Well, actually I wouldn't even believe anything the American Regime telling me.
There's probably about as much truth in your story as it was in the blatant lie about the babies taken out of the incubators as a justification for the last war:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.h tm l
Or like in the al-quaeda Hussein connection theories.
Even if Saddam Hussein is a criminal mass-murderer, what I'm absolutely positive about, this doesn't give the strongest force on this planet right to just go to war against the innocent people in this country.
That this country happens to have the biggest sources of oil directly after the US' dear allies Saudi-Arabia is pure coincidence, of course.
And by the way, as an example, there are a lot of christian churches in Baghdad where as you'll be killed for a christian service in Riyad. But Saudi-Arabia means good business for the US, so they must be okay. Even if the women have to hide under a tablecloth...
OK, breaking or getting out of any international contracts should have shown us how much the US-regime cares about anything than itself. Breaking the law doesn't matter to them, because they are the law.
Your president has tried to destroy willingly everything that has been achieved within the last 50 years to keep us from WWIII.
Since there are a lot of countries that are way more threatened by other countries than the US is by Iraq, who will tell them not do preemtively strike?
The only message to any country on this planet your regime is sending is: "Get nukes and ICBs as fast as you can! Then they will not touch you."
Wow, great GWB.
Not to speak of Hussein and the taleban having supported by exactly your wonderful land of the free for years and years. Do you know the picture on which Mr. Rumsfeld shakes hands with Mr. Evil Saddam Hussein?
It's very hard to differentiate these days, to keep yourself from yust being anti-american in old europe.
Freedom fries anybody:-)
k2r (Please excuse syntax and spelling, I haven't slept much within the last days due to the whole thing, am quite furious and English isn't my native native tongue, obviuosly.)
Because Jonathan Ive works for Apple in-house since '92. And I doubt that Apple's own design group would design an MP3-Player (or a notebook or a all-in-one desktop) for any other company than themselves.
Of course, there was a time when Frog, an external company designed the beige boxes, but this is gone now. I heared Frod does icons and window themes for XP now, but I think that's just some jealous people talking stupid stuff about this excellent company:-)
> throwing babies out of incubators are the same thing.
Have you ever heard that the innocent Kuwait woman who reported the story of the babies was the daughter of the ambassador in fact? An that she hadn't been in Kuwait for years.
Just wondering whether you have any common base of information over there...
> It sounds really harsh, but it's not intended > to be that way.
As a German who has read the letter of the EMI-CSR I can assure you that it was meant exactly as harsh as you as an American(?) have perceived it. Actually, I still can not believe that they really wrote this.
I personally experienced the cultural misunderstandings you mention while working together with people from the USA, Japan and Germany. Using the same vocabulary doesn't mean speaking the same language.
I'm used to working on Windows, SuSe+KDE+X, MacOS9, MacOSX since many years and all I can say is, that _I'm_ fastest on MacOS9+X (from the early DP on).
It doesn't get in my way and works as expected whereas I'm constantly wondering how to achieve specific tasks on Windows.
I don't care about window-redraw-times etc as long as they stay in some decent interval. And that's exactly what they do on my iBook500/512.
The personal speed increase you experience while using OSX has a daily effect whereas the advantage of a P4/XP doesn't do much to an average computer users life.
If you insist on limiting the mail-size you should set up a ftp dropbox for every user and provide them with a URL to that they can include into their standard signature.
They can tell their mail contacts just to click on that URL and put their stuff there.
Works on most plattforms with most browsers for most of the poeple. However, they know email, they are used to it and it doesn't impose any additional harm. So give them email.
Of course you could build a pen-sized optical mouse that leaves tracks on paper.
But everytime you'd pick up the pen your track was lost, so the system wouldn't know where you put the pen afterwards. You couldn'T even put the dot on the letter "i".
"They" use an absolute positioning system. The system always knows on which "i" you put your dot on.
In fact, the system doesn't only recognize the position on the sheet of paper but the position on any sheet that Anoto ever printed.
This results in something like an infinite amount of input-tablets, by this you can start writing an email today, and the computer knows to send it in a week, just after finding the paper again and checking the "send"-box - alhough you wrote 100 pages inbetween.
I like the idea. What I don't like is to be so dependend on a single source of paper.
And - of course - it's Windoze/.NET only, although they show a TiBook in their ads.
Why doesn't slashdot inject a site into freenet before publishing it in an article. This might solve the caching problem (of course not the leal part of it) and promote freenet.
