You can in Mac OS X. I can't fathom including such functionality that can't be turned off. What about the hapless PowerBook user who's machine doesn't shut down because he disconnected from the network while the NTP was trying to open a connection to the server?
That's why the system should come with a/home partition by default. And the user shouldn't be root, so he can only save in his home partition. Some preparation before the fact is all that's necessary to avoid some of the problems and your observed issues with the solutions.
I may be a pussy, but I've been a fan of Paul Simon since I was 12. Graceland was the first album I bought. Age has no bearing on quality, despite what the RIAA or popular culture keep telling you.
Geezer rock? My god, how old are you? I'm 22 and am a huge fan of almost everything Paul Simon has ever done. Most of my friends (average folks from 18 to 20) feel similarly. He's hardly geezer rock!
For the love of god, don't copy Mac OS X! It will inevitably be awful, ugly, make a thousand geeks cum in their pants, and annoy everyone who's actually used OS X.
For example: Check out the Mail.app tries-to-look-alike in GNUStep. Most people think that it's a reasonable clone of Mail.app from NEXTSTEP. It's not by a longshot. The thing is butt-ugly, misses all of the GUI tweaks that make the latter a sheer delight, and feels like it's going to completely give up and go away at any time. I hate most Linux GUIs. They all seem to be unacceptably fragile and have the artistic sense of an unguided tractor. I simply feel that if I click too much the program is going to crash. That's not a feeling I want in software on which I'm going to rely.
In reply to your previous question, if he plans to accept the invitation, he bloody well better have something to say. If he doesn't have anything to say, he shouldn't accept the invitation. It's just polite.
Well, lots of people. Particularly the ones who but them.
Sometimes a laptop is simply too big/awkward. My I300 is pretty much perfect for me -- it's a good phone, and it keeps my appointments and phone numbers on hand in a convenient, integrated fashion. A laptop could do none of that.
Removing the hard drive from a device and plugging it into a notebook is far more disassembly than connecting a cable to a port and gaining vastly increased functionality.
Uh? By that point, I think the mouse was a commonly used thing in other places. Doug Englebart built the thing years and years before. I'd be hard pressed to say it was a copy any more than the use of a keyboard was a theft of innovation.
Uh, Apple invented FireWire. Have you ever seen the PARC GUI? Nothing like modern WIMP interfaces. Can you actually name one thing Apple copied? They licensed the GUI from the PARC, even.
Why bother with removable media when I don't ever want to remove the media. A 10GB drive need not be removed. And my interface is much more clever/robust than USB 2.
Or...look at it like Apple. Let's say a new iMac costs $1200. Let's say they price winTunes at $35. Let's not think about costs (like the hardware for the iMac.) Every sold iMac is worth 35 winTunes sales. If just one customer decided not to buy an iMac because he could get winTunes or winMovie or winDVD, Apple would have to recoup that loss with 34 more winTunes sales. It just doesn't make sense. Apple sells computers. They sell computers as a whole experience. It's just not in their best interest to sell bits of that experience separately and lose money.
You mean like a mutation between a Sony MD player and a rejected XP theme? The iPod is elegant and simple. The Toshiba thing isn't ugly, but it's no iPod.
Man, you have issues. Maybe it's because meat popsicles aren't socially accepted yet.
I'm no fan of KDE/GNOME/etc., but the fact that they're there is saying something.
You, on the other hand, said nothing. Simply stating that UNIX wasn't designed for the desktop and giving a random analogy doesn't prove any points. Why is it like a hammer? Who is the Ferrari? Windows? Why is it unsuitable?
BSD-basedness of Mac OS X isn't at all a whole 'nother can of worms. It's a UNIX system. Libraries run on UNIX systems. Avi's been asked why OS X isn't Linux-based before and he pointed out the obvious: they already had a perfectly good OS running on Mach/BSD. Not because another kernel/etc. couldn't do it, but because there was no need to re-do work. The reader with the long attention span will note that the OpenStep libraries were released for Solaris and Windows NT. It doesn't have anything to do with which can of worms it occupies. And Macs are good for much more than graphics, but I'll opt to stop here and not further feed a troll.
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You can in Mac OS X. I can't fathom including such functionality that can't be turned off. What about the hapless PowerBook user who's machine doesn't shut down because he disconnected from the network while the NTP was trying to open a connection to the server?
But most scale.
That's why the system should come with a /home partition by default. And the user shouldn't be root, so he can only save in his home partition. Some preparation before the fact is all that's necessary to avoid some of the problems and your observed issues with the solutions.
I've heard MS described as a killer mouse company with a software division.
