> With something inflatable, thin walls might be an advantage for small untrackable space- > junk. It'd likely pass right through the whole structure and impart little energy to it (doing > little damage). There'd be holes of course, but with the proper material that wouldn't rip > the holes would be small and repairable.
Maybe passing through an occupant on the way through. That doesn't sound very safe to me.
If biometric fails, the cracker still doesn't have the item or password. If the item is stolen, the cracker doesn't have a fingerprint or password. If the doofus tells someone his password, the cracker doesn't have the fingerprint or item.
>If they are locking the source down, I for one would hope that it might indicate > making a move to solaris. Especially after the recent news that they were > porting some of Solaris' file system over to MacOS, moving over to full solaris > may leverage the best of unix and the mac os GUI system.
Do you mean something like this?
http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) 3.0) Discontinued on 6/1/98. Solaris and HP-UX A runtime enviroment that operated in a UNIX X window on Sun SPARC workstations and HP 9000 and 700 workstations. MAE is the most complete Mac environment for another platform. Based on System 7.5.3, MAE 3.0 includes AppleTalk and MacTCP networking, AppleScript, Drag and Drop, PC Exchange, and AppleGuide. MAE 3.0 emulates a 68LC040 processor, and lets you run off-the-shelf Mac software.
>> A smoker only feels "calmed down" because their craving has been satiated
> Actually, a smoker feels calmed down due to elevated levels of dopamine generated by > the nicotine. While withdrawl symptoms can cause stress which is then relieved by more > nicotine, that doesn't discount the stimulant effects of smoking.
You are both right. The dopamine effect is what gets people hooked on nicotine in the first place, but as use continues, the dopamine effect lessens and the cravings take over.
My girlfriend just quit smoking. That was two months of hell for both of us.
> The sales droids there were seriously downplaying the MacBook Pro -- > "No one knows when they're going to ship, it could be a month or more" > and "Almost no software will run natively on them when they're first > released" were the two lines I heard the most from several of the sales > droids there.
That's not new. They've been that way since the Apple Stores started opening up on the same block, and Apple pulled their "Store within a store" out of CompUSA.
> Because it's anti-Bush. Since 80%+ of/. readership is liberal, it gets posted.
How do you figure? I'd say that 80% of slashdot dislike Bush because they have some common sense. Most of the posters might be centrist, but they are not liberal. Hell, most Democrats are not even liberal any more.:-(
Let's talk about dismantling the cult of capitalism, cutting the military by 90%, outlawing the death panalty, and making the industrialists follow reasonable eco-friendly practices. That would be liberal.
>Not sure if you're trying to be funny or what, but in case you >didn't already hear, Steve Jobs singled out Quark in his keynote as >already having a Universal Binary for QuarkXPress.
If your app is 100% cocoa, then producing an Intel binary is as simple as a recompile. If your app is a crappy port from the Windows version with lots of carbon legacy code, then you will have a lot of rewriting to do.
DoddyUK writes "The BBC is reporting that the countdown has begun for the Nyxem *Microsoft Windows* virus. On February 3rd, common *Microsoft format* documents such as MS Word, Excel or Powerpoint will be overwritten on infected *Microsoft Windows* machines. Over 300,000 *Microsoft Windows* machines have been infected thus far, the main method of infection being the promise of porn in unsolicited emails."
Sales guy from high tech security firm buys lifetime exclusive golf club membership for New Jersey representative. New Jersey representative pushes through a bill to spend lots of money with sale's guys high tech firm. Excuse for purchase, "think of the children." Exclusive golfing is enjoyed by all, well, representative and sales guy anyway.
> The iPod really is a crappy device, and they die (mostly HD failure in my experience) after, what, maybe a year of normal use.
My experience is the opposite. Here is the skinny on everyone I know with an iPod:
Me - photo iPod. No problems to date. Friend 1 - first gen (!). Worst problem is scratches to the screen. Friend 2 - 2nd gen. No problems to date. Little Sister - mini, dead hard drive, replaced with Nano. No problems to date. Girl Friend - mini. No problems to date.
