A problem also is the actual decline in usability from os/9 to os/x, which stems from changes to the finder and the general methodolgy of the thin.
As a 16 year mac veteran, I can tell you that usability in the beta was much better. After a month of using it, I would wince at the thought of booting into os 9. It's like having to give up your humvee for that cheesy go cart I tried to make in 6th grade. It just takes a little bit of time, and your workflow is so smooth.
Memory consumption is a big issue that all reviews seem to note.
Classic had a vsize of 1.6GB when I was using it. The key is to not use classic if you can avoid it. There's tons of Open Source software for unix that just takes a li'l bit of fiddling to get to work, if any;) The serious plus to memory in OS X is vastly better VM thatn OS 9, and getting rid of the need for manually setting static stack sizes for apps. I NEVER got a memory error under OS X PB, but i still see the occaisional memory error under OS 9.
Another one is that IE performs really badly in its beta-carbonized form.
I would use IE for browsing, and wget for downloading. OmniWeb is crashy too, but it's a far better browser (the multithreading in that one is like a breath of fresh air after spending time in a riot gas chamber). I would keep my eyes peeled for the carbon versions of opera and iCab. Also, look for that second fork of fizzilla...that one shoudlbe somewhat nifty.
The sad thing is that I'm so used to Australia banning internet stuff that it took me a while to realize that heading said legal instead of illegal. The first few times I read it, I thought I SAW illegal.
It's sad that a country could build up a track record that strong.
I would listen very carefully, as would the NSA. Actually, Taco et al would probably be drafted, and made to use this forum as an info gathering device as well as a disinformation channel.
I for one would either be in the theater fighting a meatspace battle, or in my bedroom hacking the enemy.
here's the new source, it's much faster than the original, and the math is much more simple.
#!/bin/sh
rm -f $1
#end
Enjoy. Remember that the syntax is now lzip [filename]. I removed the need for the compression level, and hope to add recursion soon, though that will increase the size of the app.
Actaully, this is probably not the right forum for this, I'll put a page up on sourceforge.
Yes! Hypercard is powerful, and can be used to write apps.
However, as a 16 year mac veteran, trained in multimedia art in college, and above all else a geek...
Euthanize it already.
I'm not saying that anybody who's using it should stop. Tools are tools. I'm saying that we can do evrything that hypercard did and more sans cruft if we move on.
And I don't mean use flash either. To a designer who doesn't know a for from 4, flash is cool. For a programmer, it's the ultimate hell-spawn.
And Director has a good IDE, but let's face it folks, english is NOT the best language to do logic in, and Lingo is based on it.
I'll just list the following technologies included in MacOS X, and let your minds wander. I'm sure you can come up with very nifty stuff.
System Level XML parsing
Java access to native object frameworks
Java/Quicktime Integration
Apache
Plus the following Open Source technologies which can be brought on:
Mozilla's Java based JavaScript 1.5 VM (try/catch:) )
Vorbis
Coccoon
Xang
Need I go on? Hell, I'll bet some enterprizing hacker could write an XML formatting Object to fart out hypercared stacks from modern apps written using the above.
Us mac artists and coders have far much more at our disposal now than we have ever had. I think Apple should if anything work on giving us stuff that isn't out there yet, as opposed to porting over tech that in their default install is outclassed by mostly open source tech, especially when the old version works in classic.
I know it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks...I'm sayiong that we should let old dogs do their thing, and teach New tricks to new dogs.
I'm on the other side of the bay, and I'm about a quarter/half mile from the CO.
My DSL Sucks. Yesterday, I would lose my connection whenever somebody called us on the phone. My connection goes down about 10 times a day, (sometimes not at all....sometimes 10 times in 2 hours). Sometimes the PPP peer gives me a ppp session ID and no IP.
On a good day, I do have phat throughput (my record is downloading an RPM from umich at 2.7 Mbps...I'm wary of that figure.) There have been times where my connection's been down for 3 days. Sometimes the power on the local loop burps and I have to cycle the power on the modem. Sometimes the phone has no dial tone. Sometimes we have horrenous static with digital bleedover, sometimes the phone will just up and hang up mid conversation.
