Well, weather permitting, I would have to say the grass _does_ seem greener on our side of the fence.
An example of free speech: we don't get called unpatriotic and/or labelled a terrorist (and thus have almost all personal rights revoked) for saying that our political leader is a dickhead. I would even dare say that it's a necessity to question the competence of our leaders, otherwise they would get away with worse stuff than they do now.
Um. I just got to see two frames before "loss of data" and those two frames really looked like "water approaching" and "under water". I sure hope it's transmission trouble and that the pilot is OK...
I've always found it hilarious what they actually *beep* out of a British TV show... They can curse all they want, but they can't say: "Oh my G*beep*" What's in the 'G' word that's so offensive?
In some cases, higher power is good too, specially in this case where it also means you can charge it quickly.
It would allow, for example, to make electric cars that you can charge in a couple of minutes while you're paying for the "gas" at the register. Or would it be much of a stretch to include charging stations in conjunction with parking meters?
How about putting a small gas-powered generator to charge the batteries on long trips?
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You're forgetting one thing as well:
If MacOSX/x86 runs Windows software flawlessly, where's the incentive to port your app natively to OSX? Write your programs for windows, and they'll run on both windows AND OSX/x86. That's not a good thing. OSX is all about consistency, user interface guidelines, and core functionnality that people take for granted (common keyboard shortcuts, Services, etc). The emulated apps offer none of that, but the developers will be able to claim that their apps run on OSX.
Thanks that's a godsend! Unfortunately though, the last update was in october 2004 for 2K and August 2004 for XP. I wish they could be more up-to-date, mind you just that will have saved me hours of patch-finding. As I said in my original post, M$ could easily do something like this and keep it up to date every other week. Why don't they?:(
Every time I visit family, I make it a point to bring all the updates they could possibly need for their computer. (That, and bringing along new versions of firefox). It's a pain trying to figure out which updates they have, and which ones they don't and I end up spending an hour locating them all. Unfortunately, most of those I visit don't have broadband, so downloading 200 megs from WU doesn't work.
On the other side of the fence, MacOSX updates always have a Combo version containing ALL previous updates, which I find wonderful for quick deployment and updates of multiple systems. When installing a new system, for example, I run my install CDs, then run the one updater. Done. On windoze, I run the installer, have to install hundreds of updates OR run WU several times in a row to make sure the system is patched.
Anyways. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it wouldn't be too hard to write a script (at M$) that would add every new update to a Combo update (similarly to how you add a file to a tar file) and a special installer to handle it all without user intervention. So why don't they do it? It's not like they lack the money to hire some student to write it in a weekend...
Oh boy, now you've done it. You're promoting the use of deadly weapons, and linking to a site selling them. The feds will be knocking at your door in five... four... three... two...
Take a look at what happened on Apple's side of the fence in the last couple of years. The G4 was lagging in speed. So they started offering out-of-the-box SMP offerings. This brought SMP into the hands of any mere mortal who could afford one (i.e. no special home-built config. You want the fastest mac? get a PowerMac)
Now, software developers had no choice but to build their apps multithreaded if they wanted to keep their clientele coming. But even more interesting is that the OS became more and more SMP-aware, to the level that many single-threaded apps could profit from this (sound, graphics, interface, etc offloaded to another CPU).
What dual-core CPUs will do is help more software be SMP aware. Developers usually want their apps to perform well. If the MHz stop climbing, they'll have no choice but to optimize their apps. So the OS will be multithreaded, the apps will be multithreaded. Soon enough, computers with a single-CPU will be considered outdated. And thus the chicken-egg problem will be solved:)
What he might be trying to say is that if you forget to enter your card number, even if you're 12 minutes late, ALL your minutes are erased from the database, even if you had 80$ accumulated. That's how it work with Fido in Canada. You just have to keep feeding it, even if you have plenty of talking time left.
Just as a quick reference, here are our prepaid card values:
15c/minute: 15$/15 days; 30$/30 days
30c/minute: 10$/30 days; 25$/60 days
5c/min night&wkds, 40c/min otherwise: 20$/15 days; 40$/40days
I don't talk much either, so it isn't rare that I'd have 15 dollars left over from a 25$ card. But I still lose it all if my memory fails me and I don't buy a new card.
