You know you can just bullshit that stuff and click "Register later" and it never asks you again. Stop bashing Apple without knowing the facts, they have a cancel button too. And, BTW, I think Apple is alot less likely to spam you than Micro$oft is, they just like to know their user base. But then again i don't work for either so i don't know the specifics of all that.
SKB makes some nice portable musician's racks that come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and have some industrial racks as well. You can also get once of those little rack cases on wheels with the regular rack on the bottom and a 45-degree angled rack on top (touch-sensitive flat panel display? yummy:-) )
If cooling might be a problem there is a model with "shock protection" where the rack is mounted on special springs which are supposed to protect your rack gear for roadies who drop your stuff, but they double in purpose and add extra space and allow air to flow around the gear, keeping it cooler. Look in catalogs like Musician's Friend (although I'm told they're a tad expensive...) for such items as well.
I'll be the first one to tell you my years in school where hell, not only in public school but private Catholic school as well. So many times thoughts of shit like this ran through my head, "oh i wish i could kill them all." I was able to restrain myself from ever doing any such things but apparently things are becoming so bad kids just can't stop themselves or don't care. It's probably the reason America has such a problem with ADD and the like as well, you simply can't pay attention to anything with that kind of thing on your mind, 500 kids you think are all out to get you. You can't combat them all, and when you try, YOU are punished and then it just continues. If you actually manage to get them in trouble, the shitstorm comes down worse on you. If people had been nice to me in school I could have been an honor roll student, but i had hordes of kids against me from the 3rd grade and up and i never did anything to hurt anyone.
Younger kids witness this and then they take it to the next level against the peers that THEY single out. It's not going to stop anytime soon and things are going to keep gettng worse. You can take away all the video games and all the movies and all the whatever and i guarentee it won't stop. You can't fight back against 1000 people and win without a gun or a bomb, and if you're desperate or apathetic enough, you will.
Stop letting kids be destroyed. I am a victim and always will be, I know I would be totally different today if it wern't for what I went through. It will haunt my for the rest of my life, in my thoughts, dreams, nightmares.... You wouldn't want to go through it, dont let anyone else.
Anyone with any sense can see clearly what Microsoft is trying to do here, obviously this is quite a take-off on Apple's new OS.
I'm not mad, at all, in fact, quite amused, at Microsoft's attempt to "keep up".
1. Interface redone? Plenty of eye candy? Given a cheesy 4 letter word for a name? Apple did it first, and Microsoft continued to "innovate."
2. Balloon help. Apple did it first, Microsoft continues to "innovate." (I especially enjoyed this CNET bit: "The first time you open that left-hand panel, a balloon help feature (like the one Apple's Mac OS has provided for the last decade) provides a quick hint about what to do next.")
3. Folder-to-Web. Wanna make your files accessable from anywhere? Sounds like iTools to me.
4. New media player is designed to work better with MP3s and burn CDs and stuff? Big blue and silver window? iTunes? ANd what's this about a new compressed music format? I'm sure you'll pay big bucks to use that thanks to.Net
5. The Compatability enviroment? You mean the Classic enviroment?
It's great that MS can add so many new, great things to their OS. Now if only they could come up with their own ideas instead of trying to be the Apple, but "more innovative." 128 meg or ram? Ok, u got me there, Apple missed out on the memory requirements too, but 2 gigs? Outrageous. And do you think that "Luna" is going to make your computer fast? Aqua is speedy because it's a whole new graphics engine. Windows? Same old shit. New face.
So when your computer suddenly updates automatically and starts using.Net and you pay to use Windows by-the-minute, don't come crying to me.
I'm sure that MSNBC heard a rumor that DVD support MIGHT not be ready by the release and decided to report immidiately to get everyone flustered about OS X. I love how it even mentions Windows and that MSNBC is run by Microsoft, who makes Windows, right in the middle of the paragraph.
