Oh God. So, if you patent the same thing but say "on clothing", you can patent it? I'll submit my patent for a navigation system which works off clothing.
This case proves how busted the US patent system is.
WTF. ECW. Wrestling. It's a profit move by SciFi. People should see that SciFi doesn't care about SciFi, but about money. That is why they have ECW and decided to can Stargate.
Thank God there is still Smallville, and Battlestar.
There was something about Steve looking bad last year as well. Or some other Keynote. If you live in the Bay Area, the weather changed BIG time in the last week. It's gone from 90+ degree weather to like 60s. Could it be allergies? I know mine have been acting up......and I live in the East Bay......
"Don't want Redmond's photocopiers started too early"
Seriously. Steve is smart NOT to show off every little detail of 10.5. Look at Microsoft, they promised so much in Longhorn/Vista, then take things out.
True about Stargate Atlantis. I think the show is OK, but has yet to find it's footing. Battlestar Galactica has had some great episodes. Edward James Olmos can really make you want to cry.
It's the actors. You get the same bunch of losers doing all the films. Colin Farrell, Tom Cruise, Linsey Lohan, etc. It's boring to see them do film after film, especially when they can't act (Tom did, once upon a time).
Oh, and the films. A remake of Dukes of Hazard? Miami Vice? What is next, Married with Children? A Dallas movie? T.J. Hooker? Come on guys, there are great books out there that could be made into films. How about a version of "I, Robot" that actually follows Asimov's book? The last Superman movie. Terrible. They should have waited another year or two and did the film with the cast of Smallville. I mean, seriously, Lex from Smallville vs. the latest Superman's? No comparison.
I can see why great actors like James Spader turn to T.V. now rather than film. Unless you land a Harry Potter film, or are a voice actor in a Pixar film, or are in a Spiderman or Pirates sequel, it probably not going to do well at all.
Actually, abolish governments that support one religion over another.
And we really need to get radical governments like Iran, and North Korea to stop wasting their money on arms and military and focus on raising the standard of living in their country. I don't see how North Korea can think having a long range missle is good. So, who are they going to launch it at? The USA? That would be a ticket to getting wiped off the planet for sure.
There are documented security breaches. I've seem macs attacked as i used to be a Mac sys admin. It doesn't typically happen on a current box (latest os) but it does happen. I have looked at microsoft's patch list since i also use windows. I can tell you that apple, microsoft and redhat release updates to their software all the time. Microsoft updates less often than redhat does (or at least when i ran it). Its all the same. Apple tends to hide security patches in updates to their software. If you count those (by reading the change list), you'll note its about the same as Microsoft. I said i had 3 tiger based macs in the house so i obviously use it. (4 macs total)
So, lets recap. The current box (latest os) doesn't typically happen but it does happen. FUD. Prove it. Give me some examples. I mean, there are millions on the Windows side......
If you think tiger is excellent, I feel for you. Its a POS. Its not better than XP. I hate to say that, but its not. It might be faster (not disk io) if one were to benchmark something like WoW on an intel Mac. That doesn't make it better though. I've actually reinstalled Mac OS X and Windows XP the same number of times on my two main machines. The mac is 6 months older, but all the installs have been tiger (it shipped with panther). Tiger like 10.2 does not handle upgrades well if you actually use the bsd subsystem and run anything but standard gui apps in their default config. My wife's upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3 to 10.4 on the same machine but she doesn't tend to do any changes to the defaults either. (aside from using fink a bit) If you run a mac network, you'll see all the problems with tiger. 10.4 server is even worse than client. Read the OSX server mailing list for a few months. Learn the dark side to your beloved apple.
Totally disagree. I use Windows XP and OS X side by side. I constantly have to reboot XP, and have to run CHKDSK on it all the time. Nothing seems to fix it. Strangely you didn't mention the virus problems with Windows. Is that what makes it better? You like running Antivirus software?
Apple even lies with their ad campaigns now. There are claims of no virsues (there are at least 3 for osx), not having to remove crap when you buy one (office trial, iWorks trial, etc). And intel macs are not rediculously faster than the PowerPC systems they replaced either. (native code is fast, but rosetta is a joke)
Again, that is FUD. Prove it. Name the virus. Give us links.
Removing Trial software on the Mac is simply moving the files to the trash can and emptying. On windows.......lets see, gotta get the manual out on that......page 232 on Control Panel->Add/Remove Application
Intel Macs are way faster than PowerPC ones. iPhoto, iTunes, Garageband and Logic run easily twice as fast. I get way more plugins on my Intel iMac than I do on my previous G5 iMac. It is about double, probably more. Rosetta isn't there to be a speed thing, but its there to allow you to run those PPC programs you love until they have a Intel version out.