> Do you honestly think Apple is going to sit on their hands until Adobe > gets their act together and ships?
Adobe has no incentive to start selling their x86 ports until there is an actual installed base of x86 Mac users to buy it. Historically, this means that x86 Photoshop will ship late this year or early next.
> Back in the 80's, I was pushing MS on anything that was not IBM. Just > about every geek, except for the CIS types, was fighting against IBM. > Now, the CIS types push MS, and fight IBM.
Back in the 80's, everyone I know was using DEC VAX VMS. Some of the engineers were big IBM PC fans, because it ran their CAD/CAM software, etc. Then we acquired a series of powerful unix workstations: RS/6000 from IBM, Sparcstations from Sun, etc. And our main telnet console was, of course, our little Mac Plus machines.
> This is why it is important to see a doctor , they are trained to help > people with these things (as are many nurses that help run clinics , > plus a few volunteers )
I know a lot of folks who are anti "medication for depression" because someone they knew had a bad experience. Not all doctors are made the same. There are a lot of pill pushers out there who listen to your problems for 5 minutes, prescribe the med-du-jour, and call it good.
The trick is to find a good M.D. psychiatrist who both understand meds and does weekly therapy sessions. Finding the right med for each person is a trick of balancing side effects, and all of these med can have bad side effects. If you get it right, it can be wonderful, but gets them wrong and you will be worse than you were originally.
btw, I'm on a combination of Wellbutrin and Lexapro, and it works wonderfully for me. And I see my therapist once per month like clockwork.
> Spoken like a true Mac cultist. Those who know a lot about technology build their own machines and, nowadays, are putting GNU/Linux and other free software OSes on them.
Here's my history. 20 years in IT systems and network management for government labs up through fortune 100 companies. I cut my teeth on VAX VMS and fortran coding. Since then I have managed SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Irix, Ultrix, Linux, all flavors of Windows, old MacOS, and new BSD based MacOS. Right now I am a consultant who is part of a team managing 500 Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, and Redhat Linux servers. In networking, I am proficient in Cisco, F5, and Checkpoint management.
I consider myself tech savy. For most of my professional life I have had some flavor of unix system at home (SunOS or Solaris mostly) and a Mac. I have never built my own PC. I have no intention of wasting that kind of time. I also find the amount of time needed for the care of feeding of Linux too much.
You do NOT speak for the tech savy.
> In fact, I've met tech journalists that hate Apple and all that they stand for. Apple computers have never been geared toward the tech savvy; they have always been marketed to the artistic technophobe.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The Apple gui was a godsend to the physicists and engineers back at the national lab I worked at. We wrote a lot of C code on those old Macs. It is often the system of choice for professional unix system admins.
It appears that a technophobe to you is anyone who doesn't use Linux. Who's the cultist?
> And, as a computer hardware expert, I will attest to the fact that Macintosh computers are no better engineered or manufactured than Dell systems, and in fact I would actually put them a cut below Dell because of the problems their overstyled chassis designs cause. You have it completely backwards.
As a computer expert, I don't use PC hardware if I can avoid it. Windows or Linux. I get paid by the hour to get work done. My 12" Powerbook is perfect to carry around to the office or datacenter.
> I am a technology writer, and I know a lot of technology writers. Most use Linux or Windows because that's their beat and it's hard to write about a platform that you don't use. But unless they write for an Apple-centric pub, tech journalists do not usually use Macs, especially the most tech-savvy of the lot.
I fear that you are stuck in a world of PC hardware. Please do us all a favor and get some real tech experience before spouting off.
> Actually that is a good question. AJAX is great but it needs to gracefully fall back to solid useable HTML for clients that can't handle > javascript or whatever.
And they also need to fall back to printed paper for people without computers. And spoken word for people who can't read.
Javascript is an accepted WWW standard. There is no reason for any app developer to not use javascript to his heart's content.
