Let's say Microsoft put all their "extras" into the "Plus!" pack, and started to give it away for free to all people who purchase computers with Windows already installed. Would that make it alright with you then?
If microsoft was doing that, no it would not be OK with me. But if sony (going back to my example above) shipped this fabled useful "Plus!" pack with there computers, i'd be totally OK with it. Just like apple (the software company) isn't bundling iLife with the OS (unless as a promo with two different SKU's and mail in rebates) but apple (the hardware OEM) is.
This never made sense to me-- Apple is doing the same thing, yet it's ok? I mean, iTunes, Garage Band, iPhoto, iMovie, etc..
it's not the same thing - apple bundles all the above apps with there COMPUTERS (what's to stop sony from doing the same with adobe products?) whereas iTunes is the only one bundled with the OS, and is available as a free, (almost) first class app for windows. (yes, windows media player is available of OS X, but it isn't even close to steerage class!)
Safari (a product you didn't mention) is a reactionary move to get a first class web browser onto the mac (firefox isn't first class, in fact iTunes for windows is closer to first class than firefox for Mac OS X) - all the other apps (some of which have a corolary app bundled into windows) are sold as a separate package.
Wow, i feel like i just ranted and didn't get my thought across very clearly.. oh well.:P
and the fine print will be iron clad such that when the MPAA releases at $50,000,000,000 motion picture that is obviously based on your home video, you won't see a penny.
so warn the user when they're editing the post, then reset the post's mod to 0 (or -1) when it gets edited, and give back the mod point(s). If a user excessively edits there posts, start to negatively effect that user's karma. it's that simple.
getting back on topic.... there's no way I'm watching the corporate shmames - no TV.
The Xbox Live Silver service means you can connect your Xbox 360 console to a broadband Internet connection and get functionality right out of the box without having to pay any amount of money.
With Xbox Live Silver you can: Create an online Gamer Profile Access the Xbox Live Marketplace Engage in voice and text messaging Talk to a single friend at a time using voice chat Receive video messages from Gold level members Access massively multiplayer online games (additional fees may apply)
6. What is Xbox Live Gold?
The Xbox Live Gold is similar to the current paid Xbox Live service. The Xbox Live Gold service delivers the complete online connection package. With Xbox Live Gold you have all the features of Silver level, and additionally:
Play multiplayer games online Video chat Multiplayer online tournaments Participate in Xbox Live online programming, such as Game with Fame, Play and Win, and Prime Time activities.
7. I heard that the Xbox Live Silver service will allow me to play multiplayer games online on weekends. Is that true?
Yes and No. It is not true that Xbox Live Silver users will be able to play multiplayer games like Xbox Live Gold members every weekend. However, Microsoft plans to allow Silver users to play multiplayer games online on special weekends similar to when HBO has free programming weekends.
Apple's internal code name switched from Carl Sagan to BHA after he sued. He sued again because he thought BHA stood for "but-head astronomer." Get your stories strait!
Delivering links through RSS for FTP/WWW downloads would be a better way of Podcasting, but i doubt it'd ever catch on.
Someone better tell Dave Winer! He needs to add a link portion to each channel item. It should be called an enclosure tag. And just to make thing easier on the aggregator, we'll include the MIME type, and number of bytes this other file will be!
What? They already are?! But Lisandro said that he doesn't think it'd catch on... Since 2001 you say? And that's the mechanism used by all podcasts... I'm so confused!
