Maybe in a classroom, but my girlfriend just got a kick out of it and kissed me after showing her this and the iAlertU app. It's probably just because she things I'm insane, but it's fun just the same:-)
From what I've read, the results are reversible, though I'm nto sure what the timescale is on the recovery period. The main problem comes from prolonged use, if you have something on your lap for a great number of hours per day keeping the heat in it's going to reduce the viability of the sperm produced. The main reason for this is that the scrotum need to be a bit lower in temperature than one's core body temperature for proper gamete production. So what happens when you keep something on your lap is that you at the very least keep more heat in the groin area. When you put something hot on top of this area it makes matters worse. This is also one of the reasons that lots of sedentary work isn't great either as while sitting with one's legs closed temperatures will remain higher than they should be.
What I'm not sure of is the degree of this effect in the short and long term, like whether it can make it difficult or impossible to have a child.
So, in summary, just start wearing a kilt to work, keep those legs spread, walk around a bit, and don't put hot things near your groin:-)
I've got one. I can certainly understand the worry, but I've got one, and honestly it's not that bad. Perhaps its just perception, but it's not nearly as bad as the 12" G4s were on my lap. That said however, I'm not sure whether I'd keep any of these machines on one's lap cool or no. Regardless, speaking as a biologist, by placing anything that's warm on your lap for large portions of a day you're reducing your reproductive potential. *cue joke about slashdotters, girlfriends & reproduction*
OK, obtrusive ads are one thing, but you do realize that content doesn't pay for itself, and most people aren't willing to do things for free (or pay out-of-pocket) for bandwidth. If you want things to be adless, be prepared to pay for it. I for one am not, being a student and having little money to pay for subscriptions to every damn site I visit. Plus, I really don't mind ads so long as they don't violently flash and move or obscure content. Most people are selfish, if you don't like the ads either pay for the content or avoid that site. The only way advertisers will ever pay attention is if something isn't making them money.
Aside from the other responses already given to this comment (especially the burglar alarm comment), what about this:
Think about the recognition one might get for actually being the first person to spread a major worm on the Mac? Wouldn't that garner more recognition than being one out of the thousands that are spreading on Windows based machines all the time? The market share argument adds up on a few levels, but not that many. There are other reasons why the Mac isn't subject to as many viruses.
Have you tried it though? I installed it on my iPod video after hearing about this features, and it does the cross-fade appropriately, but shortly after there's a little audio artifact making it almost as annoying as having the gap to begin with, or perhaps moreso since it's then during the beginning of the next song rather than between the two. I'm guessing they'll fix this, but it kindof makes this cool feature a non-starter.
Recent internal Microsoft memos confirm that the company, despite popular belief, solely exists for the purpose of acting as whipping boy for the website slashdot.org. Sources confirm that the company has recently held meetings about finding new ways to stir the coals including mention of developing more stories that involve reasons to despise the company's execs. Gates was recently quoted as saying, "We're not getting any great flamebait anymore, they're all pretty apathetic and mundane these days. They're just repeating the same stuff. We need some fresh blood out there!" Sources close to the matter, indicated that leaks were being set up for personal information about the companies founders to "put a face" on the object of the vitriol, and to drive and develop Microsoft's interests at Slashdot through the coming years.
When asked for comment, Slashdot posters likened the news to an extension of Microsoft's embrace-and-extend methodology that the company applies to product development. "We won't be duped by this one, we can't let Microsoft to develop a monopoly on sarcastic and derisive commentary." Other posters used lots of exclamation points and mixed caps, and thus were excluded from this press release.
(It's a joke guys, I'm not intending this as flamebait;-)
OK. I can agree with this on one level, however these are a select number of articles that have been reviewed for inaccuracies. Presumably they don’t contain “gibblefinch”; repeated 5000 times to increase article length. What is indicated here is that per kilobyte (as a metric for length) there are fewer errors. Being more lengthy does not necessarily mean there’s really more information contained on the page, but given the gross difference in article length I’d hazzard a guess that the wikipedia articles don’t simply contain a bunch of fluff to make them look longer, they probably actually have more content.
