I have a small workspace and with the prevalence of Mouse usage, I would like to reclaim the space wasted by the keypad. I hardly ever use the keypad and my mouse could occupy the space where the number pad and arrow/home keys reside now.
Heck I think I would prefer a left handed keyboard even. As it gets the keypad out of the way of my mouse. Any non standard keyboard seems to quadruple in price though.
This keyboard is nuts though. ABC layout is complete non starter. I like some of the general concepts though. Small, with a split and the cursor in the middle is kind of neat..
I want to have an HTPC to integrate with my system, but it must have:
Ample CPU power to decode HD content and codecs. Currently these seem to use about 60% CPU on my 2GHz Athlon. Can't see the slow G4 rendering without hiccups.
Ample Disk space. The mini uses laptop drives. Very space limited. My Athlon has 400 Gigs online and I am always in Danger of running low, from all the TV shows I have online.
Sound: Spdif/out is a must as a standard feature for any media box. If this was the intended purpose they would have included digital audio out.
In short there is no eviddence that this is the intended purpose. Right after the news about the mini I sent email to apple suggesting the build a media box. It should have a bit more HP, take 3.5" drives and have digital audio out.
I watched all 9 seasons more or less. I stuck it out to the end even though it should have ended seasons before. I just wanted closure.
There seem to be two camps. Those who preferred the "mythology" eps (aliens conspiracy) and those who liked the "Monster of the week".
I am one of the former. I hated the MOTW eps as they were just filler. I only really enjoy shows with an arc as it evokes my curiousity about what happens next. MOTW leaves me with no desire to tune in again for more filler.
So if it is MOTW I ceratinly won't bother. The mythology story line was such a bungled dragged on mess that I have no interest in getting back into it. I don't think they are going to offer any more closure.
I think this thing is dead in the water.
Maybe make a full blown invasion movie out of it, with duchovny leading the Earth rebel forces... Nah... forget it. Just don't bother. It is done, overdone...
In 1985 the A1000 blew everything out of the water. I still have my A1000 in a box somewhere. One of the coolest PCs ever built the entire team signed the inside cover (including Jays dog).
Processor: An 286 was state of the art and the 68000 compared more than favorably.
Graphics: Heck EGA was just recently introduced, Macs were monocrhome. Amiga had extraordinary high colour capability (up to 4096 colours IIRC) and custom co-processor to accellerate 2d operations
Sound: A basic PC beeped. The first soundblaster was still 2 years away. The amiga had multichannel digiatal waveform sound with co-processor support.
OS: PC had Dos or Windows 1.0 (steaming pile of dung). The amiga had a small efficient GUI OS with true pre-emptive multitasking...
The Amiga was a revolution of HW and software. What killed it was stagnation. It remained relatively unchanged for years allowing competition to catch and surpass some of its basic specs.
Personally I moved on when Win95/OS2 VGA/ 486/ Soundblaster finally made PCs tolerable.
One movies show the use of a putty knife to open the case, then some pics of the naked circuit board. I would like some real dissection pics of how it all fits together. Also I would like to see things like the CPU cooler and fan...
BS: You can price one here $700. Mac is cheaper
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I call BS...
You can use this link to price out that enclosure, when configured the same with 1.2Ghz proc, winXp home, 40G drive, CD-RW/DVD drive + 35 for assembly. Total cost for comparable PC mini is then over $700 and the mac has much more included SW, better OS, and is still a nicer HW package for $200 less.
It is obvious that men and women in general have different brain development and a different way of looking at the world.
But in our politically correct culture it seems that it is only ok to highlight the differences that paint men in a negative light and women in a positive light.
So there is no uproar to say that men are more prone to violence or women or more nurturing.
But saying men are better suited to understanding spacial relationships. That would be a no-no....
I never worried about franken food that much, but this is just plain nuts. This is reason enough to lobby for GM labeling in Canada. This is just so sick.