> What was really cool were the "chimes of death".
Since I have been a Mac user for many years now I can tell you that morse-code is way better for your nerves - you don't want anything else.
I had the sad-mac sound only once so far because of a broken SIMM - you press the button, expect the "major"-sound and are welcomed by the sad-mac sound.
I'm sorry, but I never understood what this fight is about. I'm about as interested in the CPU-Type of my computer as I'm interested in the type of my cars engine and I'm about as interested in the CPU's MHz as I'm interested in the car engines's RPM.
I'm using my computer (an iBook at the moment) to get my work done smoothly as I use my car to get from A to B in a comfortable way.
So a faster car (which is not determined by RPM) might be useful _sometimes_, but in daily use there are other things that matter. Same is valid for the computer.
So actually I don't care if it contains an Intel / Motorola-CPU. If it gets the job done as good as my iBook at the moment, it'll be okay for me.
By the way: part of getting the job done smoothly is: good runtime (3h on battery), small formfactor, no fscking fan, decent GUI & OS.
If you enter a cinema in Germany chances are that about 100% of the people have a cellphone.
There you are now - in a Faraday-cage together with n >>100 microwave transmitters sending with full 2 watts of power because they lost their basestation.
Get used to it, relax - as soon as cellphones are no status-symbol anymore, people will suddenly figure out how to turn them off / silent.
You might want to have a look at the German maglev "Transrapid" which is running in circles since 20 years now and will finally be build in China. It does 310 mph / 500km/h.
Whether public WLAN succeeds or not depends on your perspective.
I would say that grassrots wireless networking alreeady has suceeded. Of ourse there will probably never be a coverage compared to the coverage of GMS or future UMTS, but people are beginning to share their bandwith already. Yes, WLAN has some inherent security-risks, and yes, WLAN providers will not be compensated for there service but if you have a look at the web there is a lot of good stuff that is provided by people with absolutely no compensation.
From my personal point of view the WLAN-movement already has succeeded: People are alread sharing their bandwith and start building up their own networks.
So don't expect too much by the WLAN-"movement" - people started sharing their bandwith with wired LANs some years ago. It' didn't kill the TelCos, but it quite common, now and kind of a success.
let's put it this way. It's not necessary to suffer from bad performance on MacOSX. If you don't insist on using Internet-Explorer you have better performing alternatives.
I'm not interested in _why_ IE sucks speedwise. It's not that OSX-webbrowsing is slow, but it's the browsers they mentioned. There are browsers that are performing way better - they do not mention them. That's what I tried to point out.
A better headline would have been "Internet Explorer and Opera on OSX Slow for Web Browsing?"
The problem isn't that there was something wrong with OSX that made Web-Browsing slow. The problem is that Web-Browsers implemented in a specific way are slow, and that they didn't mention that there are alternatives _already_available_ that don't.
Of course it would have been a goot idea(tm) if Apple bundled a better alternative with their OS.
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Hi JRZ,
you can switch brushed-metal off application-wise or in general, either using the developer-tools or some free-/shareware applications.
But I can tell you that yo'll get used to the look. It still doesn't hurt as much as "Luna"...
k2r
Well, actually I wouldn't even believe anything the American Regime telling me.
h tm l
:-)
There's probably about as much truth in your story as it was in the blatant lie about the babies taken out of the incubators as a justification for the last war:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.
Or like in the al-quaeda Hussein connection theories.
Even if Saddam Hussein is a criminal mass-murderer, what I'm absolutely positive about, this doesn't give the strongest force on this planet right to just go to war against the innocent people in this country.
That this country happens to have the biggest sources of oil directly after the US' dear allies Saudi-Arabia is pure coincidence, of course.
And by the way, as an example, there are a lot of christian churches in Baghdad where as you'll be killed for a christian service in Riyad. But Saudi-Arabia means good business for the US, so they must be okay. Even if the women have to hide under a tablecloth...
OK, breaking or getting out of any international contracts should have shown us how much the US-regime cares about anything than itself. Breaking the law doesn't matter to them, because they are the law.
Your president has tried to destroy willingly everything that has been achieved within the last 50 years to keep us from WWIII.
Since there are a lot of countries that are way more threatened by other countries than the US is by Iraq, who will tell them not do preemtively strike?
The only message to any country on this planet your regime is sending is: "Get nukes and ICBs as fast as you can! Then they will not touch you."
