I'll second this, best damn pen I've ever used. Combine that with the compact form factor of the bullet styled ones and you have pretty much the perfect writing implement.
OK, the UXGA isn't satisfied but whatever (1440x900 widescreen). It has DVI out so you could hook up an external display. If you're going for those sorts of specs, you can probably afford an extra LCD.
2. RAM expandable to 1 GB (graphics work eats RAM)
got it (up to 2 GB of DDR ram)
3. Lighted keyboard
got it (on 17" and 15" models)
4. Onboard LAN (both wire and wireless)
got it (802.11b/g on all powerbooks 12/15/17)
5. CD/CDRW/DVD combo drive
got it (well, dvd burner/cdrw/cd is standard)
6. Minimum 60 GB HD internal
got it (80 GB standard)
7. Quality sound/graphics
got it (radeon 9600 with 64 MB)
8. NO restrictions on what OS I choose to run
well, you can't run windows (natively) but you can certainly run OS X, Linux, Darwin, and a bunch of other operating systems
Certainly you have to pay a pretty penny for one of these suckers ($3000 base) but hey, with what you're asking for all you really need to bump up is the ram (512mB DDR333 included).
I would think this would be obvious. Anything that you put directly against your skin, and in this case right next to your ear, no less, is going to pick up organic matter from you. And that organic matter may include pathogens. It isn't a surprise that you can spread them to others.
It's just like using other people's keyboards. You have NO idea where it has been or what it has been through;)
The only real explanation for the crap in this letter is that Darl McBride's Reality Distortion Field has just outgrown Steve Jobs'
Problem is, Darl's field is powered by SCO UNIX (TM)(C), which runs on so few machines that the field hardly extends beyond SCO headquarters (and even there, there are gaping holes in the field since SCO UNIX (TM)(C) is only run on a single box in a back room because it isn't reliable enough to run for production operations). Jobs' field tends to be more pervasive is it is at least powered by millions of Mac OS X powered machines. On top of that Jobs' field actually induces purchasing of products, while Darl's does not. SCOs "product" is a license.
When it costs hundreds of dollars to acquire, I would expect basic functionality to be refined. OS X has been out for a number of years now, with developer previews predating that by at least a year or two. One would think they could do better. Dealing with massive wads of files efficiently, and scrolling smoothly count as basic functionality.
Well hell, macromedia seems to be on the road to not supporting the mac either. Dreamweaver MX on Mac OS X is rather awful at dealing with directories containing many files. Horizontal scrolling in source is painfully slow, and overall application performance is generally slow.
It's UK and Windows only, and it isn't the first independent film to be released on the internet. See here. Took only a few seconds of googling to find it.
"All Microsoft has done since Office97 is make the interface of the new versions of Office match the new versions of Windows and other related technologies."
Actually, one of the things I find the most aggravating about Office XP is that the UI color scheme and widgets in Windows XP and Office XP do not match. They're different. Why did they bother?
On the topic of stuff that's been in maintenance mode, the damn equation editor still sucks and has plenty of wacky rendering issues, and it has had them for the past few versions. Come on guys, on the Windows side we've been through Office 95, 97, 2000, and XP. With XP coming out in either 2001 or 2002 (can't recall) we've had _6_ or _7_ years to work out bugs like these and they're still there. It doesn't really crash anymore, but you'd expect more polish out of this thing.
DISCLAIMER: I felt that I would really like ECE when I came in, and decided I didn't like circuit design or coding as much as I thought I would, so I'm somewhat biased. I'm sure one or two people in these classes loved them, though I can't understand how.
Umm.. EE is good, but ECE was not good, IMHO. I had a few good classes in the department but some of them were truly horrendous, including ECE 202 (Intro to EE) with Pappas, and ECE 205 (x86 Assembler). Almost impossible to survive just on class notes and suggested reading material for 202, had to go to the TA each week to get a more thorough explanation since the prof didn't really cover anything in enough detail that most of the class could understand everything. 205 was a purely PowerPoint class and we only had 2 or 3 assignments which were pretty basic and did not really exercise most of the material we'd been covering.
I'm Mat Sci now (well as of spring quarter this year) which absolutely rocks at NU. I didn't do the coop program but I'm hoping to work with a prof during the school year or during next summer. I'm also thinking about trying the 5 year masters program but I haven't nailed down all the details yet.
have any of my cell phones gotten warm on any occasion. I'd be concerned if I could notice extra heat being generated. So far though, I've only owned a Samsung SPH-N300 (Sprint, CDMA), a T68i (GSM, AT&T) and a Nokia 3650 (GSM, AT&T). None have ever felt warm to the touch unless warmed by external sources.
