I don't like people that ignore the good hardware and actually pay extra for eye-candy and new colors.
But Apple gives you both: good hardware and eye-candy. Sure, you pay a bit extra for it, but there's nothing wrong with that. Why do you think Mac people want to skip performance and practicality? Although opinions certainly differ, it seems to me that the consensus is that Macs have decent performance (and practicality too, I guess... what's that supposed to mean?:) It's not a matter of sacrificing performance for looks.
I've got a dual proc PowerMac G4... I like it. It's probably the fastest machine I have (I also have a 800MHz P3, a 500MHz Alpha 21164, and some other much slower machines). I had wanted it in either G3 blue or iMac tangerine, but the grey has grown on me:)
Yeah, I agree... while you could make a decent server out of the PowerMacs (and I think the PowerMac Servers are substantially the same hardware), I have no idea why you'd want GigE on the Powerbook... Maybe Apple got a good deal on the PHYs or something:)
But yeah, none of this thread really matters... I just think it'd be good if you (and the Slashdot editors, and other/. posters, and everyone else in the world:) did at least a small bit of fact-checking before making statements that you're not sure of. For instance, a Google search for powermac gigabit returns Apple's PowerMac page as the top result, with an excerpt that says, "...built-in Gigabit
Ethernet..." You wouldn't even have to click on the link; shouldn't add even a minute of your time to do... anyways, that's my pet peeve:)
But I better stop, since I'm being "silly" and obviously ungrounded in reality.
Yup, better stop, since you're being "a troll" and obviously a loser...
[Mr. "Pinball Wizard" admits that he's never actually used XP, and didn't know whether the statements he was making were true. Of course, they're not.]
Sure they do... since July 2000. The lastest PowerBook G4 comes with GigE too. Sheesh, just check the specs!
the IDE drives couldn't even think of spinning that consistantly.
The disk isn't the only place to get data from... but even so, just stick in a 64-bit Ultra160 SCSI card or two, and hook up a stack of disks. PowerMac G4s have 64-bit/33MHz PCI slots.
Your sitting around all day doesn't qualify you for anything. And your post here shows that you don't know what you speak of..NET Server (and that is what the family is called; there are four different versions in the family) is not the same thing as Windows XP 64-bit Edition. Windows XP 64-bit Edition has already been released--it is not in beta, and you can buy workstations that are bundled with it.
What the hell are you talking about? Nobody said anything about server editions of XP. There is a Windows XP 64-bit Edition. It has nothing to do with ".NET Server." It is Windows XP. The 64-bit edition.
Seriously, dude... IIS is not installed by default on Win2K Pro. What do you mean by "try every possible install configuration?" IIS is installed in the configuration where you check the box to install IIS. Duh. It is not installed if you don't check that box.
Funny that you say that. Out of the mails with Word attachments that I received over the course last year, over 95% were indeed virii (mostly, Sircam).
Sircam isn't a Word attachment; it's an.EXE. (Disguised to make the person receiving it think it's a Word, Excel, ZIP, or whatever file... but it's still a Win32 EXE.) So have you actually received any virus-infested Word document? Someone sent me one about 4 years ago. That's the only one I've ever seen.
Or just do printf '\017'
Alternatively, echo ^V^O
(that's control-v control-o, and substitute your favorite lnext character for control-v).
Or use whatever other way you want to output a Control-O (ASCII Shift In).
You don't need a world-readable home directory for Apache to be able to get to ~/public_html/ though... Use mode 0711 and people/processes can traverse through the directory, but not read its contents.
Ah, don't worry; either -1 Troll or +1 Funny works for my comment:) It wasn't meant to be a malicious sort of troll though, just a subtle weird one... I know what BCNF is... and I know who Edward F. Codd is.:)
The internal hard drive in Mac SEs was never called a SuperDrive... as skroz said, the SuperDrive was the 1.44MB floppy drive (aka. FDHD). An upgrade from the standard GCR-only 800K double-density floppy drive to the SuperDrive was available for some Macs; I think it involved replacing the IWM floppy controller chip with the SWIM, as well as installing a HD floppy drive.
Hmm, interesting... I wonder if the Simplified Chinese Win95 from MSDN is the original or the "fixed" version... it's hard to say for sure from the info given in that article, but I might know what it's talking about. When you type a character using the Win95 Traditional Chinese IME, it'll pop up a window with some common phrases that start with that character, so you can complete the phrase with just one more keystroke. I bet what happens is if you type in the first character of "communist", it'll pop up "communist bandits" as a suggested phrase:) [visions of Clippy saying, "I see you typed 'communist,' perhaps you mean 'communist bandits'?"]
