eek -- just replying to kill my mod ("redundant" instead of "interesting") -- apparently the new beta discussion system mods instantly, so i can no longer click randomly and scroll down the list to the correct mod! i don't like that at all...
I'm rather stumped what this wide variety of configurations is that you speak of.
Mac OS works fine on all recently released Macs, meaning dozens of mainboards and video cards, and will work fine on systems to come. USB and Firewire peripherals are all supported. All hard drives and most memory brands work fine.
Seems to me all they'd have to do is charge equipment manufactures for the privilege of a "Designed for Mac!" seal, and add a little line of code to the new hardware dialog which indicates whether or not the hardware is something that has been tested and approved, and if it hasn't been, make you e-sign an EULA which says any problems that come are not covered under Applecare, and they'd be better off returning it for a certified piece. So they'd lose out on the $300 markup on 25% of their systems for people who would rather buy a (shudder) Dell...but gain a free $50 from the millions of people who would switch over in droves on Dell boxen. Massive profit gain, with the only downside being a slight loss in public love when people blame them for their DOA Dell boxen.
no, i really think Macs aren't universal for one lonely reason: they *like* being a boutique company, and like the shiny image it gives them. the only thing that would make them change would be if the execs wanted more money.
Rob's database is also crucial because different cards excel with different manufacturers -- the differing write acceleration specs aren't implemented uniformly.
If someone is stupid enough to click on anything he receive from IM and has the right to install programs, he is screwed whatever its OS.
except, on a Mac, before it does anything vicious you have to give your login password to the sudo command window. Vista will (fina-freaking-lly) have this, but, if it doesn't improve dramatically from the beta, those windows will have popped up so often that people will just click through. On my Mac, when that window pops up, I *notice* -- since it's quite rare. so the true idiots will still get smacked...but the general public will have to do quite a bit more to actively screw their system.
I dunno -- I'd think after 3 months of a shady guy sitting in a truck outside my cafe, even if he'd been doing *nothing*, I'd be mighty suspicious. How many teenage girls hang out in coffeeshops? At some point, there's a "this guy is really freaking the customers out" justification for having the police stop in and see what's going on.
Yeah, okay. And what part of creating a fountain in Vegas out of Coke and breath mints has anything to do with scientific discovery, exactly?
for the doers, nothing; for the watchers, nothing; for the watcher's children who run out and try it for themselves and start to think chemistry is cool and start paying attention in class...a great deal. stupid science is probably the leading cause of interest in real science (at least, the explosive kind).
Sure, asinine ISP "A" will put the brakes on data from source X but the word will get around and over time customers will move to alternative ISP "B" where the data is moving faster. While not everyone has access to multiple suppliers it seems to me that there is pretty healthy competition in this market and, best of all, for many customers it really isn't too hard to switch suppliers.
Which is precisely why AOL went out of business in '01, when other ISP's were offering much faster service for lower prices. What holds true in cars doesn't for people looking to get on "that cool interweb thingie." Tiering would be amazingly effective, simply because content providers know most of their customers are idiots, and without paying the protection money, they Really Will Think "that enternet is taking a long time today, huh?"
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Mildly interesting to see what's happened to Apple [google.com] and Creative's [google.com] stock since the two announcements (looks like Apple's lost ~4% & Creative ~2.5%)
coincidental, not necessarily causal...the entire Nasdaq/Dow, as well as Europe and Japan, have been plunging for the last week.
also -- remember "normal" does NOT mean "absent," but rather, within the spec expected from this tower at this distance. and that spec was provided by manufacturers who have almost no data on long-term pathology. so at the moment "normal" has little correlation (bad or good -- research could, theoretically, indicate we can take a lot more) with "safe" during extended exposure.
intendo understands why I got into games to begin with - social interaction with people in the room.
indeed. halo...how i love halo. but i have to admit -- silly little sidescroller Super Smash Brothers and all the various MarioKart/MarioTennis etc got gamecubes in lots and lots of dorms, and unlike halo, the girls would play, and unlike halo, there would be laughter and side-conversations during play. x-box is great for immersion...but as much as i've smacked on the puny power of the gamecube...Nintendo is especially gifted at making playtime...playful.
the problem with generic product names here, though, is that they lack a logical increment signifier in a strongly incremental field -- with cars, you have a very simple system: car line, plus model year -- you know Q-Turbo9000 2006 came after the 2005. But tell me now: which is newer/faster? Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955? Intel Pentium 4 670? Intel Pentium M 770? Intel Xeon 3.0? the numbers run differently in every line, with no discernable (to the consumer) relation.
bingo. and in the pro photography forums, there was a massive flurry of interest, followed by a massive flurry of disinterest...current "th3 l34t3st" RAW converter threads don't even mention Aperture -- they talk Adobe Camera Raw, Bibble, C1, etc. And the eye-rolling at Aperture from the pro community wasn't for the lack of "punch" so much as the severely immature retouching tools and frequent artifacting (artifacts=junk not from the RAW data) -- basically you had a (very innovative) version of IPhoto masquerading as a Photoshop killer, and priced to the latter.
now -- at a lower price point, and with a v2.0 that includes proper infinite adjustment layers (stackable curves, levels, screens, overlays, multiplies, etc) with the built-in versioning and efficient thumbnail tagging -- well, then the pros will come bounding...assuming, of course, Lightroom doesn't plunder the whole market.
