As an Access developer (okay, you can stop laughing now), I use emulation to run XP on my Mac at home. That image has no network access whatsoever. Anything off the ’net that ends up on that C:\ drive gets that way after being download by Opera and then put in a shared directory on my HFS+ drive that VPC/XP is allowed to see. So how is this legitimate user supposed to make use of resources locked behing WGA?
At my day job I am utterly awash in SSNs, no clearance required. Our Board of Directors may have voted today to have us verify them (dunno, wasn’t at the meeting); we’ve already made sure we can start doing it as soon as they tell us to, and security clearances aren’t part of that.
I agree that links like that should be in the proper place, but why would anyone object to that website? It’s fairly innocuous. Alas, I must continue on in my quest for a truly hate-powered website. *sigh*
I think we’ve all been corrected on a technical detail we fucked up in a comment before. But it really sucks when that comment was an attempt to correct someone else and ended in the word ‘dipshit.’
But to have that happen at the hands of people named poobie and Moofie? Wow, what’s that feel like?
Actually, it’s the USAPATRIOT Act. The word “patriot” does not technically occur in that legislation. They’d have you believe that it’s just a happy coincidence that when they formed an abbreviation of their new law it just happened to work out to that particular Orwellian nickname.
There was not even reasonable cause -- much less probable cause -- of terrorism.
You’ve obviously been misunderinformed; the USA PATRIOT Act has nothing to do with terrorism. They weren’t investigating terrorism, they were merely checking up on him to make sure he’s adequately patriotic.
I never said I believed that guy’s 5x assertion. But I am really skeptical of your 4 year assertion. Considering the vast number of people that buy a new PC when theirs gets infected by malware and salesdroids at Best Buy tell them that its slow because it’s so old, it would take a whole damn lot of people using their WinBoxes for ten years to get the average up to four. And considering that very few (if any) ten year old PCs can run WinXP, which is what most web servers see a solid majority of their page hits coming from, I kinda doubt it.
Also keep in mind that at least half the Wintel market is made up of rock-bottom dirt cheap eMachines and similar stuff whose hardware is lucky to see two years above-ground. Granted, there’s probably substantial overlap between that market segment and the replace-it-yearly segment, but it still serves to require even more people to keep their Wintel machines in use for a decade to bring the average up to four years.
Command-arrow moves around the filesystem. Up moves up, down moves down (into a directory or opens a file/app). If youre in list view with the little triangles on the left, command-left expands them and command-right collapses them. And as other posters have mentioned, selecting a file then hitting Enter lets you rename them. Or you can click-wait-click just like in Windows. And as also mentioned by other posters, command-clicking the directory name in the titlebar pops up a handy menu that lets you back out to any arbitrary point in the tree.
Also, command-1, command-2, and command-3 switch between the Finder’s various view modes.
While I won’t even attempt to address specific numbers, the service life of a Mac is markedly longer. Five times as long? Frequently, yes. Both of my Macs are about that old, a G4 tower and a G3 iBook dating from 2001. And my previous desktop machine was a 7500 that orginally shipped with a PPC601 chip that I later replaced with a 604 and then a G3 chip when I moved to OS X. Granted, I’m not typical, but then again neither is the typical Mac user. I find that ten year old Macs are not uncommon in the real world. In fact, my girlfriend is hoping I’ll get one of the new Core Duo iBooks later this year and give her my G4 tower. I’ll either do that or put dual G4s in it, not quite sure yet. But it’s still a great machine even if it’s used primarily for running Opera and doing Access development work under VirtualPC. I would appreciate more than a single 533mhz G4 for using Canon’s RAW software, but Photoshop runs just fine, even when I start going all layer-whore on high-res photos.
I think he was trolling. It’s not too often that someone says, with a straight face, that they’re sure those nice government folks will relinquish newly granted powers once some crisis or other passes. And if they do say that with a straight face, they probably toked their way through history class.
So he filtered his spreadsheet and sent the filtered lists to each department not knowing that he was sending each department the whole list under teh covers.
