If my company gave me a computer for my home and then told me how I could use it, the motherfuckers better pay my ass $24/hr when I use the damn thing. My employer should have absolutely no say whatsoever about what I do when I am off the clock (Which is why I walk out of job interviews when the words 'drug test' are mentioned.). If my employer gave me a box with a sticker that read "Users (authorized or unauthorized) have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy." I'd put the thing on the side of the street with my trash that also does not have any expectation of privacy. I guess the only thing to do would be to not accept computers from work because I will not have such a thing in my home.
On a different note, how many techs here would turn someone in for this? I get all the logs here at work and have full access to every machine in the building as well as some home-loaners. I have found some pretty whacked shit from time to time. Unless it affects network performance I don't say a god damned thing, and even then I don't take it to the boss unless the user is unrepentant (about the bandwidth, not their porn or whatever). They usually get fired for not doing their job long before I take notice of their activities.
The theory on this subject that makes the most sense to me is this: The major PC manufacturers run on such low margins that they don't have the money to put into real industrial design. Apple on the other hand runs very high margins on their equipment which they turn around and invest into serious design as well as R&D and whatnot. As Compaq and Gateway have found, it's more than just wrapping colored plastic around the machine.
-Multi Processor G4s. 2x450@ $2500, 2x500@ $3500 -4 New iMacs; generally upgraded and new colors (Indigo, Ruby, Sage, and Snow). -Full sized Keyboard and Optical Mouse w/o button. -Office 2001. -Same old OSX stuff. -Bungie, Microsoft, & Apple teaming up to make more games available on Mac. -Circuit City carrying iMacs. -iMovie 2... free as in beer. -Some iTools stuff... new homepage builder. -New desktop machine: G4 powered, up to 1.5 GB RAM, up to 40 GB HD, 8" Cube case, convection cooled, suspended in clear enclosure, top load slot CD/DVD, white with grey logo, little Harmon/Kardon external speakers. $1799-2299. Available in august. -3 new monitors. 17" flat CRT $499, 15" flat LCD $799, 22" Cinema display $???. All are powered by the video cable?!
IMHO, the cube is super fly. As one of the guys in their prerecorded piece said: "Holy shit, they've done it again."
BeOS does support the i810 (and i740) for R5. Still, I too recomend a 3dfx chipset for it's cross-platform support. My Voodoo3 works like a champ on BeOS, OpenBSD, Mandrake Linux, and Windows.
There are plenty of Aqua skins out there (and having used DP4 I can attest to the un-feel-alikeness of them). The problem Apple had was that the early skins used the Apple logo which, according to Apple legal, is violating their trademark.
How could you forgett "Dr. No Comparitive Shopping"?
A friend of mine used to do this. Some place was paying her to do her shopping at different grocery stores each week and give them copies of the receits for price comparison. Not nearly as cloak and dagger, but harder to stop.
"The notification manager software, which would reside on a remote computer out on the Internet,..."
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Just what I'm sure everyone wants, a proffesional system that tracks their likes and dislikes, controls disemination of digital intercommunication, and knows where you are all the time... all this and no personal control of the device. The privacy concerns alone are staggering and I certainly wish to have no part of it. If it was siting on my home network behind an OpenBSD firewall I'd give it a second thought, but who can trust Microsoft?.. Either ethically in regards to privacy or technichaly in regards to security?
"But Horovitz said he was confidant that adequate security and privacy safegaurds would be created."
This guy sounds like a smart guy, so why would he come to this conclusion? Microsoft has never before provided adequate security (How many holes in NT last year?) or privacy (tracking numbers on Word docs).
"So, the word itself refers to the Olympic games, and there is no reference to other uses."
No, definition 1 has nothing to do with games. The olympics had not existed for over a millenia in 1590 and would not exist again for 300 years.
Olympian refers to denizens of a place called Olympia; be it in Washington state or on the Pelloponesian peninsula (original location of Olympics) or in Thrace (where Mt. Olympus is). As olympic is defined as olympian then olympic simply refers to inhabitants of olympia and is therefore a generic term. If I make a website about greek gods I have every right in the world to use olympic in my title because the greek gods were, mostly, olympic.
I sometimes work for a company called MARS interactive(tm), by the IOC's logic we could seriously put the hurt on some astronomy sites. We would be laughed out of court, but we could cost those sites plenty.
Hell, I used to design collegiate athletic marked items. Those guys have trademarks on state names (University of Georgia for example holds a trademark on the word 'Georgia') but only when used in reference to the university... obviously. I would imagine the IOC holds a trademark on 'olympic' only in relation to games.