I would say that I'm paying full price for 50% of the service we were marketed. They just don't have their crap together.
on average, we're pulling down ~300Kbps, and we can get 1.5 Mbps when we need it. However, our availability and reliability is just utter shit.
Seriously, I haven't purchased anything I haven't actively sought out in years.
The fact is that the real way advertising works evades even the advertisers. It works by numbing your mind into not listening.
Market research is conducted to pinpoint empty pockets of market demand. Businessmen who know what they're doing enter only these market segments.
The fact is they know that consumers are already looking for this good or service, and they know where they looked for it already. All they have to do is create it and put it in the right place. Consumers will find it and they will sell their product.
All the ads do is numb your brain into deafness, so that people aren't able to tell you NOT to buy products. Think about it, when commercials come on, your brain turns off. You only really retain the info you willingly made yourself open to. When somebody tries to tell you something new that you weren't already open to...you don't listen.
This is why people listen to o-town, when the band next door keeping them up at night is the next beatles.
Speed sensing...is that bandwidth, or throughput? Throughput is the only thing that matters, and has as much to do with the client implementation as the speed of your connection.
I stayed up an entire weekend following the spot on the planet that was at 3AM, trying to grab parts of mandrake 7.2 from mirrors that resided in the "dark spot" at the moment.
Did I get all the packeges? Nope. After 48 hours of servers uploading a package only 98%, hunting down servers, dealing with fsck'n pacific bell's fsck'd up excuse for DSL...I gave up with about 70% of what I needed.
These guys aren't going to get my money.
Not because I disagree with them, not for some moral imperitive. I'm just never going to try to grab a distro from cable or DSL ever again.
I did it successfully once using an academic OC-3 that was maybe 50 yards from the box I was using. But that's a whole different world.
In the Marines, I used a field system based on a unix. It always kinda worried me. If the enemy can get access to the shell on a box that's logged in...that's bad (DOS, sniffers, malware...OH MY!).
Mind you we had guns to keep them from getting machine access, and grenades to keep them from escalating their privilages....it still was something to think about.
NSA speis on all communication outside the USA. That is correct. However, some communications are routed outside the USA and sometimes people within the USA contact the rest of the world. Therefore, the NSA is spying on Americans de facto, even if unintentionally.
I'm in the USA. If you're not and you're reading this, then the NSA is reading my words, even though I'm a private citizen.
I'm all for it...let's do it. We can all submit our top offender and why. We can post the results on a reporter-friendly page, with links to threaded discussions as to the why's
that would rock, we just need a/. front page blurb to coordiate it.
I don't buy their music anyway. I do buy CD's. I buy lots of them. But it's pretty much independent labels now.
Think about it. RIAA member companies churn out infectios memes (about 2 per 14 track cd) and the other 12 tracks are crap. I'm not going to waste my money on atoms carrying 1/7 good songs...and even then, they're only "good" because they figured out the formula for effectively marketing a song.
I go to indie rock shows now. They cost less than the cost of a CD to get in, you see 3 bands, and you rock out way more than you could to ANY cd. There's no substitute for live rock'n'roll. Never will be.
And I buy their CD's. They're my friends, and I want to support them. But they haven't sold their soul to the RIAA yet, and I'm not about to either. It takes them so long to put out a cd that they actually have 14 good songs on them....unlike the big label bands who are contractually obligated to produce x songs per year...regardless of quality.
All I want from the RIAA bands is a song or 2. Usually not the ones they put out on singles. I really don't consider it theft if it isn't offered in the legitimate market. You can't steal a product they don't make. If they made it, I'd buy it. But they're forcing me to use gnutella to get access to it, because they won't give me the opportumity to buy it.
Well...not without paying for a bunch of filler crap. And it's not just me that feels this way. I got that meme from Courtney Love.
