Apple sent an update that caused every mac to flash their router with a AirPort/AppleTalk/IPX update. Everything went as planned, except for the few customers that had Mac computers on non-Airport based networks.
I have a hard time believing that software to flash the firmware on an Airport would have any effect on a non-Airport router.
I'm sure if I slogged through I'd get used to it, but so would all these other people coming from 3ds to blender,
Perhaps, but I'm not comparing Blender to 3DS, I'm comparing it to three other 3d applications that I've used, all of which were orders of magnitude better than Blender, and all of which have a fair number of differences in the user interface from each other. My point is that it's not just that Blender is different from 3DS, so there's a learning curve going both ways, it's that Blender is hard to get used to even for people who have used *multiple* other programs.
If it was just Blender vs 3DS or Blender vs Maya then there would be a reasonable point to arguing that "it's just different". When it's Blender vs *everything*, then it's not just differences between programs, it's a problem with Blender specifically.
I'm surprised you don't like wings 3d though, most people rave about it's simplicity.
In what context? It's not as straightforward as Bryce II or Sculpt 3d. I suspect that they were comparing it with Blender, but that's like saying that a bad cold is better than ebola... maybe it's true, but that doesn't mean you *want* the bad cold.:)
Can we possibly bring ourselves to acknowledge that M$ actually brought about an improvement in PC security?
Have they? That's not demonstrated, unless by "security" you mean something related to securing more control over computers by the RIAA and MPAA with the "trusted" (another dodgy use of a word) audio/video path. People haven't been running Vista as long as XP, so they haven't had as much chance to pick up infections.
Neutrinos lack of interaction with normal matter is a problem for potential eavesdroppers, not only because it makes it harder to detect them, but any usable communication beam will have to be collimated (somehow) to a very narrow beam... to the point where even after tens of thousands of light years it still wouldn't have spread very far. This makes it unlikely that we'd be intersecting any beams at all.
It's still the same horrible interface it always was, at least in terms of using multiple windows when most people hate that and ask for it to be changed.
That's unfortunately unlikely to change because it's copying what Photoshop does. But the big problem with the Gimp wasn't the multiple windows, it was what went on inside them. The part of the user interface that the artist actually interacts with. That used to be less like editing an image and more like "you have to have a CS degree to figure out what these operations mean, and even then you're going to find it annoying".
Blender is still at the "geeks only" stage, and seems to be stuck there.
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Anybody complaining about the interface of Blender I instantly put in the same basket as the idiots who complain about GIMP's interface.
Complaining now, or complaining five years ago?
Gimp's interface used to be pretty dodgy. Not because it wasn't Photoshop, but because it was simply crude. It's improved a lot. People complaining about the Gimp's interface now haven't used it recently.
is it because you guys are instinctively comparing it to what you are familiar with?
Not unless you're going to argue that Sculpt-3d, Wings-3d, and Bryce II are somehow magically similar to each other. Maya? Do I look like I'm made of money?
Gimp? The user interface isn't really the issue with the Gimp any more. If it would do deferred rasterizing of text as well as Photoshop, and import Photoshop files with channels, I don't think that I'd really have a complaint with it. Gimp used to be bloody awful to use, but that was years ago... improving the user interface has clearly been a real part of Gimp development. That's not true at ALL for Blender.
And try doing the same jpg of a box on a checkerboard floor in any other 3D app without prior knowledge.
Well, I bought Sculpt 3d on the Amiga back in 198-something, and it was pretty easy to work with. It took hours to render, but only a few minutes to set up.
And Bryce II was funky but well designed.
Wings 3d is really primitive, and fairly unpleasant, but still much easier than Blender.
In fact, I can't think of any 3d app that wasn't much easier to learn than Blender.
When Blender gets someone whose hate for new users doesn't surpass the burning fires of a thousand suns to design the user interface, I'll buy a copy, in the meantime it's sitting back there with early versions of the Gimp in the "this hurts to use" pile.
Even given your calculations (and I don't think I'm really happy with all the assumptions) solar power is often usable where wind power isn't, and vice versa, so it's not an "either or" situation.
Victim machines whose upstream DNS servers didn't update the root server file could be redirected to ad-wrapped versions of "real" websites.
But that doesn't *seem* to have been happening... that is, they didn't see any indication of it happening in a cursory examination of the sites so if they were they'd have to be pretty carefully targeting it.
