You need to stop taking what the media spews about "hackers" verbatim and learn the true origins of the word.
Hacking has nothing to do with recognition or being 1337. Read the Jargon File, especially the glossary entry about hackers and you'll learn that its a rather innocuous term and has been completely blown out of proportion (and hence lost its meaning) by the media. Unfortunately, most people (yes... including a lot of Slashdotters) are Lemmings and don't seek the truth on their own.
In the latest version of XCode 1.1, command completion (auto complete) works very well for C, C++, Objective C (there may be other languages, but I don't have first hand experience) but is NOT supported for Java.
XCode can handle Java apps, but a lot of the sexy new features, like command completion (called Code Sense (tm)), aren't supported. I ended up bagging XCode and going back to Eclipse 2.1.2. Eclipse, which used to be a huge pain in the ass to get working on OS X is a quick install and doesn't run as slow as in days past. I haven't compiled any huge Java apps, so my opinion is biased, but my apps compile in a reasonable amount of time.
I don't much care for beeing locked into ONE vendor for both software and hardware Yep, the stability that is possible when you're writing software for a single known hardware spec can be quite annoying. (note my facetiousness)
Apple is as expensive as a minor nuclear device But at least you're not biased.
I've never used an Apple product in my life. I have looked at OSX a few times but find it very unintuitive You've never used the system, yet you find it unintuitive?
I'm curious as to the aspects of OS X that you find unintuitive. Its certainly a claim you don't hear often. I don't mean to say your statement is invalid but can you offer clear and well thought out critique?
I'm not '1337' nor am I a zealot nor am I flaming... I'm simply challenging what I think is a flawed thought process.
You're exactly right. There's a subset of the population that suffers from Raynaud's syndrome, where contraction of the arterioles restrict blood flow to the extremities of the body. For some that suffer, this results in cold puffy hands from lack of bloodflow.
Perhaps Kiera is taking advantage of the difference between opening a graphic in Photoshop and starting from a new graphic and pasting content in. If this is the case, the currency recognition algorithm only seems to be running when opening docs, or scanning new items directly into photoshop and NOT when pasting items from memory.
Interesting. Did you purchase an AppleCare contract that covered the hardware replacements?
Is the lesson learned to simply purchase this additional insurance? It seems like folks who got AppleCare are just inconvenienced in the short term, whereas folks that didn't get AppleCare are up a creek.
From one with lots of experience with many operating systems:
I find Mac OS X to be the most productivity enhancing operating environment that I have used - ever. Mac OS X is my "primary" operating system, although I do not use, nor have ever used, any Apple systems for or at work.
Clearly, this spec is a sham to allow for free advertising for the music industry, while utilizing our bandwidth and processing power.
BUT... this is a step in the digital, p2p direction from the music industry. Granted, this spec doesn't make much sense, but it could be seen as an indicator that the music industry is realizing it must embrace these technologies instead of shunning and destroying them.
In addition to a cool sim, p2psim gives you a stubbed out protocol to play around with. Build your own and guage efficiency! Check it:
protocols/sillyprotocol.h and protocols/sillyprotocol.C contain the outline of a new, but unimplemented peer-to-peer protocol. Implement join() and lookup() to your liking. Look at the other protocols (in the protocols/ directory) for more example code. Then run your SillyProtocol as follows:
I don't think woody will be postponed that long. Martin's announcement says, While it has not been announced yet, it has been pushed to our mirrors already.
Green... the market's up. Yellow... unchanged. Red... stocks are down. As the market fluctuates throughout the day, Ambient Orb gradually transitions between colors, giving you an at-a-glance picture of your financial position.
Now I know what to do with that extra $150 I have lying around!
Seriously though... its the people that would buy crap like this that invest in rumor-mongrels like SCO.
This is kind of like a Clinton-Monica joke... its gettin' old.
I'm a Mac fanatic and wouldn't touch Windows if I wasn't forced to at work. I've been givin a Win XP Pro machine and its never crashed and I leave it on all the time.
I'm not supporting Windows nor endorsing it (like I would the Mac), but stability jokes show a certain ignorance.
You should know better... security jokes are much more timely =)
For those of you who don't RTFA, here is the key point from the release: When VeriSign acquired Network Solutions in 2000, it obtained two distinct businesses:
- The customer-facing Registrar business is the world's leading provider of domain name registrations, and an industry leader in value added services such as business email, websites, hosting and other web presence services. The Registrar, which re-assumed the Network Solutions name in January of this year, constitutes the current Network Solutions business that is being sold.