10-to-1 this is just another PR stunt by MS because they heard a rumor that someone said they overheard by the water cooler when this guy they don't know was talking about his sister who dates a guy who knew this kid who's uncle worked for the guy who is now working on DVD support for Apple.
All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time.
Just today my friend was trying to get his new mouse working under FreeBSD and couldn't get it, he put in a Winows 98 CD to try to boot to Windows to see if it would work there. Apon booting, the WIndows Setup program ran and without asking, warning, or otherwise acknowledging with the user, OVERWROTE the boot sectors on his/root partition, then attempted to FORMAT his drive. He almost lost everything, luckly he knows what he's doing and fixed it.
As it turns out, if the Win98 installer doesn't detect an MS-DOS partition on boot, it just creates one, it does not check for other formats that may exist, does not ASK the user before performing actions which will destroy data, does not pass go, does not collect $200. You go straight to M$ jail (Monopoly indeed). Just Up-And-Kills it because you put the CD in the computer, so now you must run Windows 98, or you have no OS!
This may be an evil little scam used by Microsoft to wipe out all other OSes whenevery their CD is booted from so you are locked into their OS, or it may just careless on the part of their designers, forgetting about the fact that a drive without a DOS partition isn't always corrupted, and the user may not want his drive messed with.
Either way, why would you trust them to be the "leader" of the computing industry as so many blindly do? It was either ignorance or greed which caused my friend's machine to almost be wiped out, either case being at the hands of the evil M$.
Just be glad it wasn't your ISP or worse, your bank, which was booting up. Is this really what we must expect (or should i say "tolerate") from the "leader" if the industry?
Do the right thing. Stop them before they own you, too.
Ok, so let's say the courts say "Enough of this crap, Napster bad." Napster shuts down. My question is: so what? I can use Napigator or Rapster and get on an OpenNap server which sometimes each have more files than Napter's own servers do. It's gotten too big, it's impossible to stop now. And let's not forget Gnutella or iMesh or any of the other sharing services out there.
It'd be nice to see Napster set up a recording studio and have artists quit their current label and record exclusively for Napster, and everytime you download one of their songs, a small add appears under the download bar, nice and unintrusive, and make money that way. Free for users, Napster gets ad money, eveyone wins.
Think about this: In the past, Apple created a great GUI. And no one can tall me that Microsoft didn't come along and rip it off and give you the Windows of today (although it has grown into an even more digusting mess that it started as). Apple brought it to court and lost, what they spent so much time creating and refining (and yes, I know the whole concept came from Xerox) and had someone rip it off and legally get away with it, I'm sure after the decade or so of near-bankrupcy that put them through they'r enot going to let it happen again, no matter what. So, I can't say i really blame them for wanting to take on any and all possible rip-offs.
On the other hand, I really do think Apple's PR dept. is taking things a bit too far. Sueing a 14-year-old kid who made a skin for WindowBlinds or whatever is just plain dumb. He's not profiting from it, and you're not loosing any money from it. Now if a company decided to use an Aqua look and feel for a product of theirs without permission, that might be grounds for attack. Apple, and the rest of the industry, too (Apple *by far* is not the only coporation gulity of having an overzelous legal dept.), needs to look at what they are doing and realize it's destroying computing. If some kid makes an Aqua skin for WinAmp, that's an AD for MAC OS X in Windows. Free. Everyone sees Aqua and knows what it is, they should be glad.
As for people being sued for hacking OS X to change the interface, I'm just DAMN ashamed of Apple now. I remember when interface modifications where a Good Thing, independant developers where praised by Apple, OS hacks where part of the innovation that makes the Mac great, it's a good computer to begin with and Apple backed up the people who wrote Control Panels and Extensions that hacked the crap out of their OS. And now the Apple becomes the forbidden fruit? If Apple wants it's former hardcore following back (which it really should, it means nothing but good business) then they should really not discourage people from toying with their OS and improving it.
