I bought a cell phone from some outfit in California last year, and the damn thing can't handle MMS! I've had MMS ability on other phones for over five years. I can't send them at all, I can only send emails, which most people don't have on their phones. I can receive MMSs, but only as an SMS message with a link to a web page where the MMS is stored. BUT, the link isn't clickable--it's blah.com, not http://blah.com, in the message, so the SMS program doesn't turn it into a clickable link--and since this otherwise great phone also lacks copy and paste (?!?!?) you've got to write down the web address and launch a browser to see your MMS. Crazy, huh?
Gah. People who ask "does it work with AdBlock?" in every single thread about any browser other than Firefox (and asking rhetorically, rather than doing two seconds of research and posting an honest "Hey, I checked, and it doesn't work with AdBlock") are getting to be just like area men who constantly mention that they don't own televisions.
Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers... According to Melinda Elkins, a coworker of Green's at The Frame Job, a Chapel Hill picture-frame shop, Green steers the conversation toward television whenever possible, just so he can mention not owning one.
Elkins said Green always makes sure to read the copies of Entertainment Weekly and People lying around the shop's break room, "just so he can point out all the stars and shows he's never heard of."
"Last week, in one of the magazines, there was a picture of Calista Flockhart," Elkins said, "and Jonathan announced, 'I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. Calista who? Am I supposed to have heard of her? I'm sorry, but I haven't.'"
FFS, AdBlock is not the only solution to annoying ads. I spend 99% of my time in Safari on OS X because I like it a whole lot more than Firefox (for various reasons I won't bother going into here) and the combination of a custom/etc/hosts file and a flash blocker (can't find it right now... one was released, then discontinued, and now there's another, I forget the name, but I've got it at home; only works in 10.5; there seem to be several non-free solutions) make the Web pretty tolerable. (Plus that particular/etc/hosts file blocks many spyware and malware sites, so it's great to have on Windows--security in layers, and all that--and it works for all browsers on the system, with no additional configuration needed at all.)
That said, as excited as I was when Chrome came out, the fact that Safari got pretty good, pretty fast (version 4) makes me not even worry that Chrome may never make it to the Mac. Every once in a while, competition really works.:-)
It wouldn't be very hard. QNX released a downloadable floppy disk image that included the OS, a TCP/IP stack, and a browser with JavaScript support way back in 2000 or so--all fitting onto a single 1.44 MB floppy. It even came with a Tower of Hanoi browser-based game written in JavaScript. It was pretty impressive. Given how much use I've gotten out of the always-available browser that's on my iPhone, I could see having something like this, especially if it had a bit of local storage for HTML5 apps.
I was at SIGGRAPH in Orlando in 1998. Someone there had a rig that was a set of glasses (Glasstrons or something else) with a headband-like thing and on the back was a little gyro thing. You could look around, up and down, and it was perfect and fast and instant. Try that with "a flatscreen blown up to epic proportions".
And who gets headaches? They do all kinds of fancy optical tricks so you focus naturally at a distance--it's not like you've actually got to focus a half-inch in front of your eyeballs.
... won't businesses wait for Windows 7 SP1 anyway?
That said, every geek worth his salt (let alone any actual IT professional) should take advantage of the fact that MS will let you download and run the Release Candidate Customer Preview of Vista 7 Ultimate for free for a year. Works just fine in VirtualBox (also free, for Win, Lin, and OS X) as described here. Even if you hate MS for whatever reason, it's still worth knowing what they're doing, especially if you can do so for free on whatever platform you're (probably) currently using.
Because you were trying to hard to get an early, highly-rated comment and didn't RTFA, WatchTFVideo, or even RTFSummary. Besides running a basic webdav server (which I, also, already have, with Air Sharing), "If the PC and the iPhone... are on separate networks, then FreeBit's VPN software will engage the connection." That is, you sign up for an account with them and you can access your iPhone from anywhere on the Internet by going through their server.
I have never run AdBlock on any system (98% of my browsing is Safari on OS X) and I still see very few ads. Is it as good as AdBlock, or as easily configurable? Maybe not, and no. Does it do a pretty awesome job, with every browser on the system, with nearly no configuration EVER needed, and no per-browser setup required? Yes. And also block lots of spyware and adware? Yes.
