Apple did design proof of OSX ownership (store receipt, 1 of 3 coupons, or walk in with the retail package) in its original scheme, or pay $20. Some retailers had very specific rules.
When it got to the stores, the retail staff handed out 1, 2, 3, many... with nothing but a pulse for a requirement.
Hence these were selling on eBay by the first day for up to $70...
There were 150 in the entire state of CT until the Apple store opened up, 4 days before the upgrade offer was set to expire.
Well, since you can't delete a file from the install CD, you would have to copy the CD onto a drive or CD-R/RW in order to delete the specific file, so you *are* copying it, and violating the EULA. They got us there. I think deleting a file means modifying the install package. We're splitting hairs here, but they should have protected this better - and now they have to backpedal. Ugly but necessary if you're Apple.
1. this is a $45 book,and amazon has 21 souls looking to unload theirs at $15... sounds like a one time read at best.
2. make it an ebook - what is it with all these people - negroponte leading the charge - extolling electronic/cyber/wired life and grinding trees to pass out their gospels? dymitri or no dymitri, people pay for ebooks.
Personally, I'm using just my iBook 2000 - and in the apartment complex that I'm in I'd be nuts to go airport unless I was letting the neighbors in. Imagine the headaches. Those 2 AM door poundings over Quake lag... the microwaves and the building elevator alone would get a price on my head in no time...
I'm paying for bandwidth, not IP addresses - if I want to NAT the airport / masquerade a single address with a software router - what the hell can they care? If they can't support the bandwidth, then they should address that - remember every school gets a cable modem gratis and they certainly aren't hooking just one machine to it.
If the exta moneywent to upgrading gateways and proxy servers for the upstream of our cable modems, I could see their point - but I'll guarantee there's not linear relationship between the two, and I'll buy lunch to the first person who can prove they're installing hardware when enough people admit to having more than one machine. This is like the nonsense they went thru on multiple cable drops in your home. Charge for installation, charge for splitters, but essentially charging per seat makes music rights seem like fairy dust.
Why worry that terrorists will have (publically available) GPS precision? I can get a 2 ft EPE with a $150 Garmin, iBook, and a connection to the dgps servers over the web. If I can do it, they can too.
We learned this fall that you don't need this level of sophistication to do a lot of damage, just 20/20 vision.
Hitting a fixed target could be done with high res maps and GIS data, you just need to guide the weapon to it, and laser guidance is easier and cheaper to do. If you're into suicide bombing, put one man on the target un-armed but with a target guide and home in on that. You merely have to be close - you hardly need DGPS accuracy.
In order to hit moving targets - troops (the original big user of GPS) you'd have to be able to unscramble the raido/gps combo signals that are in mil radio sets - like the Talon Hook UHF/GPS. Scott O'Grady simply used a mil spec Trimble and his GI UHF radio.
I got a counter counter proposal - MS buys the $1B hardware from me and installs it in all these schools!
Seriously - all such proposals are sugar-coated self-serving crap. And that's coming from an educator.
Nobody - and I mean nobody - will do this if the corporation doesn't stand to benefit in some way. Their boards would have their heads. That goes for Microsoft, Red Hat, Yellow Dog, or Little Green Men.
If any of these folks thought it's be just a plain old good idea to give $1B in tech to schools they'd have done it long before there was a mandate to make nice.
MS needs to make up for this in some other way - by promoting competition, not by jacking up their ed. market share.
And anyway Linux boxes on every schoolkid's desktop? Not with this gen of offerings unless they hi-fi emu an existing OS. MacOSX or WINE nonwithstanding - there's no app base you can point to.
it was going to say "Thunderbirds are GO!" - but, dag nab it - one of these critters is actually NAMED "Thunderbird".
These run the gamut from "It's hard to imagine betting against Burt Rutan" to John Candy's old "that blowed up REAL good!"
One or two of them is simply missing "ACME Corporation" painted on the side...
I'll be the first to cheer if someone figures out how to do this reliably and cheaply. But you'd think this roster would have fewer - um - "outliers". The plane-to-rocket transition seems to be the favorite approach - on the other hand - MacCready et. al. didn't win the Kremer prizes by thinking the same as the other teams.
Gotta love the flying saucer from Oregon (by the way - we've all spent 5 minntes on the ROTOR ride (big salad spinner) at the county fair - can you imagine the aliens getting out of a spinning saucer after a multiyear trip? "Klaatu! Gort barada nik- URRRRRRRRRP!!!!! RAAAAAAAAALPH!!! Oh God...WOOOOOOOOOOOF!!! Klaatu - kill me now!")