And besides, Apple has been promising OS skinning since the MacOS 8 days, it's been partially implemented in the system since then (Kaliedoscope, which is like WindowBlinds for Mac, simply patches into the system appearance code and allows user modification). If they don't include it with OSX it would be the dumbest move ever, seeing as you could do wonders skinning an OpenGL-based OS.
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I must say i agree, having owned an 8600/250 for 4 years and STILL having it do everything my "PC buddies" can do (well, except Half-Life, but that's Sierra's fault, god dammit:-) ).
As far as OS X on Intel hardware, I'd like to see it because, honestly, there needs to be a user-friendly alternative to Windows. I'm sorry to say, but you really do still need to know what you are doing with Linux it run it. Not a bad thing, but Grandma can't install and run RedHat on a regular basis. People are all over Windows because it's point and click, and because it's the cheapest. Sure you get more bang for your buck with a Mac, but who wants to pay the extra $700 or more? With OS X on Intel, people could upgrade thier existing PCs to an even more advanced, more stable (yes more stable, boot a mac without any thrid-party extensions to mess up your system heap and watch that puppy haul ass, solid as a train) OS without buying a whole new box.
As for Apple switching to manufacturing their own Intel hardware, it might be interesting but I happen to love the whole PPC architecture and I would hate to see Apple stop providing it, simply because it's the only good alternative to Intel. Motorola has always been the main supplier of CPUs for Apple since back in the 68k days (rememer your first 030?), but they do need to get it together on getting orders filled.
Don't like PPC? A chip that runs cooler and with less power with a 64-bit bus (128 with G4's Altivec but this is emulated somehow I believe) and has 6 or more execution units which all run in parallel and complete FPU math in much fewer cycles than a Pentuim, at 500mHz it outruns a 1GHz PIII. OK just had to get it out, please don't start a flame war, the truth can't hurt you.
So Intel is finally making the move eh? Am I to understand that they're migrationg to a new instruction set and the new 64-bit chips will run an emulator to support x86 instructions for backwards compatability? Sounds a bit like PowerPC back in , what was it, '94 (?)
Not that I think Intel makes bad stuff (even if I prefer PPC) but if they want a chip with decent horsepower, they really need to do more than up the clock, the x86 world has been living the Mhz Myth (TM) for too long.
Yes I am bashing a bit (;-) ) but I'm glad Intel finnaly decided to do more then "crank it up" and hope it didn't burn out...
I think so too, it doesn't even seem to be a real motion blur. It looks like they're just blending the previous frame with the current one, which, at 60fps, actually creates the appearance of smoother motion, but is not true motion blur. Real motion blur, on the other hand, would involve a gauss-style edge blur along the angle of motion, i beleive there are photoshop and GIMP plugiins that do this... implementing that in hardware would make this effect look twice as good. It's how rendered 3D movies get their "realistic" look (well, for motion, anyways), not through frame blending.
Here's one most seem to have overlooked: The Earth's mass is pretty much a constant value, give or take the few hundred tons which now orbit the earth as sattelites, etc.
So, if you start bringing in asteroid after asteroid of material, wouldn't it start making the earth 'heavier'? Would this affect gravity after a while? If it affected gravity how about things in orbit? The moon? What about our own orbit around the sun?
Maybe we should just keep it in space and build big ships from moons and stuff (like the Marathon...remember?:-) )
Backward compatibility? Well, you can split your hard disk into two volumes and dual boot, or you can run Mac OS 9 in "classic" (i.e. emulation) mode and watch your existing Mac apps run slower. Mac OS 8.6 and earlier are not even supported in emulation, leading me to wonder how compatible the "classic" mode even is. Well, seeing as MacOS 9 can run apps writtien for as far back as System 6 with, for the most part, I'd say you're pretty much covered for all Mac apps since then, and that's a good 5-6 years.
It's really sad when some big corporation decides to pick on the little guys. I will admit that I never before heard of this site until now, but I think that it is unnessesary and wrong when companies decide to "uphold their right" and make someone take down their web page for stupid reasons. They aren't losing money, resources, or customers because of the Dialectizer, and if no damage is done then how can a law be broken?
