Let's take a look at the number of remote root vulnerabilities per month, OK? I think this is like 4 or 5 in 3 years for OS X, and how many in the past month for IE? 4 or 5, isn't it? Month before that? 3 or 4, I think... Month before that? Microsoft is up to > 48 patches so far this year...and that's just the ones we know about.
BAH! I (programmer) got in an argument with my GF's Dad's colleague (Aerospace Engineer) one Thanksgiving over the ridiculousness of a plane seat only having to take 2 or 3G's before coming unanchored, while an automobile seat has to take 9G's.
He promptly informed me that the correct engineering analysis was the potential cost of wrongful death litigation vs. the cost of creating and producing a stronger airplane seat. It really sickened me that human life never entered the equation for this man.
So, if that's what it means to "embrace engineering principles", you can keep it. BTW I do my best to write code that "degrades gracefully". Perhaps the aerospace guy would do well to apply the same to airplanes, no?
It is going to cost them less to hire Americans to staff a call center, than to lose the sales to corporate America that they were obviously threatened with.
I dunno about Metacity. What I can say about Expose' is it requires a hefty 3D card/drivers, because this technology utilizes the GPU for the effect. Perhaps the target systems you have tested lack sufficient hardware?
Yeah I remember that...It wasn't long before I thought to myself "Who's the machine in this equation anyway?", and plunked down the $400 for the extra floppy.
Perhaps reading the source will reveal some insight for you all as it has for me. The defrag takes place on an hfs_open call, thus the disk, if not spinning at the time, will be powered on shortly. It also is NOT a background operation, and only applies to files that are being opened.
I believe the rationale is that it takes little more than the same number of IOs to defrag as it is going to take to read the file once, and will take less IOs on subsequent accesses to the file (after defrag), which would appear to be imminent because the file has just been opened.
27602. No person shall drive a motor vehicle which is equipped with a television receiver, screen, or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast which is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or which is visible to the driver while operating the motor vehicle.
This section shall not apply to a mobile digital terminal installed in a law enforcement vehicle
I assume you can read, so it must be that you chose not to. As I originally said, the DVD playback gives it other means of visually receiving a television broadcast, albeit a pre-recorded broadcast.
I agree with the whiny brat paradigm. Funny, their slogan Dear Apple: You forgot some important features worked for them once, and now it won't?
Sounds to me like their just pissed off that they finally have to be innovative to justify their existence. And what, they didn't know this was coming? Surely they had the Panther seeds.
In California there is a quite specific section in the vehicle code (section 27602, look it up here) about having a television screen "at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat", of course with exceptions for law enforcement and emergency service vehicles. The ability to play DVDs I think qualifies.
Didn't NeXT make something akin to TrueBlueEnvironment (the Classic in OS X), that runs Intel binaries? BTW I think the next headline is going to be something like AppleWorks...now with more features than Office, and free on your new Macintosh.
You need to try it again, then come back and tell us what you learned. You are absolutely incorrect on both counts. I connect my powerbook all the time to Win2K/AD installations np. File, Print, Exchange, all without making any config changes at all to the Win2K setup.
Yeah or maybe a screw or other metal debris in one of the slots. I think it's called a stirrup circuit, cuts out a switching power supply when the demand for current exceeds the specs of the supply.
Or it could be this:
An experience I had recently with my mom's G4 is the display was going dim near the bottom (17" Apple Flat Panel, ADC-style). Remembering the enormous contacts on the video card (to deliver power to the monitor), I thought maybe some oxidization created some resistance, thereby cutting the available current to drive the monitor, so I cleaned the contacts on the video card with an ordinary pencil eraser, and voila, the monitor returned to normal. And yes, that is all that is required to be labelled a genius by mom. (laughs) Maybe cleaning the contacts will help you if you have an ADC display.
Well, let's see, RIAA/MPAA been lobbying (unsuccessfully) to get laws passed to permit them to do exactly this. Probably they think they have some kind of legal loophole because the user installs it themselves.
You and Cringely both need to be taken to task for the lame suggestion that shredding documents is protection. An identity thief grabs your trash. Two days and a gram of Crank later, voila, enough information to steal your identity. "But nobody would have the patience to piece together shredded documents" yeah, nobody, except for maybe a speed freak.
The only way to protect the information on hard copy is to incinerate those documents. Fireplace or the Weber, your choice.
Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1 and earlier use a feature that is present in the PowerPC G3 and the PowerPC G4 named "pseudo little-endian mode". Virtual PC for Mac uses pseudo little-endian mode for increased performance when it emulates a Pentium processor. Virtual PC for Mac 6.1 must use pseudo little-endian mode to function.
The new Power Mac G5 processor does not support pseudo little-endian mode. Therefore, the current versions of the Virtual PC for Mac program do not run on the Power Mac G5.
With all due respect to the professor, by saying "manufacturing consent", Chomsky is simply repeating a phrase initially coined by Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda (aka Public Relations).
thank you. i was like "this is news for nerds?". hmmm....do you think i could swap an identical video card for one that fails in my system....wonder if that would work.
The guy above figured it out...they've put \ in their image URIs. Whether this supports or contradicts my suggestion of incompetence is an exercise for the reader. Page still doesn't render in Safari. I suspect this is a problem for Konqueror too.
