Abi Word is nice if you want to ditch some lesser word processor, or if your needs are very basic, but it seriously lacks a number of features I use daily (and Grammer checking isn't one of those, thats what Copy Editors are for). Version Tracking is essential. Also complete Word format acceptance is a fact of life.
That said OpenOffice.org covers all of these things, and does it wonderfully (sadly the exception is on Mac OS X).
Seems like the reviewer started out with some premise of glorifing Abi Word, and to be honest it's not even in the same league.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'm sure a number of people were things "Ooooo Cool two caches" when they should have been thinking "Awwww Damn, two caches!"
You can de-authorize computers to play Apple Protected AAC's and thus authorize any different computer. So if you upgrade a computer you can de-authorize the old one and authorize the new one at no penalty.
Other then that the article seems right on though.
They should fine companies millions of dollars for each ridiculous half-assed unresearched patent filed. That should either slow things down or bring in enough money to deal with crap like this.
Let's hope this patches the holes in Cingular's network. The thing is I think the merger is a win-win for ATT and Cingular customers as there is usually one tower or the other available most place these days. Right now in my office at work I get 3 signals (Cingular + 2 "Cingular Extended" (i.e. ATT & T-Mobile)) The Cingular Tower is the weakest one and the extended network is unavailable in a "Cingular area". With ATT wrapped into Cingular I think there will be one strong network.
Also ATT and Cingular both have very similar networks with many towers in the 850 range (Since they converted the TDMA signal to GSM). The rest of the GSM networks operate at 900 (i.e. TMobile and Europe). Of course most of Europe is also covered at 1900/1800 as is most of the major cities in the US (Thus tri-band "world phones"). (My GSM Treo 600 actually is a quad-band phone (850/900/1800/1900) I believe it's the only one available).
Finally Cingular coverage and service is much better then Sprint ever was. I also find Cingular has much better selection of phones since it's pretty standard GSM+SIM. Sprint had terrible phone selections and Verizon is even worse (i.e. you won't see and bluetooth or anything like it on Verizon 'cuz they want to charge extra for features inherently available by such technologies).
Don't buy a Pentax SLR Camera! You will regret it if you you wish to expand in the future.
Not that there is anything wrong with Pentax, it's just limiting, and doesn't scale economically. Stick with Nikon or Canon for general photography, with Minolta a solid 3rd choice (Olympus would be 4th with Pentax bringing up the rear).
Between Canon and Nikon it's really a preference thing (I like Canon, but there are good reason for Nikon too). Canon tends to be more technologicaly cutting edge then Nikon and will have things like Ultrasonic Lenses (SilentWave is what Nikon call 'em) and and Optical Image Stabilization long before Nikon does (Nikon won't have Optical Image Stabilization until Canon's patent runs out in a few more years I think). That said cutting edge isn't always great (Canon's eye controlled focus is cool but still not 100% and was certainly not real useful when it first appeared). Nikon stuff is all tried and true for the most part.
BTW the lens is most important... the body (for film anyway) isn't all that important. The cheapest Canon Rebal or Nikon N-6x will do most everything you would want it too (though it will feel like a plastic POS... which they are) The lens is what makes the picture.
Dude... Apple was all over the place advertising that they were discounting iPods and accessories by 10% off for one day only (the day after Thanksgiving I think). This was originally for brick and mortar stores, but they extended it to their online store as well
Too bad you missed it I guess... I picked up an iTrip for my iPod at the discount. (BTW iTrips suck bad... it never worked right... I took it apart and half the wires weren't soldered in correctly... I resoldered it and it still doesn't work as good as those cheapy Belkin FM Transmitters).
Not last time I checked, 9.1 just went out the door recently. In fact if I had to choose any linux distribution for a specific server application, I would choose Slackware over any other linux distribution in a hearbeat.
Ok... slackware wouldn't be my first choice for a desktop (That would be SuSE), but for unbloated, secure, hasslefree servers, Slackware rules my friend... and the great thing about Linux is a good distribution never dies!