Same here! I wish there was a fix for that. This happens on both 2K and xp. It's really annoying, trying to stay up-to-date but getting a list of software that grows longer and longer...
.Mac is by no means necessary. All ISPs give an email address out to their customers.
OS upgrade? The machine will keep on working even when Tiger ships. Why would the target audience even consider upgrading the OS? Security updates? Those come for free via Software Update. By the way, don't forget the annoucement that MacOSX 'upgrades' will be less frequent from now on.
So. Basically we're looking at 13$/mo for a limited access to the 'net. You can get dialup for less than that.
All this to say that, for the same price or less, you can get something off the shelf that will likely have a longer lifespan and will not be limited to the few tasks this box is made for.
Monitor extra. Keyboard extra. Mouse extra. That's another $200 or so. Much more if you buy an Apple display. The Apple Mini comes in somewhere around $700.
Are you forgetting the 13$ per month subscription fee? That adds up to 150+$/year. Use it more than a year and you get your monitor, keyboard and mouse for free. That, and you have a much more capable computer.
Here's an excerpt of a paper I wrote a while back:
The physical phenomenon responsible for converting light to electricity -- the photovoltaic (PV) effect -- was first observed in 1839 by French physicist Edmond Becquerel, when he noted that two identical electrodes in a weak conducting solution would produce a voltage if one of the two electrodes was iluminated [1]. Later, W.G. Adams and R.E. Day (1877) observed the effect in a solid, selenium [4].
Concerning overpopulation: This pill won't stop women from becoming infertile at around 50. And I don't think any woman will want to be pregnant 30 times in a row at the start of their lives.
"The biology of the individual has changed over time due to evolution/devolution" [...] "That means people prone to frostbite and chills and compromised immune systems in cold weather are more likely to pass on their jeans."
I think anyone who pass on their jeans when it's really cold out will get frost bites. Parts fall off. No more children. Natural selection. QED.;)
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In the same train of thought, here's more proof that Apple is evil ;)
Well, weather permitting, I would have to say the grass _does_ seem greener on our side of the fence.
An example of free speech: we don't get called unpatriotic and/or labelled a terrorist (and thus have almost all personal rights revoked) for saying that our political leader is a dickhead. I would even dare say that it's a necessity to question the competence of our leaders, otherwise they would get away with worse stuff than they do now.
And so the employer would promptly reply "2,000$ to support IE? well, 80% of our visitors use it, so forget about CSS".
Any one else read this as "Lab-Made Firewall may be a black hole" ?
Considering the reliability of my ISP in the last few weeks, I simply figured that's what they were experimenting with...
Here's a mirror for the home page and the full-sized trailer:
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Homepage
Trailer (.mov)
I'd post a torrent but I don't have a tracker... Perhaps Slashdot should run one for things like these
Um. I just got to see two frames before "loss of data" and those two frames really looked like "water approaching" and "under water". I sure hope it's transmission trouble and that the pilot is OK...
I've always found it hilarious what they actually *beep* out of a British TV show... They can curse all they want, but they can't say: "Oh my G*beep*"
What's in the 'G' word that's so offensive?
Been there, done that.
Among the features for older models: "Shuffle Songs selection in Main Menu".
In some cases, higher power is good too, specially in this case where it also means you can charge it quickly.
It would allow, for example, to make electric cars that you can charge in a couple of minutes while you're paying for the "gas" at the register.
Or would it be much of a stretch to include charging stations in conjunction with parking meters?
How about putting a small gas-powered generator to charge the batteries on long trips?
You're forgetting one thing as well:
If MacOSX/x86 runs Windows software flawlessly, where's the incentive to port your app natively to OSX? Write your programs for windows, and they'll run on both windows AND OSX/x86. That's not a good thing. OSX is all about consistency, user interface guidelines, and core functionnality that people take for granted (common keyboard shortcuts, Services, etc). The emulated apps offer none of that, but the developers will be able to claim that their apps run on OSX.
