is to get a bunch of people on the shoreline and have them all blow really hard(Sorry, I couldn't think of a way to phrase the previous sentence that WASNT a double entendre.)
Actually, time machine can use any non-bootable partition. You could partition the iMac's hd so that you could have say a 20 gig partition for OS X and associated apps and the rest as a time machine partition for all your data. So why is apple saying you have to have an external hard drive? 3 reasons:
1. They are billing it as the ultimate backup system. If you have your time machine partition on the same drive as your data, it would help if you accidentally nuke something that you needed, or want to go back to what you did last week, but if your drive dies then you are SOL.
2. Simplicity is Apple's goal. Most of their users don't know or care what a partition is. For the geeks that do, there are tools available and they can make multiple partitions on their disk and use time machine without an external drive, but for most users that would just get in the way of the whole "the computer is an appliance" theme that Apple has going.
3. External disks tend to be larger than the disks Apple ships in its machines(esp. the notebooks). If you enable time machine on your main partition, it will probably end up filling up faster than usual, which means that you have to delete stuff to add new apps, upload new photos etc. Also, full hard drives can have an impact on performance, so its better to push that off to an external drive.
Keep in mind that Apple does make the whole external hd easier....if you use wireless and have their 802.11n router. You can hook up a USB(firewire?) drive to the router and share it with anyone that is authorized to be on the network(security implications be damned!) They also set up time machine so that multiple users can use the same disk as their time machine disk, so if you have multiple computer users in the house all you have to do is buy one big disk and share it with everyone. Can make life a little simpler.
It used to be that for software anyway, the student discounts represented a significant savings, which was great for poor college students. But starting with iWork and iLife it seems that the student discount is only about 10%. So whereas Tiger cost $69 for the edu version, Leopard costs $116.....
since it costs roughly $50k/yr for prisoners, and we have 2 of them at 5 years....Prison is not the answer in this case. For a lot less money we could restrict them to house arrest, monitor their movement to enforce it, and ban them from contact with any personal computer unless needed for their job and approved by the feds. They still are punished, the taxpayers pay a lot less money, and they don't have to go to prison. If they violate that, THEN put them in jail, but I don't see how putting these 2 people, scum though they may be, in prison is really going to help anyone....or deter spamming for that matter. Prison should be for violent or repeat offenders only.
Well, if something implanted itself in you, started sucking massive amounts of your nutrients, caused you to vomit, and caused extreme discomfort, etc. wouldn't you call that thing a "disease":P
To quote The Onion: "Woman overjoyed about uterine parasite"
Hi, I'm from the ---ox corporation and I am here to explain how this works:
First, the machine ----------- in your documen-- and using --------------eats--------ba----------------bies and of course you can be ---% satisfied that we will ----- your documents and your -------- is very important to us! Hope that helps ----------- up!
for fucking up the 2000 campaign so badly that George W. Bush actually had a chance at winning?(Note, I didn't say he won) That election should have been Gore's for the taking, but instead of campaigning on what he did and what he stood for he just seemed to live in constant fear of the rightwing media and foolishly listened to their advice and kowtowed to their demands.....and now look what we have, maybe the worst president in US history......peace maker indeed.
You are overlooking a huge benefit of flash drives, namely that they consume less power. Maybe not a huge concern on the desktop, but if flash drives can improve notebook battery life significantly there will be a lot of people clamoring for them.
Obviously he is going to have to start a world tour now. Goatse man on the Great Wall of China, in front of the Taj Mahal, outside the Japanese imperial palace etc.
Dick Cheney didn't want anyone to know that California actually exists(and if people cannot know about it, then their congressmen go away) so he arbitrarily declared it to be top secret.
the DS and PSP are obviously easier to ban because everyone knows what they look like and that they have wireless, but for most electronics, can you really tell just by taking a look at them whether or not they have wireless? For example, some mp3 players have wireless, some don't. Other than perhaps Zune(and who actually has one of those?) and the iPod touch(which could be an iPhone in airplane mode once it reaches Japan:P) I doubt very many flight attendants could tell you on the spot whether or not a given device is wireless or not. So if they cannot enforce the ban, why have it at all? You are just going to make people angry without adding any safety.
But this does make the environmentalist in me happy, maybe more people will take the train vs. a plane for domestic travel, and having lived in Europe, the US and Japan, I can say that the Japanese is by far the best. Though one thing I still cannot understand in both Europe and Japan is why are plane tickets more often than not cheaper than train tickets?
the walkman is now in just about last place in the portable audio world. Even in their native Japan Sony portable music devices are losing tons of ground to Apple, an American company. Why? Well 2 reasons:
1) Sony's love of proprietary standards and only supporting them
2) Shit like this, Sony's recording division seems to have undue influence over its hardware divisions
That means that most Sony digital music players are incredibly frustrating/expensive to use. When the market was first starting to get big for these types of devices all of Sony's offerings seemed to make it hard/impossible to copy music you got outside of their store to your device. You either had to convert to their proprietary ATRAC which was annoying or you might not be able to play it at all. They may have made things a bit better by now, but thats like closing the barn after the cow is already out.....
