Apple's 12" Powerbook costs $1,600 ($1,400 for students), while the new Sony Vaio is expected to cost around $2,000. Even with the cheaper price, the Apple laptop gives you 10GB more hard drive space, and a larger screen, and OS X as well. The only advantage I see is the weight difference, as the Sony weighs 32% less than the Apple. As long as you don't have trouble lifting 4.6 pounds, go for the Apple.:^)
Nobody seems to have mentioned the time-tested Casio Databank watch yet, so here is the product comparison with the Fossil PDA watch:
Fossil features: clock, calculator, backlight, address book, date book, to-do list, IrDA port, ability to run Palm apps, and a memo pad. Casio features: clock, calculator, backlight, address book (kinda), 5 alarms, world time, atomic time synchronization and a stopwatch.
Fossil battery life: five days Casio battery life: two years
Fossil price: $295 Casio price: $89
I'm going to stick with my Casio Databank.:^) If you use a CR2032 battery instead of the CR2016, and you turn off the hourly chime and alarms, you can get about 8-10 years use out of one battery!
This is a fairly big deal as people have pointed out before that GCC on PPC isn't as hot as it should be, but with that kind of muscle and money behind it it should go forwards by leaps and bounds.
There are some issues with the FSF accepting patches from IBM though, for a number of reasons... This message on the ArsTechnica discussion list explains all of these reasons well, so I won't repeat them here...
"The AltiVec subunits are more independant than in the 7400, i.e. there isn't just a single vector ALU, instead the vector FPU, vector simple IU, and the vector complex IU can now accept AltiVec instructions concurrently (up to two vector instructions per clock); this means technically, the G4e does have 4 AltiVec units, while the MPC7400 has only two, but in practice the G4e merely relaxes some instruction scheduling restrictions that the 7400 has to adhere to."
Wait, don't buy that iTrip just yet... MacWhispers recently conducted a review of four different FM transmitters, and the iTrip was rated poorly. The other transmitters they tested don't look as cool, and they don't use the iPod as a power source, but they tend to have much greater range and easier configurability.
I just got mild vertigo thinking of the rotational motion of all of the components in such a setup...:^) I think it would work, as long as you could keep the cables from getting tangled or stuck in the deck.
1) Posters to Slashdot don't give their name and address. Slashdot can purge IP addy logs, so *they don't know* user info and *can't tell* the RIAA.
They can purge logs, but do they?
2) Many Slashdot posters don't live in the US, so tough shit RIAA.
Many are outside the US, but most aren't.
3) How is posting a *COMMENT* on a *WEBSITE* possibly illegal? The day they take someone to court for that is the day US citizens truly lose their right to free speech.
May I refer you to this link? More background about this is here.
When people post ideas that allow circumventing what the RIAA is doing, I imagine the RIAA will go after these people as well. If they are bold enough to sue individual file swappers, why wouldn't they be bold enough to sue individual comment posters on slashdot? We are living in a DMCA world, you know!
But, the catch is that if you want to enter all 24 drawings in a day, you'll need to seperately mail 24 envelopes with single cards in them. Afterall, 37 cent stamps are paid to the United States Postal Service and not Microsoft.
Here is a possible solution: Put all of your cards in a box. Find a person in Redmond (or whatever city where the index cards need to be mailed), and have everyone mail all their card boxes to this person. Then, this person could go to the post office or wherever the address is located, open the boxes up, and either a) stuff the mailbox with them or b) have the postal employee put them in the post office box as a delivery. I have no idea if this would work, but it would sure save lots of time and money for everyone involved (except for the poor guy who has to deliver the index cards)...
Look no further than United Nuclear scientific supply where under their dangerous products category you can purchase your own radioactive uranium ore...
Is anyone else here thinking of the company Hacker Dynamics from Canadian Bacon?:^)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book series, by Douglas Adams, of course! Do please purchase or borrow copies and read them, won't you? Alternatively you can listen to the BBC radio show version that came out before the books did. When you find yourself sufficiently mesmerised, be sure to visit the BBC's online shrine to the series, the man behind the series, and generally all things pan-galactic in nature.
Isn't that straight out of the OS X finder? Though, of course, Apple probably got their idea from Xerox.
Yes, but Apple seems to be adopting the sidebar idea for Finder that both Evolution and Outlook are dropping... I just hope my mom's head doesn't explode with all of these UI changes taking place.
The argument has also been put forth that Apple ][ boot times far exceed that of computers today... I know that Appleworks (the word processing / spreadsheet / etc. program) boots on an Apple ][ in a matter of seconds, whereas modern computers take at least a minute before you can load a word processor and start typing. My dad still uses Appleworks on an Apple ][ mainly for that reason (even though I have a much newer PC in the house for the family).
ThinkSecret posted an article about this back in May... Eric Stover from AutoDesk is interested in receiving email from people interested in a port of AutoCAD to OS X... According to the story, you can email him here (be sure to include "AutoCAD for OS X" in the subject line). He'll send you a survey which takes a few minutes to fill out... Even though I'm a student who can't afford the full version of AutoCAD, I filled it out anyway. Send it in and hope for the best!
Indeed -- it's nice being able to move the cursor around using Ctrl-P/N/F/B/A/E in any text form... I can do it while typing a Slashdot post, typing an email, etc. etc...
There are some apps that don't properly handle these key combos (the iApps and Office X seem to all ignore them), but I think this is because they are using a slightly different part of OS X (perhaps Carbon instead of Cocoa)... The nice part about Office X though is that you can reconfigure the key combos so that they do work -- it just takes time to do it.