It seems to me, animal rights aside, that the problem BC has with this game is that the violence is to realistic. Maybe it's the drugs talking, but to me a violent game that doesn't show the true consequences of violence is far worse.
As an example, I have watched many hundreds of films that show typical Hollywood violence (ooh, ahh, he got me... you guys go on without me...) and, especialy as a child, thought afterwards how cool it would be to be a soldier, gangster, or whatever. Then in my early twenties I saw a snuff flick. I can honestly say, after having watched it, that I hope with all my might that I never, ever have to kill someone.
Can you see the difference? Hollywood violence made me want to be violent because the consequences were so ephemeral. Real murder, in addition to making me physically ill, made me not want to be violent.
The argument rests on not wanting children to be frightened, but violence should terrify anyone. It seems the mental well being of children is more important than their physical well being.
"The authours themself say they cannot do this, as there website is done on a Mac."
That did make me laugh. I DLed 50 or so songs off Napster yesterday on my mac (Before any self-righteous dicks put in their piece, I bought one of the songs later that night from the band's site, deleted about 20 that sucked, and the rest I own on vinyl or tape). It's called Macster guys, look in to it.
BTW, the one I bought had a little blurb at the end giving the band's URL. I like that.
That would be 'oughts'. I can't wait till I'm an old white male (well, older) just 'cause I'll be able to tell young whipersnappers "Why I remember back in ought 7...".
Yes my goal in life is to be able to credibly sound like a grizled old '49er.
What's beside the point? The fact is there is no amendment that reads "A well-educated populace being necessary to the security of a democracy, the right to keep and read books shall not be infringed,". That is beside the point because there is an amendment that reads "A well regulated militia...". The one that deals with books reads "Congress shall make no law prohibiting...freedom of speech or the press;...". You see, one says "no law" while the other says "well regulated" and "no law" does not mean the same thing as "well regulated".
I agree completely cap'n K except for one little niggling point. Speech that incites violence or causes danger is not 'banned'. Like yelling 'fire' in a theatre, it is not the speech that gets you in trouble but the effects of said speech. Banning the words themselves is called 'prior restraint' and has been found, over and over again, to be unconstitutional (and dangerous in the 'fire in a theatre' case because what would you do if there was a fire?). One is, however, responsible for the actions your speech causes. Ergo the statute you would be prosecuted under for your 'String 'em up..' speech would be inciting a riot or some such.
"Going down to Colombia and BOMBING all of the cocoa fields there would accomplish more than anything else we've tried in the past 20 years. I'd love to see that done."
It's been done, and it didn't work.... of course. Only an complete and total idiot would think it would.
"Your right to free speech is not being infringed, you're being prohibited from spreading information about a criminal activity."
Information is speech. Prohibition of distribution is infringing free speech. What part of 'Congress Shall Make No Law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;...' is so damned hard to understand? Which word in there is giving you trouble? One of the points of the amendment is to allow discussion of things that are against the law so that we can make informed decisions when we elect new lawmakers.
"Do you honestly condone teaching our nation's youth the quickest way to kill themselves?"
No I don't, but the second amendment protects guns... just like the 1st and 4th protect this.
"Quit hiding behind the free speech claim."
Pesky damned constitution.
Anyone else think that an elected representative that votes for a law later found to be unconstitutional (as this one will be, even with this right leaning court) should be subject to impeachment or recall action?
I also want to know how one would prohibit information on marijuana cultivation. Can we really controll speech as simple as "Put it in the ground; wait a few weeks; smoke". Note also that prohibition on marijuana cultivation related speech would invalidate parts of George Washington's diary... he was a hemp farmer you know.
"...IMHO this is not according to the original voting concept as invented millenia ago..."
Neither is a voting booth.... or universal suffrage.... or representative democracy. It's a bit tougher to count tens of millions of votes than tens of thousands (In the case of the first known democracy; Athens with a citizen population of less than 20,000). Pottery shards in a basket just doesn't cut it anymore.
Even in Athens and Republican Rome though, election days were holidays and what passed for voter registration was handled by Philum or Tribe (respectively). In wonderfull America we have to take time off of work to register and vote which is, of course, harder for the poor than the rich.
If Napster is responsible for illegal activities that occur due to their technology, then firearms manufacturers must be responsible for illegal activities that occur due to their technologies as well. How many murder cases has Smith & Wesson faced? How many assault cases has Louisville Slugger faced? Does Mazda have to pay my speeding tickets? Is Bic liable for my pot smoking since I had to use one of their pen barrels as a stem the other day?
