Generally, yes, they can't, but I can speak up as an autistic (very mild, not even as far down the ladder as Aspergers. They lumped me in with PDDNOS) who can recognize facial expressions. I might have trouble if it's a very subtle expression, but a lot of non-autistic people would too.
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No, Quartz Extreme requies a Radeon 7000 or Geforce2MX AGP card or better, which all new Macs have had for some time. Core Image, which gives you some neat little visual effects, requires a Geforce FX 5200 or Radeon 9550 or better.
Very little can be done for lazy eye past the age of eight or so. By then, your brain is already set on how it's going to use that eye. I'd love to see a cure for my right eye's ambliopa, but I don't think it's gonna happen.
You talking about Ether2 or Ether5? I think this is more like using the existing coax cable to go from the fiber to the wall. There's probably some kind of transceiver/cable modem on the other end to hook it into the RJ-45 jack.
Quicktime just sucks. No playlist. Resource hog. Nagware. Few codecs supported. Its amazing that Macs are supposedly into multimedia, but they have no applications that are up to the job.
PLEASE. No playlist? iTunes can do it, as well as any third party software that can plug into Quicktime. Resource hog? Perhaps with third party codecs that aren't well optimized. Nagware? Yeah, a bit, but any commercial media app does that. Few codecs supported? Not really. MPEG and the plethora of.mov, and with plugins, WMV (get Flip4Mac and you'll never use the shitty WMP for Mac again), Ogg, DIVX (Rarely do I have a problem with DIVX movies in QT. Dig up the audio codec if the audio is problematic. Solved my problem), and more. With that, it supports most of the codecs out there. I don't even use VLC as much as I used to.
Yeah, no applications that are up for the job. I guess that's why Macs are huge in the film and television industries. You must know something they don't. Or maybe they just know how to do this shit much better than you do.
Okay, you can keep the PM 9600. It was a kickass machine back in the day, to be sure, but it's going to be limping by now, even with all the best upgrades. I'll stick with my Digital Audio G4 until I get the cash for an upgrade. OS X annihilates OS 9. You can whine about Jobs, but ever since he took over, Apple has actually been MAKING money! Imagine that!
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So I see. However, the sig could just as easily make you out to be a Linux zealot too, ya know.
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Utter bullshit! The record industry would LOVE to see all online music downloads die out. Then they wouldn't have to worry about becoming obsolete. Everyone buy CDs again so we can fix the price! Apple doesn't have anywhere near enough clout to bend the record industry to their own will. As it stands, they've got what is probably the least restrictive DRM of any music store with a major label catalogue. The record industry would pull Apple's license in a heartbeat if the DRM was removed from the ITMS tracks.
DVI/VGA -> RCA/Svideo adapters are plentiful and pretty cheap.
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Then he can get an ExpressCard and keep it with the drives if bumping it or having an ugly extrusion is an issue.
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WHEN HAVE YOU EVER USED FW800??? Jesus, it was a standard that never caught on! A few FW HD enclosures used it, and that was it. Very few people will feel the need to spring for an ExpressCard. God, it just seems to be yet another non-issue that the Apple bashing trolls are assfucking without end...
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The kext issue was a misunderstanding blown out of proportion. The ITMS DRM isn't Apple's idea. They have no choice but to add DRM to appease the record companies. If they don't, then no more ITMS because the labels will pull all the songs out. You have Firewire800, but did you actually USE it? I doubt it. If you need FW800, get an ExpressCard for it. You know why? IT NEVER CAUGHT ON. A few hard drive enclosures use it, but beyond that, nada. You're getting worked up over nothing.
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Firewire 800 never caught on. Those who want it will be able to buy an ExpressCard for it if they really need it. No video out? Funny, you can get DVI/VGA to A/V adapters all over the place, including Apple's own store. Yeah, they really removed all those "vital features". DRM? The only DRM is the one that keeps you from putting OS X on a PC. It doesn't affect the Mac.
In short, you're simply a troll. You need to go back under the bridge and stay there.
It does that to me on a dual processor 533mhz Digital Audio Powermac. Random crashes when either the map or Battle.net loads. Not often, but still annoying. Does Blizzard fix it? Noooo, not that or the host of other problems that plague WC3, like truly awful unit pathfinding and numerous other bugs. God knows I love that game to death and I also play some DOTA (what's your handle and what gateway do you play on? I'll have to pwn you sometime;) ), but there are issues that really hamper it.
