...when all of the drives and network shares for the Macs in the public computer labs were Bloom County characters. Remembering clicking on Portnoy or Opus to run Gopher brings a tear to my eye.
I remember getting my first Mac my senior year and instantly replacing the default hard drive icon with Bill the Cat's image and renaming it Ack!
Anybody know where to get Bloom County icons for OS X?
At work, I'm running Windows 2000 on a Dell P4 workstation. I can get it to bluescreen with regularity.
In fact, if I use Mozilla to access my web-based email and try to resize the window - BAM! Bluescreen.
Is Windows 2000 the spawn of demons that were the 9x series of OSes? No. Not even close. But Windows still bluescreens. I've never had a kernel panic ever in OS X. Of course, YMMV.
If you think popular music is crap now, wait until this business model becomes successful. Artists will be pressured to have every song on thier album a hit to maximize downloads. We'll also face lables promoting even more Britney Spears and N'sync type groups. Perhaps labels will just use the hit-song detecting software and just hire a little T&A to sing it for them
Well, then again maybe we'll not see a whole lot of change after all;^)
On a completely different note, if you download an entire CD, they should make available a printable version of the cover and liner notes.
I love Macs, I've used them exclusively for over 10 years now and don't see myself switching anytime soon. Given that...
To Mac zealots: PC are faster than Macs. Get over it. Yes the PPC chip is more elegant and efficient but it runs slow (relative to Intel). Good Altivec applications are few and far between and don't really apply to the day-to-day home and business user. If the PPC 970 comes out this summer, then maybe Macs will again TEMPORARILY hold the speed crown but until then, PC are faster by using brute force. If sheer computing performance is your #1 requirement, then a PC should be your choice. If you're poor and only have $400 to make sure your child has a computer, then a PC is your only choice. Don't even start by saying with that money you could buy some 1997 era Mac either. Please.
To PC zealots: The overall user experience on an OS X system outweighs the fact that Win XP may idle faster when running Word. In those applications that can take advantage of vector processing, Altivec is far superior to 3DNow and SSE. Plus, I see a lot of complaining about the program was written explicitly for the Mac so the comparison is unfair. Welcome to our world. Most software written to support hardware (scanners, cameras, etc.) is a blatant PC port of a hastily written "good enough" POS program. Plus, Mac laptops have better battery life AND get the full desktop chip, not some crippled "mobile" version designed to prevent penile burns and 20 minute battery life.
Personally, I'll take elegant and efficient any day. Quite frankly, I'm glad the PPC has temporarily lagged behind. It's forced Apple to really tighten up things to keep competitive and it shows. This might not have happened if the processor would make up for any code bloat and inefficiency. Look at Safari - 3MB download. Look at OS X speed from 10.0 to 10.2. Phenomenal. When the 970 comes around, OS X should theoretically run like a champ.
If they made CD's $6-$8 apiece I'd buy two a week easily. As it stands now $18 for one just doesn't get me out of my chair to get one. It's been months since I've bought a CD.
I get giddy thinking about all of the music I could buy that right now I consider too expensive to aquire.
As I sit here in Dayton, OH, I ponder why I don't have a radio in my cube and the answer comes to me rather quickly - because truly and honestly isn't a radio station around worth listening to. I could listen to any number of classic rock or 80's radio stations if I wanted to hear the same songs over and over again every day...forever. Or I could listen to the country music stations that play the same crap over and over again (never once have I heard truly talented country artists like Dwight Yoakam or Steve Earle get air time). I could flip on the local "alternative" station but, good God all the songs they ever play are what I call "white boy rage rock" - the sound never changes. It sucks and it's because the record industry essentially feeds them their playlists. There is one great station that's close but I can't get it (WOXY 97X in Cincinatti) here and it's an exception to the rule.
