or when Steve's reality distortion field fails. Whichever comes first.
It's been going strong for decades now...I wouldn't expect it to fail anytime soon.
...Though I don't own a mac, I wll say that the G4 is a fairly respectable cpu, I very much look forward to seeing the G5...though it may be some time...
If you're asking yourself, "why do we really need this," or if you're just a caucasian who likes anime and is just browsing Slashdot, here is why we need this!
The c3's actually a rebranded/recolored Palm Vx (that little x makes a difference!)...
...Having used my c3 for a year now, I've had virtually no problems, save for the button defect on it (a design defect on all Palm V/x's...nothing to do with manufacturing) that caused my battery to drain, taking all my info with it...but it was partially my fault...
At any rate, PalmOS PDA's are getting quite cheap now. If one's going to go drop around $150-$200, I don't think the Handspring Visor Edge can be beat for the money!
Hopefully, this is yet one more step in fully hacking the X-Box (can't tell because the site's been/.ed)
And I don't meant the usual Playstation-like hacking. I couldn't care less about not having to pay for games...
What I can't wait for are things like a DiVX player (DivX movies on TV!), Linux -> and with it all those wonderful applications, DVD Movies without the hardware adapter, etc. and all of this for only 200 bucks!
Many Dreamcasts were sold because of their hacking potential...just imagine what an X-Box is capable of! This, more than any reason, is why I'm hoping the X-Box pulls through and "makes it" among the video game platforms...
Yeah, but considering Chris Carter has stated that the upcoming movie will be a self-contained story and not a "mythology," I think this was simply a poorly constructed series finale.
...You'd think that, by now, Chris Carter would have figured out how to write a better series finale...As we all know he's had to do it many, many times.
MS Bob: This is only my opinion, of course. But I have no doubts it is correct.
IE: Various articles over the years...most notably, Netscape's old plans to extend their browser over the desktop. This scared the hell out of Microsoft. It would've taken away their control of their own desktop.
UTV: Articles on the next XBox. Read its feature list...then check out UTV's features. You'll find overlap.
Mac Support: As for my comment on the common cores. I *think* I read this in the book, Microsoft Secrets, but I will admit I'm not totally sure if that's where I read it. If not in there, there's a chance it was in The Road Ahead (Gates's first book)...as for the "largest seller of applications for the mac," I can't say where I saw that...probably in various articles...
*note that anywhere I say "various articles" or something...I do a great deal of reading...books, internet, magazines. Try searching for the stuff...you'll find it. I can never remember exactly where because I have too much misc. information in my head...
I think you're wrong. First, to keep my cred, I don't like Microsoft and I'm a Linux user. However, I hate ignorant people that spout of incorrect assumptions without thought of what they're speaking of even more than I hate Microsoft.
Microsoft Bob: While it was a horrible failure as a product, it did teach Microsoft much about human computer interaction, what their customers want, and how to market products better. End the end, it was probably a pretty cheap "failure."
Internet Explorer: Probably saved Microsoft's ass. Had they not given it away, and made the user not have a choice whether or not to have it, they could have lost ground on the desktop as well as on the internet. They would not be the company they are today if it weren't for a free IE. Further, IE is not under danger of an implosion. It's not that horrible of a browser...while I prefer Mozilla, IE does feature stability in key areas that I wish Mozillla would (and it will...eventually)
Ultimate TV: This was a premature release and not well thought out, no doubt...but it will pave the way for their takeover of the home entertainment center when the XBox 2 (or whatever) combines the XBox with UltimateTV. The product itself may be a failure, but the next incarnation of the XBox would not have been/will not be possible without the work done on Ultimate TV
Mac Support: Not only have they made money on the Mac (what have you been smoking), but they're the largest seller of applications to Mac users! Further, at least up until the last version of Office for the Mac, programs like Excel and Word used the same core as the PC version, so the development costs consisted of wraping up the engines that drive the programs to work with the Mac.
Now shutup, go get a helmet, and hope that other companies out there can keep them in check.
Yeah...it would be nicer if it were shorter, but the fact that that's the exact subject heading of what was posted on slashdot gives a nice quality to it, so in the future when people have forgotten the details of that post "dead-gunman" will probably work. Until then, I think the full version is okay.