Apples and Oranges... The G5 is superior in Floating Point, and OS X is optimized to utilize every once of the GPU (Quartz Extreame)... As such this is clearly aimed at high end desktop/workstation type things (Graphics/ Multimedia/ Scientific Computing...). The AMD 64 (and the Xeon for that matter) are slightly better with integer performance which makes them ideal for server apps, simple calculations, and i/o. (The Power4... The G5's big momma has much better Interger performance as well... i figure IBM didn't want to compete with Apple in the server market).
What if Dell's DJ is a repackaged iPod? What if Dell's Music service is iTMS for PC's? It would be a win-win situation (provided Mike and Steve could get over thier fueding). Stranger things have happened in this industry
High quality steel bikes (Renolyds 8xx, ture-temper XO, Columbus) are comparable weights to Aluminum. It depends on how the tubes are formed (butted, double butted.. etc).
Steel can also be custom formed for ridgidy and ride, which you can't do very well with aluminum (which is always very riged). i.e. you can get some of the feel of an aluminum soft tail with a hard tail steel frame with significanlty lower weight and better lateral stiffness (which pivots all have).
Aluminum is cheap though and you can get a decent aluminum bike for much less then you can get a decent steal frame. Steal bikes will outlast aluminum bikes if you ride hard though. Aluminum fatigues relativly poorly.
That said TI has all the greatness of steal and it is lighter, rust proof, etc... and Carbon fiber is the new thing where the stiffness of aluminum is valued.. of course those are expensive.
For a great, reasonabley prices steal frame check gunnarbikes.com if you want to spend more try sevencycles.com.
Wow, i'd so hate to grow up with you as my parent. What happened to you? Did you get dissed by Mickey Mouse? Do need something to vent all your frustrations at, and Disney just happened to be what you chose at the time? Should we start drinking X brand Cola too, since Coke and Pepsi are bad too?
Seriously, there are many worse evils in this world then Disney. And if you think that any of that crap you mention above appeals to a child better then Disney, then you are sadly mistaken, and really in the great scheme of life few things are more valuable then the joy of a child.
Further more half your reasons to get rid of Disney make Disney seem responsible for MPAA and RIAA. If we are doing the guilt by association thing then you'd have to get rid humanity while you were at it. The sweatshop stuff, while certainly bad, blames Disney for issues which are for the most part beyond Disney's control (Yea, sure, they could show there frustration with forgien governments and contracters by just halting all business, but then so could everyone else, again... guilt by association.
About the only "evil" thing Disney is directly resposible for is lobbing for the copyright stuff, which is both there right in a free society, and there resposibilty as a public company (i.e. to maximize profits). The real culprits in this case however are the assholes in Congress who voted for it.
How do you set default programs for different file types? The whole concept of file associations are completly different in a Mac than they are in Windows
Actually, in OS X file associations are very similar to those in Windows, Mac OS 9 and earlier however where a different matter. With OS X you can however change individual files of the same file type to open in non-default apps, which is cool! (BTW to do this right-click (or ctrl-click for those single button people) the file and select "Get Info" from pop-up (Or select file and hit cmd-i). expand the "Open with:" Info box and select your app, you can also make the app you choose the default app by clicking on "Change All...". Pretty damn easy.
How come email attachements from Mac come with two identically named files? Or files with out extensions on them? The Mac FS's metadata tends to throw off Windows users, as does the (sometimes) lack of a file extension.
Not sure about the email attachment thing... could be and encoding problem on one end, or an application "feature". As for file extentions... OS X uses them (but can hide them just like Windows has done by default recently) infact it works just like Windows does these days. Of course extra info about files can be stored (in the dreaded.DS_Store files) but it's not vital info.
That said, there are some hugh differences in how applications are stored. On the Mac Apps are bundled so an app and all it's associated resource and data files are hidden away nicely, rather then windows where it scatters an application all over your system and registry. This rarely confuses new users once you explain it to them.
