Note that I use the Safari reader and so my comments here apply to that. Although most of these points also applied when I mostly used snownews.
Basically it's like using the Internet as a wire feed. I have/., El Reg, Boing Boing, Digg, Wired News, CNN, and a bunch of other newssites loaded into my feeds. In Safari I then go in, read the headlines, and some bits of the articles and click through on the interesting ones. It means that I don't have to visit every one of those sites to get the news. It saves time, it saves effort, and I get my news. Nothing to do with bloging. Although a lot of those folks also use it.
Personally I like it where OS X keeps it. In the browser. But leave it to MS to overdo a good thing and turn it into something silly.
"Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; this is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river."
He was talking about directory names but the same concept holds true for commands and for those of us who still seriously punch deck all day every day and well into the night this is *still* a concern and that's why it lives on.
Under water. It was under water. The ep where they discovered Atlanta after after Hermes got a mandatory fishing license and Bender used the unbreakable diamond tether....
Oh god I really am a sad lonely fuck.../me starts sobbing in the corner.
Nah. Actually if you will notice with OS X there is really very little you can change. This would be because they grok the deep wisdom that knobs suck. It's just that it starts with *very* good defaults.
Now the Gnome devs seem to understand that knobs suck, though from what I've heard they may have taken this very fine outlook on life a bit far, but can't seem to get good defaults. The KDE devs well... They just suck and don't understand the wisdom of the ages.
On my OpenBSD, and Debian before that, boxen I use OpenBox when I have X running. It does what I see as the most important part of OS X gives me good defaults and then gets the hell out of my way. This is good.
Yes, you are correct. But I fail to see your point.
Mine was that compared to the vid card that Vista wants mine is *nothing* and still gets better results.
Graphics: Vista has changed from using the CPU to display bitmaps on the screen to using the GPU to render vectors. This means the entire display model in Vista has changed. To render the screen in the GPU requires an awful lot of memory to do optimally - 256MB is a happy medium, but you'll actually see benefit from more. Microsoft believes that you're going to see the amount of video memory being shipped on cards hurtle up when Vista ships.
No. They get criticized for not doing features properly. My iBook with a lowly 1.33GHz proc, a mere gig of RAM, and nothing more than a ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 with 32 megs of video memory looks *stunning* and does things that from what we have seen so far Vista can only dream about.
The simple fact is that it's possible to do great graphics, at least for a GUI, without needing a bloody supercomputer (Yes yes yes I *know*. I'm overstating for effect). Basically if they did these things properly they would see a lot of the hating go away.
No it doesn't and I didn't really thing it was. That was just a badly written sentence. Meant non-series stuff in addition to the Dahak stuff, of course.:)
I have decidely mixed feelings about Ringo. I do like some of his stuff and loathe other bits. Having said that the March books are good fun. I've not read the last one yet.
I really like the books collected in Empire From the Ashes, Apocalypse Troll, The Excalibur Alternative, and his other "non-series" stuff, also the Starfire stuff does rock. I'd love to see him get a chance to play in Drake's RCN universe I think he could do some fun stuff there.
"For example, who would have thought that David Weber of Honor Harrington fame was also responsible for developing the third editions of the famous Starfire board game?"
Anybody who has read more than his trendy stuff and/or the backs of pretty much any of his books? He has done and is famous for *much* more than Harrington and in fact many, like myself, think that is some of his weakest works. Although it's pretty much all train jumpers know.
I got my first Mac since 1984 a couple of months ago. While I would never give up my OpenBSD boxen and while the desktop still has X installed I haven't logged into X on it since upgrading to 3.8. The GUI is so close to perfect that it hurts and talk about fast.
Other than tweaking terminal.app, changing a few of the apps in the dock, changing the background, and setting up dashboard the way I like it I haven't changed a thing and I love it.
And of course my response to both parties is to put on my "Knobs suck" shirt and go back to using my FF that looks the same everyplace I use it and my default, at least wrt the interface, Safari install.
Having said that I'm typing this while listening to my 30gig 5th gen. iPod. Sweet piece of gear. But it was purchased based on the fact that it just works with the 2 OSes that I use when I have a choice (OS X and OpenBSD) and the intergration with my iBook and in spite of the fact that it doesn't do ogg.
