> Some people might like to tap the pad instead of using the button, but they're the kind of people who're a bit silly cos like, on a mac that doesn't do a thing. It's only the button that clicks and registers as a keypress.
um, what's wrong with System Preferences ->Mouse -> Use trackpad for clicking -> use trackpad for dragging -> drag lock
> And who was it who brought it into the office? The CEO
Sure maybe they didn't patch, sure they connected their system to the local network.
There a few common sense notions that people rightfully have. Among these are that 1) you can be on the internet and 2) connecting your system to a network should not harm other computers. If theory and practice are incompatible, I think they should rethink the practice of computers rather that the above two notions.
"In theory, practice and theory should be the same, but in practice they're not."
I keep hearing that windows 2k3 is the most secure windows, but (and I'm truly asking), what makes people say so? I'm using it at home. Evidence for: logs changes, logs every reboot and needs you to enter a reason, insists that every site (including google) has a security issue, comes with almost everything disabled, doesn't let users use shockwave et al without permission, probably some bug fixes. Evidence against: see the article above. At least it informed me afterwards that the computer unexpectedly rebooted . ..
PS: Please don't mod me for flaming, I'm really wondering what inner changes there are, other than the ones above that give the impression of security.
People are saying that the admins should have installed the patches, and that not doing so is being lazy/inexperienced. The only thing I found surprising about people not patching, is that they actually had to do this manually! Am I the only one that thinks that any secure system should have an updater to notify people of the patches and let them easily install it? How hard would that be, and it/is/ MS's fault after all. Maybe I'm just spoiled by OS X's "Software Update" util.
> Just thought I might point out that when Apple integrates
> products for the end user's convenience, they're
> innovators and geniuses, best thing since sliced bread,
> etc... But when Microsoft does the same thing, they're
> abusive monopolists who crush the little guy.
Apple doesn't integrate their apps into the OS. Apple integrates the many apps together with publically accessible APIs, so that other people may do the same.
Plus many times when they come up with some useful functionality, they put it into the API so that others may profit from their work.
There are loads of such integration, thanks to the great design of Cocoa and Applescript. My favorite is Clutter, which automatically retrieves cover art for what you are playing in iTunes (plus loads of other features).
But you are right in that integration is (hopefully) the way of the future. It's happened more than a couple of times that I wanted to make something, and ended up building it around an existing program like the above.
And for those who do not know, almost all of the iApps have hooks so that other programs can, say, reference the itunes library, update the address book, modify pictures in your album . . .
does anybody else notice that does not recommend APSL 2.0 for new software does not mean APSL is EVIL.
Umm, yes: the other 10 people to get modded up to 5 for saying so.
But you didn't even have to insert an "I know I'll get modded down for this..." comment to get them to mod you up. Maybe a sign that slashdot is improving!
PS: I know I'll get modded down for this, but...;-)
(that was of course prescriptum, not postscriptum)
With all of the things he was mentioning (ink, speech, etc.), and saying that noone else has looked into that, I couldn't help but think of my home OS X system that does all that he mentioned and more. And betting on the gui? Puhlease.
> If processor power is so important, > why are we so willing to waste it on making > windows do funny things when we move them > around? Just wondering
That's why all of this stuff is being moved to the graphics card. The advanced card capabilities are just sitting there twiddling their thumbs until you start real graphics work, so why not use them!
You're all wrong! Remember the Intel-based OS X hidden away in Cupertino? What about the Panther driven 980 computers Steve has that emulate Windows programs faster than native Pentiums?
"It could make criminal abuse of firearms a thing of the past"
Umm, yes, since all guns are purchased legally from authorised dealers. I'm sure everyone who has a gun will return it to be equipped with these features.
> For arcane technical reasons, you can't call 911
Okay, what I'm wondering is whether this would mean that you would still need to setup a standard "old-fashioned" phone-line with your local utility company to be able to make this call. Also, in one of the previous posts somebody mentioned that every phone has to have the ability to call 911, what does this mean for this technology?
What a coincidence, a slashdot article about this exact same thing was posted at that time by Hemos!
The only possible answer to this is that CmdrTaco has been replaced by an alien being intent on distorting our view of space-time! Hence the many recent articles on time travel, Stephen Hawking, black holes, etcetera ad nauseam. They tried to make us believe that nothing is wrong but we know better! Spread the word my fellow bipeds! We will not be conquered!
>Also, they intend to build in.NET support for the Mac, though Microsoft says that they do not intend to push.NET for Mac developers."
Why would Microsoft push for Mac users and developers in any way? They could just provide enough functionality in.NET to bring users back into the "chosen" OS..NET appears for mac, so people start to go to.NET as a standard. Once this has happened MS can be sure to keep the mac version at least one step behind MS so in frustration people will have little chose but to realize the error of their ways.