Does this mean I am in copyright violation if I have the Bank of America web site in my browser's cache? Wouldn't Babelfish be shut down if this sort of thing was not allowed?
The Dialectizer's author, Samuel Stoddard , puts it best. As for me, I think we are way overdue for copyright law reform, because current laws are doing more harm than good.
And shouldn't B.O.A.'s legal department have better things to do?
So far all the information have been able to gather on Cocoa has left me sketchy on whether or not it is even needed. Granted, I haven't looked into it very much....although I did open the ol' browser to get some Apple tech notes...Gotta change my home location to something besides slashdot;-)
From what I've seen, Apple may need the time. As much as I'm pissed about yet another delay from them, I agree that work needs to be done. There is quite a bit going on at Apple, everything from the hardware to the core of the OS is undergoing a change at this point. I'm suprised they had the spare staff to work on the 9.0.4 upgrade, seeing as the entrie OS is being redone almost from nothing for OSX...
From what I've seen at the time of DP3 and comparing that progress to the expected release date, I'd say give them the extra time and MacOSX will be that much better. It will also give the Darwin Open Source project more time, which means nothing but a more stable, feature rich OS. Besides, after buying MacOS9, I'd be kind of upset at it being obsolete after 6 months.
The Mac is good, but it could still use the work to be adequate for the future.
First off, I believe this is a direct quote from Slashdot:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Slashdot is not responsible for what they say.
Put bluntly for Microsoft: 1. Slashdot is not responsible for what people post. 2. Responsibility of posts is not Slashdot's.
Therefore, I believe it would be in Microsoft's best intrest to go cry about it. I realize I haven't really put much intellegence into what I have said, but then again, neither has Microsoft. Thank you for my time.
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Hey, if I was going to be on the moon for an extended period of time, this is a definite requirement! :-D
Way to look cool, jackass ;-)
You know you can just bullshit that stuff and click "Register later" and it never asks you again. Stop bashing Apple without knowing the facts, they have a cancel button too. And, BTW, I think Apple is alot less likely to spam you than Micro$oft is, they just like to know their user base. But then again i don't work for either so i don't know the specifics of all that.
If cooling might be a problem there is a model with "shock protection" where the rack is mounted on special springs which are supposed to protect your rack gear for roadies who drop your stuff, but they double in purpose and add extra space and allow air to flow around the gear, keeping it cooler. Look in catalogs like Musician's Friend (although I'm told they're a tad expensive...) for such items as well.
Unroll your loops ;-)
Younger kids witness this and then they take it to the next level against the peers that THEY single out. It's not going to stop anytime soon and things are going to keep gettng worse. You can take away all the video games and all the movies and all the whatever and i guarentee it won't stop. You can't fight back against 1000 people and win without a gun or a bomb, and if you're desperate or apathetic enough, you will.
Stop letting kids be destroyed. I am a victim and always will be, I know I would be totally different today if it wern't for what I went through. It will haunt my for the rest of my life, in my thoughts, dreams, nightmares.... You wouldn't want to go through it, dont let anyone else.
I'm not mad, at all, in fact, quite amused, at Microsoft's attempt to "keep up".
1. Interface redone? Plenty of eye candy? Given a cheesy 4 letter word for a name? Apple did it first, and Microsoft continued to "innovate." .Net
2. Balloon help. Apple did it first, Microsoft continues to "innovate." (I especially enjoyed this CNET bit: "The first time you open that left-hand panel, a balloon help feature (like the one Apple's Mac OS has provided for the last decade) provides a quick hint about what to do next.")
