Well, for one thing that is exactly what MS did try with Office 6, they tried to use a single code base and push the "Windows" way of doing things onto the Mac users and it was universally thought of as the worst Office program for Mac. After that fiasco MS went to a separate code base (often coming out with innovative features in the Mac version first (like self healing/drag and drop install)) when they came out with Office 98. The MBU (Macintosh Business Unit) is kind of a separate universe within Microsoft and is the reason they often have good software for the Mac. Products like Window Media Player for Mac came from a different unit and sucked leading MS to recommend using Flip4Mac WMV (a quicktime plugin that allows the playing of wmv files) instead of producing new versions of WMP for Mac.
As far as moving around to a bunch of computers, I can see how the iTunes/iPod integration can be problematic for you, but for most people they keep their music collection consolidated on one computer and if they are working on a another (like at work or school) they simply plug the iPod in to the computer and listen to the music directly from the iPod.
FYI, there is no 'maximum number of times you can burn a given track' with iTunes. It limits the number of times you can burn a playlist, but any individual track can be burned limitless times in other playlists.
I guess you didn't try amazon, buy.com, and other online retailers. At about the same time DVDs were becoming popular, online retailers were trying to win customer loyalty by selling below cost. All part of the fun that was the "Dot Com bubble." The first DVD I bought was The Matrix and I think it was about $15 from Amazon.
michaels-pb-g4:~ mcmaddog$ cat/etc/fstab.hd IGNORE THIS FILE. This file does nothing, contains no useful data, and might go away in future releases. Do not depend on this file or its contents. michaels-pb-g4:~ mcmaddog$
Not only does software update give you a brief description of what the download addresses, it also gives a link to a comprehensive description from Apple's website.
If you use a non-Apple keyboard it does ask you to press a few keys to orient itself, but it happens at the very first boot, not after a system update has been installed. Also a Mac Pro comes with an Apple keyboard so he is either lying or chose to not use it.
As you elude to, these ads are targeted at consumers, not professionals, so they more or less reference iMacs.
I know you were going for the laughs associated with imagining a 280 lb man using some tiny phone, but in reality you're about 100 lbs over what the "average american man" weighs. This page only lists white males, but if you view the pages for each racial/ethnic breakdown 180lb is about average for all. I couldn't find any good links from Google, but I'm betting Europeans aren't really that much smaller at least not in the colder northern countries... the ones that make all those tiny phones.
Where I work, we do a lot of data recovery and swapping out control boards isn't considered extreme, but it does require a control board from an identical HD to work. We are not big enough to stock every HD from every manufacturer so this is the limit to how often we employ this technique, however, companies like Drive Savers that do charge a premium for data recovery probably do have stocks of every HD.
Needing a 'clean room' to do a platter swap is debateable as well if all you want is the data, but can't afford Drive Savers' prices. I had a HD that died extremely hard in my PowerBook and unfortunately we didn't have a duplicate HD to swap the controller out. We were going to make a 'clean box' to perform a platter swap but in the end just did it in our tech room which is no way considered 'clean'. Although, we weren't successful in recovering any data from my drive (the second side of the second platter had a large gouge ring in it and we have no idea how it could have happened (one of our techs took a screwdriver to a platter and couldn't duplicate the severity)), the drive we used to practice the technique mounted fine while the drive was open and we were able to read and write to it even while we had a ballpoint pen scribbling on the spinning top platter. Obviously you want to take more care, but we were impressed by how hard it was to cause a read/write error let alone a drive failure.
I work in a High School and we employ web blocking for a number of reasons. For one, parents expect that we limit what the students have access to just like some of them do at home. But secondly, and more importantly we don't have enough computers for everyone to use when they want (our enrollment is about 900) and so anytime a student is updating his myspace or something else not academically related means some other student isn't able to write his papers. Many of our students come from low income families and don't have a computer at home so it's vital they can use one at school.
By your comments I would guess that you are in the age group affected. IM or for that matter updating myspace while in school is the equivalent of passing notes which as long as I've been in school wasn't allowed, being a "new technology or tool" has nothing to do with it. I find it hillarious when kids think their rights are being impinged because they can't do whatever they want while at school. Is it so hard to wait until your home to chat with your "friends"?
