i loved my newton. i loved i could write 'lunch caroline' and it would schedule a lunch with my girlfriend for 1.30pm in my diary and then give me the option of editing it. it could read my handwriting better than i could. these things learned. they communicated, they were as close to the MagicCap dream as could be. where are those guys now?
please apple give us a mac osx with all those funky newton features - and a handheld device to run it all on.
A 23-foot-long space rocket carrying 3 dummies strueth i thought they said 'dunnies' for a minute and i thought to myself, jesus christ 3 dunnies on one rocket - that's a bit rich. no wonder the bloody thing blew up.
I recently went out and bought an old N64 just to be able to play my old games of mario karts 64 again. I never played MK on the SNES but on the N64 it's been a constant companion - i know those courses so well they appear as places in my dreams. and those pesky AIs still can beat me occasionally - especially when playing two player grand prix with my gal. for my money it's a classic. i also agree with the poster way above somwhere who listed tempest - that was the best coin op game ever.
Security always seems to take a back seat to features with MS and that is the core problem with IE
features? like tabbed browsing? popup blocking, integrated search? do we see that in IE? the only features MS have added to IE in the last 5 years have been 'smart tags' and a bunch of 'enhancements' to the w3c dom, the scripting language, the html tags and so forth which, although they have earned me good money for my sins as a javascripter, just shit people off.
so with security taking *such* a backseat, can we ever expect IE to be secure? all i want is proper CSS and javascript support and i don't want to have to run a testing centre with 160 combinations of browsers and platforms (we had something approaching this at a place i used to work)
I use the keychain and keychain access software daily and it's fine. Not fantastic granted - but fine. I have a keychain in my Documents folder on my iDisk called 'personal' and my keychain access knows to lookup keys from that chain. so home and work common passwords etc can all stay there.
i have a mail certificate (free from thawte - neat) and have installed gpg so have a number of high grade gpg keys which i use to correspond with my ol' dad back home about bank statements etc.
you say that the keychain gets in the way, but the fact that is is fully integrated into so many handy apps like sshAgent or MacSFTP or BBEdit, as well as the obvious ones like safari for web passwords etc. if you look in the keychain access program you'll see you can add secure notes, secure comments to passwords and all manner of options. you can open up the system keychains too and see the x509 certs you have collected.
you could also create an encrypted user whose user space is fully encrypted.
NOT supporting the RIAA, or a company that chooses to work with, and fund them.
that's every us label then, and every manufacturer of music hardware
-NOT support the use of the iTMS' proprietary DRM which not only limits what media player you want to play your music on (Most people prefer listening to their music on Winamp intead of being forced to use iTunes to listen to music they paid for), but what digital audio portable you want to use to listen to your music as well.
it's your right not to buy music thru itms, and your right not to have an iPod. And good on ya. Me, even though I can't buy on iTms, still have a full iPod from my own cd collection, and files I have shared, not via p2p, but by either just ripping a mate's cd off their shelf, or copying the files directly. the latter is akin to what we used to do in school which was make cassettes of albums and share those out to friends on request. It is fair use and a fee is built into the price of the blank media.
-have the CHOICE of what format you want your music encoded in, instead of beign stuck with vanilla 128 AACs with Apple's proprietary and limiting DRM.
iTunes allows you to export or rip to mp3, aac, at any quality setting you like, and the quicktime player lets you crossrip to anything. there is also plenty of shareware and *nix utils for doing all manner of things to your files.
-pay cheaper than you would for your music, with the added bonus of having more CHOICE with your music formats, and nto send a cent to support the RIAA or a company that supports/funds how they do business.
What happens when you are broken down on a long stretch of highway, but your phone battery is drained because someone was using your phone to get better reception earlier in the day?
perhaps people just wanted better phones and weren't taking up the rental option
yep. same in australia. telstra used to rent you the phone for sod all but their phones were corded. of course cordless phones sold for more and people were prepared more and also telstra started selling all manner of services from call waiting to voicemail etc etc. the mobile phone market shows how you can give the phones away for almost nothing with a contract and for a small fortune without. all over the world the pre-paid options are amazing ripoffs - an indirect tax for the billions that the cell phone networks paid for their 3g licences.
i am looking forward to some sort of store and forward p2p ah-hoc phone to hone network that works in realtime using crowds to enhance, not sap the network. most people's phones are not in use more than 5% of the day, and are well within transmit range from hundreds more in any decent sized city or pub. someone(s) should make an opensource phone-os for lots of phone platforms that you can use to reset your gsm phones and go p2p and free us all from the networks.