So that's why their copy protection doesn't concern me. I'm just not going to come across it. I've found better music than they sell on their SDMI/protected/unconstitutional violation of fair use media anyway. Hang out on your local scene. Liberate yourself from the RIAA's marketroids.
finally our minds won't be the ground for coroprate radio marketers dumping britney spears and eminem!!!
live365.com
now all the small timers and indie rockers will be on equal footing with CBS Radio.
All of a sudden, the RIAA's marketing monopoly just got a punch in the gut. We have a better distribution system. Soon we'll have control over what songs get beamed to our cars and radios....at least get to pick the station our friends set up with all the new, local, cool stuff.
Now all we need is a live365 type thing for music videos.
Say what you will about this maser, some of the niftiest tech came out of the military.
I think the Internet is nifty. I use it every day.
I think the mini spider robots the Corps has developed are cool. They look like the ones in the movie 'runaway' and crawl underwater before a beach assault...then cling to anti-personnel mines when they find them. Minutes before the landing, they all blow up and take the mines with them.
Gotta love that GPS. Wherever you go, there you are.
well, if the government wants to stand behind this draconian provision of the DMCA, I say we help them be model citizens.
Lets wget the entirety of government websites, grep them for links to DMCA banned speech, then prosecute. Once we've identified the offending links, we can track them, and then we can seek damages for every instance of their being followed.
Maybe if we can get this archive of links, and a cost estimate to our representatives before the case reaches it's next big phase, the government may change it's tune. A sword isn't anywhere as nifty a toy when you're looking at the pointy end.
professional web developers don't get to make those decisions. marketing types decide what goes in those sites, and the designers and production specialists embark on a truly heroic effort to make idiocy into a practical reality.
I truly hate the fact that we're made to create sites that don't work right on PDA's. XML and dynamically gernerated XSL will hopefully change that, but until some corporate marketroid asks for it, I've got bigger fish to fry....like finding a way to pay for fried fish.
Corporate sites don't give a rats about browser technology. They want their audience to see the site, and if you fail to make their page work in the old ass version of AOL's crappy browser like you said you would, they are going to sue you for everything you have.
Also, no web development firm is going insist on using new browser standards when the competition knows the client's ceo want's to have the page work in the widest selection of browsers possible.
I'm not tooting my horn here. This part of the discover phase of web application development in the industry today, and as long as it remains so, we're going to be laying out pages in tables and clear spacer gif's. We're lucky we were able to sneak css text control past the clients, seeing as how it doesn't work in version 3 browsers. The only reason we cant use css-p is because the AOL browser chokes on it.
AOL's web developer documentation even has the guts to say that we may as well "sacrifice" new technology for the greater good.
Talk about pushing a boulder of cruft up a mountain as your day to day existence. I've found some HTML sites that I've worked on to be harder than keeping 7 dimensional arrays in my brain. It's all because we've learned to write code to break consistently, instead of working.
And it isn't going to change, no matter how hard we try. Our clients just won't go for it. They're willing to pay money for crap technology everybody can see, and aren't willing to pay LESS for good technology that the user would have to install additional software to see. They know the customer/user would rather use some other site.
well, if they don't want us to share their music, then lets not hand ours over to them. Imagine this as a market position. You can either buy music you cant share from RIAA approved networks, or you can download music that's equally as good from networks that don't have RIAA music on them, and you are encouraged to share them.
I wonder, after having listened only to inependent non-riaa music for 3 years, who's concerts we're gonna go to. Who's t-shirts we're gonna buy.
what a wonderfulo meatspace denial of service condition the RIAA may have just created for themselves. If they don't allow their music on free networks, and good music is on free networks, then they're creating a bariier to entry into the music distribution market for themselves.
That's just plain dumb, and I have no problem with using it against them.
-OR-
if you're a computer criminal with a mean streak (not me, mr man). then I guess you can make it extremely hard for the RIAA to give their lovely blacklist to napster over the internet...."What use is a phone call when you can't speak"
Do you realize that a censorware app that blocks sites that contain the word "sex" would block the amendments to the US constitution?
