You see, I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not because I can't see your face. So I just have to assume that because you posted anonymously, you are an asshole and you meant it sarcastically.
Now I am giving you the finger and you can't see how intensely I am doing so.
ASL is as much about facial expressions and body language as it is signing...to leave them out is to confuse the meaning of the sign, often completely. Everything is very emotionally charged.
I would suggest that more people learn sign, because if nothing else it will help them to become more expressive individuals.
"Intelligent Design violates the principle known as "Occam's Razor", which states that, given two plausible explanations for one phenomenon, the most simple explanation is the correct one.
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I was under the impression that Occam's Razor was a general rule of thumb rather than a proven principle.
"Therefore, I prefer the naturalistic version. In my experience, people who uphold the "Intelligent Design" theory are only using it to justify their own views of the world... as well as their own prejudices [nothing personal here]."
You prefer something based on a general rule of thumb and your own opinion,then go on to state these people are prejudiced? How is it not personal?
Why not get a second ethernet card, from a company such as Asante, or even a Realtek compatible card and share your connection over the second card (via Internet Sharing in System Preferences for Mac OS X 10.2).
This way you won't have to move any wires around when you call techsupport;)
The only problem with this is since they don't support other computers that are not directly connected to the modem, they aren't going to start supporting those machines just because you now have one connected properly. Plus you have to have your machine on all the time in order for the others to get access.
The best answer is to get a Linksys BEFSR41 for under $50, set it up to connect via PPPoe and just do what you want to anyway...at least you'll have some support from Linksys;D
Wow that's great! In his great zeal to make money doing something many before him have done for their own enjoyment, he will likely kill the ability to get Apple Certified Repair parts! Awesome!
To those who seek to purchase and build a Mac from parts, have you ever thought of why you can get gigabit logic boards for cheap, whereas there is only a small number of Digital Audio, QuickSilver, and Mirror Drive Doors(well MDD is inverted)? Could it perhaps be that the GE boards are inherently flawed? There are actually two versions of the board...the sturdier, almost deep brown/black version, and the el cheapo light green version...I have had more than a few of these and built more than a few from parts Macs, and I can tell you that the latter is not very reliable. I actually had one turn a cap to ash ( not related to using QuickSilver power supplies) and another just flat out smoke....others just not work for no discernable reason...most if not all have a diode piggybacked to an IC on the board...does that reek of quality or what!;D
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple decides to impose tighter restrictions on the flow of boards...
Also, what are you getting with a Gigabit board? Sure you have Gigabit ethernet, but you have a 100mhz bus, 2x AGP slot, ATA66, and only 3 PCI slots...Even with a newer GigaDesigns, PowerLogiz, or Sonnet CPU, you aren't cutting edge by any means...I know it would be fine for some, but to say it's competetive is somewhat misleading...
I emailed the person in charge of maintaining the IPFirewall implementation in Darwin pub source and he said he would look into including dummynet support, but after that I never heard back:(
What I tried to get around the lack of any easy solution was to setup a transparent proxy on the server with Squid, and then use Squid's own bandwidth limiting functions (delay pools-which can allow you to set groups of people based on IP's and subnets). I was doing this at the time with a 56k connection, and it actually worked to the point where my game pings would not cross over 500...lol. I don't recommend it for anything less than DSL, but the difference is noticeable...also, it can be hard to figure out at first, but it is definitely do-able...all this assumes however, that you have a dedicated Mac OS X box running as a gateway router.
http://www.squid-cache.org/
http://squid.visolve.com/squid24s1/delaypool.htm
You could also can have a cron job run on the server during the times you are most likely going to be on, to alter your ipfw config and deny all traffic on the ports your daughter is using to do what she does....but you probably want something more difficult;D
Signals so promising, that no alarms went off the first time they were recorded? Well I guess if it was easy as the movie Contact, we wouldn't have needed the SETI@Home Project.
"...Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.1... Price: free Pros:Most reliable renderer; good performance; great standards support. Cons: Sporadic cache and redraw problems; doesn't take advantage of new technologies such as tabbed windows or ad blocking."