Wow, great GWB.
Not to speak of Hussein and the taleban having supported by exactly your wonderful land of the free for years and years. Do you know the picture on which Mr. Rumsfeld shakes hands with Mr. Evil Saddam Hussein?
It's very hard to differentiate these days, to keep yourself from yust being anti-american in old europe.
Freedom fries anybody
k2r
(Please excuse syntax and spelling, I haven't slept much within the last days due to the whole thing, am quite furious and English isn't my native native tongue, obviuosly.)
> Anyone who says the opposite is not living on this planet.
No, he's not contradicting himself but just doesn't live on this planet.
k2r
> But why can't people hire Apple's design firm
:-)
Because Jonathan Ive works for Apple in-house since '92. And I doubt that Apple's own design group would design an MP3-Player (or a notebook or a all-in-one desktop) for any other company than themselves.
Of course, there was a time when Frog, an external company designed the beige boxes, but this is gone now.
I heared Frod does icons and window themes for XP now, but I think that's just some jealous people talking stupid stuff about this excellent company
k2r
> throwing babies out of incubators are the same thing.
Have you ever heard that the innocent Kuwait woman who reported the story of the babies was the daughter of the ambassador in fact? An that she hadn't been in Kuwait for years.
Just wondering whether you have any common base of information over there...
k2r
> the browser pug in is kinda gay.
That's not a butt-plug, stupid!
k2r
> It sounds really harsh, but it's not intended
> to be that way.
As a German who has read the letter of the EMI-CSR I can assure you that it was meant exactly as harsh as you as an American(?) have perceived it.
Actually, I still can not believe that they really wrote this.
I personally experienced the cultural misunderstandings you mention while working together with people from the USA, Japan and Germany. Using the same vocabulary doesn't mean speaking the same language.
But this is not the case with the CSR's letter.
k2r
This is the question you should have asked.
.
.
I'm used to working on Windows, SuSe+KDE+X, MacOS9, MacOSX since many years and all I can say is, that _I'm_ fastest on MacOS9+X (from the early DP on)
It doesn't get in my way and works as expected whereas I'm constantly wondering how to achieve specific tasks on Windows.
I don't care about window-redraw-times etc as long as they stay in some decent interval. And that's exactly what they do on my iBook500/512
The personal speed increase you experience while using OSX has a daily effect whereas the advantage of a P4/XP doesn't do much to an average computer users life.
k2r
Hi,
If you insist on limiting the mail-size you should set up a ftp dropbox for every user and provide them with a URL to that they can include into their standard signature.
They can tell their mail contacts just to click on that URL and put their stuff there.
Works on most plattforms with most browsers for most of the poeple. However, they know email, they are used to it and it doesn't impose any additional harm. So give them email.
k2r
Of course you could build a pen-sized optical mouse that leaves tracks on paper.
.
But everytime you'd pick up the pen your track was lost, so the system wouldn't know where you put the pen afterwards. You couldn'T even put the dot on the letter "i"
"They" use an absolute positioning system.
The system always knows on which "i" you put your dot on.
In fact, the system doesn't only recognize the position on the sheet of paper but the position on any sheet that Anoto ever printed.
This results in something like an infinite amount of input-tablets, by this you can start writing an email today, and the computer knows to send it in a week, just after finding the paper again and checking the "send"-box - alhough you wrote 100 pages inbetween.
I like the idea.
What I don't like is to be so dependend on a single source of paper.
And - of course - it's Windoze/.NET only, although they show a TiBook in their ads.
k2r
I remember having to use some sort of academic IDE while studying CS >10 years ago. It was named Ophelia or so.
If I recall it correctly, it only had one error message, a dialogue saying:
"Something's wrong."
It even had a not-yet-implemented help-button, that read "no help".
If you pressed "no help" you got a dialogue saying:
"No help."
k2r
Could we agree on naming "DRM" Digital Restrictions Management whenever possible, even in the non-geeky-public?
THEY choose the wording to hide their mission from the users minds, WE can change this, if we call the beast by it's real name.
k2r
Why doesn't slashdot inject a site into freenet before publishing it in an article.
This might solve the caching problem (of course not the leal part of it) and promote freenet.
k2r
> What was really cool were the "chimes of death".
Since I have been a Mac user for many years now I can tell you that morse-code is way better for your nerves - you don't want anything else.
I had the sad-mac sound only once so far because of a broken SIMM - you press the button, expect the "major"-sound and are welcomed by the sad-mac sound.
