BTW if you want to understand just how bad this is strap a box over your head (with a flashlight inside so you can see the box) and then move your head back and forth. It's a vary disturbing experience for most people.
those of us who wear glasses with small lenses see this every day - the outline of what is in focus stays in one spot relitive to my eyes. When ever i get new frames (once every 2-4 years) it's disorenting for like 30 seconds, then i get used to it again.
or when i first got glasses - i could see my own eyes reflected in them... now THAT was distrubing!
if you want a consitant look and feel, you're on the wrong platform buddy. Linux distros will *NEVER* have a unified look. Mac OS X otoh already does have a unified look and feel. (though the trend is in the wrong direction - Brushed Metal, Unified Toolbar, Pro, Smooth Metal, ect)
Usually if they do accept the return, you'll just get the same thing back anyway. In that case i'll go though Best Buy's entire invintory of [broken movie] getting identical replacements that still won't play. This is even better at getting the retailers to put pressure on the distributers of crappy products:)
Here is a simple outline of one of the many ways it could be achieved:
Token contains a secret key, a pin-entry-pad and a lcd-readout, it also has an internal clock.
And you should already have one in your pocket - your cell phone.
When you wish to be able to authenthicate to someone, say your bank, you somehow convince them that public-key so-and-so corresponds to your token. (for example you can physically show the token on opening an account)
Come login-time you go to the banks site. The bank presents you with a PIN.
-OR-
The bank injects its seed/key into your phone, then when you want to log into the bank, you find it on your phone and enter the key on screen. This allows everyone to have a separate key for each link of trust, making things just a little bit more secure.:)
How do these devices get explained at school then? Maybe someone in school could enlighten us.
Your teacher has you read section from a pack of paper bound at one end called a book. This Book explains how a hard drive works (or just about any other part of a x86 PC - past or present) pretty well. After you've read it, the teacher tells you all about how things work while drawing diagrams on the white/black board. After that, if the teacher is good, he's got 3 or 4 hard drives at verious points of being disasembled and passes them around the class to "play" with.
yeah... i actually took a class before i took my A+. sue me.
no PS2 games use [the PS2 Hard Drive] (or atleast very very few, FFX is the one exception that I know of)
FFX runs just fine off it's one DVD. (that game is HUGE - i'm working my way through it right now) FFXI otoh requires both an internet connection (i think even broadband) and a hard drive. thus, there is no way to run that game on a slimline PS2 - like mine - without some hardware hacking - something i can't afford to do to my PS2 atm. GTA:SA takes advantage of the HD, but runs just fine (if being able to hear the constant disk access across the room can be considered fine) without an HD. i'm pretty sure there are 4 or 5 other games that do the same... FFXI was the only game to out right require a hard drive though.
Also don't forget that Sega shipped 2 upgrades for the Genisis/Mega Drive that both totally and absolutly flopped - the SegaCD/MegaCD, and the 32X. Nintendo started to get into the act too with the 64DD before they realized that it would kill them like after market upgrades killed sega. Microsoft isn't learning from previous industry mistakes. thats really really bad.
i'm giving 2:1 odds* that the next microsoft console has upgradable RAM.
Really now, has Apple ever been a fan of idiotic decals that fall off and leave sticky spots that collect dirt?
The Color Classic had a QuickTime sticker on it. Oh and the first three generations of Power Mac (those with numbers, and the beige G3) had a PowerPC logo silkscreened on the front.
Thank god for my fast car. They never give you advance warning for those things, and even when they do, 70 isn't nearly enough to get out. so in your case, you wouldn't have to worry about this system because your cars max speed is the highest speed limit here in california, and i can only assume it's the same in washington. My minivan otoh pushes 90 quite easily, and would probably break 120 if i wanted to try it.
I'd love to see a lineup change that resurects SoundEdit 16, xRes, and Extreme 3D. Anyone else remember those fine Macromedia products? Maybe Adobe could be nice and release the source to any old IP that is just collecting dust in the Macromedia (Macromind!!) basement...
And while we're at it, go resurect FrameMaker, SuperPaint, and PageMaker from the Adobe^W Aldus basement...
Adobe could start an open source holding company with those 6 products alone.
