I'm sorry, but this is rubbish. The skin resource file for OS X (even 10.2) is understood and people continute to "skin" 10.2 (Keildoscope author not with standing). The same 3rd GUI apps for OS 9 are available for for 10.2. I've talked to people who hide their dock and use OTHER apps with other functionality. So there is no Apple sanctioned "Appearance Manager" in 10.2. Frankly, I would say, Apple only grudging supported the Appearance Manager, after pulling their own skins from 8.x after the beta process.
The problem is that no developer has steped up to plate to make a good PreferencePane for Skining and Icon changing. There is a difference between saying it's not possible and noone has bother to make a good app to do it.
"I don't think there's much evidence that MS has "ruined" Ensemble or Bungie. But don't let the facts get in the way of your rant." One word: Halo MS took what was a great concept (a large massive multiplayer world) and turned it into just another shooter game (with pretty graphics and a different story).
Microsoft: "I really do make a good console" Customer: "Whatever" Microsoft: "See, look at all these games that are availble" Customer: "Shut up, I'm trying to beat Zelda"
Reason why Nintedo is still around is because they make games that are interesting. The reason Sony is still around is they convince developers to make games that are interesting. The reason MS is a smaller player is they buy companies that make games that are interesting and ruin them.
NBC seems to think that if you hide under a rock, maybe the monsters will go away.
Have these people never heard of TCP Wrappers and IPFW? I suspect not. All confidential information should be BOTH firewalled and TCP Wrappered (DENY) by default to all domains, then added on a IP by IP (or local domain) basis. I get the feeling of admins took the time to do this very basic thing, 90% of all cracks would not occur.
One of the first things I did after posting my reply is look up DDR on google and ddrfreak was the top listing. I downloaded the top player. He isn't that good at dancing, probabaly because of the artifical limitations on where the buttons are.
There are 3 problems that are holding back video conferencing.
1. Commonly agreed codecs that can be expanded without breaking backward compatibility.
2. Easy to use dialing for a standalone video phone hooked up via broadband.
3. Video phones are unnatural. This I think is the biggest problem. If you are looking at the screen, you are not looking at the camera. As a result you are not making eye contact. This is very disorienting at first and takes time to get used to. The camera needs to be as close to the screen as possible, otherwise when you are talking to a girl, it will look to her like you are looking at her breasts.
Easiest solution (while not being the cheapest) is for ATT, Sprint, etc setting up on the internet Video phone router stations and people could order a phone number that works with standard phones and with video phones. If such a thing were done, they need to avoid the Token Ring style performance of current "expensive" solutions (connections are all dropped to the lowest bandwidth for multi person calls).
First time I ran into DDR was at a local Fun Zone. Some kid was "dancing" on some pads, appearantly having fun. Paying a dollar for maybe 5 minutes. The night before I was in a club dancing for free. Better music, more people, and it didn't cost me a thing.
I'm all cool with what people find fun, but DDR is outright lame. Not because dancing in public is lame, but because it's expensive, the music isn't the best, and you look like a fool in an arcade dancing on some buttons.
"special encryption keys which are hidden in software that's pressed onto a CD-ROM and cannot be read with ordinary procedures."
"The development team has already verified the compatibility of the Root encryption key system with about 200 models of CD-ROM drives on the market."
Unless those CD-ROM drives are using abnormal means to read those little 0's and 1's these statements are mutually exclusive. All one would have to do is a raw device dump and burn the resulting disk image on their favorite CD burner.
First David Pogue (NY Times) is biased towards the Mac for the most part. Consider that when you read him.
Now, having gotten that out of the way. OS 10.2 is nice. Speed improvement is striking. Not in the way that, "it should have been that fast in the first place", it's more in the way of the first time I installed BeOS on a computer to see it in comparision to WinME.
Networking is definitely faster. I haven't benched anything yet, but I can say if you have a fast line, you will see your web browser of choice speed up considerably.
The "disconnect from Network bug" is still there. Connect to a SMB, AppleTalk, or DAV volume and pull your network cord (or turn off the machine exporting the drive) and you will get the spinning wheel of death.
Video Performance is spooky, even on an origional G4 tower. You really have to see it to understand.
iChat is next to useless, but the auto discovery of other clients is nice.
SMB export was a pain in the ass. You have to enable it on a user by user basis, which wasn't obvious, in the Accounts preference pane. Then after it's enabled for a user, you have change their password. Since the GUI client changes both the Samba password and Unix password for the user, at the same time, the users CANNOT just change their password on the command line. This also raises fears that the Samba passwords are stored in cleartext on the harddrive. I suspect, this is not the case, but haven't look yet. There is no convient way to set the SMB workgroup in the GUI
XDarwin needed to be repaired (which is available at the X on X site and seemingly not part of what Fink compiles) to work. This was annoying.
