As soon as you allow Joe Schmoe to install OSX he's going to want to start making demands. "Why doesn't my 15 year old network card work?" "Why doesn't my printer work?" "Why does my computer keep crashing.
I understand that all those problems will become more relevent if OSX is on machines with random hardware, but I disagree with the result. I've seen people working on a theoretically well-tuned Mac in a lab, where the Mac was in a crashed state (well, the OS stopped responding) because it could not handle a regular-old USB peripheral drive, formatted for MacOSX (Don't know HFS or what). None of the users considered it a crash, even though the computer stopped responding for ten minutes, and they lost all their work. The fact that it was able to autorecover while keeping the desktop on in the background made it "not a crash".
I've had a lot of problems with Macs, and a lot of problems with PCs. Most people are more forgiving of Mac problems. Personally, I'm more forgiving of PC problems because I understand what's wrong more often. And I suppose that not understanding either makes Macs more comfortable to most people, even when they crash.
The NSA can not only file for patents, they can do so secretly.
IIRC, any signicantly important patent can be issued secretly. If you apply for a patent on "an individualized (based on dental records) death beam from space" the DoD gets to look at it, and can ask that you get the same treatment.
No government should be able to patent something--that technology was funded by the taxpayer and should thus be owned by the taxpayer, meaning that it is public and thus not patentable.
I know. I went to a military base and said I wanted to fly an F-22 for a while. It seems easy and a lot of fun. When they gave me trouble, I tried explaining that the F-22 was funded by the taxpayer (me) and thus I just wanted to get my share of its use.
Fundamentally, taxes are the price we pay to live in this country. Being a taxpayer gives you no more rights than being a consumer does.
those tests (CPU burners) should perform the same on Linux or Windows, I don't see why JVM would behave differently.
They left on Aero, and acutally spent more money to get the version of Vista with it. The graphics chip was the weakest integrated chip that, according to the manufacturer, supported Aero. In reality, no doubt, the Intel chip pushes work onto the CPU because we know what happens when a manufacturer claims that the hardware is just able to support a feature. Hell, even their website phrases the compatibility in weasly terms.
I wish Global warming was more than just a fairy tale. I am sick and tired of shoveling snow. Last winter was the coldest winter in a long time. This winter is looking about the same. We have had about 2 feet of snow in the last 3 days.
Global warming -> Melting polar ice -> New source of fresh water in the ocean -> Golf stream cuts east earlier -> Colder coasts in US North East / Warmer Coasts in Greenland -> People in Northern US suffering colder winters -> People misunderstanding that global warming may cause some areas to get colder -> Your post.
Note, you may not live in the NE US, but I'm sure many places in the world suffer similarly.
where can I buy that cell phone/mp3 player/PDA/e-book reader/shaver? That sounds pretty frickin handy...
Steve Jobs was supposed to announce it at Macworld. Unfortately, we've had some problems with the mass production of them. He may have to drop out of giving the keynote if we cannot solve the problem.
Edit: Apparently Steve decided to cancel for the keynote.
Sadly, this looks to be a case of form over functionality. Still, I know I would never buy one of these. Saving myself a foot or two of cabling simply isn't worth an increased energy bill.
There are other advantages.
It lessens the number of connections needed to the outside, increasing the ability to weatherproof (my waterproof electic toothbrush uses such a system).
If it was standard, I certainly could see paying a premium so that my cell phone/mp3 player/PDA/e-book reader/shaver, all low power devices, could share one charger. (My computers, not so much.)
Depending on the range, I could be paying a premium so I never have to remember to charge my devices. For instance, if it could cover my whole couch, then I could charge whenever I watch TV or play video games. And some devices (wireless video game controllers) live in that region, so that would be great.
Lastly, the efficency is likely to increase. Creating a standard now, before there are practical uses, is one of the few times it's possible to do so without competing companies pushing their pet standard.
With a mouse, you can activate something one of four ways: hover, left-click, wheel-click, or right-click
You left out double click with any of those three buttons, roll in, roll out, mousedown-drag-mouseup (again, with any of the button), and some mice have yet more buttons (I believe XP supports up to 5 natively, don't know about other OSes).