These apps are pure evil and must be abolished. It's just another crutch so that parents and teachers can blame somebody else when the kids go astray. There's no way software can replace parenting and proper supervision.
The horrific side effect is that it keeps our populace ignorant of the rules and laws of our society, which I don't think corporate America has any qualms about. I'll bet SpoonBoy42 here would hit a brick wall if he tried to use the internet at school to look up ways to usurp Bess's market position.
Censorship helps nobody and is typically a tool of oppression. Let's not reenforce a precedent and casually let this issue slip by.
I think one of the cubes should be a mission control cube, while the others maneuver based on it's commands, and then all of them make a really bright flash in the sky that says "COKE ADDS LIFE" or alternately "DON'T PANIC"
Re:no wonder flashcom is bankrupt...
on
DSL Woes
·
· Score: 2
I have a friend in the same situation. I think this is why flashcom is going belly up. They were giving away their service for free. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that practice was a business no-no. The question is WHY did they make such a decision? It seems somewhat unlikely that that kind of detail would be overlooked. You almost have to go out of your way to not charge people for something like that.
we should put the vaporware list on the vaporware list. It has not been delivered to spec, and I doubt it will ever will be. Plus it would be full of recursive sillyness:)
The article covers a lot of good points, but forgets that most geek houses (the typical den of PPC Linux) have MANY machines, each serving thier purpose, and configured accordingly. My PowerMac 6500 has a small hard drive and is too slow to run MacOS X. But it's certainly fast enough to be a router/IP Filtering firewall between my LAN and DSL line. I won't even need to hook a monitor up to it....so no need for a gui even. On the other hand, I've been using MacOS X PB for a couple months, and I'll be damned if I'll give it up. I've put it in my resume as a requirement. I dig it that much.
So I don't think we'll be seeing a mass exodus. Mac sers who've also been using Linux foa a while are going to dig both.
Slashdot Mirror
As a 16 year mac veteran, I can tell you that usability in the beta was much better. After a month of using it, I would wince at the thought of booting into os 9. It's like having to give up your humvee for that cheesy go cart I tried to make in 6th grade. It just takes a little bit of time, and your workflow is so smooth.
Memory consumption is a big issue that all reviews seem to note.
Classic had a vsize of 1.6GB when I was using it. The key is to not use classic if you can avoid it. There's tons of Open Source software for unix that just takes a li'l bit of fiddling to get to work, if any ;) The serious plus to memory in OS X is vastly better VM thatn OS 9, and getting rid of the need for manually setting static stack sizes for apps. I NEVER got a memory error under OS X PB, but i still see the occaisional memory error under OS 9.
Another one is that IE performs really badly in its beta-carbonized form.
I would use IE for browsing, and wget for downloading. OmniWeb is crashy too, but it's a far better browser (the multithreading in that one is like a breath of fresh air after spending time in a riot gas chamber). I would keep my eyes peeled for the carbon versions of opera and iCab. Also, look for that second fork of fizzilla...that one shoudlbe somewhat nifty.
The sad thing is that I'm so used to Australia banning internet stuff that it took me a while to realize that heading said legal instead of illegal. The first few times I read it, I thought I SAW illegal.
It's sad that a country could build up a track record that strong.
I would listen very carefully, as would the NSA. Actually, Taco et al would probably be drafted, and made to use this forum as an info gathering device as well as a disinformation channel.
I for one would either be in the theater fighting a meatspace battle, or in my bedroom hacking the enemy.
here's the new source, it's much faster than the original, and the math is much more simple.
#!/bin/sh
rm -f $1
#end
Enjoy. Remember that the syntax is now lzip [filename]. I removed the need for the compression level, and hope to add recursion soon, though that will increase the size of the app.
Actaully, this is probably not the right forum for this, I'll put a page up on sourceforge.
Yes! Hypercard is powerful, and can be used to write apps.
:) )
However, as a 16 year mac veteran, trained in multimedia art in college, and above all else a geek...
