Good point:) But some cables just love to hang... And also, some cables come at a premium in cost for the long variety (i.e. 6-pin isolated firewire cables longer than 3ft, etc)... Can't wait to see them in person though! As I said, I'll wait to see them before passing a definitive judgement...
Looking at this picture, I don't want to imagine what an iMac setup would look like once you get some peripherals plugged in. Say you plug in a printer, a scanner, a digital camera dock, and iPod dock, some amplified speakers, your ethernet cable, perhaps the phone cable for faxing, and a firewire hard disk, that thing will have 8 cables just hanging there, on the side of the machine, with no support whatsoever. And since there's nothing below the connectors but thin air, what the user will see is a bunch of cables just hanging from the back of the machine. I'm no design engineering guru, but that wasn't too well thought-out, was it? Notice that all the photos are of the iMac with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. They should've put the connectors on the stand, near the bottom. Or in the middle of the screen, with a cable guide on the stand.
But as always, I'll wait to see one in person before passing a definitive judgement. I was wronged by the previous iMacs' pictures, this might be no different.
Specially considering that their explanation for the good looks are the 'beautiful' gloss-white bezel and the chrome latch-thing... These Mebius are truly ugly if you ask me...
Now what if you had a hybrid car that you could plug in at night to charge it up for the next work day? Can this be done with current hybrids? For short distances, it might be able to run without ever turning on the engine.
In places such as Quebec where close to 100% of our power comes from hydroelectricity, this might turn out to be cheaper to the customer, and better for the environment, while still allowing us to fill up at a gas station for a long cross-country trip.
However, in areas where speed bumps are actually USEFUL, like stopping mad drivers from running over schoolchildren (for example), then this might spell bad news.
On the other hand, it might help with the massive potholes we have here in Montreal. I got to sit inside a Mini Cooper as its power steering was getting knocked out by one of them. I got to feel it up my butt, all the way up my spine, and into my shoulders. I ached for a day...
I think many people feel they've nothing to hide and would opt for this payment plan if it can save them significant amounts of money. And as long as it is voluntary (i.e. you can always go with a flat rate), I don't see a problem with it.
Well obviously, if you want to go with the 'flat rate', it's because you know you're a bad driver and have something to hide. Thus, the flat rate will cost you more. Do you really think that insurance companies have your best interest in mind? They're after all the money they can get and will make sure that there is no reasonable way to opt out.
I hear it takes a lot of power to make solar panels, and that a panel will almost never generate over its lifetime the power that was put into building it. Is this factory using solar power to make their solar panels? If so, would it mean that they've finally got a "green" way of making them?
Also take note that the 14" models have higher-capacity batteries. I've been surprised on many occasions to find my laptop asking me to plug it in after a full days' work (I'd forgotten to plug it in the morning).
What troubles me is that he's using RF-generating equipment in a hostpital... Any one know if 802.11 interferes with sensitive medical equipment as much as cell phones do? Probably not, but just curious...
"BTW, I do know the real Moore's Law is about the number of transistors on a chip and not speed, but the two have been synonymous in the public's mind since the 80s."
Actually, now that functionality/performance is more important than MHz alone, perhaps Moore's law will finally regain its TRUE meaning. i.e. more SIMD instructions, multiple cores, better performance at same MHz by using more transistors.
Help me out here: I must have missed the part where Apple told anyone what they can or cannot do with the hardware they've purchased.
Why yes, yes you have. Check out Apple's iPod Product Page:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
"Audio Support: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV"
Nope! Don't see "reversed engineered Real DRM that might not be entirely compliant". Now if Real sold music that was transferrable to any of those formats, that would be a different story entirely.
Don't update the firmware to your iPod, specially if people say that it breaks Real. That way the hacked-up-and-maybe-not-entirely-compliant-DRM that Real will have sold you will keep on working. It's better to let the customers know NOW that what they buy on rhapsody is at their own risk. No guarantees. At least Apple has the guts to say so, even though it may make them look bad. Real doesn't.
Apple has nothing to lose by having other stores, since they're not making much money out of theirs anyways. But if customers call in to complain that Joe's Music Mart Online's music with Botched-DRM 2000(tm) no longer works after an iPod firmware update, guess who the customer is mad at?
Oh and another thing.
Out of the box, most of the video features (specially video-out) didn't work. Calling tech support for two hours had me downloading several bios updates and drivers. And to this day, mirroring STILL doesn't work. Should they be advertising features that don't work out of the box?