Hopefully it will be translated better then some of the fansubs out there. I'm still wondering what is meant by "The cruel angel's thesis bleeds / through a portal like your pulsing blood" in the opening theme. The song is pretty catchy though, despite the inevitable engrish
PS: this might be posted twice since the submit button looks a hell of a lot like the preview button
I hope the transaltion is better then in some of the fansubs. This is one of the top series (Lain is also groovy), but I've always wondered what is meant in the opening theme by "The cruel angel's thesis bleeds".
Even the stuff on engrish.com makes more sense then that
>Abit's MAX series intends to dive headfirst into the next generation of computing, leaving legacy ports behind in their dust
Hey that is pretty innovative, you usually don't see motherboards doing dives (although video cards have been known to take dives pretty often). Although I guess that this should have been expected with all the news about CPU water coolers and Underwater power generation.
I don't like to post off-topic and will probably get modded down, but that website really isn't designed to well. First of all, it has frames which in general rarely work well, and it has the scrolling marquee which has the standard problems in IE where it works, and just displays improperly in netscape. It looks like they did not even test it in netscape because of the frame borders. Even in IE, they fit the text so that you have to scroll left and right to read it (on my screen at least). It is full of pdfs, which wouldn't really be a problem, but it opens it inside the smaller frame.
The problem has never been about being able to stop illegitimate programs, but rather to ONLY stop illegitimate programs, and not authentic ones as well. Let's name one that could find problems: Google. Okay, they wise up and allow accesses from Google (and some other select few) to go through. Problem 1: Smarter spiders can take advantage of this. Problem 2: Anyone who wants to start up a new and similar service would first have to make sure that it is registered so that it is not blocked out. This could turn into a beaurocratic nightmare, and may restrict competition by disallowing new, small, and innovative contenders
Please don't cure the illness by killing the patient.
The site is down, just 3 comments here. I really want to say something smart to raise my karma, but I just can't think of anything. Didn't think that ams could be slashdotted like that (even crashed my internet explorer, but wasn't nowadays?)
I hope it comes back up. As I'm involved in mathematics, I have been using TeX a lot, and (after trying LaTeX) have basically started to use it for everything that comes up. It's a really nice system (WYSIWYM - What You See is What You Mean) and has finally allowed me to be free of MS (Multiple Sclerosis?) Office. I highly suggest it since (after a bit of learning) you can put together really professional looking documents and automagically raise your marks, with much less effort. It even works on the command-line for people like me whose favourite internet program is telnet (for mail, http, irc...).
And now it looks like the pdf file is finally loaded, so I might actually be able to make an intelligent comment soon!
Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good,
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
-- Ogden Nash
This whole idea is a big part of the plot of "2010: Odyssey Two". Soon they'll start telling us that Jupiter has a diamond core and they found a magnetic anomaly in the Tycho crater
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um, what's wrong with System Preferences ->Mouse -> Use trackpad for clicking -> use trackpad for dragging -> drag lock
> And who was it who brought it into the office? The CEO
Sure maybe they didn't patch, sure they connected their system to the local network.
There a few common sense notions that people rightfully have. Among these are that 1) you can be on the internet and 2) connecting your system to a network should not harm other computers. If theory and practice are incompatible, I think they should rethink the practice of computers rather that the above two notions.
"In theory, practice and theory should be the same, but in practice they're not."
I keep hearing that windows 2k3 is the most secure windows, but (and I'm truly asking), what makes people say so? I'm using it at home. Evidence for: logs changes, logs every reboot and needs you to enter a reason, insists that every site (including google) has a security issue, comes with almost everything disabled, doesn't let users use shockwave et al without permission, probably some bug fixes. Evidence against: see the article above. At least it informed me afterwards that the computer unexpectedly rebooted . . .
PS: Please don't mod me for flaming, I'm really wondering what inner changes there are, other than the ones above that give the impression of security.
People are saying that the admins should have installed the patches, and that not doing so is being lazy/inexperienced. The only thing I found surprising about people not patching, is that they actually had to do this manually! Am I the only one that thinks that any secure system should have an updater to notify people of the patches and let them easily install it? How hard would that be, and it /is/ MS's fault after all. Maybe I'm just spoiled by OS X's "Software Update" util.
> products for the end user's convenience, they're
> innovators and geniuses, best thing since sliced bread,
> etc... But when Microsoft does the same thing, they're
> abusive monopolists who crush the little guy.
Apple doesn't integrate their apps into the OS. Apple integrates the many apps together with publically accessible APIs, so that other people may do the same.
Plus many times when they come up with some useful functionality, they put it into the API so that others may profit from their work.
But you are right in that integration is (hopefully) the way of the future. It's happened more than a couple of times that I wanted to make something, and ended up building it around an existing program like the above.
And for those who do not know, almost all of the iApps have hooks so that other programs can, say, reference the itunes library, update the address book, modify pictures in your album . . .
Umm, yes: the other 10 people to get modded up to 5 for saying so.