Euthanize it already.
I'm not saying that anybody who's using it should stop. Tools are tools. I'm saying that we can do evrything that hypercard did and more sans cruft if we move on.
And I don't mean use flash either. To a designer who doesn't know a for from 4, flash is cool. For a programmer, it's the ultimate hell-spawn.
And Director has a good IDE, but let's face it folks, english is NOT the best language to do logic in, and Lingo is based on it.
I'll just list the following technologies included in MacOS X, and let your minds wander. I'm sure you can come up with very nifty stuff.
System Level XML parsing
Java access to native object frameworks
Java/Quicktime Integration
Apache
Plus the following Open Source technologies which can be brought on:
Mozilla's Java based JavaScript 1.5 VM (try/catch
Vorbis
Coccoon
Xang
Need I go on? Hell, I'll bet some enterprizing hacker could write an XML formatting Object to fart out hypercared stacks from modern apps written using the above.
Us mac artists and coders have far much more at our disposal now than we have ever had. I think Apple should if anything work on giving us stuff that isn't out there yet, as opposed to porting over tech that in their default install is outclassed by mostly open source tech, especially when the old version works in classic.
I know it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks...I'm sayiong that we should let old dogs do their thing, and teach New tricks to new dogs.
I'm on the other side of the bay, and I'm about a quarter/half mile from the CO.
My DSL Sucks. Yesterday, I would lose my connection whenever somebody called us on the phone. My connection goes down about 10 times a day, (sometimes not at all....sometimes 10 times in 2 hours). Sometimes the PPP peer gives me a ppp session ID and no IP.
On a good day, I do have phat throughput (my record is downloading an RPM from umich at 2.7 Mbps...I'm wary of that figure.) There have been times where my connection's been down for 3 days. Sometimes the power on the local loop burps and I have to cycle the power on the modem. Sometimes the phone has no dial tone. Sometimes we have horrenous static with digital bleedover, sometimes the phone will just up and hang up mid conversation.
I would say that I'm paying full price for 50% of the service we were marketed. They just don't have their crap together.
on average, we're pulling down ~300Kbps, and we can get 1.5 Mbps when we need it. However, our availability and reliability is just utter shit.
Seriously, I haven't purchased anything I haven't actively sought out in years.
The fact is that the real way advertising works evades even the advertisers. It works by numbing your mind into not listening.
Market research is conducted to pinpoint empty pockets of market demand. Businessmen who know what they're doing enter only these market segments.
The fact is they know that consumers are already looking for this good or service, and they know where they looked for it already. All they have to do is create it and put it in the right place. Consumers will find it and they will sell their product.
All the ads do is numb your brain into deafness, so that people aren't able to tell you NOT to buy products. Think about it, when commercials come on, your brain turns off. You only really retain the info you willingly made yourself open to. When somebody tries to tell you something new that you weren't already open to...you don't listen.
This is why people listen to o-town, when the band next door keeping them up at night is the next beatles.
Speed sensing...is that bandwidth, or throughput? Throughput is the only thing that matters, and has as much to do with the client implementation as the speed of your connection.
I stayed up an entire weekend following the spot on the planet that was at 3AM, trying to grab parts of mandrake 7.2 from mirrors that resided in the "dark spot" at the moment.
Did I get all the packeges? Nope. After 48 hours of servers uploading a package only 98%, hunting down servers, dealing with fsck'n pacific bell's fsck'd up excuse for DSL...I gave up with about 70% of what I needed.
These guys aren't going to get my money.
Not because I disagree with them, not for some moral imperitive. I'm just never going to try to grab a distro from cable or DSL ever again.
I did it successfully once using an academic OC-3 that was maybe 50 yards from the box I was using. But that's a whole different world.
I'll stick to buying $3 distro's through the mail
In the Marines, I used a field system based on a unix. It always kinda worried me. If the enemy can get access to the shell on a box that's logged in...that's bad (DOS, sniffers, malware...OH MY!).
