Is the author talking about all these 'news' sites that are dripping with advertisements interspersed with only a small to modest amount of content? The web sites of today are looking more and more like magazines of yesterday; >60% advertisements and 30% content, where the difference is filled with trying to find the table of contents or the 2nd and 3rd parts of the story buried deeply in the magazine with incorrect page number links to them.
That sounds a lot like the nerd computer sites that I no longer visit, too many menu bars (I usually count five on a typical site), lots of dancing ads and a freaking table of contents and index on *every* page. Paper magazines were almost never that bad, but that is status quo for most of the hardware sites I've seen. The only exception I am aware of is DailyTech, which is a lot more tasteful, though posting there was troublesome in the past because it often generated errors.
The McDonald's case isn't as clear-cut as you suggest. The judgment actually went against both parties because both had been at fault. The justice system doesn't seem to believe in a false dichotomy, and I don't see why you should either. The serving temperature was higher than most fast food shops, but it turns out that the recommended server temperature for maximizing coffee is about that high. The stability of the cup itself depends on how well the cover is put on. Newer lids seem to be better made so they have a more positive lock.
Personally, I think it's almost completely silly to drink coffee and drive, period, it's an accident waiting to happen.
I think The Register has been accused of hosting a significant anti-Apple bias several times in the past. I really don't read the site so I don't really know. If they were out for page hits, then they can easily pull a Dvorak and publish sensationalist stories when they find a low-hit day.
Yep. DRM 'got' its bad name simply by being bad. Any new name will eventually earn a bad name soon enough once the grass roots gets its message out and when customers see it for what it is. I think they will have a hard time making their new acronym stick.
Software requiring admin privileges is a problem. I think it's irritating that user-type software requires admin settings to work. That makes idiot-proofing a computer a lot harder.
I think it is a carry-over of the 16 bit Windows compatibility though, from the 9x series to NT series Windows. For 9X, there were no security considerations like this, and for NT series, compatibility seemed to require admin rights, and developers didn't change their programming practices because they didn't have to.
As far as command option escape being cryptic, wouldn't you say the same thing about alt-ctrl-delete?
I don't think anyone would know what ctrl-alt-delete was if it weren't for DOS and 16-bit Windows. If I didn't learn it then, I wouldn't remember what the combination was for the NT line.
Now finally someone has mentioned my peeve - force quit isn't very good. I just pull the power cord if the Force Quit option doesn't work. That is the *real* force quit.
BTW: I suggest NeoOffice instead.
And don't buy EyeTV, it is basically the root of my problems.
You can enable the display of that information in OS X, it's not on by default. The reason it isn't is that most computer users don't understand that stuff anyway, and in my experience, don't even bother to write down the error. I can do without seeing what the stack index is, I have never needed it, it's only of use to someone that is a developer.
From your explanation, I would gather that the Mac OS X "bsod" does not display an error message indicating what went wrong. With Windows, you get the error code, which means you can Google the error right away. With Mac OS X, how do you find out what's wrong if your machine won't boot back up?
If you have a machine that won't boot, how will you fix it? If it won't boot from a CD either, then it sounds like a machine problem. A machine problem isn't going to generate useful information on a BSOD that I've ever seen. If the hardware is all good, you can do an install-in-place of OS X that reinstalls the OS files but it still preserves all of your settings and apps to the point it was when it was working.
But anyway, the info in the BSOD is unreliable at best. The only time I've had one in the last ten years was when the hardware was bad, and the information in the screen can't be trusted. My experience was with the NT line of operating systems which has served me incredibly well, I was glad I avoided most of the 9x line.
I pine for the days of being able to uninstall a program fully from my system by deleting its folder. Or being able to simply copy a configuration file from one computer to the next and having all my settings preserved.
I really hate to say this, but this is very similar to how Mac OS X works most of the time. Most programs are installed by dragging the icon into the Apps folder, and most programs are uninstalled by deleting them.
Configuration files are a little more complicated, but transferring all the user settings is very easy too, there is a transfer agent that allows you to copy your apps, files and settings to another computer. I know Windows has a transfer agent, I just used it today, and unfortunately, the Windows transfer agent isn't nearly as good. A lot of the preference settings do transfer if you just copy the Library folder in your home directory, system settings are in/Library. But Migration assistant handles almost all of that, IIRC, the only thing that doesn't transfer are a few software license keys.
To add to the other comments, a Dyson sphere has many other problems too. A sphere would has no net gravity within itself. There is the issue of dealing with solar wind and the toxic high energy particles that, with Earth's huge magnetic field, mostly slides around. These and many other problems are discussed in the many articles on the subject.