Monsanto takes the evil corp cake, if you want to see some of their other antics you have to watch a documentary called "the corporation" where monsanto got a story about BGH quashed. The fun part is watching the reporters story about how they kept trying to run the story for about a year until they were finally fired.
After seeing it I am glad they don't use BGH in Canada.
"I point at the 1970s when everyone there, including scientists were pointing at a cooling trend and the public picked it up and started screaming "DOOM! Argh! Run Away!"
Not missing anything. If you actually read the page that you yourself provided you will find no such concensus among scientists. The effects of global warming and CO2 were known then and sited in the reports of the times as well.
In 1970 the scientists were largely saying they didn't understand the climate model very well and there was uncertainty about wether heating or more cooling was next.
Today the models are much better understood and the concensus among scientists is near universal.
The only doom and gloom article was the newsweek article. And in case you are not aware. Newsweek is not science.
Please provide the evidence of that peer reviewed scientific concensus in 1970 was that we had global cooling and we should dump soot on the ice caps as this is news to me. Please notice the word concensus. I would be most interested in seeing this.
Since the real controversy around global warming is injected at the political and corporate level, peer review serves as our best defence. Peer reviewed science remains as one of the most corruption free sources of information.
This is the best source of information we have on climate. The rational thing to do is act on the best information available.
Now if we had peer review in the intelligence community, perhaps there would have been no need for invasions of foreign lands on truly faulty information. Unfortunately there is no peer oversite and political pressures weigh heavily.
LONDON (Reuters) - Tobacco companies tried to cast doubt on the link between smoking and cancer by funding projects that challenged the findings of a landmark study, scientists said on Friday.
The study concerned the link between tobacco and cancer-causing changes in a gene called p53. In 1996, researchers showed that a chemical in cigarette smoke caused mutations in the gene that were the same as those found in lung cancer tumors.
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco said the tobacco industry tried to counter the findings for a long time after the study was published,
"The tobacco companies claim they are now working with the public health community 'to support a single, consistent public health message on the role played by cigarette smoking in the development of the disease in smokers,"' said Dr Stanton Glantz.
"But their multifaceted response to p53 research as recently as 2001 suggests that they have not changed their practice."
The Tobacco Manufacturers Association said it was not able to comment on the report.
Damage to p53 leads to uncontrolled cell division. Mutations in the gene are found in more than half of all cancers and 60 percent of lung cancers.
In a report published online by The Lancet medical journal, Glantz and his colleagues examined 43 previously confidential tobacco industry documents about p53 and tobacco smoke.
They said they found evidence that the tobacco industry planned and carried out research programs after the 1996 study to counter the scientific link between smoking and cancer.
"We have identified two instances where research arguing against the connection between tobacco smoke and patterned p53 mutations was undertaken and published by individuals with links to the tobacco companies," Glantz said in the report.
Cancer Research UK, a leading charity, said the study demonstrates that the scientific community must be continually vigilant against the tobacco industry's attempts to influence and distort scientific research.
"Research into p53 is crucial to our understanding how cancer develops and could help us find ways to prevent and treat the disease," Jean King, the charity's director of Tobacco Control, said in a statement.
"Cancer Research UK strongly encourages universities to shun funding from the tobacco industry," she added.
"Wow, what an awful example. If the tobacco industry meant to hide it's health effects from the American public, it did an awful job of it. As an example, the term Cancer Stick in reference to cigarettes was coined in 1898. The term Coffin Nails was coined some thirty years earlier."
Actually it is very similar, the vast prevailing opinion both in peer reviewed science and among the general public is that we are causing global warming. All these front groups have to do is throw enough disinformation to sow some confusion and get some lobbying wiggle room.
I have mentioned this a few times elsewhere. I am well aware of this, but this is both an expensive and kludgy solution for something that should have been included.
I will never buy another computer that doesn't include built in digital sound (currently have Nforce with soundstorm).
