This is the "anti-abduction" feature, so kidnappers and molesters everywhere can abduct their hostage knowing said hostage can't escape - even if the hostage struggles free.
Seriously - if Ford is the only van that has this "feature" and I was a cop looking for a kidnapper, like during an amber alert, I'd stop every Ford cargo van on the road.
Hey, I work for Publicis...
The CIOs attitude is the issue - Even when they acknowlege it's their bread and butter, it's a dollar issue to them. Clueless on Mac/PC TCO. I have to stop now before I blow a gasket.
TFA is titled "Lamest Technology Mascots" and most of the listed fit the bill - the mac icons on the other hand don't make the list because they're most likely on the "Coolest Technology Mascots" list. Don't be so eager to join something for the sake of it.
My personal fav is the quark alien, he didn't make the list, which is fine, because I think its cool.
The first is that people in the U.S. (the religious are a great place to start - "don't question-follow") are more concerned with their children's goodness than thoughtfulness - if they taught their children critical thinking skills, very few of these censorship issues would be an issue.
The second is banning wiki and other websites only hurts the poor or those who lack resources to do their wiki at home. In NY there are schools (in poor 'hoods) where they have no computers worth using and the encyclopedias are out of date and missing whole sections. These kids have no alternative. Blocking wiki and like sites because some white suburban parent found a pornstars entry is stupid - their kid will find it anyway (see above) and the kid with only school-funded equipment will not even want to start their assignment - how do you keep the playing field level?
Teach your children right from wrong, trust them - dont shelter them behind morality plays. When the time comes they will know what to do, if they dont - blame yourself for not teaching them. Banning information will only hurt those with no alternative access. There are no people who benefit from censorship, but society is damaged irreparably.
In the graphics and animation industry - it's a borderline standard (ok, standard luxury) to have two monitors. The new 30" monitors or dual monitor setup doesn't turn heads where I work, I have two 24" but wish I had one 30". For general computing it really is excessive. I don't know about programmers but I can see where it would come in handy...
One girl I work with uses a single 24" and doesn't use key commands or expose (osx) to switch between open apps - she just shuffles and clicks, all the while comlaining that she can't see or find anything. She refuses to go dual or get a bigger monitor - desk-estate is more important to her than screen-estate but it takes her more time to do simple tasks requiring multiple apps.
Having a manager who refuses to give their workers the proper tools to do their job is a real drag. If you can't see the value in a given piece of hardware or software you shouldn't be a manager.
"I can't understand why someone would buy an Apple for anything... I think it was a very dumb and wasteful thing to do"
I guess you're not getting a job there. Seems like they know something you "can't understand." No Apple zealotry (down mods) required, it's your life, ie: maybe "just as good" isn't "just as good"
You don't know enough people, we use Maya on Mac as does Pixar - apparently dreamworks and disney do as well because thats what they use to teach at Animation Mentor. to quote: "We use Maya for our class examples as we feel it is an industry standard for 3D animation - all our 3D models are Maya based..."
Considering pretty much everyone who teaches there works for Pixar, Disney, Sony, ILM and Dreamworks (and other worthy studios)I'd say thats a ringing endorsement. It's what they use, and want you to use when you get there.
I don't know what you do for a living, or where you went/are going to school, but it sounds like someone isn't soing their job
I hate to use cars as an analogy but TFA doesn't mention OS, and if its just a windows box - that would make it the computing version of a Ferrari chassis and body with a Chevy/Ford/VW engine... For a cool million I would think it should have Linux/Mac/MS running virtual with a Jeff Han/perceptive pixel gui... Seriously - if the craftsmanship and precious materials are the only metric here - its just a case-mod. Who made the mobo and cpu?
SCO Lawyer: Our motion to compel was denied by the judge
Darl McBride: Denied? Inconceivable!
SCO Lawyer: Our sealed motion for reconsideration, which tossed out 187 of SCO's items of allegedly misused materials by IBM, was also denied by the judge
Darl McBride: Denied? Inconceivable!
SCO Lawyer: Most recently, our motion for Motion for Relief for IBM's Spoliation of Evidence was denied by the judge
Darl McBride: Denied? Inconceivable!
