I always thought that meetings were for the non-smokers. Smokers go outside and talk about the office girls, visiting office girls, and people in meetings.
Meanwhile, in meetings, discussions are held regarding the hot smoker girls, and visting girls who are smoking.
Looks good on paper. But for a power user? Or should I say, a "Mac Pro"? Not too cool.
No modem No firewire 800 No SVideo
Things that it won't run: Final Cut Studio 1.0, Final Cut Pro 1-2-3-4-5, Aperture, or Logic Pro 7.1 DVD, Studio Pro 4, Motion 2, or Soundtrack Pro, not even with the intel emulator (rosetta)
"...And, it bears repeating, if your Mac is powered by the Intel Core Duo, that performance will be nothing less than astounding -- up to 4X what is possible on PowerPC-based machines."
Let's examine this claim. The legal department claims 4X faster, and when you zero into the benchmarks, clearly there is ONE(1) application (Modo beta) that renders 4X faster. Doom 3 came in a distant 2nd at 2.2x faster. A practical application like Safari (1.9x faster).
The fumes don't get any fainter when we also uncover that Modo (beta) is engineered with clean code, unique and designed specific for the intel architecture. i.e.. the one application that doesn't need an emulator. Which is all good, but the fact they are milking the 4X faster flag based on this one single app is kinda tacky, IMO.
There are a few items that run 2 times faster, but there is two times the processor, so go figure...
The whole operating system is an emulator. For the expected arrival dates of Universal versions of third-party applications, Apple says sorry, check with the manufacturer-it's up to them.
Investing trillions into migrating to IP6 would be like spending trillions on an ice maker in Alaska.
The hope, magic and possibility of the Internet has faded, growth is for necessity sake, not cultural, like it used to be. The excitement(financial) is gone. Corporations, Television, millionaires, politicos, marketers own the 'net, so the 'net will slowly fade to a solemn object of human control and treachery. The projected growth toward IP6 popularity is moot.
As an individual 'net user, my once positive outlook has reversed. The Internet will soon be under the control of the tyrants, just like every other single type of media that is under the control of tyrants. Since the rich and elite will own me, I am all for going back to command line just to slow them down.
Music died a similar death.
If Sun had the iPod, it would hold 2 full CD's, weigh 6 lbs, the 60 Java applets would have to be patched every day, have a full size keyboard and cost $3000.
Mt. Diable has been slashdotted. I went there after reading about it here and cars were backed up for miles and access notices were everywhere making the flowers unaccessable. I did a Google search and someone was kind enough to post a mirror for the flowers here: mttp:\\mt.tassahara
I never would have gotten NetFlix, but my wife did. For a couple of months I ignored it, didn't even give it a second thought, except for the $17 per month.
Then it hooked me like a crackrock in Compton.
I love it. I think it's right up there with Google (a few years back), Craigslist and eBaY--almost right up there with coffee and beer!
Seems like it would be cheaper to hire a bouncer and teach him how to identify possible terrorists who want work out or get their nails done, because it will cost many times more to hire a security consultant and buy all new hardware then the firewalls then Norton, then another consultant to remove Norton so the employees can surf the net while checking out all the hot girls bio-measurements, finally after a few years when the novelty wears off, the equipment gets old and uninteresting, costs continue to soar, gates are left open, doors become unlocked, that's when the data will be in the most danger.
I think before I submit my bio-data, I want to be sure the business has the new USHS Privacy Certification or License, and the system should be certified yearly.
LuxPro, the Taiwanese maker of a blatant iPod Shuffle clone, refused to remove its look-alike mp3 player from its stall at CeBIT. One might call Luxpro's Super Shuffle an ehanced version of Apple's Shuffle given that it has an FM tuner, voice recorder and support for mp3,.WAV, and wma rather than merely AAC.
Apple didn't bother with a scary letter.
Apple has threatened to invade Taiwan if the self-governed island moves toward formal independence from Apple's dominance in the mp3 player market. The threat has become more real to many in Taiwan as Apple prepares to enact an anti-secession law that some analysts fear may provide Apple with a license to attack the island.
1. Dr. Steven Mostow, 63, was one of the country's leading infectious disease experts and was associate dean at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He died in a plane crash near Centennial Airport.
2. A man of boundless physical as well as intellectual energy, Wynn-Williams generated a constant flow of ideas, which entranced both his contemporaries and the young. He was killed in a road accident while out jogging near his Cambridge home.
3. Dr. Tanya Holzmayer, a pioneering scientist, was surprised Wednesday night
to find a Domino's Pizza deliveryman at the front door of her Mountain View home.
Moments later, a former colleague appeared out of the dark, shot her dead and ran off, police said.
