How do you define "lost" in regards to the N64 or GameCube? They didn't sell as many units as the other systems but started making money for Nintendo from the start. I think Nintendo would be very happy to continue losing like that (as opposed to the billions of dollars literally lost by MicroSoft (and it's investors).) The win/lose thing in regards to consoles is silly. People buy the system(s) that has the games they want to play and if the console is profittable (or strategic in regards to MS and Sony) they produce the next version.
The first generation of PowerPCs (6100, 7100, 8100) still used the NuBus expansion sockets. It wasn't until the second generation (7500, 8500, 9500) that Apple switched to using the PCI slot in order to be able to tap into the PC market expansion cards (assuming the manufacturer wrote Mac drivers) and their lower prices due to scales of production. However, the "profession" Macs going back to the Mac IIs have always had expansion ports just like PCs (and Apple IIs), and the "hard core" users that bought these systems made as much use of them as their PC counterparts.
Sonnet Technologies still has processor upgrades for Macs based on 68020 through G4s and several Mac lines have had easily upgraded processor designs. I had a friend that bought a PowerMac 7500/100 and kept upgrading the processor until he finally bought a G5 as a replacement. The fact that most Mac users don't upgrade their computer except to add RAM or replace a full or dead hard drive is no different than the behavior of most PC users.
Except for bragging rights, replacing a processor usually isn't that cost effective. The last computer I bought a processor upgrade for was a 486sx33 to become a 486dx66 and then to a Pentium Overdrive. An upgraded processor is always hobbled by the old bus/RAM speed and with the economics what they are today, most users will just buy a whole new system and only a small minority will instead replace the motherboard, processor, and RAM (and probably hard drive) in order to see any real benefit.
What are you talking about? Sonnet Technologies has processor upgrades for macs based on 68020 through G4 processors. Sometimes an extension was needed to make the Mac recognize the faster processor, but Apple never prevented upgrades from being installed.
The typical OS X install if not customized includes a few gigabytes worth of printer drivers for hundreds or thousands of printers from about 12 of the leading manufacturers. I usually only install the HP and GIMP drivers at work because the space savings for our images is so substantial. Apple doesn't limit the number of supported printers, but is dependent on the manufacturers to write the drivers (just like MS).
4MB in a 286 from '83-'86 would have been a powerhouse. When I bought a 486 in 1994 it came with 4MB and Win3.11. I bought a second 4MB stick for $160 to really be able to play Doom/Doom II, and that was a good deal. I don't know what the price for that much RAM was in '83-'86, but considering the first Mac only had 128K in 1984 and was priced at $2500, the equivalen Intel powered PC couldn't support a GUI like the Mac's
It's not that they can't get a G5 into a notebook, rather they can't get a G5 into a notebook that's less than 1" thick. Same will be true with using Pentium 4's.
You'll notice that it's the mac users that have gone through the 68k -> PPC and the OS9 -> OS X transitions that have the most reservations about this plan.
There's a Zoom commericial on (KRON channel 4 in SF Bay Area) right now as I type this... I'm sure these commercial deals were paid for a while ago, but I wonder what they tell you if you call the toll free number.
I gave several examples that disprove your point (including the so called "Apple Premium") and if you think otherwise, you need to go back and read my post again.
Your examples have a common vector... you, which leads me to believe the problem with your Mac was PLBKAS (problem lies between keyboard and seat).
Being experienced with Macs, Windows/Dos, and Linux, I can understand that technical experience with one is not always transferable to another. However, I'm not sure what you needed to uninstall. An external drive on any platform (we're talking USB/Firewire right?) can simply be unplugged with no problems. On Macs most applications can simply be placed in the trash and emptied (Unlike PC apps that virtually require an uninstall, and still leave behind bits and pieces). A driver would have been installed as an extension which in most cases can also simply be put in the trash and emptied after a restart. Do you remember what part during the startup it seemed to get slow (ie, before the splash screen, during the splash screen as the extensions were being loaded at the bottom of the screen, after they were finished loading but before the desktop appeared?)
