Welp, I had an Abaton 300 DPI SCSI scanner on my PC that was originally a Mac scanner. That was back in 1991 or 1992. Back when Everex (who owned Abaton) was still alive. It was a three-pass monstrosity that overheated on the third pass half the time, resulting in red streaks down the image.
I remember selling scanners for Macs years before people on PCs were interested in them back in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
but he is definitely biased towards the left and has admitted as much.
Explain to me how admitting to being biased makes him less honest politically? I'm really trying to make that work but it just doesn't wash. Not being "brutally honest about politics" would be him not admitting his bias. I've watched a lot of his show and he has never hidden his bias nor has he pretended to not be biased, like many cammentators/journalists/pundits who are biased towards the right.
I don't know what word you want, but I don't think "honest" is it.
You must be a youngin'. Dan Quayle was one of the dumbest men to walk the face of the earth. I think George Sr. picked Danforth for two reasons: 1: so no one would dare assaninate him. 2: to get us used to a moron in the Whitehouse.
Point 2 is invalid. Migrating to Mac was pretty easy, actually. No worse than the annual reinstall of Windows: 1: Backup email - check 2: Backup bookmarks - check 3: Backup personal files - check 4: Backup porn/music/etc.. files - check 5: Import email into Mail.app - check 6: Import bookmarks into Safari/FireFox/etc... - check 7: Copy personal files into documents folder - check 8: hide porn in folder named "1997 tax records" - check 9: Import music into iTunes - Check 10: Profit.
It took me two hours to migrate my files from my Windows box to my Mac, not including the time iTunes needed to import my 17GB music collection from my file server. And that included installing Firefox (I don't care for Safari). The hardest part was finding a word processor that I liked when the 30-day trial version of Office ran out. But I never liked Word anyway.
Understand that when I migrated to Mac I had spent about an hour fooling around with OS X on a friends computer and had no real knowledge in what programs did what. Apple has very easy to understand help documents tailored to people moving to Mac from Windows.
I don't use the same program for email and web browsing. I got burned a few too many times with that. Lost quite a few pieces of email when Browser revision X had a problem importing email from version W. I also don'y like having to upgrade my perfectly usable email client because my browser is out of date.
Along with what everyone else has said, you don't need an Airport card to use the Airport Express. It plugs into your netwirk and works out of the box. Well, mine did.
and now it looks like we've come full circle and are going back to having a pc we can put on top of the desk again. While true, this one actually fits on top of the foot of your LCD stand. You know, that space you're currently using to display your Lego Bionicles. And this thing is so small it will not only fit on your desk, but will actually fit inside your desk.
a lot of moments (good and bad) that make "life" worthwhile would become less so if we could live forever.
Like... what? The birth of your first child? Loss of your virginity? Your first marriage? (The likelyhood of finding someone you couls spend a thousand years with is pretty damned slim.) But so what?
i'd rather not know that my death will most likely be by a sudden accident
So you'd rather face the fact that your death will most likely be caused by advancing decrepitude or disease? Sorry, I'd rather take the quick death that strikes me when I'm not looking then laying is some hospital/nursing home bed somewhere waiting for Death to release me from my suffereing.
and that i can't ever "retire" because i won't know how long i'll live (hence how much i need.)
What's so great about retirement? Or, more to the point, what's so bad about working? You could change professions every hundred years and do an amazing number of things with a thousand year lifespan. And if you were smart you could spend the first 200 years investing wisely and building up a portfiolio that will support you on th einterest alone.
You see only the downside and not the possibilities and opertunities that such a life could give you. Me, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Be upset at yourself for not properly protecting yourself.
Horseshit!
There was once a time when email was safe. There was a time when media files were safe. There was a time when documents were safe. There was a time when web pages were safe. There was a time that the only way to get a virus was to download and run an executable on your system. Those days are gone.
