I'm heading to law school shortly, and instead of buying the "recommended" Dell will be purchasing the MacBook Pro.
I was a 1-L last year and bought a new PowerBook for that purpose. Even though it's now "obsolete" I sure don't regret the purchase. I'm not exactly a switcher, as I've always had a PC desktop and a Mac portable, but going back to school prompted me to ditch my desktop and consolidate on the one machine. My next (Intel) Mac will probably get Vista installed too, but it'll be just for fun... there's nothing I need Windows for anymore.
... that glowing Apple from my monitor will make me instantly visible in class.
Hah! Maybe it'll be different since your school recommends Dell (mine's platform-agnostic) but in my section the year began with about 20% of the class behind glowing apples... and it was almost 40% by the end of the school year. In a class of 55, only one person bought a new PC laptop, the rest of the new purchases were all Macs.
... if I need to set foot in there for anything other than setting my password the first time I will consider it a major personal failing.
Once my VPN software was installed I had zero contact with the IT folks. Good luck btw!
Human chemistry must vary person-to-person - my iBook is 5 months old and has no discoloration near the trackpad.
Bingo! Every year for three years running, my wife and I each bought a new iBook. When we sold the year-old machines, the ones I used looked like new... but all three of hers had discoloured palm rests. She probably washes her hands more often than I do, so I've always assumed it's caused by natural variations in the composition of our sweat.
I've used the screen spanning hack without incident on half a dozen iBooks, but I'm wondering if anyone can confirm whether it will continue to work, or be adaptable to work, with the 9550?
Please remember that most of these will be sold in the US and not in Euroland.
And you know this how? IIRC Sony's MD products sold in much higher quantities in Europe (and Asia) than they ever did in the US.
Not to mention the iPod as a trendy item is about over.
Again, your evidence for this is... ?
Also, perhaps in your haste to post the US prices comparing the Sony players to the iPod shuffle you didn't notice that the 1GB Sony is only $19 cheaper than a 4GB iPod mini.
I'd check the plug on your Airport card's antenna lead. Recently I've run into several that weren't all the way in (at least one came from the factory that way). It's tricky because it can seem like it's all the way in when it's not and it's the difference between one bar and full signal. Good luck.
A StarTAC has been known to be dropped from a motorcyle, going 70 mph, ran over by a truck, and it still turned on and made a phone call.
That's pretty amazing. Year before last I was entering a freeway on my motorbike, doing about 70 mph as I merged from the on ramp. A sudden gust of wind blew my unbuttoned jacket up behind me for a split second. I felt something fall out of the inside pocket and looked in the rear view mirror just in time to see my tiny Nokia hit the pavement... and seconds later get crushed by an 18-wheeler.
It was flattened too -- the whole phone was barely a millimeter thick. I replaced it with a Panasonic ToughPhone, but maybe I shoulda looked into a Moto.
... it's perfectly reasonable to use the modifier keys and the mouse at the same time.
Exactly. On the iBook I find it quite easy to span the trackpad, command and control keys with my left hand and the trackpad and up/down arrow keys (for scrolling) with my right hand.
Click the left half of the button, you get a left click. Click the right half of the button, you get a right click.
Actually the alternative touchpad driver you mentioned (Sidetrack) already allows this functionality, albeit in a slightly different way. I've used it with the left click function mapped to the touchpad itself (click-dragging must be enabled in System Preferences) and the right click function mapped to the lone hardware button. Instant right and left clicking, without worrying about vaguely-defined regions on the touchpad.
One of my favourite lines was near the end, during the demo of DOS compatibility, where he said: "You can run your DOS apps right here... right next to your good apps.":-)
I confess it's been a while since I've seen Pirates... I only remembered archival footage from Triumph of the Nerds. In the movie version, wasn't this the scene in which, while Jobs was doing the demo, other Apple employees overheard Gates and Ballmer backstage discussing their designs on the Mac?