" Even if you price compare to a low-end Dell desktop, the Mac Mini comes out quite well priced, and it is about 1/10th the size. "
I agree. Just getting tired of the this generic box PC has more horsepower/buck. So I thought I would compare to something using similar components.
This is a highly price compettive Mac to anything in its size class.
This would be the perfect computer for my mom for instance. Right now she is using and old PentiumPro of mine with 64MB RAM/ and 15G HD space and she will never need an upgrade. NEVER. There are millions of people that could use this Mac mini. The power user portion of the population is in the minority. If you want to email/surf/wordpro/productivity and play music, this will serve you for years and that is all that most of the population does with computers.
If I won some money I would buy a stack of these and give them out to family/friends. They are just so cool.
Once I got my nforce MB with soundstorm integrated, I swore I would never buy another computer without decent integrated digital sound and I am sticking to that. So they missed me, but they are going to sell a bundle of these and hopefully mini2 will be a bit more media ready for me and have some ports on the front for you.:-)
I use a clunky 3 year old Nforce based computer as my media center. My first thought was great an awesome media play center and Mac, clean simple and not too expensive.
But it has no Digital Audio out. You can pay another $100 for it, but I wouldn't. I will wait for mini2 now or get a XPC.
I think they missed a bunch of us by leaving out DA out.
Still think it is value for money and a cool package, but that critical missing feature was the main factor on my not buying one.
I have no idea what the file system can handle, but when I rip my DVDs to the HD I used DVD decryptor and it leaves me with Vob Files no bigger than 1G each. Centainly work with Fat32/OSX or any other modern file system. Though I don't yet know if there is a decryptor for the Mac or a Player that will play them directly.
But anyway they left out Digital Audio, so no DD/DTS. Grrrrrr! Where is that Apple suggestion box.
Since this machine is a luggable and uses Laptop components. I thought I would compare a low end laptop.
I configured a low end dell laptop with 40G drive/ CD-RW/DVD combo drive/256 MB ram/Celeron 2.6./90 day warranty (7.5 lbs) Price $852
I configure the mac Mini with standard 1.25 G4/ 40G drive/ cd-RW/DVD combo/ 256ram/ 90 day warranty. 2.9lbs mac mouse and keyboard combo. Price $552 CMV 15" LCD Monitor 5.3 lbs $179 newegg. Total Price: $731
So one is luggable on the other true portable. But you have similar power and price/size/mass. Upgrade capability and pricing also similar.
Those comparing the price performance to a off the shelf standard PC are out to lunch. This is not a power users box. It is not the best price peforming box on the planet.
What it is is a very small cool, REASONABLY priced mac.
I never used a mac before but I could see KVM'ing one of these into my current setup. I could meet 90% of my computing needs in blisfully quiet operation, keeping the PC for powerhouse/legacy tasks the other 10% of the time.
I think they are going to sell all they can build. I would have ordered one already if it came with digital audio outputs.
While not everything to everyone, this machine has an interesting niche to occupy and represents one of the few chances to get an Apple without paying a significant premium IMO. I wish them well. Hopefully they will be successful and release a mini2 that is more suitable for media center usage.
"Laypeople frequently assume that in a political dispute the truth must lie somewhere in the middle, and they are often right. In a scientific dispute, though, such an assumption is usually wrong." - Paul Ehrlich
"It is human nature to protect your own interests. We may recall the extensive and incredibly successful campaign of the American tobacco companies to conceal the link between cancer and the use of tobacco products. For decades, they knew the reality of the addictive nature of nicotine and the carcinogenic effects of tobacco use. For decades, they successfully kept that reality hidden from the American public.
The oil, coal, gas, and mining industries stand to lose tremendously if the truth about global warming becomes accepted by American society. As the tobacco industry invested millions in keeping its deadly secret, so also have the oil, coal, gas, and mining industries attempted to hide and discredit the link between CO2 emissions and a warming earth. They have funded, promoted, and used as witnesses a handful of greenhouse skeptics, who have widely and loudly proclaimed that global warming is a myth."
