Capitalize. The punctuation in that sentence is fine. The only major problem is that the comma after 'areas' could be a semicolon. It's a bit more punctuation than I'd use, but he's well within the typical bounds of English usage.
Formal or informal correspondence, if a person isn't inclined to be thoughtful about his spelling or grammar, he probably isn't inclined to put much thought into what he says. And the result is a waste of everybody's time. What you permit in the informal will eventually infect that which you consider formal.
If I can't log in as an arbitrary user, then I can't fully test the system. Everyone had different preferences and details, and I, as the master user can't do all that much from my account.
I think you misunderstand what my message meant: I don't have a "master" mode, I have a overriding password that bypasses the standard authentication system and lets the admin user assume the username/authentication details of an arbitrary user. That's important so I can have the same experience as that user. It doesn't compromise any data security, as I can just as easily see all the user's data when it's sitting on the database server.
Just this morning, I write a backdoor into a web project. Very often the testing users give me really strange errors that I just can't verify at all. It's useful to have a "master password" that I'll disable later (probably.) Backdoors are most often used for debugging purposes. Fortunately for the users, I'll be the sysadmin when the system goes live, so there isn't much of a risk (yet.)
You'll note that Apple has resisted DRM. Part of their goal is to make using computers and media simple and friendly. Slapping DRM and "you downloaded it but it won't work on your iPod" limitations are fundamentally contrary to the Apple vision of people using their music and their devices.
It's all about the money. Kazaa is paid for by spyware. There aren't enough Macs to make spyware cost effective. Mac users wouldn't stand for spyware. The Mac platform makes spyware easier to find and delete. If you're a nasty, evil software company, you're not in it for the users. You're in it for the money and the money just isn't there to support a Mac client.
I fully support the idea, but when I buy CDs, it's usually for the whole album. If I like someone's music, I probably want to hear the whole album. Much of the time, I like the other songs more than the "headline" tracks.
"Sony's Blu-ray machine will be able to play red-laser discs using the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats"
Uh, the post to which you're replying quotes the story to which you're replying that explains that the blue laser device does, in fact, read red laser media.
Born with a silver spoon up his nose. Money and connections can buy you a lot of things in this country. Have the right last name and a bankroll and smart people can steer you to the darndest places.
Of course you can. Part of being a browser is handling non-optimal/error conditions. If it can't deal properly with an erroneous page, then what's the hell of bothering to have a browser?
It's a goatse, alright. I'm not entirely certain how it works (and I don't want to go back and investigate further), but it's a magic eye that will suddenly become the goatse picture while you're staring at the magic eye.
No sensible person is going to expect to get $50,000 in his bank account overnight and not wonder, just a little, whether or not he's breaking a law somewhere. It's just not practical to think otherwise.
Are you kidding? Cyberdog was never intended to be the dfeault Mac Internet tools. I was an avid Cyberdog user, but the web part was never good enough to be a standard tool. The mail system totally rocked, though. The reason IE became the standard browser is because it was winning the browser wars and was just better then Netscape at the time. There are things much better than IE now (Safari, OmniWeb), but at the time, IE was clearly the winning horse.
As for killing the Newton, there aren't even comprehensive WinCE/PocketPC tools for the Mac now, five years later. And giving the Palm platform a boost does nothing but hurt MS! Don't go looking for conspiracies where they obviously don't exist -- it's unbecoming.
Actually, you missed the fundamental point. That it was cancelled is a given. That it was the climax of John Sculley's dream is what's actually most important.
From the review: "On attempting to load PerversionTracker, Opera laid out the page poorly, claimed to be "done," and yet continued to spin its progress indicator. For 25 minutes."
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And your stupid programs break when the system spanks them down.
DLL hell is there, it just has different symptoms.
Putting a giant band-aid labeled "The Solution" over the problem doesn't make it go away, it just makes it look less odious.
I think Apple would be pretty darned happy with 10% of the market :-)
You're pretty.
Capitalize. The punctuation in that sentence is fine. The only major problem is that the comma after 'areas' could be a semicolon. It's a bit more punctuation than I'd use, but he's well within the typical bounds of English usage.