My dad, who has a full service contract on his latitude D800 laptop (i.e. they come to his workplace to fix it) was asked to take his laptop apart and pull the modem adapter out, and try to place it back in when it would fail to connect. When he told them he didn't have the screwdriver (nor the expertise) to do any of that, he was told to go buy an appropriate screwdriver, and call them back so they would guide him.
Needless to say, I told him to call back, b1tch and complain and actually send a guy in to fix his laptop as per the service contract.
Turns out it was windoze XP that was screwing up. Now what would've happened if he'd fried his laptop with static electricity while trying to do the operation? Would they've fixed it? Provided him with a replacement, AND a backup of ALL his work-related data?
The problem, though, is not the chip itself, but the manufacturing process. IBM has the highest-tech manufacturing plant for CPUs, yet the 90nm bump has them stumped. If Apple were to design their CPU, they'd still have to send them to SOMEONE to have them fabbed.
Now, I won't proclaim to know ANYTHING about insomnia, but I've always wondered if there was a relation with the sleep pattern. Most animals don't sleep a whole night and stay awake for 16 hours, they sleep in 'naps' instead, spread throughout the day. Have you tried a similar pattern of sleep?
Here's a link to my previous post about this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=110863&cid=940 9523
I'd be curious to see how this works. Also, it'd probably be wise to follow the instructions of the previous posters: No caffeine, drugs, alcohol, etc... Good luck!!
The electrical power requirements of running 20 pentium 70s vs one 1.4GHz duron would probably make the duron more cost effective in the long run anyways, even if the hardware is free to begin with.
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I've run ieradicator on my win2k box here, and windows update works just fine. It leaves the rendering engine on the machine so that apps that use it (such as WU) still work.
The really great part though is that windoze cannot change my default browser anymore!!
But the difference is in multitasking. I can do MANY MORE THINGS simultaneously on my macs (G4 tower 466, G3 iBook 900) than on any of my XP boxen (up to 2.7GHz). Start a few downloads, run a virus scan, and windows update, and the machine screeches to a halt, with even the cursor lagging at times.
On my macs, I can do all of the above, and then some, and STILL perceive the same responsiveness level.
That, to me, makes a HUGE difference.
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Good point :)
But some cables just love to hang... And also, some cables come at a premium in cost for the long variety (i.e. 6-pin isolated firewire cables longer than 3ft, etc)...
Can't wait to see them in person though! As I said, I'll wait to see them before passing a definitive judgement...
Looking at this picture, I don't want to imagine what an iMac setup would look like once you get some peripherals plugged in.
Say you plug in a printer, a scanner, a digital camera dock, and iPod dock, some amplified speakers, your ethernet cable, perhaps the phone cable for faxing, and a firewire hard disk, that thing will have 8 cables just hanging there, on the side of the machine, with no support whatsoever. And since there's nothing below the connectors but thin air, what the user will see is a bunch of cables just hanging from the back of the machine. I'm no design engineering guru, but that wasn't too well thought-out, was it? Notice that all the photos are of the iMac with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
They should've put the connectors on the stand, near the bottom. Or in the middle of the screen, with a cable guide on the stand.
But as always, I'll wait to see one in person before passing a definitive judgement. I was wronged by the previous iMacs' pictures, this might be no different.
Specially considering that their explanation for the good looks are the 'beautiful' gloss-white bezel and the chrome latch-thing...
These Mebius are truly ugly if you ask me...
Now what if you had a hybrid car that you could plug in at night to charge it up for the next work day? Can this be done with current hybrids? For short distances, it might be able to run without ever turning on the engine.
In places such as Quebec where close to 100% of our power comes from hydroelectricity, this might turn out to be cheaper to the customer, and better for the environment, while still allowing us to fill up at a gas station for a long cross-country trip.
However, in areas where speed bumps are actually USEFUL, like stopping mad drivers from running over schoolchildren (for example), then this might spell bad news.
On the other hand, it might help with the massive potholes we have here in Montreal. I got to sit inside a Mini Cooper as its power steering was getting knocked out by one of them. I got to feel it up my butt, all the way up my spine, and into my shoulders. I ached for a day...
Well obviously, if you want to go with the 'flat rate', it's because you know you're a bad driver and have something to hide. Thus, the flat rate will cost you more.
Do you really think that insurance companies have your best interest in mind? They're after all the money they can get and will make sure that there is no reasonable way to opt out.
I've asked my girlfriend many times about involving a third body, but she consistently refuses.
I hear it takes a lot of power to make solar panels, and that a panel will almost never generate over its lifetime the power that was put into building it.
