The only exception is that Entourage has weak MS Exchange support
10.3's Mail.app has Exchange support. I don't use any Exchange servers, so I can't say how functional it is, but I wouldn't be surprised if it worked flawlessly.;-)
Um.. Can you? I don't know about the rest of the world, but my local post office refuses to send anything that doesn't have a return address on it. I haven't intentionally tried, but there are a few times I forgot to, and they asked me to write down an address before mailing it.
While you could probably get away with writing down a fake address if you wanted to, I would be willing to bet that's illegal (but IANAL).
Actually, the "shin" I was using there in "shinshii" was as in "new." I admit I'm not entirely sure that's how it should be used there, though.
Hm.. It sure would be nice if we could get a native Japanese speaker to straighten this thread out.;-)
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Actually, from what I understand, many of the "Japanese Only" signs are because shops don't want people who can't speak Japanese fluently. I have an American friend who visited Japan a while back, and he told me that he accidentally walked into a shop with a "Japanese Only" sign once; the shopkeeper yelled at him in bad English for a moment, but after my friend started speaking in Japanese to him, the shopkeeper apologized and welcomed him in.
Granted, I'm sure that some of them are just racism, but not all.
Hm.. It's difficult to preserve the English phrase's structure and have it make sense, but I think it might be better as: Watakushi, mizukara, shinshii nihon no shu wo motenashite orimasu.
That is, of course, assuming we're trying to be polite to our overlords.;-)
I'm not a native Japanese speaker, but that seems to be absolute gibberish to me... I'm not even sure what "nuyy" is supposed to be, there are no kana that would romanize like that.
If you like Kenshin on CN, you owe it to yourself to buy the DVDs -- CN made some awful cuts to it, and most of the stuff that really makes you think has been mutilated. Just take a look at what happened to Soujirou's flashback. You might also have better luck searching for the song by its Japanese title, "Sobakasu."
It's also worth noting that no, not all Japanese anime makes you think. There is plenty of it that is mindless violence and sex. La Blue Girl and M. D. Geist are a couple of classic ones. Most of the worst stuff never sees this side of the ocean, however. Of course, I'm also of the opinion that despite its popularity, Lova Hina is one of the worst romantic comedies out there...
The fact is, most people are cheapskates, although they won't admit it. You're right in that 99% of people don't really care if something is free as in speech; they do care if it's free as in beer, though. Opera is an excellent browser, but the fact that they want you to pay for it means that most people won't buy it if there's a free alternative.
With that said, Mozilla is a good browser, provided that you have the horsepower to spare for it. I wouldn't dare use it on an older Pentium, but on an Athlon XP 2200 with 512 MB of RAM, the performance difference between it and Opera is negligible. I use both of them interchangeably, in fact, as each has features I like that the other lacks.
I don't think I have been watching the wrong bit of Anime as my cow-orkers have 1000s of hours of this shit and pop it into the office DVD player at every chance.
That doesn't necessarily mean anything. I'll bet you know lots of people who like watching "Friends," too. The reason there's so much crap out there is because, sadly, crap is good enough for most people. Even asking "So, what should I watch?" here on Slashdot will get you replies that mostly list the same popular-yet-not-that-good crap over and over.
I would hardly call the editing of Blue Gender "minimal"... The cutting room floor is practically a bloodbath. They've also taken huge chunks out of Rurouni Kenshin, although I think they really could've shown it virtually unedited on Adult Swim.
The GIF is 35 bytes, the PNG is 85 bytes. I haven't found any way to make the PNG smaller.
Of course, in situations like this, the difference is small enough that it doesn't really matter.;-) In every situation I've seen where the images' sizes were large enough to matter, the PNG was smaller.
Come on, Slashdot still hasn't converted its GIFs to PNGs. That alone would save a good amount of bandwidth, not to mention that Slashdot is supposedly pro-open source and all that.
The only argument I've seen against them is for compatibility's sake -- honestly, I would be surprised if even as much as 1% of Slashdot's readership was using an image-based browser that did not support PNGs. There are probably plugins available for the ones that don't. So, why not?
OW, Windows is automatically better every time they change the UI or re-arrange the control panel applets, even though it's still running the same creaky, hacked-to-pieces NT kernel. Me, I'm done using MS as the gold standard. Shiny, in my book, doesn't even rate. I know, other people think that's the end-all and be-all, it probably isn't your POV either, but it is frustrating and defies all logic. Linux is not ready for the desktop because only Windows can be ready for the desktop, and Linux is not Windows, therefore it can't be ready for the desktop. Ri-ight.
Well, that's a good point. In my opinion, Windows 2000 was probably the high point of the Windows GUI; since then, it seems like they've been adding shiny buttons and rearranging controls just so they'll have "new features." I played with the most recent alpha of Longhorn on a friend's computer for a little bit, and it's a nightmare.
