Losers! If Cory and Mark had waited a little longer to switch they could have been on this list! Ha! In your face, deserters! I mean, the bar can't be set that high--"Drunkenbatman" made it, I'm surprised "Dead Elvis" didn't.;-)
Back on topic, at least we now have a new measure of Mac geekiness: how many of the people on the list do you recognize? I know 6 for sure (including 1 of the honorable mentions) and I recognize maybe 3 or 4 of the other names but can't quite place them.
...who reads that as "British Pornographic Institute" every time I see an article about them? Say what you will about the RIAA, at least their name is clearer. Damn anachronistic Brits. Who the hell says "phonograph" any more?:-)
I've heard that when things like obsidian and glass break (or are chipped away, as in the creation of arrowheads) that the edge can be a single atom wide. (Or, I guess, molecule.) Quoth Wikipeida:
"Obsidian is currently used in cardiac surgery, as well-crafted obsidian blades have a cutting edge much sharper than high-quality steel surgical scalpels and may even be up to five times sharper, the edge of the blade reaching veritable molecular thinness."
I am aware that Firefox developers fix bugs all the time.
Sorry, I can't resist. This phrasing always makes me think of...
Facts: 1. Firefox developers are mammals. 2. Firefox developers code ALL the time. 3. The purpose of the Firefox developer is to fix bugs and kill people.
Looks like a neat little unit. Pretty powerful, but the keyboard isn't super. If course, on any portable, there is a tradeoff between overall size and display & keyboard size.
I just got my MB last week and tried Parallels this weekend. I'll definitely be buying it before the price goes up on the 15th. (From $50 to $80.)
I couldn't get W2K installed* but XP went on fine, as did RedHat 7.1. Ubuntu goes on next, followed by SmackBook.
Slower than native (AFAIK, all of Parallels runs as one thread) but still fun and very useful for what I need it for.** Each OS picks up another address on your LAN (192.168.1.105, 106, 107, etc.) and it's a lot of fun to SSH to a virtual Linux box, make a page in ~/public_html/, and view it in Safari on the same box.
XP runs fine fullscreen (1280x800) and if you have your Mac set up to right-click with the trackpad, you don't need to do anything different in Windows--a quick one-two on the trackpad and I've got a contextual menu in XP. Scrolling also works. 'Command' maps to 'Windows key' just like when you use a Mac keyboard on a regular PC, so that also behaves as expected. Overall, it's great. Definitely fast enough to be useful--it's not like I'm on a 200 MHz machine all of a sudden or anything. Feels like any reasonably peppy Windows box.
* doubly funny because that's the OS they show in the screenshots in the documentation) because no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to see the CD--it just keeps saying "No boot device available, press Enter to continue."
** handy way to have lots of OSs with me, do testing, troubleshooting, etc. And FreeCell. There's still nothing better than Windows' FreeCell.
This question makes it sound like it's a foregone conclusion that we *won't* survive the next hundred years, and what can we do to change that.
What will we do to survive the next hundred years? My answer: we'll keep doing what we've been doing: make new stuff, cure some diseases, find new ways and reasons to kill each other, and overall, everything will more or less balance out, and we'll survive the next 100 years without trying, in any particular way, to survive. I mean, as long as people keep eating and fucking, we'll probably be around.
My personal plan is to keep eating fast food, use the bathroom as needed, enjoy the benefits of modern medicine, and live another ~40 years. I imagine my descendants will do the same, and after a couple rounds of that, we'll be at the 100 year mark, safe and sound.
At a micro level, all humans, individually, will eat food, drink lots of fluids when we get sick, treat injuries, etc.--in other words, do all that human-nature stuff which, almost by definition, living beings do on an individual basis to survive. On a macro level... I don't know, maybe I'll raise my kids and pay some taxes.
As for the question "What can I, J. Random Slashdot User, do to prevent Bush from nuking the world and ending human existence," the answer is "absofuckinglutely nothing." So what's the point of this question again?
It's 2006. I just bought two 120 GB hard drives for $49.99 each--that's the out-the-door price, no rebates; and not crap, these are 5-year-warranted Seagates. Who worries about the file size of an office document? I know, I know, not everyone has huge hard drives and broadband, but do you really think people are going to shell out big bucks so a 40k Word document turns out to be 31k because it's OMGXML? It's 2006, the ony files people want to make smaller are movies.