... seeing a Mac in action had the audience completely mesmerised as people realised that the machines that they currently possessed had just become obsolete.
Fast forward a couple of decades and you find the same guy, in the same room, convincing us of the same thing... every damn year.
Of course you're correct in that it was Steve who personally recruited John Sculley, the man who later ousted him from Apple. But as regards NeXT being a "colossal business failure," that depends on who's telling the story -- Canon for example, who lost tens of billions of dollars on NeXt -- or Jobs, who sold it to Apple for $400 million (many times his personal investment) and basically got to keep it as well.:-)
I'm sorry if my anecdote gave you that impression. My intention was to illustrate that there are uses for Segway-type devices that have both personal and societal benefits.
Besides, there's a shitload of old farts in a hell of a lot of one horse towns out there.:-)
In my town of 6,000 there is exactly one Segway. It's owned by a 90-year old. He uses it to travel from his home to the centre of town (about a three-mile trip each way) every day.
For the record he's thin as a rail and still has reasonable mobility, although he could never walk this distance daily. The Segway's replacing a car in this case... and affording the old sport a far more sociable experience than a car ever could.
I think it's safe to say that most folks in my town would be very puzzled by the anti-Segway sentiments on Slashdot.
Also, some Macs don't have internal speakers (the G4 iMac and G4 Cube, for example)...
Actually the G4 iMacs do have an internal speaker. In fairness I was pretty surprised the day I found that out too (when my buddy's iLamp continued to play music after being unplugged from the stereo)!
Back on topic, colour me extremely suspicious. I've been following the PearPC situation and I agree with the poster above concerning the register issue and Altivec emulation. I will need to see some compelling evidence that the boys in Maui have somehow overcome the laws of physics.
For those familiar with Maui's biggest cash crop... remember it's harvest time!
"An embarrassment of... " is an idiomatic expression that indicates "a greater number than is strictly necessary". See for example "an embarrassment of riches..." etc.
Yep, cause we all know how much venture capitalists like to fund new businesses who sell 5-cent margin products... that create incalculable future liabilities!;-)
A few years ago when OS X was new and OmniWeb and IE were it, who would have believed we'd eventually have such an embarrassment of capable browsers on the Mac platform?
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I was a 1-L last year and bought a new PowerBook for that purpose. Even though it's now "obsolete" I sure don't regret the purchase. I'm not exactly a switcher, as I've always had a PC desktop and a Mac portable, but going back to school prompted me to ditch my desktop and consolidate on the one machine. My next (Intel) Mac will probably get Vista installed too, but it'll be just for fun ... there's nothing I need Windows for anymore.
Hah! Maybe it'll be different since your school recommends Dell (mine's platform-agnostic) but in my section the year began with about 20% of the class behind glowing apples ... and it was almost 40% by the end of the school year. In a class of 55, only one person bought a new PC laptop, the rest of the new purchases were all Macs.
Once my VPN software was installed I had zero contact with the IT folks. Good luck btw!
Bingo! Every year for three years running, my wife and I each bought a new iBook. When we sold the year-old machines, the ones I used looked like new ... but all three of hers had discoloured palm rests. She probably washes her hands more often than I do, so I've always assumed it's caused by natural variations in the composition of our sweat.
I've used the screen spanning hack without incident on half a dozen iBooks, but I'm wondering if anyone can confirm whether it will continue to work, or be adaptable to work, with the 9550?
Something tells me it's unlikely you'd ever see the cash, even if you were to succeed.
Google for Jack Campbell and MacTable for more info on this guy's shady past.
I really like it and hope it replaces regular Aqua ... or brushed metal ... or both. It looks smoove.
And you know this how? IIRC Sony's MD products sold in much higher quantities in Europe (and Asia) than they ever did in the US.
Not to mention the iPod as a trendy item is about over.
Again, your evidence for this is ... ?
Also, perhaps in your haste to post the US prices comparing the Sony players to the iPod shuffle you didn't notice that the 1GB Sony is only $19 cheaper than a 4GB iPod mini.
