I didn't have this problem (I'm on XP) but I was smacked with a bunch of problems:
The Apple updater appears in Polish on my system. I have my "Language for non-Unicode programs" setting set to Polish (i.e. my system codepage is set to Polish) because I used to chat using a non-Unicode chat program that required it. Apple updater is literally the only other non-DOS program on my system that is non-Unicode.
The OK for the updater appears off the bottom of my screen on my 480p projector that I use as the display for my media center (852*480). Luckily you can pick a random control that is not off the bottom and hit Enter and it moves through the pages, but it's a bit scary to be pressing buttons you can't see. This is not the only program with this problem but it sure is annoying.
When Windows fonts are set to anything other than default size, the text fields in iTunes don't display correctly. For example my iPhone options are: [] Automatically sync when this iPhone is conne... [] Sync only checked song and vi... [] Manually manage music and vi...
Luckily it's pretty obvious what they're supposed to say, but it's still a highschool programming error.
And of course you can only write to the iTunes database through iTunes - not through your favorite media manager (like MediaMonkey) since Apple changed the secret hashing system in firmware 2.0; so you're forced to use iTunes on your desktop.
The iPhone does rock - it too bad iTunes sucks so much.
"Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms."
Perhaps the dinosaurs were nuked by a natural meltdown? Maybe bees wouldn't be as succeptible to such an event? It's possible: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ 2004-10/wui s-rdh102804.php
I have never _once_ pressed the CapsLock key.
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Many moons ago I looked into the Windows registry hack to turn the CapsLock into a Ctrl key. As I was reading this story I was thinking "hmm, I should actually do it this time" Long story short: I had acutally done it way back when, but then forgotten, since I have literally never pressed the Caps Lock key in all the time I have owned this computer.
http://www.jensofsweden.com/media/MP-130/mp-130_3_ web.jpg It looks like a man with a very large thumb is holding it, but a woman is in the reflection.
So now the Java programs I wrote last year --those "write once run everywhere" programs-- cannot be run on today's JVM. The only way to make them run will be to insist the user installs an old JVM. Like that's gonna happen.
Hey Sun, take a page from the W3 and don't add standards to your standard that you can't depend on for reasonable licencing terms.
Furthermore, if you've been defrauded, you can probably get a free copy of your credit report, and that can potentially help you clean up a whole other category of problem: inaccurate (but not fraudulent) credit information.
"I want to ride in the car; I don't want to be locked in the trunk," Mr. Winer said in an interview
Great article but..
Can't we ever have a computer article in a mainstream publication without the car metaphor? Geez, it took long enough for the "information superhighway" to become the buzzword of yesteryear.
Let's take a look at the comparison the author points us to. We'll look at the hardware part primarily between the Indrema and the XBox:
Indrema - 600 Mhz x86
XBox - 733 Mhz Intel
PS2 - 300 Mhz
A MHz to MHz comparison is unfair as we all know, but it seems to me the XBox has the edge over the indrema here.
GPU - Graphics chip developed by nVidia is a generational leap from current features and performance
XBox - 300 Mhz custom-designed graphics chip, developed by Microsoft and nVidia
PS2 - 150 Mhz Sony GS
Wow, the Indrema has a new chip by nVidia that's a generational leap from current features. The XBox only has some custom-designed chip that is aparently not a generational leap. They apparently forgot to mention that both systems will have chips based on the NV20. The XBox has an NV20 with two parallel vertex shaders, while the GF3 which the Indrema will be stuck with has one.
Total Memory
Indrema 96 MB (64 Core + 32 Local)
XBox 64 MB
PS2 38 MB
Hmm, the Indrema has 32 more megs than the XBox, that's better right? Wrong! The XBox has 64MB of _unified_ memory. Both CPU and GPU access the same memory without going over an AGP bus. To get a texture or vertex buffer onto a GF3 you first create it in main memory and then upload to the card.
Memory Thruput
Indrema 5-10 GB/Sec*
XBox 6.4 GB/Sec
PS2 3.2 GB/Sec
There's an asterisk here which is not explained. At least we can say that the XBox's thruput is within the range Indrema proposes.
Polygons
Indrema 120-180 M/Sec*
XBox 150 M/Sec
PS2 66 M/Sec
Another asterisk. Polygon numbers are as useless as MHz. Given the fact that nVidia is offering a less able card to the PC market than the XBox, I suggest that the Indrema will push less polygons.