If the school or district wants federal funding (think Title 1 or Title 2 grants) then the federal government does have an interest "in regulating or controlling education." If they don't need the money, they only answer to their state or local government. I understand your second and third points and believe they are valid. Here in California Prop 13, which passed in 1978, froze property tax unless a property is sold or upgraded and has wrecked school funding.
I turned 18 in February of my Senior year and did write my own excuses for missed classes. However, I did work in the Attendance office as a sophmore so maybe she just let mine go...
A spacecraft placed there would stay fixed in space, relative to Earth, making it easier to monitor. The Earth would also shield it from the Sun's radiation, which pushes gently on any objects it shines on. Any such push could change the spacecraft's position relative to the tiny "planets" held inside it.
I graduated in Aug of '05. Also the RDCs are not allowed to take pictures anymore, but they still laugh at you through the windows.
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The Navy likes to call it the "Confidence Room" because it makes you confident your gas mask really does work. When I went through Recruit Training in Great Lakes it wasn't that bad, but you don't want to puke because then you have to stay and clean it up yourself. Also, no one gets to leave until you've all removed your masks and stated your name and serial number (not an easy chore when you're choking up a lung.)
So you skipped "Ridiculous Speed" and went straight to "Ludicrous Speed"?
Barf: We better get out of here in a hurry Lonestar: Switch to secret hyper jets Barf: Switching to secret hyper jets Lonestar: Buckle up back there we're going to... hyper-active
Colonel Sanders: We're closing in on them sir. In less than a minute Lonestar will be ours Dark Helmet: Good. Prepare to attack Colonel Sanders: Prepare to attack Dark Helmet: On the count of three...One...Two...WAIT!? What happened? Where are they? Colonel Sanders: I don't know sir, they must have hyperjets on that thing Dark Helmet: And what do we got on this thing, a Cuisenart? Colonel Sanders: No sir Dark Helmet: Well find them, catch them Colonel Sanders: Yes sir. Prepare ship for Light Speed Dark Helmet: No no no, Light Speed is too slow Colonel Sanders: Light speed too slow?! Dark Helmet: Yes, we're going to have to go straight to Ludicrous Speed Crew: HUH! Colonel Sanders: Ludicrous Speed? Sir we've never gone that fast before, I don't if the ship can take it Dark Helmet: What's the matter Colonel Sanders, chicken? Colonel Sanders: [high pitched]Prepare the ship [clears throat] Prepare the ship for Ludicrous Speed. Fasten all seat belts. Seal all entrances and exits. Close all shops in the mall. Cancel the three ring circus. Secure all animals in the zoo. Dark Helmet: [taking microphone] Give me that you petty excuse for an officer. Now hear this...Ludicrous Speed Colonel Sanders: Sir, hadn't you better buckle up? Dark Helmet: Ah, buckle this. Ludicrous Speed...GO! Aaaaaaaaahhhh Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh What have I done? Aaahhh My brains are going into my feet
Barf: What the hell was that? Lonestar: Spaceball One Barf: They've gone to Plaid
Seeing as how that was 11 years ago it's a little hard for me to remember which apps I was using were 68K and which where Fat binaries/PPC. But Word 5.1a (which I'm fairly certain was 68K only) certainly ran better on my PowerMac 7100 and my PowerBook 5300ce than the Performa 475 and Quadra 800 I had to compare them too. I assume programs that didn't require the FPU, and that was probably many, didn't have a problem, I never said all programs were faster. But either way they still worked fine on PPC Macs and that was my main point.
You're obviously not speaking from hands on knowledge. People always say that Apple ignores backward compatibility and MS's problems are from it's insistance on providing backward compatibility, but this isn't necessarily true for either one. When Apple switched to the PPC platform almost all 68K programs ran without any problems and often saw an improvement in speed despite running in emulation. When Apple switched to OS X most OS 7/8/9 software continued to run without problems (and even some software going back to the 80's still worked.) Apple waited 3 years before having Macs that couldn't boot OS 9 directly and 5 years to stop pre-installing Classic on new Macs, but still support it under 10.4. When I upgraded my Win98 machine to 2K most of my games that were one or more years old couldn't be played and while I don't own either XBox, but from what I've been reading MS's support for XBox games on the 360 is hit or miss.
