I read about this somewhere else. If I remember correctly, some of the key members of their team were NeXT developers so they know OS X pretty intimately. That would be the only reason to use OS X for this task, unless you were give financial assistance from Apple.
Despite the flood of "iPod Killers" iPods have continued to increase market share. iTunes has also increased market share despite the flood of music subscription services. I could say that consumers must know something about a good product/service when they see it, but then again, most of them are using Windows, so that argument is worthless. They're just a bunch of Lemmings. At least iPods and iTunes Music Store are the best options.
If you have more than 50Gb of music files and you're not backing it up somewhere aside from your portable music player you're a fool. It takes weeks to rip that many CDs. Any music your purchase from the iTMS is also lost forever unless you have a back-up.
I've never really seen a need to copy music off of my iPod. I copy the music to the iPod with iTunes. The music remains in my library on my computer as well as on my iPod. If you need to use the iPod as a hard drive to MOVE your music you can do that just fine too. Just configure it to work as a data HardDrive and copy the files to the drive. Then copy them back to where ever you want. The difference is you can't play those files on the iPod. They are just data. You could conceivably have the same song on there twice. One is playable, the other is just a bunch of 1's and 0's.
Install fink on your Mac and then you can install all of the KDE games. There is an entire package of KDE games available. Heck, you can even run the KDE desktop if you want. I don't know why you would do that on a Mac, but some people do prefer KDE, so you can do it if you want.
YDL.net is a fee based support network. It also gives users webspace, webmail, and early access to files, updates, etc. You also get preferential service with YUM updates. If you use their main servers for YUM, it does not work very often because the servers are smoking. If you have a YDL account you can get a back-door ftp account to another server that seems more robust and stable...or perhaps I'm the only fool paying for this service. I like to reward their efforts and I'm not a starving college student anymore, so I pony up the funds for what I take.
This is the story that you're looking for:
http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&p a=showpage&pid=4
They ship several TB of data around the world with UPS complete with the computer. This means that the end user can simply plug the computer into their network and access the data. It is better than shipping tapes or hard drives alone. The computer becomes a trivial expense when you're dealing with multiple TBs of data.
I had a teacher in my Machine Design class in college that always said, "If you make it idiot-proof, they'll just build a better idiot. Try to imagine ALL of the wrong ways that someone can use your design as well as all of the right ways."
I'm not an avid supporter of MS, but I believe that credit should be given when and where it is due. SP2 is a GOOD thing. Yes it breaks some things, but that is the price you pay for past mistakes. MS realized that they had 2 choices: 1) continue supporting a horribly flawed system 2) break the cycle, back up, fix the problems and start again. They made the daring choice to back up and start again. That is impressive for a company with a multibillion dollar product with 90% market share. It still isn't perfect, but I think that they know that. They're hoping that Longhorn will solve many of these problems. Maybe they're right, who knows though. At least they tried to help everyone out by fixing the product, giving people time to adopt and adapt, and are firm enough to stick to a schedule, knowing that the fix will only really help if EVERYONE is upgraded. KUDOS to MS. (Someone better take note of this moment, it may never happen again.)
Those would be flow lines, and would exist from the instant it was popped out of the mold. The cracks that everyone bitched about were the result of internal stresses and developed over time. ie, they purchased a perfectly clear cube and one month later it had little spider-web like cracks in the case.
I'm a Plastic Engineer. Those cracks are not so easy to eliminate. On a molded 2 cm thick piece of PolyCarbonate, it is very difficult eliminate internal stresses. It can be done, but the cycle times on the molding process probably would be measured in hours instead of minutes or seconds. If they had introduced a heavily "cracked" model of the Cube they probably could have gotten away with saying it was "character marks". All that they would have to do is spead up the cycle time and build in some more internal stresses. Pop a piping hot piece of plastic into a tank of ice water and then build a computer in it! I think that it would have looked cool.
Picasa and iPhoto are very similar. Picasa allows users to break photos into albums and stores them in a library similar to iPhoto. The biggest benefit to Windows users is that it is a simple, clean, well written program for the Windows platform. This is a rare event. iPhoto has its flaws and drawbacks, but if you use it for what it is intended for it works rather well. Apple says that it will support 20,000+ photos, but if I had that many photos, I think I'd invest in a pro-level photo management system. The same goes for Picasa.
