Now we can have the worst^H^H^H^H^Hbest of both worlds with Windows world reknowned security and reliablilty and Netscape "Unique" page rendering engine - I think if they do this I'll finally move to linux. If I have to have a browser that sucks I might as well have the best OS.
PS - when they do this can someone post a list of computer manufacturers who do this so that I can avoid them?
I agree. Our society has slipped to the level that we don't bother trying because somebody decides that it cannot be done. The space prgram shows what we as a species can do when we put enough effort into it.
Sorry to re-iterate a point made elsewhere - YOU LET YOUR THREE AND FIVE YEAR OLD KIDS SURF THE INTERNET!?!?
The internet was never a place for kids. It was a place for sharing information between academics. Then we geeks (and in some cases soon to be acadmemics) saw how cool it could be to share other kinds of information - music, views, news and inforation on unusual topics - things you wouldn't find elsewhere like technical info on various bits of computer hardware, satalites etc. Then it became this "hip" trendy new thing. AOL was created and found that the only way that they could market it successfully was to dupe people into thinking that it was a family centric area. Now what do we have? Thousands of terabytes of dross - you know what I mean - the thousands of web site devoted to Brittany Spears et al and gigabytes of duplicate and mundane information.
What makes this harder to swallow are the hoards of concerned citizens who signed up AOL and now think that they should have a say on how things are run. We also have armies of politicians who have heard that the net is a hot issue and therefore want to jump on the latest bandwagon to gain votes from the moral majority. Most of these politicians wouldn't know how to use a computer if the outcome of world war III depended on it.
If you don't want your children to come to harm on the internet then either don't let them use it (it's not a god-given right y'know)or else take it upon yourself to protect them - install a netnanny or surf with them. It is simply not fair (or right) to barge into a new place and decide that YOU want to start changing the rules to suit you.
My laptop allows 6 changes... I have no idea about the iBook but there are very few laptop DVD manufacturers out there so it should be similar. Plugging it into the TV makes no difference.
Make sure that the iBook also sends audio to the TV - my Vaio doesn't and as result I bought some pretty hefty exernal speakers.
Would it not be possible to create a driver/player that looks at the script, finds out what region it wants and then reports it when the script is run?
I'm sure there are better programmers out there than the ones at Warner et al. who are quite capable of beating technology with technology...
How can you say something SO foolish - All the varients of Buffy et al are perfect TV - Friday nights here at uni wouldn't be the same without them. I used to like the X-Files until the last coople of sereis completely turned me off. It is something to think about that all of Chris Carter's series except for the X-Files have been a flop - Harsh Realm (I think that's what it's called - my sister (font of all things Chris Carter) is miles away at the moment) being a prime example.
Here in Scotland we haven't had the Lone Gunmen yet (certainly not on terrestrial TV anyway) but having read the (online) reviews I am fairly certain that it will rank with Dark Knight, Xena and Hercules which usually are only worth watching because nothing else is on.
Umm... Yes I see - Microsoft in providing their users with features for free are clearly undermining these third party vendors of free software and thus causing them to lose profit...
Wait a minute!! - who exactly is losing out? The users get IE (whixh incidentally is 200% better than Nutscrape Navigator, Outlook (ditto) and windows media player (alright I don't use this - I use media bar which came with my VAIO). Netscape/Aol (big evil corporation by the way...) etc are losing no money.
It is quite clear that the Open Source community would rather microsoft released kernel32.exe (or whatever) and left the rest of the world to write the applkications while Redhat, Slackware et al provide complete solutions. Cleraly we (as users) should PAY for Windows and get nothing while Linux users get everything for free.
Anyway - it is good to see that Apple have fully embraced the open source model by having an operating system that goes out of date every couple of weeks.
As a current CS student, I know several people who were fingered by a similar system which compares partially compiled code for our practicals. At least two of these people had not copied their code, the the maxim "a computer never lies" means that they have little way of appealing. CLearly there are only a certain number of ways of solving a given problem and in a year as big as ours there is a high probability of the code being accidentaly similar. This is especially true since the programming style that most of the people have is derived from the lectureres themselves.