(and a disclaimer, yes I know not every muslim country has vast amounts of oil, but many do and have an inordinate influence)
Oil rich countries can buy massive amounts of technology(including advanced weaponry) without having to ever invent any of it, somewhat rare if not totally unique in the modern world. Thus for many governments, there seems to be very little need to develop technology indigenously. This seems especially true in the case of the Saudis whose legitimacy in the eyes of many in the muslim world(they oversee the holiest places in Islam) seems to be largely dependent on their hardline Islamic views which means Madrassas and knowledge of Islam, not science, is th e most important thing to them. They can defend themselves from any threats(mostly Iran) without developing the know-how to engineer weapons themselves. Very few other civilizations in history could ever get away with that....
Not to mention the fact that the previous gen iMac had an optional card that actually significantly outperforms the current generation of iMacs by a significant amount when it comes to gaming. I just don't get Apple's strategy here. On one hand you make a huge deal at the WWDC about game development(including having CEOs of 2 big gaming companies come to speak), but then the first computer you release post WWDC is actually SLOWER at playing games than the model it replaced! Not to mention you are right about the mac pros, paying top dollar for video cards that are going on 2 years old is insane. The macbook pro video card isn't too bad as far as laptop video cards go, but the macbook pro isn't cheap either.
Maybe Steve is brooding in his ivory tower in Cupertino over some master plan for the mac that will make our tiny heads spin, but otherwise I just don't get what Apple is trying to do here.
Not to mention, at least where i worked at, most of the non-wait staff only gets a straight wage, a wage that is in most cases significantly lower than what the waitstaff makes. The people who actually cook your food, wash all the crap you leave behind etc get stiffed while the waitress, who btw doesn't work any harder for a $10 meal than she does a $30 but gets paid 3x as much for the latter, doesn't cook your food, doesn't for the most part have to deal with bits of food stuck on plates and all the other nasty stuff, but gets paid the most. I have been living in Europe/Japan for most of the past 4 years and not having to tip here(though I usually will round up to the next euro when paying the bill) is so refreshing. Maybe that is one of the reasons the food tastes better here. People can actually be a cook and not be stuck making 1/3 of what the wait staff is making.
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is to get a bunch of people on the shoreline and have them all blow really hard(Sorry, I couldn't think of a way to phrase the previous sentence that WASNT a double entendre.)
Or howabout more environmentally friendly and fuel efficient modes of transport, ie rail.
So you are asking China to fund TWO space programs :P
story that actually tells you all that comes with it(256 meg memory card, but no hd, to store games on)
So you are calling Canadians dumb then?
Yeah, but the original Zelda had betting guys with fixed patterns. Once you figured those out it was REAL easy to max out on rupees.
Actually, time machine can use any non-bootable partition. You could partition the iMac's hd so that you could have say a 20 gig partition for OS X and associated apps and the rest as a time machine partition for all your data. So why is apple saying you have to have an external hard drive? 3 reasons:
1. They are billing it as the ultimate backup system. If you have your time machine partition on the same drive as your data, it would help if you accidentally nuke something that you needed, or want to go back to what you did last week, but if your drive dies then you are SOL.
2. Simplicity is Apple's goal. Most of their users don't know or care what a partition is. For the geeks that do, there are tools available and they can make multiple partitions on their disk and use time machine without an external drive, but for most users that would just get in the way of the whole "the computer is an appliance" theme that Apple has going.
3. External disks tend to be larger than the disks Apple ships in its machines(esp. the notebooks). If you enable time machine on your main partition, it will probably end up filling up faster than usual, which means that you have to delete stuff to add new apps, upload new photos etc. Also, full hard drives can have an impact on performance, so its better to push that off to an external drive.
Keep in mind that Apple does make the whole external hd easier....if you use wireless and have their 802.11n router. You can hook up a USB(firewire?) drive to the router and share it with anyone that is authorized to be on the network(security implications be damned!) They also set up time machine so that multiple users can use the same disk as their time machine disk, so if you have multiple computer users in the house all you have to do is buy one big disk and share it with everyone. Can make life a little simpler.
It used to be that for software anyway, the student discounts represented a significant savings, which was great for poor college students. But starting with iWork and iLife it seems that the student discount is only about 10%. So whereas Tiger cost $69 for the edu version, Leopard costs $116.....
since it costs roughly $50k/yr for prisoners, and we have 2 of them at 5 years....Prison is not the answer in this case. For a lot less money we could restrict them to house arrest, monitor their movement to enforce it, and ban them from contact with any personal computer unless needed for their job and approved by the feds. They still are punished, the taxpayers pay a lot less money, and they don't have to go to prison. If they violate that, THEN put them in jail, but I don't see how putting these 2 people, scum though they may be, in prison is really going to help anyone....or deter spamming for that matter. Prison should be for violent or repeat offenders only.
Well, if something implanted itself in you, started sucking massive amounts of your nutrients, caused you to vomit, and caused extreme discomfort, etc. wouldn't you call that thing a "disease" :P
To quote The Onion: "Woman overjoyed about uterine parasite"
no boudoir photos of cowboy Neal up for auction?
