no the secret of the game is that nobody gives anyone the answer, because once you figure out the game then the game is over and well it sucks after you figure it out. sorta like the game NOT PRON (which is another great game)
I wish i had mod points to mod you down. The point of petal around the roses is to figure it out, its a simple game and no rules should be given except the name of the game. I first played this about a year ago and remember the struggle I had on it the first time, but after going through a few rolls of the dice, I figured out the pattern.
If Apple Computers decided to become a record label they would probably have another lawsuit with Apple Records over that fact. I personally think the Original lawsuit should never have taken place, especially since they are using a very common word (Apple in this case) for the name of the company. Its not like they named the company IBM or AT&T.
Sorry to burst your bubble hear, but portable's are not designed for laps, are compared to intel notebooks it produces far less heat. Even the G4s produce far less heat than intel boxes, but it still would be nice to see a notebook where the fan never kicks on yet runs at a decent speed (like a 1.67 G4 or a 2.4 P4M or equivalently rated).
limited in the terms of the ability to create a binary application, and well mail does not allow you to send an email without any user interaction. The most you could do would be create a new email with the attachment, and then wait for the user to click send.
agreed, but at the same time, mail auto unzips files for you, and then if you try to open an application it brings up a box that says " 'program name' is an application, are you sure you want to open the application 'program name' ". haven't yet tested it will an applescript attachment, but then again it would be a little harder to have it replicate with the limited features of applescript.
Already been fixed with Java 1.4.2 release last week. In fact I remember getting that update.
Now I am not saying that Viruses can not exist for mac, but at the same time it would not be easy for it to gain access to the entire system, since the only user that can modify the entire system is disabled by default (root). For years people have been saying "just wait, their will be a virus that affects Macs". Well I am still waiting for it. Sure you could tell people to download someone from a web page that then runs on the system, but thats not a virus. You could also use bonjour to send a file to everyone else on the network, but you would then need to find a way for it to get onto the network. Mail.app does not auto run scripts so you would have to tell a person to download a file (which would have to include a program to send emails via your SMTP server as defined in com.apple.mail.plist, since you can't tell mail to just send out an email, it would also need to include a feature to read your address book in order to send the emails via its own mail feature, and after doing all that you could send out a virus, but by the time you create a program that does all that you would probably be looking at a file at least 300K, and well the most you could really do is rewrite preferences so for example all jpeg images will now open with textedit, and then add itself to the startup group, but it could not add itself to launchd. To get rid of the virus the most you would really need to do is start the computer into safe boot remove the program from startup, and change the preferences it changed (or recreate the files that the "virus" deleted). Until that day comes I will still run my computer without virus protection.
While I can somewhat agree with Number 5, the user in the end tries to work around the problem or find a way to get admin access to the local machine.
Most people want to find easier ways of doing there job, and if they can't do it then either A. they find a way to bypass the security, or find a new place to work.
Companies speed way too much time saying "No, you can not install that application" rather than saying "Go ahead and install it if you want, and if you have a problem with it then you will be reinstalling the system". Let the users be responsible for the system. Saves a bunch of time and money for the IT staff, since they get to worry about things that are important like redesigning the network layout, or installing a new server.
People learn quickly that if you install something and the system crashes then they might lose a deadline.
then you have some seriously wrong with your Mac. Run DFA and fsck on the thing first off. I have several macs here, and am around macs all day at work and usual culprits are login items, directory structure damage, some weird application that installed some weird sys pref item that installed itself, system level fonts, sometimes hardware but not as common as everything else.
A friend of mine went to India for a few months to train people for the job he was doing. He was given $3000 for spending money. From what he has told me he spend maybe $500 for 3 months, that included taking taxi's everywhere, going out to eat at very nice places every night. Makes me want to visit India for a month. The most expensive part of the whole thing would be the plane ticket.
But the cost of living is going up in India due to all of the outsourcing, which is causing many companies to look for other countries to move to.
By my guess in 20 years we will be outsourcing to various different tribal communities in the world all named "John" or "Jane" maybe a "Jack" or "BoB".
I myself am in Austin, and while we did get some of the people from New Orleans, we haven't gotten as much as Houston, or San Antonio has gotten. I am still waiting though for some of the homeless people here to carry signs saying that they lost everything due to the hurricane. Like I said hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure some of them will do.
ok so it has no spreadsheet, I will give you that. but Mac OS comes with an email application called mail.app, it also comes with an address book, a calendar, a DVD player, a font management program, etc, etc.
Pages is not designed as a basic word processor like Word is. It is designed around page layout. I would say it is similar to Pagemaker, more than it is to word.