I had one for a while. Got it from a friend, then gave it to my dad after barely using it for 6 months. But it was definitely neat. The coolest thing about it (at the time) was being that small but running a full OS, not Palm or CE or anything, and with a real CPU. Mine had a P75, 4 GB hard drive, and dual-booted Win98 and RedHat 7. The former owner was a network admin who carried it around and used the serial port to talk to routers. Having a hardware fetish, I bought it from him when he no longer needed it but I found that, as neat as it was, I really didn't have much use for it. (Before wireless Internet was everywhere, having a notebook on hand wasn't that useful unless you were a writer or traveling to places that had network jacks.) So I gave it to my dad so he'd have something small to take to LUG meetings. One thing--it was definitely a conversation-starter. If you pulled it out in a public place you'd have questions from everyone around you.
Costello: Well then who sets the swine flu threat level? Abbott: Yes. Costello: I mean the group's name. Abbott: Who. Costello: The group that sets the level. Abbott: Who. Costello: The group that... Abbott: Who! Costello: I'm asking YOU who sets the level! Abbott: That's the group's name. Costello: That's who's name? Abbott: Yes. Costello: Well go ahead and tell me. Abbott: That's it. Costello: That's who? Abbott: Yes. Costello: Look, you got a group that sets the level? Abbott: Certainly. Costello: Who? Abbott: That's right. Costello: All I'm trying to find out is what's the group's name that sets the swine flu level. Abbott: No. WHAT is the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. Costello: I'm not asking you who's the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. Abbott: Who sets the level! Costello: I don't know. Abbott & Costello Together: Third base!
Wow, lots of typos. I should have looked closer when previewing.
I really liked 10.3 and never liked 10.4--no great new features from my point of view, and I *hate* Spotlight--but 10.5 added enough good stuff to get me moving again. (Mainly Time Machine, and I'm really surprised at how much I'm using Quick Look.) Stacks, though, suck out loud. Besides the fact that the new defaults are less useful than the old defaults*, if you're in "Menu" mode, it doesn't follow folder aliases like it used to! OS X 10.0,.1,.2,.3, and.4 did this just fine--as did OS 9, OS 8, and OS 7.5 (in the Apple menu). We're talking about something that was working fifteen years ago. Go ahead--drop 'Applications' into your Dock and go up to AppleScript -> Example Scripts (which is an alias to a folder)--oops. No dice.
Overall, functionality is reduced. It used to be that left-clicking popped the folder open and right-clicking showed a menu (with contents on the top and options at the bottom.) Now left-clicking does one of several things (depending on which option is set) and right-clicking... brings up the options menu. Out-fucking-standing.
No sense mentioning that left-click-for-a-menu in 10.5 makes it hell going back and forth between Tiger and Leopard Macs.
Funny how preferences are. For you, Stacks are what make the Dock usable. For me, they make it horrible.
* and "fan" mode is the biggest piece of shit EVER. A right-justified curving column of text? Are you fucking KIDDING me?!?!?
I really liked 10.3 and never liked 10.4 (no great new features from my point of view, and I *hate* Spotlight) but 10.5 added enough good stuff to get me moving again. (Mainly TIme Machine.) Stacks, though, suck out loud. Besides the fact that the new defaults are less useful than the old defaults, if you're in "Menu" mode, it doesn't follow folder aliases like it used to! OS X 10.1,.1,.2,.3, and.4 did this just fine--as did OS 9, OS 8, and OS 7.5 (in the Apple menu). Go ahead--drop 'Applications' into your Dock and go up to Apple Scripts -> Example Scripts (which is an alias)--oops. No dice. Overall, functionality is reduced. It used to be that left-clicking popped it open and right-clicking showed a menu with items on the top and options at the bottom. Now left-clicking does one of several things (depending on which option is set) and right-clicking... brings up the options menu. Out-fucking-standing.
No sense mentioning that right-click-for-a-menu in 10.5 makes it hell going back and forth between Tiger and Leopard Macs.
Funny how preferences are. For you, Stacks are what make the Dock usable. For me, they make it horrible.
I loved this line from TFA: "The most surprising news from Morgan Hill is that they survived reasonably unscathed. That they did so is a result of emergency planning in place for California's four seasons: fire, floods, earthquakes, and riots."
Also, I'm happy Slashdot accepted the submission as sent in (or close to.) If it were from anyone but Perens himself it probably would have been Bruce Perens says "Don't use Gmail"
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Why in the world would you want a handheld device with a built-in 720 display? Do you plan to rest your eyeballs directly on the screen? That's about what you'd need to do to be able to perceive HD detail on a screen that size.
The summary clearly should have been titled "How does IBM plan to win Jeopardy?"