To settle this issue, the metric should not be inaccuracies per kilobyte, but inaccuracies per idea/concept/fact or whatever, but those statistics are a little more of a pain to collect:-)
Your points are entirely valid, except for regarding the gaps in the fossil record. I wouldn't say that this, in itself, is evidence in any way that the development of species is imperfect, it's simply evidence that we haven't found fossils to fill in those gaps in the record. The bottom line is that it is only evidence that we haven't found enough fossils to allow for constructing a perfect phylogeny. We may find them in the future, or perhaps they were destroyed long ago. Geological timescales have a way of breaking things down and making it difficult to find evidence.
This simply goes a little further towards supporting that perfect science doesn't contradict religious beliefs, and can certainly complement it or be separate. Gaps in the fossil record simply aren't evidence of supporting or contradicting religious or scientific belief/theory.
Did it also ever occur that Apple might be testing the waters as far as people's responses to DRM. They know that people will let details leak out even with a NDA. Apple may be trying to see whether people have strong reactions to OS X including extra hardware-tied DRM technologies in it.
On the same note, regardless of what Apple may or may not be planning to ship, they ARE paying attention right now. I guarantee you someone at Apple who has some clout or may even be assigned to assess public response is reading this thread and previous stories posted on Slashdot and other sites regarding this issue. They won't do something if they think they're going to lose lots of customers.
Think about that last bit...
And finally... we've found step 2
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1) Integrate hard drive into painting 2) POST ON SLASHDOT 3) Profit!!!
What's that little "DHS Threat Advisory" image in the top right doing there? Just a reminder that paranoia isn't a think of the past, the only thing that's changed is the thing we're supposed to be afraid of.
Yeah, frankly I don't really see the value in this. If someone doesn't hack it, it means nothing, this isn't a real-world test where the machine is only up for what, a week? This proves zero besides the machine was constantly being patched up and no new exploits were found that weren't patched during that time. What would be impressive would be if they left it up UNTIL someone cracked it. If that machine could stay up for a few months, say, maybe a year before being hacked, that would be much more useful as a statement about the security of the system.
This is really just a publicity game. If makes MS look good if it makes it through the week, but it doesn't really prove that their software is secure.
On the other hand, if they DO get hacked, that would look pretty bad. But.. who'se to say they haven't totally locked that thing down to the point where it's both not really representative of a "normal" server.
The other problem of course is that he's claiming that HE wrote it. It's not that he's selling other people's work, he's claiming that HE is the creator of the work.
I've started going to a Unitarian church recently, and this week the sermon focused on an issue that's quite well related to what you're talking about here. It was brought up that Sadam & George Bush (senior) where not very religious or faithful men prior to the Gulf War, but when war time came, a new side blossomed in both of them. They suddenly became men of faith, with Sadam being depicted in states of worship in the images of him that are/were visible of him all over Iraq. George Bush began making comments about looking not towards his earthly father, but the one in heaven.
It's funny how religion comes out when someone needs to justify some killing. Suddenly God is all for leading this crusade or jihad, where before he wasn't even mentioned. The image of God is drawn to suit the needs of those need something done.
You know what, I've had a box with WinXP on it, which was dual boot with linux. While Win2K and XP are far better in many ways than previous versions of windows, I still spent way too much of my time tweaking the hell out of it to keep it running efficiently. It seemed like weekly I was spending some serious time tweaking either one, or every month or so I was saying screw it, it'll take less time to just reinstall all this crap than fix it properly. Well, guess what, I've got a PowerBook with Panther on it and I haven't spent ANY time tweaking the OS on the command line, with utilities, or anything else and my last install was in November to upgrade the machine to Panther. It just works, no messing around, no tweaking. On top of that, there's no spyware and it doesn't get slower over time. I now forget the last time I rebooted my machine, it doesn't crash!
OK, I've got my rant out. My name is James, and I'm a member of the Cult of the Apple.
OK, generally Apple gives you a limited 90 day (iirc.. it may be shorter) warranty on stuff that it replaces for you. So, if they're sending out refurbed units, there should be a 90 day warranty covering the whole thing. If it fails during that time period, you get another new/refurbed unit.
Expose provides different functionality to the features you've mentioned above. Tiling and "clean up windows" functions generally permanently resize and move windows. with Expose nothing moves except what is brought to the foreground. To perform the same functionality with tiling as with Expose you'd have to tile and then resize and reposition your window of choice.
So in actuality this is not a feature that people have enjoyed for years. You can use both in a similar way, but this is more efficient for bringing things to the foreground.
