I come from a telecommunications background. Putting in a pole-route is quicker and easier than digging a trench. No question. Nowadays, most telecoms cables are buried, which puts them witin reach of problems you'd probably not consider likely. Termites, we discovered, will eat lead sheathing and just about anything else. So will rats. In fact rats will gnaw at anything. Then there are chemicals in the ground. Water is an issue. All our cables were pressurised with air to keep the water out. In short, you can't just bury cables and ignore them.
When I worked for IBM (some years ago) our teller terminals (36XX and 47XX) were just that. At startup they downloaded their microcode from the controller. Purpose-bult machines, not PCs with applications software like some I could mention.
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I've really no trust in feedback in any case. A while back I bought a couple of low-priced items on ebay. The seller informed me that the goods would ship once I posted "good feedback". The rest of the seller's items on ebay were similarly low-value. Feedback-farming, anyone?
The rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what you mean is called "irony". Perhaps you should look that up. Maybe I've stumbled on the reason most Americans don't understand irony.
>If I want to slap another stick of RAM into my machine, I should be able to without being a licensed Apple technician.
You can, dude. Always could. Never seen a Mac I couldn't upgrade. Why do you spread this falshood?
The pre-OSX Macs were a far smaller target, yet there were virii galore.
The Apple IIgs was an even smaller target, and there were virii.
The MacOSX shares a lot in common with the grand array of Unix-based and Unix-like OSs;
five years on and no virii.
Well, of course obscurity/secrecy doesn't work!
That's why my password is "password". Making it secret or obscure just doesn't work.
That's what everybody tells me.
More likely the line would be : "Apple needs to allow Microsoft to run WMA on the iPod. How can the iPod succeed without the support of the dominant media standard?"
The minimum spec PC might well be a branded PC. How about an OSX-ready PC from (oh, I don't know..) HP? That would fix the Driver Problem in one swell foop. It would also prevent the wholesale dilution of Apple's prestige and branding. Probably wouldn't fix the Price Problem, but.
Almost every body in the Solar System shows evidence of large impacts. So if Panspermia is fact then it's probably a case of cross fertilization. Life adapting wherever it eventually finds itself. That also implies that, like evolution, it's still going on!
All this fuss about something "affordable" for the masses.
You don't want to pay for it? How many people want to pay for NASA? Outside this site, not many I'd guess...
It costs the school about $7.50 for a CD of whatever MS product they want. That's posted to them. What it's costing the State in terms of a software licence is another question altogether.
BTW, in Victoria at least, Linux is used for odd jobs like firewall/proxy (Smoothwall) etc. But since that is a turnkey install the Dept techs don't have to get their hands (or minds) dirty.
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We used to ship PS/2s with so little RAM that they couldn't boot OS/2. Not just a tight amount, totally insufficient. All you could boot was DOS.
I come from a telecommunications background. Putting in a pole-route is quicker and easier than digging a trench. No question.
Nowadays, most telecoms cables are buried, which puts them witin reach of problems you'd probably not consider likely.
Termites, we discovered, will eat lead sheathing and just about anything else. So will rats. In fact rats will gnaw at anything. Then there are chemicals in the ground. Water is an issue. All our cables were pressurised with air to keep the water out. In short, you can't just bury cables and ignore them.
It's a meteor in the sky; a meteorite on the ground.
When I worked for IBM (some years ago) our teller terminals (36XX and 47XX) were just that. At startup they downloaded their microcode from the controller. Purpose-bult machines, not PCs with applications software like some I could mention.
A threat of bad feedback got my purcases shipped.
The rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what you mean is called "irony". Perhaps you should look that up. Maybe I've stumbled on the reason most Americans don't understand irony.
> Most site visitors do not vote in the polls. and...?
Huh! Now he tells us!
>If I want to slap another stick of RAM into my machine, I should be able to without being a licensed Apple technician. You can, dude. Always could. Never seen a Mac I couldn't upgrade. Why do you spread this falshood?
The pre-OSX Macs were a far smaller target, yet there were virii galore. The Apple IIgs was an even smaller target, and there were virii. The MacOSX shares a lot in common with the grand array of Unix-based and Unix-like OSs; five years on and no virii.
Well, of course obscurity/secrecy doesn't work! That's why my password is "password". Making it secret or obscure just doesn't work. That's what everybody tells me.
>That's how KGB recruited Philby, Burgess, Maclean and Blake.
The name is Blount, Anthony Blount...
Uh, that's "Works for Sure", dude...
More likely the line would be :
"Apple needs to allow Microsoft to run WMA on the iPod. How can the iPod succeed without the support of the dominant media standard?"
The minimum spec PC might well be a branded PC. How about an OSX-ready PC from (oh, I don't know..) HP?
That would fix the Driver Problem in one swell foop. It would also prevent the wholesale dilution of Apple's prestige and branding. Probably wouldn't fix the Price Problem, but.
When I worked for IBM we had a name for people who bought Version 1.0 of anything: "The Lunatic Fringe".
I believe its application is universal.
Almost every body in the Solar System shows evidence of large impacts. So if Panspermia is fact then it's probably a case of cross fertilization. Life adapting wherever it eventually finds itself. That also implies that, like evolution, it's still going on!
All this fuss about something "affordable" for the masses. You don't want to pay for it? How many people want to pay for NASA? Outside this site, not many I'd guess...
It costs the school about $7.50 for a CD of whatever MS product they want. That's posted to them. What it's costing the State in terms of a software licence is another question altogether. BTW, in Victoria at least, Linux is used for odd jobs like firewall/proxy (Smoothwall) etc. But since that is a turnkey install the Dept techs don't have to get their hands (or minds) dirty.