Is it just me? I seem to have observed several instances of "science via analogy" lately on various apple-friendly weblogs. Although a relative newcomer (owning current Mac hardware for the past three years) to the apple community, I consider myself a member nonetheless. I am amazed at the number of times I have seen circular logic employed by other Mac people to make a point, which is so obviously contradicted by the facts.
It's kinda like the witch scene in The Holy Grail...she weighs more than a duck...so therefore...............A WITCH! A WITCH! A WITCH! A WITCH!
300Kbps free transmission for 72 miles is fine in my book.
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Nor have I. I use iDisk, webmail and homepage, and all on a regular basis. The only complaint I have is with webmail, a couple of times I got a 500 error after hitting Send in a compose window. Hit back, and the form is now blank. It's like send and get mad.
Mebbe dudes issues are with his ISP. One little mistake in BGP4 can toast half the net.
I get the point about spammers costing the recipient money. I think some people don't see how telemarketers do the same. I also agree telemarketing has more legitimacy than spam, although some spam is generated by legitimate businesses offering legitimate products. And, it works (according to an anecdotal shared with me by a confessed "legitimate" spammer).
Perhaps I did not clearly explain my telephone. It's one of those integrated digital answering wireless types, and uses an external power supply. I seriously doubt the designers of this device went through all the trouble of stepping down and rectifying the 90VAC ring signal to grab the current and trigger the speaker with it. That would be about $.50 of parts when there needs to be about $.02.
Another way telemarketing costs me money: I have my home line setup with busy and delayed call forwarding to my cell phone. If my house line is busy, or after three rings, a forwarding call is placed. Since my cell phone is a Zone 2 call from my house, I have to pay about a nickle for the forwarding plus per minute charges, I also have to pay a minute for answering my cell phone.
One may argue that it is my choice to have this fancy setup. I have to say I agree, however, I would argue too if you have a connection to the Internet, it is a choice to setup a computer listening on port 25.
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I'll probably get tagged as a troll for this one, but...
I support and believe the position that spammers or other unauthorized users of a system that I own are stealing services from me. I further believe it is OK to block their traffic from crossing my equipment.
Now, let's look at this from the telemarketing perspective...My phone at home is one of those models that has a wall wart. I believe when the phone rings, or is in use, it draws more current. So, when a telemarketer makes an unsolicited (and unauthorized) call to my phone, does that mean they're stealing my electricity? What about my most valuable resource, my time? Are they stealing my time?
I hate spam just as much as the next guy. And I don't believe ignoring people who cause a nuisance infringes their right to free speech. I do however believe the "telemarketing" lens will be used by the Judicial System when examining these issues. Sooner or later, these spammers will mount a constitutional challenge to anti-spam legislation. Well, if they are making that much money, anyway. They may not even need the money for such a battle, it seems the EFF just might take up their cause.
fair enough then. i've got one of those clients that has the low rate too...and i do think "cheap" by default when i hear Epson. the top of the line Epsons are probably worth saving. yuk!
The boss was probably believing the smear campaign launched by his successors. "He didn't leave a shread of documentation" and maybe he didn't, if it was textbook. "We can't make heads or tails of what he did" probably because they're twits. "He was building an empire" etc.etc.etc.
I've been on the receiving end of that, after killing myself for about a year on one gig, they hire a full-time tech director. Turns out he wants to hire his buddy, and being smarter than the both of them, I represented a serious threat. Get this - the new guy told them they had to install accessible cable trays (in a school) down all the hallways because the cables I had installed in the walls/false ceilings "were'nt expandable". And the client bought it! Guess they never heard of a hub...or 802.11. And I'll bet the cables dangling out of the cable trays and the holes punched through the drywall look so much better.
I am a problem solver. I get out of bed every day to solve new problems, not get paid to repeatedly solve the old ones (BORING). By freely sharing my knowledge, disclosing and mostly documenting my customizations, I have been able to foster an environment of trust with my clients. They won't hire anybody else because they know our industry is chock full of tricksters like yourself.
So thanks for doing your part in enhancing my job security.
I dunno man. Ants already outweigh human beings by something like about 140 times. IMO, he's done us a great service by offing a few of them without using pesticides that they will adapt to. Although it is just a drop in the bucket...So get out there and/. some ants.
I also have to add as a side comment, man I have never seen a topic get utterly ripped to shreds like this out here.
Yep, I thought it was Adventure (or adventur as ported to the Oasis OS) too, not some commie pinko rippoff from Atari. Very disappointing...I shoulda known these GenY whippersnappers out here wouldn't post an article about that.
I never experienced this, but a friend of mine told me he got the source (in Fortran) from the author as a prize for getting the "last" point, for a perfect score of 350. Showed me a big stack of greenbar that was the listing, but no habla Fortran para me. Now *that* was cool.
