If you were to drop a G5 from a 10 story building (GODFORDBID) along with a tennis ball at the same time they both would hit the ground at the same time. Why? The constant of gravity on our planet. Fastest falling? I think NOT!
Its one of those many aesthetic aspects that Apple engineers need to spend more time on. Just in case, albeit an infinitesimally small one, that someone becomes so enraged at their G5 and allows it to fall from a high place.
Thank God someone nailed the point. I too initially scoffed at the idea of paying $250 for a 4gb player. But while comparing it to similar players, the iPod mini is in a class all its own.
I have a 20gb iPod and every cent was worth it.
Stop complaining about the weight. The Osborne weighed more and dammit it did the job. An unintended benifet of lugging that thing around was that owners got really defined biceps, trapadeltoids, and cloits. Combine that with the Ab-Abber and you were one studly geek.
DOH! BR
Sorry about the double car crash thing... No wait I can work with this. "N-gage rose from his grave after being summoned by the devil just for the purposes of being hit buy a car. N-Gage was killed dead... again."
From what I gathred reading the articles at HardOCP, IL, and Penny Arcade, this all seems like some kind of high school popularity contest. Let me explain.
Nintendo, M$, and Sony are your populars who will always be despite the mistakes they make. Everyone knows about them but in the long run no one seems to care because let's face it: their popular.
HardOCP and Penny Arcade are in the middle when it comes to the social mix. They are not producers of their hardware but have enough room to have their own opinions of such matters. They talk to everyone because they can. HardOCP is that trustworthy quiet guy from shop class and Penny Arcade is the class clown. When they say stuff people listen.
Along comes the transfer student, Infinium Labs, who is trying to make a name for himself by being cynical of those who are clearly above them. His best friend is N-Gage. Together they follow every move and try to emulate their superiors formula to better their status.
IL , despite his efforts, fail at presenting themselves in a way their peers deem acceptable. Well Nintendo, M$, and Sony laugh hilariously at them because to put it briefly, they know what their markets. HardOCP and Penny Arcade don't buy it because they represent the market. If either peer fails to buy what you are selling you are out of luck.
So IL attacks his peers as being hypocritical liars although he secretly wishes to be one of them. Four years later they all graduate. Nintendo, M$, and Sony go on to college and are succesful. HardOCP and PA too. IL fades into obscurity... and N-Gage is killed in a fatal car crash.
Years later whenever anyone remembers IL they have a good chuckle. N-Gage unfortunately was killed in a car crash soon after graduation.
Ever since I got my iPod I listen to KMFDM when I decide that the ultra heavy beat is more important than whatever Professor Whatshisnuts decides to talk for the sake of time filler.
It is too bad that LEGO decided to stop making licensed series because MGS would have made an awesome set. I'm not a big fan of paying $200 for the KUBRICK MGS set... Grrrr...
"We're not tools of the government or anyone else..." - Grey Fox
Sorry to post this on Valentine's Day but it must be said. Diamonds are not really a precious stone. Most of the world's diamond supplies are locked away by DeBeers and released into the market slowly to inflate perceived value. Diamonds have no real resale value, they only have sentimental value. Ever try to sell your diamond encrusted jewelry? You'll never get as much as you paid for them unless your piece is literally one in a million.
Diamonds unfortunately are the product of blood feuds, multinational marketing values, and an evil corporate identity.
That may explain why twice the XML configuration files used in loading my OS X preferences have been corrupted preventing proper login. Thank God for BSD booting and line commands.
In other computer news... Linux source code leaked all over the internet. Computer users worldwide unconcerned about the leak. In fact most are content having it this way. Hmmm, Microsoft...
Palm has really lost a lot of heat through their smoking gun aka the Palm OS. I remember when Palms were the ONLY real player in the PDA game. (Though the Newton was first and superior in specs.) Now most cell phones running an open source distro have more power and functionality than these little black computing bricks. So Palm dropped Mac supoort. Big deal. There are plenty of talented third party apps to make up for Palm's faux pas.
