Hmmm...when I offered to give Allyson my extra Panther disc, I didn't even check to see if it was CD or DVD.
If it's DVD, can you copy it to an external hard drive and run it off that?
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Kristen - Feb 15, 2006 1:53:52 pm PST #7095 of 10003
Allyson - Feb 15, 2006 1:54:32 pm PST #7096 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
My mac is only three years old. It is not allowed to be obsolete. NOT ALLOWED.
NoiseDesign - Feb 15, 2006 2:34:49 pm PST #7097 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Only three years old? Are you certain it's a G3 and not a G4? Is it one of the CRT iMacs or does it have the LCD on the metal arm?
Allyson - Feb 15, 2006 2:37:40 pm PST #7098 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's a G3. Um. It is a graphite iMac.
Tom Scola - Feb 15, 2006 2:37:56 pm PST #7099 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And are you sure that it doesn't have a DVD? I bought a cube six years ago, and it had a DVD built in.
Sean K - Feb 15, 2006 2:43:12 pm PST #7100 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm seriously thinking about getting a PowerBook soon, too. I'd kind of prefer a MacBook Pro, but I'll be able to afford the PB much sooner.
Also...
Latest Space Elevator tests looking good. [link]
I love the idea of a space elevator. I think that, as long as large groups of people are in love with the idea of murdering large numbers of other people in spectacular ways, a space elevator on Earth is extremely ill advised, and building one is just asking to see how many people it will kill when it comes crashing down.
Jessica - Feb 15, 2006 2:58:43 pm PST #7101 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think that, as long as large groups of people are in love with the idea of murdering large numbers of other people in spectacular ways, a space elevator on Earth is extremely ill advised, and building one is just asking to see how many people it will kill when it comes crashing down.
Hey, just because it happened twice in the Mars trilogy...
tommyrot - Feb 15, 2006 3:15:48 pm PST #7102 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.
I'm not sure how happy Tiger would be running on a G3 though.
I've never really noticed worse performance running Tiger on my G3 iBook. I do have the last G3 iBook (900 mhz) with 640 Meg RAM, and I pretty much just use it for web browsing or watching DVDs.
It does have speed problems playing downloaded video, but I'm not sure if that's gotten worse under Tiger.
DCJensen - Feb 15, 2006 3:36:45 pm PST #7103 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
a space elevator on Earth is extremely ill advised, and building one is just asking to see how many people it will kill when it comes crashing down.
Mostly the Earth end will be tethered in the ocean near the equator.
tommyrot - Feb 15, 2006 3:40:51 pm PST #7104 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.
If a space elevator is cut, the part above the cut will fly off into space. So if, say, a plane flew into it at 35,000 feet, you'd end up with about 8 miles of space elevator crashing down. Or more like floating down.
It would suck to actually be on the elevator when it flies off into space, though.