Storage Medium
Indrema 4x DVD, 10 GB hard disk
XBox 4x DVD, 8 GB hard disk, 8 MB memory card
PS2 4x DVD, 8 MB memory card
Indrema wins by 2GB. Unless memory cards are important to you.
Internet Access
Indrema - Built in browser and email, use any Internet service provider
XBox - May require MSN or other
PS2 - May require Sony ISP or other
In terms of which is more like WebTV, Indrema wins. You can count that as a positive or a negative.
Broadband Enabled
Indrema - Yes
XBox - Yes
PS2 - Future Upgrade
Tie.
DVD Movie Playback
Indrema - Yes, progressive scan
XBox - Yes
PS2 - Yes
This implies that the XBox will not have progressive scan output, which either a mistake or a lie. It will.
Personal TV
Indrema - Available
XBox - No
PS2 - No
I don't know what this is. If they mean Tivo-like functionality, the XBox will provide that as an add-on.
MP3 Jukebox
Indrema - Built In
XBox - No
PS2 - No
Indrema wins.
More important than a spec-for-spec comparison tho, is a bang-for-buck comparison. My question is:
MS knows it can sell the XBox as a loss-leader for the games it makes a cut of. MS is in bed with nVidia who is making the video and the intregrated sound/memory controller.
Indrema must buy parts from nVidia and others as a regular wholesaler.
Can Indrema must pay more for the parts and most likely cannot afford to eat a loss on every piece of hardware, especially when they know if they did slashdot types would buy to simply make 'em into firewalls and never buy a game.
Soft money is the problem. How can the government not reflect the interests of business when:
a: you need money to get elected
b: the corporations have the money
It's easy to demand that remorseless corporations stop owning us, but hard to implement. Where to start? By demanding that politicians make it _illegal_ to receive bribes.
As an example, check out who is donating the most money to BOTH political parties in Washington state - and it's not Boeing even tho they have the most regulated industry:
http://www.opensecrets.org/states/soft/WA.asp
I predict that with MS showing the feds some re$pect their problems are going to be less in the future.
Campaign finance reform should be the major issue in every election until it happens.
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I didn't have this problem (I'm on XP) but I was smacked with a bunch of problems:
The Apple updater appears in Polish on my system. I have my "Language for non-Unicode programs" setting set to Polish (i.e. my system codepage is set to Polish) because I used to chat using a non-Unicode chat program that required it. Apple updater is literally the only other non-DOS program on my system that is non-Unicode.
The OK for the updater appears off the bottom of my screen on my 480p projector that I use as the display for my media center (852*480). Luckily you can pick a random control that is not off the bottom and hit Enter and it moves through the pages, but it's a bit scary to be pressing buttons you can't see. This is not the only program with this problem but it sure is annoying.
When Windows fonts are set to anything other than default size, the text fields in iTunes don't display correctly. For example my iPhone options are:
[] Automatically sync when this iPhone is conne...
[] Sync only checked song and vi...
[] Manually manage music and vi...
Luckily it's pretty obvious what they're supposed to say, but it's still a highschool programming error.
And of course you can only write to the iTunes database through iTunes - not through your favorite media manager (like MediaMonkey) since Apple changed the secret hashing system in firmware 2.0; so you're forced to use iTunes on your desktop.
The iPhone does rock - it too bad iTunes sucks so much.
They've even managed to make 1/10=0.3
"Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms."
g ram/film/a-fair-y-use-tale
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-pro
I tried both FuckLinux and UnixIsForPussies and got denied both times!
Perhaps the dinosaurs were nuked by a natural meltdown? Maybe bees wouldn't be as succeptible to such an event?/ 2004-10/wui s-rdh102804.php
It's possible:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases
Many moons ago I looked into the Windows registry hack to turn the CapsLock into a Ctrl key. As I was reading this story I was thinking "hmm, I should actually do it this time"
Long story short: I had acutally done it way back when, but then forgotten, since I have literally never pressed the Caps Lock key in all the time I have owned this computer.
http://www.jensofsweden.com/media/MP-130/mp-130_3_ web.jpg
It looks like a man with a very large thumb is holding it, but a woman is in the reflection.
Includes a weak threat to stop using Mozilla. Oooooo. Please no.
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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598
So now the Java programs I wrote last year --those "write once run everywhere" programs-- cannot be run on today's JVM. The only way to make them run will be to insist the user installs an old JVM. Like that's gonna happen.