Here is a mainline anti-global warming site. How long does it take to ferret out the who is doing it and if they have an agenda. Is this the future of dis/information??? http://www.globalwarming.org/s cience.php
How can we combat disinformation campaigns in science with a puplic increasingly ignorant of scientific process (scientific method, peer review)?
Initially. I said Wow perfect quiet Media box and a chance to use OSX all in one. I am so there.
I am not going to whine about the Ram, it can be upgraded to 512M for a reasonable price, but as a media center one item that kills it. No Digital Audio out for DD/DTS.
$100+ to get digital out? I don't think so. Kludgy and expensive is what these USB external sound boxes are. For under $10 they could have had optical out on the box at the very least.
I am sure they will sell all they can build, but the days of paying $100 for sound are long behind me. My Nforce motherboard was less than that and has awesome on board sound.
My current crude, somewhat noisy, hand built PC will have to continue it's media center duties for a while longer yet.
Apple could chew up the media center market if they chose to devote resources in that direction.
Something to the mini. With built in A/V input/output. Digitial Audio/IO. PVR sw and built in IR or Blutooth and remote. Call it a Media Mac...
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I have a small workspace and with the prevalence of Mouse usage, I would like to reclaim the space wasted by the keypad. I hardly ever use the keypad and my mouse could occupy the space where the number pad and arrow/home keys reside now.
Heck I think I would prefer a left handed keyboard even. As it gets the keypad out of the way of my mouse. Any non standard keyboard seems to quadruple in price though.
This keyboard is nuts though. ABC layout is complete non starter. I like some of the general concepts though. Small, with a split and the cursor in the middle is kind of neat..
I want to have an HTPC to integrate with my system, but it must have:
Ample CPU power to decode HD content and codecs. Currently these seem to use about 60% CPU on my 2GHz Athlon. Can't see the slow G4 rendering without hiccups.
Ample Disk space. The mini uses laptop drives. Very space limited. My Athlon has 400 Gigs online and I am always in Danger of running low, from all the TV shows I have online.
Sound: Spdif/out is a must as a standard feature for any media box. If this was the intended purpose they would have included digital audio out.
In short there is no eviddence that this is the intended purpose. Right after the news about the mini I sent email to apple suggesting the build a media box. It should have a bit more HP, take 3.5" drives and have digital audio out.
I watched all 9 seasons more or less. I stuck it out to the end even though it should have ended seasons before. I just wanted closure.
There seem to be two camps. Those who preferred the "mythology" eps (aliens conspiracy) and those who liked the "Monster of the week".
I am one of the former. I hated the MOTW eps as they were just filler. I only really enjoy shows with an arc as it evokes my curiousity about what happens next. MOTW leaves me with no desire to tune in again for more filler.
So if it is MOTW I ceratinly won't bother. The mythology story line was such a bungled dragged on mess that I have no interest in getting back into it. I don't think they are going to offer any more closure.
I think this thing is dead in the water.
Maybe make a full blown invasion movie out of it, with duchovny leading the Earth rebel forces... Nah... forget it. Just don't bother. It is done, overdone...
Awesome game.
Never managed to finish it though. Very hard game. I still have my A1000 and Shadow of the Beast if the floppy isn't corrupt(big if).
In 1985 the A1000 blew everything out of the water. I still have my A1000 in a box somewhere. One of the coolest PCs ever built the entire team signed the inside cover (including Jays dog).
Processor:
An 286 was state of the art and the 68000 compared more than favorably.
Graphics:
Heck EGA was just recently introduced, Macs were monocrhome. Amiga had extraordinary high colour capability (up to 4096 colours IIRC) and custom co-processor to accellerate 2d operations
Sound:
A basic PC beeped. The first soundblaster was still 2 years away. The amiga had multichannel digiatal waveform sound with co-processor support.