Personally, I think that the current state of the Linux GUI is just as good as Windows, but to most people, it's not good enough unless it's exactly the same or overwhelmingly better; after all, if they have to re-learn how to use the interface to have the same functionality, what's the point of switching?
Since we began introducing Linux at my office, we've had the opportunity to train people with no prior computer experience (they exist, believe it or not) on Linux, and they pick it up just as readily as Windows. The people who were used to 98/2k took a bit of work to get used to it, but since we put Mandrake on the newest and fastest computers we got, they were looking forward to using "the new system" anyway just because it ran so much faster.;-)
Erm... Before I continue with my post, let it be said that I love Mandrake; I run 9.1 on my system at home, and I convinced my boss to begin deploying it on workstations at the office (we were previously an entirely Win98/2k office).
With that said, I hardly think it's fair to compare last year's version of Mandrake to a version of Windows that's what, roughly eight or nine years old now?
Of course Windows NT can't compare to it. My boss and I were shocked last year when we noticed that it automatically detected a serial mouse we plugged into it -- it's infamous for its inability to detect hardware. Try out your SCSI chains with Windows 2000 or XP, I would be willing to bet that it detects them just as well as Mandrake.
Saying Linux is better than DOS/Win 3.1 is even more laughable. Yay! Linux is ready to compete in the market of the early 90's! From what I recall back then, the average consumer wasn't expected to set up their own computer or use it without any kind of training. It doesn't matter if Linux is more usable than NT or 3.1 -- it's not ready for the desktop until it's at least as good as the newest, most shiny version of Windows.
First, make sure X11 is set to use full-screen mode -- while it's up, press Apple+H to hide any windows, then go to the preferences for it and change it there. Also, if you're installing KDE through fink, you may need to make a few changes to your.xinitrc file; type "fink info bundle-kde" for instructions.
I only wish. I live in the Texas panhandle area -- last summer I finally decided to get a cell phone. I decided I wanted one with Bluetooth. I went to every phone shop in my city and three nearby cities, and none had any Bluetooth phones. Hell, when I got frustrated looking by myself, I asked if they had any Bluetooth-enabled phones, and every person I talked to just gave me a blank stare.
I did some further research on the local condition, and the only cell phone network in the local area that even supports Bluetooth phones (or rather, a Bluetooth phone -- they only support one model) considers this area "off-network service," so many of their features are unusable unless I happen to be driving through a larger town.
Well, if the BIOS was erased, in theory you could re-flash it. However, to do that you would need to boot the computer, which is impossible without a BIOS. You'd need to either have the manufacturer replace the physical BIOS chip, or get a device designed to flash it.
I don't see how your analogy is accurate. I think it's safe to say that no matter how many IP addresses IPv6 may provide, there's absolutely no chance of it doing any damage to the human race; the only damage I can see it causing is to the admins who have to remember the addresses, but that's what DNS is for. Sure, it may be more than we need, but in this case having too many won't hurt us.
If it takes up that much memory, you're probably doing something wrong. If you're not using them, try disabling the equalizer, and go into the preferences and disable the sound enhancer. iTunes takes up about 15 megs for me when it's in focus, about 9 megs when it's minimized. That's with around 2,000 songs in the playlist.
If you believe, like most scientists, that we humans evolved from random mutations and natural selection, then no, it really doesn't.
Sure it does. Assuming we evolved from a more primitive life form, the fact remains that that primitive life form was still alive; how life was created from non-life, on the other hand, is still widely considered to be unknown.
Except for the incredible playlist manager. It takes about ten seconds to make a playlist in iTunes that has, say, all of the songs by Wada Kouji that I've rated four or five stars but haven't listened to in a week, and it'll automatically update itself as I add more songs to my library or I forget to listen to others. Try doing something like that with Winamp.
That's easy to block, just stop outgoing connections that are connecting to port 22. Granted, all you'd need to do is change the SSH server to run on a port that's not blocked -- but that could be difficult if you don't have root access to the server you're using, or there are already other services using the common ports...
What you say may be true -- but what if this is what it takes to break Microsoft's stranglehold?
Really, I think the reason Linux isn't a dominant force on the desktop is because people don't want anything else. For the normal person, Windows is good enough -- and because it's what they know, it's what they'll pick, and they won't care about any other options.
It's entirely possible that the only way Linux will become a viable desktop alternative is if people must use it. If Windows can't be shipped on new computers, companies like IBM and Dell won't just close up shop. There will certainly be companies that do fold, and it won't be easy for the ones that survive, but it will force people to acknowledge alternatives.
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The only exception is that Entourage has weak MS Exchange support
;-)
10.3's Mail.app has Exchange support. I don't use any Exchange servers, so I can't say how functional it is, but I wouldn't be surprised if it worked flawlessly.
if you couldn't send anonymous snail mail.
