Correction: Apple generally produces high-quality hardware six months after the product was launched. Until then, the early adopters are just one big beta team.
That, believe it or not, is my point. We have no way of knowing how secure OS X Disk Utility is. For all we know every encrypted.dmg can be decrypted with one master passphrase. For all we know the algorithms are deliberately crippled. We'll never know, because we can't audit the source.
Why don't you download the source code for Truecrypt, and the source code for OS X Disk Utility, and compare how they implement their respective algorithms. The advantage will be pretty obvious.
I immediately burned an Ubuntu preview ISO and installed it on my shiny new DELL Inspiron 640m. There was a problem though and X11 would crash on load -- and the graphical safe mode would not work either (confirmed bug). The 915resolution hack was not needed for my Intel graphics card, but I needed to have more information for my laptop's LCD. By manually entering the vertical and horizontal sync in the xorg.conf file it fixed the problem for my 1440x900 screen and I was able to load the LiveCD and finally install Feisty on the hard drive.
Installation was a breeze, very fast and easy to go by, although the "advanced" button that let's you configure where the bootloader should be installed it could use some friendlier "names" rather than just (hd0,0).
IE - manipulated into dominance by MS with what is undoubtedly the worst browser implementation out there with some of the worst features
I think you're looking back with rose-tinted goggles there. When IE 4.0 came out it was far and away the best web browser available. It was faster, used screen real-estate more efficiently, had a better bookmarking system, and rendered both HTML *and* CSS better than the competition. Microsoft has released some crappy software in its time, no argument there, but IE 4.0 deserved to be the most widely-used browser in the world.
Many geeks grew up as outsiders. We were smarter, but lacked social skills. Dumber but more popular people felt threatened by our brains and put us down, picked on us, and so forth... You come on a geek message board spouting anti-intellectualism, "Oh, you dorks, proper spelling and grammar don't matter. Get over yourselves." You have just identified yourself as "one of them," an outsider, probably anti-intellectual, most likely of the same sort that picked on many of us as kids.
Sweet zombie jesus, got bitterness?
Maybe it's an American thing. Geek boards like this seem to overflow with geeks whining about how hard high school was. Where I grew up (New Zealand) the academic achievers and the athletic achievers were each equally praised and supported by the schools since they were each groups of kids who were GOOD AT STUFF. In fact, at the two schools I attended, there was no distinction between the two groups. There was just the group of "achievers", for want of a better term and everyone got on well. The guys from the astronomy club would turn up on the sidelines on Saturday morning to support the guys in the rugby team, and the the guys from the basketball team would be there highfiving the chemistry guys winning at the science fair.
This whole "jocks vs nerds" thing is something I never experienced at school. American schools sound like f*ckin' hell-holes.
I honestly tried using Pages for a couple of days, and it doesn't come close to being a Word replacement. It's a pagesetting and layout tool more than a word processor -- think of it as "Indesign Lite".
an all out war with an enemy like Russia or China would be a whole different game
So the US can win, so long as the particular enemy it wants decides to wage war in the particular way it wants?
When operating without political restrictions
I sense someone who still hasn't got over the US getting defeated by a bunch of little Asian peasants in black pyjamas. "We could have won if we'd really wanted to, that does it, I'm taking my ball and going home..."
Without political restrictions, what kind of crap is that?
I notice we haven't been attacked since we stood up and showed the world that we aren't the Paper Tigers they thought we were.
Yeah!
Well... I mean, except for nearly 3100 Americans killed and 33,000 wounded in Iraq so far.
Newsflash: the terrorists don't need to travel to the USA to attack Americans any more, because you've upped and moved hundreds of thousands of Americans to where the terrorists are.
Even so... holy crap, that's still impressive. I remember thinking, in 1983, that a megabyte was an inconceivably large amount of information. I couldn't imagine anyone ever needing to store a megabyte, and that was three years after you had a 2.4M drive. Whoa.
There will come a time when eventually enough people will get fed up with how we are being treated... and go back to drinking beer and watching NASCAR, because they've already forgotten what it was they were fed up with. The public schools they went to never taught them about their forefathers anyway, some dead guys apparently. Like, whatever. Ooh, a new Ford commercial!
I look forward to the demonstrations of all monsters, all raids, and all quests, conducted by all classes and races and permutations of classes and races, in World of Warcraft.
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Correction: Apple generally produces high-quality hardware six months after the product was launched. Until then, the early adopters are just one big beta team.
That, believe it or not, is my point. We have no way of knowing how secure OS X Disk Utility is. For all we know every encrypted .dmg can be decrypted with one master passphrase. For all we know the algorithms are deliberately crippled. We'll never know, because we can't audit the source.
Why don't you download the source code for Truecrypt, and the source code for OS X Disk Utility, and compare how they implement their respective algorithms. The advantage will be pretty obvious.
Newsflash: MS shares are in a downhill slide, and the stock has underperformed the market for a DECADE.
The shareholders AREN'T happy.
They forgot about Poland!