> But I sure wouldn't argue that the U.S. should adjust its priorities and send all NASA's funding to care for the homeless.
Which wouldn't even dent the homeless issue. Start with half a trillion that we are donating to defense contractors and oil companies under the pretense of fighting terrorism, and we can start to talk about fighting poverty.
> Might this only result in the Linux desktop becoming more like Windows?
Exactly. This is not a usability test. It is a test of how well the Linux desktop can immitate the Windows desktop. A true test of Linux desktop usability would be to take 100 people who are new to computers, put 50 people down in front of Linux computers and 50 people down in front of Windows computers, and try to teach them how to perform basic tasks.
> Yes, the NY Times might have a very, very slight left bias; the Wall Street Journal might have a teensy bit of a right-wing view on it; > however, these institutions do their best to make their stories accurate and neutral. Their job is to inform the reader.
Their job is to sell advertising and newspapers, not to inform. If information is what people want, then that is what they will provide. If half truths, baised editorials, and sensationalism is what sells papers, then to varying degrees that is what they will produce. No news source is neutral.
It is up to the reader to choose his news sources carefully, read opposing viewpoints, discuss news with others, and come to an informed conclusion or viewpoint.
> Now, thanks to these revolutionary decisions by Sun and Google, you only have to pay $0 once. One enormous $0 download. What a deal!
This is google we are talking about. They will find new and clever ways to leverage the web for your office work, not just running a vanilla text editor. For example, online collaboration or automatic publishing to a web site.
Slashdot Mirror
Call me a cynic, but why do I forsee 4 million laptops on E-Bay?
jfs
> Why's this pathetic? Is being a PGA instructor pathetic?
:-)
Actually, yes it is.
jfs
> With something inflatable, thin walls might be an advantage for small untrackable space-
> junk. It'd likely pass right through the whole structure and impart little energy to it (doing
> little damage). There'd be holes of course, but with the proper material that wouldn't rip
> the holes would be small and repairable.
Maybe passing through an occupant on the way through. That doesn't sound very safe to me.
jfs
This may seem obvious, but shouldn't they be using a three piece access system?
1 - biometric (fingerprint, voice, retina, etc.)
2 - item (SecureID card, etc.)
3 - password
If biometric fails, the cracker still doesn't have the item or password. If the item is stolen, the cracker doesn't have a fingerprint or password. If the doofus tells someone his password, the cracker doesn't have the fingerprint or item.
jfs
"I'm tired of it. Just let me shoot my gun."
Personally, I'd rather that you didn't.
jfs
So which is the Apple key?
jfs
>If they are locking the source down, I for one would hope that it might indicate
> making a move to solaris. Especially after the recent news that they were
> porting some of Solaris' file system over to MacOS, moving over to full solaris
> may leverage the best of unix and the mac os GUI system.
Do you mean something like this?
http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html
Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) 3.0)
Discontinued on 6/1/98.
Solaris and HP-UX
A runtime enviroment that operated in a UNIX X window on Sun SPARC workstations and HP 9000 and 700 workstations. MAE is the most complete Mac environment for another platform. Based on System 7.5.3, MAE 3.0 includes AppleTalk and MacTCP networking, AppleScript, Drag and Drop, PC Exchange, and AppleGuide. MAE 3.0 emulates a 68LC040 processor, and lets you run off-the-shelf Mac software.
jfs
>> A smoker only feels "calmed down" because their craving has been satiated
> Actually, a smoker feels calmed down due to elevated levels of dopamine generated by
> the nicotine. While withdrawl symptoms can cause stress which is then relieved by more
> nicotine, that doesn't discount the stimulant effects of smoking.
You are both right. The dopamine effect is what gets people hooked on nicotine in the first place, but as use continues, the dopamine effect lessens and the cravings take over.
My girlfriend just quit smoking. That was two months of hell for both of us.
jfs
> The sales droids there were seriously downplaying the MacBook Pro --
> "No one knows when they're going to ship, it could be a month or more"
> and "Almost no software will run natively on them when they're first
> released" were the two lines I heard the most from several of the sales
> droids there.