I am beginning to rediscover the joy of music again through digital cable music channels and swapping MP3's. My friend and I have set up FTP servers on our computers and upload interesting music (which we almost always buy) for each other to listen to. We've also swapped songs from vinyl albums or CD's bought in our youth that aren't physically playable anymore. It's not like we we're going to buy that particular CD again but it was nice that one of us had a digital copy of it so we could continue to enjoy it. Both of us like to buy CD's still but if the industry collapses I suppose we'll adapt. Really though, we're doing nothing that we weren't already doing for years - making mix tapes from albums and CD's and swapping them. It's just now we a a higher-quality medium to achieve the same thing. I don't get how Rip-Mix-Burn says "Fuck You Record Industry". Twenty years ago it was Cue-Mix-Tape and we never heard them complain.
In my case, technology is not to blame for my change in listening habits. Technology has been the savior in reviving my passion for music. It has allowed me to listen to what I like. The RIAA almost killed that part of my life because I found nothing worth listening to anymore that was easily accessible. The RIAA and its unchecked greed and totalitarian control tactics is really the culprit for the death of the music industry. At least for those of us that are too old to find Britney Spears appealing or talented.
Exactly! I hope it didn't appear that the implication of my post was that it would be desireable to go back to WWI type fighting. It was meant to point out a very undesireable scenario to anybody that knew any history about WWI. WWI was the most miserable war ever fought, rampant disease from laying in trenches months at a time, chemical weapons, massive daily death tolls - that's why it was termed "the war to end all wars".
I understand you're point about the British and French attacking the U.S. but there is plenty of modern-enough Soviet hardware floating around out there for HMP to still be an effective weapon. Also consider that someday, these nations/organizations will have access to technology that the wealthy Western nations possess today so development of these weapons is still a worthy endeavor.
Interesting point about military destruction without death toll results in a less pissed off nation in defeat. This may end up being true but the first thing I thought of was what led to the rise of Hitler and the introduction of WWII - an economy in shambles and a people that felt humiliated about their defeat in WWI and the resulting terms of surrender they were forced into by the Allies. What I envision is a scenario where, sure there were less casualties in the war but now they are left to repair a nation in defeat and no modern day machinery and electronics to rebuild or restart a peacetime economy. The end result to a war fought with these weapons may end up being quite similar to one that was fought with conventional weapons.
I would imagine these things could change the face of conventional warfare. Imagine as a squadron of enemy fighters or bombers is heading your way - launch one of those things at them and watch them drop from the sky like lame ducks.
Of course, if the other side had them then maybe we effectively return to the days of WWI combat technology.
This technology combined with technology derived from Apple's new patent application, I wonder if we could have iPod's where the case itself displays the funky visualizations?
From what I understand, yes but I may be mistaken since I'm working from a hazy memory here. I believe it can be turned off just like DRM. I would imagine that Windows (later versions) probably won't run without it turned on.
Of course, it entirely feasible that one could be running a Linux distro that has jumped through all of the hoops to become certified "trusted".
As a longtime Mac user I can say - don't be fooled. MS products for the Mac never live up to their Windows versions (recent versions of Office excepted). They're usually crippled and play second fiddle to the Windows version.
The only thing they're good for is incentivizing sites to use MS-only media or allow access to MS-only products.
I'm going to have to side with the professors on this one. I recall an earlier post that it's the professor's fault for not providing an entertaining enough lecture. I'm sorry, but I would never hire a person that I knew felt that way.
Life is not a constant stream of entertainment. The most rewarding things in life come from blood, sweat and tears and an education is one of them. While I think you should enjoy your chosen field of study, I don't think is has to compete on the same level as the latest Eminem video or an email of how your friend saw this really hot chick at Wal-Mart.
Besides, I don't even think it's possible to make all courses entertaining to all. Do you as, say a programmer, expect to really get into Classic Greek Literature 540 as a form of entertainment?
For the love of God would you shut up about this already!? Your ego is incredible. Do you really think that witholding your piddly $2000 will make Apple stop everything and listen to your moronic AC rantings about key placement on their laptops? Your the ONLY person that gives a rats ass about where the control key is placed and whether the keyboard is on an ADB bus or not. If Apple redesigned their laptops just for you they could gain another 0.000000000001% marketshare. WooHoo! But then you'd find some other infitessimally small detail to piss and moan about for the next 2 years. You are irrelevant.