OS:
PC had Dos or Windows 1.0 (steaming pile of dung).
The amiga had a small efficient GUI OS with true pre-emptive multitasking...
The Amiga was a revolution of HW and software. What killed it was stagnation. It remained relatively unchanged for years allowing competition to catch and surpass some of its basic specs.
Personally I moved on when Win95/OS2 VGA/ 486/ Soundblaster finally made PCs tolerable.
One movies show the use of a putty knife to open the case, then some pics of the naked circuit board. I would like some real dissection pics of how it all fits together. Also I would like to see things like the CPU cooler and fan...
I call BS...
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You can use this link to price out that enclosure, when configured the same with 1.2Ghz proc, winXp home, 40G drive, CD-RW/DVD drive + 35 for assembly. Total cost for comparable PC mini is then over $700 and the mac has much more included SW, better OS, and is still a nicer HW package for $200 less.
http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPa
Great Step 1 GOP.
Step 2: offer Renewal on Carousel to deal with the increased homelesness.
Step 3: Carousel can become mandatory.
Step 4: Keep rolling back age of "retirement" until sytem hits equilibrium. When you hit 30 you have:
Step 5: Logans Run....
It is obvious that men and women in general have different brain development and a different way of looking at the world.
But in our politically correct culture it seems that it is only ok to highlight the differences that paint men in a negative light and women in a positive light.
So there is no uproar to say that men are more prone to violence or women or more nurturing.
But saying men are better suited to understanding spacial relationships. That would be a no-no....
I never worried about franken food that much, but this is just plain nuts. This is reason enough to lobby for GM labeling in Canada. This is just so sick.
Monsanto takes the evil corp cake, if you want to see some of their other antics you have to watch a documentary called "the corporation" where monsanto got a story about BGH quashed. The fun part is watching the reporters story about how they kept trying to run the story for about a year until they were finally fired.
After seeing it I am glad they don't use BGH in Canada.
Unless you have a Neilson box. TVs don't report in what you watch. At least mine doesn't... I hope... (glances at tv in fear) ... Gotta go!
"I point at the 1970s when everyone there, including scientists were pointing at a cooling trend and the public picked it up and started screaming "DOOM! Argh! Run Away!"
Not missing anything. If you actually read the page that you yourself provided you will find no such concensus among scientists. The effects of global warming and CO2 were known then and sited in the reports of the times as well.
In 1970 the scientists were largely saying they didn't understand the climate model very well and there was uncertainty about wether heating or more cooling was next.
Today the models are much better understood and the concensus among scientists is near universal.
The only doom and gloom article was the newsweek article. And in case you are not aware. Newsweek is not science.
Actually this is quite balanced and shows no concensus among scientists as there is today. The most hysteria article is the newsweek article.
Also the wiki you posted links:
http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/
Was an imminent Ice Age predicted in the '70's? No
If you can find me a reference saying otherwise, I'll put it here.
I haven't read every comment in the thread so if you encountered this link many times, perhaps could kindly provide it.
Acknowledging that C02 emissions cause global warming will destroy the US Economy and cause a 20 Depression? And your evidence for this is?
Please provide the evidence of that peer reviewed scientific concensus in 1970 was that we had global cooling and we should dump soot on the ice caps as this is news to me. Please notice the word concensus. I would be most interested in seeing this.
Since the real controversy around global warming is injected at the political and corporate level, peer review serves as our best defence. Peer reviewed science remains as one of the most corruption free sources of information.
This is the best source of information we have on climate. The rational thing to do is act on the best information available.
Now if we had peer review in the intelligence community, perhaps there would have been no need for invasions of foreign lands on truly faulty information. Unfortunately there is no peer oversite and political pressures weigh heavily.
Eternal vigilance is necessary.