That's not new. They've been that way since the Apple Stores started opening up on the same block, and Apple pulled their "Store within a store" out of CompUSA.
jfs
> Because it's anti-Bush. Since 80%+ of /. readership is liberal, it gets posted.
:-(
How do you figure? I'd say that 80% of slashdot dislike Bush because they have some common sense. Most of the posters might be centrist, but they are not liberal. Hell, most Democrats are not even liberal any more.
Let's talk about dismantling the cult of capitalism, cutting the military by 90%, outlawing the death panalty, and making the industrialists follow reasonable eco-friendly practices. That would be liberal.
jfs
>Not sure if you're trying to be funny or what, but in case you
>didn't already hear, Steve Jobs singled out Quark in his keynote as
>already having a Universal Binary for QuarkXPress.
If your app is 100% cocoa, then producing an Intel binary is as simple as a recompile. If your app is a crappy port from the Windows version with lots of carbon legacy code, then you will have a lot of rewriting to do.
jfs
DoddyUK writes "The BBC is reporting that the countdown has begun for the Nyxem *Microsoft Windows* virus. On February 3rd, common *Microsoft format* documents such as MS Word, Excel or Powerpoint will be overwritten on infected *Microsoft Windows* machines. Over 300,000 *Microsoft Windows* machines have been infected thus far, the main method of infection being the promise of porn in unsolicited emails."
jfs
Sales guy from high tech security firm buys lifetime exclusive golf club membership for New Jersey representative. New Jersey representative pushes through a bill to spend lots of money with sale's guys high tech firm. Excuse for purchase, "think of the children." Exclusive golfing is enjoyed by all, well, representative and sales guy anyway.
jfs
> The iPod really is a crappy device, and they die (mostly HD failure in my experience) after, what, maybe a year of normal use.
My experience is the opposite. Here is the skinny on everyone I know with an iPod:
Me - photo iPod. No problems to date.
Friend 1 - first gen (!). Worst problem is scratches to the screen.
Friend 2 - 2nd gen. No problems to date.
Little Sister - mini, dead hard drive, replaced with Nano. No problems to date.
Girl Friend - mini. No problems to date.
Sounds like a pretty good track record to me.
jfs
> Do you honestly think Apple is going to sit on their hands until Adobe
> gets their act together and ships?
Adobe has no incentive to start selling their x86 ports until there is an actual installed base of x86 Mac users to buy it. Historically, this means that x86 Photoshop will ship late this year or early next.
jfs
> Back in the 80's, I was pushing MS on anything that was not IBM. Just
> about every geek, except for the CIS types, was fighting against IBM.
> Now, the CIS types push MS, and fight IBM.
Back in the 80's, everyone I know was using DEC VAX VMS. Some of the engineers were big IBM PC fans, because it ran their CAD/CAM software, etc. Then we acquired a series of powerful unix workstations: RS/6000 from IBM, Sparcstations from Sun, etc. And our main telnet console was, of course, our little Mac Plus machines.
Please do not pretend to speak for "every geek."
jfs
> This is why it is important to see a doctor , they are trained to help
> people with these things (as are many nurses that help run clinics ,
> plus a few volunteers )
I know a lot of folks who are anti "medication for depression" because someone they knew had a bad experience. Not all doctors are made the same. There are a lot of pill pushers out there who listen to your problems for 5 minutes, prescribe the med-du-jour, and call it good.
The trick is to find a good M.D. psychiatrist who both understand meds and does weekly therapy sessions. Finding the right med for each person is a trick of balancing side effects, and all of these med can have bad side effects. If you get it right, it can be wonderful, but gets them wrong and you will be worse than you were originally.
btw, I'm on a combination of Wellbutrin and Lexapro, and it works wonderfully for me. And I see my therapist once per month like clockwork.
jfs
Evil robots are no joke.
http://robotfrank.com/
Sometimes I just have to respond.