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And I'll try not to lone-gunman-are-dead the review
That's got to be the phrase of the day somewhere! People on the boards were quite unhappy that Slashdot posted that (and as soon as it happened on the east coast, no less!)!
To use it as a description for how much or how little will be given away in the review is truly, truly amazing! Caused me to laugh, anyway!
Show me a geek that would protest to being forced to go see Attack of the Clones (how many boring, pointless "team building" events have you been forced to go to? This would be great by comparison) and I'll show you a psudo-geek (or, at the very least, a very miserable person).
How willing do you think geeks would be to work for the half week the company said "No one may leave to go see Attack of the Clones. That's what the weekends are for."
If I were in charge (Sun take note...I get the feeling you could use some new higher-ups!), I'd rent out a theater or two and make the geeks attend! It'd be good for morale...and good morale gets people working harder and faster!
Based on this review, I do believe this author has been using macs for many years, and obviously is of the "old guard" of mac loyalists.
What I mean by that, is that they randomly attack the PC, while pointing out the stupid ways PC users attack macs. It's been my experience that mac users of this "old guard" (which is to say, they've been using macs well before OS X was a glimmer in NeXt's eye) are very annoying. Most PC users I know, before OS X, didn't give a sh*t about macs, be they good or crappy machines. Mac users meanwhile wouldn't shut up about how good their macs were...as if they were trying to compensate for...something.
Now, with OS X, I may actually go buy a mac one of these days. It's UNIX when I want it to be, and a pretty looking OS for the days when I just don't feel like thinking. If I do get one, however, I'm going to mostly steer clear of those longtime mac users and instead find people who got a mac for the same reasons I did. At least then I could get some work done in peace!
So they're going to show those morons behind the bribes that are behind the bill who's boss by ceasing broadcasts for the day...that'll show 'em!
Actually...since this stupid bill will make payments retroactive, a day of silence could save these internet radio companies quite a bit of money!!! Even better though, it could end up eventually costing the RIAA a little bit of money...and that's better than it costing them nothing...
Considering one would have to be one heck of a hacker (cracker, etc, whatever...pick your adj, I don't want a debate!) to even figure out how to begin to go about hacking a Plan 9 system, I'd say it's a pretty secure OS.
Yes, this is true. The show had gotten considerably worse the past year or two.
So bad, in fact, I stopped watching for most of the season.
But with the hype of "the final x episodes," I started watching again. The last few episodes, I think, have been pretty good...still not up to par with the rest of the series (pre season 7), but good nonetheless.
...and I still am very right about what the editors did.
Wow...I was just (not five minutes ago) on distrowatch.com where I went to Lycoris's website and looked around!
At anyrate, you can actually buy a pretty inexpensive HP laptop (as well as a few desktops) from them on which they will preinstall Lycoris Linux for you...Without having to pay the Microsoft Tax, they can sell the machines much cheaper, it seems!
By the way, "virii" is not a word. Just to let you know.
Neither is "Slashdot," but most people just let it slide.:-)
At any rate, I would point to this Cringely column as a good start of what's beggining a new age in the development of viruses, and I think Code Red was a fairly nice piece of code, if not slightly flawed in its operation. Futher, I had the benefit to hear a talk given at the 2001 ACM Student Conference at UIUC, and a gentlement there discussed other developments possibly on the horizon such as viruses that, in crappy programs like Outlook/Express, don't even require the user to open them to run.
At any rate, though, I have little concerns for such things as it is. Though I do like to keep somewhat abreast of what's out there
Perhaps you've misunderstood me, or I've misunderstood me...at any rate, let me try to further state my position.
Some virii out there are pretty cutting edge (though there also is some pretty simple, script-kiddie like stuff out there too), believe it or not. I don't like it, but I also can't stop it. I just duck and stay clear of the mayhem.
With respect, I believe you are limiting your horizons by failing to realize that cutting edge software development is happening in all corners and all sectors of computer technology...some of that innovation, unfortunate as it may be, happens in the darker realm of computer virii. While I would like to see those that write these things focus their obvious talents, that often just isn't the case. But just as often, if it is, it usually requires the programmer outgrow their need to write malicious code.