I was recently put up in a hotel in amsterdam so I did a quick google for 'hotel amsterdam wifi' and turned up a place called the hotel maas. Their wifi costs eu9 per hour for casual; use, but i discovered i could buy a week's worth of access for eu65. after much complicated negotiation with the management they eventually relented and let me buy the advertised 7 day card, although they really pushed hard to get me to buy 7 eu19 1 day cards - assholes.
the wifi was unencrypted (whatever, that's what ssh is for) and the login server was also unencrypted (not good). their system also stripped all emails i sent so everyone I emailed using my regular ssl - pop connection just received blank emails from me. most annoying. next i discovered that my ssh connections were being blocked.
on top of this the service in the hotel was terrible and they moved my room a number of times, including for the last night they moved me to a tiny windowless single room. and to cap it off they were very reluctant to reduce the price of the room. all in all i felt ripped off. so to sum up, when staying in amsterdam forget the hotel maas.
Side note: Did any euro mac/.er out there take advantage of the euro / dollar exchange rate to buy an us mac? A 2000 dollars powerbook costs 3000 in France, given the exchange rate that's, well, a sweet commission for apple store france!
sure did. i flew to the usa, bought a tibook and after paying for flights for my and my gf, still came out well ahead.
I just started a new job in holland and they asked me to spec out the development machine i wanted. i specced out a dual g5 and the price diff in holland vs the us is well over 2k euro. unfortunately you can't just fly the us and stick a g5 + cinema display in your backpack like a tibook, or that's what I would have done and spent the difference on 8GB ram!
Does anyone have a link to this in mpeg, quicktime, avi or some video format that is not stupid WMF? I refuse to install the windows media player on my mac out of general principle, but would love to see this vid.
Afghanistan was bombed because they were harbouring the bulk of the organization that orchestrated the attack. In other words Doh! to you
Oh really. And I suppose you can back that up with proof. Or are you just repeating what the TV told you. I mean the Bushies were so right about iRaq's WMD after all.
I'd like to think we'd convict criminals in a court of law before levelling their neigbour's country.
As for Iraq, it is a completely different matter since this country has never ever threatened the US.
But North Korea has on numerous occasions, and I don't see the US storming Pyongyang any time soon. Not enough oil there perhaps... nah, that couldn't be it.
Microsoft Windows is the best desktop OS money can buy.
You Sir are an idiot.
<rant mode="offtopic">Mac OSX is clearly the best desktop OS money can buy. Looking at your recent posts you are nothing but a M$ apologist troll. so fuck you you fanless, friendless fuck.</rant>
A permanent base on the moon is of significant military improtance however. easy to launch nukes from, easy to hide what you aare doing, not a bad spot to keep 'enemy combatants' out of amnesty's sight. the moon will be used as a prison colony and bio-weapons factory before anything else.
perhaps they are scared? i'm not saying North Korea is at all good, but you've got to see the broader context. The US screwed them with sanctions and overt/covert war. the USSR vanished along with all their oil imports, food imports, aid etc. the US has been threatening to nuke them, reneging on agreements to provide clean power etc. what else the hell would you expect them to do? don't believe most of what you read in the popular press.
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please apple give us a mac osx with all those funky newton features - and a handheld device to run it all on.
A 23-foot-long space rocket carrying 3 dummies strueth i thought they said 'dunnies' for a minute and i thought to myself, jesus christ 3 dunnies on one rocket - that's a bit rich. no wonder the bloody thing blew up.
I recently went out and bought an old N64 just to be able to play my old games of mario karts 64 again. I never played MK on the SNES but on the N64 it's been a constant companion - i know those courses so well they appear as places in my dreams. and those pesky AIs still can beat me occasionally - especially when playing two player grand prix with my gal. for my money it's a classic. i also agree with the poster way above somwhere who listed tempest - that was the best coin op game ever.
features? like tabbed browsing? popup blocking, integrated search? do we see that in IE? the only features MS have added to IE in the last 5 years have been 'smart tags' and a bunch of 'enhancements' to the w3c dom, the scripting language, the html tags and so forth which, although they have earned me good money for my sins as a javascripter, just shit people off.
so with security taking *such* a backseat, can we ever expect IE to be secure? all i want is proper CSS and javascript support and i don't want to have to run a testing centre with 160 combinations of browsers and platforms (we had something approaching this at a place i used to work)
I guess they'll be able to call on that other great UKUSA back channel suite known as Eschelon.
Unlike most other languages, the English language carries its history in its spelling.
red rocket... red rocket..
i have a mail certificate (free from thawte - neat) and have installed gpg so have a number of high grade gpg keys which i use to correspond with my ol' dad back home about bank statements etc.
you say that the keychain gets in the way, but the fact that is is fully integrated into so many handy apps like sshAgent or MacSFTP or BBEdit, as well as the obvious ones like safari for web passwords etc. if you look in the keychain access program you'll see you can add secure notes, secure comments to passwords and all manner of options. you can open up the system keychains too and see the x509 certs you have collected.
you could also create an encrypted user whose user space is fully encrypted.
i have never seen the need for much more
that's every us label then, and every manufacturer of music hardware
-NOT support the use of the iTMS' proprietary DRM which not only limits what media player you want to play your music on (Most people prefer listening to their music on Winamp intead of being forced to use iTunes to listen to music they paid for), but what digital audio portable you want to use to listen to your music as well.it's your right not to buy music thru itms, and your right not to have an iPod. And good on ya. Me, even though I can't buy on iTms, still have a full iPod from my own cd collection, and files I have shared, not via p2p, but by either just ripping a mate's cd off their shelf, or copying the files directly. the latter is akin to what we used to do in school which was make cassettes of albums and share those out to friends on request. It is fair use and a fee is built into the price of the blank media.