LONDON (Reuters) - Tobacco companies tried to cast doubt on the link between smoking and cancer by funding projects that challenged the findings of a landmark study, scientists said on Friday.
The study concerned the link between tobacco and cancer-causing changes in a gene called p53. In 1996, researchers showed that a chemical in cigarette smoke caused mutations in the gene that were the same as those found in lung cancer tumors.
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco said the tobacco industry tried to counter the findings for a long time after the study was published,
"The tobacco companies claim they are now working with the public health community 'to support a single, consistent public health message on the role played by cigarette smoking in the development of the disease in smokers,"' said Dr Stanton Glantz.
"But their multifaceted response to p53 research as recently as 2001 suggests that they have not changed their practice."
The Tobacco Manufacturers Association said it was not able to comment on the report.
Damage to p53 leads to uncontrolled cell division. Mutations in the gene are found in more than half of all cancers and 60 percent of lung cancers.
In a report published online by The Lancet medical journal, Glantz and his colleagues examined 43 previously confidential tobacco industry documents about p53 and tobacco smoke.
They said they found evidence that the tobacco industry planned and carried out research programs after the 1996 study to counter the scientific link between smoking and cancer.
"We have identified two instances where research arguing against the connection between tobacco smoke and patterned p53 mutations was undertaken and published by individuals with links to the tobacco companies," Glantz said in the report.
Cancer Research UK, a leading charity, said the study demonstrates that the scientific community must be continually vigilant against the tobacco industry's attempts to influence and distort scientific research.
"Research into p53 is crucial to our understanding how cancer develops and could help us find ways to prevent and treat the disease," Jean King, the charity's director of Tobacco Control, said in a statement.
"Cancer Research UK strongly encourages universities to shun funding from the tobacco industry," she added.
"Wow, what an awful example. If the tobacco industry meant to hide it's health effects from the American public, it did an awful job of it. As an example, the term Cancer Stick in reference to cigarettes was coined in 1898. The term Coffin Nails was coined some thirty years earlier."
Actually it is very similar, the vast prevailing opinion both in peer reviewed science and among the general public is that we are causing global warming. All these front groups have to do is throw enough disinformation to sow some confusion and get some lobbying wiggle room.
I have mentioned this a few times elsewhere. I am well aware of this, but this is both an expensive and kludgy solution for something that should have been included.
I will never buy another computer that doesn't include built in digital sound (currently have Nforce with soundstorm).
" Even if you price compare to a low-end Dell desktop, the Mac Mini comes out quite well priced, and it is about 1/10th the size. "
/productivity and play music, this will serve you for years and that is all that most of the population does with computers.
:-)
I agree. Just getting tired of the this generic box PC has more horsepower/buck. So I thought I would compare to something using similar components.
This is a highly price compettive Mac to anything in its size class.
This would be the perfect computer for my mom for instance. Right now she is using and old PentiumPro of mine with 64MB RAM/ and 15G HD space and she will never need an upgrade. NEVER. There are millions of people that could use this Mac mini. The power user portion of the population is in the minority. If you want to email/surf/wordpro
If I won some money I would buy a stack of these and give them out to family/friends. They are just so cool.
Once I got my nforce MB with soundstorm integrated, I swore I would never buy another computer without decent integrated digital sound and I am sticking to that. So they missed me, but they are going to sell a bundle of these and hopefully mini2 will be a bit more media ready for me and have some ports on the front for you.
Yes I know, as I said in my post you can get a $100 add on to do this, but that is overpriced and kludgy for what I want to do.
I use a clunky 3 year old Nforce based computer as my media center. My first thought was great an awesome media play center and Mac, clean simple and not too expensive.
But it has no Digital Audio out. You can pay another $100 for it, but I wouldn't. I will wait for mini2 now or get a XPC.
I think they missed a bunch of us by leaving out DA out.
Still think it is value for money and a cool package, but that critical missing feature was the main factor on my not buying one.