You're being an OSX snob because you can outspend me on the computer budget.
pffff. i just wait for the deals that put the <strike>computer<strike> Mac in my budget. for example, i payed... $300 for an open box iBook G4/1GHz in February- in fact i'm typing this on it now. not the highest end system in the world, and sure it had been discontinued for something like 6 months, but it gets the job done, and it's still a recent Mac. You just have to look in the right places with the right timing. ^_^;;
WindowServer is responsible for handling moving windows, drawing the frames of windows, hidding and unhiding them and the like. It doesn't handle the desktop and drawing the items on it, Finder does that.
Yes and no. WindowServer, or to be more specific, the Quartz Compositor (itself a part of the WindowServer process) is also responsible for compositing all the windows into one image to send to your graphics card. While the Finder draws the items that reside on the desktop, it sends them to WindowServer to composite the images of each item onto the desktop. one. item. at. a time.*
By having 300 items on the desktop, WindowServer now has 300 MORE things to composite (yes, even if it most of them are covered by a fully opaque window) it's going to start using more CPU time.
*With Quartz Extreme, and Quartz 2D Extreme, some (but not all!) of this work is pushed onto the graphics card. It still takes CPU horsepower to put the data into a graphics card friendly format. [details]
here is a DRM solution that i just pulled out of my ass that expands on your burnable portion idea above. i apologies if this technique gets used, but if it does, i CAN claim prior art.:)
each pressed disc would include a small burnable portion in it's inner ring. the video player would peek at this inner ring and check if it's been written to. if it hasn't been written to, it writes it's own UUID onto the disc, otherwise it reads the UUID, and if it matches the players UUID, it proceeds to play back the movie.
now if i was implementing this system, i'd soften it up. my inner ring would have enough space to authorize multiple players, this way, if you have a broken player, or multiple players, all your media doesn't coaster (yet)
it's an evil system, and those with knowledge would still be able to get around it (change the player UUID, set the player to ignore this burnable section, etc) and it would kill the rental business (rental loopholes would be far to easy to duplicate)
if such a system has been proposed or patented, i'd be interested in reading more about it.
i now have one year to get a patent lawyer so that i can prevent this system from ever being used. (anyone want to help finance getting this patented?)
2 points: 1. my AC adapter failed 2 weeks ago so i bought a 3rd party unit (uhg, now it's wasted $30!) 2. the replacement page linked only covers europe, and my AC adapter *IS* covered... The US Playstation website still doesn't say anything, nor does the Consumer Alerts page... uhg!
*bonus point* - calling sony US support, they gave me this number: 1-888-780-7690 to deal with it.:) *bonus bonus point* - calling that 888 number directed me to the Sony US page (linked above) several times - i'm probably just getting a cached version, or someone forgot to upload the most recent pages....
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[Word is] designed to make your content look as good as it can on the device you're printing to, not to make the content layout as designed on the printer you're printing to.
and it even does THAT poorly! have a look at Pages and see what word processing should be like. Your (well... my) content actually does look good, rather than some ho-hum word document. (personal experience)
the same thing goes for Keynote vs PowerPoint, and I'm hoping for an Excel killer... at that point i'd delete office if i didn't have so many incoming... word documents.
Off thread topic, on overall topic... Who beat office with an ugly stick... AGAIN? O_o
Pfff.. i just got Oni (a bungie title) for my PS2 (a bungie title on the PS2!) at funcoland^W^H gamestop^W^H EB for $6. Then i noticed that they had a used copy right next to it for $35... all i could say was "haha"
just use a browser detect and spam IE users telling them that it looks ugly because IE sux... thats what i do when i design for standards, and don't want to bother to "fix" it for IE.
sorry, bad argument. i put my keys away when i'm still next to my vehicle. if you're driving your construction vehicle within six inches of your transportation vehicle, i think you have bigger problems!