XPS will not matter until everyone has the new Office and/or Vista. No one cares about making PDFs because everyone they share documents with already has Word and can read native.doc's. (See journal link below.)
And blogging? Please. The reason HTML-form-based (TEXTAREA) blogging took off and products like City Desk didn't is because people don't want to have to fire up a binary app to make a web page.
The fact is, Office's biggest competitor is now... old versions of Office! (Why do you think they make those 'dinosaur' ads?) Microsoft now faces the same problems that all their competitors have faced for years.
I've also tried the beta, and I too went into it with an open mind. I dislike MS as much as the next guy, but they do some good stuff, sometimes, and at the very least, I believe in 'know thy enemy.' But ribbons suck. I hope they're going to spend six months tearing them out and putting menus back in.
If anyone wants specifics, reply, and I'll post details when I'm back home with my test box. The link in my.sig refers to another issue.:-)
I started watching the XGL videos. The first one was transparency. Funny: MS has had this capability since W2K--you just need Vitrite to activate it. Since I've never, ever, ever seen a really useful use of transparency* I'm glad they left this off by default.
* OS X's early use of semi-transparent title bars sucked when you had a bunch of windows in the same general area. Note that this is gone now. (On the other hand, they also got rid of tabs, and that totally sucks, so they're not exactly batting a thousand.) I've seen lots of people with semi-transparent terminal windows, but they're more in the "looks cool and doesn't hurt productivity much" camp, rather than being truly useful. Ditto for the transparent unused pallets in MS Office on OS X--I can't stand them, but they don't actually seem to hurt most people.
This article is not going to be much use for Linux users, as it requires Flash 8... Why does a text article require flashplayer 8 to view it? It's a waste of bandwidth, waste of CPU and cutting down on this site's potential market.
Agreed. Everyone: go to the site, and if you can't read TFA, click the 'feedback' link just to the right of the mostly-empty box and tell them.
Sad to see this modded 'Offtopic.' Hey, Tim: Slashdot has this cool system where you can set yur threshold to '+5' and see just the good comments. You should check it out, instead of creating an entire new subdomain.
That's a very good question. I'm happy to see that it was quickly modded up to +5, Insightful. I hope to see it included in tomorrow's "More about 'More about Ken State's Facebook Ban for Athletes.' "
5400 RPM drives are (or can be, or at the very least, SHOULD be) quieter, cooler, and more reliable than faster-RPM drives. And for most work, they aren't much slower than 7200s. Furthermore, I'd like to see a return to 5.25" HDDs--the best way to get a bigger drive is, well, make a bigger drive!
Here's my wish list:
Desktop: moderately sized, quiet, reliable, HDD with decent speed. (The 4200 RPM drive in my Mac Mini KILLS me--slow drives were always the worst part of laptops. Same CPU, RAM, and FSB as a desktop? Doesn't matter--the HDD will negate all that.)
Low-usage server*: giant, cheap, reliable, cool drives--this need could be filled by huge 5.25" drives. You're limited to 10/100 in most cases, anyway.
* like what you have at your house to hold music and movies, or what a small business might use
*sigh.* Once again, kids: there's no single criterion with which you can determine a universal correct answer to the question of 'better.' What I use Windows for doesn't require graphics acceleration. So, let's look at this another way:
Here's the interesting thing: Apple talks about Parallels, not Boot Camp, on their "OMG It runs teh windoze!!!111oneone" page:
Talk about a win-win situation. Now you can take advantage of all the benefits of owning a Mac but still enjoy the convenience of starting up your Mac in Windows XP and running a Windows-only game or productivity application when needed. Third-party software solutions such as Parallels Desktop for Mac help make it possible.
The funny thing is, they mention "starting up your Mac in Windows XP"--sounds like some of the copy writers need a crash-course in the difference between multibooting and virtualization.
The funny thing is, Al is exactly the kind of (relatively speaking) non-mainstream artist who would have the chance to do great via the non-traditional route of the Internet, avoiding a major label altogether. I know that as of today he's got more money than MC Chris or MC Frontalot but then again, he's been at this for almost 30 years.
And for any Star Wars geeks who like hip-hop, I recommend "Yellow Lasers" by Frontalot and (best song EVAR!!!11one) "Fett's Vette" by Chris.