I have no idea what the file system can handle, but when I rip my DVDs to the HD I used DVD decryptor and it leaves me with Vob Files no bigger than 1G each. Centainly work with Fat32/OSX or any other modern file system. Though I don't yet know if there is a decryptor for the Mac or a Player that will play them directly.
But anyway they left out Digital Audio, so no DD/DTS. Grrrrrr! Where is that Apple suggestion box.
Since this machine is a luggable and uses Laptop components. I thought I would compare a low end laptop.
I configured a low end dell laptop with 40G drive/ CD-RW/DVD combo drive/256 MB ram/Celeron 2.6./90 day warranty (7.5 lbs) Price $852
I configure the mac Mini with standard 1.25 G4/ 40G drive/ cd-RW/DVD combo/ 256ram/ 90 day warranty. 2.9lbs mac mouse and keyboard combo. Price $552
CMV 15" LCD Monitor 5.3 lbs $179 newegg.
Total Price: $731
So one is luggable on the other true portable. But you have similar power and price/size/mass. Upgrade capability and pricing also similar.
Those comparing the price performance to a off the shelf standard PC are out to lunch. This is not a power users box. It is not the best price peforming box on the planet.
What it is is a very small cool, REASONABLY priced mac.
I never used a mac before but I could see KVM'ing one of these into my current setup. I could meet 90% of my computing needs in blisfully quiet operation, keeping the PC for powerhouse/legacy tasks the other 10% of the time.
I think they are going to sell all they can build. I would have ordered one already if it came with digital audio outputs.
While not everything to everyone, this machine has an interesting niche to occupy and represents one of the few chances to get an Apple without paying a significant premium IMO. I wish them well. Hopefully they will be successful and release a mini2 that is more suitable for media center usage.
http://www.whrc.org/resources/online_publications/ warming_earth/skeptics.htm
s cience.php
"Laypeople frequently assume that in a political dispute the truth must lie somewhere in the middle, and they are often right. In a scientific dispute, though, such an assumption is usually wrong." - Paul Ehrlich
"It is human nature to protect your own interests. We may recall the extensive and incredibly successful campaign of the American tobacco companies to conceal the link between cancer and the use of tobacco products. For decades, they knew the reality of the addictive nature of nicotine and the carcinogenic effects of tobacco use. For decades, they successfully kept that reality hidden from the American public.
The oil, coal, gas, and mining industries stand to lose tremendously if the truth about global warming becomes accepted by American society. As the tobacco industry invested millions in keeping its deadly secret, so also have the oil, coal, gas, and mining industries attempted to hide and discredit the link between CO2 emissions and a warming earth. They have funded, promoted, and used as witnesses a handful of greenhouse skeptics, who have widely and loudly proclaimed that global warming is a myth."
Here is a mainline anti-global warming site. How long does it take to ferret out the who is doing it and if they have an agenda. Is this the future of dis/information???
http://www.globalwarming.org/
How can we combat disinformation campaigns in science with a puplic increasingly ignorant of scientific process (scientific method, peer review)?
I can't remember where I read it though.
Initially. I said Wow perfect quiet Media box and a chance to use OSX all in one. I am so there.
I am not going to whine about the Ram, it can be upgraded to 512M for a reasonable price, but as a media center one item that kills it. No Digital Audio out for DD/DTS.
$100+ to get digital out? I don't think so. Kludgy and expensive is what these USB external sound boxes are. For under $10 they could have had optical out on the box at the very least.
I am sure they will sell all they can build, but the days of paying $100 for sound are long behind me. My Nforce motherboard was less than that and has awesome on board sound.
My current crude, somewhat noisy, hand built PC will have to continue it's media center duties for a while longer yet.
Apple could chew up the media center market if they chose to devote resources in that direction.
Something to the mini. With built in A/V input/output. Digitial Audio/IO. PVR sw and built in IR or Blutooth and remote. Call it a Media Mac...