IBM Lawyer: You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means...
I guess this guy has never read/heard of groklaw... He probably thought SCO really had something 3 years ago, and now he's on the IBM/Novell bandwagon. Discovery in the IBM case is over and if there was evidence of Microsoft correspondence they would have found it already. PJ's take on the Novell/Microsoft contract is pretty much the opposite and she has a legal backround with OSS experince as well. He's grasping at straws.
You can use Mac the Ripper to rip and encode any region you want/don't want, then use DVD 1x to compress and burn the DVD in a format/resolution that will play on both your laptop and TV/DVD player.
As a bonus you get a backup of whatever DVD you want.
Agreed. I'm sure that if Wal-mart opens itunes kiosks they'll need imacs for publice terminals, xserves and x serve raids... Not to mention the IT/service/genius training and staffing. Steve is not an idiot, and one can never underestimate the Hollywood studios - they'll have a say in this somewhere along the line.
Yeah, read the same article. I was checking through to see if it was already posted and you beat me to it. The whole idea seems repellent, from the article: "But it isn't very appetizing, particularly considering that meat developed in this way is essentially a cultured muscle tumor." Yuck.
But hey, people eat slim jims and all sorts of "mystery meat" so they'll probably eat this stuff too. The new "cloned meat" industry will be quick to get the marketing and flavor/texture perfected... Shades of Invader Zim "space meat", Macmeaties here I come
For almost a year now, everywhere I turn I see an iPod. Even though I myself own one, it's starting to make me resentful. Do people have to be entertained every minute of the day? How much of our life are we willing to spend on distractions?
Your first point is actually a plus for us New Yorkers - I don't have to feel so nervous about getting my ipod ripped off on the subway... It's no longer such a rarity.
Your second point is well taken, it's one thing to take your music with you - quite another to use it block out the world. It's worse than talking to people who wear their dark/mirrored sunglasses all the fsking time (day, night, indoors...) trying to be cool, only slightly less irritating are the people who feel the need to serenade everybody within earshot be it bubblegum, the stones or gangsta
It's not about you, games and DIY are not the market force - corporations are.
Market-share figures includes sales of computers to corporations, which buy hundreds of PC's at a time. And the corporate world long ago standardized on
Windows. It makes no difference how superior Mac OS X or Linux may be; the world's I.T. staffs will switch their entire companies away from Windows the day Rush Limbaugh votes for Hillary Clinton.
After all, the I.T. people know where their bread is buttered. If Macs are indeed less trouble-prone and complex than Windows PC's, they're doomed in corporations; the last thing the I.T. guys want to do is obsolete themselves.
The only legitimate fight, therefore, is for the souls of individuals and small business owners who actually have a choice of platform--people whose computer choice is not dictated by their corporate employers. But these are just market-share scraps.
Apple does seem to be winning the scraps, by the way; Macs have actually picked up a couple of points of market share recently (esp laptops).
But big companies will always buy Windows. The die was cast the day I.B.M., supplier to corporate America, chose Microsoft decades ago. And when you accept that fact, this crap about an Apple-vs.-PC feud is masturbation.
Every internet wannabe buisiness loves the subscription service. All the music companies and movie studios are always trying to push it and they have a random analyst quote saying how great/perfect/wonderful the subscription model is for this company.
All the subscription companies are failing. itunes has their service and the people have voted with their wallets - the people are not attracted to the drm or subscription lock in service but guess what - AOL is dying, the myriad subscription music services aren't getting anywhere but still we read the obligitory analyst quote: "oh this will be a great service" in the financial article of the moment.
So now the new flavor of the month is ad based revenue. Hooray! Even M$ is jumping on that bandwagon. Whatever these guys learn in business school isn't working with the 'net and AOL going to ad based revenue isn't going to help. They fail to understand that people will pay for what they get if the price is fair and its easy - no spam, no drm, simple UI... sort of like shopping in the real world. Imagine if everytime you bought a shirt at Banana Republic you had to pay to get into the store? or the shirt self-destructed if you didn't pay a "user fee" - or how about giant logos?, ok, forget that last one...