Thanks that's a godsend! :(
Unfortunately though, the last update was in october 2004 for 2K and August 2004 for XP. I wish they could be more up-to-date, mind you just that will have saved me hours of patch-finding. As I said in my original post, M$ could easily do something like this and keep it up to date every other week. Why don't they?
Every time I visit family, I make it a point to bring all the updates they could possibly need for their computer. (That, and bringing along new versions of firefox). It's a pain trying to figure out which updates they have, and which ones they don't and I end up spending an hour locating them all.
Unfortunately, most of those I visit don't have broadband, so downloading 200 megs from WU doesn't work.
On the other side of the fence, MacOSX updates always have a Combo version containing ALL previous updates, which I find wonderful for quick deployment and updates of multiple systems. When installing a new system, for example, I run my install CDs, then run the one updater. Done. On windoze, I run the installer, have to install hundreds of updates OR run WU several times in a row to make sure the system is patched.
Anyways. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it wouldn't be too hard to write a script (at M$) that would add every new update to a Combo update (similarly to how you add a file to a tar file) and a special installer to handle it all without user intervention. So why don't they do it? It's not like they lack the money to hire some student to write it in a weekend...
egg freckles?
Oh boy, now you've done it. You're promoting the use of deadly weapons, and linking to a site selling them. The feds will be knocking at your door in five... four... three... two...
Actually, it does have only one button.
Take a look at what happened on Apple's side of the fence in the last couple of years. The G4 was lagging in speed. So they started offering out-of-the-box SMP offerings. This brought SMP into the hands of any mere mortal who could afford one (i.e. no special home-built config. You want the fastest mac? get a PowerMac)
:)
Now, software developers had no choice but to build their apps multithreaded if they wanted to keep their clientele coming. But even more interesting is that the OS became more and more SMP-aware, to the level that many single-threaded apps could profit from this (sound, graphics, interface, etc offloaded to another CPU).
What dual-core CPUs will do is help more software be SMP aware. Developers usually want their apps to perform well. If the MHz stop climbing, they'll have no choice but to optimize their apps. So the OS will be multithreaded, the apps will be multithreaded. Soon enough, computers with a single-CPU will be considered outdated. And thus the chicken-egg problem will be solved
What he might be trying to say is that if you forget to enter your card number, even if you're 12 minutes late, ALL your minutes are erased from the database, even if you had 80$ accumulated. That's how it work with Fido in Canada. You just have to keep feeding it, even if you have plenty of talking time left.
Just as a quick reference, here are our prepaid card values:
15c/minute: 15$/15 days; 30$/30 days
30c/minute: 10$/30 days; 25$/60 days
5c/min night&wkds, 40c/min otherwise: 20$/15 days; 40$/40days
I don't talk much either, so it isn't rare that I'd have 15 dollars left over from a 25$ card. But I still lose it all if my memory fails me and I don't buy a new card.
Same here! I wish there was a fix for that. This happens on both 2K and xp. It's really annoying, trying to stay up-to-date but getting a list of software that grows longer and longer...
OK. I'll grant you the ISP charges. BUT:
.Mac is by no means necessary. All ISPs give an email address out to their customers.
OS upgrade? The machine will keep on working even when Tiger ships. Why would the target audience even consider upgrading the OS? Security updates? Those come for free via Software Update. By the way, don't forget the annoucement that MacOSX 'upgrades' will be less frequent from now on.
So. Basically we're looking at 13$/mo for a limited access to the 'net. You can get dialup for less than that.
All this to say that, for the same price or less, you can get something off the shelf that will likely have a longer lifespan and will not be limited to the few tasks this box is made for.
Are you forgetting the 13$ per month subscription fee? That adds up to 150+$/year. Use it more than a year and you get your monitor, keyboard and mouse for free.
That, and you have a much more capable computer.
Concerning overpopulation: This pill won't stop women from becoming infertile at around 50. And I don't think any woman will want to be pregnant 30 times in a row at the start of their lives.
"The biology of the individual has changed over time due to evolution/devolution" [...] "That means people prone to frostbite and chills and compromised immune systems in cold weather are more likely to pass on their jeans."
;)
I think anyone who pass on their jeans when it's really cold out will get frost bites. Parts fall off. No more children. Natural selection. QED.