4. Ian Langford, 40, a senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia's Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, was discovered on Monday night by police and ambulancemen. The body was naked from the waist down and partly wedged under a chair.
How many microbiologists does it take to change a light bulb?
Whatever you think the answer may be, change
5. The body of a Harvard scientist missing for more than a month since his rental car was left parked on a bridge over the Mississippi River has been found downstream, police said
Workers at a hydroelectric plant in Louisiana found the body of Don Wiley on Thursday, about 300 miles south of where the molecular biologist was last seen on Nov. 18 at a medical meeting in Memphis
6. Schwartz, who worked at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, was found dead Monday afternoon in his secluded farmhouse southwest of Leesburg. Sources said Schwartz was stabbed several times in what they described as a ritualistic slaying. One source said his body was found facedown and an "X" was carved into the back of his neck. The killing had "cult overtones,"
7. Israeli biological and nuclear scientists are being knocked off one by one and this covert war is going unnoticed. A plane carrying scientists to Russia's biological warfare center at Novosibirsk was blown up over the Black Sea and no one questions that the Ukrainian missile that supposedly did the job was a hundred miles out of range. Then a Swissair Corsair crashes killing the head of Ichilov Hospital's Hematology department, as well as directors of the Hebrew University School Of Medicine and the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and not a word of suspicion is raised. After that, one of the country's most prominent nuclear scientists, Baruch Zinger is assassinated and still, no one is putting the pieces together. Your front line against nuclear and biological attacks is being picked off in a covert murder campaign and your government is taking no security precautions to stop the intellectual slaughter. Or if it is, your public is totally unaware of the daily danger to its most educated citizens."
"Something big happening. I am getting very close. I think that biotech
and govt. needed massive funding for this genetic bioweapon project and that is why anthrax was mailed. I think we now have a "target" weapon, i.e. ethnic or racial target weapon.
Something BIG is happening. My guess is that this has to do with Dr. Wiley. Quite possibly both scientists stumbled onto something. Does the US have a "genetic" bioweapon?? My guess is these researchers have stumbled upon a bioweapons black ops project and were killed.
It would appear that we have a "simple" case of burglary victim coming home and catching burglars in the act. As a result Dr. Robert M. Schwartz, age 57 was killed....OR, was Dr. Schwartz death made to look like a simple burglary/murder case?
Robert M. Schwartz, 57, was found by neighbors Monday after co-workers called them to say Schwartz had uncharacteristically skipped work and missed a meeting
8. A microbiologist killed at CSIRO's animal diseases facility in Geelong had logged 15 years' experience with the unit, police said today. Victoria Pol
If any other OS had been as dead as FBSD, it would really be dead. FBSD can survive a nuclear attack. When all other OS's die, BSD will still be chugging. What can kill it? Invenstors can't pull out. Stock can't decline. Marketers can't abandon it. Idiots have never even used it in the first place, so abandonment can't be a factor. Writers have tried to contribute to it's demise but have been unsucceful. OS wars haven't made a dent in it's armor.
BSD may not be a gleeming superstar, but it is the salt of the Earth. Amazing Kreskin will be long dead and forgotten but BSD will remain its cosmogonic self, and still catching flak just like all the other Gods have since the dawn of man.
Why not just 'not' log in as 'Administrator'? I mean, nobody logs in as Root in Mac or UNIX, but it's default to do so in Windows. In Mac, before installing anything major, it prompts for a password, even Updates. In UNIX you need to SUDO. When I set users up in Windows, they are all USERS. If they really are dangerous to the system, I put them in the GUEST group. Spyware and Viruses don't work without access. By default, Microsoft condones ruinware because of it's ambilivent user policy design.
This is linked to the recent Cat Stevens deportation. What nobody picked up on is that he came to the US to meet with an RIAA attorney. According to insiders, FBI agents stole the Cat Stevens-John Lennon tapes in 1980 from Lennons apartment. When the unsuspecting Lennon showed up, he had to be distracted by drugged stoolie Mark Chapman as evasive action. Chapman went 'roidal and agents left out the back door with the material.
If these secret documents are released, the RIAA will sue the FBI for millions for illegally obtaining and withholding copyrighted material and easily win. I can see why the Government is being this protective.
Sun costs more, not just in equipment. I use real estate up just devoting a perfectly good storage space to store the most beautiful and extensive collection of Sun crap that can't be used with new high-end applications anymore. I bet my little ol' closet contains a half $mil worth of slick looking machinery, all with Sun logo's on it.