As for Keynote it is far better than Powerpoint, and the 3D transitions, effects are just the starting point. it also has allows you to embed math equations using Latex that are fully editable. Allow you to have one view for the presenter and another for the audience, which is helpful when you want to see extra notes for yourself. It also allows you to export your presentation as a Quicktime movie, PDF, Images, or a Flash animations. Keynote also have tons of more features that I am sure you can lookup if you wanted.
besides have you ever used Microsoft Office on mac? It is very slow and doesn't act or feel like any other application on Mac OS X.
Once upon a time a division of Xerox called Xerox Parc, created a Windowing GUI called Xerox Star. After seeing this product, Apple Computer made their own OS which looked remarkably similar (first called Lisa, later called Macintosh). And to be perfectly honest Microsoft Windows was nothing more than a glorified dos shell, and looked and felt nothing like Mac OS at all.
Not any more. The only thing Microsoft they ship on the system now is Microsoft Office 2004 test drive for mac. which to be honest is the worst piece of software ever made for mac. I am still waiting for a decent replacement for excel though, and before you say it Openoffice/neoofficeJ needs a lot of work for the mac. It doesn't have the right feel to it, and the open/save dialog boxes use there own system rather than finder's.
netmeeting has always been buggy, even in XP it is buggy. If you try to connect to an older version of netmeeting in XP it will give a BSOD. its nothing new. in fact I'm suprised people still use it. The only reason I used it at a job I had before was because everything was locked down to the nth degree. could not access webmail, could not access any IM services, and lovely websense for websites. and depending on how they felt that month we sometimes could use googles cache other months we couldn't. I am honestly glad I got laid off from there (along with other reasons including the company not being profitable for 3+ years).
Now I am at a company that doesn't block anything and it makes life so much easier to be able to use an IM client (Ichat in my case)
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no the secret of the game is that nobody gives anyone the answer, because once you figure out the game then the game is over and well it sucks after you figure it out. sorta like the game NOT PRON (which is another great game)
I wish i had mod points to mod you down. The point of petal around the roses is to figure it out, its a simple game and no rules should be given except the name of the game. I first played this about a year ago and remember the struggle I had on it the first time, but after going through a few rolls of the dice, I figured out the pattern.
How dumb of me, of course since it is on Slashdot it is true, and slashdot never duplicates a story. Never in its life has it anything like that.
Of course, because its from a news site so it must be true.
I don't know exactly what this is, but I can't see a Cat in it, in fact it doesn't look like anything, and the picture quality isn't the best either.
Would you expect Microsoft to do anything other than turn you down?
If Apple Computers decided to become a record label they would probably have another lawsuit with Apple Records over that fact. I personally think the Original lawsuit should never have taken place, especially since they are using a very common word (Apple in this case) for the name of the company. Its not like they named the company IBM or AT&T.
sweet!, where can I get one of these cars?
ok true, but who wants there computer to sound like a rocket ship 90+% of the time?
Sorry to burst your bubble hear, but portable's are not designed for laps, are compared to intel notebooks it produces far less heat. Even the G4s produce far less heat than intel boxes, but it still would be nice to see a notebook where the fan never kicks on yet runs at a decent speed (like a 1.67 G4 or a 2.4 P4M or equivalently rated).
you forgot to mention that the Powermac G5 was the first pre-made computer to use water-cooling (or better yet require water cooling)
limited in the terms of the ability to create a binary application, and well mail does not allow you to send an email without any user interaction. The most you could do would be create a new email with the attachment, and then wait for the user to click send.
agreed, but at the same time, mail auto unzips files for you, and then if you try to open an application it brings up a box that says " 'program name' is an application, are you sure you want to open the application 'program name' ". haven't yet tested it will an applescript attachment, but then again it would be a little harder to have it replicate with the limited features of applescript.
Already been fixed with Java 1.4.2 release last week. In fact I remember getting that update.
Now I am not saying that Viruses can not exist for mac, but at the same time it would not be easy for it to gain access to the entire system, since the only user that can modify the entire system is disabled by default (root). For years people have been saying "just wait, their will be a virus that affects Macs". Well I am still waiting for it. Sure you could tell people to download someone from a web page that then runs on the system, but thats not a virus. You could also use bonjour to send a file to everyone else on the network, but you would then need to find a way for it to get onto the network. Mail.app does not auto run scripts so you would have to tell a person to download a file (which would have to include a program to send emails via your SMTP server as defined in com.apple.mail.plist, since you can't tell mail to just send out an email, it would also need to include a feature to read your address book in order to send the emails via its own mail feature, and after doing all that you could send out a virus, but by the time you create a program that does all that you would probably be looking at a file at least 300K, and well the most you could really do is rewrite preferences so for example all jpeg images will now open with textedit, and then add itself to the startup group, but it could not add itself to launchd. To get rid of the virus the most you would really need to do is start the computer into safe boot remove the program from startup, and change the preferences it changed (or recreate the files that the "virus" deleted). Until that day comes I will still run my computer without virus protection.
use an external firewire drive for the extra storage, its not like you are going to need all 250GB at all times.
