Completely agree. While it's just so cool, it's much smoother to have it turned off. UI elements moving around as you mouse over other ones is distracting.
In fact, Google's Mac port of their desktop search program was first only hinted at, and then cancelled as Spotlight grew nearer. They know when to stay out of something not worth their time.
Silly boy, it doesn't cost $2000. To run HL2 etc. you need only a GF4 to run acceptably. Nowadays GF5s sell for a hundred bucks or so. Most PCs coming out, intended for office work or internet use, have very good CPU and memory stats, so all you're paying for is the card.
Google works on the principle of ranking sites higher up for every site that links to them (using the keywords you're searching for). So if there is a ToS present, less people will link to them and their PageRank will fall like a ton of bricks.
Automated replies are often useful. If the human customer reps are going to just dole out the same answers over and over, they're no more useful than automatic replies, but a whole lot more expensive.
The professor reads the paper and assigns a grade based in part upon the quality of the paper, but in part on preconceived notions of that student's performance. It's human nature.
It's a good thing our University's exams and courseworks are marked anonymously, then.
You do realise it's a SUBSET of the slashdot population complaining about ASP being garbage, and a perhaps different SUBSET taking OSS software bugs without complaint. There are NO double standards if you stop looking at Slashdot as one person with one brain and a million voices.
My 12" iBook cost £650 with the educational discount, and that's as much as a similar notebook of that size (maybe slightly faster). The main factors were the easy wireless (you just select a network and bam, it connects) and the 5-6 hour battery life, as well as OS X's fabled ease of use.
Your drawbacks are trivial. Compatibility and lack of apps really isn't an issue of OS X... everything I've looked for, I've found a Mac port for. The only exception is a purchase of Office 2003 (which is just as beautiful and usable as the rest of OS X) but if you can't get that, AppleWorks is included, or OpenOffice.
I'd been using iTunes on Windows for a year or so so it was no problem. I ditched Mail and got Thunderbird as well as Firefox, but Safari is fairly respectable. Terminal ansi colours? Screen lag? Wtf? If you're realy getting heavy with the text based stuff, as you mention in your mail client choice, put a laptop in Linux. If you're not using the GUI then of course it isn't worth $1200.
As I said, I didn't notice the 'lack of software'. My uses are obviously different from yours, though. I found emulators, most open source games, a very good calendar app (iCal), a decent movie player to replace QuickTime (mplayer, with built-in support for most formats) and XCode, but if you don't like that use Eclipse or whatever. It's got development covered very well.
So it really depends - you do seem ill-suited for it, but don't blame the iBook. Blame your lack of research first, since you would have quickly found out that Apple's software doesn't cover all your needs.
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However, while NAND is the cheapest gate to make with silicon, it's quite a hefty Lego structure. So alternatives would be more desirable.
33mb here after several hours of browsing. Unless you've been opening a lot of pr0n in tabs (I'm just going by your nickname:P) since it has known memory leak problems.
And yet my university, among others, insists on blocking it. It's the only thing they block through the HTTP proxy.
Ironically the first.torrent I tried to download was legal, and I come across about 4-5 files a week that I'd want to download, and are legal, but are filtered.
The only way I see around it, short of simply asking other people to send you the file (since BitTorrent traffic itself is, ridiculously, not blocked) is to download it through an HTTPS proxy. I have not yet found a web-based free HTTPS proxy that allows you to download torrents, though.
I have a standard password suffix, then add a unique word (related to the site or service in question) before it. That way, none of my passwords are identical but I can remember them all.
Example: your password suffix is 'rabbit', your slashdot password is 'nerdrabbit' or 'slashrabbit', gmail could be 'gmailrabbit' etc. Simply pick the first word that comes to your head as a prefix, that way chances are if you forget what the word is you can rely on it being the first one you think of.
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Completely agree. While it's just so cool, it's much smoother to have it turned off. UI elements moving around as you mouse over other ones is distracting.
In fact, Google's Mac port of their desktop search program was first only hinted at, and then cancelled as Spotlight grew nearer. They know when to stay out of something not worth their time.
FYI, since you have the italic tag at your disposal, there's no need for _underscores_ :)
A whois lookup for every single domain visited is going to take a lot of servers to sustain.
That's because Slashdot is ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1), not Unicode like IDN.
Gee, that's great, but what does it have to do with the discussion? Other than you bragging about how many figures you have, that is.
