That actually does no good. As soon as I quit "System Preferences" it reverts back to another browser, even though the other one isn't on the system. It just seems to hate Mozilla, I don't know why:( I've even edited the files described here but to no avail.
I don't think so. As you point out, Apple has no incentive to dis IE, which Jaguar installs as the default browser. Not only that, it is very difficult to use another browser as the default without completely erasing IE from your disk. For some reason, if IE is present at all, Jaguar wants to keep it as the default, even if you have explicitly chosen another browser as the default in the System preferences. I have been having a hell of a difficult time to get Jaguar to recognize Mozilla as my default browser, even when it's the only browser on the system. Am I the only one with this problem, or should we (ahem) actually consider IE part of the OS? (yikes!) Anyway I don't think Apple wants to put down IE just to compete with MS.
yeah... if you must use Win98 then run Office 97. Or 2000, but even that is bloatware, esp if you're running on a c.200 MHz pentium 2. If you want to run the new version of Office, get a Mac.:)
Here here! The farce of the Sex Pistols was precisely their greatness, and McLaren's genius lay in packaging this commodity according to principles outlined by cutting edge art movements, including the Situationists -- principles aimed at disrupting commodity society. Of course, in the long run it played into commodity society much more than it disrupted, but that was to be expected. Punk was never going to change the world, but its beauty lay in the fact that, for a moment, it made it seem possible that the world could change. And it certainly opened the doors for an invasion of DIY indie labels, garage bands, fashion designers, and other artists, breaking through the dominance of tired old stadium rock.
I highly recommend Greil Marcus' outstanding book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century to anybody trying to understand the Pistols or punk rock. And I forget the author but The Wicked World of Malcolm McLaren is a great book illuminating McLaren's background and experiences.
uhhh, yeah, I know. Sorry, it was a dumb joke, based on the fact that every time someone mentions Macs, somebody whines that they want another button on the mouse. But, yeah, it wasn't very funny, I suppose. Oh well, back to clicking my one button.
All of the above may be true but the very idea that one would compare Saddam to W in a serious manner is ridiculous. Torture and brutality are the norm for Saddam's regime. You disappear if you cause too much trouble. Political liberties are unheard of. Politics is an exercise in hubris, not in civil society.
Of course, all that said, any easy good/evil binarism here is ridiculous too. We have to keep in mind that the US, with the extensive help of W's dad throughout the 80s, helped make Saddam as powerful and brutal as he is. And the upcoming war is just an excuse for a blatant resource grab in the middle east. I would much prefer to see W and Saddam duke it out with pistols than make their citizens suffer and die for them.
Yes, referrer information makes an excellent authentication scheme for highly confidential system dealing with transfer of mission critical information.
It's a big stretch from "I don't like it" to "it's invalid." That's what's arrogant about it. There's lots of art that I don't like, but I don't object to its status as art.
Here's an interesting fact: The government has a lot more guns, jails, and other things to make your life miserable with than it did 226 years ago. Good luck with your little campaign of terror. For now, I'll stick to voting and other more traditional methods of political change.
How can you express your emotions with other peoples' words?
You just did. Did you invent those words? When you play an instrument, do you only play chord progressions you have invented? Do you only invent new genres every time you play? I agree there are plenty of totally uncreative uses of samples out there, but I can say the same about the use of the guitar, drum, or whatever. It's just a tool, an instrument, like the computer is (or can be). To pretend there is something more "authentic" about strumming chords on a guitar than playing samples on a keyboard is ridiculous. I think sampling and collage is a valid artistic expression; that doesn't mean I don't think some of it sucks too, but to call it invalid or inauthentic is arrogant and absurd.
* Microsoft is realizing that the current Office formats are getting out of control, so it wants to get rid of them, because mantaining backwards compatibility is becoming too much painful.
Since when have they maintained backwards compatibility? I just got a MS Word document yesterday that I couldn't open. I was using MS Word.