"For example, if a major cost is fuels, then the way to go must surely be a more efficient propulsion system - yup, nuclear unless anyone's got a better idea."
Magnetism. Launch cargo from big-assed hypervelocity rail guns built up the sides of the Andes down 'round the equator. It won't work for people, but it would be great for anything that can handle the acceleration. Couldn't hurt Chile's economy either.
The problem with nuclear is that you still need reaction mass that has the sames drawbacks, ie weight, as standard fuels.
These rumors never take into account Michael Eisner. Why would 48 year old Eisner want to step down as chairman of Disney? I forsee a long and prosperous alliance of Disney and Pixar with a remote chance of Disney aquireing Pixar, and I can envision a possible Disney-branded Apple product. Jobs as CEO of Disney OTOH is extremely unlikely; Jobs is perfect for Pixar and fairly good for Apple, but why would anybody take a chance at replacing the extremely succesfull and popular Eisner with Jobs who has no real experience marketing movies?
I'm not saying Jobs would be necessarily bad at the job, but the Disney shareholders know that Eisner is good at it.
Hell, the politicians don't understand any of the constitution. Look up HR666 (yes really) of the 104th congress; nearly 3/4 of the house voted down an amendment to the bill that was, word for word, the 4th amendment of the constitution. This site has more on it.
While I agree that anyone who can't open the case of a mac (excluding the AIOs) better get his chromosones checked to make sure he has the right number, the 7100s (Based on the Centris cases) were the worst of the PowerMacs. The case does come right off (one screw in the back, the two buttons are 7200s and later), but the drive cage does not flip up like the 7200s and later. Getting memory into one of these things is a serious pain requiring at least the removal of the CD drive.
The new cases OTOH are masterpieces. I love the yosimite boxes so much it's not even funny. I want one here at work to break so I can snag it and replace my Athlon's Enlight case with it; it'll make everyone think I got BeOS functioning on a G3 or G4;). Seeing as how we still have 7100s in service (and functional MacIIs and SEs in storage), I don't think it'll happen soon.
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On a different note, how many techs here would turn someone in for this? I get all the logs here at work and have full access to every machine in the building as well as some home-loaners. I have found some pretty whacked shit from time to time. Unless it affects network performance I don't say a god damned thing, and even then I don't take it to the boss unless the user is unrepentant (about the bandwidth, not their porn or whatever). They usually get fired for not doing their job long before I take notice of their activities.
-Multi Processor G4s. 2x450@ $2500, 2x500@ $3500
-4 New iMacs; generally upgraded and new colors (Indigo, Ruby, Sage, and Snow).
-Full sized Keyboard and Optical Mouse w/o button.
-Office 2001.
-Same old OSX stuff.
-Bungie, Microsoft, & Apple teaming up to make more games available on Mac.
-Circuit City carrying iMacs.
-iMovie 2... free as in beer.
-Some iTools stuff... new homepage builder.
-New desktop machine: G4 powered, up to 1.5 GB RAM, up to 40 GB HD, 8" Cube case, convection cooled, suspended in clear enclosure, top load slot CD/DVD, white with grey logo, little Harmon/Kardon external speakers. $1799-2299. Available in august.
-3 new monitors. 17" flat CRT $499, 15" flat LCD $799, 22" Cinema display $???. All are powered by the video cable?!
IMHO, the cube is super fly. As one of the guys in their prerecorded piece said: "Holy shit, they've done it again."
A friend of mine used to do this. Some place was paying her to do her shopping at different grocery stores each week and give them copies of the receits for price comparison. Not nearly as cloak and dagger, but harder to stop.
And unlike Edison, he wasn't so full of himself so as to think DC was good for long distance electricity transfer.
Back on-topic myself, the damned server is dead as the proverbial doornail.
BZZZZZZT! Wrong answer please try again.
Just what I'm sure everyone wants, a proffesional system that tracks their likes and dislikes, controls disemination of digital intercommunication, and knows where you are all the time... all this and no personal control of the device. The privacy concerns alone are staggering and I certainly wish to have no part of it. If it was siting on my home network behind an OpenBSD firewall I'd give it a second thought, but who can trust Microsoft?.. Either ethically in regards to privacy or technichaly in regards to security?
"But Horovitz said he was confidant that adequate security and privacy safegaurds would be created."
This guy sounds like a smart guy, so why would he come to this conclusion? Microsoft has never before provided adequate security (How many holes in NT last year?) or privacy (tracking numbers on Word docs).
No, definition 1 has nothing to do with games. The olympics had not existed for over a millenia in 1590 and would not exist again for 300 years.