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BTW if you want to understand just how bad this is strap a box over your head (with a flashlight inside so you can see the box) and then move your head back and forth. It's a vary disturbing experience for most people.
those of us who wear glasses with small lenses see this every day - the outline of what is in focus stays in one spot relitive to my eyes. When ever i get new frames (once every 2-4 years) it's disorenting for like 30 seconds, then i get used to it again.
or when i first got glasses - i could see my own eyes reflected in them... now THAT was distrubing!
fellow-whose-name-it-is-apparently-a-DMCA-violatio n-to-mention
what maxxus? </harry potter>
if you want a consitant look and feel, you're on the wrong platform buddy. Linux distros will *NEVER* have a unified look. Mac OS X otoh already does have a unified look and feel. (though the trend is in the wrong direction - Brushed Metal, Unified Toolbar, Pro, Smooth Metal, ect)
Usually if they do accept the return, you'll just get the same thing back anyway. :)
In that case i'll go though Best Buy's entire invintory of [broken movie] getting identical replacements that still won't play. This is even better at getting the retailers to put pressure on the distributers of crappy products
Here is a simple outline of one of the many ways it could be achieved:
:)
Token contains a secret key, a pin-entry-pad and a lcd-readout, it also has an internal clock.
And you should already have one in your pocket - your cell phone.
When you wish to be able to authenthicate to someone, say your bank, you somehow convince them that public-key so-and-so corresponds to your token. (for example you can physically show the token on opening an account)
Come login-time you go to the banks site. The bank presents you with a PIN.
-OR-
The bank injects its seed/key into your phone, then when you want to log into the bank, you find it on your phone and enter the key on screen. This allows everyone to have a separate key for each link of trust, making things just a little bit more secure.
uh... my first link, and my second link disapeard when i clicked submit instead of preview.... sorry. :\
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The only people who say this do NOT have any credibility
:)
i suggest that you read - in particular - before putting your own credibility on the line again. thank you.
How do these devices get explained at school then? Maybe someone in school could enlighten us.
Your teacher has you read section from a pack of paper bound at one end called a book. This Book explains how a hard drive works (or just about any other part of a x86 PC - past or present) pretty well. After you've read it, the teacher tells you all about how things work while drawing diagrams on the white/black board. After that, if the teacher is good, he's got 3 or 4 hard drives at verious points of being disasembled and passes them around the class to "play" with.
yeah... i actually took a class before i took my A+. sue me.
no PS2 games use [the PS2 Hard Drive] (or atleast very very few, FFX is the one exception that I know of)
FFX runs just fine off it's one DVD. (that game is HUGE - i'm working my way through it right now) FFXI otoh requires both an internet connection (i think even broadband) and a hard drive. thus, there is no way to run that game on a slimline PS2 - like mine - without some hardware hacking - something i can't afford to do to my PS2 atm. GTA:SA takes advantage of the HD, but runs just fine (if being able to hear the constant disk access across the room can be considered fine) without an HD. i'm pretty sure there are 4 or 5 other games that do the same... FFXI was the only game to out right require a hard drive though.
Also don't forget that Sega shipped 2 upgrades for the Genisis/Mega Drive that both totally and absolutly flopped - the SegaCD/MegaCD, and the 32X. Nintendo started to get into the act too with the 64DD before they realized that it would kill them like after market upgrades killed sega. Microsoft isn't learning from previous industry mistakes. thats really really bad.
i'm giving 2:1 odds* that the next microsoft console has upgradable RAM.
*sorry, all betting is closed
i love how the above post, and this thread totally contradict each other :)
Really now, has Apple ever been a fan of idiotic decals that fall off and leave sticky spots that collect dirt?
The Color Classic had a QuickTime sticker on it.
Oh and the first three generations of Power Mac (those with numbers, and the beige G3) had a PowerPC logo silkscreened on the front.
So what do you think Apple will call there Macintosh project when it ships? My money's on Bicycle. :)
Thank god for my fast car. They never give you advance warning for those things, and even when they do, 70 isn't nearly enough to get out.
so in your case, you wouldn't have to worry about this system because your cars max speed is the highest speed limit here in california, and i can only assume it's the same in washington. My minivan otoh pushes 90 quite easily, and would probably break 120 if i wanted to try it.
I'd love to see a lineup change that resurects SoundEdit 16, xRes, and Extreme 3D. Anyone else remember those fine Macromedia products? Maybe Adobe could be nice and release the source to any old IP that is just collecting dust in the Macromedia (Macromind!!) basement...