But you didn't even have to insert an "I know I'll get modded down for this..." comment to get them to mod you up. Maybe a sign that slashdot is improving!
PS: I know I'll get modded down for this, but... ;-)
(that was of course prescriptum, not postscriptum)
With all of the things he was mentioning (ink, speech, etc.), and saying that noone else has looked into that, I couldn't help but think of my home OS X system that does all that he mentioned and more. And betting on the gui? Puhlease.
Why wouldn't your wife enjoy hours of "down time" ?
> If processor power is so important,
> why are we so willing to waste it on making
> windows do funny things when we move them
> around? Just wondering
That's why all of this stuff is being moved to the graphics card. The advanced card capabilities are just sitting there twiddling their thumbs until you start real graphics work, so why not use them!
> > Apple's software is the best desktop software there is. This is widely, widely accepted in the industry.
>Remind us which industry you are referring to since it doesn't seem to be in your article.
Well, seeing how he goes on to talk about graphics and design programs, I'm guessing the graphics and design industry.
The reason he didn't give backing is that everyone knows it to be true! How about that emmy Apple won for it's contributions to the movie industry?
You're all wrong! Remember the Intel-based OS X hidden away in Cupertino? What about the Panther driven 980 computers Steve has that emulate Windows programs faster than native Pentiums?
"It could make criminal abuse of firearms a thing of the past"
Umm, yes, since all guns are purchased legally from authorised dealers. I'm sure everyone who has a gun will return it to be equipped with these features.
Okay, what I'm wondering is whether this would mean that you would still need to setup a standard "old-fashioned" phone-line with your local utility company to be able to make this call. Also, in one of the previous posts somebody mentioned that every phone has to have the ability to call 911, what does this mean for this technology?
The only possible answer to this is that CmdrTaco has been replaced by an alien being intent on distorting our view of space-time! Hence the many recent articles on time travel, Stephen Hawking, black holes, etcetera ad nauseam. They tried to make us believe that nothing is wrong but we know better! Spread the word my fellow bipeds! We will not be conquered!
Why would Microsoft push for Mac users and developers in any way? They could just provide enough functionality in .NET to bring users back into the "chosen" OS. .NET appears for mac, so people start to go to .NET as a standard. Once this has happened MS can be sure to keep the mac version at least one step behind MS so in frustration people will have little chose but to realize the error of their ways.
I'll just wait until I can find a morpheus or winmx user who has all the episodes. Hey, it worked for the other series!
PS: this might be posted twice since the submit button looks a hell of a lot like the preview button
Even the stuff on engrish.com makes more sense then that
Hey that is pretty innovative, you usually don't see motherboards doing dives (although video cards have been known to take dives pretty often). Although I guess that this should have been expected with all the news about CPU water coolers and Underwater power generation.
Some people deal with their emotions, some go into denial, and some build lego cathedrals.
I guess we should be more sensitive though, those must have been some cats and must have meant a lot to her.
Really good work, though; astounding detail on the pews, lights, crucifix, lighting...
I just hope she didn't actually entomb the cat there.
PS: I now realise that it is not a guy, I just thought that such obsession is usually a guy thing.
I don't like to post off-topic and will probably get modded down, but that website really isn't designed to well. First of all, it has frames which in general rarely work well, and it has the scrolling marquee which has the standard problems in IE where it works, and just displays improperly in netscape. It looks like they did not even test it in netscape because of the frame borders. Even in IE, they fit the text so that you have to scroll left and right to read it (on my screen at least). It is full of pdfs, which wouldn't really be a problem, but it opens it inside the smaller frame.
<rant mode off, going back to real life... now!>
The problem has never been about being able to stop illegitimate programs, but rather to ONLY stop illegitimate programs, and not authentic ones as well. Let's name one that could find problems: Google. Okay, they wise up and allow accesses from Google (and some other select few) to go through. Problem 1: Smarter spiders can take advantage of this. Problem 2: Anyone who wants to start up a new and similar service would first have to make sure that it is registered so that it is not blocked out. This could turn into a beaurocratic nightmare, and may restrict competition by disallowing new, small, and innovative contenders
Please don't cure the illness by killing the patient.
I hope it comes back up. As I'm involved in mathematics, I have been using TeX a lot, and (after trying LaTeX) have basically started to use it for everything that comes up. It's a really nice system (WYSIWYM - What You See is What You Mean) and has finally allowed me to be free of MS (Multiple Sclerosis?) Office. I highly suggest it since (after a bit of learning) you can put together really professional looking documents and automagically raise your marks, with much less effort. It even works on the command-line for people like me whose favourite internet program is telnet (for mail, http, irc...).
And now it looks like the pdf file is finally loaded, so I might actually be able to make an intelligent comment soon!
Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good,
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
-- Ogden Nash
This whole idea is a big part of the plot of "2010: Odyssey Two". Soon they'll start telling us that Jupiter has a diamond core and they found a magnetic anomaly in the Tycho crater