What will happen to your "app" if you step into a dead zone? Can it possibly be as responsive as a native, local app? It will do the job, but I don't think that the user experience would be up to snuff.
I like a lot about the iPhone idea, what I'm waiting for is an actual launch and an actual announcement on how they will handle third party apps. I'm pretty sure the January Newsweek article covered the fact that Apple plans to allow third party apps, but the question was about how much control they will exert in the process.
The difference being that I don't have to read every magazine or newspaper ad, I can glance at them and flip past. The newspaper equivalent would be to make me read an ad before I am allowed to read the next story.
In that respect, as an American, and as a small business man, I think many Americans are working too much. A 35 hour week is a decent limit. I just know too many people that work far too many hours, their lives are just go-go-go that sometimes it's hard for them to sit still and relax. I find this in myself too. The idea of "free time" has kind of evaporated.
I think that the OP is very optimistic when he sais that it takes only a few months to port everything (and the kitchensink) to another app, that is just impossible, even with open code.
It does sound like some Pollyanna that either hasn't coded or hasn't tried coding 3D software. 3D programming on that level is HARD.
Heck, I even tried making a 2D CAD program once. The basic math was relatively easy but the UI and object database handling is a bitch. 3D is is a lot worse in many respects, the main advantage that 3D has is that it's more glamorous but I don't know if that makes up for the difficulty.
Do you have a copy of StarOffice from the mid-to-late 90's? Try running that in Linux now. Do you have a copy of MetroX from say, 1998? Try running that in Linux now. Are you still using the original Linux binaries for any games released in the late 90's?
I'm still using a copy of AutoCAD released in 1995 for the Windows 3.1 Win32S API, and it works fine in Windows 2000 and Windows XP except for that it's got the old 8.3 filename limitation. I am still using WordPerfect Suite 8, the current version is 13, I think. I know someone that is still using Corel Draw 7, the current version is 13. All these programs still work fine in XP/2000, and I think that is a splendid record for binaries that were unpatched between Windows updates.
The DirectX architecture has changed between the 9X and the NT lines, but otherwise, the legacy APIS are generally well-preserved and allows very complex software to work without a patch.
I will take a guess that it's not that simple. Was Brazil's offer a low-ball? Was Brazil's method just a means of negotiation to give teeth to a low-ball offer? Was Merck already selling to Brazilian companies and individuals?
If this becomes a pattern, then I think you may see that private money to research and testing go down as a result. The financial incentive to develop drugs for diseases that plague developing countries is already minimal at best, and poor practices in many of those countries has reduced the effectiveness of the drugs that do exist.
But Eminent Domain is supposed to require compensation in exchange, it's generally a forced trade rather than a forced taking, so I think there may be compensation.
At any rate, this is a difficult situation. Millions are dying because of the disease, and it's kind of a shame that the world is so dependent on private drug makers as a result.
The problem I have is that EVERY observed proponent of the Electric Universe hypothesis links to the Thunderbolt site. It makes me wonder if they are all drinking from the same proverbial well, though I don't know which proverb, or something like intellectual incest in a very shallow gene pool
I'm generally open minded, but given the type of arguments used to promote the hypothesis, I'll just ignore it. While science is unfortunately resistant to change, if there really is something to the hypothesis, eventually something will come up and they'll eventually come around to the new hypothesis. I just don't buy it that the entire profession is trying to be dumb or trying to suppress new knowledge despite decades of evidence otherwise.
I think it would have helped to get a dissenting opinion into a debate. Clifford Stoll had very good arguments in his book, Silicon Snake Oil.
If they *had* to have it, this sort of thing is something you want to grow into, try a few smaller schools, let them come up with their own approach to technology, and see which approach works best and scale it up gradually.
I thought we were talking about the plant! Next, they'll tell us that farming virtual cannabis would be criminal too!
BTW: there are other definitions, abduction with intent of forced sex is also in the OED. Some figurative definitions are there too. The legal definition may be different, and that's actually the more important part with respect to the law.
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Apple only has one light per device though. The fade-in-out is a lot better than the strobe beacon that I have on my Windows computers.
Is the author talking about all these 'news' sites that are dripping with advertisements interspersed with only a small to modest amount of content? The web sites of today are looking more and more like magazines of yesterday; >60% advertisements and 30% content, where the difference is filled with trying to find the table of contents or the 2nd and 3rd parts of the story buried deeply in the magazine with incorrect page number links to them.