I think the Microsoft Koolaid is a little strong today....
"Look at the patch list lately. I've had to upgrade iTunes and Quicktime for security related issues way to often. Their windows software is extremely buggy. "
What? Has there been documented security breaches yet? No. Look at Microsoft's Windows patch list and compare it to Apple's.
"Worse yet, their quality of software is extremely poor."
What software? Applications or System? They are both excellent. Do you actually use OS X 10.4.7 or are you referring to the FUD out there? Linux is not something I'd want my mom to use. She uses a Mac. She is totally a iPhoto pro, using it to create DVDs of her Preschool classes. I didn't have to show her a thing on how to make it work. You simply cannot do this on Linux with anywhere the ease that you can on OS X.
In related news, a number of Slashdot readers have recently switched to DIGG.
Really, how is this news? I know it's a slow news day, but really.......Couldn't we talk about that asteroid that came really close to the Earth instead?
Yeah. I see people do the same stupid driving things regardless of handsfree or not. They aren't paying attention and will turn to make a lane change without looking. Or will shift through three lanes of traffice to get to an exit that they are about to miss cause they were not paying attention.
It's an interesting study. I find myself doing these things if I listen to music in the car. I have to keep it on like a news radio station or turn it off or something.....
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Oh God. So, if you patent the same thing but say "on clothing", you can patent it? I'll submit my patent for a navigation system which works off clothing.
This case proves how busted the US patent system is.
Nope. SciFi is going to morph into SpikeTV 2.
SciFi really sucks now. It's no better than AMC. They air old stuff.
Sad that wrestling has displaced a show that actually has a plot (sometimes good) and good acting.
WTF. ECW. Wrestling. It's a profit move by SciFi. People should see that SciFi doesn't care about SciFi, but about money. That is why they have ECW and decided to can Stargate.
Thank God there is still Smallville, and Battlestar.
SG1, I might agree. The Ori are kind of lame. But it's getting better. Better than RDA phoning in performances in season 8.
McKay is funny, but Weir is weak. What happened to Ford? And Talia (or however you spell it) is annoying. Sheppard and McKay make that show.
Yeah. I love Ben in Stargate. Though it seems he's kind of held back a little. I haven't missed an episode since season 9.
As a NEW Treo 650 owner, I love it. Palm Apps are great on it. The Treo is replacing my Palm Vx (which still works) as my cellphone/PDA. I'm in love.
I looked at the Windows Mobile Palm 700w. Yuck. It's just begging for viruses or other problems.....
It needs more than the ability to run Bittorrent. You need something like Peer Guardian running to filter out all those "bad" IP Addresses.
It's more of a NAS meets Wireless router. Which is cool, but....yeah....so?
Somewhere in Redmond, chairs are being thrown.
And somewhere in Redmond, Bill is look to acquire some of the mentioned software to add to his collection....
Yup. In choosing a Treo, does one choose a Palm one or a Windows one?
Palm. Simple, fast, and no Windows viruses/security issues.
There was something about Steve looking bad last year as well. Or some other Keynote. If you live in the Bay Area, the weather changed BIG time in the last week. It's gone from 90+ degree weather to like 60s. Could it be allergies? I know mine have been acting up......and I live in the East Bay......
Exactly. Why NOT have the people within the company, who deserve some spotlight time, talk about the things THEY do in the company.
Basically, I think the Wired article is doing a Dvorak, and inciting Mac users to go to the site. It's much ado about nothing.
"Don't want Redmond's photocopiers started too early"
Seriously. Steve is smart NOT to show off every little detail of 10.5. Look at Microsoft, they promised so much in Longhorn/Vista, then take things out.
They need to get a day job and make their regularly schedule appointments to their mental health doctors.
And this made it to the front page of Slashdot? Is it going to be duped next week?
Yeah. She needs to be "Wraithed". The show is still finding it's footing. Maybe the third season will make things right.
True about Stargate Atlantis. I think the show is OK, but has yet to find it's footing. Battlestar Galactica has had some great episodes. Edward James Olmos can really make you want to cry.
It's the actors. You get the same bunch of losers doing all the films. Colin Farrell, Tom Cruise, Linsey Lohan, etc. It's boring to see them do film after film, especially when they can't act (Tom did, once upon a time).
Oh, and the films. A remake of Dukes of Hazard? Miami Vice? What is next, Married with Children? A Dallas movie? T.J. Hooker? Come on guys, there are great books out there that could be made into films. How about a version of "I, Robot" that actually follows Asimov's book? The last Superman movie. Terrible. They should have waited another year or two and did the film with the cast of Smallville. I mean, seriously, Lex from Smallville vs. the latest Superman's? No comparison.