$0.12 per $1 isn't bad (in fact it's quite good). That said I don't think you really know what you are talking about. First I'm quite sure that just like book publishing, Musicians royalties are based off the price the price which the publisher sells the product, not retail. (And these prices are crazy, some sales channels pay more per unit then others... etc.)
From a book publishing POV (which I have quite a bit of experience), a large percentage of books published *loose money*! Most authors never earn out their advances, and often publishers don't recoup thier editorial and printing expenses. The publisher only makes money off of a very few best sellers. This of course has the effect of the few best selling authors occasionally making a fuss about how they get ripped off by the publishers.
Now the average author, often complains that they didn't make much money for the work involved (which is unfortunately often the case), 9/10 times here the authors still make more money then the publisher (infact they are usually the only one's who make any money). This is how the business works. There's no telling what will sell and for what reason, there are literally millions of great authors and great books that never ever sell. Why? Well if can figure that one out ahead of time then there's a future for you in publishing! If you are Steven King you can get 40% Royalties and Millions of dollars in advances, because a publihser can be pretty sure to make something off of it, everyone else needs to play the game, otherwise nobody *could* play the game.
That aside... there is one really hugh difference traditionally between Books and Music. With book publishing the author usually walks away with all of thier royalties (if they earn them out to begin with) minus a small reserve against returns (which ultimately the author gets back, if they remember to ask for it!). Any book marketing and publicity done by the publisher is paid for by the publisher. Most editorial and printing costs are paid for by the publishier too. In music almost everything is charged back against the royalties, and the marketing dollars that music publishers spend with artists money for "promotion" is crazy high, and in most cases eats up royalties and makes it impossible for the artists to get any.
BTW I don't feel sorry Artists, they should know what they are getting in to before the do it. They get to live doing what they love, and while they might all live like superstars the quality musicians get bye. Most of the big complainers are lucky to be where they are (Cortney Love, please!)
Of course the issue above isn't about any of that, it's about the musicians wanting to have a say in how thier art is conveyed. I think they should, the money thing aside, at the end of the day they created something, and they should have some say in how it's used. If they feel thier music should only be played as an album... well, whatever, they have that right (of course then turning around and releasing a bunch of singles and videos doesn't do much for there "artistic credibility", but oh well, hypocrisy or ignorance isn't a crime (though maybe it should be))
It's not a G5, it's a PPC970, completely different beasts. Not to mention neither Motorola or IBM have 2GHz chips in their roadmap until 2005. Bzzzt One point impossible
Errr... From a marketing perspective G5 is better then 970, it's also consistant with how Apple have named PPC processors in the past, so Bzzzt minnus one for you Plus one for Apple.
1GHz bus? gimme a break. Intel hasn't yet reached this. Two points impossible
Wow! I don't know where to begin with this one. If you really understood anything you were talking about you would know two things: 1. The 970 bus speed runs 1/2 the speed of the processor, so for a 2Ghz Processor, 1 Ghz sounds about right. 2. WTF does Intel have to do with anything? Apple has worked with AMD on the Hypertrasport BUS which should (and apparently does) toast Intel (And Intel has been slower then most with BUS speed lately anyway, even little VIA who have a fraction of the budget of Intel/AMD/ or Apple
The rest of Apples site would say "3 USB Ports" not "Three". Also, Apple have a long standing habit of using Firewire instead of USB 2.0. I take this as one point impossible
Apple was first with USB, and many many many Apple peripherals use USB (i.e. Keyboard and Mouse to name a few important ones). The cost of USB 1.1 vs 2.0 is about nothing so it's a no brainer to use USB 2.0. Also Since you seem to have grammatical issues the image (see below) "three" is grammatically correct "3" isn't.