That sounds a lot like the nerd computer sites that I no longer visit, too many menu bars (I usually count five on a typical site), lots of dancing ads and a freaking table of contents and index on *every* page. Paper magazines were almost never that bad, but that is status quo for most of the hardware sites I've seen. The only exception I am aware of is DailyTech, which is a lot more tasteful, though posting there was troublesome in the past because it often generated errors.
Dude, learn to use paragraphs.
The McDonald's case isn't as clear-cut as you suggest. The judgment actually went against both parties because both had been at fault. The justice system doesn't seem to believe in a false dichotomy, and I don't see why you should either. The serving temperature was higher than most fast food shops, but it turns out that the recommended server temperature for maximizing coffee is about that high. The stability of the cup itself depends on how well the cover is put on. Newer lids seem to be better made so they have a more positive lock.
Personally, I think it's almost completely silly to drink coffee and drive, period, it's an accident waiting to happen.
where the notable inability of overpaid executives to tell between a good story and a one that simply makes lots of money
If their only concern was to make money, then I'd say they accomplished their goal.
I think The Register has been accused of hosting a significant anti-Apple bias several times in the past. I really don't read the site so I don't really know. If they were out for page hits, then they can easily pull a Dvorak and publish sensationalist stories when they find a low-hit day.
Yep. DRM 'got' its bad name simply by being bad. Any new name will eventually earn a bad name soon enough once the grass roots gets its message out and when customers see it for what it is. I think they will have a hard time making their new acronym stick.
Software requiring admin privileges is a problem. I think it's irritating that user-type software requires admin settings to work. That makes idiot-proofing a computer a lot harder.
I think it is a carry-over of the 16 bit Windows compatibility though, from the 9x series to NT series Windows. For 9X, there were no security considerations like this, and for NT series, compatibility seemed to require admin rights, and developers didn't change their programming practices because they didn't have to.
As far as command option escape being cryptic, wouldn't you say the same thing about alt-ctrl-delete?
I don't think anyone would know what ctrl-alt-delete was if it weren't for DOS and 16-bit Windows. If I didn't learn it then, I wouldn't remember what the combination was for the NT line.
Now finally someone has mentioned my peeve - force quit isn't very good. I just pull the power cord if the Force Quit option doesn't work. That is the *real* force quit.
BTW: I suggest NeoOffice instead.
And don't buy EyeTV, it is basically the root of my problems.
You can enable the display of that information in OS X, it's not on by default. The reason it isn't is that most computer users don't understand that stuff anyway, and in my experience, don't even bother to write down the error. I can do without seeing what the stack index is, I have never needed it, it's only of use to someone that is a developer.
From your explanation, I would gather that the Mac OS X "bsod" does not display an error message indicating what went wrong. With Windows, you get the error code, which means you can Google the error right away. With Mac OS X, how do you find out what's wrong if your machine won't boot back up?
If you have a machine that won't boot, how will you fix it? If it won't boot from a CD either, then it sounds like a machine problem. A machine problem isn't going to generate useful information on a BSOD that I've ever seen. If the hardware is all good, you can do an install-in-place of OS X that reinstalls the OS files but it still preserves all of your settings and apps to the point it was when it was working.
But anyway, the info in the BSOD is unreliable at best. The only time I've had one in the last ten years was when the hardware was bad, and the information in the screen can't be trusted. My experience was with the NT line of operating systems which has served me incredibly well, I was glad I avoided most of the 9x line.
I pine for the days of being able to uninstall a program fully from my system by deleting its folder. Or being able to simply copy a configuration file from one computer to the next and having all my settings preserved.
/Library. But Migration assistant handles almost all of that, IIRC, the only thing that doesn't transfer are a few software license keys.
I really hate to say this, but this is very similar to how Mac OS X works most of the time. Most programs are installed by dragging the icon into the Apps folder, and most programs are uninstalled by deleting them.
Configuration files are a little more complicated, but transferring all the user settings is very easy too, there is a transfer agent that allows you to copy your apps, files and settings to another computer. I know Windows has a transfer agent, I just used it today, and unfortunately, the Windows transfer agent isn't nearly as good. A lot of the preference settings do transfer if you just copy the Library folder in your home directory, system settings are in
To add to the other comments, a Dyson sphere has many other problems too. A sphere would has no net gravity within itself. There is the issue of dealing with solar wind and the toxic high energy particles that, with Earth's huge magnetic field, mostly slides around. These and many other problems are discussed in the many articles on the subject.