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Losers! If Cory and Mark had waited a little longer to switch they could have been on this list! Ha! In your face, deserters! I mean, the bar can't be set that high--"Drunkenbatman" made it, I'm surprised "Dead Elvis" didn't. ;-)
Back on topic, at least we now have a new measure of Mac geekiness: how many of the people on the list do you recognize? I know 6 for sure (including 1 of the honorable mentions) and I recognize maybe 3 or 4 of the other names but can't quite place them.
...who reads that as "British Pornographic Institute" every time I see an article about them? Say what you will about the RIAA, at least their name is clearer. Damn anachronistic Brits. Who the hell says "phonograph" any more? :-)
I am aware that Firefox developers fix bugs all the time.
Sorry, I can't resist. This phrasing always makes me think of...
Facts:
1. Firefox developers are mammals.
2. Firefox developers code ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the Firefox developer is to fix bugs and kill people.
available here.
:-)
Looks like a neat little unit. Pretty powerful, but the keyboard isn't super. If course, on any portable, there is a tradeoff between overall size and display & keyboard size.
That said, I miss my Libretto.
I just got my MB last week and tried Parallels this weekend. I'll definitely be buying it before the price goes up on the 15th. (From $50 to $80.)
I couldn't get W2K installed* but XP went on fine, as did RedHat 7.1. Ubuntu goes on next, followed by SmackBook.
Slower than native (AFAIK, all of Parallels runs as one thread) but still fun and very useful for what I need it for.** Each OS picks up another address on your LAN (192.168.1.105, 106, 107, etc.) and it's a lot of fun to SSH to a virtual Linux box, make a page in ~/public_html/, and view it in Safari on the same box.
XP runs fine fullscreen (1280x800) and if you have your Mac set up to right-click with the trackpad, you don't need to do anything different in Windows--a quick one-two on the trackpad and I've got a contextual menu in XP. Scrolling also works. 'Command' maps to 'Windows key' just like when you use a Mac keyboard on a regular PC, so that also behaves as expected. Overall, it's great. Definitely fast enough to be useful--it's not like I'm on a 200 MHz machine all of a sudden or anything. Feels like any reasonably peppy Windows box.
* doubly funny because that's the OS they show in the screenshots in the documentation) because no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to see the CD--it just keeps saying "No boot device available, press Enter to continue."
** handy way to have lots of OSs with me, do testing, troubleshooting, etc. And FreeCell. There's still nothing better than Windows' FreeCell.
This question makes it sound like it's a foregone conclusion that we *won't* survive the next hundred years, and what can we do to change that.
What will we do to survive the next hundred years? My answer: we'll keep doing what we've been doing: make new stuff, cure some diseases, find new ways and reasons to kill each other, and overall, everything will more or less balance out, and we'll survive the next 100 years without trying, in any particular way, to survive. I mean, as long as people keep eating and fucking, we'll probably be around.
My personal plan is to keep eating fast food, use the bathroom as needed, enjoy the benefits of modern medicine, and live another ~40 years. I imagine my descendants will do the same, and after a couple rounds of that, we'll be at the 100 year mark, safe and sound.
At a micro level, all humans, individually, will eat food, drink lots of fluids when we get sick, treat injuries, etc.--in other words, do all that human-nature stuff which, almost by definition, living beings do on an individual basis to survive. On a macro level... I don't know, maybe I'll raise my kids and pay some taxes.
As for the question "What can I, J. Random Slashdot User, do to prevent Bush from nuking the world and ending human existence," the answer is "absofuckinglutely nothing." So what's the point of this question again?
It's 2006. I just bought two 120 GB hard drives for $49.99 each--that's the out-the-door price, no rebates; and not crap, these are 5-year-warranted Seagates. Who worries about the file size of an office document? I know, I know, not everyone has huge hard drives and broadband, but do you really think people are going to shell out big bucks so a 40k Word document turns out to be 31k because it's OMGXML? It's 2006, the ony files people want to make smaller are movies.
.doc's. (See journal link below.)
XPS will not matter until everyone has the new Office and/or Vista. No one cares about making PDFs because everyone they share documents with already has Word and can read native
And blogging? Please. The reason HTML-form-based (TEXTAREA) blogging took off and products like City Desk didn't is because people don't want to have to fire up a binary app to make a web page.
The fact is, Office's biggest competitor is now... old versions of Office! (Why do you think they make those 'dinosaur' ads?) Microsoft now faces the same problems that all their competitors have faced for years.