The firewall has Gnutella as an option to allow.
My SCSI CD Burner stopped working. I suspect the old SCSI bug is back for the time being.
1. Don't distribute works you don't own the copyright for.
2. Don't distribute works whose total value is more than $999.99US
3. Don't distribute works whose total value is more than $999.99 US for more than 180 days.
The government kinda shot itself in the foot with this one. It will be damn hard to prove that you have distribute works for 180 days whose total value is more than $999.99US.
Change the ownership of thier home directory to some dummy acount and then chmod 755 it. That should prevent them from changing their settings across the board, but it may have undesired effects on some applications that insist on writing to disk on launch, et al. You could be more picky like chown + chmod only the.cshrc.profile, or whatever on a individual basis.
Looking at nudies when i was 14 didn't turn me into a pedophile, but it was still illegal for me to purchase them. When my Mom found my stash of nasties (Chic, Hustler, et al) she trashed them and replaced them with a subscription to Playboy. Every month, a new one appeared on my bed. Not a word was said when they were trashed. Not a word was said when the Playboys started appearing.
Now, she had that level of control. Today, parents don't have that level of control with video games. Sure GTA3 isn't gonna turn a kid into a car rage murder or a pimp, but it still makes parents uneasy that their kid can waltz into Electronic Botique and but it without any parental consent.
Children are NOT full blown citizens and have limited rights, as they should. They lack privacy, they lack free travel, they lack free association. All this so that parents can do their job, whatever that may be. As such, I do think children should NOT be able to buy any violent video games. Period. Parents should buy it for them. Puts any "blame" in peoples minds where it belongs, in the parents lap. Not in the game, not at EB, not in the "media", but on the parent.
Of course given the nature of Slashdot, most will disagree in some way. That's okay, I've had Max Karma for a long time, what do I care.
"Some people don't have the time, patience, and/or skill to implement stuff like netware themselves in a convenient manner."
Then they should NOT be an admin. Lazy admins are the reason why many networks are insecure. This is not to be construed as an arguement against GUI's, which have their place, but merely an arguement that reading documentation to learn how to do something is what an admin is supposed to do.
MacOS 10 has had support for LDAP and NIS. 10.2 will have support for Active Directory. Now explain to me why I should PAY for a Novell client, when all I have to do is read some documentation.
"I don't think there was ever a realistic chance that Felten would have been liable, and I think all parties knew it from the beginning," Wagner says/
That may be well and true, but it misses the point. Lets assume Felton were sued. He is a professor. I assume he has a lawer. He certainly already had the publicity. For him a lawsuit is a mere annoyance. For someone like some young Russian programmer who comes to the states for a talk, a lawsuit is career ending. The mere fear of being sued, legimated or not, is enough to stifle any and all speech deemed fringe. That is the danger of the DMCA.
"Well I live in FL and trust me, it's not the citizens that are pushing for a highspeed rail system! It's the congressmen and the Disney folks. They want to run a rail for "us", yet it would only really serve to get tourists to and from hotels and attractions."
Nonsense. I remember signing the petition to have the issue put on the ballot. I remember voting on it. I remember it being passed.
Here in FL, with enough signatures, any issue (as long as it deals with a single point) can be put on the ballot. Any issue. This was one of them. It wasn't like big money bought the signatures and bought the voters.
Let's see their business model is illegal. The FCC tells them that it knows what they are doing, it's illegal, and they should stop it. They don't listen. At what point do you NOT beleive the FCC and keep doing it?
Idiot 1: Hey man, let's send some more junk faxes.
Idiot 2: Didn't the FCC say we would get hell if we kept doing that?
Idiot 1: What's the worse they can do? Fine our "company"?!?
Laughter
Idiot 2: I hear the Bamahas are nice this time of year.
"They can't use common law because Louisiana is the only state based on French Civil Law rather than English Common Law."
I actually thought of this, strangely enough. But I think it's not relevent. Within Louisiana, they are well within their rights to use Napolianic code to setting common disputes, but a case about state borders, is for the federal courts, which is based off English Common.
I suspect in the cases sited, which used rivers to determine boundries, you will see the old common law agreements sticks. When you are measuring within a few feet to find a spot that moves (a few yards) with the seasons, on both sides of the border no less), you're new "accurate" measurement has little value and one is still stuck with simple common agreement.
Would be an easy case to present, and keeping common agreed boundries is a no brainer. If one starts using fixed points on boundries, who's to say a narrow river that is used as a boundry will not just move entirely into another state or county...imagine the implications for water management...
"Finaly this issue is being talked about. I have been out of work for over a year because I cannot find a single job."