Mind you we had guns to keep them from getting machine access, and grenades to keep them from escalating their privilages....it still was something to think about.
Didn't the Nazi's ban radios you can tune, and mandated that you had to have a radio with approved preset stations? What was the name of that?
Or how 'bout the "Black Marker" awards.
other ideas:
muzzle awards
turncoat awards
the draconies
we say so awards
NSA speis on all communication outside the USA. That is correct. However, some communications are routed outside the USA and sometimes people within the USA contact the rest of the world. Therefore, the NSA is spying on Americans de facto, even if unintentionally.
I'm in the USA. If you're not and you're reading this, then the NSA is reading my words, even though I'm a private citizen.
I'm all for it...let's do it. We can all submit our top offender and why. We can post the results on a reporter-friendly page, with links to threaded discussions as to the why's
/. front page blurb to coordiate it.
that would rock, we just need a
I don't buy their music anyway. I do buy CD's. I buy lots of them. But it's pretty much independent labels now.
Think about it. RIAA member companies churn out infectios memes (about 2 per 14 track cd) and the other 12 tracks are crap. I'm not going to waste my money on atoms carrying 1/7 good songs...and even then, they're only "good" because they figured out the formula for effectively marketing a song.
I go to indie rock shows now. They cost less than the cost of a CD to get in, you see 3 bands, and you rock out way more than you could to ANY cd. There's no substitute for live rock'n'roll. Never will be.
And I buy their CD's. They're my friends, and I want to support them. But they haven't sold their soul to the RIAA yet, and I'm not about to either. It takes them so long to put out a cd that they actually have 14 good songs on them....unlike the big label bands who are contractually obligated to produce x songs per year...regardless of quality.
All I want from the RIAA bands is a song or 2. Usually not the ones they put out on singles. I really don't consider it theft if it isn't offered in the legitimate market. You can't steal a product they don't make. If they made it, I'd buy it. But they're forcing me to use gnutella to get access to it, because they won't give me the opportumity to buy it.
Well...not without paying for a bunch of filler crap. And it's not just me that feels this way. I got that meme from Courtney Love.
So that's why their copy protection doesn't concern me. I'm just not going to come across it. I've found better music than they sell on their SDMI/protected/unconstitutional violation of fair use media anyway. Hang out on your local scene. Liberate yourself from the RIAA's marketroids.
finally our minds won't be the ground for coroprate radio marketers dumping britney spears and eminem!!!
live365.com
now all the small timers and indie rockers will be on equal footing with CBS Radio.
All of a sudden, the RIAA's marketing monopoly just got a punch in the gut. We have a better distribution system. Soon we'll have control over what songs get beamed to our cars and radios....at least get to pick the station our friends set up with all the new, local, cool stuff.
Now all we need is a live365 type thing for music videos.
Internet killed the video star!!!
Say what you will about this maser, some of the niftiest tech came out of the military.
I think the Internet is nifty. I use it every day.
I think the mini spider robots the Corps has developed are cool. They look like the ones in the movie 'runaway' and crawl underwater before a beach assault...then cling to anti-personnel mines when they find them. Minutes before the landing, they all blow up and take the mines with them.
Gotta love that GPS. Wherever you go, there you are.
well, if the government wants to stand behind this draconian provision of the DMCA, I say we help them be model citizens.
Lets wget the entirety of government websites, grep them for links to DMCA banned speech, then prosecute. Once we've identified the offending links, we can track them, and then we can seek damages for every instance of their being followed.
Maybe if we can get this archive of links, and a cost estimate to our representatives before the case reaches it's next big phase, the government may change it's tune. A sword isn't anywhere as nifty a toy when you're looking at the pointy end.
professional web developers don't get to make those decisions. marketing types decide what goes in those sites, and the designers and production specialists embark on a truly heroic effort to make idiocy into a practical reality.
I truly hate the fact that we're made to create sites that don't work right on PDA's. XML and dynamically gernerated XSL will hopefully change that, but until some corporate marketroid asks for it, I've got bigger fish to fry....like finding a way to pay for fried fish.
