When I'm flying my own airplane, I can't seem to get a signal anywhere above 3,000 feet anyway. I wish I could, because the Treo's web browser would be useful for checking weather radar web sites.
Forgive me if I'm mis-remembering, but I seem to recall when the case was first discussed, Intel discovered his cracking program and told him to stop what he was doing, and so all he did was move it to a different set of computers, still within Intel. Now *that* is more than just stupid, it's criminally stupid.
...but if I were on a closed alpha or beta program, I'd be real cagey about posting screen shots. I think it wouldn't be that hard to embed a steganographic code on the screen so the company doing the beta would know who leaked. Is there some sort of random noise filter that would remove anything like that?
And don't start with "you can just use Cmd-click" (or whatever the key combo is) to simulate the second button. Sometimes I'm doing something with my other hand - um, y'know, like holding my coffee cup. Yeah, that's it.
Sean
If your Powerbook isn't new enough to have the two finger drag, you can install iScroll which gives you the same functionality. As well as drag, it allows you to put one finger on the touchpad while you click the button to act as the second button.
In other words, yes, that used to be a legitimate complaint about Macs, but it hasn't been for over a year.
Point 12: They seem to be complaining about how hard it is to find individual windows for an application. Haven't they seen Expose? No? How about splat-` to cycle through the windows of the current application?
Point 10: It's awkward to find applications too rare to put on the dock? I dragged my Applications folder to the dock as a folder. If I mouse over to it, I get a drop down menu of every app in the whole folder. Or I can double click on it to open the folder. Or I can go to Spotlight and type the first couple of letters of the application name and have it find the app very quickly.
User Point 3: The Apple mouse doesn't have three buttons. I spent a whole $9 for a Logitech optical wheel mouse, and all the buttons (including the scroll wheel) work just fine with no configuration.
You know that Zune allows you to send songs to another Zune over wireless?
Although you, as a Zune owner, can block particular Zunes from sending stuff to you, other Zunes start off in an unblocked state. Do you know what Microsoft have done? They've invented a new kind of spam. Companies will hack the standard and create a box which will automatically find every Zune in the vicinity and send their (audio/video) adverts to them.
You'll have Zune users in public places swearing at the constant interruptions and hitting the 'do not accept' button.
Which would be awesome, because then in a single mugging or pickpocketing event, your entire life could come to a screeching, horrific halt.
Yeah, because normally muggers are so picky. "No, not the ipod and cell phone, just your wallet. Thanks. And can you take out that other stuff from your backpack too?"
I bought a Treo so I wouldn't have to carry a phone AND a PDA AND an iPod everywhere I go - now I'm down to Treo + iPod. If Apple would make a combined iPod + PDA + phone, I would buy it in a minute. The Newton had features that the rest of the PDA community still can't hold a candle to - why don't they dust those designs off and have another look at them?
Hey, and if they could put a spot on the back for credit cards and money, I could leave my wallet at home too!:-)
Do you really think they don't have plastic surgery in the 24th Century?
So you're saying that sometime between now and ST:E time they forgot how to do plastic surgery, but then between ST:TOS and ST:DS9 they suddenly rediscovered it? Or that these three guys couldn't afford it on a star ship captain's salary but could after they'd retired? Sorry, but if you're going to retcon, don't be stupid about it.
Maybe I'm not enough of a Star Trek geek for this, but wasn't there a smooth headed Klingon (or as I called them back then, a "Mexican biker gang" Klingon) in TOS and an ancient revered turtle-headed Klingon in ST:DS9 with the same name who it was strongly hinted was the same guy? If they're different kinds, that doesn't make sense.
I worked as a software developer on software that had to work on VMS, DEC Ultrix, Sun OS, AIX and HP-UX. One time we were reaching the end of a development cycle and I sat in on a status meeting where the head of QA said that VMS and Ultrix testing was nearly finished, but they needed to do more Sun OS testing, so could one of the sysadmins please install Sun OS on the two VaxStations in the QA area?
Amazingly enough, they didn't fire the idiot right there on the spot.
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When I'm flying my own airplane, I can't seem to get a signal anywhere above 3,000 feet anyway. I wish I could, because the Treo's web browser would be useful for checking weather radar web sites.
Forgive me if I'm mis-remembering, but I seem to recall when the case was first discussed, Intel discovered his cracking program and told him to stop what he was doing, and so all he did was move it to a different set of computers, still within Intel. Now *that* is more than just stupid, it's criminally stupid.
I can't blame Intel for what they did.
I know that the collective memory of the Slashdot moderators is less than a day, but this story came out during the 2004 Superbowl:8 31222
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/03/1
What colour is the sky in your world, Bill?