Um.. Can you? I don't know about the rest of the world, but my local post office refuses to send anything that doesn't have a return address on it. I haven't intentionally tried, but there are a few times I forgot to, and they asked me to write down an address before mailing it.
While you could probably get away with writing down a fake address if you wanted to, I would be willing to bet that's illegal (but IANAL).
Actually, the "shin" I was using there in "shinshii" was as in "new." I admit I'm not entirely sure that's how it should be used there, though.
;-)
Hm.. It sure would be nice if we could get a native Japanese speaker to straighten this thread out.
Actually, from what I understand, many of the "Japanese Only" signs are because shops don't want people who can't speak Japanese fluently. I have an American friend who visited Japan a while back, and he told me that he accidentally walked into a shop with a "Japanese Only" sign once; the shopkeeper yelled at him in bad English for a moment, but after my friend started speaking in Japanese to him, the shopkeeper apologized and welcomed him in.
Granted, I'm sure that some of them are just racism, but not all.
Hm.. It's difficult to preserve the English phrase's structure and have it make sense, but I think it might be better as:
;-)
Watakushi, mizukara, shinshii nihon no shu wo motenashite orimasu.
That is, of course, assuming we're trying to be polite to our overlords.
I'm not a native Japanese speaker, but that seems to be absolute gibberish to me... I'm not even sure what "nuyy" is supposed to be, there are no kana that would romanize like that.
If you like Kenshin on CN, you owe it to yourself to buy the DVDs -- CN made some awful cuts to it, and most of the stuff that really makes you think has been mutilated. Just take a look at what happened to Soujirou's flashback. You might also have better luck searching for the song by its Japanese title, "Sobakasu."
It's also worth noting that no, not all Japanese anime makes you think. There is plenty of it that is mindless violence and sex. La Blue Girl and M. D. Geist are a couple of classic ones. Most of the worst stuff never sees this side of the ocean, however. Of course, I'm also of the opinion that despite its popularity, Lova Hina is one of the worst romantic comedies out there...
The fact is, most people are cheapskates, although they won't admit it. You're right in that 99% of people don't really care if something is free as in speech; they do care if it's free as in beer, though. Opera is an excellent browser, but the fact that they want you to pay for it means that most people won't buy it if there's a free alternative.
With that said, Mozilla is a good browser, provided that you have the horsepower to spare for it. I wouldn't dare use it on an older Pentium, but on an Athlon XP 2200 with 512 MB of RAM, the performance difference between it and Opera is negligible. I use both of them interchangeably, in fact, as each has features I like that the other lacks.
I don't think I have been watching the wrong bit of Anime as my cow-orkers have 1000s of hours of this shit and pop it into the office DVD player at every chance.
That doesn't necessarily mean anything. I'll bet you know lots of people who like watching "Friends," too. The reason there's so much crap out there is because, sadly, crap is good enough for most people. Even asking "So, what should I watch?" here on Slashdot will get you replies that mostly list the same popular-yet-not-that-good crap over and over.
I would hardly call the editing of Blue Gender "minimal"... The cutting room floor is practically a bloodbath. They've also taken huge chunks out of Rurouni Kenshin, although I think they really could've shown it virtually unedited on Adult Swim.
Actually, there are some very rare situations in which a PNG will always be larger than a GIF. For example, take a look at these two 1x1x1 white dots:
;-) In every situation I've seen where the images' sizes were large enough to matter, the PNG was smaller.
http://speed.sakabatou.net/sample.png
http://speed.sakabatou.net/sample.gif
The GIF is 35 bytes, the PNG is 85 bytes. I haven't found any way to make the PNG smaller.
Of course, in situations like this, the difference is small enough that it doesn't really matter.
Come on, Slashdot still hasn't converted its GIFs to PNGs. That alone would save a good amount of bandwidth, not to mention that Slashdot is supposedly pro-open source and all that.
The only argument I've seen against them is for compatibility's sake -- honestly, I would be surprised if even as much as 1% of Slashdot's readership was using an image-based browser that did not support PNGs. There are probably plugins available for the ones that don't. So, why not?
OW, Windows is automatically better every time they change the UI or re-arrange the control panel applets, even though it's still running the same creaky, hacked-to-pieces NT kernel. Me, I'm done using MS as the gold standard. Shiny, in my book, doesn't even rate. I know, other people think that's the end-all and be-all, it probably isn't your POV either, but it is frustrating and defies all logic. Linux is not ready for the desktop because only Windows can be ready for the desktop, and Linux is not Windows, therefore it can't be ready for the desktop. Ri-ight.
;-)
Well, that's a good point. In my opinion, Windows 2000 was probably the high point of the Windows GUI; since then, it seems like they've been adding shiny buttons and rearranging controls just so they'll have "new features." I played with the most recent alpha of Longhorn on a friend's computer for a little bit, and it's a nightmare.