Absolutely! The IIgs remains to this day the best computer Apple ever made. My dad got one for the family on Christmas of '86. I was three and I still remember it. I was hooked instantly. It was later upgraded with the works: Color imagewriter II (damn those things were loud), 120MB Hard drive (Fuckin' HUGE back in the day), 4MB of RAM, 9mhz Zipchip accelerator card, and more. Ah, I still fire up an emulator to play some of the great old games for that thing, like Bard's Tale II and Dungeon Master, among others. I loved a lot of the old IIe games you could play on it too, like the original static screen Mario Bros. Two players, baby! One on the keyboard, the other on the mouse. We'd always wind up trying to kill each other instead of trying to win. I even learned some BASIC programming on it, although I didn't get further than writing simple text-based games. Heh, I even ported one to a TI-83+ years later. Very similar language on the two. The IIgs is still alive as far as I know, although it's in storage. The monitor died out on it and we couldn't find a replacement. That was in the mid to late 90's, too. We used it all the way up until then, even though we had several Macs in the house. Such a fantastic machine.
I remember getting the special edition with the graphics editor, so you could make your own animated nasties and whatnot. I made a completely Space Lego themed one. The other was centered around bathroom items and, of course, shit. I thought the Shrapwarden (I think) was hilarious. You shoot a huge log and it explodes into crumbs.
Actually, the article states that travelling back and changing things in our own universe is impossible, which may well be true, equations or no. However, if the multiverse theory is one day proven, then you could travel back to an infinite number of parallel universes and screw your grandma silly without ever affecting your own.
Well, who could argue that logic, especially the type you get from a trolling AC? What, sad that you're greased up yoda doll scripts don't work anymore?
You can only twist and shield the wires so much before you can't twist them anymore and extra shielding does jack. They've got to be hitting the limits of twisted pair copper wiring. It's gonna be a bitch to get it up to 100Gb, and it's going to be even harder (if it's even possible) to get that up to a terabit.
What the submitter doesn't get is that IBM's POWER lineup isn't for a desktop. It's way too expensive, hot, and has a host of features for reliability that a desktop doesn't need. It also relies on incredibly fast I/O architectures that you can't put in a reasonably priced desktop. The POWER6 is coming out in 2007, anyway. Think they'd ever get one of those in a laptop? Yeah right. Apple went with Intel because Intel is dedicated to making DESKTOP processors, something that IBM really isn't interested in doing.
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Except said radiation doesn't have nearly enough energy to knock your DNA out of whack.
Dell is quiet? That's a new one to me. All the Dell boxes I've seen have been noisy.
Generally, yes, they can't, but I can speak up as an autistic (very mild, not even as far down the ladder as Aspergers. They lumped me in with PDDNOS) who can recognize facial expressions. I might have trouble if it's a very subtle expression, but a lot of non-autistic people would too.
No, Quartz Extreme requies a Radeon 7000 or Geforce2MX AGP card or better, which all new Macs have had for some time. Core Image, which gives you some neat little visual effects, requires a Geforce FX 5200 or Radeon 9550 or better.
Maybe highly compressed HD and enterprise apps like MS Office. They're seriously stretching it.
Very little can be done for lazy eye past the age of eight or so. By then, your brain is already set on how it's going to use that eye. I'd love to see a cure for my right eye's ambliopa, but I don't think it's gonna happen.
You talking about Ether2 or Ether5? I think this is more like using the existing coax cable to go from the fiber to the wall. There's probably some kind of transceiver/cable modem on the other end to hook it into the RJ-45 jack.
Quicktime just sucks. No playlist. Resource hog. Nagware. Few codecs supported. Its amazing that Macs are supposedly into multimedia, but they have no applications that are up to the job.
.mov, and with plugins, WMV (get Flip4Mac and you'll never use the shitty WMP for Mac again), Ogg, DIVX (Rarely do I have a problem with DIVX movies in QT. Dig up the audio codec if the audio is problematic. Solved my problem), and more. With that, it supports most of the codecs out there. I don't even use VLC as much as I used to.
PLEASE. No playlist? iTunes can do it, as well as any third party software that can plug into Quicktime. Resource hog? Perhaps with third party codecs that aren't well optimized. Nagware? Yeah, a bit, but any commercial media app does that. Few codecs supported? Not really. MPEG and the plethora of
Yeah, no applications that are up for the job. I guess that's why Macs are huge in the film and television industries. You must know something they don't. Or maybe they just know how to do this shit much better than you do.
Okay, you can keep the PM 9600. It was a kickass machine back in the day, to be sure, but it's going to be limping by now, even with all the best upgrades. I'll stick with my Digital Audio G4 until I get the cash for an upgrade. OS X annihilates OS 9. You can whine about Jobs, but ever since he took over, Apple has actually been MAKING money! Imagine that!
I thought this was going to be about BDSM.
So I see. However, the sig could just as easily make you out to be a Linux zealot too, ya know.