Corporate sites don't give a rats about browser technology. They want their audience to see the site, and if you fail to make their page work in the old ass version of AOL's crappy browser like you said you would, they are going to sue you for everything you have.
Also, no web development firm is going insist on using new browser standards when the competition knows the client's ceo want's to have the page work in the widest selection of browsers possible.
I'm not tooting my horn here. This part of the discover phase of web application development in the industry today, and as long as it remains so, we're going to be laying out pages in tables and clear spacer gif's. We're lucky we were able to sneak css text control past the clients, seeing as how it doesn't work in version 3 browsers. The only reason we cant use css-p is because the AOL browser chokes on it.
AOL's web developer documentation even has the guts to say that we may as well "sacrifice" new technology for the greater good.
Talk about pushing a boulder of cruft up a mountain as your day to day existence. I've found some HTML sites that I've worked on to be harder than keeping 7 dimensional arrays in my brain. It's all because we've learned to write code to break consistently, instead of working.
And it isn't going to change, no matter how hard we try. Our clients just won't go for it. They're willing to pay money for crap technology everybody can see, and aren't willing to pay LESS for good technology that the user would have to install additional software to see. They know the customer/user would rather use some other site.
well, if they don't want us to share their music, then lets not hand ours over to them. Imagine this as a market position. You can either buy music you cant share from RIAA approved networks, or you can download music that's equally as good from networks that don't have RIAA music on them, and you are encouraged to share them.
I wonder, after having listened only to inependent non-riaa music for 3 years, who's concerts we're gonna go to. Who's t-shirts we're gonna buy.
what a wonderfulo meatspace denial of service condition the RIAA may have just created for themselves. If they don't allow their music on free networks, and good music is on free networks, then they're creating a bariier to entry into the music distribution market for themselves.
That's just plain dumb, and I have no problem with using it against them.
-OR-
if you're a computer criminal with a mean streak (not me, mr man). then I guess you can make it extremely hard for the RIAA to give their lovely blacklist to napster over the internet...."What use is a phone call when you can't speak"
Do you realize that a censorware app that blocks sites that contain the word "sex" would block the amendments to the US constitution?
These apps are pure evil and must be abolished. It's just another crutch so that parents and teachers can blame somebody else when the kids go astray. There's no way software can replace parenting and proper supervision.
The horrific side effect is that it keeps our populace ignorant of the rules and laws of our society, which I don't think corporate America has any qualms about. I'll bet SpoonBoy42 here would hit a brick wall if he tried to use the internet at school to look up ways to usurp Bess's market position.
Censorship helps nobody and is typically a tool of oppression. Let's not reenforce a precedent and casually let this issue slip by.
I think one of the cubes should be a mission control cube, while the others maneuver based on it's commands, and then all of them make a really bright flash in the sky that says "COKE ADDS LIFE" or alternately "DON'T PANIC"
I have a friend in the same situation. I think this is why flashcom is going belly up. They were giving away their service for free. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that practice was a business no-no. The question is WHY did they make such a decision? It seems somewhat unlikely that that kind of detail would be overlooked. You almost have to go out of your way to not charge people for something like that.
we should put the vaporware list on the vaporware list. It has not been delivered to spec, and I doubt it will ever will be. Plus it would be full of recursive sillyness :)
The article covers a lot of good points, but forgets that most geek houses (the typical den of PPC Linux) have MANY machines, each serving thier purpose, and configured accordingly. My PowerMac 6500 has a small hard drive and is too slow to run MacOS X. But it's certainly fast enough to be a router/IP Filtering firewall between my LAN and DSL line. I won't even need to hook a monitor up to it....so no need for a gui even. On the other hand, I've been using MacOS X PB for a couple months, and I'll be damned if I'll give it up. I've put it in my resume as a requirement. I dig it that much.
So I don't think we'll be seeing a mass exodus. Mac sers who've also been using Linux foa a while are going to dig both.