Almost believable, but for the moment Apple are phasing out the use of NVIDIA cards in their machines. I highly doubt they'll be used. Half a point impossible
Apple isn't phasing out Nvidia, Have you read the specs for the newest Powerbooks? They use Nvidia instead of tradtional ATI. Apple has offered choice in desktop G4 systems for awhile. (It's Microsoft who are phasing out Nvidia in the next XBox)
Once again use of the verbal "One" instead of the numeric. Only one FW800 port? Why would Apple stick with FireWire 400 anyway? I mark this impossible
You and your verbal numbers... get a life. I don't know where you are coming from on this one. The Apple spes are perfectly logical and similar to the latest 17" PowerBooks
Bad grammar, but optical audio in a graphics machine? I'm sorry but this sounds like wishful thinking. One more point impossible
In a graphics machine? Well they are great at graphics, so I'll give you that, but have you ever heard of Digidesign ProTools? How about Apple's own Logic? How about the fact Apple has an entire segment devoted to Music right off there home page (and only part of it it the music store and iPod)? Apple is doing Music big time, and at a very high professional level, optical audio is an unexpected, but very logical addition to the G5
Hmm... there go your 4 1/2 half impossible points (or whatever? heck this is almost desperate... are you the person from Apple who accidently posted this in the first place and this is a lame attempt to counteract the damage before Steve fires your ass?)
errrr... Won't Perl be just as damaging. I mean Perl is a wonderful tool, but it's not exactly going to enforce good programming habits. This is very bad for educational goals. A better language for learning would be something along the lines of Python or Ruby (Probably Ruby today, but that's a fairly new option). Of course many classes these days start out with Java, which is probably not bad idealoogically, but really not as useful for the studens as an interpreted language.
Back in my day it was Pascal because it enforced good sturctural programming practices, now OO is all the rage. The point though is that whether you coose to do once you enter the real world, for learning, a language which enforces 'good' programming is much prefered.
Since the "language of browsers" is ECMAscript it makes sense to use that on the server, too, so one doesn't have to constantly shift back and forth between languages. And one doesn't HAVE to use an MS product in order to do so. It's really too bad so many otherwise intelligent folk abide the braindead notion that ECMA(java)script = ASP = MS.
Don't usually respond to flambait, but this last paragraph is quite interesting. It seem's that history would suggest that this is not true. Back in it's glory years Netscape thought the same thing about JavaScript. They called it LIveScript/LiveConnect/LiveWire... whatever (They changed it's name in the tradtional MS fashion of changing names of a technology and pretending it's new until it finally catches on (i.e. DOM, COM, ActiveX,.NET...)). Netscape did server side JavaScript better then anyone, and it flopped (well it's actually around somewhere in the Sun's portfolio). It flopped because JavaScript (or whatever you want to call it) *is* an awful language to work in, and people would rather use any of the much better alternatives (which for better or worse often ment Java)
What was really interesting about what Netscape did was the ability to use the JavaScript on the client side to intereact with the JavaScript on the server side. This is similar to what MS can do with.NET, but Netscape was more or less platform agnostic where MS certainly isn't.
FWIW WebObjects also originally used JavaScript on the server side, and while it may still remain (backwards compatibility) it was quickly replaced with Java as the prefered language (well... actually Obj-C is and was the prefered language, but it's looks far to wierd for most people to bother learning, which is too bad 'cuz it rocks!)
Yea, but that doesn't explain how to keep it (The JetDirect) from printing some strange extranous nonsense a couple times a day... seriously, every day it would print out 1-3 sheets of paper with like on line of random text. After a while that just got annoying. The CUPS solution is much nicer.
There are perfectly fine CUPS rpms for RedHat 7.2 in fact they even have some printswitch or something utility to switch from lpd to CUPS
I installed RedHat 7.2 on an old laptop with CUPS and it's only real purpose is to act as a print server for my home. I can now print to my Brother HL-1240 from any printer in my home (from Windows XP/Mac OS X/ Linux...). Granted since there are no CUPS specific drivers for this printer and my Mac I emulate an Old HP LaserJet which means only 300x300 dpi, but without CUPS I wouldn't be able to print to it via network from my Mac at all. This replaces a HP JetDirect which never worked right.
This only makes you cool if you've written a perl script to automate that whole process, otherwise it sounds like a lot of work to be a cheapa$$. Hell my time is worth more the savings you get. Oh well.
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That's one fricken scary thought!!!!
