Agreed. I'm no prude by any stretch, but the whole "rishathra" thing was an annoying subtext that added nothing to the stories. I recall being embarrased for Larry Niven everytime he threw in "rishing" - which seemed to be every ten pages.
I bet it's fun being his wife - having to put on a puppeteer costume before getting busy.
With T.V. I can have tripe like "Yes Dear" forced upon me or I can view meaningful content on demand via the internet.
For example, I can pay $80/mo. for standard, no movie channel cable from Time Warner and get news fed to me in 30 minute bursts or I can pay $8.95/mo. for internet access and read in-depth studies from sites like foreign affairs. I can be a better parent and read about my gifted son's condition and learn from it on the internet or I can sit on my ass and watch Temptation Island.
T.V. no longer consistently delivers meaningful content (if it ever did). Heck even formerly great channels like TLC have relegated themselves to regurgitating reruns of While You Were Out.
The entire media industry is sooo out of touch with the populace and clearly have no clue how to react and change to an increasingly digital lifestyle so many of us are adopting.
I just installed 1.1 last week. Is 1.1.1 as ass slow as 1.1?
I'm not trolling. I really would like to know.
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Opinions are opinions and given that, I disagree with you on a few points.
CD burning in the file manager is exactly where it needs to be. If you want to transfer files from a floppy or a network volume, you use the file manager. If I want to transfer files to a CD, I would logically use the file manager. A CD is a storage medium like any other, be it a hard drive or floppy. Makes sense to me.
I also disagree with the Mac interface comment. By extension, if people want thier interface looking like Windows, then they'll use Windows - so why install KDE then? I think good UI is good UI whether it come from Mac, Windows or whatever. As far as not being a desktop for business, what makes a Windows interface inherently more business friendly? Ubiquity? That in no way implies a higher standard of quality.
The spatial interface is tedious, I agree, but it gives people another option and that isn't so bad is it?
It is curious that this release is more "Mac like" than before. Maybe KDE will (has) evolve(d) into a Windows clone and GNOME will take the more Mac route.
The wankers over in Redmond are about to release thier self-proclaimed "iPod killer" brick and since it's been proven time and time again that they aren't interested in innovating (just copying and/or smothering). So maybe it's a protective measure against Billy & Co. Apple has been Redmond's R&D lab for many years. Don't beleive me? Go here and read the part about "New graphics with the Desktop Composition Engine". It still goes on to this day.
I'd be a little worried if I were Apple. I mean, look at Microsoft's track record - they missed the boat on the GUI, office productivity apps, the internet and now the search engine. They missed the mark early on only to copy and then dominate those respective areas (don't you dare take Google away you bastards!). In typical fashion, Microsoft slowly looks at the digital music phenomena and says to itself "hmmm...there's something bright over here...let's exterminate it".
Apple may be setting themselves up to take MS to court if they end up having to. At least the EU has proven that they aren't blinded and seduced by corporate money like the current U.S. administration. Admittedly, I have no idea if a U.S. patent makes a rats ass bit of difference over in the EU.
Never underestimate the slack-jawed stupidity about technical issues with your run-of-the-mill MCSE.
These are the same people that once told me Macs are unable to network. It's not completely thier fault though. I've been to 2-day Windows administration seminars and they FUD like hell at those things.
Doesn't expose address the criticisms of the dock? It doesn't get in the way of those that love the dock and provides an alternative to those that don't.
Don't like using the dock to switch applications? Use expose to show all open windows - or command+tab for that matter.
Don't like it when you have 7 Word documents open and you can't tell one document from the other by its icon in the dock? Use expose's show windows by application.
Don't like getting to a desktop buried by open windows by minimizing windows or hiding applications in the dock? Use expose to move all the windows offscreen.
As a longtime Mac user, I think the dock is clunky but expose and command+tab have been a dream. My friend that recently switched from Windows to the Mac loves the dock and can't understand why people hate it. With Panther, everyone is happy.