He forgot a few pluses...
So let's update those Pro's and Cons...
"...Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.1... Price: one measly soul Pros: Most coded for renderer; theatrical; standards support it well; No unused processor time; evokes joy in others; slows down your machine to prevent it from going to fast for you; Cons: What cons? Who needs a soul?..I mean, REALLY"
"The time-shifting box works fine, but it still could use a spiffy user interface."
When I was doing this with my Mandrake box, using an All-in-Wonder Radeon, I found this to be the major stumbling point. A PVR should really be simple, and although it is more flexible, its far less usable. I also wouldn't make a box that didn't surf the web, play DVD's with excellent quality, record TV while playing at 30fps and actually be able to encode the shows into DivX in real time.
Was I saying that all games could be ported in a week? No, I was referring to the time it would take to rewrite system dialogs for the platform specifically.
Your next conspiracy accusation is based on the belief that I had just made a matter of fact statement, rather than the facetious and sarcastic statement it was meant to be.
No, I wrote to these gaming companies and simply stated that this product claims to this and this, and you should see if this is true. I even stated that it's likely they could get the code free for testing to see if its a viable solution. Of course, I was only making suggestions to the largest gaming companies in the world, not some shmo on the corner doing a port of Super Breakout. Does that make it more ridiculous they would have any interest in a no name product? Of course...if it doesn't fit their bottom line.
MacDX is not geared towards development houses who do Mac ports specifically, but rather those companies that have Windows products and would like to have an easy, "cheap" solution. Most games are not ported because, 1. Cost, 2. Projected Sales Volume, 3. Time Constraints.
If other developments houses such as Westlake or Aspyr have these kinds of libraries, that can leverage DirectX directly with no changes to the engine, why is it that it often takes them a much longer time that you would expect if said software was in their hands? Do you think it takes them 6 months with dedicated programming talent to just figure out the differences in system errors and endian byte order? Or perhaps they always have the game completely finished, except for the networking aspects, which they just happen to dilly dally on. I would be willing to bet these companies work there proverbial asses off trying to get as much performance out of the game as possible, and using libraries that specifically reference the DirectX code may not be "low-level" or efficient enough to accomplish this.
Of course, once a development house ports an engine it becomes much easier to do subsequent ports on said engine, ie lickity split. New engines are definitely a greater hurdle.
My conspiracy theory is more based on the idea that Microsoft does not want such a product to exist due to their interest in furthering dominance of the Windows Platform and API's. If Windows itself is no longer a requirement for games, I don't think they are going to be too happy about this. Besides that MS could buyout pretty much any and everything that gets in there way (and has), so this is not ridiculous.
Then again, the libraries could be horrible to implement, slow, and just overall crap, but what's the problem with suggesting a company check it out, when their current plans might have procluded a port in the first place.
By the way...posting as an Anonymous Coward undermines any credible argument you might have had.
This was news back in April when it was first announced.
I have actually been emailing game companies during that time, asking them to give MacDX a try, to see if its a viable solution for them. I've emailed Epic, Sierra, EA, etc. and not a single reply. Of course I don't expect a reply, just hoping they might actually read the email and give the product a chance.
I guess making zero code changes to a game engine and only minor changes to system dialog and error codes that could probably be done in a week, is not satisfactory to an industry where good ports have historically been very hard to accomplish.
Or then again, perhaps its the fact that Coderus only lists MacDX as being fully DirectX 7 compliant, with information for 8 and 9 still forthcoming.
Then there's the speed issue (no, porting playstation games with the libraries and having them run fast is not an overall indicator of speed...lol) and whether it is relevent, as well as if MS is going to put pressure on this company, which had not updated its website since the news originally broke in April.
Perhaps a punch card virus...
Then again, perhaps it will be when the smartest people in the world succumb to the growing ideal of technology for technology's sake.
"People have been trying for many years to modify the weather, from tribal rain dances through to experiments in which small crystals were dropped into clouds to attract moisture."
They forgot to mention the efforts of school children praying for snow.
"Breaking News...BBC reports brain cloud as number one illness in the UK."