Though no one likes to get a virus, and I often wonder who writes them and for what reasons, I do believe that there probably is much information to be gained from their examination as far as system function goes. From a learning standpoint, those who write them, while having too much free time on their hands, are learning some hard-core programming concepts, as are those who fight them. For the casual programmer, taking a peek at their code every now and then can actually be beneficial. But, as always, it's the person that can make good code cause bad things and vice-versa. As always, it comes down to the person, not the code. The code itself should not be illegal. Knowledge cannot be locked up, and if it is, it can break free in a dangerous way. Better to have it out in the open where the "good guys" can combat it if needbe, and everyone can learn from it.
While this was actually true to some degree in the early days of the Mozilla project and the later days of the IE project (IE 6 is almost respectable...for a Microsoft project), I believe Mozilla has surpassed Internet explorer in several areas that are important to at least myself. For one, as a sometimes web developer, Mozilla sticks closer to the standards. I've found myself on more than one occasion having to go back and figure out how to crap-up my HTML code to make it look right in IE. That's a waste of time, but because of people like you, and companies like Microsoft, I have to do it. Further, when I used to use IE back in the dark age of my OS use (i.e. Windows...also note that that i.e. has no relation to IE. In fact, even i.e. is embarrased by IE), I used to open up new windows like crazy! With tabbed browsing in Mozilla, I can keep a single instance of Mozilla open and keep all the sites I'm at organized! I'm never using a browser without tabs again!
For these and other reasons, I truly like Mozilla better than IE...even better than Navigator as well, as it seems less bloted than Communicator 6.0....but whatever, I guess..
Slashdot Mirror
or when Steve's reality distortion field fails. Whichever comes first.
It's been going strong for decades now...I wouldn't expect it to fail anytime soon.
...Though I don't own a mac, I wll say that the G4 is a fairly respectable cpu, I very much look forward to seeing the G5...though it may be some time...
hey, what do I know, anyway?! :-)
...sorry about the misinformation...which could also be thought of as having my head "up my ass," but I digress...
If you're asking yourself, "why do we really need this," or if you're just a caucasian who likes anime and is just browsing Slashdot, here is why we need this!
The c3's actually a rebranded/recolored Palm Vx (that little x makes a difference!)...
...Having used my c3 for a year now, I've had virtually no problems, save for the button defect on it (a design defect on all Palm V/x's...nothing to do with manufacturing) that caused my battery to drain, taking all my info with it...but it was partially my fault...
At any rate, PalmOS PDA's are getting quite cheap now. If one's going to go drop around $150-$200, I don't think the Handspring Visor Edge can be beat for the money!
Hopefully, this is yet one more step in fully hacking the X-Box (can't tell because the site's been /.ed)
And I don't meant the usual Playstation-like hacking. I couldn't care less about not having to pay for games...
What I can't wait for are things like a DiVX player (DivX movies on TV!), Linux -> and with it all those wonderful applications, DVD Movies without the hardware adapter, etc. and all of this for only 200 bucks!
Many Dreamcasts were sold because of their hacking potential...just imagine what an X-Box is capable of! This, more than any reason, is why I'm hoping the X-Box pulls through and "makes it" among the video game platforms...
Yeah, but considering Chris Carter has stated that the upcoming movie will be a self-contained story and not a "mythology," I think this was simply a poorly constructed series finale.
...You'd think that, by now, Chris Carter would have figured out how to write a better series finale...As we all know he's had to do it many, many times.
First you spoil the surprise of them dying, and now you spoil the surprise of them coming back?!
Thank you, Slashdot.
btw, ironically, you just Lone-Gunmanned the Lone Gunmen...AGAIN!
MS Bob: This is only my opinion, of course. But I have no doubts it is correct.
IE: Various articles over the years...most notably, Netscape's old plans to extend their browser over the desktop. This scared the hell out of Microsoft. It would've taken away their control of their own desktop.
UTV: Articles on the next XBox. Read its feature list...then check out UTV's features. You'll find overlap.
Mac Support: As for my comment on the common cores. I *think* I read this in the book, Microsoft Secrets, but I will admit I'm not totally sure if that's where I read it. If not in there, there's a chance it was in The Road Ahead (Gates's first book)...as for the "largest seller of applications for the mac," I can't say where I saw that...probably in various articles...
