Marketing psychology or not, I'm thoroughly sure, from my best technical appraisal, that the mid-range mac is the best deal.
Though, that may also depend on my other postulate: Always buy as much computer as you can reasonably afford. It'll be awesome longer and good enough for much longer.
Though sometimes I doubt that first postulate, and think I ought to buy cheaper more often, though, then I never have an awesome machine, which is disappointing, if practically good-enough.
Ah, now the middle of the desktop is again clearly the best deal. I always buy from the middle of the line. The boost over the low end model is worth the price, but the difference between mid and high end is always a more severe premium.
Also, if you're going to buy the dual 1.8 GHz Mac, BUY IT NOW. You'll be happier this way. See, if the worst time to buy is just before a revision comes out, then you get further and further from that to the happiest point just after a revision comes out.
Having just finished reading Return of the King, this is plausible. I think I can see how the can make a perfectly fine story of the ending without Saruman. The assumption could be that he was left to rot in his tower. There are still plenty of Heroes to smite plenty of Villains.
In a way, taking Saruman out of the ending gives for a happier ending. He's a piece of the old evil. Making it seem as if that was thoroughly crushed at an earlier point makes the final victory more of a mopping up action than a continuation of the epic Good vs. Evil fight of the trilogy.
Eh. I'm just rationalizing. Having listened to the commentary tracks on the extended versions, and how much they moan about what they have to cut, every minute of those long movies is hard won and not without scrutiny. Give'm a break. Sit back, and enjoy the show.
Where are the slashdotters complaining that Fox News was thin-skinned, censoring or plain evil now? Hopefully you would think they'd be man enough to apologize and admit they were wrong.
No, we still think Faux News is slanted, biased, spinning out of control, disgustingly sensationalist, and generally full of lies.
The FCC should mandate that all over-the-air broadcasters begin broadcasting blah-format by some date. The FCC has direct province over what gets broadcast. Mandating device design is kinda odd. I think I have the right to receive any format I please.
I challenge this country, in the next 10 years, to become self sufficient on clean renewable energy.
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." --President John F. Kennedy
The massive research project advances a wide variety of science and engineering. Building the systems is a jobs program. Clearing our skies of the waste of burning is a health program....
... there is a techno-fix for everything. Trustworthy, reliable voting machines record ballots for advanced election methods and we incontrovertibly know the will of the people within a minute of the polls closing.
On the other hand, I wonder if we could do better by paying minimum wage to two people per precinct to count each plain-old-paper-ballot twice, by hand. bc-of-envelope says $12/hr labor divided by 120ballots/hr processed = $.10 per ballot processing. About equal to the paper it's printed on. Sounds reasonable to me.
you start getting crap and non-service due to privatization and short-sighted profit motive.
Every country should run a root server for their TLD, and the G7 (and mostly US) should get together to run the global TLDs.
At the very least, VeriSign should lose it's license/contract in this area and someone more decent should have a shot at it. Oh say, IBM. (no affiliation)
The article submitter didn't even RTFA. The specs clearly state 256 MB FLASH.
Or, the article submitter is too ignorant to know the difference between RAM and FLASH. Like those older newbies who ask "how much memory" does a computer have, and they mean disk space. I mean, yeah, disk, RAM, flash, cache, are all forms of "memory" if you mean generic computer storage, but that's just not how we talk about these things.
The Slashdot maintainer who let this drivel through should be modded down. Damnit, I have mod points. How can I mod the story down?!?
Remember, corporate evil at its worst just steals from the common resources (lumber, water, open source), then sells it back to the people who rightfully owned it in the first place. And their one motive is the holy grail of profit. Take take take. Profit profit profit.
Support the corporate death penalty. Revoke the charter of misbehaving corporations.
that the "Undisclosed Fortune 500 Company" is none other than Microsoft.
At least, it satisfies my sense of irony and suspicion. It would be convenient for Microsoft to lend credibility to SCO's claim on Microsoft's biggest thrat, Linux. Microsoft says, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
...requires that all the source code in a voting machine be turned over to the state. Although, I doubt we have a team of experts checking it over. It's probably just sitting in a vault somewhere.
But still, with these fancy gui kiosk voting machines, doesn't that mean the state of california should have a copy of the Windoze (CE?) source code?
It becomes a commodity part and competing producers keep the price down
It can be all computerized as long as it generates a dual receipt paper trail like a credit card. My copy, Their copy, fast electronic count.
It has to be all computerized due to a new federal law requiring that every US polling place have a voting machine with which blind voters can cast a ballot unassisted. A computer voice would read the ballot to you and record you pressing the button at the right time. (Why do we trust the computer voice more than the human poll worker?)