Abi Word is nice if you want to ditch some lesser word processor, or if your needs are very basic, but it seriously lacks a number of features I use daily (and Grammer checking isn't one of those, thats what Copy Editors are for). Version Tracking is essential. Also complete Word format acceptance is a fact of life.
That said OpenOffice.org covers all of these things, and does it wonderfully (sadly the exception is on Mac OS X).
Seems like the reviewer started out with some premise of glorifing Abi Word, and to be honest it's not even in the same league.
Apparently even the web site is obfuscated now.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'm sure a number of people were things "Ooooo Cool two caches" when they should have been thinking "Awwww Damn, two caches!"
...or at least misleading.
You can de-authorize computers to play Apple Protected AAC's and thus authorize any different computer. So if you upgrade a computer you can de-authorize the old one and authorize the new one at no penalty.
Other then that the article seems right on though.
They should fine companies millions of dollars for each ridiculous half-assed unresearched patent filed. That should either slow things down or bring in enough money to deal with crap like this.
Cheaper to buy a few extra guitars
...or something like that
Let's hope this patches the holes in Cingular's network. The thing is I think the merger is a win-win for ATT and Cingular customers as there is usually one tower or the other available most place these days. Right now in my office at work I get 3 signals (Cingular + 2 "Cingular Extended" (i.e. ATT & T-Mobile)) The Cingular Tower is the weakest one and the extended network is unavailable in a "Cingular area". With ATT wrapped into Cingular I think there will be one strong network.
Also ATT and Cingular both have very similar networks with many towers in the 850 range (Since they converted the TDMA signal to GSM). The rest of the GSM networks operate at 900 (i.e. TMobile and Europe). Of course most of Europe is also covered at 1900/1800 as is most of the major cities in the US (Thus tri-band "world phones"). (My GSM Treo 600 actually is a quad-band phone (850/900/1800/1900) I believe it's the only one available).
Finally Cingular coverage and service is much better then Sprint ever was. I also find Cingular has much better selection of phones since it's pretty standard GSM+SIM. Sprint had terrible phone selections and Verizon is even worse (i.e. you won't see and bluetooth or anything like it on Verizon 'cuz they want to charge extra for features inherently available by such technologies).Don't buy a Pentax SLR Camera! You will regret it if you you wish to expand in the future.
Not that there is anything wrong with Pentax, it's just limiting, and doesn't scale economically. Stick with Nikon or Canon for general photography, with Minolta a solid 3rd choice (Olympus would be 4th with Pentax bringing up the rear).
Between Canon and Nikon it's really a preference thing (I like Canon, but there are good reason for Nikon too). Canon tends to be more technologicaly cutting edge then Nikon and will have things like Ultrasonic Lenses (SilentWave is what Nikon call 'em) and and Optical Image Stabilization long before Nikon does (Nikon won't have Optical Image Stabilization until Canon's patent runs out in a few more years I think). That said cutting edge isn't always great (Canon's eye controlled focus is cool but still not 100% and was certainly not real useful when it first appeared). Nikon stuff is all tried and true for the most part. BTW the lens is most important... the body (for film anyway) isn't all that important. The cheapest Canon Rebal or Nikon N-6x will do most everything you would want it too (though it will feel like a plastic POS... which they are) The lens is what makes the picture.
Dude... Apple was all over the place advertising that they were discounting iPods and accessories by 10% off for one day only (the day after Thanksgiving I think). This was originally for brick and mortar stores, but they extended it to their online store as well
Too bad you missed it I guess... I picked up an iTrip for my iPod at the discount. (BTW iTrips suck bad... it never worked right... I took it apart and half the wires weren't soldered in correctly... I resoldered it and it still doesn't work as good as those cheapy Belkin FM Transmitters).
Not last time I checked, 9.1 just went out the door recently. In fact if I had to choose any linux distribution for a specific server application, I would choose Slackware over any other linux distribution in a hearbeat.
Ok... slackware wouldn't be my first choice for a desktop (That would be SuSE), but for unbloated, secure, hasslefree servers, Slackware rules my friend... and the great thing about Linux is a good distribution never dies!