You remind me of some *ucking 300lb. fat *uck that kept incessantly whining in the computer lab that it was too hot. Never mind that everybody else was comfortable and that he had about 180 lbs. of *ucking blubber insulating his sorry ass. I've never meant this more than now when I say get a *ucking life. At the least get a *ucking PC laptop, put Linux, Solaris or a BSD on it and go away.
So did Microsoft impose sanctions on themselves when it was found out that during the Microsoft trial letters from a "grassroots campaign" sent to politicians were found to be fake? Was Bill or Steve castigated?
Puhleeese Steve, do you think anybody believes the crap rolling out of your mouth by the bucketfull?
There are Windows zealots, they're just lost in the crowd of point-and-drool Windows users that have no idea that "computer" doesn't necissarily mean "Wintel".
I mean, what about the scores of MCSE monkeys that think every other operating system outside of Windows is a toy? Isn't that a type of zealotry? They're not going out and actively preaching Windows but they're passively dissmissing any other platform. There's plenty of Kool-aid to be drunk that's coming out of Redmond.
If the movie's any good, they'll have a confrontation between a mac zealot and an MCSE monkey that tells him "Macs can't network." I'm picturing a Steve Martin type reaction from the movie "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" when somebody mentions "cleaning woman".
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Hey Miguel,
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Have you ever thought about posting goatse to see if you'd still score a +5 Informative?
If you won't, maybe I can convince John Carmack to do it
...when all of the drives and network shares for the Macs in the public computer labs were Bloom County characters. Remembering clicking on Portnoy or Opus to run Gopher brings a tear to my eye.
I remember getting my first Mac my senior year and instantly replacing the default hard drive icon with Bill the Cat's image and renaming it Ack!
Anybody know where to get Bloom County icons for OS X?
At work, I'm running Windows 2000 on a Dell P4 workstation. I can get it to bluescreen with regularity.
In fact, if I use Mozilla to access my web-based email and try to resize the window - BAM! Bluescreen.
Is Windows 2000 the spawn of demons that were the 9x series of OSes? No. Not even close. But Windows still bluescreens. I've never had a kernel panic ever in OS X. Of course, YMMV.
Excellent point. If I could mod you up I would.
If you think popular music is crap now, wait until this business model becomes successful. Artists will be pressured to have every song on thier album a hit to maximize downloads. We'll also face lables promoting even more Britney Spears and N'sync type groups. Perhaps labels will just use the hit-song detecting software and just hire a little T&A to sing it for them
;^)
Well, then again maybe we'll not see a whole lot of change after all
On a completely different note, if you download an entire CD, they should make available a printable version of the cover and liner notes.
Will this never end?
I love Macs, I've used them exclusively for over 10 years now and don't see myself switching anytime soon. Given that...
To Mac zealots:
PC are faster than Macs. Get over it. Yes the PPC chip is more elegant and efficient but it runs slow (relative to Intel). Good Altivec applications are few and far between and don't really apply to the day-to-day home and business user. If the PPC 970 comes out this summer, then maybe Macs will again TEMPORARILY hold the speed crown but until then, PC are faster by using brute force. If sheer computing performance is your #1 requirement, then a PC should be your choice. If you're poor and only have $400 to make sure your child has a computer, then a PC is your only choice. Don't even start by saying with that money you could buy some 1997 era Mac either. Please.
To PC zealots:
The overall user experience on an OS X system outweighs the fact that Win XP may idle faster when running Word. In those applications that can take advantage of vector processing, Altivec is far superior to 3DNow and SSE. Plus, I see a lot of complaining about the program was written explicitly for the Mac so the comparison is unfair. Welcome to our world. Most software written to support hardware (scanners, cameras, etc.) is a blatant PC port of a hastily written "good enough" POS program. Plus, Mac laptops have better battery life AND get the full desktop chip, not some crippled "mobile" version designed to prevent penile burns and 20 minute battery life.