I'd check the plug on your Airport card's antenna lead. Recently I've run into several that weren't all the way in (at least one came from the factory that way). It's tricky because it can seem like it's all the way in when it's not and it's the difference between one bar and full signal. Good luck.
You need to look at MS's most recent financials. That cash horde has been *significantly* reduced by the one-time dividend.
That's pretty amazing. Year before last I was entering a freeway on my motorbike, doing about 70 mph as I merged from the on ramp. A sudden gust of wind blew my unbuttoned jacket up behind me for a split second. I felt something fall out of the inside pocket and looked in the rear view mirror just in time to see my tiny Nokia hit the pavement ... and seconds later get crushed by an 18-wheeler.
It was flattened too -- the whole phone was barely a millimeter thick. I replaced it with a Panasonic ToughPhone, but maybe I shoulda looked into a Moto.
Exactly. On the iBook I find it quite easy to span the trackpad, command and control keys with my left hand and the trackpad and up/down arrow keys (for scrolling) with my right hand.
Actually the alternative touchpad driver you mentioned (Sidetrack) already allows this functionality, albeit in a slightly different way. I've used it with the left click function mapped to the touchpad itself (click-dragging must be enabled in System Preferences) and the right click function mapped to the lone hardware button. Instant right and left clicking, without worrying about vaguely-defined regions on the touchpad.
One of my favourite lines was near the end, during the demo of DOS compatibility, where he said: "You can run your DOS apps right here ... right next to your good apps." :-)
I confess it's been a while since I've seen Pirates ... I only remembered archival footage from Triumph of the Nerds. In the movie version, wasn't this the scene in which, while Jobs was doing the demo, other Apple employees overheard Gates and Ballmer backstage discussing their designs on the Mac?
Err, not quite. This scene was in the movie, but that would have been Noah Wyle on stage, not Jobs. :-)
Fast forward a couple of decades and you find the same guy, in the same room, convincing us of the same thing ... every damn year.
Plus ça change ...
Sorry, I meant to say Canon's loss was tens of millions not billions. Billions would have been a colossal failure!
Of course you're correct in that it was Steve who personally recruited John Sculley, the man who later ousted him from Apple. But as regards NeXT being a "colossal business failure," that depends on who's telling the story -- Canon for example, who lost tens of billions of dollars on NeXt -- or Jobs, who sold it to Apple for $400 million (many times his personal investment) and basically got to keep it as well. :-)
What causes such behaviour? Too much egg nog at the office xmas party maybe?
Besides, there's a shitload of old farts in a hell of a lot of one horse towns out there. :-)
For the record he's thin as a rail and still has reasonable mobility, although he could never walk this distance daily. The Segway's replacing a car in this case ... and affording the old sport a far more sociable experience than a car ever could.
I think it's safe to say that most folks in my town would be very puzzled by the anti-Segway sentiments on Slashdot.
They're located in the "chin" under the display, but oriented such that they point downward (hence the grilles are only visible from the bottom).
Actually the G4 iMacs do have an internal speaker. In fairness I was pretty surprised the day I found that out too (when my buddy's iLamp continued to play music after being unplugged from the stereo)!
Back on topic, colour me extremely suspicious. I've been following the PearPC situation and I agree with the poster above concerning the register issue and Altivec emulation. I will need to see some compelling evidence that the boys in Maui have somehow overcome the laws of physics.
For those familiar with Maui's biggest cash crop ... remember it's harvest time!
"An embarrassment of ... " is an idiomatic expression that indicates "a greater number than is strictly necessary". See for example "an embarrassment of riches ..." etc.
Yep, cause we all know how much venture capitalists like to fund new businesses who sell 5-cent margin products ... that create incalculable future liabilities! ;-)
A few years ago when OS X was new and OmniWeb and IE were it, who would have believed we'd eventually have such an embarrassment of capable browsers on the Mac platform?