then perhaps i'm referring to the wrong thing -- what i mean is having to enter the root password to install new programs or change system settings, rather than just hit "ok."
precisely!
in my experience, windows auto-update has solved more problems than anything else, and the rest came from the lack of unix-level file permissions. firewalls are (very) nice and all...but they're too easily toasted with email-borne viruses and the like, which would become the weapon of choice if better firewalls came into play. it was the soggy unupdated system pool and the "click here to hose your computer!" IE buttons that really caused the current mess, imho.
so what you need is a *hybrid* diesel, so the electric side can heat and otherwise prep the incoming fuel when the car is first turned on, allowing the diesel to only operate at its optimum performance level...
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eek -- just replying to kill my mod ("redundant" instead of "interesting") -- apparently the new beta discussion system mods instantly, so i can no longer click randomly and scroll down the list to the correct mod! i don't like that at all...
no they're not!
We're already on Gen 1.1 of the MacBook Pro -- all three of the megaproblems (processor whine, screen whine, and faulty batteries) are being fixed under recall, and new models are now (finally) rock-solid and problem-free. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303 365 and https://support.apple.com/macbookpro15/batteryexch ange/
I'm rather stumped what this wide variety of configurations is that you speak of.
Mac OS works fine on all recently released Macs, meaning dozens of mainboards and video cards, and will work fine on systems to come. USB and Firewire peripherals are all supported. All hard drives and most memory brands work fine.
Seems to me all they'd have to do is charge equipment manufactures for the privilege of a "Designed for Mac!" seal, and add a little line of code to the new hardware dialog which indicates whether or not the hardware is something that has been tested and approved, and if it hasn't been, make you e-sign an EULA which says any problems that come are not covered under Applecare, and they'd be better off returning it for a certified piece. So they'd lose out on the $300 markup on 25% of their systems for people who would rather buy a (shudder) Dell...but gain a free $50 from the millions of people who would switch over in droves on Dell boxen. Massive profit gain, with the only downside being a slight loss in public love when people blame them for their DOA Dell boxen.
no, i really think Macs aren't universal for one lonely reason: they *like* being a boutique company, and like the shiny image it gives them. the only thing that would make them change would be if the execs wanted more money.
2.: Place Mac Mini on top of iMac.
Rob's database is also crucial because different cards excel with different manufacturers -- the differing write acceleration specs aren't implemented uniformly.
herm...point taken...
or, more simply, have the installer block all ports and programs except the installer until the install finishes.
I dunno -- I'd think after 3 months of a shady guy sitting in a truck outside my cafe, even if he'd been doing *nothing*, I'd be mighty suspicious. How many teenage girls hang out in coffeeshops? At some point, there's a "this guy is really freaking the customers out" justification for having the police stop in and see what's going on.
Yes.
also -- remember "normal" does NOT mean "absent," but rather, within the spec expected from this tower at this distance. and that spec was provided by manufacturers who have almost no data on long-term pathology. so at the moment "normal" has little correlation (bad or good -- research could, theoretically, indicate we can take a lot more) with "safe" during extended exposure.
*can* be?
the problem with generic product names here, though, is that they lack a logical increment signifier in a strongly incremental field -- with cars, you have a very simple system: car line, plus model year -- you know Q-Turbo9000 2006 came after the 2005. But tell me now: which is newer/faster? Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955? Intel Pentium 4 670? Intel Pentium M 770? Intel Xeon 3.0? the numbers run differently in every line, with no discernable (to the consumer) relation.
bingo. and in the pro photography forums, there was a massive flurry of interest, followed by a massive flurry of disinterest...current "th3 l34t3st" RAW converter threads don't even mention Aperture -- they talk Adobe Camera Raw, Bibble, C1, etc. And the eye-rolling at Aperture from the pro community wasn't for the lack of "punch" so much as the severely immature retouching tools and frequent artifacting (artifacts=junk not from the RAW data) -- basically you had a (very innovative) version of IPhoto masquerading as a Photoshop killer, and priced to the latter.
now -- at a lower price point, and with a v2.0 that includes proper infinite adjustment layers (stackable curves, levels, screens, overlays, multiplies, etc) with the built-in versioning and efficient thumbnail tagging -- well, then the pros will come bounding...assuming, of course, Lightroom doesn't plunder the whole market.
then perhaps i'm referring to the wrong thing -- what i mean is having to enter the root password to install new programs or change system settings, rather than just hit "ok."
precisely!
in my experience, windows auto-update has solved more problems than anything else, and the rest came from the lack of unix-level file permissions. firewalls are (very) nice and all...but they're too easily toasted with email-borne viruses and the like, which would become the weapon of choice if better firewalls came into play. it was the soggy unupdated system pool and the "click here to hose your computer!" IE buttons that really caused the current mess, imho.
prior art? clearly you mean preemptive patent infringement.
better than the parallel-universe headline: study shows screeners oblivious to obvious bombs in test images...
so what you need is a *hybrid* diesel, so the electric side can heat and otherwise prep the incoming fuel when the car is first turned on, allowing the diesel to only operate at its optimum performance level...