Hit F9, click on desired window, desired window comes to the front. Easier to get what you want than Alt-Tab (what if I don't want to tab through a long list of apps). Faster than selecting a menu option to tile, finding the window you want to work in, resizing that window, moving that window into position.
(And yes, i used the word "Expose" a lot in there. It's easy to add accents on a mac.. option-e e)
A $60 cpu/mobo combo does not include Operating System software (yeah, I could do linux + wine, whatever), HDD, case, RAM, Vid card, optical drive, keyboard, monitor or anything else.
Yeah, I could get all that for $200-300, but would I do so just for this silly music service? I'd rather have the portion of my tuition going to this service refunded so I can buy a few CDs that I'd actually like and then be able to play them on my Mac & iPod.
Where the hell did that "play nice with the rest of the world" comment come from? I wouldn't be bitching that this service isn't available for my mac, I'd be bitching for paying for it without being able to utilize it. Why should I buy into something just because everyone else uses it? My mac does a fine job of getting all the work I need done.
Most of the PC software I'd have to use for class is made available in labs and the licensing costs are too high to be reasonable to run on my personal machine anyways. So, I don't really care. I'm happy where I am. I had a machine running XP for over a year and was constantly tweaking it, reinstalling, and optimizing things. I've yet to do any of that on my PowerBook 12" running Panther. It just works. No system crashes, no application crashes, everything is good.
Perhaps you should have posted AC. You're post is trite.
How about those who don't run on an x86 CPU. Even if WINE adds support for x86 emulation on other architectures who is going to want to get locked into that?
I have to fire up an emulator every time I want to play some tunes?:-P
I'd rather buy music from iTMS and have a player natively compiled for my processor architecture. A player which I also might add lets me put that music on my iPod and take it with me.
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Maybe in a classroom, but my girlfriend just got a kick out of it and kissed me after showing her this and the iAlertU app. It's probably just because she things I'm insane, but it's fun just the same :-)
From what I've read, the results are reversible, though I'm nto sure what the timescale is on the recovery period. The main problem comes from prolonged use, if you have something on your lap for a great number of hours per day keeping the heat in it's going to reduce the viability of the sperm produced. The main reason for this is that the scrotum need to be a bit lower in temperature than one's core body temperature for proper gamete production. So what happens when you keep something on your lap is that you at the very least keep more heat in the groin area. When you put something hot on top of this area it makes matters worse. This is also one of the reasons that lots of sedentary work isn't great either as while sitting with one's legs closed temperatures will remain higher than they should be.
:-)
What I'm not sure of is the degree of this effect in the short and long term, like whether it can make it difficult or impossible to have a child.
So, in summary, just start wearing a kilt to work, keep those legs spread, walk around a bit, and don't put hot things near your groin
I've got one. I can certainly understand the worry, but I've got one, and honestly it's not that bad. Perhaps its just perception, but it's not nearly as bad as the 12" G4s were on my lap. That said however, I'm not sure whether I'd keep any of these machines on one's lap cool or no. Regardless, speaking as a biologist, by placing anything that's warm on your lap for large portions of a day you're reducing your reproductive potential. *cue joke about slashdotters, girlfriends & reproduction*
OK, obtrusive ads are one thing, but you do realize that content doesn't pay for itself, and most people aren't willing to do things for free (or pay out-of-pocket) for bandwidth. If you want things to be adless, be prepared to pay for it. I for one am not, being a student and having little money to pay for subscriptions to every damn site I visit. Plus, I really don't mind ads so long as they don't violently flash and move or obscure content. Most people are selfish, if you don't like the ads either pay for the content or avoid that site. The only way advertisers will ever pay attention is if something isn't making them money.
;-)
Go figure
Aside from the other responses already given to this comment (especially the burglar alarm comment), what about this:
Think about the recognition one might get for actually being the first person to spread a major worm on the Mac? Wouldn't that garner more recognition than being one out of the thousands that are spreading on Windows based machines all the time? The market share argument adds up on a few levels, but not that many. There are other reasons why the Mac isn't subject to as many viruses.
Have you tried it though? I installed it on my iPod video after hearing about this features, and it does the cross-fade appropriately, but shortly after there's a little audio artifact making it almost as annoying as having the gap to begin with, or perhaps moreso since it's then during the beginning of the next song rather than between the two. I'm guessing they'll fix this, but it kindof makes this cool feature a non-starter.