Those are some odd special cases. they may be odd special cases, but they are what popped into my mind when you used the absolute word never. Thus, I have proved you wrong.;)
The desktop is a special way of viewing the root of the file tree. The lack of a menu is a feature here! But you can get to the menu by selecting desktop in explorer. Well, no, the desktop is buried in the windows folder (9x) or My Documents folder (NT) - the root of the file tree would be "My Computer" - an icon that happens to be represented on the desktop. (Microsoft has a habit of making things complex - I liked the way Mac OS 9 did it, the desktop was a meta-folder that included the desktop items on all volumes, now OS X does it the Microsoft way:\ )
You tweak that monster [Star Menu] by right-clicking on the Start menu to select open or explore (but you can also get there the hard way if you know where the Start menu lives in the file tree - I never bother to remember.) aha! you just proved me right, you tweak it by right clicking - the start tree is also buried in the Windows/Documents folder and you can sort of manipulate it, but there are a few things that you need to go into the control panel to manipulate it - again, quite difficult without a right mouse button.
The Quick Launch tray is a weird special case. It doesn't really have any menu options, as each item in the tray is part of a different program. You can generally find the same options you get from right-clicking the icon by running whatever program is associated with that icon (though sadly designers do a particularly poor job with this). There is a Quick Launch bar and a System Tray - they are different things. the QL Bar is really just another folder displayed as one click buttons, not a big deal. The system try - as you mentioned - is a catchall for a bunch of programs to throw shit into. And most of them can't be removed without... right clicking on the icon.
Explorer (look at the desktop... where is the menu bar?) Start menu (how do you tweak that monster?) Tray (if i left click it does one thing, if i right click i get options - look i can get rid of the damned MSN icon!)
Last time I checked Safari was identifying itself as Gecko.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.2
Nope, still Netscape. No wait, it's WebKit - uh... KHTML which pretends to be Gecko - ah, Safari!
Safari is obviously having a bigger identity crisis than Opera - it reports itself as five different browsers! I wonder why they left out MSIE (just to be sure)
If the Opera developers wanted Opera to be counted properly, it wouldn't spoof it's user agent by default. [snip] IE doesn't... Safari Doesn't, Konqueror doesn't, i'm sure there are a few other browsers as well..
Yes they do. have you ever noticed the Mozilla/3.0, Mozilla/5.0, or Mozilla/5.0 at the beginning of a browsers user agent string? Thats right. It's pretending to be a Netscape browser for those discriminatory sites that block non "Netscape" browsers. You remember when Netscape browsers where dominant and web developers were lazy right? Nothing has changed - every browser says it's Netscape and web devs are still lazy. Now if Opera was changing there default UA string to not include Mozilla as well, *THEN* i'd be impressed. Until then, it's more of the same.
(yes i know it's a dupe... i just wanted to put my own flavor on it also)
It was just a memory expansion so games that didn't require it shouldn't have seen any performance increase
some games (IE StarWars Episode I Racer) functioned just fine without the ram pack, but as soon as there was one, they did take advantage of the extra memory (in the case of racer, it ran at a higher resolution which for what ever reason, you could turn off O_o)
you need to be careful with absolute statements.;)
I officially declare VISTA the troll miscapitilization of Longhorn to counteract the MAC miscapitalization of Mac(intosh)
on topic: Some early builds of longhorn had the stupid sidebar that took up 1/6 of a normal (1024x768) screen for things like a clock, and a webcam viewer... think of it as a separate area of the screen (like the taskbar) reserved for konfabulator widgets. It was hyped for a while too. (example)
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no does yours, microsoft doesn't make windows hardware!
Let's say Microsoft put all their "extras" into the "Plus!" pack, and started to give it away for free to all people who purchase computers with Windows already installed. Would that make it alright with you then?
If microsoft was doing that, no it would not be OK with me. But if sony (going back to my example above) shipped this fabled useful "Plus!" pack with there computers, i'd be totally OK with it. Just like apple (the software company) isn't bundling iLife with the OS (unless as a promo with two different SKU's and mail in rebates) but apple (the hardware OEM) is.
This never made sense to me-- Apple is doing the same thing, yet it's ok? I mean, iTunes, Garage Band, iPhoto, iMovie, etc..
:P
it's not the same thing - apple bundles all the above apps with there COMPUTERS (what's to stop sony from doing the same with adobe products?) whereas iTunes is the only one bundled with the OS, and is available as a free, (almost) first class app for windows. (yes, windows media player is available of OS X, but it isn't even close to steerage class!)