I guess it's also possible that those phrases just pop up unexpectedly if you do some obscure sequence of actions (more like a traditional easter egg), but that seems less likely to me...
The malarky about keeping 3rd-tier nations from being able to develop nuclear weapons is rather silly as well. I mean, did the US use powerful 195,000+ MTOP supercomputers to develop Fatboy?...um... NO. They did it with slide rules and human minds.
The difference is that the US was able to test their designs out in the desert and on atolls. With nuclear testing being rather frowned upon these days, tests have to be simulated on computer--therefore the need for supercomputers.
Oh, I forgot about ø... Apparently, å, ä, and ö is Swedish. Whereas å, æ, and ø is either Norwegian or Danish. So that's how you can tell that Hatten är din is Swedish:)
I don't know of any online automated tools, but I could have sworn that I saw a web page that had a list of heuristics you could use to try to guess some text's language.
I basically use the same method... I'm not sure if I can write down exactly what I do though; some of it is probably just recognizing certain words and knowing which language that word is from. Anyways, a rough list of my heuristics:
Latin scripts (you know, like English:)
If there aren't any funny marks above or below any of the letters, it's probably English. But you should recognize English when you see it:)
If you see ã and õ, probably Portuguese
If you see ñ, but no ã or õ, probably Spanish.
No tildes anywhere, but various accents on top of vowels, especially à, é, è, ê, î, ù, and also ç. Probably French.
üs and ßs. Probably German.
Dunno about Italian... I know it when I see it:) Not too many accents... only é, I think.
Long words with lots of doubled letters, and doubled äs; "y" always used as a vowel (like right at the beginning of the mouse fan article: "nyt"): probably Finnish (and Estonian too? Not sure 'bout that).
å and æ: some Scandinavian language... I can't tell the difference between 'em:) Probably one of Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish.
and : Hungarian
ð and : Icelandic
, , , , : probably Czech.
: probably Polish
, , : probably Turkish.
Letters with way too many diacritics for their own good (such as , "latin small letter e with circumflex and hook above", or "latin small leter a with breve and acute"): Vietnamese
Non-Latin scripts:
Just memorize how they look and you can at least get to a group of languages that use that script (Cyrillic and Arabic, for example), or maybe even to a single language (Thai, for example). If you see all Chinese characters, it's Chinese. If you see Chinese characters mixed with Japanese kana, it's Japanese. If you see mostly Korean characters with some Chinese, it's Korean:)
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But Apple gives you both: good hardware and eye-candy. Sure, you pay a bit extra for it, but there's nothing wrong with that. Why do you think Mac people want to skip performance and practicality? Although opinions certainly differ, it seems to me that the consensus is that Macs have decent performance (and practicality too, I guess... what's that supposed to mean? :) It's not a matter of sacrificing performance for looks.
I've got a dual proc PowerMac G4... I like it. It's probably the fastest machine I have (I also have a 800MHz P3, a 500MHz Alpha 21164, and some other much slower machines). I had wanted it in either G3 blue or iMac tangerine, but the grey has grown on me :)
Yeah, I agree... while you could make a decent server out of the PowerMacs (and I think the PowerMac Servers are substantially the same hardware), I have no idea why you'd want GigE on the Powerbook... Maybe Apple got a good deal on the PHYs or something :)
But yeah, none of this thread really matters... I just think it'd be good if you (and the Slashdot editors, and other /. posters, and everyone else in the world :) did at least a small bit of fact-checking before making statements that you're not sure of. For instance, a Google search for powermac gigabit returns Apple's PowerMac page as the top result, with an excerpt that says, "...built-in Gigabit
Ethernet..." You wouldn't even have to click on the link; shouldn't add even a minute of your time to do... anyways, that's my pet peeve :)
Yup, better stop, since you're being "a troll" and obviously a loser...
[Mr. "Pinball Wizard" admits that he's never actually used XP, and didn't know whether the statements he was making were true. Of course, they're not.]
100BaseT possibly, but I don't think Gig...
Sure they do... since July 2000. The lastest PowerBook G4 comes with GigE too. Sheesh, just check the specs!
the IDE drives couldn't even think of spinning that consistantly.
The disk isn't the only place to get data from... but even so, just stick in a 64-bit Ultra160 SCSI card or two, and hook up a stack of disks. PowerMac G4s have 64-bit/33MHz PCI slots.
Your sitting around all day doesn't qualify you for anything. And your post here shows that you don't know what you speak of. .NET Server (and that is what the family is called; there are four different versions in the family) is not the same thing as Windows XP 64-bit Edition. Windows XP 64-bit Edition has already been released--it is not in beta, and you can buy workstations that are bundled with it.