What ever happened to the theory that a butterfly's wings, or a bear's ass can have a profound effect on weather in other parts of the world?
"You see, our project is different in that, we use a giant lollipop to lure all butterflies and bears into the ocean where they can do no harm. No longer shall these menaceing creatures cause damaging weather across the globe...oh I'm sorry...excuse me for a moment while I set my 4 story humidifier to high mist...desert air wreaks havoc on my sinuses..."
Yes I know that was probably the dumbest post I have yet to offer on./...but who's dumber? Me for writing it, or you for reading it?
The Quicktime 6 Apple released is not a Beta...but rather a PREVIEW...it might seem like semantics if we weren't aware that Apple completing the software in February, and has been unable to fully release it, due to licensing issues. Being a Beta would imply that it is less stable than and not tested enough to be general release...if anything, its been tested more than a GM.
The Telezapper will "zap" calls for you...for the low low price of $49.95...lol...all it does is simulate the tone that is produced when a line is disconnected...not sure this would work with your cable company...since they know where you live as well as that you haven't changed your billing info with them.
Think anyone here would like to do some phone phreaking, and reproduce those tones the way the Telezapper does?...need to have it reproduced as soon as the line is picked up, of course:)
..you could always have a menu for whom to speak to come up, so the machine can't check if you're home...but then again, getting on the list seems a whole lot easier...and cheaper:)
If Time Warner Cable is bothering you for things other than billing, why not try complaining to the billing department...if that doesn't work, complain to the executive offices...they love to receive your call;D
I'm not sure that charities not on the list are allowed to use computer aided customer calling, but if they are, why doesn't someone take the initiative and write an open source telezapper...free is as it should be:)
By the way, I am getting married today, so I expect everyone to mod me up for once!:D
You can run someone through with a light saber, cut them in half and have their computer generated parts tumble down a shaft, and still maintain a PG...but if you head-butt them, it must be PG-13? I guess there aren't any light sabers around to imitate such an action, huh?...but we have plenty of head-butters...or should I say butter-heads?
...my sister must have watched this movie with her psychic powers when she spontaneously started head-butting my entire family at the age of one...gotta be it...of course it could have been any of the other movies she never watched...
...now if it was a head-in-butt, that might be a problem, since it would realistically portray a censor in action ^o^
Why don't we quit wasting time trying to predict major climate change and start taking action to clean up our act?
Have you ever thought of how much garbage the world population puts out, trees we cut down, pollutants we flush, and general mayhem we induce?
Maybe we should be using our excess computing time into working on projects that actually might affect our environment in a positive way, rather than saying we should see what it is going to be like down the road...we all know what is going on here, and I'm not talking about global warming.
Its not the effect of global warming that is our problem right now, but the effect of our blatant misuse of resources and obvious disregard for the earth. Do we not live on this planet with the environment we are destroying...I don't think you need to be a very good scientist to realize that when the environment is decimated, we will be hard pressed to survive...
I guess everyone has some idea that God is going to come and fix everything for us, so we don't have to worry about cleaning up...hey, why don't we all call our mommys and see if they will do our work for us...why don't we own up and say, "Holy shit, I don't want to take the chance that my children are not going to grow up because I ruined their world for them." What is our general purpose in life besides taking up space, making money, and destroying the environment?
The world is a big place, but eventually our actions are going to reach around to spank us, just like our mom's did when we were bad...except it won't be a spanking we live through:/
I invite everyone to spend their 8 months attempting to exact reform in our environmental policies and personal resource use, rather than hoping your computer will somehow figure it out for you.
I guess I'll have to read the book to find out what they mean by HCI and society...I wonder if this takes into account the internet and the advent of human-computer-human interaction (HCHI). This is rarely debated when we consider that they way we interact with the computer, can also shape the way we interact with other people.
If you somehow limit someone's sense of self or ability to make themselves known in a real and or personal way via the lacking in a good interface perhaps it can be said that you thereby limit this person's ability to communicate with another.
