Huh. My school used to be totally OldWorld Macintosh, with about three hundred PowerMac G3s at the tops, with the only PC being a linux-based router in the front office.
Now, the school's just bought two and a half thousand Dells running XP (of which about ten percent seemed to BSOD right out of the box), and sixteen eMacs, plus an eMac, a Powerbook and an iMac in the IT Department (for support and UT).
Unlike such well known university drop-outs as the Good Mr Gates =)
Besides, what overly-rich bum would spend thousands of dollars on, say, a dual 2Ghz G5, rather than get a similarly powerful Pentium 4 for considerably less (depending on the specific setup, of course)? Even rich people have a reasonable sense of values.
And for the record, I've been a Mac-user since my family bought a Classic II fifteen years ago, and haven't changed since. Just for the record =)
In the skool I go to, we have four IT drones. Three of them are paid to administer about two hundred PCs, each of them typing frantically on two keyboards at once, their mobile phones never having a chance to cool down and their RSI worsening.
Then theere's the other dude, who administers the Linux and Mac OS X - based systems, who sits there playing quake on his little powerbook and checking email on his eMac (which is mounted slightly higher), all day. Dust slowly gathers on his phone.
Not a piece of Mac-propaganda or anything, just to say that this guy gets away with this, and gets paid to boot. I want his job.
Think about it - if he suddenly gets hideous scarring all over his face, not only would he be a cyborg with an extremely cool-looking camera setup over one eye, but he'd also be hideously disfigured!
On the foreign front, in Australia we're getting 256/128 for AUS$70/month (something in the order of US$40-50, I think), which is *cheap* for us, especially given the unlimited bandwidth.
We used to get 400Mb/month dialup from BigPond for a *mere* $24.95/month.
I still have my old Mac Classic II running under my desk today, at a spritely 16Mhz, with its original 80Mb hard drive. I use it for MacMoria and the original Civilisation, but damn, do I love my Mac.
Of course, we shouldn't forget that Microsoft has quite some reputation for making crap for OS X.
Exhibit A, being Internet Explorer, a shady alternative to Safari that comes packaged with OS X... when, sitting right next to it is a faster, smaller, and more functional program for the same purpose - Safari. Not much of a blow for Microsoft functionality, there.
Exhibit B, being Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 - a previously wonderful piece of virtual machine software produced by Connectix, which will no longer support Linux in the new version, as described here
And, finally, WMP9, a decidedly crap piece of software, as described by all those unfortunate enough to use it. Pity, poor fools.
I still don't see what the fuss is about. A cardboard cut-out character can be the most entertaining type (provided that its a scantily-clad warrior-maiden with 10'000 polygon boobs), especially for the teenage male population.
Well, to hell with you. I'm off to ogle Miss BloodRayne for a bit more.
Slashdot Mirror
Huh. My school used to be totally OldWorld Macintosh, with about three hundred PowerMac G3s at the tops, with the only PC being a linux-based router in the front office.
Now, the school's just bought two and a half thousand Dells running XP (of which about ten percent seemed to BSOD right out of the box), and sixteen eMacs, plus an eMac, a Powerbook and an iMac in the IT Department (for support and UT).
Bah, humbug.
Unlike such well known university drop-outs as the Good Mr Gates =)
Besides, what overly-rich bum would spend thousands of dollars on, say, a dual 2Ghz G5, rather than get a similarly powerful Pentium 4 for considerably less (depending on the specific setup, of course)? Even rich people have a reasonable sense of values.
And for the record, I've been a Mac-user since my family bought a Classic II fifteen years ago, and haven't changed since. Just for the record =)
Well, it's not on the Apple site at *all*...
With 3 gig of RAM?
Yep. That seems helpful enough :)
Even I am caapable of realising that that would be because you have way to little RAM. Try quitting something, maybe?
Are you sure this isn't a breach of NDA?
In the skool I go to, we have four IT drones. Three of them are paid to administer about two hundred PCs, each of them typing frantically on two keyboards at once, their mobile phones never having a chance to cool down and their RSI worsening.
Then theere's the other dude, who administers the Linux and Mac OS X - based systems, who sits there playing quake on his little powerbook and checking email on his eMac (which is mounted slightly higher), all day. Dust slowly gathers on his phone.
Not a piece of Mac-propaganda or anything, just to say that this guy gets away with this, and gets paid to boot. I want his job.
Hell no! I'm on a mac!
Seems to work for us - they're doing this kind of thing a lot recently, like making iTMS go international.
:-)
Sounds good - I just wanna see what comes next
Oh man, the guy who invents way to block these is going to make a fortune!
Minimum System Requirements: Life v1.0
:(
Wouldn't work for me
Well, sounds like they're getting ready for it, whether it'll fix the economy or not.
On the other hand, if it fails to do anything, they could just use the newly developed technology to shoot the unemployed into space!
That depends on whether the infinitely inferior hardware will support it.
That's nothing. We got stuck with a $1600 bill after we went several Gb over... when we were still on DIALUP.
You can probably guess, we're no longer with telstra.
Burn marks? Cool!
Think about it - if he suddenly gets hideous scarring all over his face, not only would he be a cyborg with an extremely cool-looking camera setup over one eye, but he'd also be hideously disfigured!
That would get him some serious goth-points...
On the foreign front, in Australia we're getting 256/128 for AUS$70/month (something in the order of US$40-50, I think), which is *cheap* for us, especially given the unlimited bandwidth.
We used to get 400Mb/month dialup from BigPond for a *mere* $24.95/month.
I still have my old Mac Classic II running under my desk today, at a spritely 16Mhz, with its original 80Mb hard drive. I use it for MacMoria and the original Civilisation, but damn, do I love my Mac.
Exhibit A, being Internet Explorer, a shady alternative to Safari that comes packaged with OS X... when, sitting right next to it is a faster, smaller, and more functional program for the same purpose - Safari. Not much of a blow for Microsoft functionality, there.
Exhibit B, being Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 - a previously wonderful piece of virtual machine software produced by Connectix, which will no longer support Linux in the new version, as described here
And, finally, WMP9, a decidedly crap piece of software, as described by all those unfortunate enough to use it. Pity, poor fools.
I still don't see what the fuss is about. A cardboard cut-out character can be the most entertaining type (provided that its a scantily-clad warrior-maiden with 10'000 polygon boobs), especially for the teenage male population.
Well, to hell with you. I'm off to ogle Miss BloodRayne for a bit more.
Does it matter?
Suffice to say: Sucks to have to go to a parliamentary debate if you're a herring - you'd think there'd be enough hot air as is...
Just like real life! Hell yeah! And wouldn't it suck to be a real soldier without the luxury of a respawn?
What in hell's name were they thinking? $780'000?
Please tell me how thats a deterrent to something like AT&T?
Nope, simply because WE have the Australian Electoral Commission, which means we've yet to have had a disputed ballot since federation.
It doesn't matter how they're counted, so much as it's done by an objective body... hence the AEC.
Just how does saying that something is still supported imply that its successor doesn't exist?