I can understand your frustration having Apple and the drive's vendor pointing at each other, but this isn't any different than adding an external drive to the Dell. Dell and the drive's vendor are more than likely to blame the other party (or possibly MS) if any problems develop. From experience I can tell you that Macs are routinely easier to diagnose and fix. I maintain almost 300 Macs (not to mention ~20 printers, a few PC's and other random tech related choirs) at a high school, running relatively problem free, and the contract only has me come in 3 days a week.
No computer is completely problem free, but Macs don't cost too much unless you're comparing them to the cheapest (read lowest quality) PC's. However, to be honest, if I don't assemble it from components, I would normally look at Dell first and have usually been satisfied with their quality/support.
Apple has available from their support/downloads area updates that would have brought your 9.0.x software upto 9.2.2, so I guess you didn't try very hard to find it (it took me about 1-2 minutes). I've needed to upgrade BIOS software on many PC's over the years and Mac firmware upgrades are immensely easier (fyi, using Apple's Software Update control panel would have downloaded it and the OS update for you). The $400 Dell might have saved you a little cash over buying a Mac, but it depends on how precious your time is when you need to come back and remove all the spyware and virii the computer is more likely to become infected with. And finally, if you bought an iMac you didn't pay a "premium" in terms of price/performance, and if you're only recently trying to upgrade from 9.0.x you obviously did have many years of less hassle.
Just an FYI, holding down the mouse button during startup has worked on every mac I've worked on for the last 10 years, including the macs that were old at that time (Mac SE's and Mac II's), to eject removable media.
Also as you surmise, I doubt the problems the original poster experienced were directly related to the firmware. Most of the tray-loading and slot-loading iMacs at the high school I'm currently contracted with never received the firmware upgrades and they're running 10.2.x. Since most of them no longer have OS 9 installed, the firmware upgrades are now somewhat problematic, but (seemingly) mostly unnecessary.
A main argument of the piece is that while legal ownership of guns by Americans is increasing, the crime rate has been decreasing. Obviously there are many factors that cause crime/violence and most cannot be compared from one country directly to another, but it disputes the case that more guns = more violence.
You also failed to break out the statistics of your reference. While "violent crime" in Canada as a whole has decreased 11% in 2003 including the actual number of murders, there was a 5% increase in robberies (including a 10% increase in robberies committed with a firearm, and a 4% increase in attempted murder, with an overall increase in crime in general.
My main point is that restrictive gun laws only affect citizens that obey the law in first place. The "criminals" aren't exactly going to turn in their guns because a new law is passed, and despite what people from other countries might think, legal gun ownership in the US is highly restrictive (ie, no felonies, no history of domestic dispute, no history of mental problems...)
Read "The Failed Experiment" by Gary A. Mauser. Studies have shown that while "gun violence" per capita may be reduced "violent crime" in Canada, England, and Australia have significantly risen since enacting strict handgun laws.
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to keep and bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." - Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, February 1960 issue GUNS magazine.
On a non-switched network, the machines need to check to see if a packet collision/error occured and can only run at half-duplex. A solitary server/workstation/printer on a dedicated switch port can be set to full-duplex because theoretically no collision should ever occur.
T1 stands for Trunk Level 1 and is a digital transmission link with a total signaling speed of 1.544Mbps. T-1 is a standard for digital transmission in North America (USA & Canada). T-1 is part of a progression of digital transmission pipes - a hierarchy known generically as the DS (Digital Signal Level) hierarchy.
T1 was originally supplied on two pairs of copper wire (transmit and recieve pairs), but is often delivered via multiplexed fiber optic cables. A T1 can be multiplexed into 24 64Kbps channels for telephone trunking (compatible with the analog phone system), but are still digital signals between the PBX and the ILEC/CLEC's phone switch.
The E1 is a standard in Europe (and UK) which is capable of 2.048Mbps and can be channelized into 32 64Kbps channels for phone trunking.
