Noone's denying that it's going to be tough. However, the Mac Mini is the cheapest computer Apple's ever made, which lowers the bar by a mile. This, together with the facts that Apple is becoming more and more widely known these days and that they finally have a modern OS that has momentum, is what all the hype is about.
I think that the Windows key maps to Command/Apple. The placement's a bitch, because Alt is to the direct left of space bar on Windows keyboards and in between Ctrl and Command on Apple keyboards. There are tools, such as uControl, that enables you to remap this, however.
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Completely missing the point.
Show me a small form factor PC - I still think shuttles are small, and they seem to be really popular by now - with all your *essentials*. Bluetooth, WiFi/802.11/wireless, DVD/CD-RW, USB2, Firewire, keyboard, mouse, 'modest memory upgrades' and all. Does it come out below $1000? It just doesn't work the same way for small form factor computers as it does with ordinary desktop boxes.
What's great about it isn't that it comes without keyboard, mouse, monitor and an amount of memory that doesn't suck. What's great about it is that it's cheap enough so that you can get it now and upgrade at least parts of it later on. You know, the stuff that people have been asking of Apple for ages.
And that it's small. It's the perfect Mac to 'mod' into something else. Buy a few of them for your software business and use them as build farms - Xcode has built-in distributed building. With external USB2 and Firewire devices, it can morph into stuff like file servers or media centers. And there's already people mounting it into cars and doing cheap dedicated hosting ("condos") with whole racks of the thing.
You have to have a page (linked to from the front page) to describe what cookies are, how to disable them and how they are used on your page. Having it as the front page is NOT necessary, nor is having it all as text on the front page. The information should be able to be accessed during the web site visit, in a nutshell.
You do NOT need to have a no-cookie version since the user can empty her cookies or simply block cookies from your domain. However, a link to the explanatory page from your login is preferred.
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Noone's denying that it's going to be tough. However, the Mac Mini is the cheapest computer Apple's ever made, which lowers the bar by a mile. This, together with the facts that Apple is becoming more and more widely known these days and that they finally have a modern OS that has momentum, is what all the hype is about.
I'm going to patent this comment.
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I think that the Windows key maps to Command/Apple. The placement's a bitch, because Alt is to the direct left of space bar on Windows keyboards and in between Ctrl and Command on Apple keyboards. There are tools, such as uControl, that enables you to remap this, however.
Completely missing the point. Show me a small form factor PC - I still think shuttles are small, and they seem to be really popular by now - with all your *essentials*. Bluetooth, WiFi/802.11/wireless, DVD/CD-RW, USB2, Firewire, keyboard, mouse, 'modest memory upgrades' and all. Does it come out below $1000? It just doesn't work the same way for small form factor computers as it does with ordinary desktop boxes. What's great about it isn't that it comes without keyboard, mouse, monitor and an amount of memory that doesn't suck. What's great about it is that it's cheap enough so that you can get it now and upgrade at least parts of it later on. You know, the stuff that people have been asking of Apple for ages. And that it's small. It's the perfect Mac to 'mod' into something else. Buy a few of them for your software business and use them as build farms - Xcode has built-in distributed building. With external USB2 and Firewire devices, it can morph into stuff like file servers or media centers. And there's already people mounting it into cars and doing cheap dedicated hosting ("condos") with whole racks of the thing.
Verbatim's press release of the system (linked in the description up top) isn't good enough for you? It's official alright.
I've had my fair share of stuff stolen, and it's never been a janitor. You're right. The butler did it.
You have to have a page (linked to from the front page) to describe what cookies are, how to disable them and how they are used on your page. Having it as the front page is NOT necessary, nor is having it all as text on the front page. The information should be able to be accessed during the web site visit, in a nutshell. You do NOT need to have a no-cookie version since the user can empty her cookies or simply block cookies from your domain. However, a link to the explanatory page from your login is preferred.