So, if I had to pick a glaring proofreading pothole in the headline, would it be "HPAAA" or "Compiance"... or would I get quadruple points for having both?
Just to state the obvious, in case the heads were buried in dictionaries and grammar texts while writing up the story, and happened to miss it...: the iBooks still ship with only one mouse button. Oh the horror!:P
(To the point...: I couldn't imagine using anything other than OS X on my laptop... have been since I bought it... it plain rocks.)
...aaaaaaand... so how do you deal with things when the user has javascript turned off? Or has onunload() turned off? Sounds to me like you would no longer have a non-trivial, resilient web application.
Can someone explain (for the benefit of those of us who are confused by such stuff) how company A can sell me product P, but then have the legal force to tell ME not to re-sell my P to someone else?
I don't get it. I can buy paper, write stuff on it, and sell it to someone else without a paper company coming after me. Why couldn't I buy a computer, modify it, and resell it? (provided I wasn't purporting to be Apple, etc...)
I find it really amusing how many people step up to bitch and moan about the new cost.
I have a mac.com account, but I've never used it for anything important. I trust my own web/e-mail service, and that of other ISPs I have accounts with, for important things. That's because I'm paying somebody for service (or doing it myself), and thus I have a reasonable expectation that the services will be provided.
Even more though, I find it absolutely hilarious how people are threatening to not buy Apple products now because of the price increase... "oh Apple, I would have bought a Mac, but now I'm spiteful and angry so I guess I'll build a [linux/windows] box." Get over it; you have a choice:
spend $50 per year (about one hour of billable time at my consulting rate) to get the service you want, or spend countless more hours of work and frustration over the year on your non-Mac platform getting your work done, while pretending to feel smug about denying Apple one sale
Personally I'd drop the 50 bones and save many hundreds of dollars worth of my time, but then, I'm not one who based my life around the free service to begin with.
To sum up my rant in one common phrase: Il n'y a pas telle chose comme un diner gratuit.
-ben (please pardon my grammar)
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...and what do we do about all the name-based HTTP/1.1-compliant virtual hosts out there?
I thought the premise was that IP numbers were scarce.
Right, like anyone who is going to use a Linux recovery CD to back up the pre-loaded Microsoft OS and Windows apps will have bought an HP brand computer in the first place.
(alternatively: Right, like any Joe Home User who bought an HP targeted at the Joe Home User is going to understand a thing you just said.)
From CNN's report on the mid-October bin Laden tape just released:
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed," bin Laden said as the U.S. war on terrorism raged in Afghanistan. "The U.S. government will lead the American people in -- and the West in general -- into an unbearable hell and a choking life."
Sounds about right, eh?
-ben
(only slightly more glad that I'm Canadian...)
Proper spelling and good grammar is one of those things...
Proper spelling and good grammar are one (two?) of those things...
From the parent:
There's people out there...
There are people out there...
Don't get me wrong; I concur completely with the sentiments expressed in this thread. Reading mangled English, especially from people who write text intended for mass consumption (and education), peeves me right off.
Actually you're right... the Radius monitors. I remember those from high school.
Good point about the laptops and reading PDFs; I hadn't actually thought of that. The screen-switching wouldn't be as elegant as a hardware solution though (since you'd have to hit a key or somesuch to tell the puter that you've turned it sideways).
Unless they mount IR sensors in the front and side, so it could determine where your body is in relation to the keyboard/chassis... that'd be funky. 8)
Do those shots look like the X Window System to you? No? Maybe that's because Office X isn't written for the X Window System, but rather is a port of Microsoft's previous Mac OS codebase (dating back years) to updated Mac OS services and API's.
Furthermore, if Linux is the antichrist to Microsoft, why would they want to make their office suite available on it (or other similar free unix-like variant)? That would only provide more reason for people not to buy into Microsoft. (And look at how well commercial Linux office suites *cough Corel Office cough* have sold in the past.)
Inevitably, my traffic to/from thefreeworld.net is going to pass through US sites (well, it does, I just did a traceroute).
The same data are moving along wires in continental US. How is that different from the data being digested by eyeballs in the US? Will you have to draw this distinction?
Is this going to affect my ability as a Canadian to have access to your site?
I've had cable (Ottawa, ON) for about a year and a half now. When it works, the speeds have been pretty good most of the time.