These guys would make money if they offered something that the people want - but they think the internet isolates them from reality and allows them to lock people into what the business wants, and it kills them every time. rant/.
Hey we have the same job (almost, NYC?) ~75% mac (a couple of thousand people-advertising). I agree with you on the hinges but I think our disagreement is semantic(the case is a sandwich, yes?). I've taken apart my Ti book for ram and HD uprades (and for friends who wanted the same) and whenever I'd swap for the spare battery and that bottom plate is metal, the later models (mine is the 400mghz) may have gone to plastic (?!) but not mine. I even called pbfixit and the man there confirms bottom metal plate.
I can understand your point if you are coding, browsing or word processing but if you are involved in creating graphics a 16x10 screen is much better than anything else. Everything adobe or quark has palettes that you can place to the left or right of the artboard and leave you with enough visual space to get some work done. With a 3x4 or portrait screen you can't see the artboard for the palettes, not good. The more complicated pivot will eventually wear and develop play, especially in a sub $1000 laptop. With a 15" powerbook I have no need for 17" screen - it's not worth the weight.
No, the top layer and the bezel around the screen were Ti and tne bottom case layer is Ti. The polycarbonate layer ("the white frame") has a Ti top panel surrounding the keyboard. So, most of the visual/tactile surface of Tibooks is Ti.
The Albook is constructed in a similar fashion - the top and bottom case long with the bezel and keyboard layer are AL. I don't know if you've owned either but Ive owned both and they are still in mint condition, of course I tend to be protective/carefull of things I pay that much $$$ for.
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This is the "anti-abduction" feature, so kidnappers and molesters everywhere can abduct their hostage knowing said hostage can't escape - even if the hostage struggles free.
Seriously - if Ford is the only van that has this "feature" and I was a cop looking for a kidnapper, like during an amber alert, I'd stop every Ford cargo van on the road.
Hey, I work for Publicis...
The CIOs attitude is the issue - Even when they acknowlege it's their bread and butter, it's a dollar issue to them. Clueless on Mac/PC TCO. I have to stop now before I blow a gasket.
TFA is titled "Lamest Technology Mascots" and most of the listed fit the bill - the mac icons on the other hand don't make the list because they're most likely on the "Coolest Technology Mascots" list. Don't be so eager to join something for the sake of it.
My personal fav is the quark alien, he didn't make the list, which is fine, because I think its cool.
The first is that people in the U.S. (the religious are a great place to start - "don't question-follow") are more concerned with their children's goodness than thoughtfulness - if they taught their children critical thinking skills, very few of these censorship issues would be an issue.
The second is banning wiki and other websites only hurts the poor or those who lack resources to do their wiki at home. In NY there are schools (in poor 'hoods) where they have no computers worth using and the encyclopedias are out of date and missing whole sections. These kids have no alternative. Blocking wiki and like sites because some white suburban parent found a pornstars entry is stupid - their kid will find it anyway (see above) and the kid with only school-funded equipment will not even want to start their assignment - how do you keep the playing field level?
Teach your children right from wrong, trust them - dont shelter them behind morality plays. When the time comes they will know what to do, if they dont - blame yourself for not teaching them. Banning information will only hurt those with no alternative access. There are no people who benefit from censorship, but society is damaged irreparably.
In light of all your well thought out posts, I feel I must inform you that I ran out of mod points yesterday. Damn.
"...innovate" They keep using that word, I do not think it means what they think it means...
Appologies to Mr Montoya
In the graphics and animation industry - it's a borderline standard (ok, standard luxury) to have two monitors. The new 30" monitors or dual monitor setup doesn't turn heads where I work, I have two 24" but wish I had one 30". For general computing it really is excessive. I don't know about programmers but I can see where it would come in handy...
One girl I work with uses a single 24" and doesn't use key commands or expose (osx) to switch between open apps - she just shuffles and clicks, all the while comlaining that she can't see or find anything. She refuses to go dual or get a bigger monitor - desk-estate is more important to her than screen-estate but it takes her more time to do simple tasks requiring multiple apps.