Safari (a product you didn't mention) is a reactionary move to get a first class web browser onto the mac (firefox isn't first class, in fact iTunes for windows is closer to first class than firefox for Mac OS X) - all the other apps (some of which have a corolary app bundled into windows) are sold as a separate package.
Wow, i feel like i just ranted and didn't get my thought across very clearly.. oh well.
AppleWorks had no idea what to do with AppleWorks documents - assuming you can get a mac to read an Apple ][ floppy in the first place...
For that matter, is there anything that can read VisiCalc files?
Flame ON!
Clearly this article is in the wrong section.
;)
no it isn't
Unless Microsoft is also "SmartXX" and is officially condoning mod chips this time round....
hmmm i think i smoked bad shit last night....
If the average geek AND the average developer can't have easy access to PPC machines then Linux will stop being cross platform in a few years.
;)
here's a cheap PPC based linux system... you might already have one in your living room...
here's an even cheaper one - though I'm not sure if it's PPC based or not...
i wouldn't worry about availability if i were you..
(Yes, those links are amazon associates links... if you really feal like sticking it to me, click here, and here for the "clean" links)
sounds like "I'm feeling lucky"
and the fine print will be iron clad such that when the MPAA releases at $50,000,000,000 motion picture that is obviously based on your home video, you won't see a penny.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But when are we going to see the Google Moon project??
last month i believe...
Doesn't huffman encoding replace commonly seen data with a small number of bits?
Last time i checked, yes.
so warn the user when they're editing the post, then reset the post's mod to 0 (or -1) when it gets edited, and give back the mod point(s). If a user excessively edits there posts, start to negatively effect that user's karma. it's that simple.
getting back on topic.... there's no way I'm watching the corporate shmames - no TV.
and that is different from the "classic" XBox how?
5. What is Xbox Live Silver?
A Qs/p4/ for the full FAQ...
The Xbox Live Silver service means you can connect your Xbox 360 console to a broadband Internet connection and get functionality right out of the box without having to pay any amount of money.
With Xbox Live Silver you can:
Create an online Gamer Profile
Access the Xbox Live Marketplace
Engage in voice and text messaging
Talk to a single friend at a time using voice chat
Receive video messages from Gold level members
Access massively multiplayer online games (additional fees may apply)
6. What is Xbox Live Gold?
The Xbox Live Gold is similar to the current paid Xbox Live service. The Xbox Live Gold service delivers the complete online connection package. With Xbox Live Gold you have all the features of Silver level, and additionally:
Play multiplayer games online
Video chat
Multiplayer online tournaments
Participate in Xbox Live online programming, such as Game with Fame, Play and Win, and Prime Time activities.
7. I heard that the Xbox Live Silver service will allow me to play multiplayer games online on weekends. Is that true?
Yes and No. It is not true that Xbox Live Silver users will be able to play multiplayer games like Xbox Live Gold members every weekend. However, Microsoft plans to allow Silver users to play multiplayer games online on special weekends similar to when HBO has free programming weekends.
see http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1245/Xbox-360-F
google is your friend
and what about USAsians who don't get the joke?
*watches "joke" go over head*
cited even <_< >_>
/. join the modern age and let people edit their posts?!
when will
Come to our pub and cheer for your favorite athlets during the 20012 Olypic sumer games!
u nds-like-mames.
And you will be sited for using the noun/verb/adjective-that-must-not-be-named-but-so
Apple's internal code name switched from Carl Sagan to BHA after he sued. He sued again because he thought BHA stood for "but-head astronomer." Get your stories strait!
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http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/582.
Delivering links through RSS for FTP/WWW downloads would be a better way of Podcasting, but i doubt it'd ever catch on.
Someone better tell Dave Winer! He needs to add a link portion to each channel item. It should be called an enclosure tag. And just to make thing easier on the aggregator, we'll include the MIME type, and number of bytes this other file will be!