I'll buy that, but unless power outages (undefended by UPS) are a constant worry, it doesn't seem like it would be a real issue.
It only has to happen once to make an impression, at least if your backup on your laptop (a different machine) gets lost when the power surge that preceeded the power outage fries the HD.
However, it is far easier to appoint a technocrat to the cabinet position and surround him with brilliant academics. Let them provide him with the best courses of action, and let him go through the stupid political games to accomplish those
This seems inverted from how I understand the Clinton administration functioned. The Cabinent level people had the ideas and were smart. Their staff knew politics and told them what moves got them the results they wanted.
And, to be fair, I'd rather have the guy at the top in charge of strategy, and his assistant in charge of tactics than vice-versa.
For example, XP will defrag your disk without you asking it to as soon as you're marginally idle
XP will not. OS X will. In fact, OS X will defrag your thumb drive without your permission. It was bad enough that it was wearing my disk for no benefit, but it also made my thumb drive remarkably non-resiliant to power outages.
Oh wait, they're falling in all of those (consoles excepted) because they waited for someone else to forge the path, then were unable to buy the leader out as easily as they have been able to in desktop software.
They failed for years and at the cost of over a billion dollars in the console market. Then they succeeded. They'll keep selling the Zune till they take on the iPod and are number one. Their solution isn't buying out other companies... wasn't that way for consoles. They just sell a product, improve it, sell it again, and lose money over time until they have market share. They have deep enough pockets to do this.
And, BTW, who's beating them, either in market share or first mover status on the car control system?
You need to be a little less paranoid. Not sure what it is with gun nuts, but you guys are very much out of touch with reality.
I should point out that people who believe as the grandparent do seek out guns, rather than people who have guns coming to believe as the grandparent does.
You cannot replace every period with a colon. In this example, you could replace the period with a colon. The fact that the second sentence was a mere fragment helps. The new (and more correct) sentence is, "Girls don't enter Computer Science for the same reasons boys don't enter into the exciting and rewarding field of Nursing: Peer pressure and societal expectations."
Awfully cocky considering you screwed up the quote tags.:)
Hey, I claimed to be smart, not a careful typist. Smart enough to realize it wouldn't be funny to stick an intentional typo in the previous sentence at least.:)
What kind of company fails so badly that they can only predict 40% of exploits in their own [proprietary] software?
They had zero false positives. So, put it this way, looking at the source, they came up with some number of exploits that had to be fixed. Other people came up with only 40% of that number.
It's a good thing, both that MS fixed them all, and that outside people seeking exploits are only 40% efficent.
Any engineer who says that "40% is pretty good predicting" is incapable of writing good software
It's ZERO false positives, and many false negatives. FFS, elevating 2.25 issues to "immediate priority, someone will exploit this soon" status for every one real issue seems damn good to me.
So, if you meet a genius, and (s)he says the world is full of morons, you've got to realize that from their perspective, it's true. 98% of people they meet are as mentally slow or slower relative to them as a borderline mental retard of 70-79 IQ is to an average person.
I don't get it, 98% seems awfully low.
If you're at or above 140, you're a fscking genius, on any scale. And if you're above 140, then 98% of the population (80..120 +
Oh, now I get it. Morons with their IQ of only 140 somehow get refered to as a genius.
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It's not a recent phenomenon. Most societies have bred for stupidity. Hell, Europe saw its best minds shipped to seminaries and forced to be chaste.
I understand that all those problems will become more relevent if OSX is on machines with random hardware, but I disagree with the result. I've seen people working on a theoretically well-tuned Mac in a lab, where the Mac was in a crashed state (well, the OS stopped responding) because it could not handle a regular-old USB peripheral drive, formatted for MacOSX (Don't know HFS or what). None of the users considered it a crash, even though the computer stopped responding for ten minutes, and they lost all their work. The fact that it was able to autorecover while keeping the desktop on in the background made it "not a crash".
I've had a lot of problems with Macs, and a lot of problems with PCs. Most people are more forgiving of Mac problems. Personally, I'm more forgiving of PC problems because I understand what's wrong more often. And I suppose that not understanding either makes Macs more comfortable to most people, even when they crash.