3. Folder-to-Web. Wanna make your files accessable from anywhere? Sounds like iTools to me.
4. New media player is designed to work better with MP3s and burn CDs and stuff? Big blue and silver window? iTunes? ANd what's this about a new compressed music format? I'm sure you'll pay big bucks to use that thanks to
5. The Compatability enviroment? You mean the Classic enviroment?
It's great that MS can add so many new, great things to their OS. Now if only they could come up with their own ideas instead of trying to be the Apple, but "more innovative." 128 meg or ram? Ok, u got me there, Apple missed out on the memory requirements too, but 2 gigs? Outrageous. And do you think that "Luna" is going to make your computer fast? Aqua is speedy because it's a whole new graphics engine. Windows? Same old shit. New face.
So when your computer suddenly updates automatically and starts using .Net and you pay to use Windows by-the-minute, don't come crying to me.
10-to-1 this is just another PR stunt by MS because they heard a rumor that someone said they overheard by the water cooler when this guy they don't know was talking about his sister who dates a guy who knew this kid who's uncle worked for the guy who is now working on DVD support for Apple.
All your base are belong to us.
You have no chance to survive make your time.
As it turns out, if the Win98 installer doesn't detect an MS-DOS partition on boot, it just creates one, it does not check for other formats that may exist, does not ASK the user before performing actions which will destroy data, does not pass go, does not collect $200. You go straight to M$ jail (Monopoly indeed). Just Up-And-Kills it because you put the CD in the computer, so now you must run Windows 98, or you have no OS!
This may be an evil little scam used by Microsoft to wipe out all other OSes whenevery their CD is booted from so you are locked into their OS, or it may just careless on the part of their designers, forgetting about the fact that a drive without a DOS partition isn't always corrupted, and the user may not want his drive messed with.
Either way, why would you trust them to be the "leader" of the computing industry as so many blindly do? It was either ignorance or greed which caused my friend's machine to almost be wiped out, either case being at the hands of the evil M$.
Just be glad it wasn't your ISP or worse, your bank, which was booting up. Is this really what we must expect (or should i say "tolerate") from the "leader" if the industry?
Do the right thing. Stop them before they own you, too.
...really?
So, where's my $50?
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It'd be nice to see Napster set up a recording studio and have artists quit their current label and record exclusively for Napster, and everytime you download one of their songs, a small add appears under the download bar, nice and unintrusive, and make money that way. Free for users, Napster gets ad money, eveyone wins.
On the other hand, I really do think Apple's PR dept. is taking things a bit too far. Sueing a 14-year-old kid who made a skin for WindowBlinds or whatever is just plain dumb. He's not profiting from it, and you're not loosing any money from it. Now if a company decided to use an Aqua look and feel for a product of theirs without permission, that might be grounds for attack. Apple, and the rest of the industry, too (Apple *by far* is not the only coporation gulity of having an overzelous legal dept.), needs to look at what they are doing and realize it's destroying computing. If some kid makes an Aqua skin for WinAmp, that's an AD for MAC OS X in Windows. Free. Everyone sees Aqua and knows what it is, they should be glad.
As for people being sued for hacking OS X to change the interface, I'm just DAMN ashamed of Apple now. I remember when interface modifications where a Good Thing, independant developers where praised by Apple, OS hacks where part of the innovation that makes the Mac great, it's a good computer to begin with and Apple backed up the people who wrote Control Panels and Extensions that hacked the crap out of their OS. And now the Apple becomes the forbidden fruit? If Apple wants it's former hardcore following back (which it really should, it means nothing but good business) then they should really not discourage people from toying with their OS and improving it.
And besides, Apple has been promising OS skinning since the MacOS 8 days, it's been partially implemented in the system since then (Kaliedoscope, which is like WindowBlinds for Mac, simply patches into the system appearance code and allows user modification). If they don't include it with OSX it would be the dumbest move ever, seeing as you could do wonders skinning an OpenGL-based OS.
