I take is as a general truth that anything a cop says is a complete lie. Maybe its just me. Cops also have the advantage that, in pretty much any jurisdiction, you're guilty of something. this is even more true when driving.
I forget the details, but theres a court case floating around about this issue - whether or not you have to display identification to a police officer unless you've done something. If it is illegal in California to walk around without government ID, its probably unconstitutional, and waiting for a good court test. maybe the cali legislature was bored, and needed to make busywork.
The problem with that is that you'd be infringing on what is traditionally state territory, which rarely ends well. On the other hand, the federal government got unwilling states to roll over on drinking age, so it could be possible. It is possible to get a federal ID -- its called a passport, and they're a bit more stringent on who they give them out to (although i'd in no way gurantee that there aren't hundreds or even more fake US passports about). We are still working on figuring out if you can refuse to show a cop your ID, though.
Off the shelf does have individual warranties, but not for the unit as a whole. YOu want to add the beurocracy of dealing with even more companies to a government department? Increased time spent getting shit fixed is money - someone has to deal with it.And those support agreements are available - i never denied they were - but thats an added cost over the hardware (and assuming the software is free). Macs also tend to preserve their value for signifigantly longer than x86 boxen. iMacs have lower profile/cost of most available boxes, have an ergonomic LCD, etc. You save space, blah blah blah. If you're going to come up with conclusions, at least give us the benefit of making up some numbers.
Don't say cheaper. You have to hire people to put the systems together, image the drives, maintain the computers (oh, shit. no warrantee), the nerd you'd need to configure linux or BSD in an enterprise solution.... That sounds like both less effective and, in the long run, more expensive.
Its somewhat important as (i assume. i'm not bothering to read the article becasue a) its slashdot and b) i'm drunk ) they're using it in an enterprise application, which, prior to OS X was difficult and isn't particularly common (in my experience) outside of colleges.
No Virtual PC yet for my g5, though. My solution was to build an athlon system, in case i desperately need to do something in x86 land (specifically, play GTA:VC, but hey, i could do work on it too)
At the moment, i would go with a CRT over an LCD. why? I don't particularly value my desktop space ( i currently have 2 19" displays and a 21". i have the room), and LCD's are tiny per cost. I've used the apple 17" display, and its gorgeous, but overpriced. I do haev a few smaller (15") LCD's i use in a 'server closer' or for portable systems, but i wouldn't want to use one everyday. But as far as attatched displays go, I agree with the exception of the iMac. We bought one for my mum, and its a great box (unless you want to get all fiddly in it). The eMac is really designed for educational entry level enterprise use. after i graduated, my highschool upgraded to eMacs, with individuals logging in and having a floating profile. they were, i believe, designed to be cost efficent (as far as apple goes - theres also a CD-ROm only version thats only available for educational accounts) all in 1 systems. while i think it is currently the cheapest available apple boxen, i would think that the affordable iBOok would be a better draw for those on the edge of switching - but for mass deployed education, you want a relatively sturdy all-in-one box. LCD's get damaged really easily (hey, ir member the joys of making permanent squiggles in the school owned laptops).
would you go to a best buy to get a sparc station? that would be ridiculous. you'd go to a vendor that had what you want. a single vendor is never a good example of anything. considering i currently own 10 or so mac games (ha!), i'm quite sure theres more than 3. but it is a point that there simply aren't as many games for mac. this does mean that a lot of the stinkers don't cross over, though.
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well, in order.
A different proccesor architecture, theres a fuckload of software, and almost any gnu app can easily be ported (or, if you don't insist on tying apple products to their OS, you can run linux or BSD just fine), blizzard dual releases and other companies eventually port (but if you only own a computer for games, why do you read the apple slashdot page... oh, you're an AC. this post doesn't really matter.)
I use a g3, a dual g5, an ulstra sparc, 1 althon box and 3 pentium III's. I like my macs better. oh well.
I don't tihnk apple currently sells a faster laptop frive thahn 4200. But really - carrying around a g4 tower is pretty damn easy. its not heavy, andd the handles are really comfortable.