I do believe the Federal government is afraid of the "50+ yr-old rednecks practicing with semiautomatics in the woods", not in a direct battle though. A couple of Apache helicopters could take them and thier fortifications out in minutes. The problem is that one these people can easily get ahold of chemicals to make explosives and do something like say...take out the Patent & Trademark Office. As much as some people hate the PTO, what is left of our current economy would be completely devastated without it, even being without it for a few years.
Your point is what? There is an armed terrorist group on the verge of destroying the PTO? I doubt most militia wannabes could distinguish the PTO from the PTA. They're after the BATF and FBI, not the PTO, and if they ever actually did anything to threaten any of those organizations, they would be dead in the water, whether they did it with explosives, firearms, Draino, or fucking cheerios.
Or a non-redneck terrorist could with the help of a few individuals pull off a "fight club" type situation.
Which means what? That they could hire Brad Pitt to kick my ass? I'll take my chances.
What would the rest of the world do if the "policeman" was temporarily out of commision?
Temporarily kick anybody's ass that tries any bullshit just because the cops are out of the picture.
Honestly I am not afraid of the federal government or of any terrorist (Muslim or Xian) taking my rights/guns/property/speech/wellbeing... I am afraid of my fellow citizen voluntarily giving up these things in exchange for a false promise of protection from fucking ghosts.
Yeah it's volunteer based but those volunteers are 18+. not 50.... The 50+ rednecks already are taking up arms, and have been for a couple decades at least. And you know what? I am only scared of them accidentally shooting their kids; I am not the least bit scared of them shooting at the cops. Because they won't. And I don't think the cops are the least bit scared of them doing so; they are scared of them shooting at their wives and their former employers. Look, I've actually read Thomas Jefferson, and I can tell you for a fact, the rednecks in the woods do not represent him.
The anti-gun movement linking guns to terrorism is cheap.
He wasn't linking guns to terrorism. He was linking the threatened use of guns against government officials as terrorism. The argument that guns will keep us free might have made sense when the only guns around were muskets, but in the modern era do you really think the federal government is afraid of a few hundred 50+ yr-old rednecks practicing with semiautomatics in the woods?
Having a country who guarantees freedom of the press in thier constitution lagging behind countries that have no such beginnings makes you wonder about how much the people of said country care about thier own history.
Very well put. What is worse is that these people brand their opponents as unpatriotic for criticizing the country's policies, when they themselves haven't even bothered to read the Constitution, much less the Federalist Papers, Common Sense, or pretty much anything about American history since their high school history books. Don't call yourself a patriot if you don't even know what the U.S. Constitution says.
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it ain't gonna happen.
Heh; or in this case he'll have at leaast enough to buy a burger franchise and a new T-3.
That actually does no good. As soon as I quit "System Preferences" it reverts back to another browser, even though the other one isn't on the system. It just seems to hate Mozilla, I don't know why :( I've even edited the files described here but to no avail.
I don't suppose you've found a fix for it?
I don't think so. As you point out, Apple has no incentive to dis IE, which Jaguar installs as the default browser. Not only that, it is very difficult to use another browser as the default without completely erasing IE from your disk. For some reason, if IE is present at all, Jaguar wants to keep it as the default, even if you have explicitly chosen another browser as the default in the System preferences. I have been having a hell of a difficult time to get Jaguar to recognize Mozilla as my default browser, even when it's the only browser on the system. Am I the only one with this problem, or should we (ahem) actually consider IE part of the OS? (yikes!) Anyway I don't think Apple wants to put down IE just to compete with MS.
These problems are easily fixed; all we need to do is use deCSS to fix it. Too bad it's illegal.
Wait - what?
oh, never mind.
Don't use python, and don't work on an Apple, and everything will be fine.
to say your prayers before clicking the link, and you will be absolved.
yeah... if you must use Win98 then run Office 97. Or 2000, but even that is bloatware, esp if you're running on a c.200 MHz pentium 2. If you want to run the new version of Office, get a Mac. :)
I highly recommend Greil Marcus' outstanding book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century to anybody trying to understand the Pistols or punk rock. And I forget the author but The Wicked World of Malcolm McLaren is a great book illuminating McLaren's background and experiences.
uhhh, yeah, I know. Sorry, it was a dumb joke, based on the fact that every time someone mentions Macs, somebody whines that they want another button on the mouse. But, yeah, it wasn't very funny, I suppose. Oh well, back to clicking my one button.
yes it will please all you multi-boot fetishists, but there is a downside. Darwin will disable all your mouse buttons except for one.