As far as OS X on Intel hardware, I'd like to see it because, honestly, there needs to be a user-friendly alternative to Windows. I'm sorry to say, but you really do still need to know what you are doing with Linux it run it. Not a bad thing, but Grandma can't install and run RedHat on a regular basis. People are all over Windows because it's point and click, and because it's the cheapest. Sure you get more bang for your buck with a Mac, but who wants to pay the extra $700 or more? With OS X on Intel, people could upgrade thier existing PCs to an even more advanced, more stable (yes more stable, boot a mac without any thrid-party extensions to mess up your system heap and watch that puppy haul ass, solid as a train) OS without buying a whole new box. As for Apple switching to manufacturing their own Intel hardware, it might be interesting but I happen to love the whole PPC architecture and I would hate to see Apple stop providing it, simply because it's the only good alternative to Intel. Motorola has always been the main supplier of CPUs for Apple since back in the 68k days (rememer your first 030?), but they do need to get it together on getting orders filled. Don't like PPC? A chip that runs cooler and with less power with a 64-bit bus (128 with G4's Altivec but this is emulated somehow I believe) and has 6 or more execution units which all run in parallel and complete FPU math in much fewer cycles than a Pentuim, at 500mHz it outruns a 1GHz PIII. OK just had to get it out, please don't start a flame war, the truth can't hurt you.
So Intel is finally making the move eh? Am I to understand that they're migrationg to a new instruction set and the new 64-bit chips will run an emulator to support x86 instructions for backwards compatability? Sounds a bit like PowerPC back in , what was it, '94 (?) Not that I think Intel makes bad stuff (even if I prefer PPC) but if they want a chip with decent horsepower, they really need to do more than up the clock, the x86 world has been living the Mhz Myth (TM) for too long. Yes I am bashing a bit ( ;-) ) but I'm glad Intel finnaly decided to do more then "crank it up" and hope it didn't burn out...
Don't believe the hype.
Here's one most seem to have overlooked: The Earth's mass is pretty much a constant value, give or take the few hundred tons which now orbit the earth as sattelites, etc. So, if you start bringing in asteroid after asteroid of material, wouldn't it start making the earth 'heavier'? Would this affect gravity after a while? If it affected gravity how about things in orbit? The moon? What about our own orbit around the sun? Maybe we should just keep it in space and build big ships from moons and stuff (like the Marathon...remember? :-) )
Well, seeing as MacOS 9 can run apps writtien for as far back as System 6 with, for the most part, I'd say you're pretty much covered for all Mac apps since then, and that's a good 5-6 years.
The link to the article seems to not work as of 11:34PM Eastern, might be a temp. glitch but it gives a 404 Not Found...
Hey ice, next time i visit #mac, you gotta give me some of those URLs :-) -TheSkull
According to the website, there is a GPS system in the setup... it's only mentioned under the Photos section on the diagram of the car tho... weird...
Does this mean I am in copyright violation if I have the Bank of America web site in my browser's cache? Wouldn't Babelfish be shut down if this sort of thing was not allowed?
The Dialectizer's author, Samuel Stoddard , puts it best. As for me, I think we are way overdue for copyright law reform, because current laws are doing more harm than good.
And shouldn't B.O.A.'s legal department have better things to do?
So far all the information have been able to gather on Cocoa has left me sketchy on whether or not it is even needed. Granted, I haven't looked into it very much....although I did open the ol' browser to get some Apple tech notes...Gotta change my home location to something besides slashdot ;-)
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From what I've seen at the time of DP3 and comparing that progress to the expected release date, I'd say give them the extra time and MacOSX will be that much better. It will also give the Darwin Open Source project more time, which means nothing but a more stable, feature rich OS. Besides, after buying MacOS9, I'd be kind of upset at it being obsolete after 6 months.
The Mac is good, but it could still use the work to be adequate for the future.
First off, I believe this is a direct quote from Slashdot:
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Slashdot is not responsible for what they say.
Put bluntly for Microsoft:
1. Slashdot is not responsible for what people post.
2. Responsibility of posts is not Slashdot's.
Therefore, I believe it would be in Microsoft's best intrest to go cry about it. I realize I haven't really put much intellegence into what I have said, but then again, neither has Microsoft. Thank you for my time.