I use that feature quite often and it was only yesterday that I noticed that the little triangle turns from black to dark blue when you’re viewing a filtered set. All this time I was thinking there really ought to be some sort of visual indication (other than the wonky row numbers).
Maybe because Adobe has their own variation on the Do No Evil doctrine?
Okay, doubtful. But perhaps some product manager there has intentionally overlooked the issue in a noble effort to hinder the administration’s efforts to pull the world over our eyes?
Doesn’t necessarily matter. Just because I don’t purchase services directly from NSAT&T, that doesn’t mean that my data isn’t flowing through their network at some point on its journey. So while I am immune (for now?) from NSAT&T’s content ownership bullshit, I can’t count on not having them dump my packets into Cheney’s inbox.
One of the original uses of the FUD strategy was (and still often is) to announce that “Sure, our competition just released a product in the sector, but before you know it we’ll have a product out that does everything theirs does and more. Plus, with us being the 800lb. gorilla, you should assume that the competing product will be crushed in the marketplace, thus ensuring that your purchase will turn out to be ill-advised over the long term. So you might as well wait till ours hits the market before you shell out that cash.”
The net result is usually lackluster sales for the competing product and often a complete loss of the competitor’s venture capital funding (a result known in some circles as “cutting off their air supply”), leaving an underserved market sector that you may or may not ever release an actual product into. (In some cases it may be necessary to release an utterly useless 1.0 to serve as a placeholder for the real product that starts to emerge sometime around version 2.5.)
there is no such thing as a lawful public protest.
I honestly can’t figure out if this is a troll account or not. I have difficulty imagining that you actually believe the ideas you espouse under this username. So if I’ve simply missed the joke, forgive me. But if the things you say here really are what you believe, then I can only hope that your beliefs never have any influence outside of a run down single-wide slowly sinking into a polluted swamp. Or that you acquire some sort of an education and some insight into civilization, humanity, and morality. Either would work, and I’d rather see the latter of those two things happen, but frankly I think the former is more realistic.
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Do you know which television personality has been known to use an instrumental version of that song on his show?
That one took me a minute.
As an Access developer (okay, you can stop laughing now), I use emulation to run XP on my Mac at home. That image has no network access whatsoever. Anything off the ’net that ends up on that C:\ drive gets that way after being download by Opera and then put in a shared directory on my HFS+ drive that VPC/XP is allowed to see. So how is this legitimate user supposed to make use of resources locked behing WGA?
At my day job I am utterly awash in SSNs, no clearance required. Our Board of Directors may have voted today to have us verify them (dunno, wasn’t at the meeting); we’ve already made sure we can start doing it as soon as they tell us to, and security clearances aren’t part of that.
I agree that links like that should be in the proper place, but why would anyone object to that website? It’s fairly innocuous. Alas, I must continue on in my quest for a truly hate-powered website. *sigh*
I think we’ve all been corrected on a technical detail we fucked up in a comment before. But it really sucks when that comment was an attempt to correct someone else and ended in the word ‘dipshit.’
But to have that happen at the hands of people named poobie and Moofie? Wow, what’s that feel like?
You talking about my sig?
Which ‘fantasy’ are you referring to?
Actually, it’s the USAPATRIOT Act. The word “patriot” does not technically occur in that legislation. They’d have you believe that it’s just a happy coincidence that when they formed an abbreviation of their new law it just happened to work out to that particular Orwellian nickname.
You’ve obviously been misunderinformed; the USA PATRIOT Act has nothing to do with terrorism. They weren’t investigating terrorism, they were merely checking up on him to make sure he’s adequately patriotic.
I never said I believed that guy’s 5x assertion. But I am really skeptical of your 4 year assertion. Considering the vast number of people that buy a new PC when theirs gets infected by malware and salesdroids at Best Buy tell them that its slow because it’s so old, it would take a whole damn lot of people using their WinBoxes for ten years to get the average up to four. And considering that very few (if any) ten year old PCs can run WinXP, which is what most web servers see a solid majority of their page hits coming from, I kinda doubt it.
