That 'all-in-one' versatility that you speak of matters more for a college youth in a cramped dorm room, or a schoolboy with a PC in his 'room' than it does for grownups.
An adequate DVD player is $35 at WalMart. You put it in the living room, away from the computer in the den.
It may shock you, but some companies do have some ideals guiding them. I'm sure Apple could save money and increase profit by making their computers from cheaper materials and designs. I'm sure they could shave off some of the hardware specs, and *really* make a bargain basement Mac. These would be "rational" decisions that would likely increase their profitability.
Apple has tried all that stuff in the past. It's always failed for them, so they up and dash back to their botique market.
You apparently haven't read many, if any, of the biographies and histories of Apple Computer and Steve Jobs. Ethical? You're kidding, right?
Actually, Orange Computer (makers of a nice Apple ][ clone) might still be in business. They called one of their machines the Orange Peel. But Apple is fond of large burly teams of lawyers and shut 'em down.
Didn't you know? You drag the drive icon to the trash can. It's a well-thought-out metaphor. You go to the store to buy a new bigger hard drive, then you drag the old icon to the trashcan. No screwdriver needed at all!!
You're completely forgetting about all the trendy-colored plastic parts, and the 'Industrial Design' and various other bullshit aspects of Apple Products.
Nobody cares that a few years ago Slashdot decided to start listing user ID numbers right up on top, like a weenie BBS full of 15 year olds back in the day where 'rankings' determined your standing.
I think there's probably a hell of a lot that you don't know. Just as with the rest of us.
I'd be embarassed to admit that I'm such a suckup to the Slashdot Cult that I haven't quit in disgust and thrown away a whole handful of accounts. Almost all of which had high positive karma before I changed the email address to a nonentity, changed the password, and kissed Slashdot goodbye for a few months.
Do you know anything about NetBSD or have you just been reading trolls about NetBSD since way back in the 'Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified' days when the Kreskin link still worked in the "BSD is Dead" crapfloods?
I think what he means is the system doesn't crash. As in: he can leave Mozilla and Word and stuff open and it's still there open next time he needs it.
'The software' where Linux is concerned is just the kernel. Then the 'distro maker' throws in whatever subset of a userland s/he feels like including.
NetBSD ports all build out of a single source tree. That includes the kernel AND the base userland. So the structure of your/etc/ directory can be nearly identical, for your Sparc, your i386 boxes, your Macintosh SE/30, your StrongARM box, your SGI MIPS box, your Mac PowerPC box, etc. etc. And they all run code built from the same CVS tree or source tarballs.
I've never had to buy anything but toner cartridges, with a history of owning a LaserJet for aprox. 8 years. I suppose if I printed in a volume of 2000 pages a week, I would start going through 'expensive parts'. With the current market conditions (used 'recent' LaserJets for pennies at municipal and school auctions- which usually include at least a half full toner cartridge for $5 or less) I could NEVER justify going back to an inkspray printer.
I wouldn't give up my Laser Printer for anything. If you're into Free Software (the various kinds) and you want anything in hard copy, you need a laser printer.
I paid a MINT for mine about eight years ago (a HP LaserJet 5P) but about a month ago at a school auction I got three more that are BETTER than it (HP LaserJet 6M's- the Macintosh version of the next gen. model, with !Postscript!) for $5.
I buy a new Toner Cartridge about every two years and think nothing of loading in a half ream of paper and printing a 200 page manual.
Hasn't it been already established that terrorists are not going after the guarded targets like nuclear reactors and such, using bioweapons, captured nukes or dirty bombs and the like?
The US Pentagon Building is a highly guarded target.
Stalin tried a 5 day week, with rotating days off for different people, too. It was meant to keep all the capital in factories busy all the time, instead of a 1-2 day lull each week.
It failed dismally. People hated it.
Things that 'make a lot of sense' for a board of intellectuals often fail in the real world. You're rather short-sighted in just blaming it on 'the church.' Regular people almost certainly thought it really, really sucked.