The two machines on my desk at work are Macs because I prefer to run UNIX. Nuf said.
I immediately burned an Ubuntu preview ISO and installed it on my shiny new DELL Inspiron 640m. There was a problem though and X11 would crash on load -- and the graphical safe mode would not work either (confirmed bug). The 915resolution hack was not needed for my Intel graphics card, but I needed to have more information for my laptop's LCD. By manually entering the vertical and horizontal sync in the xorg.conf file it fixed the problem for my 1440x900 screen and I was able to load the LiveCD and finally install Feisty on the hard drive.
Installation was a breeze, very fast and easy to go by, although the "advanced" button that let's you configure where the bootloader should be installed it could use some friendlier "names" rather than just (hd0,0).
OMG, it's so simple, my grandmother could do it!
IE - manipulated into dominance by MS with what is undoubtedly the worst browser implementation out there with some of the worst features
I think you're looking back with rose-tinted goggles there. When IE 4.0 came out it was far and away the best web browser available. It was faster, used screen real-estate more efficiently, had a better bookmarking system, and rendered both HTML *and* CSS better than the competition. Microsoft has released some crappy software in its time, no argument there, but IE 4.0 deserved to be the most widely-used browser in the world.
This sounds like the idea of terraforming Mars just got a lot closer to doable.
How 'bout we start small, huh? Like... spacecraft that don't blow up.
And anthrax.
Second Life isn't a game, it's an advertising medium. Nothing more.
Many geeks grew up as outsiders. We were smarter, but lacked social skills. Dumber but more popular people felt threatened by our brains and put us down, picked on us, and so forth ... You come on a geek message board spouting anti-intellectualism, "Oh, you dorks, proper spelling and grammar don't matter. Get over yourselves." You have just identified yourself as "one of them," an outsider, probably anti-intellectual, most likely of the same sort that picked on many of us as kids.
Sweet zombie jesus, got bitterness?
Maybe it's an American thing. Geek boards like this seem to overflow with geeks whining about how hard high school was. Where I grew up (New Zealand) the academic achievers and the athletic achievers were each equally praised and supported by the schools since they were each groups of kids who were GOOD AT STUFF. In fact, at the two schools I attended, there was no distinction between the two groups. There was just the group of "achievers", for want of a better term and everyone got on well. The guys from the astronomy club would turn up on the sidelines on Saturday morning to support the guys in the rugby team, and the the guys from the basketball team would be there highfiving the chemistry guys winning at the science fair.
This whole "jocks vs nerds" thing is something I never experienced at school. American schools sound like f*ckin' hell-holes.
I honestly tried using Pages for a couple of days, and it doesn't come close to being a Word replacement. It's a pagesetting and layout tool more than a word processor -- think of it as "Indesign Lite".
In case you hadn't noticed, Australia is a de facto state of the USA now.
an all out war with an enemy like Russia or China would be a whole different game
So the US can win, so long as the particular enemy it wants decides to wage war in the particular way it wants?
When operating without political restrictions
I sense someone who still hasn't got over the US getting defeated by a bunch of little Asian peasants in black pyjamas. "We could have won if we'd really wanted to, that does it, I'm taking my ball and going home..."
Without political restrictions, what kind of crap is that?
Someone is going to get fired for this.
Welcome to defense contracting, you must be new here.
I notice we haven't been attacked since we stood up and showed the world that we aren't the Paper Tigers they thought we were.
Yeah!
Well... I mean, except for nearly 3100 Americans killed and 33,000 wounded in Iraq so far.
Newsflash: the terrorists don't need to travel to the USA to attack Americans any more, because you've upped and moved hundreds of thousands of Americans to where the terrorists are.
Sheesh.
Even so... holy crap, that's still impressive. I remember thinking, in 1983, that a megabyte was an inconceivably large amount of information. I couldn't imagine anyone ever needing to store a megabyte, and that was three years after you had a 2.4M drive. Whoa.
I take it you are quite a bit younger than I am.
I'm 34.
Just for grins, what size was the WD drive that failed?
3.2GB. This was back in 1997.
I, on the other hand, have personally experienced one HD failure -- a Western Digital drive, as it happens -- in my LIFE.
If space travel is possible, then the time and scale of the universe is so huge that it would have been done millions of times by now.
Replace "space travel is possible" with "thermonuclear bombs are possible". Millions of species may make it TO that point, but how many make it PAST?
There will come a time when eventually enough people will get fed up with how we are being treated ... and go back to drinking beer and watching NASCAR, because they've already forgotten what it was they were fed up with. The public schools they went to never taught them about their forefathers anyway, some dead guys apparently. Like, whatever. Ooh, a new Ford commercial!
There, I fixed your post for you.
ba-dum-TISH!
I look forward to the demonstrations of all monsters, all raids, and all quests, conducted by all classes and races and permutations of classes and races, in World of Warcraft.
Since there's no hyphen between "power" and "generating", I can only conclude that some sort of POWER is spontaneously creating SPACESUITS.
Either that, or the Slashdot editors are just illiterate.