What the hell are you talking about? Nobody said anything about server editions of XP. There is a Windows XP 64-bit Edition. It has nothing to do with ".NET Server." It is Windows XP. The 64-bit edition.
Seriously, dude... IIS is not installed by default on Win2K Pro. What do you mean by "try every possible install configuration?" IIS is installed in the configuration where you check the box to install IIS. Duh. It is not installed if you don't check that box.
"I'm sorry, but I'm paying you $150 an hour, and you can't go and buy a $50 anti-virus package?"
MS Works is still around.
Sircam isn't a Word attachment; it's an .EXE. (Disguised to make the person receiving it think it's a Word, Excel, ZIP, or whatever file... but it's still a Win32 EXE.) So have you actually received any virus-infested Word document? Someone sent me one about 4 years ago. That's the only one I've ever seen.
Or just do printf '\017'
Alternatively, echo ^V^O
(that's control-v control-o, and substitute your favorite lnext character for control-v).
Or use whatever other way you want to output a Control-O (ASCII Shift In).
You don't need a world-readable home directory for Apache to be able to get to ~/public_html/ though... Use mode 0711 and people/processes can traverse through the directory, but not read its contents.
Ah, don't worry; either -1 Troll or +1 Funny works for my comment :) It wasn't meant to be a malicious sort of troll though, just a subtle weird one... I know what BCNF is... and I know who Edward F. Codd is. :)
Is boyce a kind of fish too? A dolphin's name shouldn't be hyphenated anyways... unless she were divorced or something.
'cuz he kinda looks like a fish.
<S>YES!!!</S>
Get a free IPv6 tunnel from Freenet6 or Hurricane Electric.
Supposedly IPv6 will have enough addresses to give one to each of the angels dancing on the head of the proverbial pin. Can't wait.
I've got my block of 2^64 addresses...
The internal hard drive in Mac SEs was never called a SuperDrive... as skroz said, the SuperDrive was the 1.44MB floppy drive (aka. FDHD). An upgrade from the standard GCR-only 800K double-density floppy drive to the SuperDrive was available for some Macs; I think it involved replacing the IWM floppy controller chip with the SWIM, as well as installing a HD floppy drive.
(Score: -1, Whining about moderation)
I guess it's also possible that those phrases just pop up unexpectedly if you do some obscure sequence of actions (more like a traditional easter egg), but that seems less likely to me...
No, that's the "one sentence blurb" CmdrPinkTaco was talking about. He (and I) are looking for more info than that.
The difference is that the US was able to test their designs out in the desert and on atolls. With nuclear testing being rather frowned upon these days, tests have to be simulated on computer--therefore the need for supercomputers.
What, Konquerer's in little league? :)
Oh, I forgot about ø... Apparently, å, ä, and ö is Swedish. Whereas å, æ, and ø is either Norwegian or Danish. :)
So that's how you can tell that Hatten är din is Swedish
I basically use the same method... I'm not sure if I can write down exactly what I do though; some of it is probably just recognizing certain words and knowing which language that word is from. Anyways, a rough list of my heuristics:
Latin scripts (you know, like English :) :) :) Not too many accents... only é, I think. :) Probably one of Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish.
If there aren't any funny marks above or below any of the letters, it's probably English. But you should recognize English when you see it
If you see ã and õ, probably Portuguese
If you see ñ, but no ã or õ, probably Spanish.
No tildes anywhere, but various accents on top of vowels, especially à, é, è, ê, î, ù, and also ç. Probably French.
üs and ßs. Probably German.
Dunno about Italian... I know it when I see it
Long words with lots of doubled letters, and doubled äs; "y" always used as a vowel (like right at the beginning of the mouse fan article: "nyt"): probably Finnish (and Estonian too? Not sure 'bout that).
å and æ: some Scandinavian language... I can't tell the difference between 'em
and : Hungarian
ð and : Icelandic
, , , , : probably Czech.
: probably Polish
, , : probably Turkish.
Letters with way too many diacritics for their own good (such as , "latin small letter e with circumflex and hook above", or "latin small leter a with breve and acute"): Vietnamese
Non-Latin scripts: :)
Just memorize how they look and you can at least get to a group of languages that use that script (Cyrillic and Arabic, for example), or maybe even to a single language (Thai, for example). If you see all Chinese characters, it's Chinese. If you see Chinese characters mixed with Japanese kana, it's Japanese. If you see mostly Korean characters with some Chinese, it's Korean
Well that's all I can think of for now :)