I'm not gonna bother wasting my time with the preferences. I'll just treat them like any other "opt-out" spammer.
They'll get blacklisted by the various spam fighting organizations, my filtering will trash all their mail, their users will suddenly find they can't send e-mail to half the Internet, and within a week or two they'll have to change their policy.
Yeah, there's tons of stuff for OS X that ought to be freeware but is $5 or $8 shareware instead. I'm learning OS X app dev at the moment, and hope to put a few of those crappy shareware programs out of business when I'm ready by offering superior free versions.
We tried OS/2. We really wanted to use it. I tried installing it on three different machines from three different PC manufacturers. On the first, there was no video driver to go beyond 640x480. On the second, there was no compatible hard disk driver, so it wouldn't boot. On the third, the BIOS was incompatible, and it wouldn't install at all.
Tried again with Warp. Same problems. Gave up at that point.
OS/2 may have run on machines other than PS/2s, but it was very very picky about which ones.
Sure, if they offered me enough, I'd work for them. It would need to be enough that I'd be able to afford to retire in a handful of years, and the contract would have to have no restrictions on what I did after retirement.
I'd work for them for N years, then I'd retire and spend my time writing free software, either for Linux or Mac OS X.
I have graphics files I drew around 1985. In those days, they were NeoPaint files on an Atari ST. Now they're PNG files on a Mac. I have documents from the early 80s too.
Each time I upgraded my computer, I transferred my data across and translated into a new open file format. Nobody thought the Domesday project was worth transferring? So be it.
Right now, I'm archiving all my photographs as PNG files on ISO9660 gold CDs. I expect that by the time I'm done in a few years, some new open standard storage medium will be available, and I'll be able to transfer my 40 or 50 CDs onto a single disc -- and make copies to give to the family. Looking at it that way, the 200 year lifespan expected from the CDs is overkill, but they're only 40 cents each anyway, so why cut corners?
Absolutely. I decided to give OS X a try as Apple intended. I didn't repartition my hard disk, I didn't screw with freeware to make it look like OS 9 -- I just installed it, moved my data to my user directory, and used the finder and dock as supplied.
Two days later, I loved it. I think in many ways it's better than OS 9. Yes, you have to work in a slightly different way; the controls are different, like the controls for a car are different from the ones for a bike. If you try and remove the brake pedal from a car and put brake levers on the steering wheel to make it work like a bike, expect some problems driving. Sheesh.
Mac users are generally not legitimate BSD administrators.
The way I see it, partitioning disks manually is something I shouldn't have to deal with -- just like partitioning RAM manually. One of the beauties of OS X is finally getting away from RAM partitions, and now you want me to have to predict my disk usage? What kind of progress is that?
On a normal UNIX system, you log in as zarf, and when you want to do admin stuff you su to root.
On Mac OS X, you log in as zarf -- and when you want to do admin stuff, you log in as zarf again, even though you're already logged in. I found it confusing too.
Then again, if I wasn't a UNIX user, I'd find it much more confusing that I needed two IDs even if I was the only one using the machine.
Well, fortunately for Microsoft, they bought the SGI patent library. So if DirectX fails to win by fair means, Microsoft can just kill OpenGL by refusing to license the patents.
Damn right! I'm sick of being ripped off for all the news and sports channels that I literally never watch, just so I can get BBC America, Discovery Channel, Cartoon Network and two or three other channels.
What I want is BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. I'd pay for those. In fact, I'd pay what I'm paying now for the 200 channels of crap I never watch. I'm sure the cable company would make more money. Unfortunately, they can't concieve that there's a better way to do business.
I don't think the industry will ever persuade me to get HDTV. They'd need to:
Get rid of the ads, or start selling an HD-ReplayTV (which is basically equivalent). No point having a high quality image when it's interrupted every ten minutes.
Get rid of the stupid station ident bugs. Again, no point having a high quality image if you're going to paste an ugly logo over it. My TV already tells me what channel I'm watching.
Show quality programming. In the last six months, FOX has cancelled three of the few shows I watch regularly, so it's getting to the stage where all I have the TV for is watching DVDs and Twilight Zone reruns.
Show movies uncut and unreformatted. 'Cause if you don't, you're not going to get me to give up DVDs.
Ship HDTV over cable. No way I'm going to fiddle with rabbit ears every time I want to change channels.
