The reason the "traditional" d-pad was replaced is because Nintendo owns the patent on the crosspad design. Haven't you ever noticed that *all* non-Nintendo controllers that employ a cross-axis mechanism use either buttons or a circular pad?
Doukutsu Monogatari was released in 2004, so which year are you talking about?
This is true. However, the game is good enough and it was released close enough to the end of last year that I don't think anybody could be faulted for considering it the best game of this year, too.
In other words, he follows the rumor sites and he's good at reading between the lines to come up with logical conclusions. Is there any kind of proof that he works for Apple? What department and rank? If he really is an Apple employee, why is he so stupid as to draw so much attention to himself after the recent leak debacle?
Or he's a karma whore who has figured out the number one secret about karma whoring: you don't necessary have to know what you're talking about as long as you act like you know what you're talking about, and he does a very good job about that. The simple fact that he's convinced you he "knows" so much when he hasn't offered any support to back his claims is proof of that.
Hmmm.. A package that would allow Linux to run Win32 binaries? So, something that's not an emulator, but translates application's system calls from Win32 libraries to Linux libraries? I've even got a great recursive acronym for it! WINE is Not an Emulator!
When they start abusing their powers, I have a right to call them on that, in other areas. I can cite them for abuse and censorship, which is the truth.
So, tell me -- in which amendment or other law does it say that somebody has to allow you to leave any comment you want on their personal property? Sure, you can say they've abused or censored you, but there's nothing legally wrong with their actions, and arguably nothing morally wrong with them; I don't see why they should let you use their resources to say whatever you want. You're well within your rights to say whatever you want on your own property (or server, in this case), but that's not the issue at hand here.
Apparently the freedom of speech does not apply to blogs.
Of course it doesn't. Do you think that the first amendment says that you have the right to say whatever you want, whenever you want, to whoever you want, and they just have to deal with it? No, it says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". This blog isn't run by Congress, and neither is Kuro5hin. They're privately owned, which means they can do whatever they want with your comments.
Sure, you have a right to your opinion. Other people also have a right to ignore your opinion, especially when you're using their resources to express it.
How about the Gamecube's disc format? Last time I checked, nobody had managed to write a program that could read or write its particular format. The only way you can dump info off of a disc is by using a serial cable hooked up to the GC, reading the disc through the GC, and copying the data over the serial cable over to a computer. Similarly, if you want to run anything on a GC, you have to load it through a serial cable.
Everyone speeds. If you go the speed limit, people will honk at you in Texas.
While I'll agree that most people speed, I live in San Antonio and drive the speed limit, and I have never had somebody honk at me. Pass me, yes, but that's about it, and I get to chuckle when they stop at the same stop light as me anyway.
Question: Are you tring to launch Safari from your dock, and had you moved it before you installed Tiger? You might be running into the same problem as me; in order to keep my Applications directory clean, I made a subdir named "Internet" and moved all net-related applications (including Safari) into there. Apparently Tiger removed the version of Safari that was in there, but it installed its new version in Applications, which meant that my dock icon (which pointed to the Internet folder) no longer worked. I just moved the new Safari into my Internet folder and it worked fine after that.
If that doesn't work, try opening up a terminal and opening Safari through there, and see if it prints any error messages (that is, do "open/Applications/Safari.app").
Besides that, it might just be me, but it generally seems to be a bit buggier now. I have two IMAP accounts with about a dozen folders each, and I've noticed that the unread message count is frequently wrong; also, when I read a message, the "unread" flag isn't removed until Mail.app actually updates the message on the server, so it might not disappear until several seconds after I click the message.
Also, if you have an IMAP account that has an IMAP path prefix, make sure that you don't put a trailing slash on that prefix. I had "mail/" for one of my accounts, and for some unknown reason, it included the entire account under the Drafts, Sent, Trash, and Junk sections. When I removed the trailing slash and set it to just "mail", it handled the folders appropriately. Very strange, considering that the old version didn't have this problem... unfortunately, I don't know how to file a bug report with Apple except by using the form that automatically pops up when something crashes.