One thing that occurred to me is that this would give them a way to scan for common domain typos over a lot of the internet: signals intelligence for later spam serving.
Perhaps best known for killing one of his Mughal enemies with a concealed weapon called a tiger's claw.
"Bagh Nakh"? Kind of like a cross between brass knuckles and a punch dagger? I ran into those (well, not literally) in a role playing campaign twenty-something years ago, and the name and design stuck in my head.
I was talking about frequent visits by the same groups of people.
Now that's still possibly a parent and a child with the runs rather than a drug deal, but you're right, there's a huge potential for false positives from any system like this, but do you really think that will stop them?
Other things these systems could do include correlating phone IDs with missing big-ticket merchandise to identify possible shoplifters, or look for suspicious activity like repeated visits to rest rooms or other semi-private places by the same set of IDs. Combine it with video records and credit card records and you can get a fair amount of visitor identification without going to the phone company for tracing. Not enough to act, but enough to be useful to security personnel.
It's another step towards Brin's transparent society.
The "talk bubble" icon for chat is pretty standard online, and pretty easy to understand. Calling RSS feeds "news" is also pretty standard... these kinds of programs started out being called "news readers", which made things really tough for people looking for GUI Usenet "news readers".
But talking about bad user interface design...
There is no consistency in controls between activities. Every activity does things its own way, based apparently upon the individual programmer's preference.
Sounds like Vista to me. The older Windows GUI design was one of its great strengths, but starting as far back as Windows '98 Microsoft has consistently been undercutting their own biggest technical advantage by adding new, poorly thought out, and inconsistent user interface details. I put my foot down with Windows XP. I use Windows 2000 at home, and at work I've disabled as much of the XP "enhancements" as I can.
I would say the same thing if Apple coughed up a version of Mac OS X for it.
They did. Negroponte refused it:
We all know how much Jobs likes the education market, so according to the Wall Street Journal he did a very magnanimous thing and offered OS X up to Nicholas Negroponte for his $100 laptop for developing nations. But not even bothering to discount the vast technical difficulties with getting OS X to run on this kind of machine, Negroponte and his team apparently canned the whole idea because OS X is a closed-source OS, and they believed it fundamental to their system to use only totally open, completely modifiable software. Yep, this all sounds about right to us. Jobs gets positive PR, Negroponte & Co. get to up their cred; win-win all around! -- Endgadget
Thank God, something is being done. As soon as Undersecretary Sternwheeler drafts a Sternly Worded Protest we'll get Magnan and that young fellow of his to deliver it to the FBI!
I've used the Mac OS window manager and Apple's X11 pretty much exclusively since I got my Mac mini in 2005, so I haven't used any version of Windowmaker more recent than that. It was rock solid stable under FreeBSD at that point.
I love the Windowmaker dock, and I miss it on OS X. The Mac dock is just too limited.
I shop at Costco, I'm not a Costco member, and they've never asked my name before I entered. But when I was a member of Sam's Wholesale CLub a while back I had to actually sign a membership application. Not just fill out my name at the entrance to the store. Go back a few messages and you'll see what I wrote about what it should take to be held liable for more than loss of the service... what did I suggest? Printing out a form and faxing it back to them? With a signature?
While you are there you do all sorts of stuff that is against the rules and harmfull to MySpace's business.
Dude, if I go to a mall and do all kinds of stuff that is against the rules and harmful to their business you can bet I can get into trouble whether or not I flashed my ID on entering the mall. And if I went to a mall and they were asking for name and address before you were allowed to shop, would I be trespassing if I said "Lance Link, 1060 West Addison", if I had no plans for being anything but perfectly well behaved? If MySpace was like a physical space, as you argued, we'd be shocked that they would even demand that information.
The issue here is not what she did, but the theory that online services can put anything they want in their TOS and hold you accountable beyond terminating your service, regardless of the real life consequences of your actions is "what technology has to do with it".
I'm not talking about the circumstances of this case, I'm talking about the precedent it sets.
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That this thing fills a niche between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro that's more upgradeable than an iMac is pretty much the point.
Oh, I agree, I want something in that slot too. I was just objecting to the way they mplied that this was really an equivalent machine to the Mac Pro.
PS: When I went to the Apple Store I didn't see a single-CPU option for the Mac Pro. Is that hidden down beneath the configuration link?