I may be a pussy, but I've been a fan of Paul Simon since I was 12. Graceland was the first album I bought. Age has no bearing on quality, despite what the RIAA or popular culture keep telling you.
Geezer rock? My god, how old are you? I'm 22 and am a huge fan of almost everything Paul Simon has ever done. Most of my friends (average folks from 18 to 20) feel similarly. He's hardly geezer rock!
Is Paul Simon dead? I don't think he is.
And replaced by the enlightened adherents of Scientology! Watch out Xenu!
Hehe. You're so cute.
For the love of god, don't copy Mac OS X! It will inevitably be awful, ugly, make a thousand geeks cum in their pants, and annoy everyone who's actually used OS X.
For example: Check out the Mail.app tries-to-look-alike in GNUStep. Most people think that it's a reasonable clone of Mail.app from NEXTSTEP. It's not by a longshot. The thing is butt-ugly, misses all of the GUI tweaks that make the latter a sheer delight, and feels like it's going to completely give up and go away at any time. I hate most Linux GUIs. They all seem to be unacceptably fragile and have the artistic sense of an unguided tractor. I simply feel that if I click too much the program is going to crash. That's not a feeling I want in software on which I'm going to rely.
18 years of a public schooling system that works?
Agreed.
In reply to your previous question, if he plans to accept the invitation, he bloody well better have something to say. If he doesn't have anything to say, he shouldn't accept the invitation. It's just polite.
Well, lots of people. Particularly the ones who but them.
Sometimes a laptop is simply too big/awkward. My I300 is pretty much perfect for me -- it's a good phone, and it keeps my appointments and phone numbers on hand in a convenient, integrated fashion. A laptop could do none of that.
Ever hear of toxic shock syndrome?
I own one.
Removing the hard drive from a device and plugging it into a notebook is far more disassembly than connecting a cable to a port and gaining vastly increased functionality.
Uh? By that point, I think the mouse was a commonly used thing in other places. Doug Englebart built the thing years and years before. I'd be hard pressed to say it was a copy any more than the use of a keyboard was a theft of innovation.
Hehe. Reptilian space aliens. How many people know about them? All our leaders are part of the cult.
Uh, Apple invented FireWire. Have you ever seen the PARC GUI? Nothing like modern WIMP interfaces. Can you actually name one thing Apple copied? They licensed the GUI from the PARC, even.
Why bother with removable media when I don't ever want to remove the media. A 10GB drive need not be removed. And my interface is much more clever/robust than USB 2.
Please tell how, oh, how Linux was ripped off for OS X? Most of the ideas that are in OS X were released in 1988 with NEXTSTEP.
Or...look at it like Apple. Let's say a new iMac costs $1200. Let's say they price winTunes at $35. Let's not think about costs (like the hardware for the iMac.) Every sold iMac is worth 35 winTunes sales. If just one customer decided not to buy an iMac because he could get winTunes or winMovie or winDVD, Apple would have to recoup that loss with 34 more winTunes sales. It just doesn't make sense. Apple sells computers. They sell computers as a whole experience. It's just not in their best interest to sell bits of that experience separately and lose money.
The iPod plugs into my Mac, no disassembly required. It recharges while connected, too. For me, that really seems far more ideal.
You mean like a mutation between a Sony MD player and a rejected XP theme? The iPod is elegant and simple. The Toshiba thing isn't ugly, but it's no iPod.
Man, you have issues. Maybe it's because meat popsicles aren't socially accepted yet.
I'm no fan of KDE/GNOME/etc., but the fact that they're there is saying something.
You, on the other hand, said nothing. Simply stating that UNIX wasn't designed for the desktop and giving a random analogy doesn't prove any points. Why is it like a hammer? Who is the Ferrari? Windows? Why is it unsuitable?
BSD-basedness of Mac OS X isn't at all a whole 'nother can of worms. It's a UNIX system. Libraries run on UNIX systems. Avi's been asked why OS X isn't Linux-based before and he pointed out the obvious: they already had a perfectly good OS running on Mach/BSD. Not because another kernel/etc. couldn't do it, but because there was no need to re-do work. The reader with the long attention span will note that the OpenStep libraries were released for Solaris and Windows NT. It doesn't have anything to do with which can of worms it occupies. And Macs are good for much more than graphics, but I'll opt to stop here and not further feed a troll.
Turn it around, and you have the actual problem: Machine heats up, pressure increases. Compile the kernel, hear a siren?
My idea would be light sensors in the machine. Open the case, flood it with light, hear a siren (send a signal.)
Doesn't radio at such high frequencies require all sorts of funky hardware that's strange and expensive to operate reliably?
If the barriers can be overcome, wireless delivery is really an ideal networking solution, though.