cail

are you still in the market for boots?

i'm thinking about coming out to Wachusett this weekend... do you think it'll be good? do the slopes get busy? Thanks!

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couldn't have said it better myself.

i'm down for it. i was there yesterday morning and had a blast. by the way, can i get a discount on a half day pass (for the morning) since i have a college season pass (only valid after 3 on weekends)?

i've seen this before. and i dont want to take away from the fact that there are some dumb people out there. but you also have to look at the people they're asking, and where. not to mention the fact that they're being put on the spot in front of a camera, and sometimes mislead by the questions. like with the map... the version i saw was more clear, and they had purposely mislabeled it (i.e Australia = France, etc). but it's still pretty funny

i didn't mean to question the validity of your board. it was just funny because upon first glance i imagined bricks and pictured the board as very small. an optical illusion that i found to be amusing is all.

:lol: haha.. i was reading your thread about le massif and that totally discouraged me. if we do go there i'm definitely not taking my Oxygen Proton, but will take my soft setup as backup. BoarderYUL, thanks for the input! My friends don't carve, and they have no idea what is what... so I don't think I'll have a problem convincing them of Mont-Blanc (i'm basically planning this trip anyway)

Hey, just wanted anybody's input on le massif vs mont blanc. Do you have any preferences? I'm planning on going up to one of these places with some friends the weekend of the 24th. I'll be riding either my alpine board or Tanker.... probably the latter. I've only seen pictures of Le Massif and the views looked amazing.. I really prefer to go there. I saw the previous thread and it didn't sound to encouraging, with crowds and all.

Either those bricks are really big, or that board is a tiny little guy! :D

i'll be there last weekend of March.

kent... on the design issue... simply: functionality, reliability, usability, and aesthetic appeal are the key to OSX's success. in my opinion, windows is behind in all these categories. as far as Office being no good... that's simply an opinion. but one i would safely bet most users have. formatting is such a b*tch. you can never get the software to do what you want exactly. partly it's because microsoft thought they could add features that would do things automatically, thus helping the user.. but most of the time it's just a hinderance. Word is my biggest problem. tabs are always screwed up if you want multiple spacings on the margins. also if you want to type something beyond about 60-80 pages, forget it. beyond that and it gets really screwed up. that's when i'd switch over to a typesetting program like LaTex. but you need to learn it's language.. although not very difficult, and there are premade templates out there.

anyone going to jiminy tomorrow morning?

anyone heading to Jiminy tomorrow morning (3/7)?

:lol: that jet-cat video is amazing! however i voted for the bugatti because it's one sick car. i'd switch my vote to the Jet-Cat once their new version comes out that takes off from ground, and is capable of aerobatics!! (so claims the video)

also just want to add that if you REALLY need to run windows.. like for some obscure program that you cant find on a mac (which is common in the science community).. then you can get Parallels for $80.. which is an OS emulator.. pretty much runs any operating system you can think of (you need the insatllation disk of the OS you want to install of course). and also Boot Camp lets you actually install Windows on it's own partition in the harddrive to let you boot your Intel mac directly with windows.. but wait for OSX Leopard for the full blown version of Boot Camp. The beta out now is.. well i dont know. i was going to install windows using it, but the warning about backing up all your software and everything before hand kind of disuaded me. hope this helps somewhat.

apple focuses on design. in just this they are lightyears beyond microsoft. user interface is sleek and extremely user friendly (albeit it might take a couple days to get used to it after switching over). the processor design of the older processors (G5 and before) was optimal for graphics, media, etc. which everyone already knows. of course the intel processors don't take away from this from what i know. you can still run microsoft office on macs.. although i hate it. office is no good in the first place. but it still works on the mac, with the normal problems it'd face on windows. you can upgrade hardware... although i dont know the limits on this. people have already pointed out that plug&play is a dream on the mac. as is software installation. this is all part of the good design of the computers. they make things very simple... and the best part is if you want to do more advanced things on it, you can. OSX is based on a Unix foundation. (so is Linux). you can program on these just like on Linux for the most part.. so you can customize and create your own programs if you want. i dont know what else to say really. Vista is supposedly terrible. i havent used it's a massive operating system... and i've heard that it's incompatible with a lot of stuff.. on the other hand, Mac OSX Leopard should be out later this year. it basically takes OSX Tiger (current os) to a new level. i've seen some demos and it is amazing i cant wait for it to come out. oh just some background, i switched to Mac in 05 when i came to grad school. had a 15" PowerBook. it worked great then all of a sudden it started randomly crashing. i didnt know what happened.. so i reinstalled the OS.. but it kept doing it. i was too lazy to take it to the Apple Store so i used it for a couple months like this.. randomly crashing ... but i narrowed it down to when i did certain things. anyway, i finally got sick of it cause i had to reinstall the OS a couple times. finally took it in cause i thought it was a harddrive problem. so they took a look and agreed i had to be a harddrive problem cause everything else looked ok. 20 days later i got it back with a new HD. (oh the 20 days was because one of my keys also fell off and they were replacing the keyboard too... which was on back order). so i get the computer back... first thing i did when i got it was try the programs that had made it crash before.. well.. still crashed. i took it back, obviously wasnt HD, so next i thought memory. long story short.. i showed the guy it still crashed and he said it was a motherboard failure.. he didnt want to make me wait again so he gave me a MacBook Pro. all in all i was very happy. so to end this long message.. get a mac. in terms of processor speed.. that's not something you really need to base a decision on. there is more than enough processor speed. has been for awhile. the bottleneck is memory. and a note on core duos.. they aren't faster per se. they allow for semi-parallel processing. nobody is going to notice faster speeds unless you are doing hour long or day long computations.

anyone planning to ride on wednesday at Jiminy?

I may be able to sell you some UPZ RSV Superlights... size 28-28.5 I'll have to get back to you on that later in the week.

awesome, thanks!

i saw the board... will make a bid when it gets closer to ending. one question... how's the handling of the wider board? was thinking of something not so wide, but maybe it wont make too much difference.

Looking for a tanker, 192 (maybe 200). If you have one for sale let me know!

Dr. D, Thanks for the info!

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