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Originally posted by Asher
I've got 3 HDs in my computer right now, with space for 3 more.
I've got 3 HDs in my computer right now, with space for 3 more.
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Got enough porn there?(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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Your very own words tell me that you still don't get it.
Your very own words tell me that you still don't get it.
It is a fact that iMacs are abominations. It is not my opinion, it is the objective truth. My personal opinion just happens to coincide with the truth in this case.
If you want to be like that about it, I'll make this argument:
You think God is an absolute Truth. Other people think it's your opinion. They, however, are wrong.
Suck it up, man. In this case, with the iMacs, you're wrong.
Yes it is, Asher. You can plug an external drive into one of the USB/Firewire ports. And if you want, you can add even more drives by daisy-chaining them.
This does not make the iMac "fully expandable". "Fully expandable" means that you can go into the machine, and add new components and modules. "Fully expandable" takes your notion of feature replaceability and potential upgradeability, as well as adding external peripherals, and then adds so much more.
It's the so much more part that the iMac cannot do.
Therefore, the iMac sucks.
An iMac is not designed to be a computer in the conventional sense, Q^3. It is designed to be an appliance.
it is billed as a computer, not as an appliance. it's about as offensive as those pentecostal churches which bill themselves as "catholic" to get converts.
if i wanted an appliance that could connect to the internet, i'd get this or this.B♭3Comment
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2 x 120GB are SATA RAID. Linux doesn't know what to do with such a thing using the RAID BIOS, and wants to make it a software RAID (losing all Windows data).Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Got enough porn there?
So it also has a 100GB IDE drive for linux. Though since Linux doesn't know what to do with my videocard, it's media storage now.
I use my harddrive space for media, not just pr0n. I have every episode of Futurama and Family Guy that I ripped in DivX Pro 5.2, for example. Not to mention all of the other DVD rips I have, and shows I've taped through my TV tuner in WMV format..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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When you want to pile 30 gigs of music files onto a 5 gig drive it does.Very rarely does it make sense to replace a harddrive, unless it died.
Therefore, the iMac sucks.
I love this: "the imac doesn't do what I want in a computer, therefore it sucks".
Q Cubed's invalid inference of the week.
As people have been pointing out to you, the imac is not designed for people like you. It's a perfectly serviceable computer for those who just want to do basic stuff. I've had my imac for over 4 years and it has been an excellent servant. It has never broken down, and it has aged a **** of a lot better than my mother's similarly aged Compaq.
Perhaps the imac's most attractive feature is that it is pretty hard to **** up. I need this in a machine because my wife emits strange computer wrecking rays.
Your assertions boil down to legislating for everyone else what they should use a computer for.Only feebs vote.Comment
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Agathon, what a shame you are and a disgrace for the Communist Party
You advocate Apple by creating classes of "basic users" and so forth and extending the struggle of the Proletariat
Everyone knows the PC is the People's Computer. Apple is a tool of the borgousie to hamper the workers' productivity and delay the Great Revolution
Shame on you, you capitalist fiend! You disgrace the CPA!
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Red card for using the term *nix.Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Not really.
MS has always been bad at patching security holes, has always tried to sit on problems until outsiders blew whistles on them. It's now worse, they are doing this monthly patch thing.
*nix has always been much faster at patching problems.
Don't lump your crappy freeware clone in with commercial Unix.We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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Agathon, what a shame you are and a disgrace for the Communist Party
You advocate Apple by creating classes of "basic users" and so forth and extending the struggle of the Proletariat
Everyone knows the PC is the People's Computer. Apple is a tool of the borgousie to hamper the workers' productivity and delay the Great Revolution
Shame on you, you capitalist fiend! You disgrace the CPA!
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Don't lump your crappy freeware clone in with commercial Unix.
Red card for calling it a "clone". Only SCO does that. Unless you want to be SCO...B♭3Comment
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I've had my imac for over 4 years and it has been an excellent servant. It has never broken down, and it has aged a **** of a lot better than my mother's similarly aged Compaq.
I've had my Dell for over 4 years and it has been an excellent servant. It has never broken down, and it has aged a [censored to not hurt MNG's G-Rated ears] of a lot better than my friend's similarly aged iMac.
btw, comparing an Apple computer to a Compaq? That's like comparing IBM boxes to eMachines. Or to put it into the car world, that's like comparing a Cadillac to a Yugo.
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No, it is a clone.
It's a clone of real UNIX.
Commercial UNIX is based on the original UNIX code.
Not some hack put together by some student working in his dorm roomWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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As people have been pointing out to you, the imac is not designed for people like you. It's a perfectly serviceable computer for those who just want to do basic stuff.
btw, this "basic stuff" computing does not exclude perfectly modular and easily replacable small-form factor computers. ones that are truly fully expandable.B♭3Comment
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What, Linux? A clone?
If by clone you mean they share the same code, then no. If by clone you mean they share similar interfaces, philosophies, and certain principles, then yes.B♭3Comment
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Original UNIX is a hack put together by some student working in his dorm roomOriginally posted by Ted Striker
No, it is a clone.
It's a clone of real UNIX.
Commercial UNIX is based on the original UNIX code.
Not some hack put together by some student working in his dorm room .
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Sorry, nice try though:Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
Original UNIX is a hack put together by some student working in his dorm room .
UNIX was originally developed at Bell Laboratories as a private research project by a small group of people starting in 1969.We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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And, on top of that, the code has been developed and refined for almost 35 years now.
Big difference between a mature, well architected code base than a code base taped together by a bunch hax0rs staying up all night on a Coca Cola high.We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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