>no danger to persistantly encroaching civilization? -Obviously in a place totally lacking in civilization of course. New York City or Washington DC come to mind immediately..
For further illumination, please refer to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"...
There will be a quiz at 2.
I have seen several videos of the long long lines and the eventual door opening at Apple Store Grand Openings. These events also seem to draw people wanting iBooks. Thousands of them. None of thse events resulted in riot. Why might that be?
My Mac G4 is 80 200 200 200, My G5 is 80, 250 (Sata), I also have 2 Firewire enclosures (200) and one 120 on a spare ATA card on a old Beige G3. The PC(s) have a stack of 40s and 1 80 in there (I would need to look to be sure how many, I forget). All the 200s above were Maxtor since Fry's was running a special on them, The SATA drives are WD. My PC(s)' drives are a mix of Seagate, WD, Maxtor, and I think I have a Quantum in there too.. My luck has been that all drives of all vendors behave about the same; keep them cool,and don't bump them around and they work; don't, and they they fail. As you can see above I have some 1.6tb of storage...and...I am almost out of room. I NEED those 1tb drives like yesterday!
There was a feller once by the name of Ben Franklin who said: "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -but what did he know?
Indeed; It seems to me that prior to any Microsoft operating system based machines, or Microsoft product running machines being widely used on the internet, the rate of spam was small. So, it would seem: Windows boxes join the internet, Spam increases beyond all understanding, Microsoft makes 7 million.... They get the loot, we STILL get the spam. What are they doing right and I am doing wrong?
My kid is 14 and on..lets see.. His 6th desktop PC, and 4th Mac. He does like to game. We have upgraded as he grows older and as the games get more complex. Since I build the boxes, it is not that expensive. Having grown up with computers, my boy is as conversant with various operating systems: (Mac OS 6-X, Windows 3.1-XP. Various Linux, BSD, BeOS, OS/2 you name it) as most kids are with baseball scores. When he reaches college I plan on getting him a X86 Powerbook with a dual (triple?) boot into whatever Windows is avaialable (plus Linux?), with all tools he might need. We will also probably build a good mini-desktop (or two?) too. We will see when we get there...
Personally I find it reprehensible that here in North America the Algonquin Creation tale is not given the same weight as Science, oras that Old World Bible myth. Until my school teaches the world began on the back of a Giant Turtle, I will not trust this so-called "science"
Well actually.... On MY Apple IIgs...with a PC transporter card installed (complete with the optional 8087 coprocessor)...I did load DOS 5.0 and..on that Windows 3.0 . The PC Transporter was a 8086 vintage coprocessor card that sported a 8086 CPU, 640k of memory, and a few ports for attaching 5.25 360k drives, a 800k Apple II drive (which it saw as a 720k) and a AT style keyboard. You could also hook up a CGA monitor or use the included "color-Switch" board to hook it to the existing Apple RGB screen. The setup ran on emulated FAT12 yes, FAT12 disk images on the Apple II ProDOS drive. Oh, and I could run Lotus on the beast.... And did. The cross platform capabilities of this beast were phenomenal. Your 1581 drive by the way is a collectable these days....
Another point of note: Net Nanny and Surf Watch or other such tools blcok the main sites. they do NOT block the WBM archive of goatse.cx or the like. AND THAT IS A GOOD THING!!!
Example:
www.copstalk.com used to be the home page for a maker of Macintosh to PC via Appletalk cross platform communications tools. They were later bought out. If you wish to look at documentation on their older products, go to the WBM. www.copstalk.com these days IS A PORN SITE.
Laws are there to control people never to serve people. I can think of example after example of laws that were intended for one purpose, and used for another. I will mention two: 1 RICO: it was suposed to only be used in Organized Crime cases. Actual use: Abortion Protestors. (I am not commenting on the politics of this issue, just the use of that law) 2 Seat Belt law: When passed in most states, the law took the form of "We will not stop motorists for not using a belt, but if we stop you for speeding and you are not "buckled up" it will be extra ticket time". Now? It seems to somehow have become a Federal Law punishable by death or IRS audit. Given time and politics, all good intention will eventually be corrupted...
no, YOU invested in it!! You pay an average of 40 bucks a month to carry around a device which can be tracked, attached to, bugged, listened to, databased and demographied. There is a really simple solution: DON'T CARRY A CELL PHONE! now take your $480/year savings and buy something nice for the wife.
Actually I know it well. Dad's grant provided hardware support (on a PDP/11-40) but no funding for software support after inital purchase. Guess who provided tech support? I said "obsolete" in that the version we were running ran under (now this is a 30 year old memory so bare with me) RSTS (pre-Unix). I do recall the machine booted from a paper tape... MUMPS is now called "M" isn't it?