Nah. I don't have any extensions installed. But sometimes I think I'm the last person left who wants a browser that well broswes the web and not a whole lot else.
I meant bundled with any OS. That was badly worded and I wish I could take it back. Having said that, and again I seem to be a dying breed, but I don't want all that with a browser. I want a browser not a platform.
I use mutt.:) Again a different approach to life.
Really by defualt it asks you about every cookie and the default option is to reject? Granted none of the other browsers do this but that is why I always mention this is one of the things I'd love to see.
If nothing else this has all pointed out to me that those of us who want a browser that renders webpages and doesn't try to be some kind of platform seem to be a minority these days.
Nah. See I'm a proud OS X user. But you've either said that things are "more useful" without really giving any example of why this is or listed a bunch of stuff that, frankly, sounds stupid.
Yeah, you are right, this is what I think. The whole point was why I don't use Opera. I happily use closed source software but it better bring some serious features to the party. I've yet to see or hear about anything in Opera that is compelling... Ah well.
Also didn't mean that it didn't have any features. I mean that it didn't come bundled with any OSes. Now by my own admission I haven't used Opera but I have yet to have somebody point me to a kiler feature. It may very well have such things. I just haven't heard of them.
Having said that I use pretty much a plain FF everyplace I'm not using Safari. So maybe I'm just not the target audince.
"What do you mean doesn't come with anything? "Isn't bundled with any OSes", or "doesn't have any features"? Opera has loads of useful features, if that's what you are talking about. And the good thing is that they don't get in the way if you don't want them/need them."
Bundled with OSes.
Neither install is as easy as FF on Debian or OpenBSD.
Of course that's a matter of taste. I don't see "smaller and faster" as a reason to go to a closed browser.
Yeah. I don't really get this either. On my iBook Safari ships with the OS and is just a joy to use *and* it's based on an OSS engine. All of the good.
On other OSen. I use Firefox. OSS, works really well, and has everything I want.
I just don't get Opera. It doesn't come with anything. It's harder to install than Firefox on Linux and OpenBSD. Not as good as Safari on OS X and on windows well I just don't get why I'd want to trade one fully closed browser for another. Also I've yet to have anybody tell me what it brings to the party that Firefox doesn't.
Only thing I wish is that all of the above would use Konq's cookie management code. But the majority of people would likely disagree with me on that. (Note that I'm *not* a KDE user but the few times I've used it I've been really impressed by Kong's default cookie settings.)
I have a couple of videos for mine. Including one music video that I bought, just to have something to show people you can't show pr0n to.
The quality is really good. Crystal clear, good framrate, stays in synch, all that good stuff. The stuff from suicidegirls was filmed for it and thus looks really good. The video loooks good but it's an old song (500 miles). All that said I could see watching a sitcom on it but certainly not anything like BG. It's just too small. That and watching video sucks battery at a prodigious rate.
I bought mine cause the time had come and it's the one that was best for the amount of dosh I wanted to spend. That said I would not get one *for* the video but at this point it's a nice bonus.
Oh and for the menu system the screen just *rocks*.
Seriously I'm as paranoid as anybody and more than most. But come on. Every new device that can store data is not a *new* threat. No matter how badly you want some press. Which is, of course, what this is all about.
Next week I'm going to go to the press with the "guy with stick" attack to launch my new firm.
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I'm pretty sure this article is more about "temps" and is just using the word contractor as a PC term.
And for temps it's a whole different world, of course.
Note that I use the Safari reader and so my comments here apply to that. Although most of these points also applied when I mostly used snownews.
/., El Reg, Boing Boing, Digg, Wired News, CNN, and a bunch of other newssites loaded into my feeds. In Safari I then go in, read the headlines, and some bits of the articles and click through on the interesting ones. It means that I don't have to visit every one of those sites to get the news. It saves time, it saves effort, and I get my news. Nothing to do with bloging. Although a lot of those folks also use it.
Basically it's like using the Internet as a wire feed. I have
Personally I like it where OS X keeps it. In the browser. But leave it to MS to overdo a good thing and turn it into something silly.