Having a manager who refuses to give their workers the proper tools to do their job is a real drag. If you can't see the value in a given piece of hardware or software you shouldn't be a manager.
"I can't understand why someone would buy an Apple for anything... I think it was a very dumb and wasteful thing to do"
I guess you're not getting a job there. Seems like they know something you "can't understand." No Apple zealotry (down mods) required, it's your life, ie: maybe "just as good" isn't "just as good"
I left South Park off my previous list - Maya on Mac - for those of you who can't figure out what a machine like this is good for
http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/southpark/
You don't know enough people, we use Maya on Mac as does Pixar - apparently dreamworks and disney do as well because thats what they use to teach at Animation Mentor. to quote: "We use Maya for our class examples as we feel it is an industry standard for 3D animation - all our 3D models are Maya based..."
Considering pretty much everyone who teaches there works for Pixar, Disney, Sony, ILM and Dreamworks (and other worthy studios)I'd say thats a ringing endorsement. It's what they use, and want you to use when you get there.
I don't know what you do for a living, or where you went/are going to school, but it sounds like someone isn't soing their job
I hate to use cars as an analogy but TFA doesn't mention OS, and if its just a windows box - that would make it the computing version of a Ferrari chassis and body with a Chevy/Ford/VW engine... For a cool million I would think it should have Linux/Mac/MS running virtual with a Jeff Han/perceptive pixel gui... Seriously - if the craftsmanship and precious materials are the only metric here - its just a case-mod. Who made the mobo and cpu?
SCO Lawyer: Our motion to compel was denied by the judge
Darl McBride: Denied? Inconceivable!
SCO Lawyer: Our sealed motion for reconsideration, which tossed out 187 of SCO's items of allegedly misused materials by IBM, was also denied by the judge
Darl McBride: Denied? Inconceivable!
SCO Lawyer: Most recently, our motion for Motion for Relief for IBM's Spoliation of Evidence was denied by the judge
Darl McBride: Denied? Inconceivable!
IBM Lawyer: You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means...
Yes, I was too lazy to check out his history. SCO Hasn't been worth more than cursory investigation for awhile.
I guess this guy has never read/heard of groklaw... He probably thought SCO really had something 3 years ago, and now he's on the IBM/Novell bandwagon. Discovery in the IBM case is over and if there was evidence of Microsoft correspondence they would have found it already. PJ's take on the Novell/Microsoft contract is pretty much the opposite and she has a legal backround with OSS experince as well. He's grasping at straws.
You can use Mac the Ripper to rip and encode any region you want/don't want, then use DVD 1x to compress and burn the DVD in a format/resolution that will play on both your laptop and TV/DVD player.
As a bonus you get a backup of whatever DVD you want.
It's a quote from "Team America - world police", from the creators of South Park...
(FYI - no insult implied or lack of irony noted)
Agreed. I'm sure that if Wal-mart opens itunes kiosks they'll need imacs for publice terminals, xserves and x serve raids... Not to mention the IT/service/genius training and staffing. Steve is not an idiot, and one can never underestimate the Hollywood studios - they'll have a say in this somewhere along the line.
I don't know where you live but here in New York it's very 'existant'... and affordable.
Yeah, read the same article. I was checking through to see if it was already posted and you beat me to it. The whole idea seems repellent, from the article: "But it isn't very appetizing, particularly considering that meat developed in this way is essentially a cultured muscle tumor." Yuck.
But hey, people eat slim jims and all sorts of "mystery meat" so they'll probably eat this stuff too. The new "cloned meat" industry will be quick to get the marketing and flavor/texture perfected... Shades of Invader Zim "space meat", Macmeaties here I come
For almost a year now, everywhere I turn I see an iPod. Even though I myself own one, it's starting to make me resentful. Do people have to be entertained every minute of the day? How much of our life are we willing to spend on distractions?
Your first point is actually a plus for us New Yorkers - I don't have to feel so nervous about getting my ipod ripped off on the subway... It's no longer such a rarity.
