work." (Provided no examples of what didn't work, probably ActiveX exploits.) He tried to remove AOL because he got broadband, and this broke IE. I tried to fix it, but that didn't work. So now he is paying $25/month for AOL just because he won't use Firefox.
Maybe for the same reason they'd use a non-standards-compliant browser.
She's not in the tech industry. She works with mentally retarded adults. Changing diapers and stuff. Not fun...
No, it's the time you save by convincing the luddite CEO to move over to Linux. IBM commercials and marketing material are helpful in this. (IANASA, but I used to work closely with one on an Intranet project, and he got the CEO to switch to Linux. But I left before the implementation was done.)
How the hell is this getting modded funny? straw bales make excellent building material. Earth sheltered homes save on cooling and heating costs. Passive solar designs make use of the free heat from the sun. All are cheap and efficient. Living like this will allow me to work 20 hours a week and spend time with my family.
In other words, for Internet and email, Linux is fine.
It can be done, but you have to question your ideas of what's normal.
2) Fast video cards are nice, but if I want a gaming machine I'll get a PS2.
3) Yes, only 256MB of RAM on the 1.8GHz. You need more, buy it from somewhere else. Apple overprices their RAM
The real development here is the liquid cooling. It's a big step forward, because this means that they might be able to put faster processors into the Powerbooks, and they'll be ready for 3GHz and faster processors once IBM overcomes the Voodoo Curse.
I'm a little disappointed, but since I have to save for a wedding, I'm kind of glad they're waiting to release the dual 3GHz. It will be easier to convince my future wife that we need it when we aren't dropping $5000 next week for a payment.
Real men drink real beer.
I've flown on Mars in simulation. (X-Plane Rules!) It's quite difficult, because inertia is the same, but the low density atmosphere means you have very large turning radii. For going in straight lines, it's not bad. Turning, landing, taking off, or anything else that requires velocity changes made using normal airplane controls (rudder, aileron, etc) is difficult.
But a combined NASA/DARPA project to enhance solar panels (because there are military benefits to solar panels, like power for micro-surveillance vehicles.) is an excellent idea. If we funded a program to eliminate our need for fossil fuels as much as we funded Apollo, we could be fossil-fuel-free in 10 years.
But that's not to say they're the solution to everything, especially space exploration. Close to the sun they provide a benefit, but you can't expect to use them out past the asteroid belt.
I'll attribute the misspellings to the post time, but what happens when a company overstates goals and misses? Isn't that worse than understating goals and achieving more? It's at least more honest. Of course, there's not much profit in honesty.
The retention factor depends on the density of the substance. If it's dense, it can hold heat for longer. Brick can conduct heat, which is faster than convection, but if you heat a volume of air and the same amount of rock to the same temperature, the rock will be warm much longer than the air, because it takes more energy to heat up the rock because there's more mass in that volume.
Cast iron is dense like rock, but since it's also a metal, it conducts heat well (crystalline structures do this better than amorphous structures).
But really, I use it to heat things evenly, and because it's slicker than teflon without having to use plastic (melty) utensils.
The labor market is a race to the bottom in wages and to the top in hours worked. My fiance works for a company where people regularly work 140 hours per pay period (70 hours per week). They can't understand why she's leaving or why she won't work two shifts in a row. In the meantime, she comes home from work, helps me cook dinner and do the dishes, then either works on finishing our basement with me, or works on our wedding plans while I finish the basement. See my journal for more info.
I imagine the investment in time for a child is even greater than this, and I can't imagine working for a company where 70-80 hours per week was the norm and I was looked down on for having a life.
Handy Design Maxim: The IQ of the user group is the IQ of the stupidest user divided by the number of users in the group. Design your system accordingly.
And they're so well made that they'll be passed down to my children.
Copper is too expensive for anything but whipping egg whites in. Mmmmm.... ionic.