Maybe they go to court this week, but this has been ongoing for quite a long time. People need to learn how to write a fucking descriptive summary. The Slashdot community has a surprising number of otherwise brilliant people who write on a third-grade level.
"Mozilla Firefox 2.0 alpha is released. The links for download were not available directly on Mozilla.com website. Being Alpha, all features might not work and most of the plugins might not be compatible."
It seems to me that native hardware will mean that we're not far from seeing a lot of really great "not-emulation VPC-like products." This is nice, but it seems that being able to have the two up side-by side would be more useful. Wouldn't native hardware also mean that a VPC could run at nearly full speed, only taking a hit due to whatever resources were already being used by the Mac OS and applications? Still, this is a nice achievement.
I'm not so sure about that for this particular use, but the rules surrounding hyphenation can be kind of a gray area depending on what writing style you're following.
Millions of people are so hooked on the iPod, they continue to buy it and its coordinating Apple products despite quick battery death and difficult repairs.
That's a bit of a loaded statement. I don't see how it's really relevant to an article about how the iPod works. Is How Stuff Works by any chance owned by Sim Wong Hoo?
There's an error in the first sentence of the How Stuff Works article. The first iPod had only a 5 gigabyte hard drive. I'll report on subsequent errors as I find them. Thank me later.
It seemed like the MagSafe connector came off in a lot of situations when the reviewer wanted it on. If I'm sitting in bed with it, I'll almost certainly be running on battery power, but if I'm on the go and *can* plug it in, I almost certainly will. If I have to use it on my lap, but I'm sitting next to an outlet, I'll be using it. It seems like this is the kind of situation that would be a problem. You can't blame the reviewer for calling a spade a spade.
The resolution thing isn't that big a deal, but those 60 pixels could be my dock.
I would have liked a little more context on the Dell running OS X vs. the MacBook Pro, like general impressions rather than straight up numbers, but this was a great review. MagSafe sounds like kind of a bummer, at least for now. For people who need one now, this sounds like a great machine, but it really convinced me, who has a perfectly working dual G5 and giant monitor at home, that my need for a portable isn't *that* pressing. I'm eagerly awaiting the next revision, which hopefully will fix the MagSafe issues and, with any luck, restore those 60 vertical pixels they decided to chop from the display.
Big fucking deal. They're the students' laptops, and I don't really see why it's the school's responsibility to support the students' computes. Besides, if their techs can't get a printer or a wireless network running on OS X then maybe they should seek employment elsewhere.
Gotta agree. There's still WAY too much voodoo involved with switching from networks and even just changing any network settings on a PC. These things weren't bad under OS 9 (When Windows still needed a restart for basic stuff like this), but I can't see it getting much better than how OS X and my Macs do it. I've never had to find a fucking driver or figure out which card I was trying to use.
I won't deny that Thinkpads are nice PC laptops, but it sounds like they're really pushing them on the students. They shouldn't give just one recommendation. They should be offering a set of basic system requirements that student laptops should meet or exceed in order to get them through four or five years of college, and give Mac, Linux and Windows recommendations, along with other software they should have. Something like this can only be attributed to the fact that IU must have gotten a sweetheart deal from Lenovo to push their stuff on the students.
I remember this -- from when it was actually news, like THREE DAYS AGO.
Could anybody who didn't encounter this story in like any of the other billion news or so news sites on the internet please go drink something from under the kitchen sink? Be sure to submit the same story to Slashdot before you expire so we can get a dupe on Monday.
That's awfully big (and opinionated) talk to call The Dark Crystal "impressive." Fucking heebie-jeebies inducing is more like it. Even the good guys in that movie are fucking creepy. I've always hated it and always will. I don't even remember what the story was about -- only that if I ever met one of the characters in a dream, I'd set his creepy muppet ass on fire.
Fuck this dumb quasi-news. People have been playing video games at home for the past 25 years and there was no fucking epidemic of sore thumbs. Give me a god damn break. This isn't even news on a slow day.
Yeah, I figured it wasn't even worth mentioning, since they decided somewhere along the way that they wanted to redefine the box model. After I posted yesterday, I checked IE just for shit and giggles, and it was worse than I remembered.
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No, no... just raised Catholic
Telling kids what they're not allowed to do/have will certainly make them stop wanting to do/have whatever it is. It'll work for sure.
On the other hand, if the alternative is being thrashed about like a rag doll by a sweaty man-ape...