Do not even *think* of speaking to the other lawyer without representation. They are the masters of spin and they will take anything you say and turn it against you. If you speak to him/her and offer no information, then you're uncooperative. That's their job, to make you look like a schmuck. How much money do you think Mr. CEO will invest in his retribution? I'd say if his computer Klez'd an important and equally clueless customer or investor, he's got no choice but to grind you into meatballs.
If Mr. CEO doesn't come to his senses, or if you receive notice of some action, you will need a lawyer who can speak the lingo to tell Mr. CEO's firm why it is a well documented fact that mail headers do not indicate actual message senders, and what sort of filings your side intends to pursue if they do not lay off.
You might even get a clever lawyer who can snooker them into pursuing some cause of action that, once the true facts are presented, will only piss a judge off. And lawyers avoid angering a judge at all costs. Once they're in that position, it's like they're Superman and you've got the Kryptonite. Such a situation might garner you a tidy settlement, out of court and confidential, of course. Yeah I don't favor use of the legal system for personal gain, although I do favor a little "Legal System Aikito (sp?)" when some jackass won't listen to reason.
My buddy and I run a network composed in part of around 100-110 Macs in a High School environment. We've had fairly good success with MacAdministrator, although using "Target Disk Mode" is a way to defeat it with a firewire cable and a handy student-supplied notebook. I assume the same applies to MacPrefect. Nonetheless, it keeps the kids from making stupid mistakes that would otherwise cost big support time.
It also has some neato features that log you in automagically to servers and puts an alias to a home folder on the user's desktop. You can also deploy software remotely, although we prefer Retrospect for workstation production. We use remote deployment when appropriate.
The guys at Hi Resolution are top-notch, IMO, and always provide sensible answers. The documentation leaves a lot to be desired because while every module is extensively and exhaustively documented, there are no solution-oriented/howto guides. Their tech support fills that gap pretty well.
Probably so a semi-objective discussion could ensue, with people who use Macs (and therefore people who have a better chance to actually know WTF they're talking about) participating, instead of the three-ring circus which has become the/. norm.
He certainly wrote well about some of the truisms inherent in the computer industry. Having been around for nearly two decades, I found it somewhat amusing.
IMO, he overestimated Apple's progress toward delivering a new OS when Jobs re-took the reins. At that time, a lot of MacOS internals were running against a 68K emulator because they had not even been ported to PPC. Hence, the initial "downgrade" to PCC models, where your apps actually ran slower. It wasn't until 8.6 (Jobs + ~400 days later) that they had a PPC native OS.
Here's a joke about the new CEO at a computer company.
On his first day at work, the new CEO crosses paths with the old one. Seems his predecessor needed extra time to clean out his desk. Feeling somewhat awkward, he blurts out a hello. The old guy responds with a smile, and says "I left you three letters in the bottom drawer. Use them when you need them."
The old CEO leaves. For the first quarter, the new CEO is just getting his hands around the reins. Sales continue to drop. Desperately preparing for the upcoming board meeting, trying to think of something good to say, he remembers the letters. He opens the first one which says:
Blame your predecessor.
Which flies fairly well. Rushing back to work, with his hands tightly grasping the reins, he seeks some new ways to improve sales. He is not successful. He doesn't even try to prepare for the board meeting, instead, reading the second letter which says:
Blame the economy.
Which flies, although not so well. He really thinks he knows how to sell this product now. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize in his six month stay, a completely different technology has started to serve his customer's needs in a much different way. Sales suck even worse, and it's time to grab that last letter, which reads:
Me too. Esp. if running OS X w/256MB (or less), you need the WindowServer compression hack or else all your available RAM goes to window buffers, which inevitably causes swapping.
My apology I assume my peers out here are near-genius level as a minimum. Obviously this is my folly for assuming the context of my post to be obvious. Thank you so much for the klunk upside the head via Webster's. I will surely remember the pain the next time I assume my fellow slashdotters will be able to connect the dots, glean the context, so to speak, and I will instead take the time to painstakingly spell everything out and copy everyone in triplicate so there can be no misunderstanding. See I'm doing it already. Thanks and again, I apologize for assuming. I really didn't mean to make an ass of you and me. And now it seems that I have. But I could not have done it without your help. Thanks and have a nice day.
I've experienced problems coming out of sleep and the Finder seeming to do whatever it pleases with arranging files too. Have not noticed copying instead of moving, but haven't done much of that. The strangest thing however, was extremely slow file sharing access. Downloading files via HTTP ran flat out at about 80-90Mbps, from both machines, however copying files from one mac to another via AFP (w/o AppleTalk) ran at about 1-2Mbps. After a whole lot of messing around, the condition was cleared after a reboot.
