they not only leaked the personal data of tens of thousands of people, but enabled literally anyone with basic SQL knowledge to put his neighbor/boss/enemies on the sexual offender list
DAMN! I'll guess just have to find another way to mess with my old bosses..
I bet after a few years of them "working properly" they are outfitted to be autonomous-and if bush stays around due to another war etc. they'll be patrolling american streets
There's a giant stream of money flowing past Cupertino, and all they have to do is reach out and scoop some of it up, but they refuse to do so. yes, and point taken. The reason they don't, however is an obvious and often commented upon brand move: Apple is the BMW of computers. Just like BMW doesn't make a Geo Metro, apple doesn't make a budget, upgradeable computer. they make a really cool budget computer (mini) and a really insane upgradeable computer (mac pro) and of course a really high end all in one desktop (iMac). But they don't make a run of the mill computer because they figure they are better off not 'stooping so low' as to make a standard, mediocre box. Think of what it would do to their reality distortion field!
Which is why I'm OSX-86'ing my girlfriend's crappy computer that she got for free through an internet subscription, instead of buying a mac mini...I've come to accept apple is a snobby, high end company, and even if they did make this box, I can make my own for cheaper XD
Two points I'll make to you that you seem to have missed, one of which I addressed already:
OSx86 project As I mentioned before, this is a harmless and free way to get mac OS without buying a mac. It works on almost anything. So if you dont want to buy a mac but want OS X, once again, here you go...
I guess this is just me being an 'apple fanboy' (actually they regularly piss me off..) but realistically speaking, consumers LIKE apple's products! there's no force feeding involved! You can't really deny that.
The logic board would have to be replaced on most yes. But it is replaceable; people go out and find new logic boards to put in these things! thats my point
Not that I'm defending apple on this matter, just pointing out real world experience
it forces people to upgrade when non-replaceable parts break and non-upgradable machines are too slow to handle modern tasks. But it's also screwing the customer.
I see your point, but having worked at an apple store in recent history I have experienced the exact opposite: People keep their old macs FOREVER. Think 10 years or more at times. Since anything sporting 450mHz and at least 512 ram can comfortably run tiger (867 for leopard if i remember correctly) People with basic workstation needs (or just not a need for speediness)just dont upgrade. My current workplace has mac pros running next to at least 3 distinguishable generations of powermacs, all still pumping out pages for the Daily News every night.
Very few parts are "irreplacable" as well it seems; If apple doesn't make it, one of the apple accessory companies does-and people spare no expense to keep their old macs running.. Trust me, its rarely an upgrade influence.
I'm all for OSx86 and the idea of installing Mac OS on everything one can, but these guys marketing a computer as a modern mac clone is asking for trouble, and if I were apple, I'd squash them too. Why should apple let them piggyback on their support when customers start calling apple to support their mac clones? Its better that hax0ring OS X be left to the open source community and OSx86 where it belongs(after all OSX is really just FreeBSD with a really fancy, apple-made front end) Selling it to the unwashed masses as an alternative to "The windo vistas" Is asking for a legal headache, followed by a support migraine.
Agreed. Although my hope is a couple linux OS's become major household desktop names just to keep Mac OS on it's toes during this transition. If microsoft has proven anything, its that monopolies are bad. very bad.
For screwing up the ISO and reaffirming that all you give a fuck about is money. We should be attacking Microsoft too for being such a corrupt company. Obviously they dont care in the least about IT or computing unless they can make a buck.
I like my document format better anyways. Its called UTF-8. Its cross platform, super speedy, and incredibly small in size XD
IMO, having a glossy laptop screen is redundant. I have a 17" macbook pro that I've used for all sorts of creative design work and can honestly say the matte screen will leave you much less annoyed. Laptops move around to different lighting conditions; matte looks good or is at least usable in all lighting, glossy will look better in a dark setting but anywhere else is a pain..
Unfortunately apple is the only company I've seen offer up a matte display as a standard configuration option.(although the last time I really checked was awhile ago) I guess glossy had gotten into the "vogue."
If you want to talk about statistics about where black people are in society, I would say this has a lot to do with how many more black people fall below the poverty line or go to substandard schools. You could say that resultingly not many black people end up as game developers, but still this article is redundant IMO. It puts racial questions where they ought not to be.
..But these last few stories make me very happy that i live in Canada..Albeit Bell tried/is trying to do the same thing. At least here they are taking a lot of government and public flak for it
At least he isn't smart enough to start wooing the younger population like Stalin and Hitler did. I bet most of Bush's autocratic crap will blow over when his term ends...unless he manages to extend it. I guess americans can hope that this will just turn out to be another cataclysmic waste of time and money.
How about "The Peoples' Fiber"? It will probably get you labelled as communists by people without a sense of humor, but that just makes it more funny for you, right?
If I were Paraguayan right now I would be spamming every forum I knew of with the argument of corruption, regardless of what the forum was about, so anyone using the net in Paraguay/the world is likely to see part of the message at least once.. If they couldn't post the whole idea at once, I would do it in parts, on a stay tuned kind of basis, and just keep the coverage of your spamming campaign as diverse as possible so no single entity can silence it...Think anonymous.