What? They already are?! But Lisandro said that he doesn't think it'd catch on... Since 2001 you say? And that's the mechanism used by all podcasts... I'm so confused!
Those are some odd special cases. ;)
:\ )
they may be odd special cases, but they are what popped into my mind when you used the absolute word never. Thus, I have proved you wrong.
The desktop is a special way of viewing the root of the file tree. The lack of a menu is a feature here! But you can get to the menu by selecting desktop in explorer.
Well, no, the desktop is buried in the windows folder (9x) or My Documents folder (NT) - the root of the file tree would be "My Computer" - an icon that happens to be represented on the desktop. (Microsoft has a habit of making things complex - I liked the way Mac OS 9 did it, the desktop was a meta-folder that included the desktop items on all volumes, now OS X does it the Microsoft way
You tweak that monster [Star Menu] by right-clicking on the Start menu to select open or explore (but you can also get there the hard way if you know where the Start menu lives in the file tree - I never bother to remember.)
aha! you just proved me right, you tweak it by right clicking - the start tree is also buried in the Windows/Documents folder and you can sort of manipulate it, but there are a few things that you need to go into the control panel to manipulate it - again, quite difficult without a right mouse button.
The Quick Launch tray is a weird special case. It doesn't really have any menu options, as each item in the tray is part of a different program. You can generally find the same options you get from right-clicking the icon by running whatever program is associated with that icon (though sadly designers do a particularly poor job with this).
There is a Quick Launch bar and a System Tray - they are different things. the QL Bar is really just another folder displayed as one click buttons, not a big deal. The system try - as you mentioned - is a catchall for a bunch of programs to throw shit into. And most of them can't be removed without... right clicking on the icon.
Explorer (look at the desktop... where is the menu bar?)
Start menu (how do you tweak that monster?)
Tray (if i left click it does one thing, if i right click i get options - look i can get rid of the damned MSN icon!)
and that's without even thinking about it.
Last time I checked Safari was identifying itself as Gecko.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.2
Nope, still Netscape. No wait, it's WebKit - uh... KHTML which pretends to be Gecko - ah, Safari!
Safari is obviously having a bigger identity crisis than Opera - it reports itself as five different browsers! I wonder why they left out MSIE (just to be sure)
If the Opera developers wanted Opera to be counted properly, it wouldn't spoof it's user agent by default. [snip] IE doesn't ... Safari Doesn't, Konqueror doesn't, i'm sure there are a few other browsers as well..
Yes they do. have you ever noticed the Mozilla/3.0, Mozilla/5.0, or Mozilla/5.0 at the beginning of a browsers user agent string? Thats right. It's pretending to be a Netscape browser for those discriminatory sites that block non "Netscape" browsers. You remember when Netscape browsers where dominant and web developers were lazy right? Nothing has changed - every browser says it's Netscape and web devs are still lazy. Now if Opera was changing there default UA string to not include Mozilla as well, *THEN* i'd be impressed. Until then, it's more of the same.
(yes i know it's a dupe... i just wanted to put my own flavor on it also)
It was just a memory expansion so games that didn't require it shouldn't have seen any performance increase
;)
some games (IE StarWars Episode I Racer) functioned just fine without the ram pack, but as soon as there was one, they did take advantage of the extra memory (in the case of racer, it ran at a higher resolution which for what ever reason, you could turn off O_o)
you need to be careful with absolute statements.
Unless VISTA has Widgets like these
good idea!
I officially declare VISTA the troll miscapitilization of Longhorn to counteract the MAC miscapitalization of Mac(intosh)
on topic:
Some early builds of longhorn had the stupid sidebar that took up 1/6 of a normal (1024x768) screen for things like a clock, and a webcam viewer... think of it as a separate area of the screen (like the taskbar) reserved for konfabulator widgets. It was hyped for a while too. (example)