...but if I were on a closed alpha or beta program, I'd be real cagey about posting screen shots. I think it wouldn't be that hard to embed a steganographic code on the screen so the company doing the beta would know who leaked. Is there some sort of random noise filter that would remove anything like that?
Sean
If your Powerbook isn't new enough to have the two finger drag, you can install iScroll which gives you the same functionality. As well as drag, it allows you to put one finger on the touchpad while you click the button to act as the second button.In other words, yes, that used to be a legitimate complaint about Macs, but it hasn't been for over a year.
Point 12: They seem to be complaining about how hard it is to find individual windows for an application. Haven't they seen Expose? No? How about splat-` to cycle through the windows of the current application?
Point 10: It's awkward to find applications too rare to put on the dock? I dragged my Applications folder to the dock as a folder. If I mouse over to it, I get a drop down menu of every app in the whole folder. Or I can double click on it to open the folder. Or I can go to Spotlight and type the first couple of letters of the application name and have it find the app very quickly.
User Point 3: The Apple mouse doesn't have three buttons. I spent a whole $9 for a Logitech optical wheel mouse, and all the buttons (including the scroll wheel) work just fine with no configuration.
You know that Zune allows you to send songs to another Zune over wireless?
Although you, as a Zune owner, can block particular Zunes from sending stuff to you, other Zunes start off in an unblocked state. Do you know what Microsoft have done? They've invented a new kind of spam. Companies will hack the standard and create a box which will automatically find every Zune in the vicinity and send their (audio/video) adverts to them.
You'll have Zune users in public places swearing at the constant interruptions and hitting the 'do not accept' button.
I, for one, welcome our new gigantic dragonfly overlords.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura
The only way to redirect this abberant behaviour is a) don't pay attention
Of course, your comment will sound better when Paul Anka's singing it.
Which would be awesome, because then in a single mugging or pickpocketing event, your entire life could come to a screeching, horrific halt.
Yeah, because normally muggers are so picky. "No, not the ipod and cell phone, just your wallet. Thanks. And can you take out that other stuff from your backpack too?"
I bought a Treo so I wouldn't have to carry a phone AND a PDA AND an iPod everywhere I go - now I'm down to Treo + iPod. If Apple would make a combined iPod + PDA + phone, I would buy it in a minute. The Newton had features that the rest of the PDA community still can't hold a candle to - why don't they dust those designs off and have another look at them?
:-)
Hey, and if they could put a spot on the back for credit cards and money, I could leave my wallet at home too!
So you're saying that sometime between now and ST:E time they forgot how to do plastic surgery, but then between ST:TOS and ST:DS9 they suddenly rediscovered it? Or that these three guys couldn't afford it on a star ship captain's salary but could after they'd retired? Sorry, but if you're going to retcon, don't be stupid about it.
Maybe I'm not enough of a Star Trek geek for this, but wasn't there a smooth headed Klingon (or as I called them back then, a "Mexican biker gang" Klingon) in TOS and an ancient revered turtle-headed Klingon in ST:DS9 with the same name who it was strongly hinted was the same guy? If they're different kinds, that doesn't make sense.
I understand that there is/was a society of civil engineers in eastern Canada that took that name. I'm not a member of that.
Actually, I use it more of a code word to mean "have you participated in the Ritual of the Calling of An Engineer" (aka "The Iron Ring ceremony").
Onkelonkel - regarding your sig, are you a son of Martha too?
Ever since the middle of Voyager, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have been trying to "Fix" Star Trek.
Next you'll be claiming that they added "Two of Thirty Eight" to the cast of ST:V just to appeal to teenage boys.
Go right ahead.
...I'd have enough money to buy a newer iPod.
I worked as a software developer on software that had to work on VMS, DEC Ultrix, Sun OS, AIX and HP-UX. One time we were reaching the end of a development cycle and I sat in on a status meeting where the head of QA said that VMS and Ultrix testing was nearly finished, but they needed to do more Sun OS testing, so could one of the sysadmins please install Sun OS on the two VaxStations in the QA area?
Amazingly enough, they didn't fire the idiot right there on the spot.
Somebody go start up a Counter Strike server on those puppies.
Speculation: you can either spend $3000 to run Shake on your Linux machine, or you can spend $2500 on a G5 and $500 to run Shake on it.
Yeah, but they didn't reduce the price for the Linux version.
>>Slashdot has inaccurate stories. Slashdot has dupes. Slashdot has trolls and flamers.
>Hay, and don't forget, Slashdot has dupes!
And sometimes they post a second article about the same subject.
"Warning: May Contain Nuts"