And while we're at it, go resurect FrameMaker, SuperPaint, and PageMaker from the Adobe^W Aldus basement...
Adobe could start an open source holding company with those 6 products alone.
You're being an OSX snob because you can outspend me on the computer budget.
pffff. i just wait for the deals that put the <strike>computer<strike> Mac in my budget. for example, i payed... $300 for an open box iBook G4/1GHz in February- in fact i'm typing this on it now. not the highest end system in the world, and sure it had been discontinued for something like 6 months, but it gets the job done, and it's still a recent Mac. You just have to look in the right places with the right timing. ^_^;;
WindowServer is responsible for handling moving windows, drawing the frames of windows, hidding and unhiding them and the like. It doesn't handle the desktop and drawing the items on it, Finder does that.
Yes and no. WindowServer, or to be more specific, the Quartz Compositor (itself a part of the WindowServer process) is also responsible for compositing all the windows into one image to send to your graphics card. While the Finder draws the items that reside on the desktop, it sends them to WindowServer to composite the images of each item onto the desktop. one. item. at. a time.*
By having 300 items on the desktop, WindowServer now has 300 MORE things to composite (yes, even if it most of them are covered by a fully opaque window) it's going to start using more CPU time.
*With Quartz Extreme, and Quartz 2D Extreme, some (but not all!) of this work is pushed onto the graphics card. It still takes CPU horsepower to put the data into a graphics card friendly format. [details]
mmmmm chlorine!
here is a DRM solution that i just pulled out of my ass that expands on your burnable portion idea above. i apologies if this technique gets used, but if it does, i CAN claim prior art. :)
each pressed disc would include a small burnable portion in it's inner ring. the video player would peek at this inner ring and check if it's been written to. if it hasn't been written to, it writes it's own UUID onto the disc, otherwise it reads the UUID, and if it matches the players UUID, it proceeds to play back the movie.
now if i was implementing this system, i'd soften it up. my inner ring would have enough space to authorize multiple players, this way, if you have a broken player, or multiple players, all your media doesn't coaster (yet)
it's an evil system, and those with knowledge would still be able to get around it (change the player UUID, set the player to ignore this burnable section, etc) and it would kill the rental business (rental loopholes would be far to easy to duplicate)
if such a system has been proposed or patented, i'd be interested in reading more about it.
i now have one year to get a patent lawyer so that i can prevent this system from ever being used. (anyone want to help finance getting this patented?)
2 points:
:)
1. my AC adapter failed 2 weeks ago so i bought a 3rd party unit (uhg, now it's wasted $30!)
2. the replacement page linked only covers europe, and my AC adapter *IS* covered... The US Playstation website still doesn't say anything, nor does the Consumer Alerts page... uhg!
*bonus point* - calling sony US support, they gave me this number: 1-888-780-7690 to deal with it.
*bonus bonus point* - calling that 888 number directed me to the Sony US page (linked above) several times - i'm probably just getting a cached version, or someone forgot to upload the most recent pages....
Now look what you made me do!!
*points to sig*
[Word is] designed to make your content look as good as it can on the device you're printing to, not to make the content layout as designed on the printer you're printing to.
and it even does THAT poorly! have a look at Pages and see what word processing should be like. Your (well... my) content actually does look good, rather than some ho-hum word document. (personal experience)
the same thing goes for Keynote vs PowerPoint, and I'm hoping for an Excel killer... at that point i'd delete office if i didn't have so many incoming... word documents.
Off thread topic, on overall topic... Who beat office with an ugly stick... AGAIN? O_o
quoting from my post above:
:P
and don't want to bother to "fix" it for IE.
so... no comment.
Pfff.. i just got Oni (a bungie title) for my PS2 (a bungie title on the PS2!) at funcoland^W^H gamestop^W^H EB for $6. Then i noticed that they had a used copy right next to it for $35... all i could say was "haha"
just use a browser detect and spam IE users telling them that it looks ugly because IE sux... thats what i do when i design for standards, and don't want to bother to "fix" it for IE.
sorry, bad argument. i put my keys away when i'm still next to my vehicle. if you're driving your construction vehicle within six inches of your transportation vehicle, i think you have bigger problems!