And what has happened to change all that? Microsoft happened. Microsoft tied IE into the OS , allowed IE to execute external programs and scripts and added ActiveX without bothering to protect the OS from any of those things. Microsoft allowed OutLook to launch external programs without your approval. Microsoft added DRM extensions that can be exploited to add spyware to your system.
The blame sits squarley and completely on Muicrosft abd no one else. Their carelessness and complete lack of security concerns are the reasons we have the flood of viruses and spyware out there.
It's not vapor if it's based solely on rumours and wishfull thinking. It has to be an announced product and Apple never announce a $150.00 iPod, nor have they announced (yet) a "keychain sized" iPod. Although I really doubth that a flash memmoy iPod would deviate that far from the basic iPod design.
Only 50% of the slashdotters with id [below] 1000 are still married.
Guess that makes me one of the lucky ones. ID 949 and still happily married. Of course, my wife thinks The Sims is a great waste of time while I enjoy the game.
but i know there has to be something out there, things are just to "perfect" to randomly appear.
Things are "perfect" because we evolved to survive in the environment we found ourselves in. We developed here, on earth, and here on earth things are close to perfect.
look at how the earth balances itself out, no matter what we do to mess it up
Like global warming? The extinction of thousands of species? Mercury poisening in the water supply ? Deforestation?
The earth is big enough that it took a very large population of humans, something that is a very recent condition, in order to have a noticeble effect. But we are now effecting the earth in ways that are causing serious problems.
look at mathmatics, virtually perfect
Guess what? Mathmatics is a human invention. Nature neither knows nor cares what 1+1 is, nor does it care that you can't divide by zero. Have you ever tried long division in Roman numerals? What about in cultures where their numbers are 1, 2, 3, "many"?
our bodies are amazing pieces of machinery Sure. Our feet are hands that barely do their job. Don't beleive me? Ask Dr. Scholl. The octopus has better eyes than we do. We gain weight at the drop of a hat but it takes an amazing amount of work to lose it again. Childbirth puts the mother's life at risk, a feature pretty unique to human beings.
We are beauitiful and wonderous things (as are all other living things), but we are not intellegently designed by any stretch of the imagination.
Long tails indicate that the male is healthy and has been so for some time, thus the chicks sired by that peacock will also be healthy. In an environment with lots of predators that tail would get them killed, but there aren't enough predators to whipe them out, so the tail survives.
It's like the manes on male lions: the longer the hair the longer the male has gone without getting his ass whooped by another in a fight. The darker the mane the healthier the male is. Tests have shown that female lions will always select a male with a long, dark mane of a male with a long, blonde mane (sorry, Simba, but Disney got it all wrong).
Sexual selection is about demonstrating that you have the genes to father healthy children. It can bite you on the ass if the traits the females of your species find attractive leave you defenseless agains predation or stuck at work for 12-hours a day to buy a diamond ring.
An omnipotent god wouldn't have to settle for the least bad solution.
Exactly! Even I, a mere mortal meat sack, can think of many ways to avert the disaster given enough power and foresight. If He can create the entire universe He can make a little tectonic pressure just go away.
On the other hand, He could have been angry at them for something and decided to hand out a bit of smiting. Which makes you wonder why tornadoes keep ripping through areas of the US that are highly conservative and heavily Christian. But I digress.
Got one. It works, but it's dog slow. But this will work for people without iPods. And $60.00 is a lot cheaper than $300.00 + the cost of the Belkin device. And just how do you know it's "much nicer"? Have you used this new device? No? Didn't think so.
And yes, I do like my iPod very much and it was very nice to be able to backup my photos and not worry about filling up my camera. But not everyone has (or, as shocking as this may sound) wants an iPod. And some people's iPods are *gasp* full!
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I'm assuming you mean "CP/M" as Kaypro is a brand of computer not an OS.
But we're the ones with the missiles and no Soviety tragets to point them at anymore.
That was terrible. And I'm mad that you beat me to it.