However, at the end of this month I'm going to switch to DSL, because I can no longer tolerate the poor quality of service that Rogers@home is providing. I'm talking three-minute outages every couple of hours, ping times to the gateway (first hop) that are sometimes upwards of 2 seconds, etc. Enough is enough.
The DSL provider I'm going with is a small company who guarantees certain minimal performance, and whose owner I can page 24 hours a day if need be. Their terms of service don't prohibit any kind of usage (run a server, serve porn, whatever).
For me, I'll be happy enough with 128Kbps or whatever I happen to get, because I'll finally be able to rely on my connection again -- getting out when surfing at home, and getting into my LAN when I'm on the road.
A reliable service with techs who know what they're doing is, in my mind, WELL worth a small trade-off in transfer capacity.
DSL speeds are physically limited by the length of the wiring from your home to the DSL provider's modem. The further away you are, the longer it takes for the signal to propagate and the greater the signal degradation.
Ummm.... wouldn't that affect only latency, and not the bandwidth?
Or are you suggesting that transmission capacity (kbps or whatever) is a function of the circuit's latency?
(How much does capacity have to do with bandwidth vs. latency, anyway?...)
The parents who lazily embrace the 'v-chip' solution are the same ones who won't provide the guidance to their kids in front of a naked TV.
I don't think the arguments about how the 'v-chip' relegates 'parental intelligence' to a third party hold much water. The influence still comes from the parent, whether they choose to employ the 'v-chip' or to ignore what their kids watch.
According to my dictionary, it's a station that one works at. So, like a desk.:) In computing terms, I think of a "workstation" as the opposite of a "server". Really, both are just computers, but the former is intended to have a user sit in front of it while the latter might sit headless in a rack.
Is there some "industry-standard" definition that you are alluding to?
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So, if I had to pick a glaring proofreading pothole in the headline, would it be "HPAAA" or "Compiance"... or would I get quadruple points for having both?
Way to go editorial quality.
2002-10-04 Havoc Pennington
The guy's name is Havoc?
I wonder if his efforts have just wreaked hav-- ah, forget it.
Riiight... lots of dark fibre around... it'll only take a couple of minutes to provision and implement it in the case of a breaking news story, right?
Just to state the obvious, in case the heads were buried in dictionaries and grammar texts while writing up the story, and happened to miss it...: the iBooks still ship with only one mouse button. Oh the horror! :P
(To the point...: I couldn't imagine using anything other than OS X on my laptop... have been since I bought it... it plain rocks.)
...aaaaaaand... so how do you deal with things when the user has javascript turned off? Or has onunload() turned off? Sounds to me like you would no longer have a non-trivial, resilient web application.
Can someone explain (for the benefit of those of us who are confused by such stuff) how company A can sell me product P, but then have the legal force to tell ME not to re-sell my P to someone else?
I don't get it. I can buy paper, write stuff on it, and sell it to someone else without a paper company coming after me. Why couldn't I buy a computer, modify it, and resell it? (provided I wasn't purporting to be Apple, etc...)
Or am I missing the point here...
I find it really amusing how many people step up to bitch and moan about the new cost.
I have a mac.com account, but I've never used it for anything important. I trust my own web/e-mail service, and that of other ISPs I have accounts with, for important things. That's because I'm paying somebody for service (or doing it myself), and thus I have a reasonable expectation that the services will be provided.
Even more though, I find it absolutely hilarious how people are threatening to not buy Apple products now because of the price increase... "oh Apple, I would have bought a Mac, but now I'm spiteful and angry so I guess I'll build a [linux/windows] box." Get over it; you have a choice:
spend $50 per year (about one hour of billable time at my consulting rate) to get the service you want, or
spend countless more hours of work and frustration over the year on your non-Mac platform getting your work done, while pretending to feel smug about denying Apple one sale
Personally I'd drop the 50 bones and save many hundreds of dollars worth of my time, but then, I'm not one who based my life around the free service to begin with.
To sum up my rant in one common phrase: Il n'y a pas telle chose comme un diner gratuit.
-ben
(please pardon my grammar)
...and what do we do about all the name-based HTTP/1.1-compliant virtual hosts out there?
I thought the premise was that IP numbers were scarce.
Could someone explain why slashdot regularly posts stories that are months, or years, old?
And you're posting non-anonymously to admit that this "music" fan is your friend? 8)
Right, like anyone who is going to use a Linux recovery CD to back up the pre-loaded Microsoft OS and Windows apps will have bought an HP brand computer in the first place.