I've also tried the beta, and I too went into it with an open mind. I dislike MS as much as the next guy, but they do some good stuff, sometimes, and at the very least, I believe in 'know thy enemy.' But ribbons suck. I hope they're going to spend six months tearing them out and putting menus back in.
.sig refers to another issue. :-)
If anyone wants specifics, reply, and I'll post details when I'm back home with my test box. The link in my
I started watching the XGL videos. The first one was transparency. Funny: MS has had this capability since W2K--you just need Vitrite to activate it. Since I've never, ever, ever seen a really useful use of transparency* I'm glad they left this off by default.
* OS X's early use of semi-transparent title bars sucked when you had a bunch of windows in the same general area. Note that this is gone now. (On the other hand, they also got rid of tabs, and that totally sucks, so they're not exactly batting a thousand.) I've seen lots of people with semi-transparent terminal windows, but they're more in the "looks cool and doesn't hurt productivity much" camp, rather than being truly useful. Ditto for the transparent unused pallets in MS Office on OS X--I can't stand them, but they don't actually seem to hurt most people.
One nanosecond? But I want it NOW!
This article is not going to be much use for Linux users, as it requires Flash 8... Why does a text article require flashplayer 8 to view it? It's a waste of bandwidth, waste of CPU and cutting down on this site's potential market.
Agreed. Everyone: go to the site, and if you can't read TFA, click the 'feedback' link just to the right of the mostly-empty box and tell them.
Maybe he meant that "Winny the Poo" will be Disney's new, non-infringing character?
VA Tech (http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/vatech/, http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/vatech2/) has dropped from the top 10 to 28th.
This is the first time I've actually looked at a Top500 list. The DOE has 131k processors? Damn.
Sad to see this modded 'Offtopic.' Hey, Tim: Slashdot has this cool system where you can set yur threshold to '+5' and see just the good comments. You should check it out, instead of creating an entire new subdomain.
That's a very good question. I'm happy to see that it was quickly modded up to +5, Insightful. I hope to see it included in tomorrow's "More about 'More about Ken State's Facebook Ban for Athletes.' "
Am I the only one with about 5 nested 'cleanup' folders on his desktop?
e anup/
cd Desktop/cleanup/cleanup/cleanup2/cleanup/April_cl
5400 RPM drives are (or can be, or at the very least, SHOULD be) quieter, cooler, and more reliable than faster-RPM drives. And for most work, they aren't much slower than 7200s. Furthermore, I'd like to see a return to 5.25" HDDs--the best way to get a bigger drive is, well, make a bigger drive!
Here's my wish list:
Desktop: moderately sized, quiet, reliable, HDD with decent speed. (The 4200 RPM drive in my Mac Mini KILLS me--slow drives were always the worst part of laptops. Same CPU, RAM, and FSB as a desktop? Doesn't matter--the HDD will negate all that.)
Low-usage server*: giant, cheap, reliable, cool drives--this need could be filled by huge 5.25" drives. You're limited to 10/100 in most cases, anyway.
* like what you have at your house to hold music and movies, or what a small business might use
>> Is it better than BootCamp?
> No.
*sigh.* Once again, kids: there's no single criterion with which you can determine a universal correct answer to the question of 'better.' What I use Windows for doesn't require graphics acceleration. So, let's look at this another way:
Is Boot Camp better than Parallels?
No. It forces you to reboot.
See?
It's XP's 'idle' process. Dvorak can tell you all about it.
Ah yes, sunny Florida. You think Carl Hiaasen books are funny, then you move here and go "Holy crap..."
Technologist is a real, valid word.
:-)
A cromulent word, one might say.
(From http://www.apple.com/getamac/windows.html)
The funny thing is, they mention "starting up your Mac in Windows XP"--sounds like some of the copy writers need a crash-course in the difference between multibooting and virtualization.
The solution is obvious: Weird Al needs to get an AdSense account. :-)
The funny thing is, Al is exactly the kind of (relatively speaking) non-mainstream artist who would have the chance to do great via the non-traditional route of the Internet, avoiding a major label altogether. I know that as of today he's got more money than MC Chris or MC Frontalot but then again, he's been at this for almost 30 years.
And for any Star Wars geeks who like hip-hop, I recommend "Yellow Lasers" by Frontalot and (best song EVAR!!!11one) "Fett's Vette" by Chris.