I just checked, and yes, it does support Jabber. At least, I assume it does; I don't have any Jabber accounts to try it with, but there's an option to enter one.
I agree with you. Overall I'm loving Tiger, except for Mail.app. It needs some serious help, particularly with the huge amount of empty space in the upper left area of the window; fortunately, you can rearrange to toolbar to make it look better, but I can't believe that came from the hands of any professional graphic designer. If it weren't for Spotlight, I'd go find the old version of Mail.app and see if it would still run on Tiger...
I also liked the drawer, but we seem to be in the minority. Of course, I also liked it because you could position it on either the left or the right side of the window; I preferred having it on the right, and the fact that I'm forced to have my mailbox list on the left now is rather jarring.
Did you know that they make drives that can be plugged into a computer from the outside? Or, if you already have an internal drive you want to use, you can make it an external one fairly cheaply. As an added bonus, it's super-simple to move them between computers if you have multiple workstations (or laptops, without expansion bays at all!), so you don't have to buy multiple drives for all of them!
Or they might realize that your feedback suggestions are wildly unreasonable -- especially since several of them are things that either no browser does or IE already does. At least do your research before you troll.
Well, of course. I like it when corporations promote things that I like. I don't like it when they promote things that I don't like. What's hypcritical about that?
In all fairness, the "Server" versions of Microsoft's OS's have had this as far back as Windows NT 4 (and possibly earlier, that's just the first I ever used). The Pro version of Windows XP also has it built-in, even though it only allows one client at a time.
Wait, Game Boy DS? Do you mean the Nintendo DS? Nintendo has already stated that the DS is not intended as the next system in the Game Boy line.
Also, what did you not like about how the touch screen was used, especially in relation to Metroid? I (and all of my friends who have tried it) agree that the way the touch screen is used in Metroid Prime: Hunters is easily the best control system for a FPS game short of a standard mouse and keyboard (and face it, you're never going to get a mouse and keyboard with a handheld gaming system).
Out of curiosity, has there been any kind of contribution back from OS X to Linux/FSF by the Apple community?
Plenty. For example, much of the operating system other than the graphical environment is open source, including their Darwin kernel. They've also made contributions to X11, Rendezvous, Konqueror, and so forth. You can see a list of their open source projects here: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/
why? If I take a client for a company lunch and poison him then its my employer thats liabel? HE wrote the code and should take responsibility for it. If its deemed illegal (as determined by the courts) then he should've said so to his employer.... But he came to the US and is now subject to US law.
But the point is that it's not illegal in Russia, and that's where he did it. Look at it this way -- let's say that your employer requires you to wear pants to work. Let's also say that I live in a country where it's illegal to wear pants on Wednesday. So, you wear pants every day, and that's fine where you live. If you came to visit me, however, even if you were wearing shorts at the time, my country's police would arrest you, because you had, at some point, worn pants on a Wednesday. Is that fair?
And "but a law like that is insane!" isn't a valid argument. A law like the DMCA is insane, too.
Keep that in mind next time you visit a foreign country -- are you accountable for any of that country's laws you may have broken years ago while in the US? Even the stupid ones?
Ah excellent idea. Lets all disregard laws that we disagree with.
I read this is as "whhhhaaaaa, whhhhaaa, whaaaa...". If you don't like the law then DO something about it to convince people that its bad and have the law changed. But if you break the law, which is what Adobe felt he did, then he should face the consequences. If we all went around disregarding laws that we don't like it would negate the reason to have law in the first place.
Yes, it's called civil disobedience. I recommend you read a book by that same name by Henry David Thoreau. Here's a convenient link.
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The reason the "traditional" d-pad was replaced is because Nintendo owns the patent on the crosspad design. Haven't you ever noticed that *all* non-Nintendo controllers that employ a cross-axis mechanism use either buttons or a circular pad?
The problem is likely the keyboard and mouse combo, not Bluetooth. PS/2 mice typically have an update rate of 60 Hz.