Have you actually tried this? I remember some flack a bit ago about Apple pouncing a vendor for providing an iDVD driver for said vendors' DVD drive... Several posts on also indicate compatibility issues with iDVD and third-party drives. For most of my needs, simply burning data will suffice...If you've found the magic firewire DVD burner with iDVD support, please speak up.
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Let's take a look at the number of remote root vulnerabilities per month, OK? I think this is like 4 or 5 in 3 years for OS X, and how many in the past month for IE? 4 or 5, isn't it? Month before that? 3 or 4, I think... Month before that? Microsoft is up to > 48 patches so far this year...and that's just the ones we know about.
BAH! I (programmer) got in an argument with my GF's Dad's colleague (Aerospace Engineer) one Thanksgiving over the ridiculousness of a plane seat only having to take 2 or 3G's before coming unanchored, while an automobile seat has to take 9G's.
He promptly informed me that the correct engineering analysis was the potential cost of wrongful death litigation vs. the cost of creating and producing a stronger airplane seat. It really sickened me that human life never entered the equation for this man.
So, if that's what it means to "embrace engineering principles", you can keep it. BTW I do my best to write code that "degrades gracefully". Perhaps the aerospace guy would do well to apply the same to airplanes, no?
It is going to cost them less to hire Americans to staff a call center, than to lose the sales to corporate America that they were obviously threatened with.
I dunno about Metacity. What I can say about Expose' is it requires a hefty 3D card/drivers, because this technology utilizes the GPU for the effect. Perhaps the target systems you have tested lack sufficient hardware?
Yeah I remember that...It wasn't long before I thought to myself "Who's the machine in this equation anyway?", and plunked down the $400 for the extra floppy.
I believe the rationale is that it takes little more than the same number of IOs to defrag as it is going to take to read the file once, and will take less IOs on subsequent accesses to the file (after defrag), which would appear to be imminent because the file has just been opened.
27602. No person shall drive a motor vehicle which is equipped with a television receiver, screen, or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast which is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or which is visible to the driver while operating the motor vehicle.
This section shall not apply to a mobile digital terminal installed in a law enforcement vehicle
I assume you can read, so it must be that you chose not to. As I originally said, the DVD playback gives it other means of visually receiving a television broadcast, albeit a pre-recorded broadcast.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, to get in on Apple's party, you need to bring something nice to put on the table.
Sounds to me like their just pissed off that they finally have to be innovative to justify their existence. And what, they didn't know this was coming? Surely they had the Panther seeds.
I guess you have heard of a law ON THE BOOKS.
Didn't NeXT make something akin to TrueBlueEnvironment (the Classic in OS X), that runs Intel binaries? BTW I think the next headline is going to be something like AppleWorks...now with more features than Office, and free on your new Macintosh.
You need to try it again, then come back and tell us what you learned. You are absolutely incorrect on both counts. I connect my powerbook all the time to Win2K/AD installations np. File, Print, Exchange, all without making any config changes at all to the Win2K setup.
And soon to be considered a felony in a courtroom near you.
I'd invest some dollars in ensuring that outcome.
Or it could be this:
An experience I had recently with my mom's G4 is the display was going dim near the bottom (17" Apple Flat Panel, ADC-style). Remembering the enormous contacts on the video card (to deliver power to the monitor), I thought maybe some oxidization created some resistance, thereby cutting the available current to drive the monitor, so I cleaned the contacts on the video card with an ordinary pencil eraser, and voila, the monitor returned to normal. And yes, that is all that is required to be labelled a genius by mom. (laughs) Maybe cleaning the contacts will help you if you have an ADC display.
You know the Duke Nukem developers are kicking themselves, saying "Why didn't we think of that."
Well, let's see, RIAA/MPAA been lobbying (unsuccessfully) to get laws passed to permit them to do exactly this. Probably they think they have some kind of legal loophole because the user installs it themselves.
RTFA. the exploit code is included with the article; you may feel free to try it yourself to either affirm or diminish your skepticism.
The only way to protect the information on hard copy is to incinerate those documents. Fireplace or the Weber, your choice.
Yeah and just hope there are no identity thieves working for your mailbox "vendor".
Just wait for a VPC update. I'm sure you won't have to wait for 7.0.
I suggest that you not hold your breath on that: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 827904
excerpt:
Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1 and earlier use a feature that is present in the PowerPC G3 and the PowerPC G4 named "pseudo little-endian mode". Virtual PC for Mac uses pseudo little-endian mode for increased performance when it emulates a Pentium processor. Virtual PC for Mac 6.1 must use pseudo little-endian mode to function.
The new Power Mac G5 processor does not support pseudo little-endian mode. Therefore, the current versions of the Virtual PC for Mac program do not run on the Power Mac G5.
This is a non-trivial problem.
With all due respect to the professor, by saying "manufacturing consent", Chomsky is simply repeating a phrase initially coined by Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda (aka Public Relations).
thank you. i was like "this is news for nerds?". hmmm....do you think i could swap an identical video card for one that fails in my system....wonder if that would work.
The guy above figured it out...they've put \ in their image URIs. Whether this supports or contradicts my suggestion of incompetence is an exercise for the reader. Page still doesn't render in Safari. I suspect this is a problem for Konqueror too.
Have you actually tried this? I remember some flack a bit ago about Apple pouncing a vendor for providing an iDVD driver for said vendors' DVD drive... Several posts on also indicate compatibility issues with iDVD and third-party drives. For most of my needs, simply burning data will suffice...If you've found the magic firewire DVD burner with iDVD support, please speak up.