I do pro audio on the apple platform, and i was looking at getting a g4 xserve to take around to gigs. unfortunately, most computer racks are too deep to fit in a closed end audio rack. I ended up just carrying around a g4 tower, and a rack full of DAT, AUdio interfaces, and other stuff. However, a rack tower is usually open on the back, to allow access to patch cables, etc., so if the case only needs to be screwed in front, you'd be fine.
On the other hand, they're easy enough to salvage. I have 2 nice full height racks with power at the bottom and 1 without, all rescued from the dumpster (well, they hadn't quite gone in yet, but were about to) from a company closing its east coast branch. Other friends have built them (although mostly for audio)
Dude - its a hardware problem, and a fairly simple one. Microsoft has earned (my) ire by turning out shitty code (i don't really care if its closed, as long as it runs) that are barely functional and byzantine, doesn't play well with others, etc... Well shit. the people fabbing the mini ipod messed up and put a poorly designed headphone jack in (or apples designers. i've had a lot of problems with apple audio jacks in the odler white ibooks and the newer imacs). I'm willing to bet that microsoft has, at one point or another, fucked over 90% of those that read slashdot. apple's maybe dicked over 20% or so. Gee, that seems pretty clear to me.
In this case, its the fact that there is a titled track between real tracks. the standard silence isn't a part of the track itself - its how the disk is burned, tape made, etc. As far as i can see, she has at least 10 tracks under 15 seconds, and twenty that are under half a minute. She's a particularly good example because she tends to have these short tracks scattered across all her albums, probably from using the same production team over and over again.
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Not that i've seen. all songs are 99 cents, but verious audio books and transcripts have varying costs. i don't really use the itunes music store, i just wanted my free pepsi songs.
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well, the worst deal i've found on itunes has been.99 for a 4 second interlude track (janet jackson, i think). the RIAA needs to either make better music, save money by stop paying off radio stations, or die. well, it doesn't need to, but it would be nice.
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only if he got to pull it out of said body cavity.
I take is as a general truth that anything a cop says is a complete lie. Maybe its just me. Cops also have the advantage that, in pretty much any jurisdiction, you're guilty of something. this is even more true when driving.
I forget the details, but theres a court case floating around about this issue - whether or not you have to display identification to a police officer unless you've done something. If it is illegal in California to walk around without government ID, its probably unconstitutional, and waiting for a good court test. maybe the cali legislature was bored, and needed to make busywork.
The problem with that is that you'd be infringing on what is traditionally state territory, which rarely ends well. On the other hand, the federal government got unwilling states to roll over on drinking age, so it could be possible. It is possible to get a federal ID -- its called a passport, and they're a bit more stringent on who they give them out to (although i'd in no way gurantee that there aren't hundreds or even more fake US passports about). We are still working on figuring out if you can refuse to show a cop your ID, though.
I've run Mac-on-linux on top of OS X, because it runs hella better than classic mode. its still got a few warts, but its still great.
Off the shelf does have individual warranties, but not for the unit as a whole. YOu want to add the beurocracy of dealing with even more companies to a government department? Increased time spent getting shit fixed is money - someone has to deal with it.And those support agreements are available - i never denied they were - but thats an added cost over the hardware (and assuming the software is free). Macs also tend to preserve their value for signifigantly longer than x86 boxen. iMacs have lower profile/cost of most available boxes, have an ergonomic LCD, etc. You save space, blah blah blah. If you're going to come up with conclusions, at least give us the benefit of making up some numbers.
Don't say cheaper. You have to hire people to put the systems together, image the drives, maintain the computers (oh, shit. no warrantee), the nerd you'd need to configure linux or BSD in an enterprise solution.... That sounds like both less effective and, in the long run, more expensive.
Its somewhat important as (i assume. i'm not bothering to read the article becasue a) its slashdot and b) i'm drunk ) they're using it in an enterprise application, which, prior to OS X was difficult and isn't particularly common (in my experience) outside of colleges.
personal use. asking him again, he was running a small webserver as well, which probably didn't help.
My friend in boston had his comcast connection cut off for running a mailserver a year or so back. so it does happen.