A 4U base system will be around $3500. That would then definitely be a two-processor machine. Given that Apple is selling dual 2GHz 970 machines for $3000, you're paying a rackmount-premium on that machine from IBM. And, when it comes out it will have to compete with the 970 based XServe which will eventually come from Apple. The bigger win will be the 4-cpu machines, by virtue of having no immediate competition for that higher end machine. (oh, aside from x86-64, SPARC, MIPS, etc. But we were talking PPC)
Of course if rackmounting is your thing, you already know what it's worth.
The other benefit is that it might be more Linux friendly than Apple hardware.
No, he isn't. He's just progressive and speaks his mind and heart. He's offering a real difference to the boring business-as-usual old-boy networks in both parties. I for one favor someone who's going to go as strong and as long in the right direction as possible, given that Congress and The System will drag him down to making a merely moderate effect. Starting out with a moderate is saying "No, I don't really want things to change".
This isn't exactly about copyright, but it is when you think about who has been pushing for the majority of the copyright measures we know and disdain:
Steve will officially announce 970 Macs. Availability in 3-6 months. The conservative way to go would be putting them in XServe first, then desktop, then laptop like 6 months later. They might push it faster this time, but ISTR it took about 6 months each for g3 and g4 to get into laptops.
XServe-970 hardware could actually be ready to go right now, and low enough volume to release during the production ramp up. Hmm.
As for the OS, I'm sure Apple got the second test chip off the line and every alpha and beta chip since then. With that, and maybe simulators, they've had many months to port to the new chip. The OS will be ready when the hardware is.
If they do have 970 laptops out next month, they better keep on with the dual processor desktops or they won't sell many. (unless they really do want it to be the year of the laptop)
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Smart bunch there. A wee bit more politically conservative than I am now, but a smart bunch none the less.
And it has to be one of the most newsworthy small-towns of 20,000 people anywhere.
First Atom Bombs, now voting machines. I wonder what they'll do next to protect Democracy?
Marketing psychology or not, I'm thoroughly sure, from my best technical appraisal, that the mid-range mac is the best deal.
Though, that may also depend on my other postulate: Always buy as much computer as you can reasonably afford. It'll be awesome longer and good enough for much longer.
Though sometimes I doubt that first postulate, and think I ought to buy cheaper more often, though, then I never have an awesome machine, which is disappointing, if practically good-enough.
Ah, now the middle of the desktop is again clearly the best deal. I always buy from the middle of the line. The boost over the low end model is worth the price, but the difference between mid and high end is always a more severe premium.
Also, if you're going to buy the dual 1.8 GHz Mac, BUY IT NOW. You'll be happier this way. See, if the worst time to buy is just before a revision comes out, then you get further and further from that to the happiest point just after a revision comes out.
Having just finished reading Return of the King, this is plausible. I think I can see how the can make a perfectly fine story of the ending without Saruman. The assumption could be that he was left to rot in his tower. There are still plenty of Heroes to smite plenty of Villains.
In a way, taking Saruman out of the ending gives for a happier ending. He's a piece of the old evil. Making it seem as if that was thoroughly crushed at an earlier point makes the final victory more of a mopping up action than a continuation of the epic Good vs. Evil fight of the trilogy.
Eh. I'm just rationalizing. Having listened to the commentary tracks on the extended versions, and how much they moan about what they have to cut, every minute of those long movies is hard won and not without scrutiny. Give'm a break. Sit back, and enjoy the show.
...thumb my nose at all the nay-sayers who kept kibitzing that Apple should move to x86. Microsoft is switching to PPC! Nyah!
No, we still think Faux News is slanted, biased, spinning out of control, disgustingly sensationalist, and generally full of lies.
Like voting? More reasearch (mine) on what the "best" system is.
Condorcet doesn't always make the most people the happiest, but it's nicely impervious to several things that can go wrong with elections.
The FCC should mandate that all over-the-air broadcasters begin broadcasting blah-format by some date. The FCC has direct province over what gets broadcast. Mandating device design is kinda odd. I think I have the right to receive any format I please.
The massive research project advances a wide variety of science and engineering. Building the systems is a jobs program. Clearing our skies of the waste of burning is a health program.
http://www.apolloalliance.org/
... there is a techno-fix for everything. Trustworthy, reliable voting machines record ballots for advanced election methods and we incontrovertibly know the will of the people within a minute of the polls closing.