Maybe they go to court this week, but this has been ongoing for quite a long time. People need to learn how to write a fucking descriptive summary. The Slashdot community has a surprising number of otherwise brilliant people who write on a third-grade level.
Is any of this new, or did somebody just think that maybe we needed to be reminded?
Thank you! You have no idea how frustrating I find it to be when people talk about a MAC or, even worse, "Mac" the computer company.
Wine/Darwine is all well and good, but something to run Windows inside of its own environment seems like a necessity.
It seems to me that native hardware will mean that we're not far from seeing a lot of really great "not-emulation VPC-like products." This is nice, but it seems that being able to have the two up side-by side would be more useful. Wouldn't native hardware also mean that a VPC could run at nearly full speed, only taking a hit due to whatever resources were already being used by the Mac OS and applications? Still, this is a nice achievement.
I'm not so sure about that for this particular use, but the rules surrounding hyphenation can be kind of a gray area depending on what writing style you're following.
Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice.
Then they updated the article. It previously said that it had a 20 gig HD. You fail to see the error because they fixed it.
That's a bit of a loaded statement. I don't see how it's really relevant to an article about how the iPod works. Is How Stuff Works by any chance owned by Sim Wong Hoo?
There's an error in the first sentence of the How Stuff Works article. The first iPod had only a 5 gigabyte hard drive. I'll report on subsequent errors as I find them. Thank me later.
At last I can unlock the mysteries of the blue, green and orange planet, Mars!
Actually this is kind of cool, but strange that it defaults to the colored elevation map.
It seemed like the MagSafe connector came off in a lot of situations when the reviewer wanted it on. If I'm sitting in bed with it, I'll almost certainly be running on battery power, but if I'm on the go and *can* plug it in, I almost certainly will. If I have to use it on my lap, but I'm sitting next to an outlet, I'll be using it. It seems like this is the kind of situation that would be a problem. You can't blame the reviewer for calling a spade a spade. The resolution thing isn't that big a deal, but those 60 pixels could be my dock.
I would have liked a little more context on the Dell running OS X vs. the MacBook Pro, like general impressions rather than straight up numbers, but this was a great review. MagSafe sounds like kind of a bummer, at least for now. For people who need one now, this sounds like a great machine, but it really convinced me, who has a perfectly working dual G5 and giant monitor at home, that my need for a portable isn't *that* pressing. I'm eagerly awaiting the next revision, which hopefully will fix the MagSafe issues and, with any luck, restore those 60 vertical pixels they decided to chop from the display.
Did you see the pictures? It's powered by millions of tiny little Jawas!
Big fucking deal. They're the students' laptops, and I don't really see why it's the school's responsibility to support the students' computes. Besides, if their techs can't get a printer or a wireless network running on OS X then maybe they should seek employment elsewhere.
Gotta agree. There's still WAY too much voodoo involved with switching from networks and even just changing any network settings on a PC. These things weren't bad under OS 9 (When Windows still needed a restart for basic stuff like this), but I can't see it getting much better than how OS X and my Macs do it. I've never had to find a fucking driver or figure out which card I was trying to use.
I won't deny that Thinkpads are nice PC laptops, but it sounds like they're really pushing them on the students. They shouldn't give just one recommendation. They should be offering a set of basic system requirements that student laptops should meet or exceed in order to get them through four or five years of college, and give Mac, Linux and Windows recommendations, along with other software they should have. Something like this can only be attributed to the fact that IU must have gotten a sweetheart deal from Lenovo to push their stuff on the students.
I'm posting a COMMENT not NEWS, jackass.
I remember this -- from when it was actually news, like THREE DAYS AGO. Could anybody who didn't encounter this story in like any of the other billion news or so news sites on the internet please go drink something from under the kitchen sink? Be sure to submit the same story to Slashdot before you expire so we can get a dupe on Monday.
That's awfully big (and opinionated) talk to call The Dark Crystal "impressive." Fucking heebie-jeebies inducing is more like it. Even the good guys in that movie are fucking creepy. I've always hated it and always will. I don't even remember what the story was about -- only that if I ever met one of the characters in a dream, I'd set his creepy muppet ass on fire.
Fuck this dumb quasi-news. People have been playing video games at home for the past 25 years and there was no fucking epidemic of sore thumbs. Give me a god damn break. This isn't even news on a slow day.
Yeah, I figured it wasn't even worth mentioning, since they decided somewhere along the way that they wanted to redefine the box model. After I posted yesterday, I checked IE just for shit and giggles, and it was worse than I remembered.