IIRC, any signicantly important patent can be issued secretly. If you apply for a patent on "an individualized (based on dental records) death beam from space" the DoD gets to look at it, and can ask that you get the same treatment.
I know. I went to a military base and said I wanted to fly an F-22 for a while. It seems easy and a lot of fun. When they gave me trouble, I tried explaining that the F-22 was funded by the taxpayer (me) and thus I just wanted to get my share of its use.
Fundamentally, taxes are the price we pay to live in this country. Being a taxpayer gives you no more rights than being a consumer does.
It doesn't. It falls under "national security."
They left on Aero, and acutally spent more money to get the version of Vista with it. The graphics chip was the weakest integrated chip that, according to the manufacturer, supported Aero. In reality, no doubt, the Intel chip pushes work onto the CPU because we know what happens when a manufacturer claims that the hardware is just able to support a feature. Hell, even their website phrases the compatibility in weasly terms.
Global warming -> Melting polar ice -> New source of fresh water in the ocean -> Golf stream cuts east earlier -> Colder coasts in US North East / Warmer Coasts in Greenland -> People in Northern US suffering colder winters -> People misunderstanding that global warming may cause some areas to get colder -> Your post.
Note, you may not live in the NE US, but I'm sure many places in the world suffer similarly.
Steve Jobs was supposed to announce it at Macworld. Unfortately, we've had some problems with the mass production of them. He may have to drop out of giving the keynote if we cannot solve the problem.
Edit: Apparently Steve decided to cancel for the keynote.
There are other advantages.
You left out double click with any of those three buttons, roll in, roll out, mousedown-drag-mouseup (again, with any of the button), and some mice have yet more buttons (I believe XP supports up to 5 natively, don't know about other OSes).
It only has to happen once to make an impression, at least if your backup on your laptop (a different machine) gets lost when the power surge that preceeded the power outage fries the HD.
You left out milled edges on coins. Newton invented those too.
This seems inverted from how I understand the Clinton administration functioned. The Cabinent level people had the ideas and were smart. Their staff knew politics and told them what moves got them the results they wanted.
And, to be fair, I'd rather have the guy at the top in charge of strategy, and his assistant in charge of tactics than vice-versa.
XP will not. OS X will. In fact, OS X will defrag your thumb drive without your permission. It was bad enough that it was wearing my disk for no benefit, but it also made my thumb drive remarkably non-resiliant to power outages.
They failed for years and at the cost of over a billion dollars in the console market. Then they succeeded. They'll keep selling the Zune till they take on the iPod and are number one. Their solution isn't buying out other companies... wasn't that way for consoles. They just sell a product, improve it, sell it again, and lose money over time until they have market share. They have deep enough pockets to do this.
And, BTW, who's beating them, either in market share or first mover status on the car control system?
I should point out that people who believe as the grandparent do seek out guns, rather than people who have guns coming to believe as the grandparent does.
Ad on test: $20
Being able to spell "precident": Priceless.
You cannot replace every period with a colon. In this example, you could replace the period with a colon. The fact that the second sentence was a mere fragment helps. The new (and more correct) sentence is, "Girls don't enter Computer Science for the same reasons boys don't enter into the exciting and rewarding field of Nursing: Peer pressure and societal expectations."
If you eliminated the apologetic sentence, and replaced your period after nursing with a colon, you could have made a one-sentence post.
Hey, I claimed to be smart, not a careful typist. Smart enough to realize it wouldn't be funny to stick an intentional typo in the previous sentence at least. :)
They had zero false positives. So, put it this way, looking at the source, they came up with some number of exploits that had to be fixed. Other people came up with only 40% of that number.
It's a good thing, both that MS fixed them all, and that outside people seeking exploits are only 40% efficent.
It's ZERO false positives, and many false negatives. FFS, elevating 2.25 issues to "immediate priority, someone will exploit this soon" status for every one real issue seems damn good to me.
No. And I never installed Gator or the Comet Cursor toolbar either.
I suddenly realized sarcasm may not travel well over the intertubes.
I don't get it, 98% seems awfully low.