**most of this is paraphrased from Newton's Telecom Dictionary 16th Ed.
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How do you define "lost" in regards to the N64 or GameCube? They didn't sell as many units as the other systems but started making money for Nintendo from the start. I think Nintendo would be very happy to continue losing like that (as opposed to the billions of dollars literally lost by MicroSoft (and it's investors).) The win/lose thing in regards to consoles is silly. People buy the system(s) that has the games they want to play and if the console is profittable (or strategic in regards to MS and Sony) they produce the next version.
The first generation of PowerPCs (6100, 7100, 8100) still used the NuBus expansion sockets. It wasn't until the second generation (7500, 8500, 9500) that Apple switched to using the PCI slot in order to be able to tap into the PC market expansion cards (assuming the manufacturer wrote Mac drivers) and their lower prices due to scales of production. However, the "profession" Macs going back to the Mac IIs have always had expansion ports just like PCs (and Apple IIs), and the "hard core" users that bought these systems made as much use of them as their PC counterparts.
Sonnet Technologies still has processor upgrades for Macs based on 68020 through G4s and several Mac lines have had easily upgraded processor designs. I had a friend that bought a PowerMac 7500/100 and kept upgrading the processor until he finally bought a G5 as a replacement. The fact that most Mac users don't upgrade their computer except to add RAM or replace a full or dead hard drive is no different than the behavior of most PC users.
Except for bragging rights, replacing a processor usually isn't that cost effective. The last computer I bought a processor upgrade for was a 486sx33 to become a 486dx66 and then to a Pentium Overdrive. An upgraded processor is always hobbled by the old bus/RAM speed and with the economics what they are today, most users will just buy a whole new system and only a small minority will instead replace the motherboard, processor, and RAM (and probably hard drive) in order to see any real benefit.
What are you talking about? Sonnet Technologies has processor upgrades for macs based on 68020 through G4 processors. Sometimes an extension was needed to make the Mac recognize the faster processor, but Apple never prevented upgrades from being installed.
I believe this only works for Dock items... It didn't work on the desktop or Safari and I haven't tested it anywhere else.
The typical OS X install if not customized includes a few gigabytes worth of printer drivers for hundreds or thousands of printers from about 12 of the leading manufacturers. I usually only install the HP and GIMP drivers at work because the space savings for our images is so substantial. Apple doesn't limit the number of supported printers, but is dependent on the manufacturers to write the drivers (just like MS).
The reason the license looks different for those under 21 is to allow quick recognition of those of legal drinking age.
4MB in a 286 from '83-'86 would have been a powerhouse. When I bought a 486 in 1994 it came with 4MB and Win3.11. I bought a second 4MB stick for $160 to really be able to play Doom/Doom II, and that was a good deal. I don't know what the price for that much RAM was in '83-'86, but considering the first Mac only had 128K in 1984 and was priced at $2500, the equivalen Intel powered PC couldn't support a GUI like the Mac's
It's not that they can't get a G5 into a notebook, rather they can't get a G5 into a notebook that's less than 1" thick. Same will be true with using Pentium 4's.
You'll notice that it's the mac users that have gone through the 68k -> PPC and the OS9 -> OS X transitions that have the most reservations about this plan.
There's a Zoom commericial on (KRON channel 4 in SF Bay Area) right now as I type this... I'm sure these commercial deals were paid for a while ago, but I wonder what they tell you if you call the toll free number.
I gave several examples that disprove your point (including the so called "Apple Premium") and if you think otherwise, you need to go back and read my post again.
Your examples have a common vector... you, which leads me to believe the problem with your Mac was PLBKAS (problem lies between keyboard and seat).
Being experienced with Macs, Windows/Dos, and Linux, I can understand that technical experience with one is not always transferable to another. However, I'm not sure what you needed to uninstall. An external drive on any platform (we're talking USB/Firewire right?) can simply be unplugged with no problems. On Macs most applications can simply be placed in the trash and emptied (Unlike PC apps that virtually require an uninstall, and still leave behind bits and pieces). A driver would have been installed as an extension which in most cases can also simply be put in the trash and emptied after a restart. Do you remember what part during the startup it seemed to get slow (ie, before the splash screen, during the splash screen as the extensions were being loaded at the bottom of the screen, after they were finished loading but before the desktop appeared?)