(alternatively: Right, like any Joe Home User who bought an HP targeted at the Joe Home User is going to understand a thing you just said.)
From CNN's report on the mid-October bin Laden tape just released:
Sounds about right, eh?
-ben
(only slightly more glad that I'm Canadian...)
Proper spelling and good grammar are one (two?) of those things...
From the parent:
There are people out there...
Don't get me wrong; I concur completely with the sentiments expressed in this thread. Reading mangled English, especially from people who write text intended for mass consumption (and education), peeves me right off.
But at least we should be consistent. :)
Actually you're right... the Radius monitors. I remember those from high school.
Good point about the laptops and reading PDFs; I hadn't actually thought of that. The screen-switching wouldn't be as elegant as a hardware solution though (since you'd have to hit a key or somesuch to tell the puter that you've turned it sideways).
Unless they mount IR sensors in the front and side, so it could determine where your body is in relation to the keyboard/chassis... that'd be funky. 8)
Well, until there's a Mac with a laterally-rotatable display, there's prolly not much pressing need.
What're you going to do, mount the iMac onto a wall or something with the monitor arm sticking out horizontally? 8)
Read about it here.
Do those shots look like the X Window System to you? No? Maybe that's because Office X isn't written for the X Window System, but rather is a port of Microsoft's previous Mac OS codebase (dating back years) to updated Mac OS services and API's.
Furthermore, if Linux is the antichrist to Microsoft, why would they want to make their office suite available on it (or other similar free unix-like variant)? That would only provide more reason for people not to buy into Microsoft. (And look at how well commercial Linux office suites *cough Corel Office cough* have sold in the past.)
-benMy god, what were Apple thinking?
*Obviously* zero mouse buttons is even *worse* than one.
Now on the other hand, if the iPod had *two* extraneous mouse buttons, maybe it wouldn't be so "lame"?
Yeesh, taco.
Ok, I'm a Canadian.
Inevitably, my traffic to/from thefreeworld.net is going to pass through US sites (well, it does, I just did a traceroute).
The same data are moving along wires in continental US. How is that different from the data being digested by eyeballs in the US? Will you have to draw this distinction?
Is this going to affect my ability as a Canadian to have access to your site?
Gotta love the inter[national]net...
-ben
I've had cable (Ottawa, ON) for about a year and a half now. When it works, the speeds have been pretty good most of the time.
However, at the end of this month I'm going to switch to DSL, because I can no longer tolerate the poor quality of service that Rogers@home is providing. I'm talking three-minute outages every couple of hours, ping times to the gateway (first hop) that are sometimes upwards of 2 seconds, etc. Enough is enough.
The DSL provider I'm going with is a small company who guarantees certain minimal performance, and whose owner I can page 24 hours a day if need be. Their terms of service don't prohibit any kind of usage (run a server, serve porn, whatever).
For me, I'll be happy enough with 128Kbps or whatever I happen to get, because I'll finally be able to rely on my connection again -- getting out when surfing at home, and getting into my LAN when I'm on the road.
A reliable service with techs who know what they're doing is, in my mind, WELL worth a small trade-off in transfer capacity.
-ben
Ummm.... wouldn't that affect only latency, and not the bandwidth?
Or are you suggesting that transmission capacity (kbps or whatever) is a function of the circuit's latency?
(How much does capacity have to do with bandwidth vs. latency, anyway?...)
-ben
The parents who lazily embrace the 'v-chip' solution are the same ones who won't provide the guidance to their kids in front of a naked TV.
I don't think the arguments about how the 'v-chip' relegates 'parental intelligence' to a third party hold much water. The influence still comes from the parent, whether they choose to employ the 'v-chip' or to ignore what their kids watch.
-ben
Sweet.... MacOS Xenon. :-)
(Maybe they shoulda used THAT for the codename)
Well, what IS a "workstation"?
:) In computing terms, I think of a "workstation" as the opposite of a "server". Really, both are just computers, but the former is intended to have a user sit in front of it while the latter might sit headless in a rack.
According to my dictionary, it's a station that one works at. So, like a desk.
Is there some "industry-standard" definition that you are alluding to?
Are you guys on crack?
You don't think a dog has any concept of time? Are you kidding me?
Last I checked, dogs sleep, get hungry, grow, get old, and die. I don't think I've met a dog who is demonstrably unaware of these phenomena.
Maybe they don't engage in English conversation about "time"; maybe they think of it as "arf" or "bark", but so what...