While I can somewhat agree with Number 5, the user in the end tries to work around the problem or find a way to get admin access to the local machine.
Most people want to find easier ways of doing there job, and if they can't do it then either A. they find a way to bypass the security, or find a new place to work.
Companies speed way too much time saying "No, you can not install that application" rather than saying "Go ahead and install it if you want, and if you have a problem with it then you will be reinstalling the system". Let the users be responsible for the system. Saves a bunch of time and money for the IT staff, since they get to worry about things that are important like redesigning the network layout, or installing a new server.
People learn quickly that if you install something and the system crashes then they might lose a deadline.
that doesn't mean anything. Look at Mac OS X for example, the back end is a modified BSD system called Darwin.
then you have some seriously wrong with your Mac. Run DFA and fsck on the thing first off. I have several macs here, and am around macs all day at work and usual culprits are login items, directory structure damage, some weird application that installed some weird sys pref item that installed itself, system level fonts, sometimes hardware but not as common as everything else.
A friend of mine went to India for a few months to train people for the job he was doing. He was given $3000 for spending money. From what he has told me he spend maybe $500 for 3 months, that included taking taxi's everywhere, going out to eat at very nice places every night. Makes me want to visit India for a month. The most expensive part of the whole thing would be the plane ticket.
But the cost of living is going up in India due to all of the outsourcing, which is causing many companies to look for other countries to move to.
By my guess in 20 years we will be outsourcing to various different tribal communities in the world all named "John" or "Jane" maybe a "Jack" or "BoB".
I myself am in Austin, and while we did get some of the people from New Orleans, we haven't gotten as much as Houston, or San Antonio has gotten. I am still waiting though for some of the homeless people here to carry signs saying that they lost everything due to the hurricane. Like I said hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure some of them will do.
ok so it has no spreadsheet, I will give you that. but Mac OS comes with an email application called mail.app, it also comes with an address book, a calendar, a DVD player, a font management program, etc, etc.
Pages is not designed as a basic word processor like Word is. It is designed around page layout. I would say it is similar to Pagemaker, more than it is to word.
As for Keynote it is far better than Powerpoint, and the 3D transitions, effects are just the starting point. it also has allows you to embed math equations using Latex that are fully editable. Allow you to have one view for the presenter and another for the audience, which is helpful when you want to see extra notes for yourself. It also allows you to export your presentation as a Quicktime movie, PDF, Images, or a Flash animations. Keynote also have tons of more features that I am sure you can lookup if you wanted.
besides have you ever used Microsoft Office on mac? It is very slow and doesn't act or feel like any other application on Mac OS X.
Really now. how difficult is it to check for duplicate stories? At least check the previous day before posting a duplicate story.
Once upon a time a division of Xerox called Xerox Parc, created a Windowing GUI called Xerox Star. After seeing this product, Apple Computer made their own OS which looked remarkably similar (first called Lisa, later called Macintosh). And to be perfectly honest Microsoft Windows was nothing more than a glorified dos shell, and looked and felt nothing like Mac OS at all.
Not any more. The only thing Microsoft they ship on the system now is Microsoft Office 2004 test drive for mac. which to be honest is the worst piece of software ever made for mac. I am still waiting for a decent replacement for excel though, and before you say it Openoffice/neoofficeJ needs a lot of work for the mac. It doesn't have the right feel to it, and the open/save dialog boxes use there own system rather than finder's.
netmeeting has always been buggy, even in XP it is buggy. If you try to connect to an older version of netmeeting in XP it will give a BSOD. its nothing new. in fact I'm suprised people still use it. The only reason I used it at a job I had before was because everything was locked down to the nth degree. could not access webmail, could not access any IM services, and lovely websense for websites. and depending on how they felt that month we sometimes could use googles cache other months we couldn't. I am honestly glad I got laid off from there (along with other reasons including the company not being profitable for 3+ years).
Now I am at a company that doesn't block anything and it makes life so much easier to be able to use an IM client (Ichat in my case)
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