Utter bullshit! The record industry would LOVE to see all online music downloads die out. Then they wouldn't have to worry about becoming obsolete. Everyone buy CDs again so we can fix the price! Apple doesn't have anywhere near enough clout to bend the record industry to their own will. As it stands, they've got what is probably the least restrictive DRM of any music store with a major label catalogue. The record industry would pull Apple's license in a heartbeat if the DRM was removed from the ITMS tracks.
DVI/VGA -> RCA/Svideo adapters are plentiful and pretty cheap.
Then he can get an ExpressCard and keep it with the drives if bumping it or having an ugly extrusion is an issue.
WHEN HAVE YOU EVER USED FW800??? Jesus, it was a standard that never caught on! A few FW HD enclosures used it, and that was it. Very few people will feel the need to spring for an ExpressCard. God, it just seems to be yet another non-issue that the Apple bashing trolls are assfucking without end...
The kext issue was a misunderstanding blown out of proportion. The ITMS DRM isn't Apple's idea. They have no choice but to add DRM to appease the record companies. If they don't, then no more ITMS because the labels will pull all the songs out. You have Firewire800, but did you actually USE it? I doubt it. If you need FW800, get an ExpressCard for it. You know why? IT NEVER CAUGHT ON. A few hard drive enclosures use it, but beyond that, nada. You're getting worked up over nothing.
Firewire 800 never caught on. Those who want it will be able to buy an ExpressCard for it if they really need it. No video out? Funny, you can get DVI/VGA to A/V adapters all over the place, including Apple's own store. Yeah, they really removed all those "vital features". DRM? The only DRM is the one that keeps you from putting OS X on a PC. It doesn't affect the Mac. In short, you're simply a troll. You need to go back under the bridge and stay there.
It does that to me on a dual processor 533mhz Digital Audio Powermac. Random crashes when either the map or Battle.net loads. Not often, but still annoying. Does Blizzard fix it? Noooo, not that or the host of other problems that plague WC3, like truly awful unit pathfinding and numerous other bugs. God knows I love that game to death and I also play some DOTA (what's your handle and what gateway do you play on? I'll have to pwn you sometime ;) ), but there are issues that really hamper it.
Absolutely! The IIgs remains to this day the best computer Apple ever made. My dad got one for the family on Christmas of '86. I was three and I still remember it. I was hooked instantly. It was later upgraded with the works: Color imagewriter II (damn those things were loud), 120MB Hard drive (Fuckin' HUGE back in the day), 4MB of RAM, 9mhz Zipchip accelerator card, and more. Ah, I still fire up an emulator to play some of the great old games for that thing, like Bard's Tale II and Dungeon Master, among others. I loved a lot of the old IIe games you could play on it too, like the original static screen Mario Bros. Two players, baby! One on the keyboard, the other on the mouse. We'd always wind up trying to kill each other instead of trying to win. I even learned some BASIC programming on it, although I didn't get further than writing simple text-based games. Heh, I even ported one to a TI-83+ years later. Very similar language on the two. The IIgs is still alive as far as I know, although it's in storage. The monitor died out on it and we couldn't find a replacement. That was in the mid to late 90's, too. We used it all the way up until then, even though we had several Macs in the house. Such a fantastic machine.
I remember getting the special edition with the graphics editor, so you could make your own animated nasties and whatnot. I made a completely Space Lego themed one. The other was centered around bathroom items and, of course, shit. I thought the Shrapwarden (I think) was hilarious. You shoot a huge log and it explodes into crumbs.
Actually, the article states that travelling back and changing things in our own universe is impossible, which may well be true, equations or no. However, if the multiverse theory is one day proven, then you could travel back to an infinite number of parallel universes and screw your grandma silly without ever affecting your own.
Very nice! Give this guy the geek award for the year! Let's just hope the organ grinders don't find out about him and drive him nuts until he dies...
Well, who could argue that logic, especially the type you get from a trolling AC? What, sad that you're greased up yoda doll scripts don't work anymore?
You can only twist and shield the wires so much before you can't twist them anymore and extra shielding does jack. They've got to be hitting the limits of twisted pair copper wiring. It's gonna be a bitch to get it up to 100Gb, and it's going to be even harder (if it's even possible) to get that up to a terabit.
What the submitter doesn't get is that IBM's POWER lineup isn't for a desktop. It's way too expensive, hot, and has a host of features for reliability that a desktop doesn't need. It also relies on incredibly fast I/O architectures that you can't put in a reasonably priced desktop. The POWER6 is coming out in 2007, anyway. Think they'd ever get one of those in a laptop? Yeah right. Apple went with Intel because Intel is dedicated to making DESKTOP processors, something that IBM really isn't interested in doing.