Anyone have any recommendations for/against external hard drives for a mac?
Buyer's Guide: FireWire hard drives
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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Tom Scola - Oct 24, 2005 8:16:48 am PDT #5278 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Volans - Oct 24, 2005 8:27:47 am PDT #5279 of 10003
move out and draw fire
(back from Google)
You're right, tommy, it wasn't a controlling interest (I'm guessing that would've been too much for the USG to ignore on the monopoly front). I've been reading fairly dry legal contracts about which company has to do what...and my head hurts.
MS invested $150 million in Apple, resulting in the renaissance of Apple. In return, Apple got protection from being hostily overtaken and had to share trade/development with MS (not thoroughly but in several definied areas).
What I'm trying to find is how much money Microsoft gets when people buy Apple things...I assume it's the same as any other shareholder, times 25 million (approx. the number of shares MS has in Apple).
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2005 12:12:18 pm PDT #5280 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's the google web accelerator when it's at home, and why does it make signals v. noise so pissy?
Theodosia - Oct 24, 2005 2:47:50 pm PDT #5281 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Does anybody here have experience with Mac-based VCD creating programs? I found one, iVCD, which looks pretty good, but it's $29.95, which seems a little pricey to me for something that I'm only going to use very occasionally.
DCJensen - Oct 24, 2005 2:59:53 pm PDT #5282 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
MS invested $150 million in Apple, resulting in the renaissance of Apple.
That's a bit of a stretch.
There were a myriad of factors, but $150 Million is only a drop in the bucket of an (at the time) $3 Billion company (Apple).
By settling the mutual lawsuits between Apple and Microsoft, Microsoft gave the $150 million token amount as a good faith showing and promised to keep developing MS Office for the Mac.
The buying of NeXt (to replace the failed attempt at a similar OS) and bringing back Steve Jobs, who had gone on to get a bit more maturity over his ten-year hiatus (and not a little business accumen) were a far greater factor in the re-emergence of Apple to major-player status.
Apple was never mostly dead, despite what the news media loved to claim.
meara - Oct 24, 2005 5:10:26 pm PDT #5283 of 10003
Buyer's Guide: FireWire hard drives
Thank you Tom Scola! Yay. V. useful.
Though between buying the printer/scanner/fax-y thing (it was on sale, see!) and the planned purchase of the hard drive and a speaker-y thing for the iPod, I have completely blown the top off my tech budget for the year. Doh.
Typo Boy - Oct 25, 2005 6:48:29 am PDT #5284 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Re: Laser printers. HP's do seem to be good printer, but the price for the cartridge given cartridge life seems outragous. Some of the competing brands seem to offer a better price per page, even if the printers last half as long, because the cartridges are so much cheaper and have higher capacities. Is my reasoning flawed? Am I missing a gotcha that means I should get a HP?
tommyrot - Oct 25, 2005 7:36:31 am PDT #5285 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Stoopid XML/Javascript question...
Say I have a web page with an xml document embedded in it called xmlJobList. I want to replace this document's xml using Javascript. Say that I have a variable called xmlRetrievedJobStruct that's just a string of the xml I want.
Can I go
xmlJobList.xml = xmlRetrievedJobStruct;
to replace the xml document in memory with the new xml?
Actually, I can't. I get
Microsoft JScript runtime error: Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment
Can I only do stuff like this for xml that's loaded separatly into a web page, not xml that's embedded in a page?
Typo Boy - Oct 25, 2005 7:40:03 am PDT #5286 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK - non-HPs have seperate imaging drums. HP is not so far off in per page cost. Sorry to obsess .
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2005 7:55:29 am PDT #5287 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oy.
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