This has to be the ultimate Big Comp for most of these folks. A copy of Strata 3D, a few glam shots in front of someone else's cool plane that ain't going to space? Cute. Dangerous. Naiive. Load people into a rocket that's literally floating in the ocean? You can't load a cup full of coffee in 2ft seas - so why give up the stability of land?
Oh well - we weren't going to have another great meteor storm for a while - this'll have to do.
they've just figured out that hackers have moved on to embezzlement? wasn's this so commonplace even a decade ago that several popular movies had a go at it? hello?
Heh heh... cute. Seriously, any idea what residue it generates? If it were me I'd just have it make a new random name for itself and hide it amongst the morass of WIN files... but the logger file must be easy enough to detect with its increasing size and periodic saves...
CT has a law that says do it again afer being told no, and it's $500 per infraction. Fax spam is easy - they include their phone number most of the time. As a very small biz, we're not even close to being fooled by the handwritten notes on these things that make it look like someone ("-J.") in your own company faxed it over (erm, we have only one fax machine). We call them tell them the law and they sometimes sound like they're going to do something,
Except for one vacations promotions place who said "too bad" - when I mentioned the $500 per infraction, he said "We don't care. We make over a billion dollars a year, we can absorb the fines as the cost of doing business."
Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose:
Then there's one guy up whose name/addr/phone shows up on some of those interent marketing secrets spams - the ones that say - you shouldn't spam people - but if you wanted to, this is where to get the lists - confused little critter. I told him once that he might want to get off the ad, as he's the only identifyable entitiy on it )read: lightning rod), and he claimed it's no-one's business, someone put his name on it and he likes it, he can do whatever he wants, it's a free country, and please don't threaten his life/house/family, etc... like so many of the dirtbag recipients of spam have done...made himself a cozy little victim's existence. Right.
half- finished dna has to be better than perfected much else.
he's made me laugh so hard i've had to lie down to catch my breath and had to excuse myself from a meeting once remembering something of his i'd read the week before.
plus, he knows just how hard a ghost has to work to get something done - he can haunt us if he wants.
Well, Ani had that LL Bean backpack in EP1... ya'd think they could be a little creative with luggage after being very creative with other props and cultural items...
I can swear by the iBook - dunno where you can buy the shipstones yet, tho...
Seriously, the main drawback with the new iBook is that you'll likely LOSE the new Apple AC adapter - it's so much smaller. And you gotta sleep, right? Charge at night. Turn off airport (remember - it's an antenna - it's job is to pour energy out the sides of your machine!), keep the sound down and the energy panel tweaked, and you'll get a day's work out of it.
Asking for Palm-grade batt life is a bit much for the present.
Looks like it's serial or USB. Anyone know for sure?
If so, Yikes. What can we know:
10 min to transfer 5 GB over FireWire;
x 16 to fill 80 GB - 160 min
x 33.3 if you move from 400 FW to 12 USB
Sooo... something like 88 hours to fill via USB? That's half a week.
Bet that iPod's looking pretty practical right about now?
She's obviously had her hands on most major productivity apps - how about using one with a spell/grammar checker? Or ask someone to proof her work. More than that, she really needs to edit these and do some fact checking. These smack of stream-of-consciousness reviews, hardly rigorous and some way to go before appearing professional.
1. the red/yellow/blue ball from Luxo Jr and Red's Dream (both Pixar shorts) is on Boo's bedroom floor;
2. Boo hands Sully a bunch of toys, one of which is a Jessie doll from Toy Story 2;
3. The button that launches the doors is marked "FIZT" - which is the name of the latest animation system that Pixar used for clothing and Sully's fur.
4. In the final scenes (the redecorated factory floor) the big screen has a small footer that runs the joke - paraphrased - "A man goes to teht doctor and raises his arm over his head, and says 'Doctor - it hurts when I do this.'... and two shots later the screen bottom reads "So the doctor says 'Then don't do that'."
sooooo... between 1984 (mac) and 1990 (win 3) when there was essentially nothing else to compare to, you didn't like the mac interface? soooo... what was availabe that was better?
MS's job is to make sure everything works together?
I'm running a MacOS shop, and lemme tell you how much fun it was adding / migrating MS Works+/> MS Internet +/> MS Office and getting MS media to play nice...