My 12" PowerBook on the other hand is always warm:)
Desktop macs in general tend to have upgrades available for them, laptops on the other hand vary from revision to revision. Some of them don't have CPUs on daughtercards or in sockets. In some cases the whole main logic board must be replaced to upgrade the CPU. The parent of your reply may be FUD, but get your details straight man.
So it's not totally applicable to Windows machines in its original connotation/denotation. So sue me.
Obviously you weren't willing to back up your obviously superior intelligence by posting non-anonymously.
I'm not saying that is the case personally, I'm referring to users in general. Who mostly care about "the internet," word, email, and whether or not they can play a few games. For these folks, apparently one or more of the three things I listed applies.
I'd like to see you admin a server that doesn't run a GUI on a local monitor while providing everything that your users want without cracked due to incompetence. GUIs are crap for remote admin. Much faster to get work done on the command line than use VNC to click around with a bunch of GUI based tools.
Its unacceptable that major corporations should be hindered or paralyzed by bugs that allow for remote installation and subsequent execution of code. The responsibility to provide a security-hole-free operating system shouldn't really be the user's problem. It should be Microsoft's.
Good for you if you've never had any trouble with Windows Update. I for one have. I've had 3 or 4 fresh installs that wouldn't install all the updates properly. Windows update provides no better explanation than "it failed, try again." Trying again often doesn't work either. I've had this happen multiple times with NVIDIA device drivers provided by microsoft through windows update.
I also mentioned the backup situation. I had a drive go on me, so I reinstalled and attempted to restore the backup. It overwrote versions of software installed in Program Files and since windows update solely relies on data stored in the registry it wasn't aware that that stuff was already installed. I'm not talking about system restore, I'm talking about the minimal backup software provided with the operating system.
The automatic update stuff does indeed refuse to go away, but at no time does it try to make it blatantly obvious that if you don't let it perform these updates that It may result in your system being compromised. If you don't make these issues perfectly clear to the user they're just going to disable it since the system "works" initially. They don't want to deal with it, and will almost never bother checking for updates manually.
I'm not bothering to look up the statistics for these sorts of critical vulnerabilities at the moment because the fact remains that windows is the only operating system that has this many viruses being spread, this high a rate of infection, and this many organizations complaining about down time. If it worked correctly we wouldn't have this problem. Plain and simple.
If you want to argue that there are far greater numbers of Windows machines on people's desks (workstations/non-servers) that serve as targets, fine. What else does that mean? Microsoft has more sales and more revenue that it could put towards guess what, more security auditing. They take years to release major new revisions to windows, one would think they'd spend more time making sure it wouldn't didn't have so many flaws. Other operating systems don't have perfect patching systems available either, but they are better for the most part. With the amount of cash that Microsoft rakes in, it can do better, and it doesn't. They constantly provide solutions only good enough to keep them making money.
I'm not just "pandering" to the slashdot masses here. I've had crappy experiences with Windows Update. The fallback of "maybe you did something wrong" shouldn't apply here. When solely using Microsoft tools to perform the updates (and not manually tinkering with anything in c:\windows) it should work flawlessly and it doesn't.
Unfortunately it appears that that ntbugtraq link is down at the moment. It was linked from another slashdot article. Perhaps the server is in one of the regions affected by the power outage.
I've had patches fail to install, or not even get listed thinking they were already installed, as well as cases where something is already installed and it believes an installation is necessary.
Just try reinstalling a system and restoring a backup of it, using the built-in xp backup tools on top of it and check out the mess you get afterwards.
FUD generated by propaganda isn't even necessary, the poor state of how the whole system functions speaks for itself.
The very fact that we deal with these worms once every 2-4 months speaks for itself. If the system worked, and properly explained the danger of leaving the system unpatched we wouldn't have ISPs and government agencies complaining of down time due to a worm.
On top of that there's at least one patch each month that plugs up some kind of exploit that allows remote attackers to run arbitrary code on your system. Go ahead, reinstall your XP system from scratch and read through the descriptions for the patches. A sizable number of them patch against these sorts of issues.
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This is referencing revolutions (3rd film) not reloaded (2nd film)
I'll second this, best damn pen I've ever used. Combine that with the compact form factor of the bullet styled ones and you have pretty much the perfect writing implement.
Um, yeah, the film came out days before that happened. Doubtful that they were acting it out.
Since when has it been different ;)
We _have_ diversified though. It used to be only MS that we'd bitch about constantly.