If it makes you feel any better, I submitted a story about how Java 1.5 is out for OS X over two weeks ago, and it's still pending.
Just to be fair, Lineage 2 is Korean, not Japanese.
Doukutsu Monogatari was released in 2004, so which year are you talking about?
This is true. However, the game is good enough and it was released close enough to the end of last year that I don't think anybody could be faulted for considering it the best game of this year, too.
In other words, he follows the rumor sites and he's good at reading between the lines to come up with logical conclusions. Is there any kind of proof that he works for Apple? What department and rank? If he really is an Apple employee, why is he so stupid as to draw so much attention to himself after the recent leak debacle?
Or he's a karma whore who has figured out the number one secret about karma whoring: you don't necessary have to know what you're talking about as long as you act like you know what you're talking about, and he does a very good job about that. The simple fact that he's convinced you he "knows" so much when he hasn't offered any support to back his claims is proof of that.
Hmmm.. A package that would allow Linux to run Win32 binaries? So, something that's not an emulator, but translates application's system calls from Win32 libraries to Linux libraries? I've even got a great recursive acronym for it! WINE is Not an Emulator!
When they start abusing their powers, I have a right to call them on that, in other areas. I can cite them for abuse and censorship, which is the truth.
So, tell me -- in which amendment or other law does it say that somebody has to allow you to leave any comment you want on their personal property? Sure, you can say they've abused or censored you, but there's nothing legally wrong with their actions, and arguably nothing morally wrong with them; I don't see why they should let you use their resources to say whatever you want. You're well within your rights to say whatever you want on your own property (or server, in this case), but that's not the issue at hand here.
Apparently the freedom of speech does not apply to blogs.
Of course it doesn't. Do you think that the first amendment says that you have the right to say whatever you want, whenever you want, to whoever you want, and they just have to deal with it? No, it says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". This blog isn't run by Congress, and neither is Kuro5hin. They're privately owned, which means they can do whatever they want with your comments.
Sure, you have a right to your opinion. Other people also have a right to ignore your opinion, especially when you're using their resources to express it.
So in other words, you've managed to crack the Gamecube, not the disc format. Let me know when I can burn a DVD-R that can be read without a mod chip.
How about the Gamecube's disc format? Last time I checked, nobody had managed to write a program that could read or write its particular format. The only way you can dump info off of a disc is by using a serial cable hooked up to the GC, reading the disc through the GC, and copying the data over the serial cable over to a computer. Similarly, if you want to run anything on a GC, you have to load it through a serial cable.
Everyone speeds. If you go the speed limit, people will honk at you in Texas.
While I'll agree that most people speed, I live in San Antonio and drive the speed limit, and I have never had somebody honk at me. Pass me, yes, but that's about it, and I get to chuckle when they stop at the same stop light as me anyway.
Question: Are you tring to launch Safari from your dock, and had you moved it before you installed Tiger? You might be running into the same problem as me; in order to keep my Applications directory clean, I made a subdir named "Internet" and moved all net-related applications (including Safari) into there. Apparently Tiger removed the version of Safari that was in there, but it installed its new version in Applications, which meant that my dock icon (which pointed to the Internet folder) no longer worked. I just moved the new Safari into my Internet folder and it worked fine after that.
/Applications/Safari.app").
If that doesn't work, try opening up a terminal and opening Safari through there, and see if it prints any error messages (that is, do "open
Besides that, it might just be me, but it generally seems to be a bit buggier now. I have two IMAP accounts with about a dozen folders each, and I've noticed that the unread message count is frequently wrong; also, when I read a message, the "unread" flag isn't removed until Mail.app actually updates the message on the server, so it might not disappear until several seconds after I click the message.
Also, if you have an IMAP account that has an IMAP path prefix, make sure that you don't put a trailing slash on that prefix. I had "mail/" for one of my accounts, and for some unknown reason, it included the entire account under the Drafts, Sent, Trash, and Junk sections. When I removed the trailing slash and set it to just "mail", it handled the folders appropriately. Very strange, considering that the old version didn't have this problem... unfortunately, I don't know how to file a bug report with Apple except by using the form that automatically pops up when something crashes.