It's NOT an "eBook Reader", it's a laptop designed like scaled up Nintendo DS, a dual-screen clamshell. Calling it an "eBook Reader" is a travesty.
The system is priced at $804.99. A similar, Apple-branded computer could cost more than $2,000.
The Psystar system has a single Core 2 Duo CPU.
They don't say what the "similar, Apple-branded computer" is, but if it's a Mac Pro it's got two four-core CPUs.
The problem is that Apple doesn't make a similar computer. If they did, Psystar wouldn't have a market. And Apple would have a bigger one.
Apple sent an update that caused every mac to flash their router with a AirPort/AppleTalk/IPX update. Everything went as planned, except for the few customers that had Mac computers on non-Airport based networks.
I have a hard time believing that software to flash the firmware on an Airport would have any effect on a non-Airport router.
Can you provide a URL or other cite for this?
I'm sure if I slogged through I'd get used to it, but so would all these other people coming from 3ds to blender,
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Perhaps, but I'm not comparing Blender to 3DS, I'm comparing it to three other 3d applications that I've used, all of which were orders of magnitude better than Blender, and all of which have a fair number of differences in the user interface from each other. My point is that it's not just that Blender is different from 3DS, so there's a learning curve going both ways, it's that Blender is hard to get used to even for people who have used *multiple* other programs.
If it was just Blender vs 3DS or Blender vs Maya then there would be a reasonable point to arguing that "it's just different". When it's Blender vs *everything*, then it's not just differences between programs, it's a problem with Blender specifically.
I'm surprised you don't like wings 3d though, most people rave about it's simplicity.
In what context? It's not as straightforward as Bryce II or Sculpt 3d. I suspect that they were comparing it with Blender, but that's like saying that a bad cold is better than ebola... maybe it's true, but that doesn't mean you *want* the bad cold.
Can we possibly bring ourselves to acknowledge that M$ actually brought about an improvement in PC security?
Have they? That's not demonstrated, unless by "security" you mean something related to securing more control over computers by the RIAA and MPAA with the "trusted" (another dodgy use of a word) audio/video path. People haven't been running Vista as long as XP, so they haven't had as much chance to pick up infections.
Is it "Bagh Nakh" or "Wagh Nakh" (as the page on Shivaji has it)? If the former, perhaps someone with more direct knowledge could correct it?
Neutrinos lack of interaction with normal matter is a problem for potential eavesdroppers, not only because it makes it harder to detect them, but any usable communication beam will have to be collimated (somehow) to a very narrow beam... to the point where even after tens of thousands of light years it still wouldn't have spread very far. This makes it unlikely that we'd be intersecting any beams at all.
It's still the same horrible interface it always was, at least in terms of using multiple windows when most people hate that and ask for it to be changed.
That's unfortunately unlikely to change because it's copying what Photoshop does. But the big problem with the Gimp wasn't the multiple windows, it was what went on inside them. The part of the user interface that the artist actually interacts with. That used to be less like editing an image and more like "you have to have a CS degree to figure out what these operations mean, and even then you're going to find it annoying".
Blender is still at the "geeks only" stage, and seems to be stuck there.
Anybody complaining about the interface of Blender I instantly put in the same basket as the idiots who complain about GIMP's interface.
Complaining now, or complaining five years ago?
Gimp's interface used to be pretty dodgy. Not because it wasn't Photoshop, but because it was simply crude. It's improved a lot. People complaining about the Gimp's interface now haven't used it recently.
Blender's not in the same category at all.
is it because you guys are instinctively comparing it to what you are familiar with?
Not unless you're going to argue that Sculpt-3d, Wings-3d, and Bryce II are somehow magically similar to each other. Maya? Do I look like I'm made of money?
Gimp? The user interface isn't really the issue with the Gimp any more. If it would do deferred rasterizing of text as well as Photoshop, and import Photoshop files with channels, I don't think that I'd really have a complaint with it. Gimp used to be bloody awful to use, but that was years ago... improving the user interface has clearly been a real part of Gimp development. That's not true at ALL for Blender.
And try doing the same jpg of a box on a checkerboard floor in any other 3D app without prior knowledge.
Well, I bought Sculpt 3d on the Amiga back in 198-something, and it was pretty easy to work with. It took hours to render, but only a few minutes to set up.
And Bryce II was funky but well designed.