Feels like an electrical shock in the morning.
k2r
I'm sorry, but I never understood what this fight is about. I'm about as interested in the CPU-Type of my computer as I'm interested in the type of my cars engine and I'm about as interested in the CPU's MHz as I'm interested in the car engines's RPM.
I'm using my computer (an iBook at the moment) to get my work done smoothly as I use my car to get from A to B in a comfortable way.
So a faster car (which is not determined by RPM) might be useful _sometimes_, but in daily use there are other things that matter.
Same is valid for the computer.
So actually I don't care if it contains an Intel / Motorola-CPU. If it gets the job done as good as my iBook at the moment, it'll be okay for me.
By the way: part of getting the job done smoothly is: good runtime (3h on battery), small formfactor, no fscking fan, decent GUI & OS.
k2r
If you enter a cinema in Germany chances are that about 100% of the people have a cellphone.
There you are now - in a Faraday-cage together with n >>100 microwave transmitters sending with full 2 watts of power because they lost their basestation.
Get used to it, relax - as soon as cellphones are no status-symbol anymore, people will suddenly figure out how to turn them off / silent.
k2r
*g*
...
Hey, it's getting there since about 1980 by up to 500 KM/h.
So at least we can say that the distance from Germany to "nowhere" is about 87600000 KM
k2r
"from september on built-in rights-Protection will be mandatory for every cell.
It's all done for the customers safety."
k2r
You might want to have a look at the German maglev "Transrapid" which is running in circles since 20 years now and will finally be build in China.
It does 310 mph / 500km/h.
http://www.transrapid.de/en/index.html
k2r
> work of it, and you must therefore obey the
> license you "obtained" the document under.
So I should consider the license MS uses for this document as a viral license in the Gates/Ballmer sense of terms.
MS is using viral licenses to threaten open source developers with law suits. Nice.
Hi atrowe,
Whether public WLAN succeeds or not depends on your perspective.
I would say that grassrots wireless networking alreeady has suceeded. Of ourse there will probably never be a coverage compared to the coverage of GMS or future UMTS, but people are beginning to share their bandwith already.
Yes, WLAN has some inherent security-risks, and yes, WLAN providers will not be compensated for there service but if you have a look at the web there is a lot of good stuff that is provided by people with absolutely no compensation.
From my personal point of view the WLAN-movement already has succeeded: People are alread sharing their bandwith and start building up their own networks.
So don't expect too much by the WLAN-"movement" - people started sharing their bandwith with wired LANs some years ago. It' didn't kill the TelCos, but it quite common, now and kind of a success.
Hi "troll",
let's put it this way.
It's not necessary to suffer from bad performance on MacOSX. If you don't insist on using Internet-Explorer you have better performing alternatives.
I'm not interested in _why_ IE sucks speedwise.
It's not that OSX-webbrowsing is slow, but it's the browsers they mentioned. There are browsers that are performing way better - they do not mention them. That's what I tried to point out.
A better headline would have been "Internet Explorer and Opera on OSX Slow for Web Browsing?"
The problem isn't that there was something wrong with OSX that made Web-Browsing slow. The problem is that Web-Browsers implemented in a specific way are slow, and that they didn't mention that there are alternatives _already_available_ that don't.
Of course it would have been a goot idea(tm) if Apple bundled a better alternative with their OS.
Do I make any sense to you, now?
They do not mention benchmarking at all.
The only browser they really refer to is Internet Explorer.
Yes they _mention_ Opera in some sentences, but the whole conclusion of OSX being slow is based on the experience of Internet Explorer.
I don't see where they even mention OmniWeb or Mozilla / Netscape.
Get your facts straight before you call somebody a troll.
So you judge a operating system by the speed MS-Internet Explorer? How stupid is this?
o r
It's not as if IExplorer was the only browser available on OSX.
There are
Mozilla
Netscape
iCab
Opera
Chimera/Navigat
and probably more i don't know.
Personally I use OmniWeb 4.1b4, it rocks speedwise and is usable and isn't a MS-Product.
Wow, this is a cool opportunity for Microsoft: Slow down Internet Explorer and make clueless people tell that OSX is slow.
k2r
You cannot even use iTools with OmniWeb, because "We don't support your current browser.".
Do I have to mention that it works smoothly if you switch OmniWeb's identity to some MSoft-Products?
Is this very bad style, apple?