I can understand your frustration having Apple and the drive's vendor pointing at each other, but this isn't any different than adding an external drive to the Dell. Dell and the drive's vendor are more than likely to blame the other party (or possibly MS) if any problems develop. From experience I can tell you that Macs are routinely easier to diagnose and fix. I maintain almost 300 Macs (not to mention ~20 printers, a few PC's and other random tech related choirs) at a high school, running relatively problem free, and the contract only has me come in 3 days a week.
No computer is completely problem free, but Macs don't cost too much unless you're comparing them to the cheapest (read lowest quality) PC's. However, to be honest, if I don't assemble it from components, I would normally look at Dell first and have usually been satisfied with their quality/support.
Apple has available from their support/downloads area updates that would have brought your 9.0.x software upto 9.2.2, so I guess you didn't try very hard to find it (it took me about 1-2 minutes). I've needed to upgrade BIOS software on many PC's over the years and Mac firmware upgrades are immensely easier (fyi, using Apple's Software Update control panel would have downloaded it and the OS update for you). The $400 Dell might have saved you a little cash over buying a Mac, but it depends on how precious your time is when you need to come back and remove all the spyware and virii the computer is more likely to become infected with. And finally, if you bought an iMac you didn't pay a "premium" in terms of price/performance, and if you're only recently trying to upgrade from 9.0.x you obviously did have many years of less hassle.
Just an FYI, holding down the mouse button during startup has worked on every mac I've worked on for the last 10 years, including the macs that were old at that time (Mac SE's and Mac II's), to eject removable media. Also as you surmise, I doubt the problems the original poster experienced were directly related to the firmware. Most of the tray-loading and slot-loading iMacs at the high school I'm currently contracted with never received the firmware upgrades and they're running 10.2.x. Since most of them no longer have OS 9 installed, the firmware upgrades are now somewhat problematic, but (seemingly) mostly unnecessary.
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A main argument of the piece is that while legal ownership of guns by Americans is increasing, the crime rate has been decreasing. Obviously there are many factors that cause crime/violence and most cannot be compared from one country directly to another, but it disputes the case that more guns = more violence.
You also failed to break out the statistics of your reference. While "violent crime" in Canada as a whole has decreased 11% in 2003 including the actual number of murders, there was a 5% increase in robberies (including a 10% increase in robberies committed with a firearm, and a 4% increase in attempted murder, with an overall increase in crime in general.
My main point is that restrictive gun laws only affect citizens that obey the law in first place. The "criminals" aren't exactly going to turn in their guns because a new law is passed, and despite what people from other countries might think, legal gun ownership in the US is highly restrictive (ie, no felonies, no history of domestic dispute, no history of mental problems...)
Read "The Failed Experiment" by Gary A. Mauser. Studies have shown that while "gun violence" per capita may be reduced "violent crime" in Canada, England, and Australia have significantly risen since enacting strict handgun laws. "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to keep and bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." - Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, February 1960 issue GUNS magazine.
Is that because the XBox is bigger than the G5's?
On a non-switched network, the machines need to check to see if a packet collision/error occured and can only run at half-duplex. A solitary server/workstation/printer on a dedicated switch port can be set to full-duplex because theoretically no collision should ever occur.
at least this is how it was explained to me once
T1 stands for Trunk Level 1 and is a digital transmission link with a total signaling speed of 1.544Mbps. T-1 is a standard for digital transmission in North America (USA & Canada). T-1 is part of a progression of digital transmission pipes - a hierarchy known generically as the DS (Digital Signal Level) hierarchy.
T1 was originally supplied on two pairs of copper wire (transmit and recieve pairs), but is often delivered via multiplexed fiber optic cables. A T1 can be multiplexed into 24 64Kbps channels for telephone trunking (compatible with the analog phone system), but are still digital signals between the PBX and the ILEC/CLEC's phone switch.
The E1 is a standard in Europe (and UK) which is capable of 2.048Mbps and can be channelized into 32 64Kbps channels for phone trunking.
**most of this is paraphrased from Newton's Telecom Dictionary 16th Ed.