Ummm Ok - the word of a few ignorant peasants 2000 odd years ago is clearly worth more than today's scientific body of knowledge.
It's thanks to your f**king religious kind that society it 500 years behind where it should be.
Where exactly do you thing the light which is hitting hubble actually comes from? Or are you going to use the "God works in mysterious ways" statement which basically says "I'm too stupid to realise that blind faith without reason is nothing by itself and that if the evidence does not match the theory it is a bad theory"?
Umm.. yes I see hammering the control key with a nice stable set of sights is so like firing a handgun with it's multiple degrees of rotation...
Mind you - they did do pretty poorly - i'd better brush up on AHL.
As per usual the parents of the kids who were killed are simply striking out in a way that is natural when you kid has just been killed.
That does not however give them the excuse to take it all out on an innocent third party - the gaming companies.
It is not like id (for example) released Doom with a little sticker on the box that says "Wouldn't it be fun to re-inact this out with your classmates?"
The argument that is often used here is that computer games glorify violence and the perpetrators played these games and became violent themselves. This is an idea based on utterly flawed logic. If computer games turned children into violent terrorists, then what about all the other children who play these games? It's not as if an entire nation is wandering about packing daddy's handgun and thinking of popping off the class.
Perhaps it is time to find out why they did this. I certainly know from my recent school life that people who are in anyway different are bullied for being so. From previous/. postings it is clear that in many schools this is overlooked because the bullies are members of the school sports team. Clearly if more emphasis was put on academic rather than sporting achievement then there would not be such a problem. Here in scotland by the time that you get to highschool school sports are almost meaningless and apart from a medals ceremony at the end of term, nothing is heard about them. We have had no children walk into school with a brace of firearms and start shooting.
What is this with criticising Win98?
My laptop runs Win98 and I have had to reboot (with the exception of switching it off to move about) 4 time in the last 8 weeks.
Yes - a lot of OS-X is built on open standards but Apple's system is not standard (it doesn't even have X-Windows for god's sake) and apple did not even create large portions of it. Microsoft may not release their source code but then they have the right not to - they wrote it - whereas Apple's licence requires you to only provide any software using their components to people who already have an Apple licence.
I agree - Apple's recent actions show them to be even less "open" than Microsoft. Everything that Apple makes is proprietry and they seek to patent/copyright anything which they can lay their hands on. You don't for instance see Microsoft patenting GUI designers ans in VB and they even allow you to use the IE control in a design enviroment. Apple on the other hand have this special system where they capitalise on the work done on BSD and then prevent you from redistributing code which you base on their work.
Is this blatently hypocritial or what?
Owain Kenway
Yes - Our government did this and slipped the Regulation of Internet Privacy (I don't remember the name exactly) Bill through Parliment on a lazy afternoon where a third of the House turned up and now we will have boxes in Greenwich which will monitor all our traffic. If you have an encrypted file (and ISPs this means YOU too) on your computer and the Government asks to see, you must by law give them the key. Furthur more, if you know that someone is being watched and you warn them that you were asked for the key, you are given a long jail sentence.
Isn't the UK wonderful?
I agree - we are studying it in my Computer Science course at Uni and my main gripe (apart from the fact that it does things in slightly strange ways) is that it make my PIII-600 act like a 486.
(Any views expressed here are MINE - the University can go get it's own!)
If they sent macs back in time we would never get to the moon. In my experiance they are just about the most flaky machines around!
If you must, send cak an Athlon 1.2Ghz DDR!
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Now we can have the worst^H^H^H^H^Hbest of both worlds with Windows world reknowned security and reliablilty and Netscape "Unique" page rendering engine - I think if they do this I'll finally move to linux. If I have to have a browser that sucks I might as well have the best OS.
PS - when they do this can someone post a list of computer manufacturers who do this so that I can avoid them?
Hmm..yes..Media Player is clearly a "new" feature - it hasn't been there since windows 3.1
I agree. Our society has slipped to the level that we don't bother trying because somebody decides that it cannot be done. The space prgram shows what we as a species can do when we put enough effort into it.