OK, the UXGA isn't satisfied but whatever (1440x900 widescreen). It has DVI out so you could hook up an external display. If you're going for those sorts of specs, you can probably afford an extra LCD.
Um, try Apple:
1. 16 or 17" UXGA LCD (preferrably 17")
got it
2. RAM expandable to 1 GB (graphics work eats RAM)
got it (up to 2 GB of DDR ram)
3. Lighted keyboard
got it (on 17" and 15" models)
4. Onboard LAN (both wire and wireless)
got it (802.11b/g on all powerbooks 12/15/17)
5. CD/CDRW/DVD combo drive
got it (well, dvd burner/cdrw/cd is standard)
6. Minimum 60 GB HD internal
got it (80 GB standard)
7. Quality sound/graphics
got it (radeon 9600 with 64 MB)
8. NO restrictions on what OS I choose to run
well, you can't run windows (natively) but you can certainly run OS X, Linux, Darwin, and a bunch of other operating systems
Certainly you have to pay a pretty penny for one of these suckers ($3000 base) but hey, with what you're asking for all you really need to bump up is the ram (512mB DDR333 included).
I would think this would be obvious. Anything that you put directly against your skin, and in this case right next to your ear, no less, is going to pick up organic matter from you. And that organic matter may include pathogens. It isn't a surprise that you can spread them to others.
;)
It's just like using other people's keyboards. You have NO idea where it has been or what it has been through
Renders perfectly with Mozilla on Mac. I can't imagine the windows mozilla renders much differently.
The only real explanation for the crap in this letter is that Darl McBride's Reality Distortion Field has just outgrown Steve Jobs'
Problem is, Darl's field is powered by SCO UNIX (TM)(C), which runs on so few machines that the field hardly extends beyond SCO headquarters (and even there, there are gaping holes in the field since SCO UNIX (TM)(C) is only run on a single box in a back room because it isn't reliable enough to run for production operations). Jobs' field tends to be more pervasive is it is at least powered by millions of Mac OS X powered machines. On top of that Jobs' field actually induces purchasing of products, while Darl's does not. SCOs "product" is a license.
When it costs hundreds of dollars to acquire, I would expect basic functionality to be refined. OS X has been out for a number of years now, with developer previews predating that by at least a year or two. One would think they could do better. Dealing with massive wads of files efficiently, and scrolling smoothly count as basic functionality.
Well hell, macromedia seems to be on the road to not supporting the mac either. Dreamweaver MX on Mac OS X is rather awful at dealing with directories containing many files. Horizontal scrolling in source is painfully slow, and overall application performance is generally slow.
At it and Lightwave are still shipping for mac.
They're under another kind of cyber attack now. Can't get through to the linked website.
It's UK and Windows only, and it isn't the first independent film to be released on the internet. See here. Took only a few seconds of googling to find it.
Erm, no. Check his email address, its uh.edu as in:
http://www.uh.edu/
"All Microsoft has done since Office97 is make the interface of the new versions of Office match the new versions of Windows and other related technologies."
Actually, one of the things I find the most aggravating about Office XP is that the UI color scheme and widgets in Windows XP and Office XP do not match. They're different. Why did they bother?
On the topic of stuff that's been in maintenance mode, the damn equation editor still sucks and has plenty of wacky rendering issues, and it has had them for the past few versions. Come on guys, on the Windows side we've been through Office 95, 97, 2000, and XP. With XP coming out in either 2001 or 2002 (can't recall) we've had _6_ or _7_ years to work out bugs like these and they're still there. It doesn't really crash anymore, but you'd expect more polish out of this thing.
DISCLAIMER: I felt that I would really like ECE when I came in, and decided I didn't like circuit design or coding as much as I thought I would, so I'm somewhat biased. I'm sure one or two people in these classes loved them, though I can't understand how.
Umm.. EE is good, but ECE was not good, IMHO. I had a few good classes in the department but some of them were truly horrendous, including ECE 202 (Intro to EE) with Pappas, and ECE 205 (x86 Assembler). Almost impossible to survive just on class notes and suggested reading material for 202, had to go to the TA each week to get a more thorough explanation since the prof didn't really cover anything in enough detail that most of the class could understand everything. 205 was a purely PowerPoint class and we only had 2 or 3 assignments which were pretty basic and did not really exercise most of the material we'd been covering.
