Up to a certain point, large breasts are entertaining. But at that scale, they're not good for much unless you plan to cover them in snow and ski down them.
"Dude, you should've seen it. Stan got wicked air off Nipple Peak, but fractured his collarbone landing on the Z-cup slope."
red, I had a very similar problem under 10.3, except that I was often completely prohibited from writing to the directory through the Finder. Nobody on any forum was able to help me with this problem, although now I wonder if it's related to the resource fork issue mentioned elswhere in this discussion.
I just installed Tiger this week and have not yet had the opportunity to test again, but in my Panther (10.3) install I had intermittent problems trying to connect to my Debian/testing Samba shares in my office. Or rather, I could connect to them with no problem, but copying files to it via the Finder was a no-go.
And, to be specific, this was definitely a Finder issue: I could use "cp ~/Documents/somefile.txt/Volumes/sambashare/" with no problem. But it made it very frustrating for me, and to the few other Mac users in my building, whom I was in charge of supporting.
(My eventual "solution" was to install netatalk to do an end-run around the problem. I still don't like that answer.)
It would be nice if perhaps, when people order an imminently upgraded model, the order could be mysteriously delayed until presto! you get a call 'uh, we have your computer, but it's faster than the one you ordered, for the same money'. Done within a week or two of upgrade time, it would lead to some much happier customers. And that way Apple doesn't have to confirm upgrade leaks.
In fact, Apple does exactly that: it's just a question of timing.
Seriously, I could have applied that analysis to the the media of any century. People could have said that about art in the 16th century, literature in the 19th century and television in the 20th century.
These two sentences precisely nail exactly what is wrong with Dvorak's article. For example:
I can't see how people will keep shelling out $50 or so for a video game when the games have hardly changed since the invention of the first-person shooter... The categories are shooters, puzzles and mazes, adventure games, sports games, and simulations. That's it. Most of today's hottest games are combinations of two or three of these categories, with a storyline added to keep the players from being bored stiff. - Dvorak
I can't see how people will keep turning on their televisions at night when the shows have hardly changed since the invention of the television. The categories are: sitcoms, hospital dramas, cop dramas, and sports. Most of today's hottest shows are combinations of two or three of these categories, with a sex scene added to keep the viewers from being bored stiff. - AlternaDvorak
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this is MORE true of television than video games. But I'm a curmudgeon.
Yeah: I wouldn't say that the monitors are overpriced, rather that I just can't justify the expense. Still, there's some disconnect when Apple says, "look! A cheap computer that runs great! Now go somewhere else for a monitor."
There's some evidence to suggest that they're headed in this direction already. The last time their Powerbook line got a bump, they also got a mild price cut. Their Cinema Displays also just had a mild price cut, bringing their average cost from "an arm and a leg" to "a hand and everything below the knee."
Of course, once their sales hit a certain level, their incentive to keep dropping prices goes away, and there's only so much growth a company like Apple can reasonably expect to support in a given period. So, in other words, ignore me completely.
How many of us have been asked to fix an "application" only to find it's a Perl script cobbled together from four other sources with page after page of uncommented regexps and dodgy looking shell scripts behind it?
"We'll support non-Windows virtual machines running on our Virtual Server, including Linux. Virtualization am much good. Make much money sense to Bizarro."
"I don't see the value proposition in Linux" is the kind of mindset likely to change within five years.
Asserting that the GPL is cancerous and free software advocates are communists is not.
The simple truth is, Microsoft (or, at least, Bill Gates) likely never truly believed either of those things. They said them because they thought that if people believed it, it would confer a business advantage for them. For another example of this kind of behavior, I refer you towards Bill's obvious flip-floppery on the issue of software patents.
I think you have it slightly backwards - it's the articles that are usually trollish. The writeups should be highly credulous. Here's an example:
OMG!!! i just red that linus totally bitch slapped tridge, took his milk money, and called him a no skilz pozer! and the guy from bitkeeper wuz all like, ha ha, you suck!
I wouldn't really say that it's settled that upgrading the OS in Windows is only done as a last resort. I know people still using Windows 98, and my boss asked me today to call a friend of his still running NT 4 (!) as his home machine. My advice to these folks has consistently been, "upgrade now, you silly tool." (Or words to that effect.)
WIth that said, I wouldn't advise anyone to upgrade the OS without backing up your stuff first, and consider that rule to be axiomatic. I wouldn't bother backing up the Applications directory, though, just your user directory.
Mac OS's Software Update does not automatically install patches. The most you can do is to have it download stuff in the background and make it available - you still have to tell it to patch, and you have to give it an administrator password for anything dangerous.
Interesting. Also exactly how the SP2 install works: the patch is downloaded, and then an Administrator on the computer must agree to the EULA.
Amen. Freespace 2 stands up well even now. A good storyline that manages to get "drama" without the "melo," great voice acting, and a truly awesome sense of scale.
I don't actually have any modifications myself, aside from this RFID tag now. But, I am planning on getting at least two tattoos sometime soon; once my left hand is healed up, I plan on getting the kanji for patience in the webbing between thumb and index finger basically overtop the RFID tag. In the same place on my right hand, I plan on getting the kanji for now, but I may wait a while; I'm still deciding if I want to put another RFID chip into my right hand. Aside from that, I like to look at female nipple piercing.
Well, that's great, Amal. Thanks for sharing that with us.
I notice that you conveniently fail to address the lines of code argument. The number of computer problems caused by an errant line of code are probably fairly signifigant.
