There is, the power switch has three positions... off, sequential, shuffle. In either mode, hitting the play/pause button three times rapidly takes you to the top of the playlist.
The feature you missed for the shuffle is "tight iTunes integration", which (reasonably or not) is high on the required-features list for users who enjoy the Apple experience.
[Disclaimer: I'm a user who enjoys the Apple experience, and was recently given a shuffle (my first iPod) as a present, and I'm very happy with it.]
That is exactly how I think about it. I bought my first Mac (12" PB) 18 months ago, and haven't looked back... the only downside is, it makes me get extra-frustrated much faster when I have to work on Windows issues in the line of work.
According to this press release, VSCS offers "an operational availability of 0.9999999."
Someone check my math, but that appears to come out as 3.16 seconds annually, so their 3-hour outage burned up all their allowed downtime for the next 3,422 years.
So it should be quite safe to fly now, statistically speaking.
yeah, I was thinking about the same thing... basically leaving it open and just doing stuff like limiting outbound 25 to a trickle to keep spammers away. but then they started lighting up the whole city, so I doubt I'm gonna bother at this point.
I've had that idea myself, but I've read nothing but horror stories about people that have actually tried it... e.g., the winners of this year's Wi-Fi Shootout at Defcon:
"We were going to war-drive around Cincinnati and find unencrypted wireless access points," Corrado said. "We knocked on people's doors and asked if (they) wanted us to encrypt them, and they just got all freaked out. So we were searching for other things to do with the equipment we had just purchased."
The part that's really a shame, is that none of those kids are still consistently making elegant hardware anymore. Sure, they have a score now and then (I remember being really blown away when SGI came out with NUMAflex a few years ago), but mostly it's just... eh, too-expensive prices for mediocre design. If I want to pay too-expensive prices, I'd rather buy Apple.
Ideally you wouldn't see your harddrive thrash when booting...
actually, Darwin/OS X has a really nifty feature called BootCache that collects information at boot time and primes the read-ahead on subsequent boots to smooth things out... everyone found out the hard way when it was mildly broken in an update to 10.2 exactly how much difference it makes (it knocks about 2/3 off the boot time of my PowerBook).
see Amit Singh's excellent article for more info, there's a chunk on BootCache at the bottom of this page.
I've been using 1600x1200 on my desktop since... a really suave Tektronix X terminal I had as a co-op at Cisco in like '95. I've weaseled a way to have it at every job, and I have my very own 21" FD Trinitron at home. When you're programming or doing systems administration, having a huge landscape is a plus.
So when I finally let myself buy a 12" PowerBook a couple of months ago... I started out with the Sony hooked up and an external keyboard and mouse when I was at my desk. I went through the usual novelty period of using both displays, but within a few weeks I noticed that my monitor was sitting there just showing off its wallpaper 99% of the time, and I was doing all my work on the LCD. I turned the monitor off about a month ago, and haven't used it since.
The reasons as I see them, in retrospect:
- Overall ergonomics: My PowerBook is comfortable to use as-is. More parts just make it more complicated. I do continue to use an outboard mouse.
- Display quality: Side-by-side, I think the LCD looks better. I've always liked the precision of LCD, and coupled with well-anti-aliased text, it's my display of choice.
- Transparency: I thought it was going to be another one of those novelty phases... but I very quickly got into the habit of reading the documentation in the browser in the background while working in the transparent terminal above it. It's actually more efficient, I think... no more eyes darting around looking for things, it's all stacked up.
I was specifically looking for a 12" Apple... I wanted something I could throw in my bookbag and take everywhere. I thought I was going to feel cramped on the screen (1024x768? I'm not a peasant!)... but just the opposite, I'm more comfortable on my PowerBook than I have ever been elsewhere. I work on it 8-12 hours a day, and couldn't be happier.
So that's my $0.02--maybe you wouldn't be so unhappy with it, after all. Too bad there's no 2-week test drive option.
If you stick to your theater, then it's time to find a new theater. I pay a premium to see decent films at The Bridge, but I'm never disappointed. Well, in the theater, anyway.
- Archival quality ink - Consistent ink flow to the last stroke - Will not smear or feather when dry - Waterproof and chemical proof - Fade resistant - Does not bleed through most papers - Meets ASTM and ACMI non-toxicity standard
Available at any art supply or hobby store, and a lot of other places.
I had an 80 MB SanDisk card that I used in my camera die after about 3 years of moderate-to-heavy use. One day the camera just started saying "CF Error" when you tried to write to it, and when I tried to use it in my USB card reader (SanDisk reader, XP laptop), it locked the whole laptop up (on several attempts). There was no losing capacity or data, it just 100% gave up all of a sudden.
I'd be scared to store mail that way... but how about loading into a ramdisk at boot from CF, and running from ramdisk, with a periodic rsync or something to CF? That will give you a measure of permanence while still cutting back substantially on the writes.
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Then why didn't the pick ADM?!?!?!?!
Because they need to process data speedily, not soybeans.
The technology I hear mentioned most often with reference to authentic prints from digital is "micro light valve array".
No argument from me in principle... I'm just saying there are some of us that consciously choose to get locked in to Apple, and we're OK with it.
There is, the power switch has three positions... off, sequential, shuffle. In either mode, hitting the play/pause button three times rapidly takes you to the top of the playlist.
The feature you missed for the shuffle is "tight iTunes integration", which (reasonably or not) is high on the required-features list for users who enjoy the Apple experience.