Most scientific studies on human computer interfaces have avoided the very real facts about human beings in society. That is, that we believe ourselves to be different IRL and in social contexts we perpetuate these differences in a clear and noticeable way which we are very aware of. It is said of the internet, that there is a total lack of identity and that there is just text on the screen, but when we think of the original users and perpetuaters of the internet and the way things are arranged, whe can sometimes see that this is more like a homogeneous situation, and not so much obscure.
Its the developers of the internet that are shaping the ways we interact, and many times this is a unifacited design that is based on how they interact with their computer.
You may downplay the sense of self online and say that you can pretend to be anyone and be anything, but you still have to take into account that although you may be pretending, you are doing so from within the mindset of your real life self...please don't try and tell me that you somehow become detached from your lifetime memory and experience, and become a totally different person, as I'll find that hard to believe.
...by the very nature of the privacy of the internet you can see how the question of my identity can change your opinion of my opinion...seeing as how you probably don't know me outside this post:)
I recommend people read Race and Gender Online, and Wired Women if they would like to see insight into this rarely researched phenomena...yes, at times they might seem like they're complaining;)
The fact that the MBU would blame it on Apple is pretty lame...they decided that their best course of action was to port directly to OS X using Carbon, and hence they are using 90-95% of the Mac OS 9 code...if you would care to boot into OS 9 you will notice that it has the same problems as the OS X version...namely that it chokes on large html files...I have always had to use another browser like Netscape to view anything larger than 40KB at a reasonable speed...just think about those readme and tutorial files sitting on your hard drive that you try to read with IE...its sometimes impossible.
IE for OS X is subpar for anything but compatibility...which is why Apple included it...Apple can't have a browser that doesn't do just about everything correctly even if it is slow...making sure people can get to all those stupid services that are aimed directly at IE are a necessity. Every other browser is faster than IE on Mac OS X, but none has such a wide range of compatibility.
Wired only mentions one other browser which they think is slow, that they have tried, and that is Opera. Opera is slow...period...Opera even knows it...they say its their event model and I believe it. Omniweb has been in development on the cocoa framework from the beginning and it shows...it leverages the OS very well especially when you look at your CPU monitor and see that it isn't using more than 30% CPU to render a page at any one time. Compare that to IE which takes up as much CPU as it can get.
Chimera, which I am typing this with right now, makes all the others look dead as far as speed goes...and thats at version 0.21...I have used IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Fizilla, and Omniweb throughout their development, and they have NEVER been this fast. I don't care what you think, when it has more features implemented it will still be faster..nq.
As far as hardware acceleration, that is a cop out on IE's part...page rendering is not handled anywhere but in CPU, and the Quartz layer is probably the fastest CPU dependent implementation of a 2d gui I have ever seen...have you tried other OS's without hardware acceleration?...they are practically unusable and they are only drawing boxes!...with the degree of complexity within the compositing layer, its a wonder its as fast as it is...the fact that it only draws what it has to at any one time is a refreshing change as far as gui's go...if you don't see it, your CPU isn't wasted drawing it.
There actually is some hardware acceleration in OS X and it can be seen when you drag a window...the fact that it may appear slow is that the shadows around the window are alpha blended and as such are CPU dependent...these shadows from my own testing can take up to 60% of the CPU to draw, and when they are not drawn the same window uses 25% of the CPU it had to before...you can see for yourself the hardware acceleration using the Quartz debug utility...all those portions of the screen that are being redrawn by Quartz are flashed yellow...and when you drag a window, only the shadows are updated...the bitmaps from the main windows are handed off to the QuickDraw layer for hardware acceleration.
Apple will definitely bring more hardware acceleration to Quartz and especially to alpha blending and compositing, but it will take time and man power...they don't have the same resources as MS.
IE is just passing blame and although it is expected, its just plain sad.
Wired knows it hasn't really looked into the facts because then it couldn't print what it did...I don't see any numbers for times of loading or anything...I just see noticeably faster, twice as fast, etc...where the hell are the numbers...this is computer science not computer subjectivity...I'd like to see some results of timed testing, where they took a stopwatch or used the apps own feedback to tell them...from the time a link is activated to the time the page is fully loaded...hell, I'll do it my own damn self, and then we'll see what merit this has.