Hi, I'm from the ---ox corporation and I am here to explain how this works:
First, the machine ----------- in your documen-- and using --------------eats--------ba----------------bies and of course you can be ---% satisfied that we will ----- your documents and your -------- is very important to us! Hope that helps ----------- up!
Would the pun "You have alzheimers but you just don't know it yet!" be considered poor taste in this context?
Or Kissenger? Or ask any Korean how they feel about Theodore Roosevelt winning the prize...you aren't likely to get a very positive response.
for fucking up the 2000 campaign so badly that George W. Bush actually had a chance at winning?(Note, I didn't say he won) That election should have been Gore's for the taking, but instead of campaigning on what he did and what he stood for he just seemed to live in constant fear of the rightwing media and foolishly listened to their advice and kowtowed to their demands.....and now look what we have, maybe the worst president in US history......peace maker indeed.
You are overlooking a huge benefit of flash drives, namely that they consume less power. Maybe not a huge concern on the desktop, but if flash drives can improve notebook battery life significantly there will be a lot of people clamoring for them.
Obviously he is going to have to start a world tour now. Goatse man on the Great Wall of China, in front of the Taj Mahal, outside the Japanese imperial palace etc.
Dick Cheney didn't want anyone to know that California actually exists(and if people cannot know about it, then their congressmen go away) so he arbitrarily declared it to be top secret.
the DS and PSP are obviously easier to ban because everyone knows what they look like and that they have wireless, but for most electronics, can you really tell just by taking a look at them whether or not they have wireless? For example, some mp3 players have wireless, some don't. Other than perhaps Zune(and who actually has one of those?) and the iPod touch(which could be an iPhone in airplane mode once it reaches Japan :P) I doubt very many flight attendants could tell you on the spot whether or not a given device is wireless or not. So if they cannot enforce the ban, why have it at all? You are just going to make people angry without adding any safety.
But this does make the environmentalist in me happy, maybe more people will take the train vs. a plane for domestic travel, and having lived in Europe, the US and Japan, I can say that the Japanese is by far the best. Though one thing I still cannot understand in both Europe and Japan is why are plane tickets more often than not cheaper than train tickets?
the walkman is now in just about last place in the portable audio world. Even in their native Japan Sony portable music devices are losing tons of ground to Apple, an American company. Why? Well 2 reasons:
1) Sony's love of proprietary standards and only supporting them
2) Shit like this, Sony's recording division seems to have undue influence over its hardware divisions
That means that most Sony digital music players are incredibly frustrating/expensive to use. When the market was first starting to get big for these types of devices all of Sony's offerings seemed to make it hard/impossible to copy music you got outside of their store to your device. You either had to convert to their proprietary ATRAC which was annoying or you might not be able to play it at all. They may have made things a bit better by now, but thats like closing the barn after the cow is already out.....
that are supposed to live there. I heard there are some really nice ones there. Thats what that guy with that kazak dog told me anyway......
(and a disclaimer, yes I know not every muslim country has vast amounts of oil, but many do and have an inordinate influence)
Oil rich countries can buy massive amounts of technology(including advanced weaponry) without having to ever invent any of it, somewhat rare if not totally unique in the modern world. Thus for many governments, there seems to be very little need to develop technology indigenously. This seems especially true in the case of the Saudis whose legitimacy in the eyes of many in the muslim world(they oversee the holiest places in Islam) seems to be largely dependent on their hardline Islamic views which means Madrassas and knowledge of Islam, not science, is th e most important thing to them. They can defend themselves from any threats(mostly Iran) without developing the know-how to engineer weapons themselves. Very few other civilizations in history could ever get away with that....
Not to mention the fact that the previous gen iMac had an optional card that actually significantly outperforms the current generation of iMacs by a significant amount when it comes to gaming. I just don't get Apple's strategy here. On one hand you make a huge deal at the WWDC about game development(including having CEOs of 2 big gaming companies come to speak), but then the first computer you release post WWDC is actually SLOWER at playing games than the model it replaced! Not to mention you are right about the mac pros, paying top dollar for video cards that are going on 2 years old is insane. The macbook pro video card isn't too bad as far as laptop video cards go, but the macbook pro isn't cheap either.
Maybe Steve is brooding in his ivory tower in Cupertino over some master plan for the mac that will make our tiny heads spin, but otherwise I just don't get what Apple is trying to do here.
Not to mention, at least where i worked at, most of the non-wait staff only gets a straight wage, a wage that is in most cases significantly lower than what the waitstaff makes. The people who actually cook your food, wash all the crap you leave behind etc get stiffed while the waitress, who btw doesn't work any harder for a $10 meal than she does a $30 but gets paid 3x as much for the latter, doesn't cook your food, doesn't for the most part have to deal with bits of food stuck on plates and all the other nasty stuff, but gets paid the most. I have been living in Europe/Japan for most of the past 4 years and not having to tip here(though I usually will round up to the next euro when paying the bill) is so refreshing. Maybe that is one of the reasons the food tastes better here. People can actually be a cook and not be stuck making 1/3 of what the wait staff is making.
and start singing naked karaoke, is he?