I agree - but only so that I can play Birth Of The Federation with it
I wonder if it can be programmed to make beeping noises when you type.
If you can afford a touch screen, the onscreen keyboard in Windows 2000 is also rather good.
I have to sa that I agree. The guy isn't making money from it.
This strike me as being somewhat like the Netscape/Microsoft case which was mostly an argument about two pieces of completely free software.
Sorry to re-iterate a point made elsewhere - YOU LET YOUR THREE AND FIVE YEAR OLD KIDS SURF THE INTERNET!?!?
The internet was never a place for kids. It was a place for sharing information between academics. Then we geeks (and in some cases soon to be acadmemics) saw how cool it could be to share other kinds of information - music, views, news and inforation on unusual topics - things you wouldn't find elsewhere like technical info on various bits of computer hardware, satalites etc. Then it became this "hip" trendy new thing. AOL was created and found that the only way that they could market it successfully was to dupe people into thinking that it was a family centric area. Now what do we have? Thousands of terabytes of dross - you know what I mean - the thousands of web site devoted to Brittany Spears et al and gigabytes of duplicate and mundane information.
What makes this harder to swallow are the hoards of concerned citizens who signed up AOL and now think that they should have a say on how things are run. We also have armies of politicians who have heard that the net is a hot issue and therefore want to jump on the latest bandwagon to gain votes from the moral majority. Most of these politicians wouldn't know how to use a computer if the outcome of world war III depended on it.
If you don't want your children to come to harm on the internet then either don't let them use it (it's not a god-given right y'know)or else take it upon yourself to protect them - install a netnanny or surf with them. It is simply not fair (or right) to barge into a new place and decide that YOU want to start changing the rules to suit you.
Remember: Jesus was killed by the moral majority!
My laptop allows 6 changes... I have no idea about the iBook but there are very few laptop DVD manufacturers out there so it should be similar. Plugging it into the TV makes no difference.
Make sure that the iBook also sends audio to the TV - my Vaio doesn't and as result I bought some pretty hefty exernal speakers.
(I'm a wee bit out of my depth here, but)
Would it not be possible to create a driver/player that looks at the script, finds out what region it wants and then reports it when the script is run?
I'm sure there are better programmers out there than the ones at Warner et al. who are quite capable of beating technology with technology...
How can you say something SO foolish - All the varients of Buffy et al are perfect TV - Friday nights here at uni wouldn't be the same without them. I used to like the X-Files until the last coople of sereis completely turned me off. It is something to think about that all of Chris Carter's series except for the X-Files have been a flop - Harsh Realm (I think that's what it's called - my sister (font of all things Chris Carter) is miles away at the moment) being a prime example.
Here in Scotland we haven't had the Lone Gunmen yet (certainly not on terrestrial TV anyway) but having read the (online) reviews I am fairly certain that it will rank with Dark Knight, Xena and Hercules which usually are only worth watching because nothing else is on.
Anyway - Who is the X-Files answer to Faith?
Umm... Yes I see - Microsoft in providing their users with features for free are clearly undermining these third party vendors of free software and thus causing them to lose profit...
Wait a minute!! - who exactly is losing out? The users get IE (whixh incidentally is 200% better than Nutscrape Navigator, Outlook (ditto) and windows media player (alright I don't use this - I use media bar which came with my VAIO). Netscape/Aol (big evil corporation by the way...) etc are losing no money.
It is quite clear that the Open Source community would rather microsoft released kernel32.exe (or whatever) and left the rest of the world to write the applkications while Redhat, Slackware et al provide complete solutions. Cleraly we (as users) should PAY for Windows and get nothing while Linux users get everything for free.
Anyway - it is good to see that Apple have fully embraced the open source model by having an operating system that goes out of date every couple of weeks.
Try Microsoft Word - the one and only!
As a current CS student, I know several people who were fingered by a similar system which compares partially compiled code for our practicals. At least two of these people had not copied their code, the the maxim "a computer never lies" means that they have little way of appealing. CLearly there are only a certain number of ways of solving a given problem and in a year as big as ours there is a high probability of the code being accidentaly similar. This is especially true since the programming style that most of the people have is derived from the lectureres themselves.