Unfortunately, I was responding to the 'general idea' of recording analog to a magnetic disk, not this specific media. The equipment I refer to used flexible disks outside a sleeve, similar to a floppy diskette. I can't remember the brand for certain, since this was 20+ years ago, but I think it was Dictaphone gear.
Well, we could always prevent THEM from using OUR infrastructure if they don't want to play by our rules.
Be careful. In the new legal environment, what constitutes 'THEM' and what constitutes 'OUR' has changed radically. The recent Eminent Domain ruling has changed a lot of the rules. (basically, those slick fucks who took both Business Administration and Sociology courses in college, meaning 'the liberal MBAs', are on the march)
Cellular infrastructure also often fails in the scale of emergency being discussed. The cell towers usually aren't backed up anywhere near the way that the telephone service is. Those windowless 'central office' buildings the phone company maintains are full of batteries.
Go ahead and rely on your neighbors, but be careful; they might be as shortsighted as you.
John is a hero in these parts because he embodies the hacker spirit. No need for theoretical work ahead of time, or an architecture. Just keep hacking away at it. Weekly builds, trial and error. That sort of thing.
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That 'all-in-one' versatility that you speak of matters more for a college youth in a cramped dorm room, or a schoolboy with a PC in his 'room' than it does for grownups.
An adequate DVD player is $35 at WalMart. You put it in the living room, away from the computer in the den.
It may shock you, but some companies do have some ideals guiding them. I'm sure Apple could save money and increase profit by making their computers from cheaper materials and designs. I'm sure they could shave off some of the hardware specs, and *really* make a bargain basement Mac. These would be "rational" decisions that would likely increase their profitability.
Apple has tried all that stuff in the past. It's always failed for them, so they up and dash back to their botique market.
You apparently haven't read many, if any, of the biographies and histories of Apple Computer and Steve Jobs. Ethical? You're kidding, right?
Apples (pun intended) and oranges
Actually, Orange Computer (makers of a nice Apple ][ clone) might still be in business. They called one of their machines the Orange Peel. But Apple is fond of large burly teams of lawyers and shut 'em down.
Didn't you know? You drag the drive icon to the trash can. It's a well-thought-out metaphor. You go to the store to buy a new bigger hard drive, then you drag the old icon to the trashcan. No screwdriver needed at all!!
Naw. I buy a skid of Dell Optiplexes at a school auction, hook 'em each up to a port of my KVM and install various OSes on them.
That's the Dell experience from my POV.
New Dells? From a telemarketer or a 'shopping cart' on some website???
You're completely forgetting about all the trendy-colored plastic parts, and the 'Industrial Design' and various other bullshit aspects of Apple Products.
Nobody cares that a few years ago Slashdot decided to start listing user ID numbers right up on top, like a weenie BBS full of 15 year olds back in the day where 'rankings' determined your standing.
I think there's probably a hell of a lot that you don't know. Just as with the rest of us.
I'd be embarassed to admit that I'm such a suckup to the Slashdot Cult that I haven't quit in disgust and thrown away a whole handful of accounts. Almost all of which had high positive karma before I changed the email address to a nonentity, changed the password, and kissed Slashdot goodbye for a few months.
Do you know anything about NetBSD or have you just been reading trolls about NetBSD since way back in the 'Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified' days when the Kreskin link still worked in the "BSD is Dead" crapfloods?
Don't be a dink with an attitude.
I think what he means is the system doesn't crash. As in: he can leave Mozilla and Word and stuff open and it's still there open next time he needs it.
I'd suggest an early Athlon. Except then important multimedia apps won't run.
'The software' where Linux is concerned is just the kernel. Then the 'distro maker' throws in whatever subset of a userland s/he feels like including.
/etc/ directory can be nearly identical, for your Sparc, your i386 boxes, your Macintosh SE/30, your StrongARM box, your SGI MIPS box, your Mac PowerPC box, etc. etc. And they all run code built from the same CVS tree or source tarballs.