Let me buy the channels I actually want, without having to pay for the news and bread-and-circus channels (ESPN, FOX Sports, etc.).
Obviously the above ain't gonna happen, so there's no point my worrying about HDTV. However, I'd like to get a widescreen set capable of scan-doubled 480p for my DVD player...
Yeah, use the Free Sex Foundation's license for Open Marriage. You can have sex with her, but only if you don't take away her right to have sex with other people...
Please don't say "Western Society" when you mean "American Society".
I found it really bizarre when I moved to the USA and discovered that everyone was obsessed with knowing what my job is. Nobody in the UK gives a crap; I certainly wasn't held in higher esteem for being a software engineer.
Iridium has to send up spare satellites every now and again. They're in a very low orbit -- that is, an unstable orbit. A certain number of burnups per decade is par for the course. Yet one more reason why Iridium never stood a hope in hell of making a profit.
Apparently I'm the only person who wants a larger screen on these things. Not more pixels or smaller pixels -- I want a screen that's actually comfortable to read books on. That'd be a reason to upgrade.
Also, Microsoft was caught stealing QuickTime source code, and didn't have a legal leg to stand on. The court case was quietly dropped as part of the $150m deal.
I'm the #1 hit on Google when you search for 'mathew'. Not Graham Mathew & Partners LLP, Mathews & Company, Mathews Dinsdale & Clark, Mathew Zucker Studio, etc. I don't own a domain name at all, I don't actively promote my web site, I've never paid a penny in advertising, and I don't engage in any deceptive practices such as spamming metadata.
To me, this says that it's perfectly possible for the small fry to get high results on Google.
I can't believe they killed off a show as good as The Lone Gunmen, yet allowed something as awful as The X-Files had become to live.
I gave up after the season end episode where Scully's baby was born. That was enough closure for me to quit cold turkey and not feel like I was missing anything.
Does anyone apart from IBM sell laptops with no Windows license?
And no, selling laptops with a Windows license but Windows erased from the hard disk isn't good enough for me. I don't want Microsoft getting the money.
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That's a really bogus evaluation metric, when you consider "Metal Gear Solid" and "Crash Bandicoot".
I'm not gonna bother wasting my time with the preferences. I'll just treat them like any other "opt-out" spammer.
They'll get blacklisted by the various spam fighting organizations, my filtering will trash all their mail, their users will suddenly find they can't send e-mail to half the Internet, and within a week or two they'll have to change their policy.
No, it isn't. It's viruses.
(Wait 20 seconds to post this? Bite me Slashdot.)
Agreed. Anyone who writes "dot dot com" is a fscking clueless moron.
And I say that as someone who quite likes Katz.
Yeah, there's tons of stuff for OS X that ought to be freeware but is $5 or $8 shareware instead. I'm learning OS X app dev at the moment, and hope to put a few of those crappy shareware programs out of business when I'm ready by offering superior free versions.
We tried OS/2. We really wanted to use it. I tried installing it on three different machines from three different PC manufacturers. On the first, there was no video driver to go beyond 640x480. On the second, there was no compatible hard disk driver, so it wouldn't boot. On the third, the BIOS was incompatible, and it wouldn't install at all.
Tried again with Warp. Same problems. Gave up at that point.
OS/2 may have run on machines other than PS/2s, but it was very very picky about which ones.
Indeed. The problem is that traditional Mac developers don't really know UNIX.
As a some-time UNIX developer, I'm amazed by how easy OS X Cocoa applications are to develop, compared to (say) X applications.
In Massachusetts, it's illegal for a company to fail to pay payroll.
Apparently there's no such law where Loki were headquartered.
Sure, if they offered me enough, I'd work for them. It would need to be enough that I'd be able to afford to retire in a handful of years, and the contract would have to have no restrictions on what I did after retirement.
I'd work for them for N years, then I'd retire and spend my time writing free software, either for Linux or Mac OS X.
I have graphics files I drew around 1985. In those days, they were NeoPaint files on an Atari ST. Now they're PNG files on a Mac. I have documents from the early 80s too.
Each time I upgraded my computer, I transferred my data across and translated into a new open file format. Nobody thought the Domesday project was worth transferring? So be it.
Right now, I'm archiving all my photographs as PNG files on ISO9660 gold CDs. I expect that by the time I'm done in a few years, some new open standard storage medium will be available, and I'll be able to transfer my 40 or 50 CDs onto a single disc -- and make copies to give to the family. Looking at it that way, the 200 year lifespan expected from the CDs is overkill, but they're only 40 cents each anyway, so why cut corners?