I'm Mat Sci now (well as of spring quarter this year) which absolutely rocks at NU. I didn't do the coop program but I'm hoping to work with a prof during the school year or during next summer. I'm also thinking about trying the 5 year masters program but I haven't nailed down all the details yet.
have any of my cell phones gotten warm on any occasion. I'd be concerned if I could notice extra heat being generated. So far though, I've only owned a Samsung SPH-N300 (Sprint, CDMA), a T68i (GSM, AT&T) and a Nokia 3650 (GSM, AT&T). None have ever felt warm to the touch unless warmed by external sources.
:)
My 12" PowerBook on the other hand is always warm
"every single other mac"
should be read as:
"most every other mac"
Desktop macs in general tend to have upgrades available for them, laptops on the other hand vary from revision to revision. Some of them don't have CPUs on daughtercards or in sockets. In some cases the whole main logic board must be replaced to upgrade the CPU. The parent of your reply may be FUD, but get your details straight man.
boxen
So it's not totally applicable to Windows machines in its original connotation/denotation. So sue me.
Obviously you weren't willing to back up your obviously superior intelligence by posting non-anonymously.
I'm not saying that is the case personally, I'm referring to users in general. Who mostly care about "the internet," word, email, and whether or not they can play a few games. For these folks, apparently one or more of the three things I listed applies.
I'd like to see you admin a server that doesn't run a GUI on a local monitor while providing everything that your users want without cracked due to incompetence. GUIs are crap for remote admin. Much faster to get work done on the command line than use VNC to click around with a bunch of GUI based tools.
Oops, "It's" not "Its"...
Its unacceptable that major corporations should be hindered or paralyzed by bugs that allow for remote installation and subsequent execution of code. The responsibility to provide a security-hole-free operating system shouldn't really be the user's problem. It should be Microsoft's.
Good for you if you've never had any trouble with Windows Update. I for one have. I've had 3 or 4 fresh installs that wouldn't install all the updates properly. Windows update provides no better explanation than "it failed, try again." Trying again often doesn't work either. I've had this happen multiple times with NVIDIA device drivers provided by microsoft through windows update.
I also mentioned the backup situation. I had a drive go on me, so I reinstalled and attempted to restore the backup. It overwrote versions of software installed in Program Files and since windows update solely relies on data stored in the registry it wasn't aware that that stuff was already installed. I'm not talking about system restore, I'm talking about the minimal backup software provided with the operating system.
The automatic update stuff does indeed refuse to go away, but at no time does it try to make it blatantly obvious that if you don't let it perform these updates that It may result in your system being compromised. If you don't make these issues perfectly clear to the user they're just going to disable it since the system "works" initially. They don't want to deal with it, and will almost never bother checking for updates manually.
I'm not bothering to look up the statistics for these sorts of critical vulnerabilities at the moment because the fact remains that windows is the only operating system that has this many viruses being spread, this high a rate of infection, and this many organizations complaining about down time. If it worked correctly we wouldn't have this problem. Plain and simple.
If you want to argue that there are far greater numbers of Windows machines on people's desks (workstations/non-servers) that serve as targets, fine. What else does that mean? Microsoft has more sales and more revenue that it could put towards guess what, more security auditing. They take years to release major new revisions to windows, one would think they'd spend more time making sure it wouldn't didn't have so many flaws. Other operating systems don't have perfect patching systems available either, but they are better for the most part. With the amount of cash that Microsoft rakes in, it can do better, and it doesn't. They constantly provide solutions only good enough to keep them making money.
I'm not just "pandering" to the slashdot masses here. I've had crappy experiences with Windows Update. The fallback of "maybe you did something wrong" shouldn't apply here. When solely using Microsoft tools to perform the updates (and not manually tinkering with anything in c:\windows) it should work flawlessly and it doesn't.
Unfortunately it appears that that ntbugtraq link is down at the moment. It was linked from another slashdot article. Perhaps the server is in one of the regions affected by the power outage.
How about this
Or this
I've had patches fail to install, or not even get listed thinking they were already installed, as well as cases where something is already installed and it believes an installation is necessary.
Just try reinstalling a system and restoring a backup of it, using the built-in xp backup tools on top of it and check out the mess you get afterwards.
FUD generated by propaganda isn't even necessary, the poor state of how the whole system functions speaks for itself.
The very fact that we deal with these worms once every 2-4 months speaks for itself. If the system worked, and properly explained the danger of leaving the system unpatched we wouldn't have ISPs and government agencies complaining of down time due to a worm.
On top of that there's at least one patch each month that plugs up some kind of exploit that allows remote attackers to run arbitrary code on your system. Go ahead, reinstall your XP system from scratch and read through the descriptions for the patches. A sizable number of them patch against these sorts of issues.
On all fronts it is unacceptable.