Levies don't work like that. It's an all-or-nothing deal, just like the few pennies we pay to the RIAA for every blank CD we buy even if it's only used for data.
It is curious though that when a bug threatens to root boxes that M$ owns, the patch comes out in less than a month. When a bug threatens to root boxes that their customers own, they basically could give a fuck and take months or even years to try to fix it.
IP Checking won't work, unless you want all your AOL-based visitors to keep getting logged out. I think some Cable users too. Basically anyone that has a proxy-cluster between their browser and your site will come from several different IPs as they surf your site.
"This leads one to wonder if it is truely a software problem or if there a much larger hardware problem that may affect Core Duo equipped Apple systems."
I guess the correct amount of the appropriate drug might lead "one" to wonder just about anything. In case you're not aware, you are practicing what is called "science via analogy". A fine example of this type of "science" is the "witch" scene in The Holy Grail, where peasants conclude the woman is a witch because she floats.
Using the Scientific Method, that's where one observes, hypothesizes, then attempts to prove the hypothesis would go something like this: Observation - Microsoft has a long history of producing the world's most buggiest software. One might even say they have created more bugs than all other software companies combined, and instead of immediately rejecting that idea, those well versed in this industry will pause to consider the idea for a second before concluding that is impossible. But you get the point, any average not-extremely-observant member of this industry will probably recognize Microsoft's long history of buggy software, coupled with it's failure to acknowledge bugs until they are fixed, as the place to start when forming a hypothesis. So, getting on to Hypothesis: An Intel-specific ACPI Module written by Microsoft has a bug in it. Attempt to prove - left as an exercise for the reader.
Spread your FUD all you like. You will not hamper the sales of the new MacBook Pro. Anyone even entertaining the idea that your dubious theory holds even one teardrop of water (and let me assure you it will contain many once the truth surfaces) is not "really" thinking about buying one anyway. Any reasonable person shying away from the purchase is already thinking along the lines of "a 1.0 Apple product...best stay away" and "do I really want to run stuff under Rosetta? No, best wait for my apps to go native", not along the lines of some hallucination posted on Slashdot.
Yes, but the billboards, etc. should be advertising in-game entities, not rw ones. Perhaps virtual businesses should have to "buy" (using in-game currency of course) ads.
Yeah I'm already salivating over the thought of having a system based on dual Conroe CPUs. By putting the Core Duo instead of the Solo in the iMac, Apple has all but tipped their hand that the Pro Towers are going to have 2 dual core CPUs. It won't surprise at all me if they make a Quad Conroe, targeted at the video freaks.
I'll second the 3Ware notion. I built a RAID 10 array of 5x120GB = 240GB useable. I rsync critical files from my house (and my mom's via the VPN) nightly. Works like a charm. BTW I chose RAID 10 instead of RAID 5 to get some speed increase I use the box as my development web server too. Also, with RAID 5 if you lose 2 drives, you're screwed. With RAID 10, losing 2 drives you have a 50-50 chance of being screwed.
Is that so? I think you may want to reconsider that because evidently you could not read my original post. =)
I did say I go to the "good" optometrist for the exam. I only get my glasses from Costco because IMO any lens cutting machine produces results similar to any other one.
Not to mention all that extra expense and you're limited to only using it with that one pair of Levi's. (Or those pairs of Levi's if you're a Levi fanboy)
Don't think I'll buy a single pair. Now, if they made some pants with the watch pocket redesigned a bit to accommodate the Nano (like deeper) so it doesn't hit my pelvic bone when I sit down I'd buy those.
Which is great if you want story linkage alone. digg has nowhere near the braintrust of slashdot, diggers are really just a bunch of sheep. One of them says jump and they all jump. No critical thinking, no debate, no substance. I for one welcome our/. editor overlords.
Starting with 20/20 vision as a teenager and seeing my vision degrade slowly to nearsightedness through my 20's I bought into a theory that staring at a fixed focal distance for extended periods somehow effects the muscles in the eyes. So when it came down to being unable to read street signs while driving unless I slowed to 15 MPH (at 37), I finally went to the optometrist.
There I was told a few things. First, my eye muscles were doing what they were supposed to do. Second, she told me people's eyes change over time. Various factors including diet, tear production and UV light (to name a few) contribute to macular degeneration. UV light is a especially a factor for me since I've lived in L.A. and the Southwest most of my life. I also have inadequate tear production so I have to use artificial tears once or twice a day. I also found out one of my lenses has a slight stigmatism which has become more pronounced as I have been aging.
My only advice: do not listen to a bunch of wannabe Optometrists/Opthamologists on/. Go spend the $50 on an eye exam. Consult a professional and follow their advice. Get a second or third opinion if you feel you need it. If you have glaucoma or cataracts, the exam will be absolutely priceless.