While we're on the topic of Redmond, how is it they can trademark ".NET" - isn't that too widely used as - oh what was it - oh, yeah, a TLD EXTENSION to be made proprietary?
Nonsense. We cut the stuff with band saws and dremel tools. They only cut things with a10" skil saw. Sheesh.
The standard solvent adhesive for "plexiglas" acrylic is methylene chloride. $10 a pint if I remember. It's water-thin and you need to have a good seal between the pieces, but a little practice and it works well. You can also wick it onto a set joint and capillary action will fill the voids in a second coat (keep it positioned exactly - enough of a second try can loosen the first). It's nasty stuff - comes in metal cans.
Not surprised Homer doesn't have this stuff - small hardware stores might - I seem to rememer seeing it in a Sears Hardware specialty store. We have a plastics specialty warehouse in CT.
I used to build custom rodent cages for our lab the same way. Do some dry runs - if you can boil water, you'll find the shortcuts and get good at this. I have a see-thru laser that's lasted nearly 30 years made like this.
A decent computer in an acrylic case? Don't you read PC week?
This is another Apple C*be (for we dare not speak its name) those who made the first are once again being relegated to the trash heap of history - and there for so will you - be afraid, be very afraid!
Whatever this cost, it's too much - I bet it has microscopic cranks in part of the case - which necessitates a class action lawsuit on behalf of anyone who drives by you on the freeway when this puppy is powered-up. I bet the PS is tucked away in a remote place - CHEATING!!!! You are required by the armchair quarterbacks of the PeeCee world to enclose the power supply and market a melting heap that complies to the Status Quo. You must be innovative and cool onlywithin established guidelines. You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat.
The very posting of this story constiututes Undue Hype - you will be personally responsible for any of my stock market losses based on my knee-jerk reactions to potential gains I may seek in the plexiglas, super glue, or Little Rubber Feet futures markets.
Use of computers in transparent cases has been shown to cause coughs, cold, itchy holes, nits, zits and sneezing fits. Stop this insanity, now.
Yeah, and your mother uses a non-monopolistic OS, too.
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Apple did design proof of OSX ownership (store receipt, 1 of 3 coupons, or walk in with the retail package) in its original scheme, or pay $20. Some retailers had very specific rules.
When it got to the stores, the retail staff handed out 1, 2, 3, many... with nothing but a pulse for a requirement.
Hence these were selling on eBay by the first day for up to $70...
There were 150 in the entire state of CT until the Apple store opened up, 4 days before the upgrade offer was set to expire.
Well, since you can't delete a file from the install CD, you would have to copy the CD onto a drive or CD-R/RW in order to delete the specific file, so you *are* copying it, and violating the EULA. They got us there. I think deleting a file means modifying the install package. We're splitting hairs here, but they should have protected this better - and now they have to backpedal. Ugly but necessary if you're Apple.
to stuff the genie back into the bottle?
1. this is a $45 book ,and amazon has 21 souls looking to unload theirs at $15... sounds like a one time read at best.
2. make it an ebook - what is it with all these people - negroponte leading the charge - extolling electronic/cyber/wired life and grinding trees to pass out their gospels? dymitri or no dymitri, people pay for ebooks.
Personally, I'm using just my iBook 2000 - and in the apartment complex that I'm in I'd be nuts to go airport unless I was letting the neighbors in. Imagine the headaches. Those 2 AM door poundings over Quake lag... the microwaves and the building elevator alone would get a price on my head in no time...
I'm paying for bandwidth, not IP addresses - if I want to NAT the airport / masquerade a single address with a software router - what the hell can they care? If they can't support the bandwidth, then they should address that - remember every school gets a cable modem gratis and they certainly aren't hooking just one machine to it.
If the exta moneywent to upgrading gateways and proxy servers for the upstream of our cable modems, I could see their point - but I'll guarantee there's not linear relationship between the two, and I'll buy lunch to the first person who can prove they're installing hardware when enough people admit to having more than one machine. This is like the nonsense they went thru on multiple cable drops in your home. Charge for installation, charge for splitters, but essentially charging per seat makes music rights seem like fairy dust.
Why worry that terrorists will have (publically available) GPS precision? I can get a 2 ft EPE with a $150 Garmin, iBook, and a connection to the dgps servers over the web. If I can do it, they can too.
We learned this fall that you don't need this level of sophistication to do a lot of damage, just 20/20 vision.