NetBSD ports all build out of a single source tree. That includes the kernel AND the base userland. So the structure of your
Linux by comparison is a hodge-podge.
It's much more interesting to produce the Light Emitting EPROM (LEE) though.
Since it's not an Intel-based X Box, the sanctioned mod will be NetBSD.
I don't go to rental stores and rent tapes or dvds I only buy them.
I *only* rent them. Somehow, I manage to hold onto copies of anything I might want to watch again... hmm..
Is the LaserJet 1200 native postscript and 1200 dpi??
I have one I got at a municipal auction this past spring for $5 with a bunch of other stuff and haven't even used it yet. I guess I'll do so.
I've never had to buy anything but toner cartridges, with a history of owning a LaserJet for aprox. 8 years. I suppose if I printed in a volume of 2000 pages a week, I would start going through 'expensive parts'. With the current market conditions (used 'recent' LaserJets for pennies at municipal and school auctions- which usually include at least a half full toner cartridge for $5 or less) I could NEVER justify going back to an inkspray printer.
I wouldn't give up my Laser Printer for anything. If you're into Free Software (the various kinds) and you want anything in hard copy, you need a laser printer.
I paid a MINT for mine about eight years ago (a HP LaserJet 5P) but about a month ago at a school auction I got three more that are BETTER than it (HP LaserJet 6M's- the Macintosh version of the next gen. model, with !Postscript!) for $5.
I buy a new Toner Cartridge about every two years and think nothing of loading in a half ream of paper and printing a 200 page manual.
I couldn't do that with an InkJet.
Hasn't it been already established that terrorists are not going after the guarded targets like nuclear reactors and such, using bioweapons, captured nukes or dirty bombs and the like?
The US Pentagon Building is a highly guarded target.
Stalin tried a 5 day week, with rotating days off for different people, too. It was meant to keep all the capital in factories busy all the time, instead of a 1-2 day lull each week.
It failed dismally. People hated it.
Things that 'make a lot of sense' for a board of intellectuals often fail in the real world. You're rather short-sighted in just blaming it on 'the church.' Regular people almost certainly thought it really, really sucked.
Unfortunately, I was responding to the 'general idea' of recording analog to a magnetic disk, not this specific media. The equipment I refer to used flexible disks outside a sleeve, similar to a floppy diskette. I can't remember the brand for certain, since this was 20+ years ago, but I think it was Dictaphone gear.
Analog disks have been used for magnetic audio recording in the past. They were used for voice dictation. I have owned such a machine in the past.
'Hardware to access the tracks' is a worm gear. There's only ONE track, you see.
The problem is, I have heard 90% of what is on FM these days. I first heard it in about 1981 and mistakenly thought it was new then. . .
'Classic Rock' is the 'slave songs' of the modern era.
Well, we could always prevent THEM from using OUR infrastructure if they don't want to play by our rules.
Be careful. In the new legal environment, what constitutes 'THEM' and what constitutes 'OUR' has changed radically. The recent Eminent Domain ruling has changed a lot of the rules. (basically, those slick fucks who took both Business Administration and Sociology courses in college, meaning 'the liberal MBAs', are on the march)
Cellular infrastructure also often fails in the scale of emergency being discussed. The cell towers usually aren't backed up anywhere near the way that the telephone service is. Those windowless 'central office' buildings the phone company maintains are full of batteries.
Go ahead and rely on your neighbors, but be careful; they might be as shortsighted as you.
John is a hero in these parts because he embodies the hacker spirit. No need for theoretical work ahead of time, or an architecture. Just keep hacking away at it. Weekly builds, trial and error. That sort of thing.
It most definitely will 'run Linux' btw.
I'm just pissed that the French Revolutionaries didn't also succeed in imposing the decimal calendar.
I mean, WTF? Why can't there be 100 days in a year? It's as arbitrary as any other aspect of the Metric system.