You can get some decent glasses at Costco for around $100 (depending on your prescription and options). Personally I go to the "good" optometrist with the modern gear and sidestep their sales pitch to sell me expensive glasses.
Here's some more info (which I did find by googling):
Heh I was just clowning around, ya know, the enemy of my friend is my enemy kinda thing. I do like Apple for it's technology. I don't like any company that resorts to employing the legal system as a strongarm tool. I don't know either way if Apple is evil in this case or not. I do hope some of these patent-wielding shakedown companies get their asses kicked as many times as it takes until it costs more to wield a patent than they can stand to gain from the shakedown. I think that would be a huge step in the right direction. I am pleased that the NTP (??) (or should I say Plaintiff's against RIM) appears to be getting their patents tossed out. Maybe it's the start of a trend at the USPTO to take out the trash and reverse a lot of patents that should have never been granted in the first place because they are not novel nor innovative nor do they entail a lot of research to discover.
Well, that's a lot of words for 2 cents now, isn't it. Good rappin' with you.
Maybe that's [taking responsibility for recycling resources their programs allocate] too much to ask of the sissy programmers coming out of school these days.
I guess we disagree. First of all,.NET with CLI and managed code runs SLOW, so most serious developers can't use it because of performance. Second, the libraries in C# are FAR less mature and elegant than those in Cocoa. We are working on a better implementation for garbage collection than we've seen out there so far, but in the end its a performance hit and an unpredictable time that is not good for some kinds of apps.
Of course I would rather use an NSMutableArray object for any task that requires an array. It really simplifies those situations where you're not sure if you need a 10 or a 10,000 element array.
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Levies don't work like that. It's an all-or-nothing deal, just like the few pennies we pay to the RIAA for every blank CD we buy even if it's only used for data.
It is curious though that when a bug threatens to root boxes that M$ owns, the patch comes out in less than a month. When a bug threatens to root boxes that their customers own, they basically could give a fuck and take months or even years to try to fix it.
A better article: Should Slashdot have a mobile friendly website?
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IP Checking won't work, unless you want all your AOL-based visitors to keep getting logged out. I think some Cable users too. Basically anyone that has a proxy-cluster between their browser and your site will come from several different IPs as they surf your site.
"This leads one to wonder if it is truely a software problem or if there a much larger hardware problem that may affect Core Duo equipped Apple systems."
I guess the correct amount of the appropriate drug might lead "one" to wonder just about anything. In case you're not aware, you are practicing what is called "science via analogy". A fine example of this type of "science" is the "witch" scene in The Holy Grail, where peasants conclude the woman is a witch because she floats.
Using the Scientific Method, that's where one observes, hypothesizes, then attempts to prove the hypothesis would go something like this: Observation - Microsoft has a long history of producing the world's most buggiest software. One might even say they have created more bugs than all other software companies combined, and instead of immediately rejecting that idea, those well versed in this industry will pause to consider the idea for a second before concluding that is impossible. But you get the point, any average not-extremely-observant member of this industry will probably recognize Microsoft's long history of buggy software, coupled with it's failure to acknowledge bugs until they are fixed, as the place to start when forming a hypothesis. So, getting on to Hypothesis: An Intel-specific ACPI Module written by Microsoft has a bug in it. Attempt to prove - left as an exercise for the reader.
Spread your FUD all you like. You will not hamper the sales of the new MacBook Pro. Anyone even entertaining the idea that your dubious theory holds even one teardrop of water (and let me assure you it will contain many once the truth surfaces) is not "really" thinking about buying one anyway. Any reasonable person shying away from the purchase is already thinking along the lines of "a 1.0 Apple product...best stay away" and "do I really want to run stuff under Rosetta? No, best wait for my apps to go native", not along the lines of some hallucination posted on Slashdot.
Yes, but the billboards, etc. should be advertising in-game entities, not rw ones. Perhaps virtual businesses should have to "buy" (using in-game currency of course) ads.
And our first candidate for the "First company to take a dive in TheBubble2.0", award is...
It's since you last looked at that section.
MMMMM Bacon Cheeseburgers with cookies as the bun. MMMMMM ya know Homer Simpson dreams about this sort of stuff.
Yeah I'm already salivating over the thought of having a system based on dual Conroe CPUs. By putting the Core Duo instead of the Solo in the iMac, Apple has all but tipped their hand that the Pro Towers are going to have 2 dual core CPUs. It won't surprise at all me if they make a Quad Conroe, targeted at the video freaks.