I don't believe that it does, although IANAL. AppleCare is an extended service contract that goes beyond the base warranty on the device, and can be purchased independently.
On the other hand, if the PowerBook were less than a year old (and since it had a USB 2 port, it almost certainly is), it should be covered under the base warranty anyway. AppleCare goes to three years for PowerBooks.
It would be a huge pain in the ass. For a camera mounted in the back of the laptop display to be able to do that, it would have to have an incredibly wide angle of view, which would mean that you'd get a lot of fish-eye distortion.
Of course, you could mount a pair of cameras on the back and interpolate the results, but... yeah. And hey, free stereoscopic images!
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Well, duh. Everyone knows that petrification and gritification were side effects of pregnancy.
Why?
Up to a certain point, large breasts are entertaining. But at that scale, they're not good for much unless you plan to cover them in snow and ski down them.
"Dude, you should've seen it. Stan got wicked air off Nipple Peak, but fractured his collarbone landing on the Z-cup slope."
red, I had a very similar problem under 10.3, except that I was often completely prohibited from writing to the directory through the Finder. Nobody on any forum was able to help me with this problem, although now I wonder if it's related to the resource fork issue mentioned elswhere in this discussion.
I just installed Tiger this week and have not yet had the opportunity to test again, but in my Panther (10.3) install I had intermittent problems trying to connect to my Debian/testing Samba shares in my office. Or rather, I could connect to them with no problem, but copying files to it via the Finder was a no-go.
/Volumes/sambashare/" with no problem. But it made it very frustrating for me, and to the few other Mac users in my building, whom I was in charge of supporting.
And, to be specific, this was definitely a Finder issue: I could use "cp ~/Documents/somefile.txt
(My eventual "solution" was to install netatalk to do an end-run around the problem. I still don't like that answer.)
In fact, Apple does exactly that: it's just a question of timing.
May I ask what your system specs are?
;)
I doubt the boot time of my 867 TiBook will match that.
These two sentences precisely nail exactly what is wrong with Dvorak's article. For example:
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this is MORE true of television than video games. But I'm a curmudgeon.
Yeah: I wouldn't say that the monitors are overpriced, rather that I just can't justify the expense. Still, there's some disconnect when Apple says, "look! A cheap computer that runs great! Now go somewhere else for a monitor."
Plus, you could heat your house with it.
There's some evidence to suggest that they're headed in this direction already. The last time their Powerbook line got a bump, they also got a mild price cut. Their Cinema Displays also just had a mild price cut, bringing their average cost from "an arm and a leg" to "a hand and everything below the knee."
Of course, once their sales hit a certain level, their incentive to keep dropping prices goes away, and there's only so much growth a company like Apple can reasonably expect to support in a given period. So, in other words, ignore me completely.
How many of us have been asked to fix an "application" only to find it's a Perl script cobbled together from four other sources with page after page of uncommented regexps and dodgy looking shell scripts behind it?
Pros might not, but I would guess that the bulk of Nikon's sales are driven by consumer and pro-sumer level purchases.
I'll give it a shot.
"We'll support non-Windows virtual machines running on our Virtual Server, including Linux. Virtualization am much good. Make much money sense to Bizarro."
"I don't see the value proposition in Linux" is the kind of mindset likely to change within five years.
Asserting that the GPL is cancerous and free software advocates are communists is not.
The simple truth is, Microsoft (or, at least, Bill Gates) likely never truly believed either of those things. They said them because they thought that if people believed it, it would confer a business advantage for them. For another example of this kind of behavior, I refer you towards Bill's obvious flip-floppery on the issue of software patents.
No.
(Huh?)
Fun for the whole family.
I wouldn't really say that it's settled that upgrading the OS in Windows is only done as a last resort. I know people still using Windows 98, and my boss asked me today to call a friend of his still running NT 4 (!) as his home machine. My advice to these folks has consistently been, "upgrade now, you silly tool." (Or words to that effect.)
WIth that said, I wouldn't advise anyone to upgrade the OS without backing up your stuff first, and consider that rule to be axiomatic. I wouldn't bother backing up the Applications directory, though, just your user directory.
Interesting. Also exactly how the SP2 install works: the patch is downloaded, and then an Administrator on the computer must agree to the EULA.
Amen. Freespace 2 stands up well even now. A good storyline that manages to get "drama" without the "melo," great voice acting, and a truly awesome sense of scale.
Plus, great graphics, back in the day.
Well, that's great, Amal. Thanks for sharing that with us.
Heh. Do you miss Republicans too?
I notice that you conveniently fail to address the lines of code argument. The number of computer problems caused by an errant line of code are probably fairly signifigant.
I don't believe that it does, although IANAL. AppleCare is an extended service contract that goes beyond the base warranty on the device, and can be purchased independently.
On the other hand, if the PowerBook were less than a year old (and since it had a USB 2 port, it almost certainly is), it should be covered under the base warranty anyway. AppleCare goes to three years for PowerBooks.
It would be a huge pain in the ass. For a camera mounted in the back of the laptop display to be able to do that, it would have to have an incredibly wide angle of view, which would mean that you'd get a lot of fish-eye distortion.
Of course, you could mount a pair of cameras on the back and interpolate the results, but... yeah. And hey, free stereoscopic images!
Because I'm funnier?
(And also: who are you suggesting I'm racist against? Normans? Caucasians generally?)