- The Registry business that is the backbone of the global.com and.net domain name infrastructure currently handles over 10 billion interactions per day, remains with VeriSign as a critical component of its business. This Registry business was recently renamed VeriSign Naming and Directory Services and is a core piece of VeriSign's Internet Services Group.
I wrote to Verisign... They posted the following contact information on their press release: VeriSign Media Relations: Tom Galvin, tgalvin@verisign.com, 202.973.6600 VeriSign Investor Relations: Kathleen Bare, kbare@verisign.com, 650.426.3241
I was quite surprised by the results of their usbility study, so I asked them if they could provide so more data to back up the results. I also provided some other statistics from objective sources that voiced opposite opinions.
Will this single email be effective? Probably not. But I think its important to provide a continual stream of feedback to Verisign. Negative user feedback worked for the general good with Intuit... maybe lightning can strike twice!
Pop that sucker open (unplug first!) and there should be a little black button on the lower front of the logic board. "Reset pmu" will be printed on the board somewhere near the button. Push it for one second and only press it once. Let the box sit for roughly 5 minutes unplugged and then turn it on.
the user being prompted to confirm loading of each ActiveX control.
A few years ago, I was involved in building an application where the front end was a bunch of nested ActiveX controls. I can just imagine how the UE for that app is going down the tubes. I mean, who doesn't want to click "OK" fifteen times just to log into an application.
Its been some time... Is there any new development occurring with ActiveX or is that part of the planned obselesence with.NET?
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You need to stop taking what the media spews about "hackers" verbatim and learn the true origins of the word.
Hacking has nothing to do with recognition or being 1337. Read the Jargon File, especially the glossary entry about hackers and you'll learn that its a rather innocuous term and has been completely blown out of proportion (and hence lost its meaning) by the media. Unfortunately, most people (yes... including a lot of Slashdotters) are Lemmings and don't seek the truth on their own.
In the latest version of XCode 1.1, command completion (auto complete) works very well for C, C++, Objective C (there may be other languages, but I don't have first hand experience) but is NOT supported for Java.
XCode can handle Java apps, but a lot of the sexy new features, like command completion (called Code Sense (tm)), aren't supported. I ended up bagging XCode and going back to Eclipse 2.1.2. Eclipse, which used to be a huge pain in the ass to get working on OS X is a quick install and doesn't run as slow as in days past. I haven't compiled any huge Java apps, so my opinion is biased, but my apps compile in a reasonable amount of time.
I have a TiBook, 667 MHz, 512MB RAM.
Wrong.
http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
Requirements for Safari 1.2:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later
Any Macintosh computer
I don't much care for beeing locked into ONE vendor for both software and hardware
Yep, the stability that is possible when you're writing software for a single known hardware spec can be quite annoying. (note my facetiousness)
Apple is as expensive as a minor nuclear device
But at least you're not biased.
I've never used an Apple product in my life. I have looked at OSX a few times but find it very unintuitive
You've never used the system, yet you find it unintuitive?
I'm curious as to the aspects of OS X that you find unintuitive. Its certainly a claim you don't hear often. I don't mean to say your statement is invalid but can you offer clear and well thought out critique?
I'm not '1337' nor am I a zealot nor am I flaming... I'm simply challenging what I think is a flawed thought process.
You're exactly right. There's a subset of the population that suffers from Raynaud's syndrome, where contraction of the arterioles restrict blood flow to the extremities of the body. For some that suffer, this results in cold puffy hands from lack of bloodflow.
Perhaps Kiera is taking advantage of the difference between opening a graphic in Photoshop and starting from a new graphic and pasting content in. If this is the case, the currency recognition algorithm only seems to be running when opening docs, or scanning new items directly into photoshop and NOT when pasting items from memory.
Interesting. Did you purchase an AppleCare contract that covered the hardware replacements?
Is the lesson learned to simply purchase this additional insurance? It seems like folks who got AppleCare are just inconvenienced in the short term, whereas folks that didn't get AppleCare are up a creek.
Tis nice retribution, but you would also be giving a notorious spammer a valid email address. Your own.