Hey Sun, take a page from the W3 and don't add standards to your standard that you can't depend on for reasonable licencing terms.
You can _always_ get a free copy of your credit report, at least here in Canada. Up here you have the right to view _any_ information kept about you under the "Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act" (http://www.privcom.gc.ca/information/02_05_d_08_
You can request your Equifax credit report report by email at http://www.equifax.com/EFX_Canada/consumer_inform
To each mine.
Great article but..
Can't we ever have a computer article in a mainstream publication without the car metaphor? Geez, it took long enough for the "information superhighway" to become the buzzword of yesteryear.
It doesn't refresh the page. Unless you have your cache turned off.
Indrema - 600 Mhz x86
XBox - 733 Mhz Intel
PS2 - 300 Mhz
A MHz to MHz comparison is unfair as we all know, but it seems to me the XBox has the edge over the indrema here.
GPU - Graphics chip developed by nVidia is a generational leap from current features and performance
XBox - 300 Mhz custom-designed graphics chip, developed by Microsoft and nVidia
PS2 - 150 Mhz Sony GS
Wow, the Indrema has a new chip by nVidia that's a generational leap from current features. The XBox only has some custom-designed chip that is aparently not a generational leap. They apparently forgot to mention that both systems will have chips based on the NV20. The XBox has an NV20 with two parallel vertex shaders, while the GF3 which the Indrema will be stuck with has one.
Total Memory
Indrema 96 MB (64 Core + 32 Local)
XBox 64 MB
PS2 38 MB
Hmm, the Indrema has 32 more megs than the XBox, that's better right? Wrong! The XBox has 64MB of _unified_ memory. Both CPU and GPU access the same memory without going over an AGP bus. To get a texture or vertex buffer onto a GF3 you first create it in main memory and then upload to the card.
Memory Thruput
Indrema 5-10 GB/Sec*
XBox 6.4 GB/Sec
PS2 3.2 GB/Sec
There's an asterisk here which is not explained. At least we can say that the XBox's thruput is within the range Indrema proposes.
Polygons
Indrema 120-180 M/Sec*
XBox 150 M/Sec
PS2 66 M/Sec
Another asterisk. Polygon numbers are as useless as MHz. Given the fact that nVidia is offering a less able card to the PC market than the XBox, I suggest that the Indrema will push less polygons.
Storage Medium
Indrema 4x DVD, 10 GB hard disk
XBox 4x DVD, 8 GB hard disk, 8 MB memory card
PS2 4x DVD, 8 MB memory card
Indrema wins by 2GB. Unless memory cards are important to you.
Internet Access
Indrema - Built in browser and email, use any Internet service provider
XBox - May require MSN or other
PS2 - May require Sony ISP or other
In terms of which is more like WebTV, Indrema wins. You can count that as a positive or a negative.
Broadband Enabled
Indrema - Yes
XBox - Yes
PS2 - Future Upgrade
Tie.
DVD Movie Playback
Indrema - Yes, progressive scan
XBox - Yes
PS2 - Yes
This implies that the XBox will not have progressive scan output, which either a mistake or a lie. It will.
Personal TV
Indrema - Available
XBox - No
PS2 - No
I don't know what this is. If they mean Tivo-like functionality, the XBox will provide that as an add-on.
MP3 Jukebox
Indrema - Built In
XBox - No
PS2 - No
Indrema wins.
More important than a spec-for-spec comparison tho, is a bang-for-buck comparison. My question is:
MS knows it can sell the XBox as a loss-leader for the games it makes a cut of. MS is in bed with nVidia who is making the video and the intregrated sound/memory controller.
Indrema must buy parts from nVidia and others as a regular wholesaler.
Can Indrema must pay more for the parts and most likely cannot afford to eat a loss on every piece of hardware, especially when they know if they did slashdot types would buy to simply make 'em into firewalls and never buy a game.
Soft money is the problem. How can the government not reflect the interests of business when:
a: you need money to get elected
b: the corporations have the money
It's easy to demand that remorseless corporations stop owning us, but hard to implement. Where to start? By demanding that politicians make it _illegal_ to receive bribes.
As an example, check out who is donating the most money to BOTH political parties in Washington state - and it's not Boeing even tho they have the most regulated industry:
http://www.opensecrets.org/states/soft/WA.asp
I predict that with MS showing the feds some re$pect their problems are going to be less in the future.
Campaign finance reform should be the major issue in every election until it happens.