Recent internal Microsoft memos confirm that the company, despite popular belief, solely exists for the purpose of acting as whipping boy for the website slashdot.org. Sources confirm that the company has recently held meetings about finding new ways to stir the coals including mention of developing more stories that involve reasons to despise the company's execs. Gates was recently quoted as saying, "We're not getting any great flamebait anymore, they're all pretty apathetic and mundane these days. They're just repeating the same stuff. We need some fresh blood out there!" Sources close to the matter, indicated that leaks were being set up for personal information about the companies founders to "put a face" on the object of the vitriol, and to drive and develop Microsoft's interests at Slashdot through the coming years.
;-)
When asked for comment, Slashdot posters likened the news to an extension of Microsoft's embrace-and-extend methodology that the company applies to product development. "We won't be duped by this one, we can't let Microsoft to develop a monopoly on sarcastic and derisive commentary." Other posters used lots of exclamation points and mixed caps, and thus were excluded from this press release.
(It's a joke guys, I'm not intending this as flamebait
Bleh, so slashdot doesn't like the character codes. /me adds "*slashdot.org*" to sites for greasemonkey smart firefox script to exclude :-P
OK. I can agree with this on one level, however these are a select number of articles that have been reviewed for inaccuracies. Presumably they don’t contain “gibblefinch”; repeated 5000 times to increase article length. What is indicated here is that per kilobyte (as a metric for length) there are fewer errors. Being more lengthy does not necessarily mean there’s really more information contained on the page, but given the gross difference in article length I’d hazzard a guess that the wikipedia articles don’t simply contain a bunch of fluff to make them look longer, they probably actually have more content.
:-)
To settle this issue, the metric should not be inaccuracies per kilobyte, but inaccuracies per idea/concept/fact or whatever, but those statistics are a little more of a pain to collect
Your points are entirely valid, except for regarding the gaps in the fossil record. I wouldn't say that this, in itself, is evidence in any way that the development of species is imperfect, it's simply evidence that we haven't found fossils to fill in those gaps in the record. The bottom line is that it is only evidence that we haven't found enough fossils to allow for constructing a perfect phylogeny. We may find them in the future, or perhaps they were destroyed long ago. Geological timescales have a way of breaking things down and making it difficult to find evidence.
This simply goes a little further towards supporting that perfect science doesn't contradict religious beliefs, and can certainly complement it or be separate. Gaps in the fossil record simply aren't evidence of supporting or contradicting religious or scientific belief/theory.
Did it also ever occur that Apple might be testing the waters as far as people's responses to DRM. They know that people will let details leak out even with a NDA. Apple may be trying to see whether people have strong reactions to OS X including extra hardware-tied DRM technologies in it.
On the same note, regardless of what Apple may or may not be planning to ship, they ARE paying attention right now. I guarantee you someone at Apple who has some clout or may even be assigned to assess public response is reading this thread and previous stories posted on Slashdot and other sites regarding this issue. They won't do something if they think they're going to lose lots of customers.
Think about that last bit...
1) Integrate hard drive into painting
2) POST ON SLASHDOT
3) Profit!!!
nevermind.
*smacks sarcasm detector, shakes, hears rattling noise*
Erm, the paranoia and insecurity aren't gone. Case in point: http://www.ready.gov/
What's that little "DHS Threat Advisory" image in the top right doing there? Just a reminder that paranoia isn't a think of the past, the only thing that's changed is the thing we're supposed to be afraid of.
Yeah, frankly I don't really see the value in this. If someone doesn't hack it, it means nothing, this isn't a real-world test where the machine is only up for what, a week? This proves zero besides the machine was constantly being patched up and no new exploits were found that weren't patched during that time. What would be impressive would be if they left it up UNTIL someone cracked it. If that machine could stay up for a few months, say, maybe a year before being hacked, that would be much more useful as a statement about the security of the system.
This is really just a publicity game. If makes MS look good if it makes it through the week, but it doesn't really prove that their software is secure.
On the other hand, if they DO get hacked, that would look pretty bad. But.. who'se to say they haven't totally locked that thing down to the point where it's both not really representative of a "normal" server.