It would have been much cooler if they created a rat with a microchip in its head that shot lasers out of its eyes, or killer bees came out of its mouth. Or a robotic Richar Simmons, now that would have been cool!
While I'm a Mac user, I can in no way endorse Linux on the Mac...yet. I ran Yellow Dog Linux on my old iMac for almost a year, and it worked great, but there were very few options for pre-compiled software. There was one guy, I think in Germany, that was turning out about 60% of the software that I used. It was reliable, and TerraSoft supported it well, but being a niche within a niche is just begging for trouble.
The best stargazing I've ever done was after helping a friend build a tent platform on Blewitt Pass in Washington state. I saw so many stars I thought my eyes were broken. I now unerstand why we were building a tent platform and not a cabin. I developed a whole new appreciation for star gazing. I still don't get the whole constellations naming thing. I don't see the pictures nor do I see the appeal.
Cornering is only useful if you live in a state where the roads have bends in them. I grew up in Pennsylvania and the longest straight stretch of road in the entire state was about 25 feat long. We used to joke about the "flatlanders" from Ohio because they didn't know what a steering wheel was used for. The guys in PA had Corvettes that would make the curviest road seem straight. The guys from Ohio had bad-a55 Mustang muscle cars that could do the quarter mile in 3-4 seconds, but couldn't handle for 5hit. I always found this interesting that a few miles separation could have so drastic an effect on something like what kind of car people drive.
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I read about this somewhere else. If I remember correctly, some of the key members of their team were NeXT developers so they know OS X pretty intimately. That would be the only reason to use OS X for this task, unless you were give financial assistance from Apple.
Despite the flood of "iPod Killers" iPods have continued to increase market share. iTunes has also increased market share despite the flood of music subscription services. I could say that consumers must know something about a good product/service when they see it, but then again, most of them are using Windows, so that argument is worthless. They're just a bunch of Lemmings. At least iPods and iTunes Music Store are the best options.
If you have more than 50Gb of music files and you're not backing it up somewhere aside from your portable music player you're a fool. It takes weeks to rip that many CDs. Any music your purchase from the iTMS is also lost forever unless you have a back-up.
I've never really seen a need to copy music off of my iPod. I copy the music to the iPod with iTunes. The music remains in my library on my computer as well as on my iPod. If you need to use the iPod as a hard drive to MOVE your music you can do that just fine too. Just configure it to work as a data HardDrive and copy the files to the drive. Then copy them back to where ever you want. The difference is you can't play those files on the iPod. They are just data. You could conceivably have the same song on there twice. One is playable, the other is just a bunch of 1's and 0's.
Install fink on your Mac and then you can install all of the KDE games. There is an entire package of KDE games available. Heck, you can even run the KDE desktop if you want. I don't know why you would do that on a Mac, but some people do prefer KDE, so you can do it if you want.
YDL.net is a fee based support network. It also gives users webspace, webmail, and early access to files, updates, etc. You also get preferential service with YUM updates. If you use their main servers for YUM, it does not work very often because the servers are smoking. If you have a YDL account you can get a back-door ftp account to another server that seems more robust and stable...or perhaps I'm the only fool paying for this service. I like to reward their efforts and I'm not a starving college student anymore, so I pony up the funds for what I take.
This is the story that you're looking for: http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&p a=showpage&pid=4
They ship several TB of data around the world with UPS complete with the computer. This means that the end user can simply plug the computer into their network and access the data. It is better than shipping tapes or hard drives alone. The computer becomes a trivial expense when you're dealing with multiple TBs of data.
Winplosion for Windows is the same as Expose more or less. This is a cool application. http://www.winplosion.com/
I'm holding out for Egyptian Hairless. Once they have mac mini with Egyptian Hairless installed, I'm buying 2!
The US Army is one high profile customer using Macs.
Apparently the overclockersclub stressed there server too much. Now I'll never know how to make a keychain out of CPUs...