On the other hand, I wonder if we could do better by paying minimum wage to two people per precinct to count each plain-old-paper-ballot twice, by hand. bc-of-envelope says $12/hr labor divided by 120ballots/hr processed = $.10 per ballot processing. About equal to the paper it's printed on. Sounds reasonable to me.
psst, embedded tools hosted on linux
and also develop for linux
Yes, I work for GHS. They didn't tell me to do this. I'm just out astroturfing of my own volition.
Keep Python interpreters out of my system guts!
System code should only be written in C!
you start getting crap and non-service due to privatization and short-sighted profit motive.
Every country should run a root server for their TLD, and the G7 (and mostly US) should get together to run the global TLDs.
At the very least, VeriSign should lose it's license/contract in this area and someone more decent should have a shot at it. Oh say, IBM. (no affiliation)
The article submitter didn't even RTFA. The specs clearly state 256 MB FLASH.
Or, the article submitter is too ignorant to know the difference between RAM and FLASH. Like those older newbies who ask "how much memory" does a computer have, and they mean disk space. I mean, yeah, disk, RAM, flash, cache, are all forms of "memory" if you mean generic computer storage, but that's just not how we talk about these things.
The Slashdot maintainer who let this drivel through should be modded down. Damnit, I have mod points. How can I mod the story down?!?
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Remember, corporate evil at its worst just steals from the common resources (lumber, water, open source), then sells it back to the people who rightfully owned it in the first place. And their one motive is the holy grail of profit. Take take take. Profit profit profit.
Support the corporate death penalty. Revoke the charter of misbehaving corporations.
A previous "iBot"
c'mon people. Google search before you name your product.
that the "Undisclosed Fortune 500 Company" is none other than Microsoft.
At least, it satisfies my sense of irony and suspicion. It would be convenient for Microsoft to lend credibility to SCO's claim on Microsoft's biggest thrat, Linux. Microsoft says, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
...requires that all the source code in a voting machine be turned over to the state. Although, I doubt we have a team of experts checking it over. It's probably just sitting in a vault somewhere.
But still, with these fancy gui kiosk voting machines, doesn't that mean the state of california should have a copy of the Windoze (CE?) source code?
See CA Code, section 19103
It can be all computerized as long as it generates a dual receipt paper trail like a credit card. My copy, Their copy, fast electronic count.
It has to be all computerized due to a new federal law requiring that every US polling place have a voting machine with which blind voters can cast a ballot unassisted. A computer voice would read the ballot to you and record you pressing the button at the right time. (Why do we trust the computer voice more than the human poll worker?)
A 4U base system will be around $3500. That would then definitely be a two-processor machine. Given that Apple is selling dual 2GHz 970 machines for $3000, you're paying a rackmount-premium on that machine from IBM. And, when it comes out it will have to compete with the 970 based XServe which will eventually come from Apple. The bigger win will be the 4-cpu machines, by virtue of having no immediate competition for that higher end machine. (oh, aside from x86-64, SPARC, MIPS, etc. But we were talking PPC)
Of course if rackmounting is your thing, you already know what it's worth.
The other benefit is that it might be more Linux friendly than Apple hardware.
No, he isn't. He's just progressive and speaks his mind and heart. He's offering a real difference to the boring business-as-usual old-boy networks in both parties. I for one favor someone who's going to go as strong and as long in the right direction as possible, given that Congress and The System will drag him down to making a merely moderate effect. Starting out with a moderate is saying "No, I don't really want things to change".
http://www.kucinich.us/
This isn't exactly about copyright, but it is when you think about who has been pushing for the majority of the copyright measures we know and disdain:
s .h tm
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/issue_corporation
Make a public domain design&software for a voting machine. Get five companies to build them. No one company can rig the election.
My only big design point is Dual Receipt, like a credit card transaction. Fast electronic count, paper count for them, paper count for me.
If Linux gains market share, it's not taking from the MacOS user base, it's taking from windows.
Or maybe that's just my rose colored classes that say windows will die and we'll have a MacOS+Linux Nice-user-machine+cheap-server computing utopia.
Steve will officially announce 970 Macs. Availability in 3-6 months. The conservative way to go would be putting them in XServe first, then desktop, then laptop like 6 months later. They might push it faster this time, but ISTR it took about 6 months each for g3 and g4 to get into laptops.
XServe-970 hardware could actually be ready to go right now, and low enough volume to release during the production ramp up. Hmm.
As for the OS, I'm sure Apple got the second test chip off the line and every alpha and beta chip since then. With that, and maybe simulators, they've had many months to port to the new chip. The OS will be ready when the hardware is.
If they do have 970 laptops out next month, they better keep on with the dual processor desktops or they won't sell many. (unless they really do want it to be the year of the laptop)