Personally, I think that the current state of the Linux GUI is just as good as Windows, but to most people, it's not good enough unless it's exactly the same or overwhelmingly better; after all, if they have to re-learn how to use the interface to have the same functionality, what's the point of switching?
Since we began introducing Linux at my office, we've had the opportunity to train people with no prior computer experience (they exist, believe it or not) on Linux, and they pick it up just as readily as Windows. The people who were used to 98/2k took a bit of work to get used to it, but since we put Mandrake on the newest and fastest computers we got, they were looking forward to using "the new system" anyway just because it ran so much faster.
Erm... Before I continue with my post, let it be said that I love Mandrake; I run 9.1 on my system at home, and I convinced my boss to begin deploying it on workstations at the office (we were previously an entirely Win98/2k office).
With that said, I hardly think it's fair to compare last year's version of Mandrake to a version of Windows that's what, roughly eight or nine years old now?
Of course Windows NT can't compare to it. My boss and I were shocked last year when we noticed that it automatically detected a serial mouse we plugged into it -- it's infamous for its inability to detect hardware. Try out your SCSI chains with Windows 2000 or XP, I would be willing to bet that it detects them just as well as Mandrake.
Saying Linux is better than DOS/Win 3.1 is even more laughable. Yay! Linux is ready to compete in the market of the early 90's! From what I recall back then, the average consumer wasn't expected to set up their own computer or use it without any kind of training. It doesn't matter if Linux is more usable than NT or 3.1 -- it's not ready for the desktop until it's at least as good as the newest, most shiny version of Windows.
First, make sure X11 is set to use full-screen mode -- while it's up, press Apple+H to hide any windows, then go to the preferences for it and change it there. Also, if you're installing KDE through fink, you may need to make a few changes to your .xinitrc file; type "fink info bundle-kde" for instructions.
I only wish. I live in the Texas panhandle area -- last summer I finally decided to get a cell phone. I decided I wanted one with Bluetooth. I went to every phone shop in my city and three nearby cities, and none had any Bluetooth phones. Hell, when I got frustrated looking by myself, I asked if they had any Bluetooth-enabled phones, and every person I talked to just gave me a blank stare.
I did some further research on the local condition, and the only cell phone network in the local area that even supports Bluetooth phones (or rather, a Bluetooth phone -- they only support one model) considers this area "off-network service," so many of their features are unusable unless I happen to be driving through a larger town.
Well, if the BIOS was erased, in theory you could re-flash it. However, to do that you would need to boot the computer, which is impossible without a BIOS. You'd need to either have the manufacturer replace the physical BIOS chip, or get a device designed to flash it.
I'm sure you meant to be funny there, but weird really is a verb. ;-)
I don't see how your analogy is accurate. I think it's safe to say that no matter how many IP addresses IPv6 may provide, there's absolutely no chance of it doing any damage to the human race; the only damage I can see it causing is to the admins who have to remember the addresses, but that's what DNS is for. Sure, it may be more than we need, but in this case having too many won't hurt us.
If it takes up that much memory, you're probably doing something wrong. If you're not using them, try disabling the equalizer, and go into the preferences and disable the sound enhancer. iTunes takes up about 15 megs for me when it's in focus, about 9 megs when it's minimized. That's with around 2,000 songs in the playlist.
If you believe, like most scientists, that we humans evolved from random mutations and natural selection, then no, it really doesn't.
Sure it does. Assuming we evolved from a more primitive life form, the fact remains that that primitive life form was still alive; how life was created from non-life, on the other hand, is still widely considered to be unknown.
Hrm.. How do you make a playlist containing music that's not in any other playlist? I've been poking around, but I don't see an option like that.
Except for the incredible playlist manager. It takes about ten seconds to make a playlist in iTunes that has, say, all of the songs by Wada Kouji that I've rated four or five stars but haven't listened to in a week, and it'll automatically update itself as I add more songs to my library or I forget to listen to others. Try doing something like that with Winamp.
That's easy to block, just stop outgoing connections that are connecting to port 22. Granted, all you'd need to do is change the SSH server to run on a port that's not blocked -- but that could be difficult if you don't have root access to the server you're using, or there are already other services using the common ports...
What you say may be true -- but what if this is what it takes to break Microsoft's stranglehold?
Really, I think the reason Linux isn't a dominant force on the desktop is because people don't want anything else. For the normal person, Windows is good enough -- and because it's what they know, it's what they'll pick, and they won't care about any other options.
It's entirely possible that the only way Linux will become a viable desktop alternative is if people must use it. If Windows can't be shipped on new computers, companies like IBM and Dell won't just close up shop. There will certainly be companies that do fold, and it won't be easy for the ones that survive, but it will force people to acknowledge alternatives.