I'll second the 3Ware notion. I built a RAID 10 array of 5x120GB = 240GB useable. I rsync critical files from my house (and my mom's via the VPN) nightly. Works like a charm. BTW I chose RAID 10 instead of RAID 5 to get some speed increase I use the box as my development web server too. Also, with RAID 5 if you lose 2 drives, you're screwed. With RAID 10, losing 2 drives you have a 50-50 chance of being screwed.
Is that so? I think you may want to reconsider that because evidently you could not read my original post. =)
I did say I go to the "good" optometrist for the exam. I only get my glasses from Costco because IMO any lens cutting machine produces results similar to any other one.
Not to mention all that extra expense and you're limited to only using it with that one pair of Levi's. (Or those pairs of Levi's if you're a Levi fanboy)
Don't think I'll buy a single pair. Now, if they made some pants with the watch pocket redesigned a bit to accommodate the Nano (like deeper) so it doesn't hit my pelvic bone when I sit down I'd buy those.
Which is great if you want story linkage alone. digg has nowhere near the braintrust of slashdot, diggers are really just a bunch of sheep. One of them says jump and they all jump. No critical thinking, no debate, no substance. I for one welcome our /. editor overlords.
The 15% of you that don't can piss off and stop spamming Ask Slashdot.
Starting with 20/20 vision as a teenager and seeing my vision degrade slowly to nearsightedness through my 20's I bought into a theory that staring at a fixed focal distance for extended periods somehow effects the muscles in the eyes. So when it came down to being unable to read street signs while driving unless I slowed to 15 MPH (at 37), I finally went to the optometrist.
/. Go spend the $50 on an eye exam. Consult a professional and follow their advice. Get a second or third opinion if you feel you need it. If you have glaucoma or cataracts, the exam will be absolutely priceless.
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There I was told a few things. First, my eye muscles were doing what they were supposed to do. Second, she told me people's eyes change over time. Various factors including diet, tear production and UV light (to name a few) contribute to macular degeneration. UV light is a especially a factor for me since I've lived in L.A. and the Southwest most of my life. I also have inadequate tear production so I have to use artificial tears once or twice a day. I also found out one of my lenses has a slight stigmatism which has become more pronounced as I have been aging.
My only advice: do not listen to a bunch of wannabe Optometrists/Opthamologists on
You can get some decent glasses at Costco for around $100 (depending on your prescription and options). Personally I go to the "good" optometrist with the modern gear and sidestep their sales pitch to sell me expensive glasses.
Here's some more info (which I did find by googling):
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2002/202_eyes.ht
Heh I was just clowning around, ya know, the enemy of my friend is my enemy kinda thing. I do like Apple for it's technology. I don't like any company that resorts to employing the legal system as a strongarm tool. I don't know either way if Apple is evil in this case or not. I do hope some of these patent-wielding shakedown companies get their asses kicked as many times as it takes until it costs more to wield a patent than they can stand to gain from the shakedown. I think that would be a huge step in the right direction. I am pleased that the NTP (??) (or should I say Plaintiff's against RIM) appears to be getting their patents tossed out. Maybe it's the start of a trend at the USPTO to take out the trash and reverse a lot of patents that should have never been granted in the first place because they are not novel nor innovative nor do they entail a lot of research to discover.
Well, that's a lot of words for 2 cents now, isn't it. Good rappin' with you.
Well, all I know is we like Apple, and Apple hates Burst.com, so you do the math.
It's just you. Every gamer/case-modder under the sun will now only purchase the Raptor.
Bonsai Kitten is way up there on my list of all time best pranks. I was surprised so many "animal activists" took the bait and ran with it.
Maybe that's [taking responsibility for recycling resources their programs allocate] too much to ask of the sissy programmers coming out of school these days.
There, fixed that for you
That's funny, I thought your point was:
.NET (and Java) from Mac users only hurts the variety of applicaitons, which in turn hurts the strength of the platform.
Withholding
My reply illustrates why withholding that tech is a Good Thing for the platform.
Steve's response to your position (taken from http://www.networkmirror.com/KzGXfxw7VjFRGzty/orei llynet.com/pub/wlg/8849.html, which some other /.'er posted out here)
.NET with CLI and managed code runs SLOW, so most serious developers can't use it because of performance. Second, the libraries in C# are FAR less mature and elegant than those in Cocoa. We are working on a better implementation for garbage collection than we've seen out there so far, but in the end its a performance hit and an unpredictable time that is not good for some kinds of apps.
On Dec 25, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Steve Jobs wrote:
I guess we disagree. First of all,
Steve
Why not?
NSObject array[10];
array[0] = [[NSObject alloc] init];
Of course I would rather use an NSMutableArray object for any task that requires an array. It really simplifies those situations where you're not sure if you need a 10 or a 10,000 element array.
Objective-C was unfortunately the path not taken when C++ was starting to take off.
My sentiment exactly the second day of working through Hillegass' book.