I love to do it while I'm stoned. ... Perl is so much fun for me.
So that's how you get Perl to make sense!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
I just checked, and yes, it does support Jabber. At least, I assume it does; I don't have any Jabber accounts to try it with, but there's an option to enter one.
I agree with you. Overall I'm loving Tiger, except for Mail.app. It needs some serious help, particularly with the huge amount of empty space in the upper left area of the window; fortunately, you can rearrange to toolbar to make it look better, but I can't believe that came from the hands of any professional graphic designer. If it weren't for Spotlight, I'd go find the old version of Mail.app and see if it would still run on Tiger...
I also liked the drawer, but we seem to be in the minority. Of course, I also liked it because you could position it on either the left or the right side of the window; I preferred having it on the right, and the fact that I'm forced to have my mailbox list on the left now is rather jarring.
Did you know that they make drives that can be plugged into a computer from the outside? Or, if you already have an internal drive you want to use, you can make it an external one fairly cheaply. As an added bonus, it's super-simple to move them between computers if you have multiple workstations (or laptops, without expansion bays at all!), so you don't have to buy multiple drives for all of them!
Or they might realize that your feedback suggestions are wildly unreasonable -- especially since several of them are things that either no browser does or IE already does. At least do your research before you troll.
Well, of course. I like it when corporations promote things that I like. I don't like it when they promote things that I don't like. What's hypcritical about that?
'Apple Remote Desktop' built into the OS
In all fairness, the "Server" versions of Microsoft's OS's have had this as far back as Windows NT 4 (and possibly earlier, that's just the first I ever used). The Pro version of Windows XP also has it built-in, even though it only allows one client at a time.
Wait, Game Boy DS? Do you mean the Nintendo DS? Nintendo has already stated that the DS is not intended as the next system in the Game Boy line.
Also, what did you not like about how the touch screen was used, especially in relation to Metroid? I (and all of my friends who have tried it) agree that the way the touch screen is used in Metroid Prime: Hunters is easily the best control system for a FPS game short of a standard mouse and keyboard (and face it, you're never going to get a mouse and keyboard with a handheld gaming system).
Out of curiosity, has there been any kind of contribution back from OS X to Linux/FSF by the Apple community?
Plenty. For example, much of the operating system other than the graphical environment is open source, including their Darwin kernel. They've also made contributions to X11, Rendezvous, Konqueror, and so forth. You can see a list of their open source projects here: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/
why? If I take a client for a company lunch and poison him then its my employer thats liabel? HE wrote the code and should take responsibility for it. If its deemed illegal (as determined by the courts) then he should've said so to his employer. ...
But he came to the US and is now subject to US law.
But the point is that it's not illegal in Russia, and that's where he did it. Look at it this way -- let's say that your employer requires you to wear pants to work. Let's also say that I live in a country where it's illegal to wear pants on Wednesday. So, you wear pants every day, and that's fine where you live. If you came to visit me, however, even if you were wearing shorts at the time, my country's police would arrest you, because you had, at some point, worn pants on a Wednesday. Is that fair?
And "but a law like that is insane!" isn't a valid argument. A law like the DMCA is insane, too.
Keep that in mind next time you visit a foreign country -- are you accountable for any of that country's laws you may have broken years ago while in the US? Even the stupid ones?
Ah excellent idea. Lets all disregard laws that we disagree with.
I read this is as "whhhhaaaaa, whhhhaaa, whaaaa...". If you don't like the law then DO something about it to convince people that its bad and have the law changed. But if you break the law, which is what Adobe felt he did, then he should face the consequences. If we all went around disregarding laws that we don't like it would negate the reason to have law in the first place.
Yes, it's called civil disobedience. I recommend you read a book by that same name by Henry David Thoreau. Here's a convenient link.