I bought a cell phone from some outfit in California last year, and the damn thing can't handle MMS! I've had MMS ability on other phones for over five years. I can't send them at all, I can only send emails, which most people don't have on their phones. I can receive MMSs, but only as an SMS message with a link to a web page where the MMS is stored. BUT, the link isn't clickable--it's blah.com, not http ://blah.com, in the message, so the SMS program doesn't turn it into a clickable link--and since this otherwise great phone also lacks copy and paste (?!?!?) you've got to write down the web address and launch a browser to see your MMS. Crazy, huh?
So the workaround seems to be:
- don't send or receive MMSs
- have a paper and pencil handy
- wait until Summer 2009 for fixes
No, forgetting to close your <i> tags is the essence of pure evil.
Gah. People who ask "does it work with AdBlock?" in every single thread about any browser other than Firefox (and asking rhetorically, rather than doing two seconds of research and posting an honest "Hey, I checked, and it doesn't work with AdBlock") are getting to be just like area men who constantly mention that they don't own televisions.
FFS, AdBlock is not the only solution to annoying ads. I spend 99% of my time in Safari on OS X because I like it a whole lot more than Firefox (for various reasons I won't bother going into here) and the combination of a custom /etc/hosts file and a flash blocker (can't find it right now... one was released, then discontinued, and now there's another, I forget the name, but I've got it at home; only works in 10.5; there seem to be several non-free solutions) make the Web pretty tolerable. (Plus that particular /etc/hosts file blocks many spyware and malware sites, so it's great to have on Windows--security in layers, and all that--and it works for all browsers on the system, with no additional configuration needed at all .)
That said, as excited as I was when Chrome came out, the fact that Safari got pretty good, pretty fast (version 4) makes me not even worry that Chrome may never make it to the Mac. Every once in a while, competition really works. :-)
It wouldn't be very hard. QNX released a downloadable floppy disk image that included the OS, a TCP/IP stack, and a browser with JavaScript support way back in 2000 or so--all fitting onto a single 1.44 MB floppy. It even came with a Tower of Hanoi browser-based game written in JavaScript. It was pretty impressive. Given how much use I've gotten out of the always-available browser that's on my iPhone, I could see having something like this, especially if it had a bit of local storage for HTML5 apps.
Slashdot, 5/22/2009: "1 TB disk stolen from data.gov"
I was at SIGGRAPH in Orlando in 1998. Someone there had a rig that was a set of glasses (Glasstrons or something else) with a headband-like thing and on the back was a little gyro thing. You could look around, up and down, and it was perfect and fast and instant. Try that with "a flatscreen blown up to epic proportions".
And who gets headaches? They do all kinds of fancy optical tricks so you focus naturally at a distance--it's not like you've actually got to focus a half-inch in front of your eyeballs.
Am I the only one who first read that headline as "Mac OS X Users Vulnerable To Major Lava Flow"?
Note to self: watch Hackers tonight. Then Swordfish. Both with the sound down.
... won't businesses wait for Windows 7 SP1 anyway?
That said, every geek worth his salt (let alone any actual IT professional) should take advantage of the fact that MS will let you download and run the Release Candidate Customer Preview of Vista 7 Ultimate for free for a year. Works just fine in VirtualBox (also free, for Win, Lin, and OS X) as described here. Even if you hate MS for whatever reason, it's still worth knowing what they're doing, especially if you can do so for free on whatever platform you're (probably) currently using.
I fail to see how this is news.
Because you were trying to hard to get an early, highly-rated comment and didn't RTFA, WatchTFVideo, or even RTFSummary. Besides running a basic webdav server (which I, also, already have, with Air Sharing), "If the PC and the iPhone... are on separate networks, then FreeBit's VPN software will engage the connection." That is, you sign up for an account with them and you can access your iPhone from anywhere on the Internet by going through their server.
The side effects of trying to squash all the little ants ends up creating more collateral damage than it's worth.
Agreed, but sadly, I think it's clear the *AA don't care.
Then we'll need another newer tag.
Two words: /etc/hosts
I have never run AdBlock on any system (98% of my browsing is Safari on OS X) and I still see very few ads. Is it as good as AdBlock, or as easily configurable? Maybe not, and no. Does it do a pretty awesome job, with every browser on the system, with nearly no configuration EVER needed, and no per-browser setup required? Yes. And also block lots of spyware and adware? Yes.