With Apple's switch to Intel the PPC Macs will still be supported under the next OS expected to be coming in December/January which is another 18-24 months of direct support plus 18-24 months security updates after the next-next OS has been released. People buying the Intel Macs are able to run most PPC programs under Rosetta while waiting for the programmers to release universal binary versions.
Unlike PC manufacturers, Apple tends to support new technologies first and drop legacy hardware sooner, but they can still be used as add-on cards or through USB/Firewire.
Back in the mid 90's Apple actively supported porting Linux to Mac hardware with the MkLinux project (working with OSF Research Institute.) It's a Linux distribution based on the Mach micro kernel. Jobs had Apple remove themselves from that project in 1998 and leave Linux on Mac to Terra Soft Solutions an Apple Value Added Reseller that sells Apple hardware with Yellow Dog Linux. The US Navy via Lockheed Martin is a customer of Terra Soft using XServes running Yellow Dog onboard submarines.
Actually, the reason the US Govt doesn't allow breeder reactors to be built is they are afraid it will lead to cheap fissionable fuel for bombs. Enriched Uranium is expensive to produce, but plutonium from breeder reactors is relatively cheap and so much would be created it would lead to the possibility of a large black market... or so the thinking of the US regulators goes.
I'm really beginning to believe that, once again, Sony competition (HD DVD) will become the "normal" standard with Blu-ray being the standard for those with a Sony PS3 or Sony-compatible hardware. Statistically speaking, that's exactly what has happened in the past with various degrees of success (Beta, Memory Sticks, Mini-discs, UMD, etc.)
Unless of course you're talking about the Compact Disc format... I understand why everyone has a problem with Sony, but Blu-Ray != Sony, it was designed by committee by a group of companies.
From the Blu-Ray.com website Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson).
People seem to be opposed to Blu-Ray for emotional reasons rather then any inherent superiority of HD DVD (with the exception of maybe the price.) Both formats are anti-consumer. The problem for both formats is that people will need a new TV in addition to the player to get any "benefit", whereas any standard TV saw a vast improvement when playing DVDs.
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Well, for one thing that is exactly what MS did try with Office 6, they tried to use a single code base and push the "Windows" way of doing things onto the Mac users and it was universally thought of as the worst Office program for Mac. After that fiasco MS went to a separate code base (often coming out with innovative features in the Mac version first (like self healing/drag and drop install)) when they came out with Office 98. The MBU (Macintosh Business Unit) is kind of a separate universe within Microsoft and is the reason they often have good software for the Mac. Products like Window Media Player for Mac came from a different unit and sucked leading MS to recommend using Flip4Mac WMV (a quicktime plugin that allows the playing of wmv files) instead of producing new versions of WMP for Mac.
As far as moving around to a bunch of computers, I can see how the iTunes/iPod integration can be problematic for you, but for most people they keep their music collection consolidated on one computer and if they are working on a another (like at work or school) they simply plug the iPod in to the computer and listen to the music directly from the iPod.
I've had professors that will drop you from the class if your cell phone rings during class.
And of course one is about lying about sexual relations with a woman and the other is about destroying a fundamental structure of our government.
Cracker Jack called... they want their doctors license back
FYI, there is no 'maximum number of times you can burn a given track' with iTunes. It limits the number of times you can burn a playlist, but any individual track can be burned limitless times in other playlists.
Is no one else seeing the double entendre?
Seymour Johnson.... "Chrome Dome".... attempting to dock.... nozzle of the tanker's boom, which was supposed to hook up with the B-52's orifice....
I know I'm a pervert, but come on, at first I thought this post was supposed to be a joke.
To be fair, you should really point out that while H.264 (MPEG-4) had it's roots in Quicktime... "It was written by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as the product of a collective partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT)." So tell me exactly what that agenda is please.
I guess you didn't try amazon, buy.com, and other online retailers. At about the same time DVDs were becoming popular, online retailers were trying to win customer loyalty by selling below cost. All part of the fun that was the "Dot Com bubble." The first DVD I bought was The Matrix and I think it was about $15 from Amazon.
michaels-pb-g4:~ mcmaddog$ cat /etc/fstab.hd
IGNORE THIS FILE.