Apples and Oranges... The G5 is superior in Floating Point, and OS X is optimized to utilize every once of the GPU (Quartz Extreame)... As such this is clearly aimed at high end desktop/workstation type things (Graphics/ Multimedia/ Scientific Computing...). The AMD 64 (and the Xeon for that matter) are slightly better with integer performance which makes them ideal for server apps, simple calculations, and i/o. (The Power4... The G5's big momma has much better Interger performance as well... i figure IBM didn't want to compete with Apple in the server market).
Apple servers still use the G4.
What if Dell's DJ is a repackaged iPod? What if Dell's Music service is iTMS for PC's? It would be a win-win situation (provided Mike and Steve could get over thier fueding). Stranger things have happened in this industry
High quality steel bikes (Renolyds 8xx, ture-temper XO, Columbus) are comparable weights to Aluminum. It depends on how the tubes are formed (butted, double butted.. etc).
Steel can also be custom formed for ridgidy and ride, which you can't do very well with aluminum (which is always very riged). i.e. you can get some of the feel of an aluminum soft tail with a hard tail steel frame with significanlty lower weight and better lateral stiffness (which pivots all have).
Aluminum is cheap though and you can get a decent aluminum bike for much less then you can get a decent steal frame. Steal bikes will outlast aluminum bikes if you ride hard though. Aluminum fatigues relativly poorly.
That said TI has all the greatness of steal and it is lighter, rust proof, etc... and Carbon fiber is the new thing where the stiffness of aluminum is valued.. of course those are expensive.
For a great, reasonabley prices steal frame check gunnarbikes.com if you want to spend more try sevencycles.com.
Wow, i'd so hate to grow up with you as my parent. What happened to you? Did you get dissed by Mickey Mouse? Do need something to vent all your frustrations at, and Disney just happened to be what you chose at the time? Should we start drinking X brand Cola too, since Coke and Pepsi are bad too?
Seriously, there are many worse evils in this world then Disney. And if you think that any of that crap you mention above appeals to a child better then Disney, then you are sadly mistaken, and really in the great scheme of life few things are more valuable then the joy of a child.
Further more half your reasons to get rid of Disney make Disney seem responsible for MPAA and RIAA. If we are doing the guilt by association thing then you'd have to get rid humanity while you were at it. The sweatshop stuff, while certainly bad, blames Disney for issues which are for the most part beyond Disney's control (Yea, sure, they could show there frustration with forgien governments and contracters by just halting all business, but then so could everyone else, again... guilt by association.
About the only "evil" thing Disney is directly resposible for is lobbing for the copyright stuff, which is both there right in a free society, and there resposibilty as a public company (i.e. to maximize profits). The real culprits in this case however are the assholes in Congress who voted for it.
How do you set default programs for different file types? The whole concept of file associations are completly different in a Mac than they are in Windows
Actually, in OS X file associations are very similar to those in Windows, Mac OS 9 and earlier however where a different matter. With OS X you can however change individual files of the same file type to open in non-default apps, which is cool! (BTW to do this right-click (or ctrl-click for those single button people) the file and select "Get Info" from pop-up (Or select file and hit cmd-i). expand the "Open with:" Info box and select your app, you can also make the app you choose the default app by clicking on "Change All...". Pretty damn easy.
How come email attachements from Mac come with two identically named files? Or files with out extensions on them? The Mac FS's metadata tends to throw off Windows users, as does the (sometimes) lack of a file extension.
Not sure about the email attachment thing... could be and encoding problem on one end, or an application "feature". As for file extentions... OS X uses them (but can hide them just like Windows has done by default recently) infact it works just like Windows does these days. Of course extra info about files can be stored (in the dreaded .DS_Store files) but it's not vital info.
That said, there are some hugh differences in how applications are stored. On the Mac Apps are bundled so an app and all it's associated resource and data files are hidden away nicely, rather then windows where it scatters an application all over your system and registry. This rarely confuses new users once you explain it to them.