I didn't pay extra for the pb because it has dual head. I paid extra because the G4 runs circles around the G3, and my time is worth more than my money.
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It's kinda like the witch scene in The Holy Grail...she weighs more than a duck...so therefore...............A WITCH! A WITCH! A WITCH! A WITCH!
300Kbps free transmission for 72 miles is fine in my book.
Mebbe dudes issues are with his ISP. One little mistake in BGP4 can toast half the net.
I get the point about spammers costing the recipient money. I think some people don't see how telemarketers do the same. I also agree telemarketing has more legitimacy than spam, although some spam is generated by legitimate businesses offering legitimate products. And, it works (according to an anecdotal shared with me by a confessed "legitimate" spammer).
Perhaps I did not clearly explain my telephone. It's one of those integrated digital answering wireless types, and uses an external power supply. I seriously doubt the designers of this device went through all the trouble of stepping down and rectifying the 90VAC ring signal to grab the current and trigger the speaker with it. That would be about $.50 of parts when there needs to be about $.02.
Another way telemarketing costs me money: I have my home line setup with busy and delayed call forwarding to my cell phone. If my house line is busy, or after three rings, a forwarding call is placed. Since my cell phone is a Zone 2 call from my house, I have to pay about a nickle for the forwarding plus per minute charges, I also have to pay a minute for answering my cell phone.
One may argue that it is my choice to have this fancy setup. I have to say I agree, however, I would argue too if you have a connection to the Internet, it is a choice to setup a computer listening on port 25.
I'll probably get tagged as a troll for this one, but...
I support and believe the position that spammers or other unauthorized users of a system that I own are stealing services from me. I further believe it is OK to block their traffic from crossing my equipment.
Now, let's look at this from the telemarketing perspective...My phone at home is one of those models that has a wall wart. I believe when the phone rings, or is in use, it draws more current. So, when a telemarketer makes an unsolicited (and unauthorized) call to my phone, does that mean they're stealing my electricity? What about my most valuable resource, my time? Are they stealing my time?
I hate spam just as much as the next guy. And I don't believe ignoring people who cause a nuisance infringes their right to free speech. I do however believe the "telemarketing" lens will be used by the Judicial System when examining these issues. Sooner or later, these spammers will mount a constitutional challenge to anti-spam legislation. Well, if they are making that much money, anyway. They may not even need the money for such a battle, it seems the EFF just might take up their cause.
Yeah, and then every spammer gets a confirmation that your email address is real.
fair enough then. i've got one of those clients that has the low rate too...and i do think "cheap" by default when i hear Epson. the top of the line Epsons are probably worth saving. yuk!
I've been on the receiving end of that, after killing myself for about a year on one gig, they hire a full-time tech director. Turns out he wants to hire his buddy, and being smarter than the both of them, I represented a serious threat. Get this - the new guy told them they had to install accessible cable trays (in a school) down all the hallways because the cables I had installed in the walls/false ceilings "were'nt expandable". And the client bought it! Guess they never heard of a hub...or 802.11. And I'll bet the cables dangling out of the cable trays and the holes punched through the drywall look so much better.
I am a problem solver. I get out of bed every day to solve new problems, not get paid to repeatedly solve the old ones (BORING). By freely sharing my knowledge, disclosing and mostly documenting my customizations, I have been able to foster an environment of trust with my clients. They won't hire anybody else because they know our industry is chock full of tricksters like yourself.
So thanks for doing your part in enhancing my job security.
Dude, just a suggestion, raise your rates. It should cost more for you to perform that task than to buy a new printer, especially an Epson.
I also have to add as a side comment, man I have never seen a topic get utterly ripped to shreds like this out here.
I never experienced this, but a friend of mine told me he got the source (in Fortran) from the author as a prize for getting the "last" point, for a perfect score of 350. Showed me a big stack of greenbar that was the listing, but no habla Fortran para me. Now *that* was cool.
Yep that just about summarizes what I was going to say...
Do not even *think* of speaking to the other lawyer without representation. They are the masters of spin and they will take anything you say and turn it against you. If you speak to him/her and offer no information, then you're uncooperative. That's their job, to make you look like a schmuck. How much money do you think Mr. CEO will invest in his retribution? I'd say if his computer Klez'd an important and equally clueless customer or investor, he's got no choice but to grind you into meatballs.
If Mr. CEO doesn't come to his senses, or if you receive notice of some action, you will need a lawyer who can speak the lingo to tell Mr. CEO's firm why it is a well documented fact that mail headers do not indicate actual message senders, and what sort of filings your side intends to pursue if they do not lay off.