Of course, all that said, any easy good/evil binarism here is ridiculous too. We have to keep in mind that the US, with the extensive help of W's dad throughout the 80s, helped make Saddam as powerful and brutal as he is. And the upcoming war is just an excuse for a blatant resource grab in the middle east. I would much prefer to see W and Saddam duke it out with pistols than make their citizens suffer and die for them.
I.e. for something other than the WWW.
I use this thing called a "turntable." It's really cool, if a little unweildy, and the music is recorded in the entirely noncontroversial LP3 format.
It's a big stretch from "I don't like it" to "it's invalid." That's what's arrogant about it. There's lots of art that I don't like, but I don't object to its status as art.
Here's an interesting fact: The government has a lot more guns, jails, and other things to make your life miserable with than it did 226 years ago. Good luck with your little campaign of terror. For now, I'll stick to voting and other more traditional methods of political change.
You just did. Did you invent those words? When you play an instrument, do you only play chord progressions you have invented? Do you only invent new genres every time you play? I agree there are plenty of totally uncreative uses of samples out there, but I can say the same about the use of the guitar, drum, or whatever. It's just a tool, an instrument, like the computer is (or can be). To pretend there is something more "authentic" about strumming chords on a guitar than playing samples on a keyboard is ridiculous. I think sampling and collage is a valid artistic expression; that doesn't mean I don't think some of it sucks too, but to call it invalid or inauthentic is arrogant and absurd.
Since when have they maintained backwards compatibility? I just got a MS Word document yesterday that I couldn't open. I was using MS Word.
Your point is what? There is an armed terrorist group on the verge of destroying the PTO? I doubt most militia wannabes could distinguish the PTO from the PTA. They're after the BATF and FBI, not the PTO, and if they ever actually did anything to threaten any of those organizations, they would be dead in the water, whether they did it with explosives, firearms, Draino, or fucking cheerios.
Or a non-redneck terrorist could with the help of a few individuals pull off a "fight club" type situation.
Which means what? That they could hire Brad Pitt to kick my ass? I'll take my chances.
What would the rest of the world do if the "policeman" was temporarily out of commision?
Temporarily kick anybody's ass that tries any bullshit just because the cops are out of the picture.
Honestly I am not afraid of the federal government or of any terrorist (Muslim or Xian) taking my rights/guns/property/speech/wellbeing... I am afraid of my fellow citizen voluntarily giving up these things in exchange for a false promise of protection from fucking ghosts.
Yeah it's volunteer based but those volunteers are 18+. not 50.... The 50+ rednecks already are taking up arms, and have been for a couple decades at least. And you know what? I am only scared of them accidentally shooting their kids; I am not the least bit scared of them shooting at the cops. Because they won't. And I don't think the cops are the least bit scared of them doing so; they are scared of them shooting at their wives and their former employers. Look, I've actually read Thomas Jefferson, and I can tell you for a fact, the rednecks in the woods do not represent him.
He wasn't linking guns to terrorism. He was linking the threatened use of guns against government officials as terrorism. The argument that guns will keep us free might have made sense when the only guns around were muskets, but in the modern era do you really think the federal government is afraid of a few hundred 50+ yr-old rednecks practicing with semiautomatics in the woods?
Very well put. What is worse is that these people brand their opponents as unpatriotic for criticizing the country's policies, when they themselves haven't even bothered to read the Constitution, much less the Federalist Papers, Common Sense, or pretty much anything about American history since their high school history books. Don't call yourself a patriot if you don't even know what the U.S. Constitution says.
Because if this thing crashes, you have to buy a whole new computer.
I've never seen this before; thanks for the link. It's hilarious.