Formal or informal correspondence, if a person isn't inclined to be thoughtful about his spelling or grammar, he probably isn't inclined to put much thought into what he says. And the result is a waste of everybody's time. What you permit in the informal will eventually infect that which you consider formal.
If I can't log in as an arbitrary user, then I can't fully test the system. Everyone had different preferences and details, and I, as the master user can't do all that much from my account.
I think you misunderstand what my message meant: I don't have a "master" mode, I have a overriding password that bypasses the standard authentication system and lets the admin user assume the username/authentication details of an arbitrary user. That's important so I can have the same experience as that user. It doesn't compromise any data security, as I can just as easily see all the user's data when it's sitting on the database server.
Even Gary Coleman?
Just this morning, I write a backdoor into a web project. Very often the testing users give me really strange errors that I just can't verify at all. It's useful to have a "master password" that I'll disable later (probably.) Backdoors are most often used for debugging purposes. Fortunately for the users, I'll be the sysadmin when the system goes live, so there isn't much of a risk (yet.)
You'll note that Apple has resisted DRM. Part of their goal is to make using computers and media simple and friendly. Slapping DRM and "you downloaded it but it won't work on your iPod" limitations are fundamentally contrary to the Apple vision of people using their music and their devices.
It's all about the money. Kazaa is paid for by spyware. There aren't enough Macs to make spyware cost effective. Mac users wouldn't stand for spyware. The Mac platform makes spyware easier to find and delete. If you're a nasty, evil software company, you're not in it for the users. You're in it for the money and the money just isn't there to support a Mac client.
Are you that dumb? This music doesn't come out of a vacuum, get stored on a vacmuum, then get delivered over non-existant network bandwidth.
I fully support the idea, but when I buy CDs, it's usually for the whole album. If I like someone's music, I probably want to hear the whole album. Much of the time, I like the other songs more than the "headline" tracks.
"Sony's Blu-ray machine will be able to play red-laser discs using the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats"
Uh, the post to which you're replying quotes the story to which you're replying that explains that the blue laser device does, in fact, read red laser media.
Born with a silver spoon up his nose. Money and connections can buy you a lot of things in this country. Have the right last name and a bankroll and smart people can steer you to the darndest places.
Well, the worst Mac is still a pretty useful box :-)
I just don't relish the memory of installing hardware in that god-awful case.
Thay might be the worst Mac ever made. A singularly useless computer.
Of course you can. Part of being a browser is handling non-optimal/error conditions. If it can't deal properly with an erroneous page, then what's the hell of bothering to have a browser?
It's a goatse, alright. I'm not entirely certain how it works (and I don't want to go back and investigate further), but it's a magic eye that will suddenly become the goatse picture while you're staring at the magic eye.
No sensible person is going to expect to get $50,000 in his bank account overnight and not wonder, just a little, whether or not he's breaking a law somewhere. It's just not practical to think otherwise.
I wonder how often someone actually responds to these guys but the response (quoting the original) gets caught by the spammer's spam filter.
What are you talking about? Apache/IIS? Those are webservers. What the hell do they have to do with people responding to junk e-mail?
I apologize, you're right.
IIRC, a IIfx had a 40MHz 68030 in it.
Are you kidding? Cyberdog was never intended to be the dfeault Mac Internet tools. I was an avid Cyberdog user, but the web part was never good enough to be a standard tool. The mail system totally rocked, though. The reason IE became the standard browser is because it was winning the browser wars and was just better then Netscape at the time. There are things much better than IE now (Safari, OmniWeb), but at the time, IE was clearly the winning horse.
As for killing the Newton, there aren't even comprehensive WinCE/PocketPC tools for the Mac now, five years later. And giving the Palm platform a boost does nothing but hurt MS! Don't go looking for conspiracies where they obviously don't exist -- it's unbecoming.
Actually, you missed the fundamental point. That it was cancelled is a given. That it was the climax of John Sculley's dream is what's actually most important.
From the review: "On attempting to load PerversionTracker, Opera laid out the page poorly, claimed to be "done," and yet continued to spin its progress indicator. For 25 minutes."