Absolutely. I decided to give OS X a try as Apple intended. I didn't repartition my hard disk, I didn't screw with freeware to make it look like OS 9 -- I just installed it, moved my data to my user directory, and used the finder and dock as supplied.
Two days later, I loved it. I think in many ways it's better than OS 9. Yes, you have to work in a slightly different way; the controls are different, like the controls for a car are different from the ones for a bike. If you try and remove the brake pedal from a car and put brake levers on the steering wheel to make it work like a bike, expect some problems driving. Sheesh.
Mac users are generally not legitimate BSD administrators.
The way I see it, partitioning disks manually is something I shouldn't have to deal with -- just like partitioning RAM manually. One of the beauties of OS X is finally getting away from RAM partitions, and now you want me to have to predict my disk usage? What kind of progress is that?
On a normal UNIX system, you log in as zarf, and when you want to do admin stuff you su to root.
On Mac OS X, you log in as zarf -- and when you want to do admin stuff, you log in as zarf again, even though you're already logged in. I found it confusing too.
Then again, if I wasn't a UNIX user, I'd find it much more confusing that I needed two IDs even if I was the only one using the machine.
Well, fortunately for Microsoft, they bought the SGI patent library. So if DirectX fails to win by fair means, Microsoft can just kill OpenGL by refusing to license the patents.
Damn right! I'm sick of being ripped off for all the news and sports channels that I literally never watch, just so I can get BBC America, Discovery Channel, Cartoon Network and two or three other channels.
What I want is BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. I'd pay for those. In fact, I'd pay what I'm paying now for the 200 channels of crap I never watch. I'm sure the cable company would make more money. Unfortunately, they can't concieve that there's a better way to do business.
I don't think the industry will ever persuade me to get HDTV. They'd need to:
equivalent). No point having a high quality image when it's
interrupted every ten minutes.
high quality image if you're going to paste an ugly logo over it. My TV
already tells me what channel I'm watching.
of the few shows I watch regularly, so it's getting to the stage where all
I have the TV for is watching DVDs and Twilight Zone reruns.
going to get me to give up DVDs.
ears every time I want to change channels.
news and bread-and-circus channels (ESPN, FOX Sports, etc.).
Obviously the above ain't gonna happen, so there's no point my worrying
about HDTV. However, I'd like to get a widescreen set capable of scan-doubled 480p for my
DVD player...
Yeah, use the Free Sex Foundation's license for Open Marriage. You can have sex with her, but only if you don't take away her right to have sex with other people...
Please don't say "Western Society" when you mean "American Society".
I found it really bizarre when I moved to the USA and discovered that everyone was obsessed with knowing what my job is. Nobody in the UK gives a crap; I certainly wasn't held in higher esteem for being a software engineer.
Iridium has to send up spare satellites every now and again. They're in a very low orbit -- that is, an unstable orbit. A certain number of burnups per decade is par for the course. Yet one more reason why Iridium never stood a hope in hell of making a profit.
Apparently I'm the only person who wants a larger screen on these things. Not more pixels or smaller pixels -- I want a screen that's actually comfortable to read books on. That'd be a reason to upgrade.
Ah well.
Also, Microsoft was caught stealing QuickTime source code, and didn't have a legal leg to stand on. The court case was quietly dropped as part of the $150m deal.
I'm the #1 hit on Google when you search for 'mathew'. Not Graham Mathew & Partners LLP, Mathews & Company, Mathews Dinsdale & Clark, Mathew Zucker Studio, etc. I don't own a domain name at all, I don't actively promote my web site, I've never paid a penny in advertising, and I don't engage in any deceptive practices such as spamming metadata.
To me, this says that it's perfectly possible for the small fry to get high results on Google.
I can't believe they killed off a show as good as The Lone Gunmen, yet allowed something as awful as The X-Files had become to live.
I gave up after the season end episode where Scully's baby was born. That was enough closure for me to quit cold turkey and not feel like I was missing anything.
Does anyone apart from IBM sell laptops with no Windows license?
And no, selling laptops with a Windows license but Windows erased from the hard disk isn't good enough for me. I don't want Microsoft getting the money.
It also seems likely that they meant 512Mib, not 512Mb, since it's memory. But who knows?