I had one for a while. Got it from a friend, then gave it to my dad after barely using it for 6 months. But it was definitely neat. The coolest thing about it (at the time) was being that small but running a full OS, not Palm or CE or anything, and with a real CPU. Mine had a P75, 4 GB hard drive, and dual-booted Win98 and RedHat 7. The former owner was a network admin who carried it around and used the serial port to talk to routers. Having a hardware fetish, I bought it from him when he no longer needed it but I found that, as neat as it was, I really didn't have much use for it. (Before wireless Internet was everywhere, having a notebook on hand wasn't that useful unless you were a writer or traveling to places that had network jacks.) So I gave it to my dad so he'd have something small to take to LUG meetings. One thing--it was definitely a conversation-starter. If you pulled it out in a public place you'd have questions from everyone around you.
This news makes me very sad. I feel as if someone tore off my head and shat down my neck.
... they can move over to the DNF team. Though these guys might be a little fast-paced for that crew...
... if they hire Lindsay Lohan.
Costello: Well then who sets the swine flu threat level?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: I mean the group's name.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The group that sets the level.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The group that...
Abbott: Who!
Costello: I'm asking YOU who sets the level!
Abbott: That's the group's name.
Costello: That's who's name?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: Well go ahead and tell me.
Abbott: That's it.
Costello: That's who?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: Look, you got a group that sets the level?
Abbott: Certainly.
Costello: Who?
Abbott: That's right.
Costello: All I'm trying to find out is what's the group's name that sets the swine flu level.
Abbott: No. WHAT is the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group.
Costello: I'm not asking you who's the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group.
Abbott: Who sets the level!
Costello: I don't know.
Abbott & Costello Together: Third base!
Nuke it from orbit--it's the only way to be sure. Luckily, we're already in orbit. :-)
Wow, lots of typos. I should have looked closer when previewing.
I really liked 10.3 and never liked 10.4--no great new features from my point of view, and I *hate* Spotlight--but 10.5 added enough good stuff to get me moving again. (Mainly Time Machine, and I'm really surprised at how much I'm using Quick Look.) Stacks, though, suck out loud. Besides the fact that the new defaults are less useful than the old defaults*, if you're in "Menu" mode, it doesn't follow folder aliases like it used to! OS X 10.0, .1, .2, .3, and .4 did this just fine--as did OS 9, OS 8, and OS 7.5 (in the Apple menu). We're talking about something that was working fifteen years ago. Go ahead--drop 'Applications' into your Dock and go up to AppleScript -> Example Scripts (which is an alias to a folder)--oops. No dice.
Overall, functionality is reduced. It used to be that left-clicking popped the folder open and right-clicking showed a menu (with contents on the top and options at the bottom.) Now left-clicking does one of several things (depending on which option is set) and right-clicking... brings up the options menu. Out-fucking-standing.
No sense mentioning that left-click-for-a-menu in 10.5 makes it hell going back and forth between Tiger and Leopard Macs.
Funny how preferences are. For you, Stacks are what make the Dock usable. For me, they make it horrible.
* and "fan" mode is the biggest piece of shit EVER. A right-justified curving column of text? Are you fucking KIDDING me?!?!?
I really liked 10.3 and never liked 10.4 (no great new features from my point of view, and I *hate* Spotlight) but 10.5 added enough good stuff to get me moving again. (Mainly TIme Machine.) Stacks, though, suck out loud. Besides the fact that the new defaults are less useful than the old defaults, if you're in "Menu" mode, it doesn't follow folder aliases like it used to! OS X 10.1, .1, .2, .3, and .4 did this just fine--as did OS 9, OS 8, and OS 7.5 (in the Apple menu). Go ahead--drop 'Applications' into your Dock and go up to Apple Scripts -> Example Scripts (which is an alias)--oops. No dice. Overall, functionality is reduced. It used to be that left-clicking popped it open and right-clicking showed a menu with items on the top and options at the bottom. Now left-clicking does one of several things (depending on which option is set) and right-clicking... brings up the options menu. Out-fucking-standing.
No sense mentioning that right-click-for-a-menu in 10.5 makes it hell going back and forth between Tiger and Leopard Macs.
Funny how preferences are. For you, Stacks are what make the Dock usable. For me, they make it horrible.
The clients now perform the rendering and Google need only provide the raw data. It's brilliant and a great move.
Until the users discover /var/log/httpd/. :-)
I loved this line from TFA: "The most surprising news from Morgan Hill is that they survived reasonably unscathed. That they did so is a result of emergency planning in place for California's four seasons: fire, floods, earthquakes, and riots."
Also, I'm happy Slashdot accepted the submission as sent in (or close to.) If it were from anyone but Perens himself it probably would have been Bruce Perens says "Don't use Gmail"
Don't you watch the movies? They would've backtraced his IP address through their firewall with a Visual Basic program within seconds.
Actually, it was a TV show. Here's a short documentary on the subject.