Seriously, Paraguayans should be spamming this news story..right now.
complementary or split complementary colors will always result in the highest contrast- this means purple and yellow, green and read, blue and orange, and white and black, split complementary being slight hue variations. Some Design sense will tell you that removing the more jarring colours (or reserving them for headlines, callouts etc) is best for body text. So any muted combination of those colour combinations will be most readable.
For example, the off-white on grey/greyish green body text for slashdot is an ideal colour choice. White on black is initially more visually activating, but the high contrast of black on white or vice versa would be harsh on the eyes for long term viewing.
The best situation is to have a lighter, very muted background colour, and a darker, but not overly pronounced hue for the body text. The reverse, or having more extreme colors is great for emphasis(think the headers on this forum) and getting some angst accross, but will slow down reading because a)we are used to reading dark text on light background, and b)too much color in your body copy will cause the mind to focus on the shapes and color instead of reading, eventually causing mental fatigue and confusion.
A good follow up question would be What line length, spacing and typeface/font is best? But please just take my word for it-its an exhaustive topic
Its safe bet someone would get hurt; probably lots of someones. Regardless on your feels about the war in Iraq some things are true:
1. War always requires some sort of damage beyond soldiers and military equipment or it never ends. One of the host socienties must feel enough pain to give up the fight.
2. We have put extraordinary effort into not harming civilan populations, we have done a good job in the historical sense of finging wars but lots of innocent people have still been hurt. Lots of non-militarilay valuable property has been destroyed.
3. Acording to the article summary we have already demonstraited an inability to produce robots that can correctly identify targets and non-targets.
There are some who look at Iraq and Vietnam and wonder if our instance on 2 is at least partly to blame for our (I wont say failures, if we are beening intelectually host its not fair), less then total success. So a war fought entirely by proxy with robots(If they worked) might be a very long one. I would image it would only end when it was economicly or enviornmentally (those are really not separte) possible to keep building robots. That would be in many ways worse for the human populations then if we just died on the battle field. Finally we don't know for sure the robots wont work properly but I am not optimistic given fact number three. Hell we are talking about governments here both US and European alike that can't manage to execute their own elections acording to their own rules; electronicly or otherwise.
Why do think we could build a robot army again?
What you are describing sounds exactly like world war I and how it ended. Which in turn makes me hope that anything they hypothetically throw out their would be totally mindless for it's sake. Up to a hundred thousand would die in a single trench battle with only artillery, guns, and bayonets. It took the atom bomb in world war II to kill that many people in the same general time frame. It literally did not stop until Germany was sending in 13 year olds. The allied countries would have followed but there were like 6 of them to 3 axis countries..Numbers and higher ground were really all that counted
I guess we are due for a similarly horrific and wasteful conflict though, since we are again at that point where we dont really know how to utilize our new technology in combat (as this article quite deftly points out
I agree completely. Finding ever more efficient ways to murder and mutilate each other is a bloodthirsty compulsion found only in humans. And thats how it should stay
soon we'll see people addicted to VR, wasting away in front of their new reality. People insisting they've been to Paris but forgetting they've only been there in VR...Or at least thats what sci fi tells us XD. I guess if they try and accomodate things like walking rather than trying to simulate them psychosomnatically, we'll all at least get some excersize
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DAMN! I'll guess just have to find another way to mess with my old bosses..
I bet after a few years of them "working properly" they are outfitted to be autonomous-and if bush stays around due to another war etc. they'll be patrolling american streets
Which is why I'm OSX-86'ing my girlfriend's crappy computer that she got for free through an internet subscription, instead of buying a mac mini...I've come to accept apple is a snobby, high end company, and even if they did make this box, I can make my own for cheaper XD
Two points I'll make to you that you seem to have missed, one of which I addressed already:
OSx86 project As I mentioned before, this is a harmless and free way to get mac OS without buying a mac. It works on almost anything. So if you dont want to buy a mac but want OS X, once again, here you go...
I guess this is just me being an 'apple fanboy' (actually they regularly piss me off..) but realistically speaking, consumers LIKE apple's products! there's no force feeding involved! You can't really deny that.
other than WoW, in most cases yes..although buying a GPU for modern pc gaming will set you back just as much as the price difference it seems.
and besides, pc gaming is ALREADY dead :P
The logic board would have to be replaced on most yes. But it is replaceable; people go out and find new logic boards to put in these things! thats my point
Not that I'm defending apple on this matter, just pointing out real world experience
I see your point, but having worked at an apple store in recent history I have experienced the exact opposite: People keep their old macs FOREVER. Think 10 years or more at times. Since anything sporting 450mHz and at least 512 ram can comfortably run tiger (867 for leopard if i remember correctly) People with basic workstation needs (or just not a need for speediness)just dont upgrade. My current workplace has mac pros running next to at least 3 distinguishable generations of powermacs, all still pumping out pages for the Daily News every night.
Very few parts are "irreplacable" as well it seems; If apple doesn't make it, one of the apple accessory companies does-and people spare no expense to keep their old macs running.. Trust me, its rarely an upgrade influence.