Here's a simple guide to setting up WEP on your WAP:
1. Visit this page -- it will generate 13 random hexadecimal digits that you will use for a 128-bit key.
2. Copy the resulting digits into a text editor and strip out all of the whitespace between the characters.
3. Log into your WAP router and go to the Wireless configuration settings. Select the "128-bit encryption" option, and enter the generated key into the WEP key field.
4. The last step is OS-dependent... In OS X, you would log on to the WAP as usual, except that now it will ask for a password. Select the dropdown box labeled "password" and change it to "128-bit Hex", then enter in the generated key. I believe OS 9 users will need to enter a "$" before their hex key for it to work properly. It won't let you paste the key in, so you will need to type it carefully. I don't run my Linux box via WAP, so I'm not exactly sure how Linux users would do this -- feel free to reply to this post and add other OS instructions...
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Apple's 12" Powerbook costs $1,600 ($1,400 for students), while the new Sony Vaio is expected to cost around $2,000. Even with the cheaper price, the Apple laptop gives you 10GB more hard drive space, and a larger screen, and OS X as well. The only advantage I see is the weight difference, as the Sony weighs 32% less than the Apple. As long as you don't have trouble lifting 4.6 pounds, go for the Apple. :^)
Nobody seems to have mentioned the time-tested Casio Databank watch yet, so here is the product comparison with the Fossil PDA watch:
:^) If you use a CR2032 battery instead of the CR2016, and you turn off the hourly chime and alarms, you can get about 8-10 years use out of one battery!
Fossil features: clock, calculator, backlight, address book, date book, to-do list, IrDA port, ability to run Palm apps, and a memo pad.
Casio features: clock, calculator, backlight, address book (kinda), 5 alarms, world time, atomic time synchronization and a stopwatch.
Fossil battery life: five days
Casio battery life: two years
Fossil price: $295
Casio price: $89
I'm going to stick with my Casio Databank.
Anonymous Coward, the Gods shall smite thee! How dare thou claim that my post is in error!
The following was snipped from this message:
"The AltiVec subunits are more independant than in the 7400, i.e. there isn't just a single vector ALU, instead the vector FPU, vector simple IU, and the vector complex IU can now accept AltiVec instructions concurrently (up to two vector instructions per clock); this means technically, the G4e does have 4 AltiVec units, while the MPC7400 has only two, but in practice the G4e merely relaxes some instruction scheduling restrictions that the 7400 has to adhere to."
One of the best quotes from the interview was from David Edelsohn: "IBM is not gonna try to compete with Apple's reality distortion field :)"
Wait, don't buy that iTrip just yet... MacWhispers recently conducted a review of four different FM transmitters, and the iTrip was rated poorly. The other transmitters they tested don't look as cool, and they don't use the iPod as a power source, but they tend to have much greater range and easier configurability.
I just got mild vertigo thinking of the rotational motion of all of the components in such a setup... :^) I think it would work, as long as you could keep the cables from getting tangled or stuck in the deck.
Powerbooks come with an OS X install disc, as well as a System Recovery disc... Not all laptops are created equal! :^)
Many are outside the US, but most aren't.
May I refer you to this link? More background about this is here.
When people post ideas that allow circumventing what the RIAA is doing, I imagine the RIAA will go after these people as well. If they are bold enough to sue individual file swappers, why wouldn't they be bold enough to sue individual comment posters on slashdot? We are living in a DMCA world, you know!
I think we're going to have a lot more anonymous cowards in these types of discussions now, so please set your threshold lower... :^(
The argument has also been put forth that Apple ][ boot times far exceed that of computers today... I know that Appleworks (the word processing / spreadsheet / etc. program) boots on an Apple ][ in a matter of seconds, whereas modern computers take at least a minute before you can load a word processor and start typing. My dad still uses Appleworks on an Apple ][ mainly for that reason (even though I have a much newer PC in the house for the family).
Don't forget Acquitision -- it's a real nice P2P app for OS X. It supports swarm downloading, host browsing, has real nice filtering and so on.
ThinkSecret posted an article about this back in May... Eric Stover from AutoDesk is interested in receiving email from people interested in a port of AutoCAD to OS X... According to the story, you can email him here (be sure to include "AutoCAD for OS X" in the subject line). He'll send you a survey which takes a few minutes to fill out... Even though I'm a student who can't afford the full version of AutoCAD, I filled it out anyway. Send it in and hope for the best!
Indeed -- it's nice being able to move the cursor around using Ctrl-P/N/F/B/A/E in any text form... I can do it while typing a Slashdot post, typing an email, etc. etc...
There are some apps that don't properly handle these key combos (the iApps and Office X seem to all ignore them), but I think this is because they are using a slightly different part of OS X (perhaps Carbon instead of Cocoa)... The nice part about Office X though is that you can reconfigure the key combos so that they do work -- it just takes time to do it.
Here's a simple guide to setting up WEP on your WAP:
1. Visit this page -- it will generate 13 random hexadecimal digits that you will use for a 128-bit key.
2. Copy the resulting digits into a text editor and strip out all of the whitespace between the characters.
3. Log into your WAP router and go to the Wireless configuration settings. Select the "128-bit encryption" option, and enter the generated key into the WEP key field.
4. The last step is OS-dependent... In OS X, you would log on to the WAP as usual, except that now it will ask for a password. Select the dropdown box labeled "password" and change it to "128-bit Hex", then enter in the generated key. I believe OS 9 users will need to enter a "$" before their hex key for it to work properly. It won't let you paste the key in, so you will need to type it carefully. I don't run my Linux box via WAP, so I'm not exactly sure how Linux users would do this -- feel free to reply to this post and add other OS instructions...