[Disclaimer: I'm a user who enjoys the Apple experience, and was recently given a shuffle (my first iPod) as a present, and I'm very happy with it.]
That is exactly how I think about it. I bought my first Mac (12" PB) 18 months ago, and haven't looked back... the only downside is, it makes me get extra-frustrated much faster when I have to work on Windows issues in the line of work.
if they're hooked on virtual desktops, get them a copy of Desktop Manager... best solutions I've found for OS X so far.
yeah, the proxy change is a great idea... thanks!
According to this press release, VSCS offers "an operational availability of 0.9999999."
Someone check my math, but that appears to come out as 3.16 seconds annually, so their 3-hour outage burned up all their allowed downtime for the next 3,422 years.
So it should be quite safe to fly now, statistically speaking.
yeah, I was thinking about the same thing... basically leaving it open and just doing stuff like limiting outbound 25 to a trickle to keep spammers away. but then they started lighting up the whole city, so I doubt I'm gonna bother at this point.
I've had that idea myself, but I've read nothing but horror stories about people that have actually tried it... e.g., the winners of this year's Wi-Fi Shootout at Defcon:
"We were going to war-drive around Cincinnati and find unencrypted wireless access points," Corrado said. "We knocked on people's doors and asked if (they) wanted us to encrypt them, and they just got all freaked out. So we were searching for other things to do with the equipment we had just purchased."
From this story at Wired News...
No, bash 3.0 is not compliant with RFC 2324.
The part that's really a shame, is that none of those kids are still consistently making elegant hardware anymore. Sure, they have a score now and then (I remember being really blown away when SGI came out with NUMAflex a few years ago), but mostly it's just... eh, too-expensive prices for mediocre design. If I want to pay too-expensive prices, I'd rather buy Apple.
just fine, thanks!
in fact, apples + pork rules. applewood smoked bacon, anyone?
Ideally you wouldn't see your harddrive thrash when booting...
actually, Darwin/OS X has a really nifty feature called BootCache that collects information at boot time and primes the read-ahead on subsequent boots to smooth things out... everyone found out the hard way when it was mildly broken in an update to 10.2 exactly how much difference it makes (it knocks about 2/3 off the boot time of my PowerBook).
see Amit Singh's excellent article for more info, there's a chunk on BootCache at the bottom of this page.
That last paragraph just about made me cry... it's so very, very nice to see that someone still gets it.
The dirt in Utah is pretty reddish, isn't it?
(I'm really not being a little shit, I just like word jokes.)
I more or less agree with this post, flamebait as it may be.
I've been using 1600x1200 on my desktop since... a really suave Tektronix X terminal I had as a co-op at Cisco in like '95. I've weaseled a way to have it at every job, and I have my very own 21" FD Trinitron at home. When you're programming or doing systems administration, having a huge landscape is a plus.
So when I finally let myself buy a 12" PowerBook a couple of months ago... I started out with the Sony hooked up and an external keyboard and mouse when I was at my desk. I went through the usual novelty period of using both displays, but within a few weeks I noticed that my monitor was sitting there just showing off its wallpaper 99% of the time, and I was doing all my work on the LCD. I turned the monitor off about a month ago, and haven't used it since.
The reasons as I see them, in retrospect:
- Overall ergonomics: My PowerBook is comfortable to use as-is. More parts just make it more complicated. I do continue to use an outboard mouse.
- Display quality: Side-by-side, I think the LCD looks better. I've always liked the precision of LCD, and coupled with well-anti-aliased text, it's my display of choice.
- Tabs: My browser, my instant messenger of choice, and my terminal program all do tabs. For me, they let me organize what I'm doing far better than real estate ever did.
- Transparency: I thought it was going to be another one of those novelty phases... but I very quickly got into the habit of reading the documentation in the browser in the background while working in the transparent terminal above it. It's actually more efficient, I think... no more eyes darting around looking for things, it's all stacked up.
I was specifically looking for a 12" Apple... I wanted something I could throw in my bookbag and take everywhere. I thought I was going to feel cramped on the screen (1024x768? I'm not a peasant!)... but just the opposite, I'm more comfortable on my PowerBook than I have ever been elsewhere. I work on it 8-12 hours a day, and couldn't be happier.
So that's my $0.02--maybe you wouldn't be so unhappy with it, after all. Too bad there's no 2-week test drive option.
If you mean this Word, then yeah... that's a great way to lose data.
If you stick to your theater, then it's time to find a new theater. I pay a premium to see decent films at The Bridge, but I'm never disappointed. Well, in the theater, anyway.
I swear by Sakura Color Products Gelly Roll pens:
(from the web site)
- Archival quality ink
- Consistent ink flow to the last stroke
- Will not smear or feather when dry
- Waterproof and chemical proof
- Fade resistant
- Does not bleed through most papers
- Meets ASTM and ACMI non-toxicity standard
Available at any art supply or hobby store, and a lot of other places.
now that's a clever idea... I'd sit around WAITING for spam, just to have interesting data to poke at.
I had an 80 MB SanDisk card that I used in my camera die after about 3 years of moderate-to-heavy use. One day the camera just started saying "CF Error" when you tried to write to it, and when I tried to use it in my USB card reader (SanDisk reader, XP laptop), it locked the whole laptop up (on several attempts). There was no losing capacity or data, it just 100% gave up all of a sudden.
I'd be scared to store mail that way... but how about loading into a ramdisk at boot from CF, and running from ramdisk, with a periodic rsync or something to CF? That will give you a measure of permanence while still cutting back substantially on the writes.