Tog's arguments and this thread would be valid in a pre-10.3 timeframe but Apple listened and provided a wonderful alternative in expose. Are people just not using it or are these people complaining about an OS that is a generation (or four if you count OS 9) old? Hell, let's start a thread about Windows for Worgroups shortcomings.
I just cancelled my cable modem and cable t.v. and I'm going back to dialup [shudder]. Time Warner raised our monthly rates $20/mo. for cable t.v and modem for a total of over $120/mo. I'm talking what they call basic cable (no movie channels) and consumer level broadband. They're the only game in town, they've got a monopoly and I can no longer justify supporting it. The real kick in the pants is that my parents, 50 miles away, have 2 companies in their area that offer cable t.v. and broadband. They get both t.v. and modem (basically, what I had) for a little over $40/mo.
Now I've got $6.95/mo. dialup and rabbit ears on the t.v.'s but I think my kids and I (not to mention my wallet) will be better off without the distraction. Books are of so much more value than t.v. anyway and I'll be spending less time in front of the computer and more time with my family or a good book.
Didn't I read on Slashdot a while back that Time Warner ultimately wanted to charge customers like $240/mo. or some nonesense like that for their services?
Since it's been scored +5 informative I feel I must say that the original post is not true. With an amatueur telescope, you can easily discern several "belts" on Jupiter as well as the Great Red Spot (although it hasn't been so red lately). Perhaps the poster was thinking of Saturn, in which case what he said is quite true.
If you've never seen Jupiter or Saturn with your own eyes you owe it to yourself to do so. It is a beautiful and wondrous thing to behold. There is likely an astronomy club near you that holds public stargazes in which you can enjoy the night sky through their scopes.
Of course you don't care. Anybody that obviously considers spelling outdated wouldn't grasp anything that David Byrne has to say.
What is truly sad is that, from your perspective, "noble" wasn't a spelling error -if you were asked to write down the phrase "Nobel Prize" 500 times you would have written "noble" 500 times. I'm not even going to address using pill in place of pile.
[sigh] I'm going to email you a nice Powerpoint presentation on the importance of spelling. I think a book might be too much for you at this point.
Agreed. Wonderful book. How did you interperet the ending - the story he gave to the Japanese investigators or the one described through most of the book?
Although they came out in 2002 the paperback versions debuted in 2003.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel. My favorite this year. What a fantastic book. It's no wonder many colleges and universities are incorporating it into their required reading cirriculum. An Indian boy becomes lost at sea after a ship he was riding on sinks. His only passenger in the lifeboat - a Bengal tiger.
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides. Written by the same author of The Virgin Suicides. It's a story about a Greek girl (boy) born as a hermaphrodite in a Greek family and her experiences growing up in that environment and that condition. Won the Pulitzer I believe.
Books rock. They are soooooo much better than the tripe offered on t.v. BTW, is anybody else offended that TLC stands for The Learning Channel? There's nothing learning about that channel anymore. Just Trading Spaces and the umpteen variations on that theme.
Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs are reportedly good friends - Ellison even serves on Apple' board.
My question is, when they're in the same room together, does the air begin to smell like shit? Because these have got be be two of the biggest assholes around.
I don't even want to know what would happen if Ellison, Jobs and Ballmer got together in the same room.
These are great all-manual no auto anything cameras and the best way to learn and understand concepts like exposure, bracketing exposures, light conditions, that will apply to any serious student of photography - film or digital.
Your're correct when you say there is great bang-for-the-buck in 35mm cameras now as well because only the most expensive digitals ($5000+) begin to even approach the "resolution" of 35mm film.
If you happen to be an amatuer astronomer, these cameras are highly sought after in the amatuer astronomy community because the all-manuals are the only cameras capable of keeping the shutter open for hours at a time. The new camera shutters are battery powered (and thus fails before the proper exposure has been achieved) and the digital SLR's aren't at all suited for deep-sky photogrpahy for a number of reasons that only very, very expensive CCD cameras address.
