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It seems to me that most of the smell of urine is from the piss all over the walls and floor because men in a public bathroom can't seem to aim to save their life. Either that or the urinial design is such that 90% of the stream splatters back all over the floor and your light-tan slacks so you walk out of the bathroom looking like you've been in a rainstorm. At home I always sit down to pee because I'd rather take an extra few seconds to sit than spend my time wiping up the urine spray all over the place.
My college girlfriend (yeah, yeah, I'm a geek, and I had one...) and I found a paper bag that was full of xeroxes of a woman masturbating with a soy sauce bottle. So, what did my girlfriend do? Later on, she gave me a present, a pack of xeroxes of her masturbating on the copy machine. She was a hot one. Too bad she was a psychology major...
I doubt you'd be able to hide the hardware, but I wonder how hard it would be to detect the extra capacitance of the probe and switch back in the 'approved' firmware.
With electronic voting machines, there are no recounts. Asking the computer to spit the answer back at you again isn't a recount. If you don't trust the first result, and you get a different result from an electronic result, you are really screwed, since you'll never know which was right. (Probably neither:-)
Right. I think it was actually just JPEG data (without the JFIF wrapper stuff). But what I was complaining about wasn't the JPEG part, but the fact that instead of coming up with a new _file_format_, the PNG people could have come up with a good lossless compression and some TIFF tags to specify annimation, etc. and used the TIFF format (which already supported multiple images per file, etc.)
Jeeze, what's with all the reinvention of the wheel (yeah, I know it's an open-source sort of thing to do, but...), TIFF files support all this stuff, and have for years. I had TIFF files with JPEG data back in 1992, supporting multiple images per file, and even multiple resolutions.
Current iMac can handle 2.5GB with a 2GB memory module and 512MB on the motherboard. Not sure if the last rev will support 2GB modules, but it has 2 slots, so it might (despite what Apples techdocs say, they've been wrong about things like that before).
It's probably just a business decision, but I'd have to say that 100% compatibility would include classic. Part of why I got the latest iMac instead of waiting for intel. (Yeah, I should move from the software I still use that only runs on OS9, but trying to get the data out of that software isn't going to be easy...)
Huh? I don't run linux. And as near as I can tell no one is having trouble giving linux away. They might be having trouble making money giving it away though.
Hell, I make about $55/hour, and I could setup such a system in less than 20 hours (~$1k). I have to imagine that someone, somewhere is selling such a thing for much less (or you could pay a consultant to create a distro, probably for less than $1k, then resell that and make a killing:-)
Apple seems to do just fine marketing quality products. Sure, when Microsoft was just starting out and didn't have the huge cash pool they have now, I can understand the struggle to make good software. But you'd think that starting sometime around 1995 they could have turned their attention to quality instead of producing crap. And sure I'm biased against Microsoft. I've used their software.
I have to agree with another reply to your post. If the microsoft engineers are so great why do their products suck so much? I hate microsoft more for their crap products dominating the market than their crap business practices which got them there.
I think it'd be interesting (though not worth apple's time to administer) if to expand the choices of the consumer that Apple would license OS-X to people at the price of the margin on their basic (no added RAM) highest-end hardware (ie. the current Dual G5). That way if there was hardware that Apple didn't support someone _could_ use it legally. However, I doubt anyone would want to pay $1000+ for OS-X just to be able to run it on their particular hardware, given that the drivers would also have to be custom written (not by Apple in this scenario) and the kind of situation where it might make sense would be a big honking server where OS-X just doesn't outperform the competition. So, never mind:-)
I know what you mean. I went looking for a 25' TOSLINK cable recently, and it was really difficult to just find some cheap-ass cheezy plastic cable. I knew that would work just as well as some $3000 (I kid you not!) glass cable that someone was selling to the audiophiles. I finally found one for a semi-reasonable price ($15+7shipping), and it's nicer that I was looking for and works fine. There was one article I stumbled upon that recommended against toslink because the sending part 'cost just a few cents.' Yeah, that's the point of digital; transport can be 100% accurate while being cheap.
Well, it doesn't have 4 drive bays (only two), but you could still put two 500GB drives in it. It only has 100-BaseT (two ports), and a 250MHz MIPS processor. So, depending on your preference for CPU power vs. electrical power, it might be worth looking at.
Yeah, because there isn't going to be any science involved in colonization of the solar system. I'm sure we won't need to learn anything about new materials which can only be created in low gravity or about exposure to radiation in space or anything else scientific before we go.</sarcasm>
Where are you a full-time student? Most 4-year colleges have at least some on-campus health care included as part of tuitition (if only for infectious disease issues). I'd check with them.
Are you saying that OSX won't support generic graphics cards? Or would the drivers download the code into the GPU? In which case, the hackers could hack the system to download the custom microcode into the generic graphics card.
Yeah, but as soon as a new release comes out (and it's available on CD/DVD like 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4), I'll be able to buy it and run it on my generic PC, right? Well, there is the EULA, but whether that's enforceable or not...
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It seems to me that most of the smell of urine is from the piss all over the walls and floor because men in a public bathroom can't seem to aim to save their life. Either that or the urinial design is such that 90% of the stream splatters back all over the floor and your light-tan slacks so you walk out of the bathroom looking like you've been in a rainstorm.