You might even get a clever lawyer who can snooker them into pursuing some cause of action that, once the true facts are presented, will only piss a judge off. And lawyers avoid angering a judge at all costs. Once they're in that position, it's like they're Superman and you've got the Kryptonite. Such a situation might garner you a tidy settlement, out of court and confidential, of course. Yeah I don't favor use of the legal system for personal gain, although I do favor a little "Legal System Aikito (sp?)" when some jackass won't listen to reason.
Yeah, well mine has three. So thhpupppthpppupththppthtth
MacAdministrator is the network-aware product from the same company as MacPrefect, Hi Resolution Systems.
My buddy and I run a network composed in part of around 100-110 Macs in a High School environment. We've had fairly good success with MacAdministrator, although using "Target Disk Mode" is a way to defeat it with a firewire cable and a handy student-supplied notebook. I assume the same applies to MacPrefect. Nonetheless, it keeps the kids from making stupid mistakes that would otherwise cost big support time.
It also has some neato features that log you in automagically to servers and puts an alias to a home folder on the user's desktop. You can also deploy software remotely, although we prefer Retrospect for workstation production. We use remote deployment when appropriate.
The guys at Hi Resolution are top-notch, IMO, and always provide sensible answers. The documentation leaves a lot to be desired because while every module is extensively and exhaustively documented, there are no solution-oriented/howto guides. Their tech support fills that gap pretty well.
Probably so a semi-objective discussion could ensue, with people who use Macs (and therefore people who have a better chance to actually know WTF they're talking about) participating, instead of the three-ring circus which has become the /. norm.
He certainly wrote well about some of the truisms inherent in the computer industry. Having been around for nearly two decades, I found it somewhat amusing.
IMO, he overestimated Apple's progress toward delivering a new OS when Jobs re-took the reins. At that time, a lot of MacOS internals were running against a 68K emulator because they had not even been ported to PPC. Hence, the initial "downgrade" to PCC models, where your apps actually ran slower. It wasn't until 8.6 (Jobs + ~400 days later) that they had a PPC native OS.
Here's a joke about the new CEO at a computer company.
On his first day at work, the new CEO crosses paths with the old one. Seems his predecessor needed extra time to clean out his desk. Feeling somewhat awkward, he blurts out a hello. The old guy responds with a smile, and says "I left you three letters in the bottom drawer. Use them when you need them."
The old CEO leaves. For the first quarter, the new CEO is just getting his hands around the reins. Sales continue to drop. Desperately preparing for the upcoming board meeting, trying to think of something good to say, he remembers the letters. He opens the first one which says:
Blame your predecessor.
Which flies fairly well. Rushing back to work, with his hands tightly grasping the reins, he seeks some new ways to improve sales. He is not successful. He doesn't even try to prepare for the board meeting, instead, reading the second letter which says:
Blame the economy.
Which flies, although not so well. He really thinks he knows how to sell this product now. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize in his six month stay, a completely different technology has started to serve his customer's needs in a much different way. Sales suck even worse, and it's time to grab that last letter, which reads:
Write three letters
Me too. Esp. if running OS X w/256MB (or less), you need the WindowServer compression hack or else all your available RAM goes to window buffers, which inevitably causes swapping.
My apology I assume my peers out here are near-genius level as a minimum. Obviously this is my folly for assuming the context of my post to be obvious. Thank you so much for the klunk upside the head via Webster's. I will surely remember the pain the next time I assume my fellow slashdotters will be able to connect the dots, glean the context, so to speak, and I will instead take the time to painstakingly spell everything out and copy everyone in triplicate so there can be no misunderstanding. See I'm doing it already. Thanks and again, I apologize for assuming. I really didn't mean to make an ass of you and me. And now it seems that I have. But I could not have done it without your help. Thanks and have a nice day.
MoL isn't emulation. It runs the "hosted" OS in a separate VM, just like OS X runs Classic in a seperate VM.
I've experienced problems coming out of sleep and the Finder seeming to do whatever it pleases with arranging files too. Have not noticed copying instead of moving, but haven't done much of that. The strangest thing however, was extremely slow file sharing access. Downloading files via HTTP ran flat out at about 80-90Mbps, from both machines, however copying files from one mac to another via AFP (w/o AppleTalk) ran at about 1-2Mbps. After a whole lot of messing around, the condition was cleared after a reboot.
I don't think I understand...are you implying that slashdotting-while-crapping is a waste of time?
welcome to EmbraceDegradeExtingusih XP - M$ new strategy, not totally unlike EmbraceExtendExtinguish, except this version doesn't crash, we promise.
I didn't pay extra for the pb because it has dual head. I paid extra because the G4 runs circles around the G3, and my time is worth more than my money.