With having your own darkroom, you're ready to enjoy what I find is a really rewarding and fun hobby.
Honestly, I got hit by a small pang of depression when I read that. I mean, Win 98 is so awful and old. And then I think of the Packard Bells running those copies of Win 98 and I put my hands to my face in a mockery of Munch's "The Scream" and shout "Why! Why! WHY!".
It's like reading that 30% of the world has incurable dysentery or 30% of all people prefer oppressive dictatorships when given a choice of government.
If pices are the same, why would I pay the premium for a Powerbook? Obviously, with the 17", the screen of course, but for the 12" and 15" I'm not sure if a $500+ markup is worth it.
...that the screenshots look like a bastardized version of Mac System 7 and Windows 95?
Look at the sound "control panel" and the multimedia menu icon. Straight out of System 7. The "Start" menu and other various icons definitely have a Microsoft look to them.
Well, since you asked I would upgrade based on any usability improvements 9.2 has over 9.1. This is my DAD we're talking about so anything that helps him use the machine better/more easily is a good enough reason for me.
But since he's just using email, I'll just find a copy of Slackware 1.0 and install pine - I mean, it has all the features he needs, right?
So I just days ago, got my dad off of Windows and onto Linux by installing Mandrake 9.1 He got tired of the virii and security updates from Microsoft, the ad-aware spyware removal updates and the Norton AntiVirus updates when all he does is use the net to retrieve email.
Is there a simple way to upgrade or do I have to download the ISO's and reinstall (probably won't if that's the case)? I use OS X at home so I'm not sure how to upgrade a Linux box.
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Agreed. I'm no prude by any stretch, but the whole "rishathra" thing was an annoying subtext that added nothing to the stories. I recall being embarrased for Larry Niven everytime he threw in "rishing" - which seemed to be every ten pages.
I bet it's fun being his wife - having to put on a puppeteer costume before getting busy.
With T.V. I can have tripe like "Yes Dear" forced upon me or I can view meaningful content on demand via the internet.
For example, I can pay $80/mo. for standard, no movie channel cable from Time Warner and get news fed to me in 30 minute bursts or I can pay $8.95/mo. for internet access and read in-depth studies from sites like foreign affairs. I can be a better parent and read about my gifted son's condition and learn from it on the internet or I can sit on my ass and watch Temptation Island.
T.V. no longer consistently delivers meaningful content (if it ever did). Heck even formerly great channels like TLC have relegated themselves to regurgitating reruns of While You Were Out.
The entire media industry is sooo out of touch with the populace and clearly have no clue how to react and change to an increasingly digital lifestyle so many of us are adopting.
I just installed 1.1 last week. Is 1.1.1 as ass slow as 1.1?
I'm not trolling. I really would like to know.
Opinions are opinions and given that, I disagree with you on a few points.
CD burning in the file manager is exactly where it needs to be. If you want to transfer files from a floppy or a network volume, you use the file manager. If I want to transfer files to a CD, I would logically use the file manager. A CD is a storage medium like any other, be it a hard drive or floppy. Makes sense to me.
I also disagree with the Mac interface comment. By extension, if people want thier interface looking like Windows, then they'll use Windows - so why install KDE then? I think good UI is good UI whether it come from Mac, Windows or whatever. As far as not being a desktop for business, what makes a Windows interface inherently more business friendly? Ubiquity? That in no way implies a higher standard of quality.
The spatial interface is tedious, I agree, but it gives people another option and that isn't so bad is it?
It is curious that this release is more "Mac like" than before. Maybe KDE will (has) evolve(d) into a Windows clone and GNOME will take the more Mac route.
The wankers over in Redmond are about to release thier self-proclaimed "iPod killer" brick and since it's been proven time and time again that they aren't interested in innovating (just copying and/or smothering). So maybe it's a protective measure against Billy & Co. Apple has been Redmond's R&D lab for many years. Don't beleive me? Go here and read the part about "New graphics with the Desktop Composition Engine". It still goes on to this day.