$0.12 per $1 isn't bad (in fact it's quite good). That said I don't think you really know what you are talking about. First I'm quite sure that just like book publishing, Musicians royalties are based off the price the price which the publisher sells the product, not retail. (And these prices are crazy, some sales channels pay more per unit then others... etc.)
From a book publishing POV (which I have quite a bit of experience), a large percentage of books published *loose money*! Most authors never earn out their advances, and often publishers don't recoup thier editorial and printing expenses. The publisher only makes money off of a very few best sellers. This of course has the effect of the few best selling authors occasionally making a fuss about how they get ripped off by the publishers.
Now the average author, often complains that they didn't make much money for the work involved (which is unfortunately often the case), 9/10 times here the authors still make more money then the publisher (infact they are usually the only one's who make any money). This is how the business works. There's no telling what will sell and for what reason, there are literally millions of great authors and great books that never ever sell. Why? Well if can figure that one out ahead of time then there's a future for you in publishing! If you are Steven King you can get 40% Royalties and Millions of dollars in advances, because a publihser can be pretty sure to make something off of it, everyone else needs to play the game, otherwise nobody *could* play the game.
That aside... there is one really hugh difference traditionally between Books and Music. With book publishing the author usually walks away with all of thier royalties (if they earn them out to begin with) minus a small reserve against returns (which ultimately the author gets back, if they remember to ask for it!). Any book marketing and publicity done by the publisher is paid for by the publisher. Most editorial and printing costs are paid for by the publishier too. In music almost everything is charged back against the royalties, and the marketing dollars that music publishers spend with artists money for "promotion" is crazy high, and in most cases eats up royalties and makes it impossible for the artists to get any.
BTW I don't feel sorry Artists, they should know what they are getting in to before the do it. They get to live doing what they love, and while they might all live like superstars the quality musicians get bye. Most of the big complainers are lucky to be where they are (Cortney Love, please!)
Of course the issue above isn't about any of that, it's about the musicians wanting to have a say in how thier art is conveyed. I think they should, the money thing aside, at the end of the day they created something, and they should have some say in how it's used. If they feel thier music should only be played as an album... well, whatever, they have that right (of course then turning around and releasing a bunch of singles and videos doesn't do much for there "artistic credibility", but oh well, hypocrisy or ignorance isn't a crime (though maybe it should be))
Wow let's take this one point at a time...
It's not a G5, it's a PPC970, completely different beasts. Not to mention neither Motorola or IBM have 2GHz chips in their roadmap until 2005. Bzzzt One point impossible
Errr... From a marketing perspective G5 is better then 970, it's also consistant with how Apple have named PPC processors in the past, so Bzzzt minnus one for you Plus one for Apple.
1GHz bus? gimme a break. Intel hasn't yet reached this. Two points impossible
Wow! I don't know where to begin with this one. If you really understood anything you were talking about you would know two things: 1. The 970 bus speed runs 1/2 the speed of the processor, so for a 2Ghz Processor, 1 Ghz sounds about right. 2. WTF does Intel have to do with anything? Apple has worked with AMD on the Hypertrasport BUS which should (and apparently does) toast Intel (And Intel has been slower then most with BUS speed lately anyway, even little VIA who have a fraction of the budget of Intel/AMD/ or Apple
The rest of Apples site would say "3 USB Ports" not "Three". Also, Apple have a long standing habit of using Firewire instead of USB 2.0. I take this as one point impossible
Apple was first with USB, and many many many Apple peripherals use USB (i.e. Keyboard and Mouse to name a few important ones). The cost of USB 1.1 vs 2.0 is about nothing so it's a no brainer to use USB 2.0. Also Since you seem to have grammatical issues the image (see below) "three" is grammatically correct "3" isn't.
