Jesus, Jobs, have you no heart? First you killed off the floppy disk drive. Then you wiped out serial ports in favor of USB. Now you're blowing out syncing technology that barely anyone uses any more in order to streamline your OS... shame, shame on you.
I'm not sure where the idea comes from that there was any "support" for Apple to drop in the first place! So what if 10.6 doesn't support Palm -- I haven't been able to sync my treo to os x since at least 10.3. This is probably my own fault -- I tried following the instructions to sync it via iSync a few years ago and it has never properly syncd since -- but it seems like it was Palm's responsibility to make this work, and they haven't updated Palm Desktop for OS X since, what, the "mission accomplished" speech? It's great that some Mac users found ways to make this work but I don't think there ever was any official support from Apple.
No wonder I actually liked it. I still like the interface of Palm Desktop better than the iCal/Address Book combo. Too bad I haven't been able to sync my treo in years.
If this happened today, sure, but at the time no way... hand held web devices weren't quite as common, and none of these folks knew how to edit Wikipedia yet. Besides, American college students wouldn't use the word "wanker".
I had no point, just sharing an amusing story. I didn't say the page didn't reflect my biases, assuming I am one of the crusty old professors in question. I think Mr. Bush was, very definitely, a wanker. But nevertheless there should be more to an encyclopedia entry than this.
About 4 or 5 years ago I was teaching a class and demonstrating Wikipedia was part of the class. There was a projector in the room and this was all on a large screen in front of everyone. I showed the Bush page and several others, then for some reason went back to the Bush page. In the 5 minutes we were looking at it someone had replaced the entire page with the word "WANKER". The students went into hysterics.
I have no doubts that every student in that class since understood why professors told them that they shouldn't cite Wikipedia as a source.
Indeed, and in fact, this is a step forward: currently the only method at the moment is to protect articles, locking anonymous and new editors out completely. With this system, they'll now be allowed to edit again.
And in other news, our glorious leader has raised the chocolate ration to 25 grams, from the already generous 30 grams of last month.
Did I miss a slashdot article? Steve Jobs owns Wikipedia now?
See, I changed one letter, an 'n', for another, an 'l', as a way of making fun of the new release of Mac OS... I don't have any real reason for thinking it's slow, and it's not like I really have anything against Snow Leopard (apart from the fact that I, myself, am not interested in running Mac OS X any more) - it's just fun to make fun of it.
'Nuff said. Some of us are forced to use it. It was a pleasant surprise to see it integrated so well into the iphone/itouch; it will be even better to see it integrated to ical and mail.app. Of course, I'd prefer not to have to use it at all, but I'd also prefer to live on a beach in Hawaii.
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Jesus, Jobs, have you no heart? First you killed off the floppy disk drive. Then you wiped out serial ports in favor of USB. Now you're blowing out syncing technology that barely anyone uses any more in order to streamline your OS... shame, shame on you.
don't forget - he also killed off the G4 Cube!
wait a minute....
I'm not sure where the idea comes from that there was any "support" for Apple to drop in the first place! So what if 10.6 doesn't support Palm -- I haven't been able to sync my treo to os x since at least 10.3. This is probably my own fault -- I tried following the instructions to sync it via iSync a few years ago and it has never properly syncd since -- but it seems like it was Palm's responsibility to make this work, and they haven't updated Palm Desktop for OS X since, what, the "mission accomplished" speech? It's great that some Mac users found ways to make this work but I don't think there ever was any official support from Apple.
*Claris Organizer, if you are interested.
No wonder I actually liked it. I still like the interface of Palm Desktop better than the iCal/Address Book combo. Too bad I haven't been able to sync my treo in years.
So all you have to do to be safe here is to not actually ever run any of the programs after you download and install them.
people double-clicking greetingcard.exe.
Oooh, cool, a new greeting card and it's not even November yet! Can anyone send me a copy?
If this happened today, sure, but at the time no way ... hand held web devices weren't quite as common, and none of these folks knew how to edit Wikipedia yet. Besides, American college students wouldn't use the word "wanker".
I had no point, just sharing an amusing story. I didn't say the page didn't reflect my biases, assuming I am one of the crusty old professors in question. I think Mr. Bush was, very definitely, a wanker. But nevertheless there should be more to an encyclopedia entry than this.
About 4 or 5 years ago I was teaching a class and demonstrating Wikipedia was part of the class. There was a projector in the room and this was all on a large screen in front of everyone. I showed the Bush page and several others, then for some reason went back to the Bush page. In the 5 minutes we were looking at it someone had replaced the entire page with the word "WANKER". The students went into hysterics.
I have no doubts that every student in that class since understood why professors told them that they shouldn't cite Wikipedia as a source.
And in other news, our glorious leader has raised the chocolate ration to 25 grams, from the already generous 30 grams of last month.
Did I miss a slashdot article? Steve Jobs owns Wikipedia now?
he's about to be eaten by a grue?
marketed as 64 bit end to end, when in fact the only application that is 64 bit on Leopard is Chess, and XCode).
yeah but Chess is wicked fast under 64 bit
Mod that sumbitch up. This is exactly the kind of useful information that should be discussed here rather than whines about the price of the upgrade.
See, I changed one letter, an 'n', for another, an 'l', as a way of making fun of the new release of Mac OS... I don't have any real reason for thinking it's slow, and it's not like I really have anything against Snow Leopard (apart from the fact that I, myself, am not interested in running Mac OS X any more) - it's just fun to make fun of it.
iSee.
the truth is we are literally swimming in pussy
Going from 10.5 to 10.6 is likely to be an actual upgrade.
Good point. Do us a favor and post here after you install it so the rest of us know whether it's safe?
'Nuff said. Some of us are forced to use it. It was a pleasant surprise to see it integrated so well into the iphone/itouch; it will be even better to see it integrated to ical and mail.app. Of course, I'd prefer not to have to use it at all, but I'd also prefer to live on a beach in Hawaii.
did you see the laser beam on his head?
http://whitewhaletheatre.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/terminator_sideshow_endo_arm.jpg
See how many special interest groups you can offend with less than 30 words.
Bah; use perl and you can do it in 12
So it's impossible to take a Facebook quiz using Firefox 3.5?
That's a feature, not a bug.
just ask "asl?"
Size DOES matter.
you'd still spend about 6,000 years reading the drive to collect all the data. Trust me: the value of that data will have long expired by then.
Not if it's porn!
So... do you want a metal or something?
Yes -- make mine HEAVY.