I call that a work-around at best.
What will happen to your "app" if you step into a dead zone? Can it possibly be as responsive as a native, local app? It will do the job, but I don't think that the user experience would be up to snuff.
I like a lot about the iPhone idea, what I'm waiting for is an actual launch and an actual announcement on how they will handle third party apps. I'm pretty sure the January Newsweek article covered the fact that Apple plans to allow third party apps, but the question was about how much control they will exert in the process.
The difference being that I don't have to read every magazine or newspaper ad, I can glance at them and flip past. The newspaper equivalent would be to make me read an ad before I am allowed to read the next story.
In that respect, as an American, and as a small business man, I think many Americans are working too much. A 35 hour week is a decent limit. I just know too many people that work far too many hours, their lives are just go-go-go that sometimes it's hard for them to sit still and relax. I find this in myself too. The idea of "free time" has kind of evaporated.
I wonder who the owner of that company is, and who he's buddies with in the legislature?
There have to be better ways to do this. In fact, I don't remember getting adult spam in a long time, with exception to spam promoting ED pills.
I think that the OP is very optimistic when he sais that it takes only a few months to port everything (and the kitchensink) to another app, that is just impossible, even with open code.
It does sound like some Pollyanna that either hasn't coded or hasn't tried coding 3D software. 3D programming on that level is HARD.
Heck, I even tried making a 2D CAD program once. The basic math was relatively easy but the UI and object database handling is a bitch. 3D is is a lot worse in many respects, the main advantage that 3D has is that it's more glamorous but I don't know if that makes up for the difficulty.
Do you have a copy of StarOffice from the mid-to-late 90's? Try running that in Linux now. Do you have a copy of MetroX from say, 1998? Try running that in Linux now. Are you still using the original Linux binaries for any games released in the late 90's?
I'm still using a copy of AutoCAD released in 1995 for the Windows 3.1 Win32S API, and it works fine in Windows 2000 and Windows XP except for that it's got the old 8.3 filename limitation. I am still using WordPerfect Suite 8, the current version is 13, I think. I know someone that is still using Corel Draw 7, the current version is 13. All these programs still work fine in XP/2000, and I think that is a splendid record for binaries that were unpatched between Windows updates.
The DirectX architecture has changed between the 9X and the NT lines, but otherwise, the legacy APIS are generally well-preserved and allows very complex software to work without a patch.
I will take a guess that it's not that simple. Was Brazil's offer a low-ball? Was Brazil's method just a means of negotiation to give teeth to a low-ball offer? Was Merck already selling to Brazilian companies and individuals?
If this becomes a pattern, then I think you may see that private money to research and testing go down as a result. The financial incentive to develop drugs for diseases that plague developing countries is already minimal at best, and poor practices in many of those countries has reduced the effectiveness of the drugs that do exist.
But Eminent Domain is supposed to require compensation in exchange, it's generally a forced trade rather than a forced taking, so I think there may be compensation.
At any rate, this is a difficult situation. Millions are dying because of the disease, and it's kind of a shame that the world is so dependent on private drug makers as a result.
The problem I have is that EVERY observed proponent of the Electric Universe hypothesis links to the Thunderbolt site. It makes me wonder if they are all drinking from the same proverbial well, though I don't know which proverb, or something like intellectual incest in a very shallow gene pool
I'm generally open minded, but given the type of arguments used to promote the hypothesis, I'll just ignore it. While science is unfortunately resistant to change, if there really is something to the hypothesis, eventually something will come up and they'll eventually come around to the new hypothesis. I just don't buy it that the entire profession is trying to be dumb or trying to suppress new knowledge despite decades of evidence otherwise.
I think it would have helped to get a dissenting opinion into a debate. Clifford Stoll had very good arguments in his book, Silicon Snake Oil.
If they *had* to have it, this sort of thing is something you want to grow into, try a few smaller schools, let them come up with their own approach to technology, and see which approach works best and scale it up gradually.
I don't know if you've noticed, but server computers tend to stay in one place and rapists tend not to.
Besides, rape charges increasing may mean that the police are doing a better job tracking them down.
I never had a PPC unit, but the dual core x86 units aren't that great, 3 hours at best. My four year old Compaq gets about 2.5 hours.
I thought we were talking about the plant! Next, they'll tell us that farming virtual cannabis would be criminal too!
BTW: there are other definitions, abduction with intent of forced sex is also in the OED. Some figurative definitions are there too. The legal definition may be different, and that's actually the more important part with respect to the law.