*shrug*
The other problem of course is that he's claiming that HE wrote it. It's not that he's selling other people's work, he's claiming that HE is the creator of the work.
I've started going to a Unitarian church recently, and this week the sermon focused on an issue that's quite well related to what you're talking about here. It was brought up that Sadam & George Bush (senior) where not very religious or faithful men prior to the Gulf War, but when war time came, a new side blossomed in both of them. They suddenly became men of faith, with Sadam being depicted in states of worship in the images of him that are/were visible of him all over Iraq. George Bush began making comments about looking not towards his earthly father, but the one in heaven.
It's funny how religion comes out when someone needs to justify some killing. Suddenly God is all for leading this crusade or jihad, where before he wasn't even mentioned. The image of God is drawn to suit the needs of those need something done.
Dude, calm down. If you don't like it, don't watch it.
/.'ers over that last comment*
It's just a TV show!
*waits for incoming onslaught of
You know what, I've had a box with WinXP on it, which was dual boot with linux. While Win2K and XP are far better in many ways than previous versions of windows, I still spent way too much of my time tweaking the hell out of it to keep it running efficiently. It seemed like weekly I was spending some serious time tweaking either one, or every month or so I was saying screw it, it'll take less time to just reinstall all this crap than fix it properly. Well, guess what, I've got a PowerBook with Panther on it and I haven't spent ANY time tweaking the OS on the command line, with utilities, or anything else and my last install was in November to upgrade the machine to Panther. It just works, no messing around, no tweaking. On top of that, there's no spyware and it doesn't get slower over time. I now forget the last time I rebooted my machine, it doesn't crash!
OK, I've got my rant out. My name is James, and I'm a member of the Cult of the Apple.
OK, generally Apple gives you a limited 90 day (iirc.. it may be shorter) warranty on stuff that it replaces for you. So, if they're sending out refurbed units, there should be a 90 day warranty covering the whole thing. If it fails during that time period, you get another new/refurbed unit.
Contact!
I've actually got one right here!
Like new! In original packaging! Never been used!
Buy It Now! for only 250,000! 15% due within 24 hrs, rest within 1 week. Shipping and handling at buyer's expense.
Expose provides different functionality to the features you've mentioned above. Tiling and "clean up windows" functions generally permanently resize and move windows. with Expose nothing moves except what is brought to the foreground. To perform the same functionality with tiling as with Expose you'd have to tile and then resize and reposition your window of choice.
So in actuality this is not a feature that people have enjoyed for years. You can use both in a similar way, but this is more efficient for bringing things to the foreground.
Hit F9, click on desired window, desired window comes to the front. Easier to get what you want than Alt-Tab (what if I don't want to tab through a long list of apps). Faster than selecting a menu option to tile, finding the window you want to work in, resizing that window, moving that window into position.
(And yes, i used the word "Expose" a lot in there. It's easy to add accents on a mac.. option-e e)
How about not?
A $60 cpu/mobo combo does not include Operating System software (yeah, I could do linux + wine, whatever), HDD, case, RAM, Vid card, optical drive, keyboard, monitor or anything else.
Yeah, I could get all that for $200-300, but would I do so just for this silly music service? I'd rather have the portion of my tuition going to this service refunded so I can buy a few CDs that I'd actually like and then be able to play them on my Mac & iPod.
Where the hell did that "play nice with the rest of the world" comment come from? I wouldn't be bitching that this service isn't available for my mac, I'd be bitching for paying for it without being able to utilize it. Why should I buy into something just because everyone else uses it? My mac does a fine job of getting all the work I need done.
Most of the PC software I'd have to use for class is made available in labs and the licensing costs are too high to be reasonable to run on my personal machine anyways. So, I don't really care. I'm happy where I am. I had a machine running XP for over a year and was constantly tweaking it, reinstalling, and optimizing things. I've yet to do any of that on my PowerBook 12" running Panther. It just works. No system crashes, no application crashes, everything is good.
Perhaps you should have posted AC. You're post is trite.
How about those who don't run on an x86 CPU. Even if WINE adds support for x86 emulation on other architectures who is going to want to get locked into that?
:-P
I have to fire up an emulator every time I want to play some tunes?
I'd rather buy music from iTMS and have a player natively compiled for my processor architecture. A player which I also might add lets me put that music on my iPod and take it with me.