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You see, I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not because I can't see your face. So I just have to assume that because you posted anonymously, you are an asshole and you meant it sarcastically.
Now I am giving you the finger and you can't see how intensely I am doing so.
ASL is as much about facial expressions and body language as it is signing...to leave them out is to confuse the meaning of the sign, often completely. Everything is very emotionally charged.
I would suggest that more people learn sign, because if nothing else it will help them to become more expressive individuals.
SCO: Why didn't you tell us earlier that you were going to sue. We could have shorted the stock much more quickly.
Now they have to sell licenses to make up the difference.
I should add that prejudices and beliefs have no place in scientific discussion.
"Intelligent Design violates the principle known as "Occam's Razor", which states that, given two plausible explanations for one phenomenon, the most simple explanation is the correct one. "
I was under the impression that Occam's Razor was a general rule of thumb rather than a proven principle.
"Therefore, I prefer the naturalistic version. In my experience, people who uphold the "Intelligent Design" theory are only using it to justify their own views of the world... as well as their own prejudices [nothing personal here]."
You prefer something based on a general rule of thumb and your own opinion,then go on to state these people are prejudiced? How is it not personal?
I have prejudices and beliefs...don't you?
Why not get a second ethernet card, from a company such as Asante, or even a Realtek compatible card and share your connection over the second card (via Internet Sharing in System Preferences for Mac OS X 10.2).
This way you won't have to move any wires around when you call techsupport;)
The only problem with this is since they don't support other computers that are not directly connected to the modem, they aren't going to start supporting those machines just because you now have one connected properly. Plus you have to have your machine on all the time in order for the others to get access.
The best answer is to get a Linksys BEFSR41 for under $50, set it up to connect via PPPoe and just do what you want to anyway...at least you'll have some support from Linksys;D
Wow that's great! In his great zeal to make money doing something many before him have done for their own enjoyment, he will likely kill the ability to get Apple Certified Repair parts! Awesome!
To those who seek to purchase and build a Mac from parts, have you ever thought of why you can get gigabit logic boards for cheap, whereas there is only a small number of Digital Audio, QuickSilver, and Mirror Drive Doors(well MDD is inverted)? Could it perhaps be that the GE boards are inherently flawed? There are actually two versions of the board...the sturdier, almost deep brown/black version, and the el cheapo light green version...I have had more than a few of these and built more than a few from parts Macs, and I can tell you that the latter is not very reliable. I actually had one turn a cap to ash ( not related to using QuickSilver power supplies) and another just flat out smoke....others just not work for no discernable reason...most if not all have a diode piggybacked to an IC on the board...does that reek of quality or what!;D
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple decides to impose tighter restrictions on the flow of boards...
Also, what are you getting with a Gigabit board? Sure you have Gigabit ethernet, but you have a 100mhz bus, 2x AGP slot, ATA66, and only 3 PCI slots...Even with a newer GigaDesigns, PowerLogiz, or Sonnet CPU, you aren't cutting edge by any means...I know it would be fine for some, but to say it's competetive is somewhat misleading...
I'll believe this one when Microsoft opens up its source code to the Chinese Government!
>:|
Do you sense that the scales of sarcasm and irony have forever been trampled?
This site has a pretty good April Fool's history...
http://www.resexcellence.com
Perhaps there should be a search topic titled "Security" which would check all sections and articles for known security issues...
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=172
Or, ya know, we can just stick a huge fricken padlock right next to the slashdot logo...
If MA's CD is CP'd I'm going to be PO'd...
"To calculate your sales tax, press OK noooooowwwwww."
"..."
"..."
"...Why don't you just tell me what your sales tax is?!?!"