Several years ago my father (who is a retired research scientist) commented that he had the cumulative data of some 7 years of research in a obsolete database system (MUMPS) on a 9 track tape squirreled away in his office closet...He really would have liked to look at that data, but no drive was available to read it.
Thanks to the Internet, and one international mail list I was a member of, I found a wonderful lady at a government data center who was willing to copy the data to a modern medium. And, it was a good thing I put in my request when I did; their one remaining 9 track tape drive was being decommissioned the next month! A quick visit to the the UPS fairy and the tape was on its way. A week later I get an email to check a particular ftp for a tar ball and there it was: 30 mbs. - 7 years of research; a mere blip on a modern jump drive...... Dad was delighted. That data is now on CD, 4 separate hard drives in 2 physical locations, and even an actual paper printout.
It seems to me that if Microsoft really wishes to show their product's surperior nature, they have a straight forwared course open to them:
Simply submit their source code to a panel of industry experts for a peer review. Better: Publish them.
OSS has been working with this very model for some time and has suceeded in producing some quite robust software considerably more free of defects then similar commercial products. If Microsoft clearly had the best product possible for her customer in mind, this proven solution is avaialable. If on the other hand, Smoke and Mirrors, FUD and the game as usual is the goal, then by all means on with the game. -my 2 kopeks worth...
Seems to me the Hot Coffee mod must be quite an accomplishment considering the Coffee was on from the very Beginning of the Internet, and was turned off August 22 2001. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html
There are SOME things a Mactel upgrade just won't address though. One is Altivec. Yes yes, I know, I read the stuff too, don't mean diddly. Well, I am just a dummy on all the benchmark jazz, but: I usually do video encoding on a dual 867 G4 or a Dual 1.8 G5. On occasion, when something has a Windoz only codec I run a encode on a 3.something ghz P4 I built. -this was a Frys bare bones box with some goodies I added. I can say that the dualie G4 beats the P4 every time in speed on encodes; and enven as a dual it be WAY slower. I would welcome a faster iBook as my 1ghz one is now feeling just a little bit sluggish and I would dearly love a good reason to pass it to my son and get a new playtoy!
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Bush would just dash the petrie dish to the floor and immediately be arrested by the FCC....
It is illegal to make......
an obscene clone fall...
>no danger to persistantly encroaching civilization?
-Obviously in a place totally lacking in civilization of course. New York City or Washington DC come to mind immediately..
For further illumination, please refer to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"...
There will be a quiz at 2.
Why use .xxx to filter that which is obscene? We already have .gov
I have seen several videos of the long long lines and the eventual door opening at Apple Store Grand Openings. These events also seem to draw people wanting iBooks. Thousands of them. None of thse events resulted in riot. Why might that be?
My Mac G4 is 80 200 200 200, My G5 is 80, 250 (Sata), I also have 2 Firewire enclosures (200) and one 120 on a spare ATA card on a old Beige G3. The PC(s) have a stack of 40s and 1 80 in there (I would need to look to be sure how many, I forget). All the 200s above were Maxtor since Fry's was running a special on them, The SATA drives are WD. My PC(s)' drives are a mix of Seagate, WD, Maxtor, and I think I have a Quantum in there too.. My luck has been that all drives of all vendors behave about the same; keep them cool,and don't bump them around and they work; don't, and they they fail. As you can see above I have some 1.6tb of storage...and ...I am almost out of room. I NEED those 1tb drives like yesterday!
There was a feller once by the name of Ben Franklin who said: "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -but what did he know?
Indeed; It seems to me that prior to any Microsoft operating system based machines, or Microsoft product running machines being widely used on the internet, the rate of spam was small. So, it would seem: Windows boxes join the internet, Spam increases beyond all understanding, Microsoft makes 7 million.... They get the loot, we STILL get the spam. What are they doing right and I am doing wrong?
My kid is 14 and on ..lets see.. His 6th desktop PC, and 4th Mac. He does like to game. We have upgraded as he grows older and as the games get more complex. Since I build the boxes, it is not that expensive. Having grown up with computers, my boy is as conversant with various operating systems: (Mac OS 6-X, Windows 3.1-XP. Various Linux, BSD, BeOS, OS/2 you name it) as most kids are with baseball scores. When he reaches college I plan on getting him a X86 Powerbook with a dual (triple?) boot into whatever Windows is avaialable (plus Linux?), with all tools he might need. We will also probably build a good mini-desktop (or two?) too. We will see when we get there...
Who was it who said:
"Anything which is not deemed illegal shall be compulsory!"....
"Probing into a new pusating adventure!"