1984 Apple Super Bowl TV Commercial: Priceless
All other Apple TV Commercials:
$1 to $100
Watching Steve get dawg'd in the Pepsi Bang-Bus:
Just 30 seconds of your life watching the 2004 Apple Super Bowl TV commercial
Slashdot Mirror
China just did this last week. Old news.
A $550,000,000 patching center and $600,000,000 pr0n center. Who said the Internet was dead?
Remember when those atom bombs landed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
I always thought that meetings were for the non-smokers. Smokers go outside and talk about the office girls, visiting office girls, and people in meetings.
Meanwhile, in meetings, discussions are held regarding the hot smoker girls, and visting girls who are smoking.
Looks good on paper. But for a power user? Or should I say, a "Mac Pro"? Not too cool.
No modem
No firewire 800
No SVideo
Things that it won't run: Final Cut Studio 1.0, Final Cut Pro 1-2-3-4-5, Aperture, or Logic Pro 7.1 DVD, Studio Pro 4, Motion 2, or Soundtrack Pro, not even with the intel emulator (rosetta)
"...And, it bears repeating, if your Mac is powered by the Intel Core Duo, that performance will be nothing less than astounding -- up to 4X what is possible on PowerPC-based machines."
Let's examine this claim. The legal department claims 4X faster, and when you zero into the benchmarks, clearly there is ONE(1) application (Modo beta) that renders 4X faster. Doom 3 came in a distant 2nd at 2.2x faster. A practical application like Safari (1.9x faster).
The fumes don't get any fainter when we also uncover that Modo (beta) is engineered with clean code, unique and designed specific for the intel architecture. i.e.. the one application that doesn't need an emulator. Which is all good, but the fact they are milking the 4X faster flag based on this one single app is kinda tacky, IMO.
There are a few items that run 2 times faster, but there is two times the processor, so go figure...
The whole operating system is an emulator. For the expected arrival dates of Universal versions of third-party applications, Apple says sorry, check with the manufacturer-it's up to them.
Investing trillions into migrating to IP6 would be like spending trillions on an ice maker in Alaska. The hope, magic and possibility of the Internet has faded, growth is for necessity sake, not cultural, like it used to be. The excitement(financial) is gone. Corporations, Television, millionaires, politicos, marketers own the 'net, so the 'net will slowly fade to a solemn object of human control and treachery. The projected growth toward IP6 popularity is moot. As an individual 'net user, my once positive outlook has reversed. The Internet will soon be under the control of the tyrants, just like every other single type of media that is under the control of tyrants. Since the rich and elite will own me, I am all for going back to command line just to slow them down. Music died a similar death.
If Sun had the iPod, it would hold 2 full CD's, weigh 6 lbs, the 60 Java applets would have to be patched every day, have a full size keyboard and cost $3000.
Mt. Diable has been slashdotted. I went there after reading about it here and cars were backed up for miles and access notices were everywhere making the flowers unaccessable. I did a Google search and someone was kind enough to post a mirror for the flowers here: mttp:\\mt.tassahara
Okay, NOW that I've got your attention....
Then it hooked me like a crackrock in Compton.
I love it. I think it's right up there with Google (a few years back), Craigslist and eBaY--almost right up there with coffee and beer!
That sounds reasonable, but what to with the car keys?
I think before I submit my bio-data, I want to be sure the business has the new USHS Privacy Certification or License, and the system should be certified yearly.
Alias ls to dir and make their usernames all Administrator.
Apple didn't bother with a scary letter.
Apple has threatened to invade Taiwan if the self-governed island moves toward formal independence from Apple's dominance in the mp3 player market. The threat has become more real to many in Taiwan as Apple prepares to enact an anti-secession law that some analysts fear may provide Apple with a license to attack the island.
1. Dr. Steven Mostow, 63, was one of the country's leading infectious disease experts and was associate dean at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He died in a plane crash near Centennial Airport.
2. A man of boundless physical as well as intellectual energy, Wynn-Williams generated a constant flow of ideas, which entranced both his contemporaries and the young. He was killed in a road accident while out jogging near his Cambridge home.
3. Dr. Tanya Holzmayer, a pioneering scientist, was surprised Wednesday night to find a Domino's Pizza deliveryman at the front door of her Mountain View home.
Moments later, a former colleague appeared out of the dark, shot her dead and ran off, police said.
4. Ian Langford, 40, a senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia's Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, was discovered on Monday night by police and ambulancemen. The body was naked from the waist down and partly wedged under a chair.