-have the CHOICE of what format you want your music encoded in, instead of beign stuck with vanilla 128 AACs with Apple's proprietary and limiting DRM.iTunes allows you to export or rip to mp3, aac, at any quality setting you like, and the quicktime player lets you crossrip to anything. there is also plenty of shareware and *nix utils for doing all manner of things to your files.
-pay cheaper than you would for your music, with the added bonus of having more CHOICE with your music formats, and nto send a cent to support the RIAA or a company that supports/funds how they do business.you said that already.
Maybe I'd use my driver's phone then :-)
yep. same in australia. telstra used to rent you the phone for sod all but their phones were corded. of course cordless phones sold for more and people were prepared more and also telstra started selling all manner of services from call waiting to voicemail etc etc. the mobile phone market shows how you can give the phones away for almost nothing with a contract and for a small fortune without. all over the world the pre-paid options are amazing ripoffs - an indirect tax for the billions that the cell phone networks paid for their 3g licences.
i am looking forward to some sort of store and forward p2p ah-hoc phone to hone network that works in realtime using crowds to enhance, not sap the network. most people's phones are not in use more than 5% of the day, and are well within transmit range from hundreds more in any decent sized city or pub. someone(s) should make an opensource phone-os for lots of phone platforms that you can use to reset your gsm phones and go p2p and free us all from the networks.
kinda makes it hard to click on the terminal icon though.
www,badsamaritan.com and flame flamers. see.
UN - Universal Network?,, doh I think that may be taken...
the wifi was unencrypted (whatever, that's what ssh is for) and the login server was also unencrypted (not good). their system also stripped all emails i sent so everyone I emailed using my regular ssl - pop connection just received blank emails from me. most annoying. next i discovered that my ssh connections were being blocked.
on top of this the service in the hotel was terrible and they moved my room a number of times, including for the last night they moved me to a tiny windowless single room. and to cap it off they were very reluctant to reduce the price of the room. all in all i felt ripped off. so to sum up, when staying in amsterdam forget the hotel maas.
sure did. i flew to the usa, bought a tibook and after paying for flights for my and my gf, still came out well ahead.
I just started a new job in holland and they asked me to spec out the development machine i wanted. i specced out a dual g5 and the price diff in holland vs the us is well over 2k euro. unfortunately you can't just fly the us and stick a g5 + cinema display in your backpack like a tibook, or that's what I would have done and spent the difference on 8GB ram!
You left out "The Ghosts of the Civil Dead". (John Hillcoat). Best so called 'anti-date' film ever.
Does anyone have a link to this in mpeg, quicktime, avi or some video format that is not stupid WMF? I refuse to install the windows media player on my mac out of general principle, but would love to see this vid.
Oh really. And I suppose you can back that up with proof. Or are you just repeating what the TV told you. I mean the Bushies were so right about iRaq's WMD after all.
I'd like to think we'd convict criminals in a court of law before levelling their neigbour's country.
As for Iraq, it is a completely different matter since this country has never ever threatened the US.
But North Korea has on numerous occasions, and I don't see the US storming Pyongyang any time soon. Not enough oil there perhaps... nah, that couldn't be it.
Blind hatred is no way to treat a fellow citizen. At least the KKK hated blacks because they were black.
are you really that stupid? I honestly don't know where to begin to damn this statement all to hell.
To quote L7, you just made my shitlist.
and who the hell modded you up as insightful? what a world.
You Sir are an idiot.
<rant mode="offtopic">Mac OSX is clearly the best desktop OS money can buy. Looking at your recent posts you are nothing but a M$ apologist troll. so fuck you you fanless, friendless fuck.</rant>
No, you'd still have bombed Afghanistan. Those plans were well in place well before september 2001. At last count the number of Afghans flying planes into american buildings was zero.
A permanent base on the moon is of significant military improtance however. easy to launch nukes from, easy to hide what you aare doing, not a bad spot to keep 'enemy combatants' out of amnesty's sight. the moon will be used as a prison colony and bio-weapons factory before anything else.
it's not slow, just incredibly dense. and far funnier and less fascist than 'atlas shrugged'. what an overrated bunch of crap that book is.
perhaps they are scared? i'm not saying North Korea is at all good, but you've got to see the broader context. The US screwed them with sanctions and overt/covert war. the USSR vanished along with all their oil imports, food imports, aid etc. the US has been threatening to nuke them, reneging on agreements to provide clean power etc. what else the hell would you expect them to do? don't believe most of what you read in the popular press.
I believe they did have some ideas, then the US said they'd nuke them if they tried.