The US has been wanting to launch a large network of smaller satelites for a while now, and now that they're giving money to NASA again that may happen.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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laptop hard drives are slow enough as it is
steve? is that you?
what is this "outside" whereof you speak?
indeed. what manner of fake geekery is gp trying to pull?
maybe my notebook will finally be mobile again.
we already have too many dna computers playing global thermonuclear war.
will this be finally compatible with web 2.0?
if you can get your neighbors to rebroadcast, and their neighbors to do the same... p2p tv?
it's the icon for the PC games. and not the only icon there. onmouseover is your friend.
i'm with you on everything except the frozen weasel. frozen weasel = ?
all of which will be Made In China
unfortunately, now if they run a free google search for "Gutbomb" you're screwed.
it's very obviously intelligent design.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
how did you get safari to run on every version of windows?
no wireless. less space than a nomad. lame.
/wait.
that's for the iTunes phones. Motorola's ROKR, the RAZR v3i ...
that's nothing, i'm still using my 1st gen ipod. original battery too...
blu-ray vs. steve irwin: 1-0
blu-ray killed the crocodile hunter.... boo sony.
i came in looking for this comment and didn't leave disappointed. bravo.
isn't that the point in having a different frequency? different ranges, penetration, etc...
it would seem you're the only one living in a perfect world...
;) Nothing to see here, move along.
after reading the title, and skimming the summary, i read "14 comments yro.slashdot.org" as "14 yr old.slashdot.org"