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Offline Sandwich

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on: June 12, 2005, 04:12:10 am
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Martinus

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Reply #1 on: June 12, 2005, 04:17:17 am
[color=66ff00]Mac: The beautiful computer a drunk person can use. ;)

My friend has a mac-mini and one of those 'everything built into the screen' macs. Both are excellent pieces of hardware but I need something to tinker with i.e. a PC. :nod:
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Offline Sandwich

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Reply #2 on: June 12, 2005, 06:58:55 am
I'm considering a small (Mac-mini sized), nice-looking box to sit in the living room (when I move out of my parents' place), feed music to a set of Logitech Z-5500's, and every once in a while to hook up to a nice 24" widescreen for movie purposes. The problem is that Mac Minis don't have 5.1 sound output - they have stereo. :ick:

I guess I'll have to build my own mini-ITX machine. Ahh, the sheer customizability of PCs. :D
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Re: Got Mac Exposé Envy?
Reply #3 on: June 12, 2005, 11:06:25 am
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Got Mac Exposé Envy?


Erm...no? :p
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Offline MicroPsycho

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Reply #4 on: June 12, 2005, 08:29:13 pm
what exactly does it do? all I'm seeing is a bunch of translucent windows, something that can be accomplished with a number of apps
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Reply #5 on: June 12, 2005, 08:33:41 pm
Speaking of Macs
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #6 on: June 12, 2005, 10:28:40 pm
roflmfao @ redmenace & ctrl+alt+del
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #7 on: June 13, 2005, 01:27:06 am
Mmmm.

When I want to use the computer, I usually want to use it...Apple has really streamlined that process, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Just because it's easy to use doesn't make Macs somehow wimpy.

If only Microsoft were concentrating on making things more efficient rather than adding DRM crap into their OS.
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Offline EtherShock

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Reply #8 on: June 13, 2005, 02:56:31 am
:lol: I'm still getting a Mac in the future, but I'll probably always have a PC.

Ooh, that program reminds me, I want to find a virtual desktop program.
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Offline Ransom

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Reply #9 on: June 13, 2005, 03:40:15 am
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Originally posted by redmenace
Speaking of Macs
(CAD fanboyism)

God I hate that comic when it does that.

Though I have a Mac and I don't see what's so good about Exposé in the first place. It doesn't seem to do anything command-tab won't do.
 

Offline Kamikaze

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Reply #10 on: June 13, 2005, 08:44:58 pm
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Originally posted by EtherShock

Ooh, that program reminds me, I want to find a virtual desktop program.


There's a powertoy thing released by Microsoft that does virtual desktops, though in a hackish way. You might try that. There's a supplement to daemon-tools that does that too.

BTW: No Windows or Mac users have any right to say anything about "big kids" computers anyhow. Try again when you do an LFS install. ;)
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Reply #11 on: June 13, 2005, 11:31:47 pm
Since when does "big kids" = complicated and difficult?
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #12 on: June 13, 2005, 11:44:47 pm
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Mmmm.

When I want to use the computer, I usually want to use it...Apple has really streamlined that process, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Just because it's easy to use doesn't make Macs somehow wimpy.

If only Microsoft were concentrating on making things more efficient rather than adding DRM crap into their OS.

Thats definately true...the latest OS 10.4 is very snappy...even on those MacMini's.  I work in a computer store that sells both...while the older iMacs suck for just about everything, the G4 towers, MacMini's, G5 iMacs, and the G5 towers are very impressive.  If you want to run certain types of software...

...but they don't run all the software I want.  Games noteably.  We'll see when they go X86 Intel.  It could be interesting if games suddenly worked on both and people really did switch.

STILL...I like being able to build and customize my own PC from the ground up.  Changes like this may kick MS into gear.  Optimization should be their middle name....but its not...its bloat.
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Reply #13 on: June 13, 2005, 11:45:48 pm
Big kids usually = more expensive.
  

Offline Kamikaze

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Reply #14 on: June 13, 2005, 11:57:28 pm
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Since when does "big kids" = complicated and difficult?


I don't know, but that was the impression I got out of that Ctrl+Alt+Del comic. :p
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #15 on: June 14, 2005, 01:57:36 am
Speaking of big kids toys, I saw a SPARCbook at work today.  Guy was buying it for $500 from his buddy's granddad's estate sale.  It had 4GB of ram coupled with a 650mhz SPARC processor.

He brought it in, wondering if he could install the new Windows 64 bit on it, since it was a 64bit processor.
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Offline Setekh

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Reply #16 on: June 14, 2005, 03:20:26 am
My poor friends who have Macs can't get their laptops working with the wireless LAN at uni. Suckers. :p
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Reply #17 on: June 14, 2005, 08:42:28 am
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Since when does "big kids" = complicated and difficult?


Since they assumed that Macs must be for kids because the OS was designed to be cute looking and simple to use.

It's not exactly something that Windows can claim not to be guilty of. Especially when their main word processing application ships with a talking paperclip and the file search option insists on showing you a big animated puppy dog.
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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #18 on: June 14, 2005, 09:30:51 am
Don't get me started on that ****ing paperclip.........
 

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Reply #19 on: June 14, 2005, 12:24:35 pm
I'd seen it before but that still cracks me up :D
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