How many microbiologists does it take to change a light bulb? Whatever you think the answer may be, change
5. The body of a Harvard scientist missing for more than a month since his rental car was left parked on a bridge over the Mississippi River has been found downstream, police said
Workers at a hydroelectric plant in Louisiana found the body of Don Wiley on Thursday, about 300 miles south of where the molecular biologist was last seen on Nov. 18 at a medical meeting in Memphis
6. Schwartz, who worked at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, was found dead Monday afternoon in his secluded farmhouse southwest of Leesburg. Sources said Schwartz was stabbed several times in what they described as a ritualistic slaying. One source said his body was found facedown and an "X" was carved into the back of his neck. The killing had "cult overtones,"
7. Israeli biological and nuclear scientists are being knocked off one by one and this covert war is going unnoticed. A plane carrying scientists to Russia's biological warfare center at Novosibirsk was blown up over the Black Sea and no one questions that the Ukrainian missile that supposedly did the job was a hundred miles out of range. Then a Swissair Corsair crashes killing the head of Ichilov Hospital's Hematology department, as well as directors of the Hebrew University School Of Medicine and the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and not a word of suspicion is raised. After that, one of the country's most prominent nuclear scientists, Baruch Zinger is assassinated and still, no one is putting the pieces together. Your front line against nuclear and biological attacks is being picked off in a covert murder campaign and your government is taking no security precautions to stop the intellectual slaughter. Or if it is, your public is totally unaware of the daily danger to its most educated citizens."
"Something big happening. I am getting very close. I think that biotech and govt. needed massive funding for this genetic bioweapon project and that is why anthrax was mailed. I think we now have a "target" weapon, i.e. ethnic or racial target weapon.
Something BIG is happening. My guess is that this has to do with Dr. Wiley. Quite possibly both scientists stumbled onto something. Does the US have a "genetic" bioweapon?? My guess is these researchers have stumbled upon a bioweapons black ops project and were killed.
It would appear that we have a "simple" case of burglary victim coming home and catching burglars in the act. As a result Dr. Robert M. Schwartz, age 57 was killed. ...OR, was Dr. Schwartz death made to look like a simple burglary/murder case?
Robert M. Schwartz, 57, was found by neighbors Monday after co-workers called them to say Schwartz had uncharacteristically skipped work and missed a meeting 8. A microbiologist killed at CSIRO's animal diseases facility in Geelong had logged 15 years' experience with the unit, police said today. Victoria Pol
If any other OS had been as dead as FBSD, it would really be dead. FBSD can survive a nuclear attack. When all other OS's die, BSD will still be chugging. What can kill it? Invenstors can't pull out. Stock can't decline. Marketers can't abandon it. Idiots have never even used it in the first place, so abandonment can't be a factor. Writers have tried to contribute to it's demise but have been unsucceful. OS wars haven't made a dent in it's armor. BSD may not be a gleeming superstar, but it is the salt of the Earth. Amazing Kreskin will be long dead and forgotten but BSD will remain its cosmogonic self, and still catching flak just like all the other Gods have since the dawn of man.
Why not just 'not' log in as 'Administrator'? I mean, nobody logs in as Root in Mac or UNIX, but it's default to do so in Windows. In Mac, before installing anything major, it prompts for a password, even Updates. In UNIX you need to SUDO. When I set users up in Windows, they are all USERS. If they really are dangerous to the system, I put them in the GUEST group. Spyware and Viruses don't work without access. By default, Microsoft condones ruinware because of it's ambilivent user policy design.
This is linked to the recent Cat Stevens deportation. What nobody picked up on is that he came to the US to meet with an RIAA attorney. According to insiders, FBI agents stole the Cat Stevens-John Lennon tapes in 1980 from Lennons apartment. When the unsuspecting Lennon showed up, he had to be distracted by drugged stoolie Mark Chapman as evasive action. Chapman went 'roidal and agents left out the back door with the material. If these secret documents are released, the RIAA will sue the FBI for millions for illegally obtaining and withholding copyrighted material and easily win. I can see why the Government is being this protective.
Sun costs more, not just in equipment. I use real estate up just devoting a perfectly good storage space to store the most beautiful and extensive collection of Sun crap that can't be used with new high-end applications anymore. I bet my little ol' closet contains a half $mil worth of slick looking machinery, all with Sun logo's on it.
1984 Apple Super Bowl TV Commercial: Priceless
All other Apple TV Commercials: $1 to $100
Watching Steve get dawg'd in the Pepsi Bang-Bus: Just 30 seconds of your life watching the 2004 Apple Super Bowl TV commercial
Isn't it treason for an American to avoid US military service and join up with the British Army?
We'll go back to simply using the Social Security number.
Interesting. I also have 3 year Apple Care. Still, no dice.
What a boring, treacherous writer. He even credits people who read it.
My iBook was/is under warranty, the ethernet port got flakey, they charged me $700. Yes, I will sue.