As usual Neal Stephenson said it best.
"Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital letters; this is a system invented by people to whom repetitive stress disorder is what black lung is to miners. Long names get worn down to three-letter nubbins, like stones smoothed by a river."
He was talking about directory names but the same concept holds true for commands and for those of us who still seriously punch deck all day every day and well into the night this is *still* a concern and that's why it lives on.
Under water. It was under water. The ep where they discovered Atlanta after after Hermes got a mandatory fishing license and Bender used the unbreakable diamond tether....
/me starts sobbing in the corner.
Oh god I really am a sad lonely fuck...
Nah. Actually if you will notice with OS X there is really very little you can change. This would be because they grok the deep wisdom that knobs suck. It's just that it starts with *very* good defaults.
Now the Gnome devs seem to understand that knobs suck, though from what I've heard they may have taken this very fine outlook on life a bit far, but can't seem to get good defaults. The KDE devs well... They just suck and don't understand the wisdom of the ages.
On my OpenBSD, and Debian before that, boxen I use OpenBox when I have X running. It does what I see as the most important part of OS X gives me good defaults and then gets the hell out of my way. This is good.
Yes, you are correct. But I fail to see your point.
Mine was that compared to the vid card that Vista wants mine is *nothing* and still gets better results.
Graphics: Vista has changed from using the CPU to display bitmaps on the screen to using the GPU to render vectors. This means the entire display model in Vista has changed. To render the screen in the GPU requires an awful lot of memory to do optimally - 256MB is a happy medium, but you'll actually see benefit from more. Microsoft believes that you're going to see the amount of video memory being shipped on cards hurtle up when Vista ships.
No. They get criticized for not doing features properly. My iBook with a lowly 1.33GHz proc, a mere gig of RAM, and nothing more than a ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 with 32 megs of video memory looks *stunning* and does things that from what we have seen so far Vista can only dream about.
The simple fact is that it's possible to do great graphics, at least for a GUI, without needing a bloody supercomputer (Yes yes yes I *know*. I'm overstating for effect). Basically if they did these things properly they would see a lot of the hating go away.
Is there any aspect of life where Stephenson doesn't show us the way? :D
All three of mine soon learned that whining was the best way *not* to get something. This remains one of the things their mother and I agree on.
Yes it takes *seriious* time and effort to do this but it is well worth it.
"My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eyedropper and a petri dish. What do I need to make peace with him for?"
No it doesn't and I didn't really thing it was. That was just a badly written sentence. Meant non-series stuff in addition to the Dahak stuff, of course. :)
I have decidely mixed feelings about Ringo. I do like some of his stuff and loathe other bits. Having said that the March books are good fun. I've not read the last one yet.
I really like the books collected in Empire From the Ashes, Apocalypse Troll, The Excalibur Alternative, and his other "non-series" stuff, also the Starfire stuff does rock. I'd love to see him get a chance to play in Drake's RCN universe I think he could do some fun stuff there.
"For example, who would have thought that David Weber of Honor Harrington fame was also responsible for developing the third editions of the famous Starfire board game?"
Anybody who has read more than his trendy stuff and/or the backs of pretty much any of his books? He has done and is famous for *much* more than Harrington and in fact many, like myself, think that is some of his weakest works. Although it's pretty much all train jumpers know.
It's called OS X. :)
I got my first Mac since 1984 a couple of months ago. While I would never give up my OpenBSD boxen and while the desktop still has X installed I haven't logged into X on it since upgrading to 3.8. The GUI is so close to perfect that it hurts and talk about fast.
Other than tweaking terminal.app, changing a few of the apps in the dock, changing the background, and setting up dashboard the way I like it I haven't changed a thing and I love it.
Of course I'm more of an OpenBSD geek so YMMV.
And of course my response to both parties is to put on my "Knobs suck" shirt and go back to using my FF that looks the same everyplace I use it and my default, at least wrt the interface, Safari install.
"A large majority of the iPod owners will rip their entire collection into the AAC format and from that point will be tied to Apple hardware."
+ media+players&btnG=Google+Search.