Hitting a fixed target could be done with high res maps and GIS data, you just need to guide the weapon to it, and laser guidance is easier and cheaper to do. If you're into suicide bombing, put one man on the target un-armed but with a target guide and home in on that. You merely have to be close - you hardly need DGPS accuracy.
In order to hit moving targets - troops (the original big user of GPS) you'd have to be able to unscramble the raido/gps combo signals that are in mil radio sets - like the Talon Hook UHF/GPS. Scott O'Grady simply used a mil spec Trimble and his GI UHF radio.
I got a counter counter proposal - MS buys the $1B hardware from me and installs it in all these schools!
Seriously - all such proposals are sugar-coated self-serving crap. And that's coming from an educator.
Nobody - and I mean nobody - will do this if the corporation doesn't stand to benefit in some way. Their boards would have their heads. That goes for Microsoft, Red Hat, Yellow Dog, or Little Green Men.
If any of these folks thought it's be just a plain old good idea to give $1B in tech to schools they'd have done it long before there was a mandate to make nice.
MS needs to make up for this in some other way - by promoting competition, not by jacking up their ed. market share.
And anyway Linux boxes on every schoolkid's desktop? Not with this gen of offerings unless they hi-fi emu an existing OS. MacOSX or WINE nonwithstanding - there's no app base you can point to.
it was going to say "Thunderbirds are GO!" - but, dag nab it - one of these critters is actually NAMED "Thunderbird".
These run the gamut from "It's hard to imagine betting against Burt Rutan" to John Candy's old "that blowed up REAL good!"
One or two of them is simply missing "ACME Corporation" painted on the side...
I'll be the first to cheer if someone figures out how to do this reliably and cheaply. But you'd think this roster would have fewer - um - "outliers". The plane-to-rocket transition seems to be the favorite approach - on the other hand - MacCready et. al. didn't win the Kremer prizes by thinking the same as the other teams.
Gotta love the flying saucer from Oregon (by the way - we've all spent 5 minntes on the ROTOR ride (big salad spinner) at the county fair - can you imagine the aliens getting out of a spinning saucer after a multiyear trip? "Klaatu! Gort barada nik- URRRRRRRRRP!!!!! RAAAAAAAAALPH!!! Oh God...WOOOOOOOOOOOF!!! Klaatu - kill me now!")
This has to be the ultimate Big Comp for most of these folks. A copy of Strata 3D, a few glam shots in front of someone else's cool plane that ain't going to space? Cute. Dangerous. Naiive. Load people into a rocket that's literally floating in the ocean? You can't load a cup full of coffee in 2ft seas - so why give up the stability of land?
Oh well - we weren't going to have another great meteor storm for a while - this'll have to do.
they've just figured out that hackers have moved on to embezzlement? wasn's this so commonplace even a decade ago that several popular movies had a go at it? hello?
Heh heh... cute. Seriously, any idea what residue it generates? If it were me I'd just have it make a new random name for itself and hide it amongst the morass of WIN files... but the logger file must be easy enough to detect with its increasing size and periodic saves...
how do you find this bugger?
Shoveling against the tide:
CT has a law that says do it again afer being told no, and it's $500 per infraction. Fax spam is easy - they include their phone number most of the time. As a very small biz, we're not even close to being fooled by the handwritten notes on these things that make it look like someone ("-J.") in your own company faxed it over (erm, we have only one fax machine). We call them tell them the law and they sometimes sound like they're going to do something,
Except for one vacations promotions place who said "too bad" - when I mentioned the $500 per infraction, he said "We don't care. We make over a billion dollars a year, we can absorb the fines as the cost of doing business."
Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose:
Then there's one guy up whose name/addr/phone shows up on some of those interent marketing secrets spams - the ones that say - you shouldn't spam people - but if you wanted to, this is where to get the lists - confused little critter. I told him once that he might want to get off the ad, as he's the only identifyable entitiy on it )read: lightning rod), and he claimed it's no-one's business, someone put his name on it and he likes it, he can do whatever he wants, it's a free country, and please don't threaten his life/house/family, etc... like so many of the dirtbag recipients of spam have done...made himself a cozy little victim's existence. Right.
half- finished dna has to be better than perfected much else.
/. - any insights?
he's made me laugh so hard i've had to lie down to catch my breath and had to excuse myself from a meeting once remembering something of his i'd read the week before.
plus, he knows just how hard a ghost has to work to get something done - he can haunt us if he wants.
alan kay - are you scanning
Well, Ani had that LL Bean backpack in EP1... ya'd think they could be a little creative with luggage after being very creative with other props and cultural items...
xga is measly?
sxga is the max on a laptop - what do you plan on doing with this?