Personally I find it reprehensible that here in North America the Algonquin Creation tale is not given the same weight as Science, oras that Old World Bible myth. Until my school teaches the world began on the back of a Giant Turtle, I will not trust this so-called "science"
Well actually.... On MY Apple IIgs...with a PC transporter card installed (complete with the optional 8087 coprocessor)...I did load DOS 5.0 and..on that Windows 3.0 . The PC Transporter was a 8086 vintage coprocessor card that sported a 8086 CPU, 640k of memory, and a few ports for attaching 5.25 360k drives, a 800k Apple II drive (which it saw as a 720k) and a AT style keyboard. You could also hook up a CGA monitor or use the included "color-Switch" board to hook it to the existing Apple RGB screen. The setup ran on emulated FAT12 yes, FAT12 disk images on the Apple II ProDOS drive. Oh, and I could run Lotus on the beast.... And did. The cross platform capabilities of this beast were phenomenal.
Your 1581 drive by the way is a collectable these days....
Anny programmer who thinks the code is more important then the content.... has never been out on a date....
Even living gods get older....and some might say....wiser.....
Another point of note: Net Nanny and Surf Watch or other such tools blcok the main sites. they do NOT block the WBM archive of goatse.cx or the like. AND THAT IS A GOOD THING!!!
Example:
www.copstalk.com used to be the home page for a maker of Macintosh to PC via Appletalk cross platform communications tools. They were later bought out. If you wish to look at documentation on their older products, go to the WBM. www.copstalk.com these days IS A PORN SITE.
Would this not be a breech of my Service Agreement?
Laws are there to control people never to serve people. I can think of example after example of laws that were intended for one purpose, and used for another. I will mention two:
1 RICO: it was suposed to only be used in Organized Crime cases. Actual use: Abortion Protestors. (I am not commenting on the politics of this issue, just the use of that law)
2 Seat Belt law: When passed in most states, the law took the form of "We will not stop motorists for not using a belt, but if we stop you for speeding and you are not "buckled up" it will be extra ticket time". Now? It seems to somehow have become a Federal Law punishable by death or IRS audit.
Given time and politics, all good intention will eventually be corrupted...
no, YOU invested in it!! You pay an average of 40 bucks a month to carry around a device which can be tracked, attached to, bugged, listened to, databased and demographied. There is a really simple solution: DON'T CARRY A CELL PHONE! now take your $480/year savings and buy something nice for the wife.
Have you ever noticed? Change games and its still the same old ads...
Actually I know it well. Dad's grant provided hardware support (on a PDP/11-40) but no funding for software support after inital purchase. Guess who provided tech support?
I said "obsolete" in that the version we were running ran under (now this is a 30 year old memory so bare with me) RSTS (pre-Unix). I do recall the machine booted from a paper tape...
MUMPS is now called "M" isn't it?
Several years ago my father (who is a retired research scientist) commented that he had the cumulative data of some 7 years of research in a obsolete database system (MUMPS) on a 9 track tape squirreled away in his office closet...He really would have liked to look at that data, but no drive was available to read it.
Thanks to the Internet, and one international mail list I was a member of, I found a wonderful lady at a government data center who was willing to copy the data to a modern medium. And, it was a good thing I put in my request when I did; their one remaining 9 track tape drive was being decommissioned the next month!
A quick visit to the the UPS fairy and the tape was on its way. A week later I get an email to check a particular ftp for a tar ball and there it was: 30 mbs. - 7 years of research; a mere blip on a modern jump drive......
Dad was delighted. That data is now on CD, 4 separate hard drives in 2 physical locations, and even an actual paper printout.
I had my money on "Windows Copeland"...
It seems to me that if Microsoft really wishes to show their product's surperior nature, they have a straight forwared course open to them:
Simply submit their source code to a panel of industry experts for a peer review. Better: Publish them.
OSS has been working with this very model for some time and has suceeded in producing some quite robust software considerably more free of defects then similar commercial products. If Microsoft clearly had the best product possible for her customer in mind, this proven solution is avaialable. If on the other hand, Smoke and Mirrors, FUD and the game as usual is the goal, then by all means on with the game. -my 2 kopeks worth...
Seems to me the Hot Coffee mod must be quite an accomplishment considering the Coffee was on from the very Beginning of the Internet, and was turned off August 22 2001. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html
There are SOME things a Mactel upgrade just won't address though. One is Altivec. Yes yes, I know, I read the stuff too, don't mean diddly. Well, I am just a dummy on all the benchmark jazz, but: I usually do video encoding on a dual 867 G4 or a Dual 1.8 G5. On occasion, when something has a Windoz only codec I run a encode on a 3.something ghz P4 I built. -this was a Frys bare bones box with some goodies I added.
I can say that the dualie G4 beats the P4 every time in speed on encodes; and enven as a dual it be WAY slower. I would welcome a faster iBook as my 1ghz one is now feeling just a little bit sluggish and I would dearly love a good reason to pass it to my son and get a new playtoy!