This file does nothing, contains no useful data, and might go away in
future releases. Do not depend on this file or its contents.
michaels-pb-g4:~ mcmaddog$
Not only does software update give you a brief description of what the download addresses, it also gives a link to a comprehensive description from Apple's website.
If you use a non-Apple keyboard it does ask you to press a few keys to orient itself, but it happens at the very first boot, not after a system update has been installed. Also a Mac Pro comes with an Apple keyboard so he is either lying or chose to not use it.
As you elude to, these ads are targeted at consumers, not professionals, so they more or less reference iMacs.
I know you were going for the laughs associated with imagining a 280 lb man using some tiny phone, but in reality you're about 100 lbs over what the "average american man" weighs. This page only lists white males, but if you view the pages for each racial/ethnic breakdown 180lb is about average for all. I couldn't find any good links from Google, but I'm betting Europeans aren't really that much smaller at least not in the colder northern countries... the ones that make all those tiny phones.
Where I work, we do a lot of data recovery and swapping out control boards isn't considered extreme, but it does require a control board from an identical HD to work. We are not big enough to stock every HD from every manufacturer so this is the limit to how often we employ this technique, however, companies like Drive Savers that do charge a premium for data recovery probably do have stocks of every HD.
Needing a 'clean room' to do a platter swap is debateable as well if all you want is the data, but can't afford Drive Savers' prices. I had a HD that died extremely hard in my PowerBook and unfortunately we didn't have a duplicate HD to swap the controller out. We were going to make a 'clean box' to perform a platter swap but in the end just did it in our tech room which is no way considered 'clean'. Although, we weren't successful in recovering any data from my drive (the second side of the second platter had a large gouge ring in it and we have no idea how it could have happened (one of our techs took a screwdriver to a platter and couldn't duplicate the severity)), the drive we used to practice the technique mounted fine while the drive was open and we were able to read and write to it even while we had a ballpoint pen scribbling on the spinning top platter. Obviously you want to take more care, but we were impressed by how hard it was to cause a read/write error let alone a drive failure.
I work in a High School and we employ web blocking for a number of reasons. For one, parents expect that we limit what the students have access to just like some of them do at home. But secondly, and more importantly we don't have enough computers for everyone to use when they want (our enrollment is about 900) and so anytime a student is updating his myspace or something else not academically related means some other student isn't able to write his papers. Many of our students come from low income families and don't have a computer at home so it's vital they can use one at school.
By your comments I would guess that you are in the age group affected. IM or for that matter updating myspace while in school is the equivalent of passing notes which as long as I've been in school wasn't allowed, being a "new technology or tool" has nothing to do with it. I find it hillarious when kids think their rights are being impinged because they can't do whatever they want while at school. Is it so hard to wait until your home to chat with your "friends"?
If the school or district wants federal funding (think Title 1 or Title 2 grants) then the federal government does have an interest "in regulating or controlling education." If they don't need the money, they only answer to their state or local government. I understand your second and third points and believe they are valid. Here in California Prop 13, which passed in 1978, froze property tax unless a property is sold or upgraded and has wrecked school funding.
I turned 18 in February of my Senior year and did write my own excuses for missed classes. However, I did work in the Attendance office as a sophmore so maybe she just let mine go...
I graduated in Aug of '05. Also the RDCs are not allowed to take pictures anymore, but they still laugh at you through the windows.
The Navy likes to call it the "Confidence Room" because it makes you confident your gas mask really does work. When I went through Recruit Training in Great Lakes it wasn't that bad, but you don't want to puke because then you have to stay and clean it up yourself. Also, no one gets to leave until you've all removed your masks and stated your name and serial number (not an easy chore when you're choking up a lung.)
So you skipped "Ridiculous Speed" and went straight to "Ludicrous Speed"?
... hyper-active
Barf: We better get out of here in a hurry
Lonestar: Switch to secret hyper jets
Barf: Switching to secret hyper jets
Lonestar: Buckle up back there we're going to
Colonel Sanders: We're closing in on them sir. In less than a minute Lonestar will be ours
Dark Helmet: Good. Prepare to attack
Colonel Sanders: Prepare to attack
Dark Helmet: On the count of three...One...Two...WAIT!? What happened? Where are they?