Every since this fancy schmancy video iChat came out I've had to wear a shirt when talking to my buddies who absolutely insist on video chat. Now that the AIM/Windows masses will come up to speed in the next few months I'll have to wear a shirt continuously. At least I can still have the freed of a Sportscenter broadcaster and not wear pants.
I just finished a required course that all undergrads at UW - Oshkosh are required to take. The book for the course costs $60 used. It is the same version that has been in circulation for years. When I went to sell the book back to the bookstore they offered me a whopping: $5. They then turn around and sell the book for $60 again.
Forget about corporations gouging people for a minute and look at what is happening to helpless college students nationwide.
I hit delete. Unfortunately some people fall for this. Does anyone have any numbers on just how succesful these e-mails are? Is the American public that ignorant?
I just recently saw the N-Gage for the first time on a RARE trip to the mall this weekend. EB was offering it for $400 - $100 instant discount - $100 for free games = $200 total. (Negating the fact that the N-Gage is also a phone that requires a monthly service plan.) I just had to laugh at the N-Gage.
I own a Virtual Boy and a 32X. I bought both for only $20. I would rather play either one of them over the N-Gage. You'd think that with all the market analysis Nokia can afford someone could have told them that NO ONE wants to play 1st generation PlayStation games hacked down feature wise.
N-Gage. Even if it were $20 I still would not buy one.
Geeks are social by nature. As a defense mechanism they usually move in herds when leaving the sanctity of their computer desks. In the untamed world (the mall or school hallways for example) the likeliness of a geek to be singled out and picked on by a predator/bully is divided by the number of fellow geeks in the group. Hence the the geek uses safety in numbers, a trait found only in intelligent social animals.
'Windows is about choice - you can mix and match software and music player stuff. We believe you should have the same choice when it comes to music services.'"
But strangely the 'choice' to play music on whatever device I want is not part of the DRM picture.
Must also be why I made the choice to switch to a Mac...
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Pulling out an internal hard drive and blowing on it to get it to work just isn't the same. ::sigh::
Hmmm... don't understand how this relates to the article per se...
Just for fun I installed Panther on a beige G3 300 box and it still boots faster than my faster 700 Mhz XP system. So... What about the GUI is slow?
If you were to drop a G5 from a 10 story building (GODFORDBID) along with a tennis ball at the same time they both would hit the ground at the same time. Why? The constant of gravity on our planet. Fastest falling? I think NOT! Its one of those many aesthetic aspects that Apple engineers need to spend more time on. Just in case, albeit an infinitesimally small one, that someone becomes so enraged at their G5 and allows it to fall from a high place.
Thank God someone nailed the point. I too initially scoffed at the idea of paying $250 for a 4gb player. But while comparing it to similar players, the iPod mini is in a class all its own. I have a 20gb iPod and every cent was worth it.
Stop complaining about the weight. The Osborne weighed more and dammit it did the job. An unintended benifet of lugging that thing around was that owners got really defined biceps, trapadeltoids, and cloits. Combine that with the Ab-Abber and you were one studly geek.
DOH!
BR Sorry about the double car crash thing... No wait I can work with this. "N-gage rose from his grave after being summoned by the devil just for the purposes of being hit buy a car. N-Gage was killed dead... again."
From what I gathred reading the articles at HardOCP, IL, and Penny Arcade, this all seems like some kind of high school popularity contest. Let me explain.
Nintendo, M$, and Sony are your populars who will always be despite the mistakes they make. Everyone knows about them but in the long run no one seems to care because let's face it: their popular.
HardOCP and Penny Arcade are in the middle when it comes to the social mix. They are not producers of their hardware but have enough room to have their own opinions of such matters. They talk to everyone because they can. HardOCP is that trustworthy quiet guy from shop class and Penny Arcade is the class clown. When they say stuff people listen.