Personally, I'll take elegant and efficient any day. Quite frankly, I'm glad the PPC has temporarily lagged behind. It's forced Apple to really tighten up things to keep competitive and it shows. This might not have happened if the processor would make up for any code bloat and inefficiency. Look at Safari - 3MB download. Look at OS X speed from 10.0 to 10.2. Phenomenal. When the 970 comes around, OS X should theoretically run like a champ.
If they made CD's $6-$8 apiece I'd buy two a week easily. As it stands now $18 for one just doesn't get me out of my chair to get one. It's been months since I've bought a CD.
I get giddy thinking about all of the music I could buy that right now I consider too expensive to aquire.
As I sit here in Dayton, OH, I ponder why I don't have a radio in my cube and the answer comes to me rather quickly - because truly and honestly isn't a radio station around worth listening to. I could listen to any number of classic rock or 80's radio stations if I wanted to hear the same songs over and over again every day...forever. Or I could listen to the country music stations that play the same crap over and over again (never once have I heard truly talented country artists like Dwight Yoakam or Steve Earle get air time). I could flip on the local "alternative" station but, good God all the songs they ever play are what I call "white boy rage rock" - the sound never changes. It sucks and it's because the record industry essentially feeds them their playlists. There is one great station that's close but I can't get it (WOXY 97X in Cincinatti) here and it's an exception to the rule.
I am beginning to rediscover the joy of music again through digital cable music channels and swapping MP3's. My friend and I have set up FTP servers on our computers and upload interesting music (which we almost always buy) for each other to listen to. We've also swapped songs from vinyl albums or CD's bought in our youth that aren't physically playable anymore. It's not like we we're going to buy that particular CD again but it was nice that one of us had a digital copy of it so we could continue to enjoy it. Both of us like to buy CD's still but if the industry collapses I suppose we'll adapt. Really though, we're doing nothing that we weren't already doing for years - making mix tapes from albums and CD's and swapping them. It's just now we a a higher-quality medium to achieve the same thing. I don't get how Rip-Mix-Burn says "Fuck You Record Industry". Twenty years ago it was Cue-Mix-Tape and we never heard them complain.
In my case, technology is not to blame for my change in listening habits. Technology has been the savior in reviving my passion for music. It has allowed me to listen to what I like. The RIAA almost killed that part of my life because I found nothing worth listening to anymore that was easily accessible. The RIAA and its unchecked greed and totalitarian control tactics is really the culprit for the death of the music industry. At least for those of us that are too old to find Britney Spears appealing or talented.
Exactly! I hope it didn't appear that the implication of my post was that it would be desireable to go back to WWI type fighting. It was meant to point out a very undesireable scenario to anybody that knew any history about WWI. WWI was the most miserable war ever fought, rampant disease from laying in trenches months at a time, chemical weapons, massive daily death tolls - that's why it was termed "the war to end all wars".
I understand you're point about the British and French attacking the U.S. but there is plenty of modern-enough Soviet hardware floating around out there for HMP to still be an effective weapon. Also consider that someday, these nations/organizations will have access to technology that the wealthy Western nations possess today so development of these weapons is still a worthy endeavor.
Interesting point about military destruction without death toll results in a less pissed off nation in defeat. This may end up being true but the first thing I thought of was what led to the rise of Hitler and the introduction of WWII - an economy in shambles and a people that felt humiliated about their defeat in WWI and the resulting terms of surrender they were forced into by the Allies. What I envision is a scenario where, sure there were less casualties in the war but now they are left to repair a nation in defeat and no modern day machinery and electronics to rebuild or restart a peacetime economy. The end result to a war fought with these weapons may end up being quite similar to one that was fought with conventional weapons.
I would imagine these things could change the face of conventional warfare. Imagine as a squadron of enemy fighters or bombers is heading your way - launch one of those things at them and watch them drop from the sky like lame ducks.
Of course, if the other side had them then maybe we effectively return to the days of WWI combat technology.