No Virtual PC yet for my g5, though. My solution was to build an athlon system, in case i desperately need to do something in x86 land (specifically, play GTA:VC, but hey, i could do work on it too)
At the moment, i would go with a CRT over an LCD. why? I don't particularly value my desktop space ( i currently have 2 19" displays and a 21". i have the room), and LCD's are tiny per cost. I've used the apple 17" display, and its gorgeous, but overpriced. I do haev a few smaller (15") LCD's i use in a 'server closer' or for portable systems, but i wouldn't want to use one everyday. But as far as attatched displays go, I agree with the exception of the iMac. We bought one for my mum, and its a great box (unless you want to get all fiddly in it). The eMac is really designed for educational entry level enterprise use. after i graduated, my highschool upgraded to eMacs, with individuals logging in and having a floating profile. they were, i believe, designed to be cost efficent (as far as apple goes - theres also a CD-ROm only version thats only available for educational accounts) all in 1 systems. while i think it is currently the cheapest available apple boxen, i would think that the affordable iBOok would be a better draw for those on the edge of switching - but for mass deployed education, you want a relatively sturdy all-in-one box. LCD's get damaged really easily (hey, ir member the joys of making permanent squiggles in the school owned laptops).
would you go to a best buy to get a sparc station? that would be ridiculous. you'd go to a vendor that had what you want. a single vendor is never a good example of anything. considering i currently own 10 or so mac games (ha!), i'm quite sure theres more than 3. but it is a point that there simply aren't as many games for mac. this does mean that a lot of the stinkers don't cross over, though.
well, in order. A different proccesor architecture, theres a fuckload of software, and almost any gnu app can easily be ported (or, if you don't insist on tying apple products to their OS, you can run linux or BSD just fine), blizzard dual releases and other companies eventually port (but if you only own a computer for games, why do you read the apple slashdot page... oh, you're an AC. this post doesn't really matter.) I use a g3, a dual g5, an ulstra sparc, 1 althon box and 3 pentium III's. I like my macs better. oh well.
BUrning it to a CD and playing it in your car (or any CD player, for that matter) works just fine with the DRM intact.
I don't tihnk apple currently sells a faster laptop frive thahn 4200. But really - carrying around a g4 tower is pretty damn easy. its not heavy, andd the handles are really comfortable.
I do pro audio on the apple platform, and i was looking at getting a g4 xserve to take around to gigs. unfortunately, most computer racks are too deep to fit in a closed end audio rack. I ended up just carrying around a g4 tower, and a rack full of DAT, AUdio interfaces, and other stuff. However, a rack tower is usually open on the back, to allow access to patch cables, etc., so if the case only needs to be screwed in front, you'd be fine.
On the other hand, they're easy enough to salvage. I have 2 nice full height racks with power at the bottom and 1 without, all rescued from the dumpster (well, they hadn't quite gone in yet, but were about to) from a company closing its east coast branch. Other friends have built them (although mostly for audio)
Sure, if you don't like having a warranty.
Dude - its a hardware problem, and a fairly simple one. Microsoft has earned (my) ire by turning out shitty code (i don't really care if its closed, as long as it runs) that are barely functional and byzantine, doesn't play well with others, etc... Well shit. the people fabbing the mini ipod messed up and put a poorly designed headphone jack in (or apples designers. i've had a lot of problems with apple audio jacks in the odler white ibooks and the newer imacs). I'm willing to bet that microsoft has, at one point or another, fucked over 90% of those that read slashdot. apple's maybe dicked over 20% or so. Gee, that seems pretty clear to me.
In this case, its the fact that there is a titled track between real tracks. the standard silence isn't a part of the track itself - its how the disk is burned, tape made, etc. As far as i can see, she has at least 10 tracks under 15 seconds, and twenty that are under half a minute. She's a particularly good example because she tends to have these short tracks scattered across all her albums, probably from using the same production team over and over again.
Not that i've seen. all songs are 99 cents, but verious audio books and transcripts have varying costs. i don't really use the itunes music store, i just wanted my free pepsi songs.
well, the worst deal i've found on itunes has been .99 for a 4 second interlude track (janet jackson, i think). the RIAA needs to either make better music, save money by stop paying off radio stations, or die. well, it doesn't need to, but it would be nice.
ya know... Canada... hmmmm....
Lets talk about "faster", and how it, by itself, means fuckall.