*note that anywhere I say "various articles" or something...I do a great deal of reading...books, internet, magazines. Try searching for the stuff...you'll find it. I can never remember exactly where because I have too much misc. information in my head...
I think you're wrong. First, to keep my cred, I don't like Microsoft and I'm a Linux user. However, I hate ignorant people that spout of incorrect assumptions without thought of what they're speaking of even more than I hate Microsoft.
Microsoft Bob: While it was a horrible failure as a product, it did teach Microsoft much about human computer interaction, what their customers want, and how to market products better. End the end, it was probably a pretty cheap "failure."
Internet Explorer: Probably saved Microsoft's ass. Had they not given it away, and made the user not have a choice whether or not to have it, they could have lost ground on the desktop as well as on the internet. They would not be the company they are today if it weren't for a free IE. Further, IE is not under danger of an implosion. It's not that horrible of a browser...while I prefer Mozilla, IE does feature stability in key areas that I wish Mozillla would (and it will...eventually)
Ultimate TV: This was a premature release and not well thought out, no doubt...but it will pave the way for their takeover of the home entertainment center when the XBox 2 (or whatever) combines the XBox with UltimateTV. The product itself may be a failure, but the next incarnation of the XBox would not have been/will not be possible without the work done on Ultimate TV
Mac Support: Not only have they made money on the Mac (what have you been smoking), but they're the largest seller of applications to Mac users! Further, at least up until the last version of Office for the Mac, programs like Excel and Word used the same core as the PC version, so the development costs consisted of wraping up the engines that drive the programs to work with the Mac.
Now shutup, go get a helmet, and hope that other companies out there can keep them in check.
"How bad was it," I asked.
As a friend of mine in San Jose put it, "um...nothing fell from the bookcases."
Who needs the Richter Scale with that kind of scientific observation?!
Yeah...it would be nicer if it were shorter, but the fact that that's the exact subject heading of what was posted on slashdot gives a nice quality to it, so in the future when people have forgotten the details of that post "dead-gunman" will probably work. Until then, I think the full version is okay.
And I'll try not to lone-gunman-are-dead the review
That's got to be the phrase of the day somewhere! People on the boards were quite unhappy that Slashdot posted that (and as soon as it happened on the east coast, no less!)!
To use it as a description for how much or how little will be given away in the review is truly, truly amazing! Caused me to laugh, anyway!
Show me a geek that would protest to being forced to go see Attack of the Clones (how many boring, pointless "team building" events have you been forced to go to? This would be great by comparison) and I'll show you a psudo-geek (or, at the very least, a very miserable person).
How willing do you think geeks would be to work for the half week the company said "No one may leave to go see Attack of the Clones. That's what the weekends are for."
If I were in charge (Sun take note...I get the feeling you could use some new higher-ups!), I'd rent out a theater or two and make the geeks attend! It'd be good for morale...and good morale gets people working harder and faster!
Based on this review, I do believe this author has been using macs for many years, and obviously is of the "old guard" of mac loyalists.
What I mean by that, is that they randomly attack the PC, while pointing out the stupid ways PC users attack macs. It's been my experience that mac users of this "old guard" (which is to say, they've been using macs well before OS X was a glimmer in NeXt's eye) are very annoying. Most PC users I know, before OS X, didn't give a sh*t about macs, be they good or crappy machines. Mac users meanwhile wouldn't shut up about how good their macs were...as if they were trying to compensate for...something.
Now, with OS X, I may actually go buy a mac one of these days. It's UNIX when I want it to be, and a pretty looking OS for the days when I just don't feel like thinking. If I do get one, however, I'm going to mostly steer clear of those longtime mac users and instead find people who got a mac for the same reasons I did. At least then I could get some work done in peace!
So they're going to show those morons behind the bribes that are behind the bill who's boss by ceasing broadcasts for the day...that'll show 'em!
Actually...since this stupid bill will make payments retroactive, a day of silence could save these internet radio companies quite a bit of money!!! Even better though, it could end up eventually costing the RIAA a little bit of money...and that's better than it costing them nothing...