Ummm Ok - the word of a few ignorant peasants 2000 odd years ago is clearly worth more than today's scientific body of knowledge.
It's thanks to your f**king religious kind that society it 500 years behind where it should be.
Where exactly do you thing the light which is hitting hubble actually comes from? Or are you going to use the "God works in mysterious ways" statement which basically says "I'm too stupid to realise that blind faith without reason is nothing by itself and that if the evidence does not match the theory it is a bad theory"?
For those with no humour (and this means you j.decamp@decamplegal.com) I'm joking...
Umm.. yes I see hammering the control key with a nice stable set of sights is so like firing a handgun with it's multiple degrees of rotation...
Mind you - they did do pretty poorly - i'd better brush up on AHL.
As per usual the parents of the kids who were killed are simply striking out in a way that is natural when you kid has just been killed.
/. postings it is clear that in many schools this is overlooked because the bullies are members of the school sports team. Clearly if more emphasis was put on academic rather than sporting achievement then there would not be such a problem. Here in scotland by the time that you get to highschool school sports are almost meaningless and apart from a medals ceremony at the end of term, nothing is heard about them. We have had no children walk into school with a brace of firearms and start shooting.
That does not however give them the excuse to take it all out on an innocent third party - the gaming companies.
It is not like id (for example) released Doom with a little sticker on the box that says "Wouldn't it be fun to re-inact this out with your classmates?"
The argument that is often used here is that computer games glorify violence and the perpetrators played these games and became violent themselves. This is an idea based on utterly flawed logic. If computer games turned children into violent terrorists, then what about all the other children who play these games? It's not as if an entire nation is wandering about packing daddy's handgun and thinking of popping off the class.
Perhaps it is time to find out why they did this. I certainly know from my recent school life that people who are in anyway different are bullied for being so. From previous
Mostly I suspect that we are all just venting frustration from when we were bullied as kids...
BUT IT'S FUN!!
I can't wait till Apple see the Aqua-like screenshots of Win XP on the Microsoft website...
Just think - the worlds larges collection on copy-right infringement whiners verses the defense might of Microsoft.
Almost makes you want both sides to lose.
On second thought "Go Microsoft, Go!".
Surely the speed at which you rip is a function of the CD drive and the IDE/SCSI bus not the processor(!)
What is this with criticising Win98? My laptop runs Win98 and I have had to reboot (with the exception of switching it off to move about) 4 time in the last 8 weeks.
Yes - a lot of OS-X is built on open standards but Apple's system is not standard (it doesn't even have X-Windows for god's sake) and apple did not even create large portions of it. Microsoft may not release their source code but then they have the right not to - they wrote it - whereas Apple's licence requires you to only provide any software using their components to people who already have an Apple licence.
I agree - Apple's recent actions show them to be even less "open" than Microsoft. Everything that Apple makes is proprietry and they seek to patent/copyright anything which they can lay their hands on. You don't for instance see Microsoft patenting GUI designers ans in VB and they even allow you to use the IE control in a design enviroment. Apple on the other hand have this special system where they capitalise on the work done on BSD and then prevent you from redistributing code which you base on their work. Is this blatently hypocritial or what? Owain Kenway
Yes - Our government did this and slipped the Regulation of Internet Privacy (I don't remember the name exactly) Bill through Parliment on a lazy afternoon where a third of the House turned up and now we will have boxes in Greenwich which will monitor all our traffic. If you have an encrypted file (and ISPs this means YOU too) on your computer and the Government asks to see, you must by law give them the key. Furthur more, if you know that someone is being watched and you warn them that you were asked for the key, you are given a long jail sentence. Isn't the UK wonderful?
I agree - we are studying it in my Computer Science course at Uni and my main gripe (apart from the fact that it does things in slightly strange ways) is that it make my PIII-600 act like a 486. (Any views expressed here are MINE - the University can go get it's own!)
If they sent macs back in time we would never get to the moon. In my experiance they are just about the most flaky machines around! If you must, send cak an Athlon 1.2Ghz DDR!