I emailed the person in charge of maintaining the IPFirewall implementation in Darwin pub source and he said he would look into including dummynet support, but after that I never heard back:(
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What I tried to get around the lack of any easy solution was to setup a transparent proxy on the server with Squid, and then use Squid's own bandwidth limiting functions (delay pools-which can allow you to set groups of people based on IP's and subnets). I was doing this at the time with a 56k connection, and it actually worked to the point where my game pings would not cross over 500...lol. I don't recommend it for anything less than DSL, but the difference is noticeable...also, it can be hard to figure out at first, but it is definitely do-able...all this assumes however, that you have a dedicated Mac OS X box running as a gateway router.
http://www.squid-cache.org/
http://squid.visolve.com/squid24s1/delaypool.ht
You could also can have a cron job run on the server during the times you are most likely going to be on, to alter your ipfw config and deny all traffic on the ports your daughter is using to do what she does....but you probably want something more difficult;D
Signals so promising, that no alarms went off the first time they were recorded? Well I guess if it was easy as the movie Contact, we wouldn't have needed the SETI@Home Project.
Was I saying that all games could be ported in a week? No, I was referring to the time it would take to rewrite system dialogs for the platform specifically.
Your next conspiracy accusation is based on the belief that I had just made a matter of fact statement, rather than the facetious and sarcastic statement it was meant to be.
No, I wrote to these gaming companies and simply stated that this product claims to this and this, and you should see if this is true. I even stated that it's likely they could get the code free for testing to see if its a viable solution. Of course, I was only making suggestions to the largest gaming companies in the world, not some shmo on the corner doing a port of Super Breakout. Does that make it more ridiculous they would have any interest in a no name product? Of course...if it doesn't fit their bottom line.
MacDX is not geared towards development houses who do Mac ports specifically, but rather those companies that have Windows products and would like to have an easy, "cheap" solution. Most games are not ported because, 1. Cost, 2. Projected Sales Volume, 3. Time Constraints.
If other developments houses such as Westlake or Aspyr have these kinds of libraries, that can leverage DirectX directly with no changes to the engine, why is it that it often takes them a much longer time that you would expect if said software was in their hands? Do you think it takes them 6 months with dedicated programming talent to just figure out the differences in system errors and endian byte order? Or perhaps they always have the game completely finished, except for the networking aspects, which they just happen to dilly dally on. I would be willing to bet these companies work there proverbial asses off trying to get as much performance out of the game as possible, and using libraries that specifically reference the DirectX code may not be "low-level" or efficient enough to accomplish this.
Of course, once a development house ports an engine it becomes much easier to do subsequent ports on said engine, ie lickity split. New engines are definitely a greater hurdle.
My conspiracy theory is more based on the idea that Microsoft does not want such a product to exist due to their interest in furthering dominance of the Windows Platform and API's. If Windows itself is no longer a requirement for games, I don't think they are going to be too happy about this. Besides that MS could buyout pretty much any and everything that gets in there way (and has), so this is not ridiculous.
Then again, the libraries could be horrible to implement, slow, and just overall crap, but what's the problem with suggesting a company check it out, when their current plans might have procluded a port in the first place.
By the way...posting as an Anonymous Coward undermines any credible argument you might have had.
This was news back in April when it was first announced.
I have actually been emailing game companies during that time, asking them to give MacDX a try, to see if its a viable solution for them. I've emailed Epic, Sierra, EA, etc. and not a single reply. Of course I don't expect a reply, just hoping they might actually read the email and give the product a chance.
I guess making zero code changes to a game engine and only minor changes to system dialog and error codes that could probably be done in a week, is not satisfactory to an industry where good ports have historically been very hard to accomplish.
Or then again, perhaps its the fact that Coderus only lists MacDX as being fully DirectX 7 compliant, with information for 8 and 9 still forthcoming.
Then there's the speed issue (no, porting playstation games with the libraries and having them run fast is not an overall indicator of speed...lol) and whether it is relevent, as well as if MS is going to put pressure on this company, which had not updated its website since the news originally broke in April.
Perhaps a punch card virus... Then again, perhaps it will be when the smartest people in the world succumb to the growing ideal of technology for technology's sake.
They forgot to mention the efforts of school children praying for snow.
"Breaking News...BBC reports brain cloud as number one illness in the UK."
What ever happened to the theory that a butterfly's wings, or a bear's ass can have a profound effect on weather in other parts of the world?