Strangely enough, he's married :) But probably still in his parents' basement, good point.
Exactly. So he either has to switch back to laptop only and change the details, then switch again, or just tell them to look away.
Silly boy, it doesn't cost $2000. To run HL2 etc. you need only a GF4 to run acceptably. Nowadays GF5s sell for a hundred bucks or so. Most PCs coming out, intended for office work or internet use, have very good CPU and memory stats, so all you're paying for is the card.
Which is often a lot cheaper than a console.
The playlist is for him, not you.
You mean... AllOfMp3's insanely cheap, Russian-hosted mp3s aren't entirely legal? I'm shocked!
It's about contracting the PC muscle, you dolt.
Google works on the principle of ranking sites higher up for every site that links to them (using the keywords you're searching for). So if there is a ToS present, less people will link to them and their PageRank will fall like a ton of bricks.
Automated replies are often useful. If the human customer reps are going to just dole out the same answers over and over, they're no more useful than automatic replies, but a whole lot more expensive.
The professor reads the paper and assigns a grade based in part upon the quality of the paper, but in part on preconceived notions of that student's performance. It's human nature.
It's a good thing our University's exams and courseworks are marked anonymously, then.
It's in the works. There's an extension that makes the body ID of each page equal to its URL, e.g.
... } I think they've currently settled on @location(){}
body#www-google-com a { color: orange; }
Also in the works is a block to do the same thing, similar to @media screen {
"that support (more than 5% of) CSS"
Then it's no longer water :)
You do realise it's a SUBSET of the slashdot population complaining about ASP being garbage, and a perhaps different SUBSET taking OSS software bugs without complaint. There are NO double standards if you stop looking at Slashdot as one person with one brain and a million voices.
My 12" iBook cost £650 with the educational discount, and that's as much as a similar notebook of that size (maybe slightly faster). The main factors were the easy wireless (you just select a network and bam, it connects) and the 5-6 hour battery life, as well as OS X's fabled ease of use.
Your drawbacks are trivial. Compatibility and lack of apps really isn't an issue of OS X... everything I've looked for, I've found a Mac port for. The only exception is a purchase of Office 2003 (which is just as beautiful and usable as the rest of OS X) but if you can't get that, AppleWorks is included, or OpenOffice.
I'd been using iTunes on Windows for a year or so so it was no problem. I ditched Mail and got Thunderbird as well as Firefox, but Safari is fairly respectable. Terminal ansi colours? Screen lag? Wtf? If you're realy getting heavy with the text based stuff, as you mention in your mail client choice, put a laptop in Linux. If you're not using the GUI then of course it isn't worth $1200.
As I said, I didn't notice the 'lack of software'. My uses are obviously different from yours, though. I found emulators, most open source games, a very good calendar app (iCal), a decent movie player to replace QuickTime (mplayer, with built-in support for most formats) and XCode, but if you don't like that use Eclipse or whatever. It's got development covered very well.
So it really depends - you do seem ill-suited for it, but don't blame the iBook. Blame your lack of research first, since you would have quickly found out that Apple's software doesn't cover all your needs.
However, while NAND is the cheapest gate to make with silicon, it's quite a hefty Lego structure. So alternatives would be more desirable.
I think it's hypothetical; most users are going to have to kill pop-ups all the time due to the fast spyware infection rates.
Or perhaps he's forced to use MS stuff at work... some policies won't allow any toolbars etc. to be installed.
33mb here after several hours of browsing. Unless you've been opening a lot of pr0n in tabs (I'm just going by your nickname :P) since it has known memory leak problems.
And yet my university, among others, insists on blocking it. It's the only thing they block through the HTTP proxy.
.torrent I tried to download was legal, and I come across about 4-5 files a week that I'd want to download, and are legal, but are filtered.
Ironically the first
The only way I see around it, short of simply asking other people to send you the file (since BitTorrent traffic itself is, ridiculously, not blocked) is to download it through an HTTPS proxy. I have not yet found a web-based free HTTPS proxy that allows you to download torrents, though.
I have a standard password suffix, then add a unique word (related to the site or service in question) before it. That way, none of my passwords are identical but I can remember them all.
Example: your password suffix is 'rabbit', your slashdot password is 'nerdrabbit' or 'slashrabbit', gmail could be 'gmailrabbit' etc. Simply pick the first word that comes to your head as a prefix, that way chances are if you forget what the word is you can rely on it being the first one you think of.