I can see why great actors like James Spader turn to T.V. now rather than film. Unless you land a Harry Potter film, or are a voice actor in a Pixar film, or are in a Spiderman or Pirates sequel, it probably not going to do well at all.
Except when it is a DUPE, as happens regularly on Slashdot.
Actually, abolish governments that support one religion over another.
And we really need to get radical governments like Iran, and North Korea to stop wasting their money on arms and military and focus on raising the standard of living in their country. I don't see how North Korea can think having a long range missle is good. So, who are they going to launch it at? The USA? That would be a ticket to getting wiped off the planet for sure.
Last time I tried either of those, they didn't work on my library at all. And neither of them seem to be under development anymore....
There are documented security breaches. I've seem macs attacked as i used to be a Mac sys admin. It doesn't typically happen on a current box (latest os) but it does happen. I have looked at microsoft's patch list since i also use windows. I can tell you that apple, microsoft and redhat release updates to their software all the time. Microsoft updates less often than redhat does (or at least when i ran it). Its all the same. Apple tends to hide security patches in updates to their software. If you count those (by reading the change list), you'll note its about the same as Microsoft. I said i had 3 tiger based macs in the house so i obviously use it. (4 macs total)
So, lets recap. The current box (latest os) doesn't typically happen but it does happen. FUD. Prove it. Give me some examples. I mean, there are millions on the Windows side......
If you think tiger is excellent, I feel for you. Its a POS. Its not better than XP. I hate to say that, but its not. It might be faster (not disk io) if one were to benchmark something like WoW on an intel Mac. That doesn't make it better though. I've actually reinstalled Mac OS X and Windows XP the same number of times on my two main machines. The mac is 6 months older, but all the installs have been tiger (it shipped with panther). Tiger like 10.2 does not handle upgrades well if you actually use the bsd subsystem and run anything but standard gui apps in their default config. My wife's upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3 to 10.4 on the same machine but she doesn't tend to do any changes to the defaults either. (aside from using fink a bit) If you run a mac network, you'll see all the problems with tiger. 10.4 server is even worse than client. Read the OSX server mailing list for a few months. Learn the dark side to your beloved apple.
Totally disagree. I use Windows XP and OS X side by side. I constantly have to reboot XP, and have to run CHKDSK on it all the time. Nothing seems to fix it. Strangely you didn't mention the virus problems with Windows. Is that what makes it better? You like running Antivirus software?
Apple even lies with their ad campaigns now. There are claims of no virsues (there are at least 3 for osx), not having to remove crap when you buy one (office trial, iWorks trial, etc). And intel macs are not rediculously faster than the PowerPC systems they replaced either. (native code is fast, but rosetta is a joke)
Again, that is FUD. Prove it. Name the virus. Give us links.
Removing Trial software on the Mac is simply moving the files to the trash can and emptying. On windows.......lets see, gotta get the manual out on that......page 232 on Control Panel->Add/Remove Application
Intel Macs are way faster than PowerPC ones. iPhoto, iTunes, Garageband and Logic run easily twice as fast. I get way more plugins on my Intel iMac than I do on my previous G5 iMac. It is about double, probably more. Rosetta isn't there to be a speed thing, but its there to allow you to run those PPC programs you love until they have a Intel version out.
I think the Microsoft Koolaid is a little strong today....
"Look at the patch list lately. I've had to upgrade iTunes and Quicktime for security related issues way to often. Their windows software is extremely buggy. "
What? Has there been documented security breaches yet? No. Look at Microsoft's Windows patch list and compare it to Apple's.
"Worse yet, their quality of software is extremely poor."
What software? Applications or System? They are both excellent. Do you actually use OS X 10.4.7 or are you referring to the FUD out there?
Linux is not something I'd want my mom to use. She uses a Mac. She is totally a iPhoto pro, using it to create DVDs of her Preschool classes. I didn't have to show her a thing on how to make it work. You simply cannot do this on Linux with anywhere the ease that you can on OS X.
In related news, a number of Slashdot readers have recently switched to DIGG.
Really, how is this news? I know it's a slow news day, but really.......Couldn't we talk about that asteroid that came really close to the Earth instead?
Oh yeah, Tom Hanks' performance in Polar Express totally made that movie.
Look it up idiot.
license.
Oh, but you must be using the British spelling. Bugger...
Yeah. I see people do the same stupid driving things regardless of handsfree or not. They aren't paying attention and will turn to make a lane change without looking. Or will shift through three lanes of traffice to get to an exit that they are about to miss cause they were not paying attention.
It's an interesting study. I find myself doing these things if I listen to music in the car. I have to keep it on like a news radio station or turn it off or something.....