I can swear by the iBook - dunno where you can buy the shipstones yet, tho...
Seriously, the main drawback with the new iBook is that you'll likely LOSE the new Apple AC adapter - it's so much smaller. And you gotta sleep, right? Charge at night. Turn off airport (remember - it's an antenna - it's job is to pour energy out the sides of your machine!), keep the sound down and the energy panel tweaked, and you'll get a day's work out of it.
Asking for Palm-grade batt life is a bit much for the present.
Looks like it's serial or USB. Anyone know for sure?
If so, Yikes. What can we know:
10 min to transfer 5 GB over FireWire;
x 16 to fill 80 GB - 160 min
x 33.3 if you move from 400 FW to 12 USB
Sooo... something like 88 hours to fill via USB? That's half a week.
Bet that iPod's looking pretty practical right about now?
She's obviously had her hands on most major productivity apps - how about using one with a spell/grammar checker? Or ask someone to proof her work. More than that, she really needs to edit these and do some fact checking. These smack of stream-of-consciousness reviews, hardly rigorous and some way to go before appearing professional.
1. the red/yellow/blue ball from Luxo Jr and Red's Dream (both Pixar shorts) is on Boo's bedroom floor;
2. Boo hands Sully a bunch of toys, one of which is a Jessie doll from Toy Story 2;
3. The button that launches the doors is marked "FIZT" - which is the name of the latest animation system that Pixar used for clothing and Sully's fur.
4. In the final scenes (the redecorated factory floor) the big screen has a small footer that runs the joke - paraphrased - "A man goes to teht doctor and raises his arm over his head, and says 'Doctor - it hurts when I do this.'... and two shots later the screen bottom reads "So the doctor says 'Then don't do that'."
sooooo... between 1984 (mac) and 1990 (win 3) when there was essentially nothing else to compare to, you didn't like the mac interface? soooo... what was availabe that was better?
japanese, not chinese - it's the coin that all those little SLR camera battery screw-caps were made to fit. 2.26 cm diameter
this is why i got out of biology - all the guts!
oh, the humanity!
MS's job is to make sure everything works together?
I'm running a MacOS shop, and lemme tell you how much fun it was adding / migrating MS Works+/> MS Internet +/> MS Office and getting MS media to play nice...
While we're on the topic of Redmond, how is it they can trademark ".NET" - isn't that too widely used as - oh what was it - oh, yeah, a TLD EXTENSION to be made proprietary?
Nonsense. We cut the stuff with band saws and dremel tools. They only cut things with a10" skil saw. Sheesh.
The standard solvent adhesive for "plexiglas" acrylic is methylene chloride. $10 a pint if I remember. It's water-thin and you need to have a good seal between the pieces, but a little practice and it works well. You can also wick it onto a set joint and capillary action will fill the voids in a second coat (keep it positioned exactly - enough of a second try can loosen the first). It's nasty stuff - comes in metal cans.
Not surprised Homer doesn't have this stuff - small hardware stores might - I seem to rememer seeing it in a Sears Hardware specialty store. We have a plastics specialty warehouse in CT.
I used to build custom rodent cages for our lab the same way. Do some dry runs - if you can boil water, you'll find the shortcuts and get good at this. I have a see-thru laser that's lasted nearly 30 years made like this.
A decent computer in an acrylic case? Don't you read PC week?
This is another Apple C*be (for we dare not speak its name) those who made the first are once again being relegated to the trash heap of history - and there for so will you - be afraid, be very afraid!
Whatever this cost, it's too much - I bet it has microscopic cranks in part of the case - which necessitates a class action lawsuit on behalf of anyone who drives by you on the freeway when this puppy is powered-up. I bet the PS is tucked away in a remote place - CHEATING!!!! You are required by the armchair quarterbacks of the PeeCee world to enclose the power supply and market a melting heap that complies to the Status Quo. You must be innovative and cool onlywithin established guidelines. You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat.
The very posting of this story constiututes Undue Hype - you will be personally responsible for any of my stock market losses based on my knee-jerk reactions to potential gains I may seek in the plexiglas, super glue, or Little Rubber Feet futures markets.
Use of computers in transparent cases has been shown to cause coughs, cold, itchy holes, nits, zits and sneezing fits. Stop this insanity, now.
Yeah, and your mother uses a non-monopolistic OS, too.