Welp, I had an Abaton 300 DPI SCSI scanner on my PC that was originally a Mac scanner. That was back in 1991 or 1992. Back when Everex (who owned Abaton) was still alive. It was a three-pass monstrosity that overheated on the third pass half the time, resulting in red streaks down the image.
I remember selling scanners for Macs years before people on PCs were interested in them back in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Have you heard Jeff Wayne's War Of The World album? Pretty interesting in a pompous, 1970's way.
Explain to me how admitting to being biased makes him less honest politically? I'm really trying to make that work but it just doesn't wash. Not being "brutally honest about politics" would be him not admitting his bias. I've watched a lot of his show and he has never hidden his bias nor has he pretended to not be biased, like many cammentators/journalists/pundits who are biased towards the right.
I don't know what word you want, but I don't think "honest" is it.
I prefer my Dangermouse to be animated and British, thank you very much.
So, the next shuttle will be named Thunderchild?
You must be a youngin'. Dan Quayle was one of the dumbest men to walk the face of the earth. I think George Sr. picked Danforth for two reasons:
1: so no one would dare assaninate him.
2: to get us used to a moron in the Whitehouse.
Simple. Code bloat.
Point 2 is invalid. Migrating to Mac was pretty easy, actually. No worse than the annual reinstall of Windows:
1: Backup email - check
2: Backup bookmarks - check
3: Backup personal files - check
4: Backup porn/music/etc.. files - check
5: Import email into Mail.app - check
6: Import bookmarks into Safari/FireFox/etc... - check
7: Copy personal files into documents folder - check
8: hide porn in folder named "1997 tax records" - check
9: Import music into iTunes - Check
10: Profit.
It took me two hours to migrate my files from my Windows box to my Mac, not including the time iTunes needed to import my 17GB music collection from my file server. And that included installing Firefox (I don't care for Safari). The hardest part was finding a word processor that I liked when the 30-day trial version of Office ran out. But I never liked Word anyway.
Understand that when I migrated to Mac I had spent about an hour fooling around with OS X on a friends computer and had no real knowledge in what programs did what. Apple has very easy to understand help documents tailored to people moving to Mac from Windows.
I don't use the same program for email and web browsing. I got burned a few too many times with that. Lost quite a few pieces of email when Browser revision X had a problem importing email from version W. I also don'y like having to upgrade my perfectly usable email client because my browser is out of date.
Along with what everyone else has said, you don't need an Airport card to use the Airport Express. It plugs into your netwirk and works out of the box. Well, mine did.
No, not really. You have to remember that they are a rather tongue-in-cheek site. I suspect it's more humor than hubris.
and now it looks like we've come full circle and are going back to having a pc we can put on top of the desk again.
While true, this one actually fits on top of the foot of your LCD stand. You know, that space you're currently using to display your Lego Bionicles. And this thing is so small it will not only fit on your desk, but will actually fit inside your desk.
Like... what? The birth of your first child? Loss of your virginity? Your first marriage? (The likelyhood of finding someone you couls spend a thousand years with is pretty damned slim.) But so what?
i'd rather not know that my death will most likely be by a sudden accident
So you'd rather face the fact that your death will most likely be caused by advancing decrepitude or disease? Sorry, I'd rather take the quick death that strikes me when I'm not looking then laying is some hospital/nursing home bed somewhere waiting for Death to release me from my suffereing.
and that i can't ever "retire" because i won't know how long i'll live (hence how much i need.)
What's so great about retirement? Or, more to the point, what's so bad about working? You could change professions every hundred years and do an amazing number of things with a thousand year lifespan. And if you were smart you could spend the first 200 years investing wisely and building up a portfiolio that will support you on th einterest alone.
You see only the downside and not the possibilities and opertunities that such a life could give you. Me, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Horseshit!
There was once a time when email was safe. There was a time when media files were safe. There was a time when documents were safe. There was a time when web pages were safe. There was a time that the only way to get a virus was to download and run an executable on your system. Those days are gone.
