The same thing that makes Firewire fast (the separate controller chip), was the same thing that was preventing Apple from making the iPods as thin as possible.
I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Book ,'Serenity'
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Tom Scola - Mar 20, 2006 11:16:01 am PST #7642 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2006 11:17:11 am PST #7643 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.
The same thing that makes Firewire fast (the separate controller chip), was the same thing that was preventing Apple from making the iPods as thin as possible.
Ah. OK, now I don't mind that my two newest iPods don't have Firewire.
Gris - Mar 20, 2006 11:28:00 am PST #7644 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Firewire also provides more power. So, for example, if you have one of the small, svelte, portable external drives, most can do both power and data through a single Firewire connection, but it requries two USB cords - one for power, one for data.
Same for the laptop enclosures. One cord for Firewire, two for USB.
Allyson - Mar 20, 2006 11:41:17 am PST #7645 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
caltech store is having an enormous sale. 12" iBook for 849...which includes tax.
Damn. WANT. If I had done my taxes earlier, I could buy...I could buy by charging it and then use my taxes to pay it off.
Decisions...
Gris - Mar 20, 2006 11:48:25 am PST #7646 of 10003
Hey. New board.
I SO love that store, Allyson. For such a small space, they sure have a lot of nice Mac stuff.
That sale is on because there will probably be new iBooks (with Intel chips) released within the next month. There have been rumors that the new iBooks will be released at a significantly lower price point than old ones, so there may be a new, modern, $899 widescreen iBook that is much faster available in a month at the same store. OR, they may not lower the price at all, so this may be your only shot at that figure. Not to intentionally make your decision harder or anything.
It's always a gamble with Apple.
Gudanov - Mar 20, 2006 11:50:19 am PST #7647 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
I wonder if there will soon be a flood of used PPC Macs on eBay.
Spidra Webster - Mar 20, 2006 1:40:32 pm PST #7648 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Gud, I think there will be some but I'd be surprised if it was a flood. I would imagine people will let the pioneer users work out the kinks first.
Just got the current version of iListen. Haven't loaded it yet. I hope it has a higher accuracy rate than the last version I tried. I don't blame MacSpeech. I'm glad they're plugging away at it. I'm miffed at Apple for pissing away their lead in voice recognition in the '90s. The Mac has never caught up again. Still, I hate getting on the PC and the only reason I bought the damned thing was to use Naturally Speaking.
meara - Mar 20, 2006 7:48:41 pm PST #7649 of 10003
Ay. Must share...so last night while downloading an Office update, my Powerbook suddenly was all "You must restart NOW!" and gave me no other options. So I tried...and it got snagged in startup, and wouldn't go anywhere.
Went to the Apple Store this afternoon, and a very nice guy managed to boot me up from their firewire drive (I could also boot from the install DVD, but Disk Utility couldn't fix me) and save my info to their drive, then completely reinstall my OS. Sniff.
But the good news is, it worked (and it was free!)! And I got 99% of my stuff back! WHEW. I did feel bad for the other customers at the Genius Bar at the time--one was fucked (third time he'd brought the thing in to be replaced), and one was STUPID.
Needless to say, I now have a much more current and complete backup on my backup harddrive. ______________________________
As for the 1040, yes, you can type in it in Acrobat Reader, but not Preview. I downloaded Reader tonight, and managed to do my taxes. $400 won't buy me a new computer, but hopefully I won't be needing one for a bit...
DCJensen - Mar 21, 2006 4:02:31 am PST #7650 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
lisah - Mar 22, 2006 3:36:28 am PST #7651 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Hi Techies! Does anybody know about an equivalent to NetMeeting that I can use on my mac? That is compatible with NetMeeting? And is, preferably, free?
In my brief, lazy search all I could find were apps that seemed designed for video conferencing. I don't really need that. I just need to be able to see what somebody is doing on their computer. While they are at my office and I am at home.
Thanks!