Non-DRMed aac/mp4 file can play on anything that supports aac/mp4. This includes winders, Linux, and OpenBSD just to name the 3 I've personally used them on. And a brief list of portable devices that will happily play them http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mp4+portable
Having said that I'm typing this while listening to my 30gig 5th gen. iPod. Sweet piece of gear. But it was purchased based on the fact that it just works with the 2 OSes that I use when I have a choice (OS X and OpenBSD) and the intergration with my iBook and in spite of the fact that it doesn't do ogg.
Nah. I don't have any extensions installed. But sometimes I think I'm the last person left who wants a browser that well broswes the web and not a whole lot else.
:) Again a different approach to life.
I meant bundled with any OS. That was badly worded and I wish I could take it back. Having said that, and again I seem to be a dying breed, but I don't want all that with a browser. I want a browser not a platform.
I use mutt.
Really by defualt it asks you about every cookie and the default option is to reject? Granted none of the other browsers do this but that is why I always mention this is one of the things I'd love to see.
If nothing else this has all pointed out to me that those of us who want a browser that renders webpages and doesn't try to be some kind of platform seem to be a minority these days.
Nah. See I'm a proud OS X user. But you've either said that things are "more useful" without really giving any example of why this is or listed a bunch of stuff that, frankly, sounds stupid.
Yeah, you are right, this is what I think. The whole point was why I don't use Opera. I happily use closed source software but it better bring some serious features to the party. I've yet to see or hear about anything in Opera that is compelling... Ah well.
Yeah. Well the inclusion of non-free stuff would be one of the many reasons I avoid Gentoo. :)
By harder to install I mean it takes more than becoming root and typing.
d 64/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6.tgz
apt-get install firefox
or pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/am
Also didn't mean that it didn't have any features. I mean that it didn't come bundled with any OSes. Now by my own admission I haven't used Opera but I have yet to have somebody point me to a kiler feature. It may very well have such things. I just haven't heard of them.
Having said that I use pretty much a plain FF everyplace I'm not using Safari. So maybe I'm just not the target audince.
"What do you mean doesn't come with anything? "Isn't bundled with any OSes", or "doesn't have any features"? Opera has loads of useful features, if that's what you are talking about. And the good thing is that they don't get in the way if you don't want them/need them."
Bundled with OSes.
Neither install is as easy as FF on Debian or OpenBSD.
Of course that's a matter of taste. I don't see "smaller and faster" as a reason to go to a closed browser.
Yeah. I don't really get this either. On my iBook Safari ships with the OS and is just a joy to use *and* it's based on an OSS engine. All of the good.
On other OSen. I use Firefox. OSS, works really well, and has everything I want.
I just don't get Opera. It doesn't come with anything. It's harder to install than Firefox on Linux and OpenBSD. Not as good as Safari on OS X and on windows well I just don't get why I'd want to trade one fully closed browser for another. Also I've yet to have anybody tell me what it brings to the party that Firefox doesn't.
Only thing I wish is that all of the above would use Konq's cookie management code. But the majority of people would likely disagree with me on that. (Note that I'm *not* a KDE user but the few times I've used it I've been really impressed by Kong's default cookie settings.)
I have a couple of videos for mine. Including one music video that I bought, just to have something to show people you can't show pr0n to.
The quality is really good. Crystal clear, good framrate, stays in synch, all that good stuff. The stuff from suicidegirls was filmed for it and thus looks really good. The video loooks good but it's an old song (500 miles). All that said I could see watching a sitcom on it but certainly not anything like BG. It's just too small. That and watching video sucks battery at a prodigious rate.
I bought mine cause the time had come and it's the one that was best for the amount of dosh I wanted to spend. That said I would not get one *for* the video but at this point it's a nice bonus.
Oh and for the menu system the screen just *rocks*.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/14/your_datas _is_at_risk/
Seriously I'm as paranoid as anybody and more than most. But come on. Every new device that can store data is not a *new* threat. No matter how badly you want some press. Which is, of course, what this is all about.
Next week I'm going to go to the press with the "guy with stick" attack to launch my new firm.
Nah. If you pay close attention the swearing usually only happens after the same question is asked by the same person for the 5th time or so. :P