get rid of your macand get a proper computer
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Dont point it at your face up the ass,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:06,
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im sure i madebetter pics on my atari 520
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Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:08,
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I think my old Casio calculator made better picsthat what I have churned out tonight......
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Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:11,
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A quantum computer? On twin-cooled Caesium atoms?
The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:09,
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a computer so powerfulit plugs directly in to the sun
and has god as a teccie?
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Dont point it at your face up the ass,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:13,
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Or a Mind."The Mind had an image to illustrate its information capacity. It liked to imagine the contents of its memory store written out on cards; little slips of paper with tiny writing on them, big enough for a human to read. If the characters were a couple of millimetres tall and the paper about ten centimetres square and written on both sides, then ten thousand characters could be squeezed onto each card. In a metre-long drawer of such cards maybe one thousand of them -- ten million pieces of information -- could be stored. In a small room a few metres square, with a corridor in the middle just wide enough to pull a tray out into, you could keep perhaps a thousand trays arranged in close-packed cabinets: ten billion characters in all.
A square kilometre of these cramped cells might contain as many as one hundred thousand rooms; a thousand such floors would produce a building two thousand metres tall with a hundred million rooms.
If you kept building those squat towers, squeezed hard up against each other until they covered the surface of a largish standard-G world -- maybe a billion square kilometres -- you would have a planet with one trillion square kilometres of floor space, one hundred quadrillion paper-stuffed rooms, thirty light-years of corridors and a number of potential stored characters sufficiently large to boggle just about anybody's mind.
In base 10 that number would be a 1 followed by twenty-seven zeroes, and even that vast figure was only a fraction of the capacity of the Mind. To match it you would need a thousand such worlds; systems of them, a clusterful of information-packed globes . . . and that vast capacity was physically contained within a space smaller than a single one of those tiny rooms, inside the Mind. "
(A square kilometre of these cramped cells might contain as many as one hundred thousand rooms; a thousand such floors would produce a building two thousand metres tall with a hundred million rooms.
If you kept building those squat towers, squeezed hard up against each other until they covered the surface of a largish standard-G world -- maybe a billion square kilometres -- you would have a planet with one trillion square kilometres of floor space, one hundred quadrillion paper-stuffed rooms, thirty light-years of corridors and a number of potential stored characters sufficiently large to boggle just about anybody's mind.
In base 10 that number would be a 1 followed by twenty-seven zeroes, and even that vast figure was only a fraction of the capacity of the Mind. To match it you would need a thousand such worlds; systems of them, a clusterful of information-packed globes . . . and that vast capacity was physically contained within a space smaller than a single one of those tiny rooms, inside the Mind. "
The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:16,
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lolnumbers10^27 * 10^3 = 10^30.
Stars/Sand grains
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The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:39,
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get rid of your unfounded prejudiceand get a better argument
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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:10,
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tis truei speak of macs of old.
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Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:14,
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I don't like Macs much.They just don't appeal to me in the way a windows PC does but it's pretty much a matter of choice. I still game so up until recently a Mac was unthinkable. Mrs has a Macbook pro but it's rarely used.
The fact is that the Mac has actually been the industry standard weapon of choice for design and video work for many, many years.
PC's have only got decent in the graphics area in the last few years.
I'd still not have one, or any apple shiny toy, because I'm not a pretentious twat.
(The fact is that the Mac has actually been the industry standard weapon of choice for design and video work for many, many years.
PC's have only got decent in the graphics area in the last few years.
I'd still not have one, or any apple shiny toy, because I'm not a pretentious twat.
Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:31,
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I originally bought macs because they are unix done properly.However much I like the idea of open-source/free software, the plain fact is that you get what you pay for, and free unixes eat your time.
That said, their hardware is stupidly expensive (the machine I am typing this on cost 1.8K!) and breaks far too often.
If I could use windows powershell (Monad), I would probably be happy on XP or Vista. As it is, being on XP at work feels like working with one less hand.
(That said, their hardware is stupidly expensive (the machine I am typing this on cost 1.8K!) and breaks far too often.
If I could use windows powershell (Monad), I would probably be happy on XP or Vista. As it is, being on XP at work feels like working with one less hand.
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Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:36,
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There is absolutelynothing wrong with them. However they, like most hardware, have areas where they excel and others where they fail.
I use Vista Ultimate 32bit ( I have a machine running 64bit and there are too many problems for me to recommend it ) and I like it very much. I find it a superb OS and rarely meet anyone who slags it off that has any concrete reason ( other than it's fashionable to slag M$ and vista off ) or viable argument for their bias.
I actually enjoy it more than XP now and it certainly has been more stable.
There are issues but they are not worth worrying about as it's going to be replaced with W7 anyway.
OS on the Mac has always been my issue. Too clumpy for me in the past. RISC chips have always been a favourite though so I don't dismiss Macs, I just have a preference for the OS and hardware that suits me personally.
(I use Vista Ultimate 32bit ( I have a machine running 64bit and there are too many problems for me to recommend it ) and I like it very much. I find it a superb OS and rarely meet anyone who slags it off that has any concrete reason ( other than it's fashionable to slag M$ and vista off ) or viable argument for their bias.
I actually enjoy it more than XP now and it certainly has been more stable.
There are issues but they are not worth worrying about as it's going to be replaced with W7 anyway.
OS on the Mac has always been my issue. Too clumpy for me in the past. RISC chips have always been a favourite though so I don't dismiss Macs, I just have a preference for the OS and hardware that suits me personally.
Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:43,
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I really don't understand the problem people have for Vista.I've only used it a couple of times, I admit, but it seems quite good.
Quite...OSX like, really :)
Fair enough, though, I think we all get used to a certain way of doing things, and it's irritating to change.
Wish I was admin on my work XP machine though :((
(Quite...OSX like, really :)
Fair enough, though, I think we all get used to a certain way of doing things, and it's irritating to change.
Wish I was admin on my work XP machine though :((
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Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:50,
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I don't wish to appear to be a pretentious twatI have worked with Windows since, erm, 95 I guess. I got fed up of using it at home and one day myself and my wife went to PC on the Wolde and saw the anglepois type G4 iMac. We thought it was a good alternative. For home use, internet browsing and email and the like, Macs have been more than satisfying. My wife has since gone back to Vista and likes it, whilst I am typing this on a Macbook having progressed through many Macs. My VMware install however has Windows XP, Vista, 2008 Server, Ubuntu, PCLInuxOS, Kubuntu, Sabayon, Mandriva and Solaris 10 64 bit.
To be honest, all I want to do is collect my emails and browse the webs the quickest way possible ;)
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Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:57,
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To be honest, all I want to do is collect my emails and browse the webs the quickest way possible ;)
Oh,And going by the hardware experiences I have had with Apple equipment, I can NOT recommend them. Too many issues with early kit that are only resolved by users complaints. I have a G5 iMac that is now on its second logic board. Never had that problem with a PC I must admit.
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Fri 14 Nov 2008, 22:01,
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hahahaha,since when has anybody on here needed to do that about anything
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Fri 14 Nov 2008, 21:55,
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