This technology combined with technology derived from Apple's new patent application, I wonder if we could have iPod's where the case itself displays the funky visualizations?
Just a thought.
From what I understand, yes but I may be mistaken since I'm working from a hazy memory here. I believe it can be turned off just like DRM. I would imagine that Windows (later versions) probably won't run without it turned on.
Of course, it entirely feasible that one could be running a Linux distro that has jumped through all of the hoops to become certified "trusted".
As a longtime Mac user I can say - don't be fooled. MS products for the Mac never live up to their Windows versions (recent versions of Office excepted). They're usually crippled and play second fiddle to the Windows version.
The only thing they're good for is incentivizing sites to use MS-only media or allow access to MS-only products.
I'll pass. Give me open standards, thank you
I'm going to have to side with the professors on this one. I recall an earlier post that it's the professor's fault for not providing an entertaining enough lecture. I'm sorry, but I would never hire a person that I knew felt that way.
Life is not a constant stream of entertainment. The most rewarding things in life come from blood, sweat and tears and an education is one of them. While I think you should enjoy your chosen field of study, I don't think is has to compete on the same level as the latest Eminem video or an email of how your friend saw this really hot chick at Wal-Mart.
Besides, I don't even think it's possible to make all courses entertaining to all. Do you as, say a programmer, expect to really get into Classic Greek Literature 540 as a form of entertainment?
Does Sesame Street have a university?
This guy has been posting the same rant for over a year. Always posts as an AC.
He's just some lame ass that likes to bait Mac users - admittedly a task similar to shooting fish in a barrel.
If I set it to scan everything from the root directory on down, it crashes without fail. Pretty beta so far.
Yakov Smirnov.(sp?)
Thank you.
He should have just fired up Mozilla and watched as the Gecko started to eat them. Problem solved.
Please tell I wasn't the only one that had a TRS-80 Color Computer and read Hot CoCo?
Man, I did love my 8-bit Atari's though. Something's missing from that age of computing. The wonder and excitement are gone now. Too bad.
Couldn't we extract it from the atmosphere and turn it into something useful like inanimate carbon rods?
An inanimate carbon rod saved the space shuttle you know.
Developers! Developers! Developers!
For the love of God would you shut up about this already!? Your ego is incredible. Do you really think that witholding your piddly $2000 will make Apple stop everything and listen to your moronic AC rantings about key placement on their laptops? Your the ONLY person that gives a rats ass about where the control key is placed and whether the keyboard is on an ADB bus or not. If Apple redesigned their laptops just for you they could gain another 0.000000000001% marketshare. WooHoo! But then you'd find some other infitessimally small detail to piss and moan about for the next 2 years. You are irrelevant.
You remind me of some *ucking 300lb. fat *uck that kept incessantly whining in the computer lab that it was too hot. Never mind that everybody else was comfortable and that he had about 180 lbs. of *ucking blubber insulating his sorry ass. I've never meant this more than now when I say get a *ucking life. At the least get a *ucking PC laptop, put Linux, Solaris or a BSD on it and go away.
...if somehow Panip's servers were attacked using a type of machine that's connected to a telephone line and utilizing a video display?
So did Microsoft impose sanctions on themselves when it was found out that during the Microsoft trial letters from a "grassroots campaign" sent to politicians were found to be fake? Was Bill or Steve castigated?
Puhleeese Steve, do you think anybody believes the crap rolling out of your mouth by the bucketfull?
There are Windows zealots, they're just lost in the crowd of point-and-drool Windows users that have no idea that "computer" doesn't necissarily mean "Wintel".
I mean, what about the scores of MCSE monkeys that think every other operating system outside of Windows is a toy? Isn't that a type of zealotry? They're not going out and actively preaching Windows but they're passively dissmissing any other platform. There's plenty of Kool-aid to be drunk that's coming out of Redmond.
If the movie's any good, they'll have a confrontation between a mac zealot and an MCSE monkey that tells him "Macs can't network." I'm picturing a Steve Martin type reaction from the movie "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" when somebody mentions "cleaning woman".