Almost believable, but for the moment Apple are phasing out the use of NVIDIA cards in their machines. I highly doubt they'll be used. Half a point impossible
Apple isn't phasing out Nvidia, Have you read the specs for the newest Powerbooks? They use Nvidia instead of tradtional ATI. Apple has offered choice in desktop G4 systems for awhile. (It's Microsoft who are phasing out Nvidia in the next XBox)
Once again use of the verbal "One" instead of the numeric. Only one FW800 port? Why would Apple stick with FireWire 400 anyway? I mark this impossible
You and your verbal numbers... get a life. I don't know where you are coming from on this one. The Apple spes are perfectly logical and similar to the latest 17" PowerBooks
Bad grammar, but optical audio in a graphics machine? I'm sorry but this sounds like wishful thinking. One more point impossible
In a graphics machine? Well they are great at graphics, so I'll give you that, but have you ever heard of Digidesign ProTools? How about Apple's own Logic? How about the fact Apple has an entire segment devoted to Music right off there home page (and only part of it it the music store and iPod)? Apple is doing Music big time, and at a very high professional level, optical audio is an unexpected, but very logical addition to the G5
Hmm... there go your 4 1/2 half impossible points (or whatever? heck this is almost desperate... are you the person from Apple who accidently posted this in the first place and this is a lame attempt to counteract the damage before Steve fires your ass?)
errrr... Won't Perl be just as damaging. I mean Perl is a wonderful tool, but it's not exactly going to enforce good programming habits. This is very bad for educational goals. A better language for learning would be something along the lines of Python or Ruby (Probably Ruby today, but that's a fairly new option). Of course many classes these days start out with Java, which is probably not bad idealoogically, but really not as useful for the studens as an interpreted language.
Back in my day it was Pascal because it enforced good sturctural programming practices, now OO is all the rage. The point though is that whether you coose to do once you enter the real world, for learning, a language which enforces 'good' programming is much prefered.
Don't usually respond to flambait, but this last paragraph is quite interesting. It seem's that history would suggest that this is not true. Back in it's glory years Netscape thought the same thing about JavaScript. They called it LIveScript/LiveConnect/LiveWire... whatever (They changed it's name in the tradtional MS fashion of changing names of a technology and pretending it's new until it finally catches on (i.e. DOM, COM, ActiveX, .NET...)). Netscape did server side JavaScript better then anyone, and it flopped (well it's actually around somewhere in the Sun's portfolio). It flopped because JavaScript (or whatever you want to call it) *is* an awful language to work in, and people would rather use any of the much better alternatives (which for better or worse often ment Java)
What was really interesting about what Netscape did was the ability to use the JavaScript on the client side to intereact with the JavaScript on the server side. This is similar to what MS can do with .NET, but Netscape was more or less platform agnostic where MS certainly isn't.
FWIW WebObjects also originally used JavaScript on the server side, and while it may still remain (backwards compatibility) it was quickly replaced with Java as the prefered language (well... actually Obj-C is and was the prefered language, but it's looks far to wierd for most people to bother learning, which is too bad 'cuz it rocks!)
Yea, but that doesn't explain how to keep it (The JetDirect) from printing some strange extranous nonsense a couple times a day... seriously, every day it would print out 1-3 sheets of paper with like on line of random text. After a while that just got annoying. The CUPS solution is much nicer.
I think your problem is Windows 98, You should be able to set up your printer on Windows -> CUPS with:
ipp://server/printers/printer_name
I was never able to get this to work with Win98, It does work well with WinMe and WinXP
There are perfectly fine CUPS rpms for RedHat 7.2 in fact they even have some printswitch or something utility to switch from lpd to CUPS
I installed RedHat 7.2 on an old laptop with CUPS and it's only real purpose is to act as a print server for my home. I can now print to my Brother HL-1240 from any printer in my home (from Windows XP/Mac OS X/ Linux...). Granted since there are no CUPS specific drivers for this printer and my Mac I emulate an Old HP LaserJet which means only 300x300 dpi, but without CUPS I wouldn't be able to print to it via network from my Mac at all. This replaces a HP JetDirect which never worked right.
This only makes you cool if you've written a perl script to automate that whole process, otherwise it sounds like a lot of work to be a cheapa$$. Hell my time is worth more the savings you get. Oh well.