Not to sound like a troll, but perhaps you should bite the bullet and work as a garbage person or something similiar. People should be willing to do anything to get a job, rather than be out of work for a year+. In the real world, the perfect job is not just an interview away.
I worked phones at a pizza joint for almost 2 years before I got my current employment (now earning almost 3X as much). You do what you have to do.
Get two of them. One to serve "content", the other to record transactions. Content server has the read only head on, the transaction server has the write only head on. Hot swap them for updates and transfer of information.
Not as convient as it is currently done, but for a little ma/pa shop, it might be perfect.
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I'm sorry, but this is rubbish. The skin resource file for OS X (even 10.2) is understood and people continute to "skin" 10.2 (Keildoscope author not with standing). The same 3rd GUI apps for OS 9 are available for for 10.2. I've talked to people who hide their dock and use OTHER apps with other functionality. So there is no Apple sanctioned "Appearance Manager" in 10.2. Frankly, I would say, Apple only grudging supported the Appearance Manager, after pulling their own skins from 8.x after the beta process.
The problem is that no developer has steped up to plate to make a good PreferencePane for Skining and Icon changing. There is a difference between saying it's not possible and noone has bother to make a good app to do it.
I would go with the latter.
"I don't think there's much evidence that MS has "ruined" Ensemble or Bungie. But don't let the facts get in the way of your rant."
One word: Halo
MS took what was a great concept (a large massive multiplayer world) and turned it into just another shooter game (with pretty graphics and a different story).
Customer: "Whatever"
Microsoft: "See, look at all these games that are availble"
Customer: "Shut up, I'm trying to beat Zelda"
Reason why Nintedo is still around is because they make games that are interesting. The reason Sony is still around is they convince developers to make games that are interesting. The reason MS is a smaller player is they buy companies that make games that are interesting and ruin them.
NBC seems to think that if you hide under a rock, maybe the monsters will go away.
Have these people never heard of TCP Wrappers and IPFW? I suspect not. All confidential information should be BOTH firewalled and TCP Wrappered (DENY) by default to all domains, then added on a IP by IP (or local domain) basis. I get the feeling of admins took the time to do this very basic thing, 90% of all cracks would not occur.
One of the first things I did after posting my reply is look up DDR on google and ddrfreak was the top listing. I downloaded the top player. He isn't that good at dancing, probabaly because of the artifical limitations on where the buttons are.
I'm wasn't impressed.
There are 3 problems that are holding back video conferencing.
1. Commonly agreed codecs that can be expanded without breaking backward compatibility.
2. Easy to use dialing for a standalone video phone hooked up via broadband.
3. Video phones are unnatural. This I think is the biggest problem. If you are looking at the screen, you are not looking at the camera. As a result you are not making eye contact. This is very disorienting at first and takes time to get used to. The camera needs to be as close to the screen as possible, otherwise when you are talking to a girl, it will look to her like you are looking at her breasts.
Easiest solution (while not being the cheapest) is for ATT, Sprint, etc setting up on the internet Video phone router stations and people could order a phone number that works with standard phones and with video phones. If such a thing were done, they need to avoid the Token Ring style performance of current "expensive" solutions (connections are all dropped to the lowest bandwidth for multi person calls).
First time I ran into DDR was at a local Fun Zone. Some kid was "dancing" on some pads, appearantly having fun. Paying a dollar for maybe 5 minutes. The night before I was in a club dancing for free. Better music, more people, and it didn't cost me a thing.
I'm all cool with what people find fun, but DDR is outright lame. Not because dancing in public is lame, but because it's expensive, the music isn't the best, and you look like a fool in an arcade dancing on some buttons.
Whatever, I guess I'm just trolling.
"special encryption keys which are hidden in software that's pressed onto a CD-ROM and cannot be read with ordinary procedures."
"The development team has already verified the compatibility of the Root encryption key system with about 200 models of CD-ROM drives on the market."
Unless those CD-ROM drives are using abnormal means to read those little 0's and 1's these statements are mutually exclusive. All one would have to do is a raw device dump and burn the resulting disk image on their favorite CD burner.
Now, having gotten that out of the way. OS 10.2 is nice. Speed improvement is striking. Not in the way that, "it should have been that fast in the first place", it's more in the way of the first time I installed BeOS on a computer to see it in comparision to WinME.
Networking is definitely faster. I haven't benched anything yet, but I can say if you have a fast line, you will see your web browser of choice speed up considerably.
The "disconnect from Network bug" is still there. Connect to a SMB, AppleTalk, or DAV volume and pull your network cord (or turn off the machine exporting the drive) and you will get the spinning wheel of death.
Video Performance is spooky, even on an origional G4 tower. You really have to see it to understand.
iChat is next to useless, but the auto discovery of other clients is nice.