From one with lots of experience with many operating systems:
I find Mac OS X to be the most productivity enhancing operating environment that I have used - ever. Mac OS X is my "primary" operating system, although I do not use, nor have ever used, any Apple systems for or at work.
Clearly, this spec is a sham to allow for free advertising for the music industry, while utilizing our bandwidth and processing power.
BUT... this is a step in the digital, p2p direction from the music industry. Granted, this spec doesn't make much sense, but it could be seen as an indicator that the music industry is realizing it must embrace these technologies instead of shunning and destroying them.
In addition to a cool sim, p2psim gives you a stubbed out protocol to play around with. Build your own and guage efficiency! Check it:
protocols/sillyprotocol.h and protocols/sillyprotocol.C contain the outline of a new, but unimplemented peer-to-peer protocol. Implement join() and lookup() to your liking. Look at the other protocols (in the protocols/ directory) for more example code. Then run your SillyProtocol as follows:
p2psim/p2psim example/silly-prot.txt example/silly-top.txt example/silly-events.txt
Kudos to a great release and the promotion of additional research and general purpose learning.
I don't think woody will be postponed that long. Martin's announcement says, While it has not been announced yet, it has been pushed to our mirrors already.
Green... the market's up. Yellow... unchanged. Red... stocks are down. As the market fluctuates throughout the day, Ambient Orb gradually transitions between colors, giving you an at-a-glance picture of your financial position.
Now I know what to do with that extra $150 I have lying around!
Seriously though... its the people that would buy crap like this that invest in rumor-mongrels like SCO.
Political information that I can:
1) understand
2) use to vote
[for the humor-impaired, this is called sarcasm]
This is kind of like a Clinton-Monica joke... its gettin' old.
I'm a Mac fanatic and wouldn't touch Windows if I wasn't forced to at work. I've been givin a Win XP Pro machine and its never crashed and I leave it on all the time.
I'm not supporting Windows nor endorsing it (like I would the Mac), but stability jokes show a certain ignorance.
You should know better... security jokes are much more timely =)
Disallow: /president/spongebobsquarepants_archive
I didn't know gee-dub likes SpongeBob too! My nephew is gonna flip out when he hears this.
For those of you who don't RTFA, here is the key point from the release:
.com and .net domain name infrastructure currently handles over 10 billion interactions per day, remains with VeriSign as a critical component of its business. This Registry business was recently renamed VeriSign Naming and Directory Services and is a core piece of VeriSign's Internet Services Group.
When VeriSign acquired Network Solutions in 2000, it obtained two distinct businesses:
- The customer-facing Registrar business is the world's leading provider of domain name registrations, and an industry leader in value added services such as business email, websites, hosting and other web presence services. The Registrar, which re-assumed the Network Solutions name in January of this year, constitutes the current Network Solutions business that is being sold.
- The Registry business that is the backbone of the global
Synopsis: selling customer facing biz, keeping registry infrastructure.
I wrote to Verisign... They posted the following contact information on their press release:
VeriSign Media Relations: Tom Galvin, tgalvin@verisign.com, 202.973.6600
VeriSign Investor Relations: Kathleen Bare, kbare@verisign.com, 650.426.3241
I was quite surprised by the results of their usbility study, so I asked them if they could provide so more data to back up the results. I also provided some other statistics from objective sources that voiced opposite opinions.
Will this single email be effective? Probably not. But I think its important to provide a continual stream of feedback to Verisign. Negative user feedback worked for the general good with Intuit... maybe lightning can strike twice!
What implications would a system like this have on US national security?
I hope I'm not misrepresenting Mac owners when I say, $3299? Damn that's cheap!
Check out the Napster Animations. They're pretty funny =)
sorry for the acronym abuse =) PMU == Power Management Unit
Have you tried resetting the PMU?
Pop that sucker open (unplug first!) and there should be a little black button on the lower front of the logic board. "Reset pmu" will be printed on the board somewhere near the button. Push it for one second and only press it once. Let the box sit for roughly 5 minutes unplugged and then turn it on.
the user being prompted to confirm loading of each ActiveX control.
.NET?
A few years ago, I was involved in building an application where the front end was a bunch of nested ActiveX controls. I can just imagine how the UE for that app is going down the tubes. I mean, who doesn't want to click "OK" fifteen times just to log into an application.
Its been some time... Is there any new development occurring with ActiveX or is that part of the planned obselesence with