Is this factory using solar power to make their solar panels? If so, would it mean that they've finally got a "green" way of making them?
Also take note that the 14" models have higher-capacity batteries. I've been surprised on many occasions to find my laptop asking me to plug it in after a full days' work (I'd forgotten to plug it in the morning).
What troubles me is that he's using RF-generating equipment in a hostpital... Any one know if 802.11 interferes with sensitive medical equipment as much as cell phones do? Probably not, but just curious...
Actually, now that functionality/performance is more important than MHz alone, perhaps Moore's law will finally regain its TRUE meaning. i.e. more SIMD instructions, multiple cores, better performance at same MHz by using more transistors.
"Audio Support: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV"
Nope! Don't see "reversed engineered Real DRM that might not be entirely compliant". Now if Real sold music that was transferrable to any of those formats, that would be a different story entirely.
Don't update the firmware to your iPod, specially if people say that it breaks Real. That way the hacked-up-and-maybe-not-entirely-compliant-DRM that Real will have sold you will keep on working. It's better to let the customers know NOW that what they buy on rhapsody is at their own risk. No guarantees. At least Apple has the guts to say so, even though it may make them look bad. Real doesn't.
Apple has nothing to lose by having other stores, since they're not making much money out of theirs anyways. But if customers call in to complain that Joe's Music Mart Online's music with Botched-DRM 2000(tm) no longer works after an iPod firmware update, guess who the customer is mad at?
The same Propellerheads that brought us Spybreak used in the Matrix movie.
From their disk titled "decksanddrumsandrockandroll"
Funny thing is, all this (written above) is WITH the dell-supplied adapter.
Oh and another thing. Out of the box, most of the video features (specially video-out) didn't work. Calling tech support for two hours had me downloading several bios updates and drivers. And to this day, mirroring STILL doesn't work.
;)
Should they be advertising features that don't work out of the box?
Ah. That felt good. Thanks for listening Doctor
My dad, who has a full service contract on his latitude D800 laptop (i.e. they come to his workplace to fix it) was asked to take his laptop apart and pull the modem adapter out, and try to place it back in when it would fail to connect. When he told them he didn't have the screwdriver (nor the expertise) to do any of that, he was told to go buy an appropriate screwdriver, and call them back so they would guide him.
Needless to say, I told him to call back, b1tch and complain and actually send a guy in to fix his laptop as per the service contract.
Turns out it was windoze XP that was screwing up. Now what would've happened if he'd fried his laptop with static electricity while trying to do the operation? Would they've fixed it? Provided him with a replacement, AND a backup of ALL his work-related data?
The problem, though, is not the chip itself, but the manufacturing process. IBM has the highest-tech manufacturing plant for CPUs, yet the 90nm bump has them stumped. If Apple were to design their CPU, they'd still have to send them to SOMEONE to have them fabbed.
Now, I won't proclaim to know ANYTHING about insomnia, but I've always wondered if there was a relation with the sleep pattern. Most animals don't sleep a whole night and stay awake for 16 hours, they sleep in 'naps' instead, spread throughout the day. Have you tried a similar pattern of sleep?
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Here's a link to my previous post about this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=110863&cid=94
I'd be curious to see how this works. Also, it'd probably be wise to follow the instructions of the previous posters: No caffeine, drugs, alcohol, etc...
Good luck!!
The electrical power requirements of running 20 pentium 70s vs one 1.4GHz duron would probably make the duron more cost effective in the long run anyways, even if the hardware is free to begin with.
Hi
I've run ieradicator on my win2k box here, and windows update works just fine. It leaves the rendering engine on the machine so that apps that use it (such as WU) still work.
The really great part though is that windoze cannot change my default browser anymore!!
So. How safe is it to talk on your cellphone, accidently turn on the projector and get someone in the eye?
I never said Apple invented the thing. All I said is that OSX is much more efficient at it that XP is.
/. crowd, so I changed it...
As for the 'boxen', I originally wrote 'boxes' but then figured I was dealing with the
But the difference is in multitasking. I can do MANY MORE THINGS simultaneously on my macs (G4 tower 466, G3 iBook 900) than on any of my XP boxen (up to 2.7GHz). Start a few downloads, run a virus scan, and windows update, and the machine screeches to a halt, with even the cursor lagging at times.
On my macs, I can do all of the above, and then some, and STILL perceive the same responsiveness level.
That, to me, makes a HUGE difference.
I was under the impression that the cable line for the space elevators were to be made of carbon nanotubes. AFAIK, these are excellent conductors.