"You see, our project is different in that, we use a giant lollipop to lure all butterflies and bears into the ocean where they can do no harm. No longer shall these menaceing creatures cause damaging weather across the globe...oh I'm sorry...excuse me for a moment while I set my 4 story humidifier to high mist...desert air wreaks havoc on my sinuses..."
Yes I know that was probably the dumbest post I have yet to offer on
Wait, don't answer that...
The Quicktime 6 Apple released is not a Beta...but rather a PREVIEW...it might seem like semantics if we weren't aware that Apple completing the software in February, and has been unable to fully release it, due to licensing issues. Being a Beta would imply that it is less stable than and not tested enough to be general release...if anything, its been tested more than a GM.
The Telezapper will "zap" calls for you...for the low low price of $49.95 ...lol...all it does is simulate the tone that is produced when a line is disconnected...not sure this would work with your cable company...since they know where you live as well as that you haven't changed your billing info with them.
:D
Think anyone here would like to do some phone phreaking, and reproduce those tones the way the Telezapper does?...need to have it reproduced as soon as the line is picked up, of course:)
..you could always have a menu for whom to speak to come up, so the machine can't check if you're home...but then again, getting on the list seems a whole lot easier...and cheaper:)
If Time Warner Cable is bothering you for things other than billing, why not try complaining to the billing department...if that doesn't work, complain to the executive offices...they love to receive your call;D
I'm not sure that charities not on the list are allowed to use computer aided customer calling, but if they are, why doesn't someone take the initiative and write an open source telezapper...free is as it should be:)
By the way, I am getting married today, so I expect everyone to mod me up for once!
You can run someone through with a light saber, cut them in half and have their computer generated parts tumble down a shaft, and still maintain a PG...but if you head-butt them, it must be PG-13? I guess there aren't any light sabers around to imitate such an action, huh?...but we have plenty of head-butters...or should I say butter-heads?
...my sister must have watched this movie with her psychic powers when she spontaneously started head-butting my entire family at the age of one...gotta be it...of course it could have been any of the other movies she never watched...
...now if it was a head-in-butt, that might be a problem, since it would realistically portray a censor in action ^o^
Why don't we quit wasting time trying to predict major climate change and start taking action to clean up our act?
Have you ever thought of how much garbage the world population puts out, trees we cut down, pollutants we flush, and general mayhem we induce?
Maybe we should be using our excess computing time into working on projects that actually might affect our environment in a positive way, rather than saying we should see what it is going to be like down the road...we all know what is going on here, and I'm not talking about global warming.
Its not the effect of global warming that is our problem right now, but the effect of our blatant misuse of resources and obvious disregard for the earth. Do we not live on this planet with the environment we are destroying...I don't think you need to be a very good scientist to realize that when the environment is decimated, we will be hard pressed to survive...
I guess everyone has some idea that God is going to come and fix everything for us, so we don't have to worry about cleaning up...hey, why don't we all call our mommys and see if they will do our work for us...why don't we own up and say, "Holy shit, I don't want to take the chance that my children are not going to grow up because I ruined their world for them." What is our general purpose in life besides taking up space, making money, and destroying the environment?
The world is a big place, but eventually our actions are going to reach around to spank us, just like our mom's did when we were bad...except it won't be a spanking we live through:/
I invite everyone to spend their 8 months attempting to exact reform in our environmental policies and personal resource use, rather than hoping your computer will somehow figure it out for you.
I guess I'll have to read the book to find out what they mean by HCI and society...I wonder if this takes into account the internet and the advent of human-computer-human interaction (HCHI). This is rarely debated when we consider that they way we interact with the computer, can also shape the way we interact with other people.
If you somehow limit someone's sense of self or ability to make themselves known in a real and or personal way via the lacking in a good interface perhaps it can be said that you thereby limit this person's ability to communicate with another.
Most scientific studies on human computer interfaces have avoided the very real facts about human beings in society. That is, that we believe ourselves to be different IRL and in social contexts we perpetuate these differences in a clear and noticeable way which we are very aware of. It is said of the internet, that there is a total lack of identity and that there is just text on the screen, but when we think of the original users and perpetuaters of the internet and the way things are arranged, whe can sometimes see that this is more like a homogeneous situation, and not so much obscure.