And what has happened to change all that? Microsoft happened. Microsoft tied IE into the OS , allowed IE to execute external programs and scripts and added ActiveX without bothering to protect the OS from any of those things. Microsoft allowed OutLook to launch external programs without your approval. Microsoft added DRM extensions that can be exploited to add spyware to your system.
The blame sits squarley and completely on Muicrosft abd no one else. Their carelessness and complete lack of security concerns are the reasons we have the flood of viruses and spyware out there.
Have you priced other USB flash MP3 players? They aren't that much cheaper.
But it's not like most Slashdotters understand the markets for Apple products.
It's not vapor if it's based solely on rumours and wishfull thinking. It has to be an announced product and Apple never announce a $150.00 iPod, nor have they announced (yet) a "keychain sized" iPod. Although I really doubth that a flash memmoy iPod would deviate that far from the basic iPod design.
Guess that makes me one of the lucky ones. ID 949 and still happily married. Of course, my wife thinks The Sims is a great waste of time while I enjoy the game.
Things are "perfect" because we evolved to survive in the environment we found ourselves in. We developed here, on earth, and here on earth things are close to perfect.
look at how the earth balances itself out, no matter what we do to mess it up
Like global warming? The extinction of thousands of species? Mercury poisening in the water supply ? Deforestation?
The earth is big enough that it took a very large population of humans, something that is a very recent condition, in order to have a noticeble effect. But we are now effecting the earth in ways that are causing serious problems.
look at mathmatics, virtually perfect
Guess what? Mathmatics is a human invention. Nature neither knows nor cares what 1+1 is, nor does it care that you can't divide by zero. Have you ever tried long division in Roman numerals? What about in cultures where their numbers are 1, 2, 3, "many"?
our bodies are amazing pieces of machinery
Sure. Our feet are hands that barely do their job. Don't beleive me? Ask Dr. Scholl. The octopus has better eyes than we do. We gain weight at the drop of a hat but it takes an amazing amount of work to lose it again. Childbirth puts the mother's life at risk, a feature pretty unique to human beings.
We are beauitiful and wonderous things (as are all other living things), but we are not intellegently designed by any stretch of the imagination.
Long tails indicate that the male is healthy and has been so for some time, thus the chicks sired by that peacock will also be healthy. In an environment with lots of predators that tail would get them killed, but there aren't enough predators to whipe them out, so the tail survives.
It's like the manes on male lions: the longer the hair the longer the male has gone without getting his ass whooped by another in a fight. The darker the mane the healthier the male is. Tests have shown that female lions will always select a male with a long, dark mane of a male with a long, blonde mane (sorry, Simba, but Disney got it all wrong).
Sexual selection is about demonstrating that you have the genes to father healthy children. It can bite you on the ass if the traits the females of your species find attractive leave you defenseless agains predation or stuck at work for 12-hours a day to buy a diamond ring.
Exactly! Even I, a mere mortal meat sack, can think of many ways to avert the disaster given enough power and foresight. If He can create the entire universe He can make a little tectonic pressure just go away.
On the other hand, He could have been angry at them for something and decided to hand out a bit of smiting. Which makes you wonder why tornadoes keep ripping through areas of the US that are highly conservative and heavily Christian. But I digress.
No, it wasn't. A CG Yoda spinning around like a psychotic BeyBlade wanna-be was not worth even the loss of a queu spot from Netflix.
Got one. It works, but it's dog slow. But this will work for people without iPods. And $60.00 is a lot cheaper than $300.00 + the cost of the Belkin device. And just how do you know it's "much nicer"? Have you used this new device? No? Didn't think so.
And yes, I do like my iPod very much and it was very nice to be able to backup my photos and not worry about filling up my camera. But not everyone has (or, as shocking as this may sound) wants an iPod. And some people's iPods are *gasp* full!