Along comes the transfer student, Infinium Labs, who is trying to make a name for himself by being cynical of those who are clearly above them. His best friend is N-Gage. Together they follow every move and try to emulate their superiors formula to better their status.
IL , despite his efforts, fail at presenting themselves in a way their peers deem acceptable. Well Nintendo, M$, and Sony laugh hilariously at them because to put it briefly, they know what their markets. HardOCP and Penny Arcade don't buy it because they represent the market. If either peer fails to buy what you are selling you are out of luck.
So IL attacks his peers as being hypocritical liars although he secretly wishes to be one of them. Four years later they all graduate. Nintendo, M$, and Sony go on to college and are succesful. HardOCP and PA too. IL fades into obscurity... and N-Gage is killed in a fatal car crash.
Years later whenever anyone remembers IL they have a good chuckle. N-Gage unfortunately was killed in a car crash soon after graduation.
It's a trap.
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Ever since I got my iPod I listen to KMFDM when I decide that the ultra heavy beat is more important than whatever Professor Whatshisnuts decides to talk for the sake of time filler.
It is too bad that LEGO decided to stop making licensed series because MGS would have made an awesome set. I'm not a big fan of paying $200 for the KUBRICK MGS set... Grrrr...
"We're not tools of the government or anyone else..." - Grey Fox
Sorry to post this on Valentine's Day but it must be said. Diamonds are not really a precious stone. Most of the world's diamond supplies are locked away by DeBeers and released into the market slowly to inflate perceived value. Diamonds have no real resale value, they only have sentimental value. Ever try to sell your diamond encrusted jewelry? You'll never get as much as you paid for them unless your piece is literally one in a million.
Diamonds unfortunately are the product of blood feuds, multinational marketing values, and an evil corporate identity.
That may explain why twice the XML configuration files used in loading my OS X preferences have been corrupted preventing proper login. Thank God for BSD booting and line commands.
In other computer news... Linux source code leaked all over the internet. Computer users worldwide unconcerned about the leak. In fact most are content having it this way. Hmmm, Microsoft...
I upgraded my Palm IIIc to a G3 600 iBook. So :P
Palm has really lost a lot of heat through their smoking gun aka the Palm OS. I remember when Palms were the ONLY real player in the PDA game. (Though the Newton was first and superior in specs.) Now most cell phones running an open source distro have more power and functionality than these little black computing bricks. So Palm dropped Mac supoort. Big deal. There are plenty of talented third party apps to make up for Palm's faux pas.
Every since this fancy schmancy video iChat came out I've had to wear a shirt when talking to my buddies who absolutely insist on video chat. Now that the AIM/Windows masses will come up to speed in the next few months I'll have to wear a shirt continuously. At least I can still have the freed of a Sportscenter broadcaster and not wear pants.
I can run Linux on my GameCube and OS X on my XBox 2 now? Man today is a great /. day for hacking videogame consoles. PowerPC rocks.
Forget about corporations gouging people for a minute and look at what is happening to helpless college students nationwide.
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I hit delete. Unfortunately some people fall for this. Does anyone have any numbers on just how succesful these e-mails are? Is the American public that ignorant?
But what sort of device was it? What is the Ludman Electric 56A used for???
I own a Virtual Boy and a 32X. I bought both for only $20. I would rather play either one of them over the N-Gage. You'd think that with all the market analysis Nokia can afford someone could have told them that NO ONE wants to play 1st generation PlayStation games hacked down feature wise.
N-Gage. Even if it were $20 I still would not buy one.
Geeks are social by nature. As a defense mechanism they usually move in herds when leaving the sanctity of their computer desks. In the untamed world (the mall or school hallways for example) the likeliness of a geek to be singled out and picked on by a predator/bully is divided by the number of fellow geeks in the group. Hence the the geek uses safety in numbers, a trait found only in intelligent social animals.
Does the Bible have a commandment against lusting for anothers hard drive?
But strangely the 'choice' to play music on whatever device I want is not part of the DRM picture.
Must also be why I made the choice to switch to a Mac...