Its the developers of the internet that are shaping the ways we interact, and many times this is a unifacited design that is based on how they interact with their computer.
You may downplay the sense of self online and say that you can pretend to be anyone and be anything, but you still have to take into account that although you may be pretending, you are doing so from within the mindset of your real life self...please don't try and tell me that you somehow become detached from your lifetime memory and experience, and become a totally different person, as I'll find that hard to believe.
...by the very nature of the privacy of the internet you can see how the question of my identity can change your opinion of my opinion...seeing as how you probably don't know me outside this post:)
I recommend people read Race and Gender Online, and Wired Women if they would like to see insight into this rarely researched phenomena...yes, at times they might seem like they're complaining;)
Nothing ever gets worked out by leaving it be...
The fact that the MBU would blame it on Apple is pretty lame...they decided that their best course of action was to port directly to OS X using Carbon, and hence they are using 90-95% of the Mac OS 9 code...if you would care to boot into OS 9 you will notice that it has the same problems as the OS X version...namely that it chokes on large html files...I have always had to use another browser like Netscape to view anything larger than 40KB at a reasonable speed...just think about those readme and tutorial files sitting on your hard drive that you try to read with IE...its sometimes impossible.
IE for OS X is subpar for anything but compatibility...which is why Apple included it...Apple can't have a browser that doesn't do just about everything correctly even if it is slow...making sure people can get to all those stupid services that are aimed directly at IE are a necessity. Every other browser is faster than IE on Mac OS X, but none has such a wide range of compatibility.
Wired only mentions one other browser which they think is slow, that they have tried, and that is Opera. Opera is slow...period...Opera even knows it...they say its their event model and I believe it. Omniweb has been in development on the cocoa framework from the beginning and it shows...it leverages the OS very well especially when you look at your CPU monitor and see that it isn't using more than 30% CPU to render a page at any one time. Compare that to IE which takes up as much CPU as it can get.
Chimera, which I am typing this with right now, makes all the others look dead as far as speed goes...and thats at version 0.21...I have used IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Fizilla, and Omniweb throughout their development, and they have NEVER been this fast. I don't care what you think, when it has more features implemented it will still be faster..nq.
As far as hardware acceleration, that is a cop out on IE's part...page rendering is not handled anywhere but in CPU, and the Quartz layer is probably the fastest CPU dependent implementation of a 2d gui I have ever seen...have you tried other OS's without hardware acceleration?...they are practically unusable and they are only drawing boxes!...with the degree of complexity within the compositing layer, its a wonder its as fast as it is...the fact that it only draws what it has to at any one time is a refreshing change as far as gui's go...if you don't see it, your CPU isn't wasted drawing it.
There actually is some hardware acceleration in OS X and it can be seen when you drag a window...the fact that it may appear slow is that the shadows around the window are alpha blended and as such are CPU dependent...these shadows from my own testing can take up to 60% of the CPU to draw, and when they are not drawn the same window uses 25% of the CPU it had to before...you can see for yourself the hardware acceleration using the Quartz debug utility...all those portions of the screen that are being redrawn by Quartz are flashed yellow...and when you drag a window, only the shadows are updated...the bitmaps from the main windows are handed off to the QuickDraw layer for hardware acceleration.
Apple will definitely bring more hardware acceleration to Quartz and especially to alpha blending and compositing, but it will take time and man power...they don't have the same resources as MS.
IE is just passing blame and although it is expected, its just plain sad.
Wired knows it hasn't really looked into the facts because then it couldn't print what it did...I don't see any numbers for times of loading or anything...I just see noticeably faster, twice as fast, etc...where the hell are the numbers...this is computer science not computer subjectivity...I'd like to see some results of timed testing, where they took a stopwatch or used the apps own feedback to tell them...from the time a link is activated to the time the page is fully loaded...hell, I'll do it my own damn self, and then we'll see what merit this has.