Colonel Sanders: I don't know sir, they must have hyperjets on that thing
Dark Helmet: And what do we got on this thing, a Cuisenart?
Colonel Sanders: No sir
Dark Helmet: Well find them, catch them
Colonel Sanders: Yes sir. Prepare ship for Light Speed
Dark Helmet: No no no, Light Speed is too slow
Colonel Sanders: Light speed too slow?!
Dark Helmet: Yes, we're going to have to go straight to Ludicrous Speed
Crew: HUH!
Colonel Sanders: Ludicrous Speed? Sir we've never gone that fast before, I don't if the ship can take it
Dark Helmet: What's the matter Colonel Sanders, chicken?
Colonel Sanders: [high pitched]Prepare the ship [clears throat] Prepare the ship for Ludicrous Speed. Fasten all seat belts. Seal all entrances and exits. Close all shops in the mall. Cancel the three ring circus. Secure all animals in the zoo.
Dark Helmet: [taking microphone] Give me that you petty excuse for an officer. Now hear this...Ludicrous Speed
Colonel Sanders: Sir, hadn't you better buckle up?
Dark Helmet: Ah, buckle this. Ludicrous Speed...GO! Aaaaaaaaahhhh Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh What have I done? Aaahhh My brains are going into my feet
Barf: What the hell was that?
Lonestar: Spaceball One
Barf: They've gone to Plaid
Wasn't ZMODEM (developed in 1986) capable of resuming downloads aka: restartable downloads?
Seeing as how that was 11 years ago it's a little hard for me to remember which apps I was using were 68K and which where Fat binaries/PPC. But Word 5.1a (which I'm fairly certain was 68K only) certainly ran better on my PowerMac 7100 and my PowerBook 5300ce than the Performa 475 and Quadra 800 I had to compare them too. I assume programs that didn't require the FPU, and that was probably many, didn't have a problem, I never said all programs were faster. But either way they still worked fine on PPC Macs and that was my main point.
You're obviously not speaking from hands on knowledge. People always say that Apple ignores backward compatibility and MS's problems are from it's insistance on providing backward compatibility, but this isn't necessarily true for either one. When Apple switched to the PPC platform almost all 68K programs ran without any problems and often saw an improvement in speed despite running in emulation. When Apple switched to OS X most OS 7/8/9 software continued to run without problems (and even some software going back to the 80's still worked.) Apple waited 3 years before having Macs that couldn't boot OS 9 directly and 5 years to stop pre-installing Classic on new Macs, but still support it under 10.4. When I upgraded my Win98 machine to 2K most of my games that were one or more years old couldn't be played and while I don't own either XBox, but from what I've been reading MS's support for XBox games on the 360 is hit or miss.
With Apple's switch to Intel the PPC Macs will still be supported under the next OS expected to be coming in December/January which is another 18-24 months of direct support plus 18-24 months security updates after the next-next OS has been released. People buying the Intel Macs are able to run most PPC programs under Rosetta while waiting for the programmers to release universal binary versions.
Unlike PC manufacturers, Apple tends to support new technologies first and drop legacy hardware sooner, but they can still be used as add-on cards or through USB/Firewire.
Back in the mid 90's Apple actively supported porting Linux to Mac hardware with the MkLinux project (working with OSF Research Institute.) It's a Linux distribution based on the Mach micro kernel. Jobs had Apple remove themselves from that project in 1998 and leave Linux on Mac to Terra Soft Solutions an Apple Value Added Reseller that sells Apple hardware with Yellow Dog Linux. The US Navy via Lockheed Martin is a customer of Terra Soft using XServes running Yellow Dog onboard submarines.
Actually, the reason the US Govt doesn't allow breeder reactors to be built is they are afraid it will lead to cheap fissionable fuel for bombs. Enriched Uranium is expensive to produce, but plutonium from breeder reactors is relatively cheap and so much would be created it would lead to the possibility of a large black market... or so the thinking of the US regulators goes.
From the Blu-Ray.com website Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson).
People seem to be opposed to Blu-Ray for emotional reasons rather then any inherent superiority of HD DVD (with the exception of maybe the price.) Both formats are anti-consumer. The problem for both formats is that people will need a new TV in addition to the player to get any "benefit", whereas any standard TV saw a vast improvement when playing DVDs.