Your second point is well taken, it's one thing to take your music with you - quite another to use it block out the world. It's worse than talking to people who wear their dark/mirrored sunglasses all the fsking time (day, night, indoors...) trying to be cool, only slightly less irritating are the people who feel the need to serenade everybody within earshot be it bubblegum, the stones or gangsta
It's not about you, games and DIY are not the market force - corporations are.
Market-share figures includes sales of computers to corporations, which buy hundreds of PC's at a time. And the corporate world long ago standardized on Windows. It makes no difference how superior Mac OS X or Linux may be; the world's I.T. staffs will switch their entire companies away from Windows the day Rush Limbaugh votes for Hillary Clinton.
After all, the I.T. people know where their bread is buttered. If Macs are indeed less trouble-prone and complex than Windows PC's, they're doomed in corporations; the last thing the I.T. guys want to do is obsolete themselves.
The only legitimate fight, therefore, is for the souls of individuals and small business owners who actually have a choice of platform--people whose computer choice is not dictated by their corporate employers. But these are just market-share scraps.
Apple does seem to be winning the scraps, by the way; Macs have actually picked up a couple of points of market share recently (esp laptops).
But big companies will always buy Windows. The die was cast the day I.B.M., supplier to corporate America, chose Microsoft decades ago. And when you accept that fact, this crap about an Apple-vs.-PC feud is masturbation.
Every internet wannabe buisiness loves the subscription service. All the music companies and movie studios are always trying to push it and they have a random analyst quote saying how great/perfect/wonderful the subscription model is for this company.
All the subscription companies are failing. itunes has their service and the people have voted with their wallets - the people are not attracted to the drm or subscription lock in service but guess what - AOL is dying, the myriad subscription music services aren't getting anywhere but still we read the obligitory analyst quote: "oh this will be a great service" in the financial article of the moment.
So now the new flavor of the month is ad based revenue. Hooray! Even M$ is jumping on that bandwagon. Whatever these guys learn in business school isn't working with the 'net and AOL going to ad based revenue isn't going to help. They fail to understand that people will pay for what they get if the price is fair and its easy - no spam, no drm, simple UI... sort of like shopping in the real world. Imagine if everytime you bought a shirt at Banana Republic you had to pay to get into the store? or the shirt self-destructed if you didn't pay a "user fee" - or how about giant logos?, ok, forget that last one... These guys would make money if they offered something that the people want - but they think the internet isolates them from reality and allows them to lock people into what the business wants, and it kills them every time. rant/.
You can chek it out here:T itanium_Mercury_Lower_Case.html/
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http://www.ifixit.com/cart/catalog/product_84_G4_
I also helped replace this section on a friends pbook - its a metal plate bonded to the polycarb. If it's not a Ti plate thats my misunderstanding, but it is metal, not plastic:
http://www.ifixit.com/cart/catalog/product_83_G4_
Hey we have the same job (almost, NYC?) ~75% mac (a couple of thousand people-advertising). I agree with you on the hinges but I think our disagreement is semantic(the case is a sandwich, yes?). I've taken apart my Ti book for ram and HD uprades (and for friends who wanted the same) and whenever I'd swap for the spare battery and that bottom plate is metal, the later models (mine is the 400mghz) may have gone to plastic (?!) but not mine. I even called pbfixit and the man there confirms bottom metal plate.
I can understand your point if you are coding, browsing or word processing but if you are involved in creating graphics a 16x10 screen is much better than anything else. Everything adobe or quark has palettes that you can place to the left or right of the artboard and leave you with enough visual space to get some work done. With a 3x4 or portrait screen you can't see the artboard for the palettes, not good. The more complicated pivot will eventually wear and develop play, especially in a sub $1000 laptop. With a 15" powerbook I have no need for 17" screen - it's not worth the weight.
No, the top layer and the bezel around the screen were Ti and tne bottom case layer is Ti. The polycarbonate layer ("the white frame") has a Ti top panel surrounding the keyboard. So, most of the visual/tactile surface of Tibooks is Ti.
The Albook is constructed in a similar fashion - the top and bottom case long with the bezel and keyboard layer are AL. I don't know if you've owned either but Ive owned both and they are still in mint condition, of course I tend to be protective/carefull of things I pay that much $$$ for.