At home I always sit down to pee because I'd rather take an extra few seconds to sit than spend my time wiping up the urine spray all over the place.
My college girlfriend (yeah, yeah, I'm a geek, and I had one...) and I found a paper bag that was full of xeroxes of a woman masturbating with a soy sauce bottle. So, what did my girlfriend do? Later on, she gave me a present, a pack of xeroxes of her masturbating on the copy machine.
She was a hot one. Too bad she was a psychology major...
I doubt you'd be able to hide the hardware, but I wonder how hard it would be to detect the extra capacitance of the probe and switch back in the 'approved' firmware.
With electronic voting machines, there are no recounts. Asking the computer to spit the answer back at you again isn't a recount. :-)
If you don't trust the first result, and you get a different result from an electronic result, you are really screwed, since you'll never know which was right. (Probably neither
Right. I think it was actually just JPEG data (without the JFIF wrapper stuff). But what I was complaining about wasn't the JPEG part, but the fact that instead of coming up with a new _file_format_, the PNG people could have come up with a good lossless compression and some TIFF tags to specify annimation, etc. and used the TIFF format (which already supported multiple images per file, etc.)
Jeeze, what's with all the reinvention of the wheel (yeah, I know it's an open-source sort of thing to do, but...), TIFF files support all this stuff, and have for years. I had TIFF files with JPEG data back in 1992, supporting multiple images per file, and even multiple resolutions.
Current iMac can handle 2.5GB with a 2GB memory module and 512MB on the motherboard. Not sure if the last rev will support 2GB modules, but it has 2 slots, so it might (despite what Apples techdocs say, they've been wrong about things like that before).
It's probably just a business decision, but I'd have to say that 100% compatibility would include classic. Part of why I got the latest iMac instead of waiting for intel. (Yeah, I should move from the software I still use that only runs on OS9, but trying to get the data out of that software isn't going to be easy...)
Well, not quite all along, but it's been there since NeXTStep 3.1 I think. (The first 68k & intel release)
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Huh? I don't run linux. And as near as I can tell no one is having trouble giving linux away. They might be having trouble making money giving it away though.
Hell, I make about $55/hour, and I could setup such a system in less than 20 hours (~$1k). I have to imagine that someone, somewhere is selling such a thing for much less (or you could pay a consultant to create a distro, probably for less than $1k, then resell that and make a killing :-)
Apple seems to do just fine marketing quality products.
Sure, when Microsoft was just starting out and didn't have the huge cash pool they have now, I can understand the struggle to make good software. But you'd think that starting sometime around 1995 they could have turned their attention to quality instead of producing crap.
And sure I'm biased against Microsoft. I've used their software.
I would have figured you for an iChat fan, given your Mac use...
I have to agree with another reply to your post. If the microsoft engineers are so great why do their products suck so much? I hate microsoft more for their crap products dominating the market than their crap business practices which got them there.
I think it'd be interesting (though not worth apple's time to administer) if to expand the choices of the consumer that Apple would license OS-X to people at the price of the margin on their basic (no added RAM) highest-end hardware (ie. the current Dual G5). That way if there was hardware that Apple didn't support someone _could_ use it legally. However, I doubt anyone would want to pay $1000+ for OS-X just to be able to run it on their particular hardware, given that the drivers would also have to be custom written (not by Apple in this scenario) and the kind of situation where it might make sense would be a big honking server where OS-X just doesn't outperform the competition. :-)
So, never mind
Yep. that's why my wife isn't an admin on her own computer...
Finally, an explanation for our (USA) current administration.
Yeah, excellent prices. Too bad they don't have the 25' length for toslink (and too bad I'd never heard of them before).
Thanks for the pointer.
I know what you mean. I went looking for a 25' TOSLINK cable recently, and it was really difficult to just find some cheap-ass cheezy plastic cable. I knew that would work just as well as some $3000 (I kid you not!) glass cable that someone was selling to the audiophiles. I finally found one for a semi-reasonable price ($15+7shipping), and it's nicer that I was looking for and works fine.
There was one article I stumbled upon that recommended against toslink because the sending part 'cost just a few cents.' Yeah, that's the point of digital; transport can be 100% accurate while being cheap.
Well, it doesn't have 4 drive bays (only two), but you could still put two 500GB drives in it. It only has 100-BaseT (two ports), and a 250MHz MIPS processor. So, depending on your preference for CPU power vs. electrical power, it might be worth looking at.
Fuck Science.
Yeah, because there isn't going to be any science involved in colonization of the solar system. I'm sure we won't need to learn anything about new materials which can only be created in low gravity or about exposure to radiation in space or anything else scientific before we go.</sarcasm>
Not to mention that it seems odd that Apple wouldn't release the 15" and 17" at the same time. They did when they introduced them, right?
Where are you a full-time student? Most 4-year colleges have at least some on-campus health care included as part of tuitition (if only for infectious disease issues).
I'd check with them.
Are you saying that OSX won't support generic graphics cards?
Or would the drivers download the code into the GPU? In which case, the hackers could hack the system to download the custom microcode into the generic graphics card.
Yeah, but as soon as a new release comes out (and it's available on CD/DVD like 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4), I'll be able to buy it and run it on my generic PC, right? Well, there is the EULA, but whether that's enforceable or not...