I had a teacher in my Machine Design class in college that always said, "If you make it idiot-proof, they'll just build a better idiot. Try to imagine ALL of the wrong ways that someone can use your design as well as all of the right ways."
Who says you need OS X for a Mac? http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
I'm not an avid supporter of MS, but I believe that credit should be given when and where it is due. SP2 is a GOOD thing. Yes it breaks some things, but that is the price you pay for past mistakes. MS realized that they had 2 choices: 1) continue supporting a horribly flawed system 2) break the cycle, back up, fix the problems and start again. They made the daring choice to back up and start again. That is impressive for a company with a multibillion dollar product with 90% market share. It still isn't perfect, but I think that they know that. They're hoping that Longhorn will solve many of these problems. Maybe they're right, who knows though. At least they tried to help everyone out by fixing the product, giving people time to adopt and adapt, and are firm enough to stick to a schedule, knowing that the fix will only really help if EVERYONE is upgraded. KUDOS to MS. (Someone better take note of this moment, it may never happen again.)
Apparently you've never been to or heard of the Maryhill Museum in Washington state. http://www.spokaneoutdoors.com/stonehg.htm
Those would be flow lines, and would exist from the instant it was popped out of the mold. The cracks that everyone bitched about were the result of internal stresses and developed over time. ie, they purchased a perfectly clear cube and one month later it had little spider-web like cracks in the case.
I'm a Plastic Engineer. Those cracks are not so easy to eliminate. On a molded 2 cm thick piece of PolyCarbonate, it is very difficult eliminate internal stresses. It can be done, but the cycle times on the molding process probably would be measured in hours instead of minutes or seconds. If they had introduced a heavily "cracked" model of the Cube they probably could have gotten away with saying it was "character marks". All that they would have to do is spead up the cycle time and build in some more internal stresses. Pop a piping hot piece of plastic into a tank of ice water and then build a computer in it! I think that it would have looked cool.
Check out this hi-tech experiment: http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/sharpie/sharpie1.ht ml
Picasa and iPhoto are very similar. Picasa allows users to break photos into albums and stores them in a library similar to iPhoto. The biggest benefit to Windows users is that it is a simple, clean, well written program for the Windows platform. This is a rare event. iPhoto has its flaws and drawbacks, but if you use it for what it is intended for it works rather well. Apple says that it will support 20,000+ photos, but if I had that many photos, I think I'd invest in a pro-level photo management system. The same goes for Picasa.
It would have been much cooler if they created a rat with a microchip in its head that shot lasers out of its eyes, or killer bees came out of its mouth. Or a robotic Richar Simmons, now that would have been cool!
While I'm a Mac user, I can in no way endorse Linux on the Mac...yet. I ran Yellow Dog Linux on my old iMac for almost a year, and it worked great, but there were very few options for pre-compiled software. There was one guy, I think in Germany, that was turning out about 60% of the software that I used. It was reliable, and TerraSoft supported it well, but being a niche within a niche is just begging for trouble.
Actually, my point was that the Muscle cars were built for speed. I don't know that exact times. I just know that it was fast.
The best stargazing I've ever done was after helping a friend build a tent platform on Blewitt Pass in Washington state. I saw so many stars I thought my eyes were broken. I now unerstand why we were building a tent platform and not a cabin. I developed a whole new appreciation for star gazing. I still don't get the whole constellations naming thing. I don't see the pictures nor do I see the appeal.
Cornering is only useful if you live in a state where the roads have bends in them. I grew up in Pennsylvania and the longest straight stretch of road in the entire state was about 25 feat long. We used to joke about the "flatlanders" from Ohio because they didn't know what a steering wheel was used for. The guys in PA had Corvettes that would make the curviest road seem straight. The guys from Ohio had bad-a55 Mustang muscle cars that could do the quarter mile in 3-4 seconds, but couldn't handle for 5hit. I always found this interesting that a few miles separation could have so drastic an effect on something like what kind of car people drive.
I personally welcome our CIA...you know, this is getting to be really old and boring. I say "F@CK the CIA Overlords" We're all moving to Canada!