Olympian refers to denizens of a place called Olympia; be it in Washington state or on the Pelloponesian peninsula (original location of Olympics) or in Thrace (where Mt. Olympus is). As olympic is defined as olympian then olympic simply refers to inhabitants of olympia and is therefore a generic term. If I make a website about greek gods I have every right in the world to use olympic in my title because the greek gods were, mostly, olympic.
I sometimes work for a company called MARS interactive(tm), by the IOC's logic we could seriously put the hurt on some astronomy sites. We would be laughed out of court, but we could cost those sites plenty.
Hell, I used to design collegiate athletic marked items. Those guys have trademarks on state names (University of Georgia for example holds a trademark on the word 'Georgia') but only when used in reference to the university... obviously. I would imagine the IOC holds a trademark on 'olympic' only in relation to games.
And me with no moderator points.
Berst is the Andy Rooney of online news... I hate Andy Rooney.
I knew Napster for Be didn't allow uploads but figured since Macster asks for your directory for uploading it did. I was wrong.
As an example, I have watched many hundreds of films that show typical Hollywood violence (ooh, ahh, he got me... you guys go on without me...) and, especialy as a child, thought afterwards how cool it would be to be a soldier, gangster, or whatever. Then in my early twenties I saw a snuff flick. I can honestly say, after having watched it, that I hope with all my might that I never, ever have to kill someone.
Can you see the difference? Hollywood violence made me want to be violent because the consequences were so ephemeral. Real murder, in addition to making me physically ill, made me not want to be violent.
The argument rests on not wanting children to be frightened, but violence should terrify anyone. It seems the mental well being of children is more important than their physical well being.
"Flame on, I'm gone"
That did make me laugh. I DLed 50 or so songs off Napster yesterday on my mac (Before any self-righteous dicks put in their piece, I bought one of the songs later that night from the band's site, deleted about 20 that sucked, and the rest I own on vinyl or tape). It's called Macster guys, look in to it.
BTW, the one I bought had a little blurb at the end giving the band's URL. I like that.
We can. We do. I'd tell you about it but that would be self defeating.
Yes my goal in life is to be able to credibly sound like a grizled old '49er.
It's been done, and it didn't work.... of course. Only an complete and total idiot would think it would.
"Your right to free speech is not being infringed, you're being prohibited from spreading information about a criminal activity."
Information is speech. Prohibition of distribution is infringing free speech. What part of 'Congress Shall Make No Law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;...' is so damned hard to understand? Which word in there is giving you trouble? One of the points of the amendment is to allow discussion of things that are against the law so that we can make informed decisions when we elect new lawmakers.
"Do you honestly condone teaching our nation's youth the quickest way to kill themselves?"
No I don't, but the second amendment protects guns... just like the 1st and 4th protect this.
"Quit hiding behind the free speech claim."
Pesky damned constitution.
Anyone else think that an elected representative that votes for a law later found to be unconstitutional (as this one will be, even with this right leaning court) should be subject to impeachment or recall action?
I also want to know how one would prohibit information on marijuana cultivation. Can we really controll speech as simple as "Put it in the ground; wait a few weeks; smoke". Note also that prohibition on marijuana cultivation related speech would invalidate parts of George Washington's diary... he was a hemp farmer you know.
Neither is a voting booth.... or universal suffrage.... or representative democracy. It's a bit tougher to count tens of millions of votes than tens of thousands (In the case of the first known democracy; Athens with a citizen population of less than 20,000). Pottery shards in a basket just doesn't cut it anymore.
Even in Athens and Republican Rome though, election days were holidays and what passed for voter registration was handled by Philum or Tribe (respectively). In wonderfull America we have to take time off of work to register and vote which is, of course, harder for the poor than the rich.
Magnetism. Launch cargo from big-assed hypervelocity rail guns built up the sides of the Andes down 'round the equator. It won't work for people, but it would be great for anything that can handle the acceleration. Couldn't hurt Chile's economy either.
The problem with nuclear is that you still need reaction mass that has the sames drawbacks, ie weight, as standard fuels.
I'm not saying Jobs would be necessarily bad at the job, but the Disney shareholders know that Eisner is good at it.
Yea, and I know an old wisened electronics tech (c) who has destroyed a Unix partition.
The new cases OTOH are masterpieces. I love the yosimite boxes so much it's not even funny. I want one here at work to break so I can snag it and replace my Athlon's Enlight case with it; it'll make everyone think I got BeOS functioning on a G3 or G4 ;). Seeing as how we still have 7100s in service (and functional MacIIs and SEs in storage), I don't think it'll happen soon.