I'd be a little worried if I were Apple. I mean, look at Microsoft's track record - they missed the boat on the GUI, office productivity apps, the internet and now the search engine. They missed the mark early on only to copy and then dominate those respective areas (don't you dare take Google away you bastards!). In typical fashion, Microsoft slowly looks at the digital music phenomena and says to itself "hmmm...there's something bright over here...let's exterminate it".
Apple may be setting themselves up to take MS to court if they end up having to. At least the EU has proven that they aren't blinded and seduced by corporate money like the current U.S. administration. Admittedly, I have no idea if a U.S. patent makes a rats ass bit of difference over in the EU.
It appears that somebody has decided that it's time to hack the hackers.
MacSlashNever underestimate the slack-jawed stupidity about technical issues with your run-of-the-mill MCSE.
These are the same people that once told me Macs are unable to network. It's not completely thier fault though. I've been to 2-day Windows administration seminars and they FUD like hell at those things.
Doesn't expose address the criticisms of the dock? It doesn't get in the way of those that love the dock and provides an alternative to those that don't.
Don't like using the dock to switch applications? Use expose to show all open windows - or command+tab for that matter.
Don't like it when you have 7 Word documents open and you can't tell one document from the other by its icon in the dock? Use expose's show windows by application.
Don't like getting to a desktop buried by open windows by minimizing windows or hiding applications in the dock? Use expose to move all the windows offscreen.
As a longtime Mac user, I think the dock is clunky but expose and command+tab have been a dream. My friend that recently switched from Windows to the Mac loves the dock and can't understand why people hate it. With Panther, everyone is happy.
Tog's arguments and this thread would be valid in a pre-10.3 timeframe but Apple listened and provided a wonderful alternative in expose. Are people just not using it or are these people complaining about an OS that is a generation (or four if you count OS 9) old? Hell, let's start a thread about Windows for Worgroups shortcomings.
I just cancelled my cable modem and cable t.v. and I'm going back to dialup [shudder]. Time Warner raised our monthly rates $20/mo. for cable t.v and modem for a total of over $120/mo. I'm talking what they call basic cable (no movie channels) and consumer level broadband. They're the only game in town, they've got a monopoly and I can no longer justify supporting it. The real kick in the pants is that my parents, 50 miles away, have 2 companies in their area that offer cable t.v. and broadband. They get both t.v. and modem (basically, what I had) for a little over $40/mo.
Now I've got $6.95/mo. dialup and rabbit ears on the t.v.'s but I think my kids and I (not to mention my wallet) will be better off without the distraction. Books are of so much more value than t.v. anyway and I'll be spending less time in front of the computer and more time with my family or a good book.
Didn't I read on Slashdot a while back that Time Warner ultimately wanted to charge customers like $240/mo. or some nonesense like that for their services?
Since it's been scored +5 informative I feel I must say that the original post is not true. With an amatueur telescope, you can easily discern several "belts" on Jupiter as well as the Great Red Spot (although it hasn't been so red lately). Perhaps the poster was thinking of Saturn, in which case what he said is quite true.
If you've never seen Jupiter or Saturn with your own eyes you owe it to yourself to do so. It is a beautiful and wondrous thing to behold. There is likely an astronomy club near you that holds public stargazes in which you can enjoy the night sky through their scopes.
Not at all. I can see Jupiter and Io in my 6" telescope. Jupiter is the brightest object in the sky with the exceptions of the sun, moon and Venus.
Of course you don't care. Anybody that obviously considers spelling outdated wouldn't grasp anything that David Byrne has to say.
What is truly sad is that, from your perspective, "noble" wasn't a spelling error -if you were asked to write down the phrase "Nobel Prize" 500 times you would have written "noble" 500 times. I'm not even going to address using pill in place of pile.
[sigh] I'm going to email you a nice Powerpoint presentation on the importance of spelling. I think a book might be too much for you at this point.