> Spoken like a true Mac cultist. Those who know a lot about technology build their own machines and, nowadays, are putting GNU/Linux and other free software OSes on them.
Here's my history. 20 years in IT systems and network management for government labs up through fortune 100 companies. I cut my teeth on VAX VMS and fortran coding. Since then I have managed SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Irix, Ultrix, Linux, all flavors of Windows, old MacOS, and new BSD based MacOS. Right now I am a consultant who is part of a team managing 500 Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, and Redhat Linux servers. In networking, I am proficient in Cisco, F5, and Checkpoint management.
I consider myself tech savy. For most of my professional life I have had some flavor of unix system at home (SunOS or Solaris mostly) and a Mac. I have never built my own PC. I have no intention of wasting that kind of time. I also find the amount of time needed for the care of feeding of Linux too much.
You do NOT speak for the tech savy.
> In fact, I've met tech journalists that hate Apple and all that they stand for. Apple computers have never been geared toward the tech savvy; they have always been marketed to the artistic technophobe.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The Apple gui was a godsend to the physicists and engineers back at the national lab I worked at. We wrote a lot of C code on those old Macs. It is often the system of choice for professional unix system admins.
It appears that a technophobe to you is anyone who doesn't use Linux. Who's the cultist?
> And, as a computer hardware expert, I will attest to the fact that Macintosh computers are no better engineered or manufactured than Dell systems, and in fact I would actually put them a cut below Dell because of the problems their overstyled chassis designs cause. You have it completely backwards.
As a computer expert, I don't use PC hardware if I can avoid it. Windows or Linux. I get paid by the hour to get work done. My 12" Powerbook is perfect to carry around to the office or datacenter.
> I am a technology writer, and I know a lot of technology writers. Most use Linux or Windows because that's their beat and it's hard to write about a platform that you don't use. But unless they write for an Apple-centric pub, tech journalists do not usually use Macs, especially the most tech-savvy of the lot.
I fear that you are stuck in a world of PC hardware. Please do us all a favor and get some real tech experience before spouting off.
jfs
> If I'm paying to get this episode off of iTunes, why should they stuff advertisements in there as well?
Cough, cable TV, couch.
jfs
> Actually that is a good question. AJAX is great but it needs to gracefully fall back to solid useable HTML for clients that can't handle
> javascript or whatever.
And they also need to fall back to printed paper for people without computers. And spoken word for people who can't read.
Javascript is an accepted WWW standard. There is no reason for any app developer to not use javascript to his heart's content.
jfs
> But I sure wouldn't argue that the U.S. should adjust its priorities and send all NASA's funding to care for the homeless.
Which wouldn't even dent the homeless issue. Start with half a trillion that we are donating to defense contractors and oil companies under the pretense of fighting terrorism, and we can start to talk about fighting poverty.
jfs
> Might this only result in the Linux desktop becoming more like Windows?
Exactly. This is not a usability test. It is a test of how well the Linux desktop can immitate the Windows desktop. A true test of Linux desktop usability would be to take 100 people who are new to computers, put 50 people down in front of Linux computers and 50 people down in front of Windows computers, and try to teach them how to perform basic tasks.
jfs
> Yes, the NY Times might have a very, very slight left bias; the Wall Street Journal might have a teensy bit of a right-wing view on it;
> however, these institutions do their best to make their stories accurate and neutral. Their job is to inform the reader.
Their job is to sell advertising and newspapers, not to inform. If information is what people want, then that is what they will provide. If half truths, baised editorials, and sensationalism is what sells papers, then to varying degrees that is what they will produce. No news source is neutral.
It is up to the reader to choose his news sources carefully, read opposing viewpoints, discuss news with others, and come to an informed conclusion or viewpoint.
jfs
> Now, thanks to these revolutionary decisions by Sun and Google, you only have to pay $0 once. One enormous $0 download. What a deal!
This is google we are talking about. They will find new and clever ways to leverage the web for your office work, not just running a vanilla text editor. For example, online collaboration or automatic publishing to a web site.
jfs