Friday, January 14, 2005

Mac Mini I'm under the EEEEVILLLL spell of Apple.. I feel the urge to get a mac mini.. in Canada, the base unit is around 750+tax. But I was thinking it will get me iLife, a faster processor and some new Apple Software.. or maybe I should wait for the PowerbookG5?? what the HELL am I saying? I just resolved NEVER to buy apple shit again.. aaaaahhhhh!!! today I found myself looking at the dual G5 Xserver box. 5 frikking thousand dollars. I could get a honking dell server for that.. but would it be half as SEXXY??? I don't know... Okay.. this is just a dumbass comparison, but here is what is standard on the 750 buck mini: [apple] 256MB DDR333 SDRAM - 1 DIMM [apple] 80GB Ultra ATA drive [apple] Combo Drive [apple] 56K v.92 Modem [apple] Mac OS X - U.S. English [apple] 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 Estimated Ship: 3-4 weeks Free Shipping Subtotal $749.00 and here is what is after I've added what I want: [apple] 512MB DDR333 SDRAM - 1 DIMM [apple] 80GB Ultra ATA drive [apple] SuperDrive [apple] AirPort Extreme Card [apple] Wired Keyboard & Mouse Set [apple] 56K v.92 Modem [apple] Mac OS X - U.S. English [apple] 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 Estimated Ship: 3-4 weeks Free Shipping Subtotal $1,157.00 add 15% govt extortion fees and you got a $1331.00 hit right there.. A total post tax difference of $470. hmmm... what to do.. what to doo???? 11:50:28 PM    comment [] frikker I ran out of my flickr bandwidth. I deleted the old photos thinking it would free up space, but looks like its the bandwidth and not the disk usage that they re worried about.. so ... no flickr set on the left.. FUCH!!!! oh and I just realized that this Huygens guy also invented the pendulum clock. Smart guy indeed! 11:42:22 PM    comment [] K.I.S.S One thing that I've wondered about: Why don't they put some frikkin whiskers on these probes.. (like Huygens etc.) it will easily give even a stationary probe an effective reach of a meter of so.. drag it on the surface.. try to see what it feels like. Its just my hunch, but I think that Russians would be more prone to use solutions like that.. I once heard this internet legend somewhere that Americans spent millions on a "space pen" with pressurized inner refill tube aand all, and the russians just kept using pencils. (some claim its just a myth), but I think it goes with the no non-sense attitude of the Russian Technologists. I think we're all a little poorer for the face that the USSR and especially its educational institutions have been decimated.. rant rant rant.. blah blah blah I would even like to see them in robots.. I mean the whiskers. I just don't understand the logic of putting visual perception systems in ridiculous robots that don't move more than a few cm/s. I've seen robots that use spiffy infrared doo-dah's to detech the vicintiy of a wall, but the kicker is, the sensor's range is not more than a few centimeters.. and I'm looking at this, and saying to my self.. why don't you save yourself all the firkin trouble and put a few whiskers around the dammned thing?? ugggh!!!! I hate over-engineering! 11:32:00 PM    comment [] interesting I'm amazed by the pictures sent back by the Huygens probe. I wonder if it has water on it, or if life evolved on that cold world. It would be really freaky if some bizzarre insect or other such living individual pokes its head at the probes camera.. yeah yeah.. I know its minus bazillion degrees over there.. but dammit!! wouldn't it be great? It would be cool if they mentioned in the broadcasts what type of computing technology these probes use? 11:20:57 PM    comment []

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