SMB export was a pain in the ass. You have to enable it on a user by user basis, which wasn't obvious, in the Accounts preference pane. Then after it's enabled for a user, you have change their password. Since the GUI client changes both the Samba password and Unix password for the user, at the same time, the users CANNOT just change their password on the command line. This also raises fears that the Samba passwords are stored in cleartext on the harddrive. I suspect, this is not the case, but haven't look yet. There is no convient way to set the SMB workgroup in the GUI
XDarwin needed to be repaired (which is available at the X on X site and seemingly not part of what Fink compiles) to work. This was annoying.
The firewall has Gnutella as an option to allow.
My SCSI CD Burner stopped working. I suspect the old SCSI bug is back for the time being.
Some other shit I foget....
1. Don't distribute works you don't own the copyright for.
2. Don't distribute works whose total value is more than $999.99US
3. Don't distribute works whose total value is more than $999.99 US for more than 180 days.
The government kinda shot itself in the foot with this one. It will be damn hard to prove that you have distribute works for 180 days whose total value is more than $999.99US.
Change the ownership of thier home directory to some dummy acount and then chmod 755 it. That should prevent them from changing their settings across the board, but it may have undesired effects on some applications that insist on writing to disk on launch, et al. You could be more picky like chown + chmod only the .cshrc .profile, or whatever on a individual basis.
Now, she had that level of control. Today, parents don't have that level of control with video games. Sure GTA3 isn't gonna turn a kid into a car rage murder or a pimp, but it still makes parents uneasy that their kid can waltz into Electronic Botique and but it without any parental consent.
Children are NOT full blown citizens and have limited rights, as they should. They lack privacy, they lack free travel, they lack free association. All this so that parents can do their job, whatever that may be. As such, I do think children should NOT be able to buy any violent video games. Period. Parents should buy it for them. Puts any "blame" in peoples minds where it belongs, in the parents lap. Not in the game, not at EB, not in the "media", but on the parent.
Of course given the nature of Slashdot, most will disagree in some way. That's okay, I've had Max Karma for a long time, what do I care.
Then they should NOT be an admin. Lazy admins are the reason why many networks are insecure. This is not to be construed as an arguement against GUI's, which have their place, but merely an arguement that reading documentation to learn how to do something is what an admin is supposed to do.
MacOS 10 has had support for LDAP and NIS. 10.2 will have support for Active Directory. Now explain to me why I should PAY for a Novell client, when all I have to do is read some documentation.
That may be well and true, but it misses the point. Lets assume Felton were sued. He is a professor. I assume he has a lawer. He certainly already had the publicity. For him a lawsuit is a mere annoyance. For someone like some young Russian programmer who comes to the states for a talk, a lawsuit is career ending. The mere fear of being sued, legimated or not, is enough to stifle any and all speech deemed fringe. That is the danger of the DMCA.
There is no standard to use the Web to interact with my toaster, that doesn't imply there should be one.
Start eating those shorts, I live in Tallahassee. Have been living here for 11 years.
Nonsense. I remember signing the petition to have the issue put on the ballot. I remember voting on it. I remember it being passed.
Here in FL, with enough signatures, any issue (as long as it deals with a single point) can be put on the ballot. Any issue. This was one of them. It wasn't like big money bought the signatures and bought the voters.
Idiot 1: Hey man, let's send some more junk faxes.
Idiot 2: Didn't the FCC say we would get hell if we kept doing that?
Idiot 1: What's the worse they can do? Fine our "company"?!?
Laughter
Idiot 2: I hear the Bamahas are nice this time of year.
I actually thought of this, strangely enough. But I think it's not relevent. Within Louisiana, they are well within their rights to use Napolianic code to setting common disputes, but a case about state borders, is for the federal courts, which is based off English Common.
Would be an easy case to present, and keeping common agreed boundries is a no brainer. If one starts using fixed points on boundries, who's to say a narrow river that is used as a boundry will not just move entirely into another state or county...imagine the implications for water management...
No rational person wants that.
"Finaly this issue is being talked about. I have been out of work for over a year because I cannot find a single job."
Not to sound like a troll, but perhaps you should bite the bullet and work as a garbage person or something similiar. People should be willing to do anything to get a job, rather than be out of work for a year+. In the real world, the perfect job is not just an interview away.
I worked phones at a pizza joint for almost 2 years before I got my current employment (now earning almost 3X as much). You do what you have to do.
In a truely competitive market, a company gets nowhere by not selling their product to someone else. If I were an HP stock holder, I'd be pissed.
Get two of them. One to serve "content", the other to record transactions. Content server has the read only head on, the transaction server has the write only head on. Hot swap them for updates and transfer of information.
Not as convient as it is currently done, but for a little ma/pa shop, it might be perfect.
Windows Only + No source + one guy = Killable by RIAA.
I'm not impressed.