Agreed. Wonderful book. How did you interperet the ending - the story he gave to the Japanese investigators or the one described through most of the book?
Although they came out in 2002 the paperback versions debuted in 2003.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel. My favorite this year. What a fantastic book. It's no wonder many colleges and universities are incorporating it into their required reading cirriculum. An Indian boy becomes lost at sea after a ship he was riding on sinks. His only passenger in the lifeboat - a Bengal tiger.
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides. Written by the same author of The Virgin Suicides. It's a story about a Greek girl (boy) born as a hermaphrodite in a Greek family and her experiences growing up in that environment and that condition. Won the Pulitzer I believe.
Books rock. They are soooooo much better than the tripe offered on t.v. BTW, is anybody else offended that TLC stands for The Learning Channel? There's nothing learning about that channel anymore. Just Trading Spaces and the umpteen variations on that theme.
Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs are reportedly good friends - Ellison even serves on Apple' board.
My question is, when they're in the same room together, does the air begin to smell like shit? Because these have got be be two of the biggest assholes around.
I don't even want to know what would happen if Ellison, Jobs and Ballmer got together in the same room.
is clouding my connection to the server. I heard a million requests and all went silent.
These are great all-manual no auto anything cameras and the best way to learn and understand concepts like exposure, bracketing exposures, light conditions, that will apply to any serious student of photography - film or digital.
Your're correct when you say there is great bang-for-the-buck in 35mm cameras now as well because only the most expensive digitals ($5000+) begin to even approach the "resolution" of 35mm film.
If you happen to be an amatuer astronomer, these cameras are highly sought after in the amatuer astronomy community because the all-manuals are the only cameras capable of keeping the shutter open for hours at a time. The new camera shutters are battery powered (and thus fails before the proper exposure has been achieved) and the digital SLR's aren't at all suited for deep-sky photogrpahy for a number of reasons that only very, very expensive CCD cameras address.
With having your own darkroom, you're ready to enjoy what I find is a really rewarding and fun hobby.
Honestly, I got hit by a small pang of depression when I read that. I mean, Win 98 is so awful and old. And then I think of the Packard Bells running those copies of Win 98 and I put my hands to my face in a mockery of Munch's "The Scream" and shout "Why! Why! WHY!".
It's like reading that 30% of the world has incurable dysentery or 30% of all people prefer oppressive dictatorships when given a choice of government.
I thought it was already established that silicon implants were prone to leakage.
But switching to metal? Man, I'd hate to walk outside on a cold Montana morning in February with those.
What's that? Silicone? They're not the same? Never mind. Carry on. Sorry.
So you're telling me SOI is NOT a busty gal in an angora sweater?
If pices are the same, why would I pay the premium for a Powerbook? Obviously, with the 17", the screen of course, but for the 12" and 15" I'm not sure if a $500+ markup is worth it.
...that the screenshots look like a bastardized version of Mac System 7 and Windows 95?
Look at the sound "control panel" and the multimedia menu icon. Straight out of System 7. The "Start" menu and other various icons definitely have a Microsoft look to them.
Practice makes perfect.
Well, since you asked I would upgrade based on any usability improvements 9.2 has over 9.1. This is my DAD we're talking about so anything that helps him use the machine better/more easily is a good enough reason for me.
But since he's just using email, I'll just find a copy of Slackware 1.0 and install pine - I mean, it has all the features he needs, right?
So I just days ago, got my dad off of Windows and onto Linux by installing Mandrake 9.1 He got tired of the virii and security updates from Microsoft, the ad-aware spyware removal updates and the Norton AntiVirus updates when all he does is use the net to retrieve email.
Is there a simple way to upgrade or do I have to download the ISO's and reinstall (probably won't if that's the case)? I use OS X at home so I'm not sure how to upgrade a Linux box.
[Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this.]
I only read what I want to hear and ignore others perspectives, right or wrong.