Also keep in mind that at least half the Wintel market is made up of rock-bottom dirt cheap eMachines and similar stuff whose hardware is lucky to see two years above-ground. Granted, there’s probably substantial overlap between that market segment and the replace-it-yearly segment, but it still serves to require even more people to keep their Wintel machines in use for a decade to bring the average up to four years.
Command-arrow moves around the filesystem. Up moves up, down moves down (into a directory or opens a file/app). If youre in list view with the little triangles on the left, command-left expands them and command-right collapses them. And as other posters have mentioned, selecting a file then hitting Enter lets you rename them. Or you can click-wait-click just like in Windows. And as also mentioned by other posters, command-clicking the directory name in the titlebar pops up a handy menu that lets you back out to any arbitrary point in the tree.
Also, command-1, command-2, and command-3 switch between the Finder’s various view modes.
While I won’t even attempt to address specific numbers, the service life of a Mac is markedly longer. Five times as long? Frequently, yes. Both of my Macs are about that old, a G4 tower and a G3 iBook dating from 2001. And my previous desktop machine was a 7500 that orginally shipped with a PPC601 chip that I later replaced with a 604 and then a G3 chip when I moved to OS X. Granted, I’m not typical, but then again neither is the typical Mac user. I find that ten year old Macs are not uncommon in the real world. In fact, my girlfriend is hoping I’ll get one of the new Core Duo iBooks later this year and give her my G4 tower. I’ll either do that or put dual G4s in it, not quite sure yet. But it’s still a great machine even if it’s used primarily for running Opera and doing Access development work under VirtualPC. I would appreciate more than a single 533mhz G4 for using Canon’s RAW software, but Photoshop runs just fine, even when I start going all layer-whore on high-res photos.
Even IP Over Carrier Pigeons would yield some sort of improvement.
If you’re gonna use an operating environment that shits all over your desktop anyway, ya might as well go all out.
And I can point you to many pro-Cheney posts saying he has a really nice singing voice. Doesn’t make it true.
I think he was trolling. It’s not too often that someone says, with a straight face, that they’re sure those nice government folks will relinquish newly granted powers once some crisis or other passes. And if they do say that with a straight face, they probably toked their way through history class.
Check out Ornicus. He’s written a lot of terribly insightful shit on what is and isn’t fascism.
It was not a typo.
I use that feature quite often and it was only yesterday that I noticed that the little triangle turns from black to dark blue when you’re viewing a filtered set. All this time I was thinking there really ought to be some sort of visual indication (other than the wonky row numbers).
Maybe because Adobe has their own variation on the Do No Evil doctrine?
Okay, doubtful. But perhaps some product manager there has intentionally overlooked the issue in a noble effort to hinder the administration’s efforts to pull the world over our eyes?
Cool, a new foe! I haven’t gotten one of those in ages.
One of the original uses of the FUD strategy was (and still often is) to announce that “Sure, our competition just released a product in the sector, but before you know it we’ll have a product out that does everything theirs does and more. Plus, with us being the 800lb. gorilla, you should assume that the competing product will be crushed in the marketplace, thus ensuring that your purchase will turn out to be ill-advised over the long term. So you might as well wait till ours hits the market before you shell out that cash.”
The net result is usually lackluster sales for the competing product and often a complete loss of the competitor’s venture capital funding (a result known in some circles as “cutting off their air supply”), leaving an underserved market sector that you may or may not ever release an actual product into. (In some cases it may be necessary to release an utterly useless 1.0 to serve as a placeholder for the real product that starts to emerge sometime around version 2.5.)
I think you just described most of my Foes list.
I honestly can’t figure out if this is a troll account or not. I have difficulty imagining that you actually believe the ideas you espouse under this username. So if I’ve simply missed the joke, forgive me. But if the things you say here really are what you believe, then I can only hope that your beliefs never have any influence outside of a run down single-wide slowly sinking into a polluted swamp. Or that you acquire some sort of an education and some insight into civilization, humanity, and morality. Either would work, and I’d rather see the latter of those two things happen, but frankly I think the former is more realistic.
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I think they’ve now claimed losses due to piracy that exceed the revenue of their industries.
Are they even trying anymore?