Wings 3d is really primitive, and fairly unpleasant, but still much easier than Blender.
In fact, I can't think of any 3d app that wasn't much easier to learn than Blender.
When Blender gets someone whose hate for new users doesn't surpass the burning fires of a thousand suns to design the user interface, I'll buy a copy, in the meantime it's sitting back there with early versions of the Gimp in the "this hurts to use" pile.
Even given your calculations (and I don't think I'm really happy with all the assumptions) solar power is often usable where wind power isn't, and vice versa, so it's not an "either or" situation.
Victim machines whose upstream DNS servers didn't update the root server file could be redirected to ad-wrapped versions of "real" websites.
But that doesn't *seem* to have been happening... that is, they didn't see any indication of it happening in a cursory examination of the sites so if they were they'd have to be pretty carefully targeting it.
One thing that occurred to me is that this would give them a way to scan for common domain typos over a lot of the internet: signals intelligence for later spam serving.
Perhaps best known for killing one of his Mughal enemies with a concealed weapon called a tiger's claw.
"Bagh Nakh"? Kind of like a cross between brass knuckles and a punch dagger? I ran into those (well, not literally) in a role playing campaign twenty-something years ago, and the name and design stuck in my head.
100, 110, whatever works.
The 110CT was pretty good to me for the years I had it. I think the only difference between the 100CT and 110CT was the processor speed.
I was talking about frequent visits by the same groups of people.
Now that's still possibly a parent and a child with the runs rather than a drug deal, but you're right, there's a huge potential for false positives from any system like this, but do you really think that will stop them?
That's kind of the point.
Other things these systems could do include correlating phone IDs with missing big-ticket merchandise to identify possible shoplifters, or look for suspicious activity like repeated visits to rest rooms or other semi-private places by the same set of IDs. Combine it with video records and credit card records and you can get a fair amount of visitor identification without going to the phone company for tracing. Not enough to act, but enough to be useful to security personnel.
It's another step towards Brin's transparent society.
Don't panic, start looking for anomalously heavy neutrons.
But talking about bad user interface design...
There is no consistency in controls between activities. Every activity does things its own way, based apparently upon the individual programmer's preference.
Sounds like Vista to me. The older Windows GUI design was one of its great strengths, but starting as far back as Windows '98 Microsoft has consistently been undercutting their own biggest technical advantage by adding new, poorly thought out, and inconsistent user interface details. I put my foot down with Windows XP. I use Windows 2000 at home, and at work I've disabled as much of the XP "enhancements" as I can.
I would say the same thing if Apple coughed up a version of Mac OS X for it.
They did. Negroponte refused it:How do you feel about Windows on OLPC now?
Thank God, something is being done. As soon as Undersecretary Sternwheeler drafts a Sternly Worded Protest we'll get Magnan and that young fellow of his to deliver it to the FBI!
I've used the Mac OS window manager and Apple's X11 pretty much exclusively since I got my Mac mini in 2005, so I haven't used any version of Windowmaker more recent than that. It was rock solid stable under FreeBSD at that point.
I love the Windowmaker dock, and I miss it on OS X. The Mac dock is just too limited.
It's more like being a Costco member.
I shop at Costco, I'm not a Costco member, and they've never asked my name before I entered. But when I was a member of Sam's Wholesale CLub a while back I had to actually sign a membership application. Not just fill out my name at the entrance to the store. Go back a few messages and you'll see what I wrote about what it should take to be held liable for more than loss of the service... what did I suggest? Printing out a form and faxing it back to them? With a signature?
Why should it be any different on the Internet?
While you are there you do all sorts of stuff that is against the rules and harmfull to MySpace's business.
Dude, if I go to a mall and do all kinds of stuff that is against the rules and harmful to their business you can bet I can get into trouble whether or not I flashed my ID on entering the mall. And if I went to a mall and they were asking for name and address before you were allowed to shop, would I be trespassing if I said "Lance Link, 1060 West Addison", if I had no plans for being anything but perfectly well behaved? If MySpace was like a physical space, as you argued, we'd be shocked that they would even demand that information.
The issue here is not what she did, but the theory that online services can put anything they want in their TOS and hold you accountable beyond terminating your service, regardless of the real life consequences of your actions is "what technology has to do with it".
I'm not talking about the circumstances of this case, I'm talking about the precedent it sets.