Considering one would have to be one heck of a hacker (cracker, etc, whatever...pick your adj, I don't want a debate!) to even figure out how to begin to go about hacking a Plan 9 system, I'd say it's a pretty secure OS.
Yes, this is true. The show had gotten considerably worse the past year or two.
So bad, in fact, I stopped watching for most of the season.
But with the hype of "the final x episodes," I started watching again. The last few episodes, I think, have been pretty good...still not up to par with the rest of the series (pre season 7), but good nonetheless.
...and I still am very right about what the editors did.
Same here! It was sitting on my TiVo...I was almost ready to watch it..."check slashdot," I thought.
/. editors dropped the ball on this one, even if no one wants to admit it or face that fact.
That was a big mistake!
The
They screwed up.
I think I must be caught in Steve Jobs's Reality Destortion Field.
...because I still want an iPod over this thing!
Actually, this thing is great, certainly better than the first two (of which I never really liked), but it's still too large to be truly portable.
Wow...I was just (not five minutes ago) on distrowatch.com where I went to Lycoris's website and looked around!
...Without having to pay the Microsoft Tax, they can sell the machines much cheaper, it seems!
At anyrate, you can actually buy a pretty inexpensive HP laptop (as well as a few desktops) from them on which they will preinstall Lycoris Linux for you
By the way, "virii" is not a word. Just to let you know.
:-)
Neither is "Slashdot," but most people just let it slide.
At any rate, I would point to this Cringely column as a good start of what's beggining a new age in the development of viruses, and I think Code Red was a fairly nice piece of code, if not slightly flawed in its operation. Futher, I had the benefit to hear a talk given at the 2001 ACM Student Conference at UIUC, and a gentlement there discussed other developments possibly on the horizon such as viruses that, in crappy programs like Outlook/Express, don't even require the user to open them to run.
At any rate, though, I have little concerns for such things as it is. Though I do like to keep somewhat abreast of what's out there
Perhaps you've misunderstood me, or I've misunderstood me...at any rate, let me try to further state my position.
Some virii out there are pretty cutting edge (though there also is some pretty simple, script-kiddie like stuff out there too), believe it or not. I don't like it, but I also can't stop it. I just duck and stay clear of the mayhem.
With respect, I believe you are limiting your horizons by failing to realize that cutting edge software development is happening in all corners and all sectors of computer technology...some of that innovation, unfortunate as it may be, happens in the darker realm of computer virii. While I would like to see those that write these things focus their obvious talents, that often just isn't the case. But just as often, if it is, it usually requires the programmer outgrow their need to write malicious code.
Though no one likes to get a virus, and I often wonder who writes them and for what reasons, I do believe that there probably is much information to be gained from their examination as far as system function goes. From a learning standpoint, those who write them, while having too much free time on their hands, are learning some hard-core programming concepts, as are those who fight them. For the casual programmer, taking a peek at their code every now and then can actually be beneficial. But, as always, it's the person that can make good code cause bad things and vice-versa. As always, it comes down to the person, not the code. The code itself should not be illegal. Knowledge cannot be locked up, and if it is, it can break free in a dangerous way. Better to have it out in the open where the "good guys" can combat it if needbe, and everyone can learn from it.
Long live IE! Its just a better browser.
...but whatever, I guess..
While this was actually true to some degree in the early days of the Mozilla project and the later days of the IE project (IE 6 is almost respectable...for a Microsoft project), I believe Mozilla has surpassed Internet explorer in several areas that are important to at least myself. For one, as a sometimes web developer, Mozilla sticks closer to the standards. I've found myself on more than one occasion having to go back and figure out how to crap-up my HTML code to make it look right in IE. That's a waste of time, but because of people like you, and companies like Microsoft, I have to do it. Further, when I used to use IE back in the dark age of my OS use (i.e. Windows...also note that that i.e. has no relation to IE. In fact, even i.e. is embarrased by IE), I used to open up new windows like crazy! With tabbed browsing in Mozilla, I can keep a single instance of Mozilla open and keep all the sites I'm at organized! I'm never using a browser without tabs again!
For these and other reasons, I truly like Mozilla better than IE...even better than Navigator as well, as it seems less bloted than Communicator 6.0.