I'm all for OSx86 and the idea of installing Mac OS on everything one can, but these guys marketing a computer as a modern mac clone is asking for trouble, and if I were apple, I'd squash them too. Why should apple let them piggyback on their support when customers start calling apple to support their mac clones? Its better that hax0ring OS X be left to the open source community and OSx86 where it belongs(after all OSX is really just FreeBSD with a really fancy, apple-made front end) Selling it to the unwashed masses as an alternative to "The windo vistas" Is asking for a legal headache, followed by a support migraine.
Agreed. Although my hope is a couple linux OS's become major household desktop names just to keep Mac OS on it's toes during this transition. If microsoft has proven anything, its that monopolies are bad. very bad.
For screwing up the ISO and reaffirming that all you give a fuck about is money. We should be attacking Microsoft too for being such a corrupt company. Obviously they dont care in the least about IT or computing unless they can make a buck.
I like my document format better anyways. Its called UTF-8. Its cross platform, super speedy, and incredibly small in size XD
IMO, having a glossy laptop screen is redundant. I have a 17" macbook pro that I've used for all sorts of creative design work and can honestly say the matte screen will leave you much less annoyed. Laptops move around to different lighting conditions; matte looks good or is at least usable in all lighting, glossy will look better in a dark setting but anywhere else is a pain..
Unfortunately apple is the only company I've seen offer up a matte display as a standard configuration option.(although the last time I really checked was awhile ago) I guess glossy had gotten into the "vogue."
2020?? This sucks. We're all going to be geezers before domestic space travel comes around
nobody cares.
If you want to talk about statistics about where black people are in society, I would say this has a lot to do with how many more black people fall below the poverty line or go to substandard schools. You could say that resultingly not many black people end up as game developers, but still this article is redundant IMO. It puts racial questions where they ought not to be.
..But these last few stories make me very happy that i live in Canada..Albeit Bell tried/is trying to do the same thing. At least here they are taking a lot of government and public flak for it
At least he isn't smart enough to start wooing the younger population like Stalin and Hitler did. I bet most of Bush's autocratic crap will blow over when his term ends...unless he manages to extend it. I guess americans can hope that this will just turn out to be another cataclysmic waste of time and money.
How about "The Peoples' Fiber"? It will probably get you labelled as communists by people without a sense of humor, but that just makes it more funny for you, right?
If I were Paraguayan right now I would be spamming every forum I knew of with the argument of corruption, regardless of what the forum was about, so anyone using the net in Paraguay/the world is likely to see part of the message at least once.. If they couldn't post the whole idea at once, I would do it in parts, on a stay tuned kind of basis, and just keep the coverage of your spamming campaign as diverse as possible so no single entity can silence it...Think anonymous.
Seriously, Paraguayans should be spamming this news story..right now.
complementary or split complementary colors will always result in the highest contrast- this means purple and yellow, green and read, blue and orange, and white and black, split complementary being slight hue variations. Some Design sense will tell you that removing the more jarring colours (or reserving them for headlines, callouts etc) is best for body text. So any muted combination of those colour combinations will be most readable.
For example, the off-white on grey/greyish green body text for slashdot is an ideal colour choice. White on black is initially more visually activating, but the high contrast of black on white or vice versa would be harsh on the eyes for long term viewing.
The best situation is to have a lighter, very muted background colour, and a darker, but not overly pronounced hue for the body text. The reverse, or having more extreme colors is great for emphasis(think the headers on this forum) and getting some angst accross, but will slow down reading because a)we are used to reading dark text on light background, and b)too much color in your body copy will cause the mind to focus on the shapes and color instead of reading, eventually causing mental fatigue and confusion.
A good follow up question would be What line length, spacing and typeface/font is best? But please just take my word for it-its an exhaustive topic
for yet another demonstration of just how backwards your logic really is
Agreed, another case of talking monkey syndrome.
think of his novels as sort of a troubleshooting guide XD
What you are describing sounds exactly like world war I and how it ended. Which in turn makes me hope that anything they hypothetically throw out their would be totally mindless for it's sake. Up to a hundred thousand would die in a single trench battle with only artillery, guns, and bayonets. It took the atom bomb in world war II to kill that many people in the same general time frame. It literally did not stop until Germany was sending in 13 year olds. The allied countries would have followed but there were like 6 of them to 3 axis countries..Numbers and higher ground were really all that counted
I guess we are due for a similarly horrific and wasteful conflict though, since we are again at that point where we dont really know how to utilize our new technology in combat (as this article quite deftly points out
I agree completely. Finding ever more efficient ways to murder and mutilate each other is a bloodthirsty compulsion found only in humans. And thats how it should stay
soon we'll see people addicted to VR, wasting away in front of their new reality. People insisting they've been to Paris but forgetting they've only been there in VR...Or at least thats what sci fi tells us XD. I guess if they try and accomodate things like walking rather than trying to simulate them psychosomnatically, we'll all at least get some excersize
I hope he's also quit his job-Foraging is a full time occupation if you want to be even remotely healthy.
How many steps to make it a combo?