"I have several macs, and an IMAP server. The simple fact is that Mail.app doesn't share the filtering database."
No that's a bad idea. Your case is unique because you are specifying that just one user uses a bunch of computers, but the general principal you are advocating completely ruins the premise of adaptive filtering.
Suppose we're sitting in an office... You don't want to see penis enlargement ads but I love 'em. How that big server-level database of yours supposed to work?
There are several "standards" that function just as well. What you said isn't wrong, but implies that there's one (and only one) right standard and that just isn't true.
I feel it's necessary to offset you bigoted statements with regard to the Mac OS X doc only because someone who's not familiar with the Mac OS X environment might accidentally believe you.
So, for the record, the OS X Dock is just fine. It's handy, flexible, functional, and unobstrusive as you want it to be since it's also configurable. I've been using Macs since 1987, BTW, so it's not like I'm a newbie with them
I suspect you are pundit. Is "Minna Karai" a pseudonym for "John Dvorak"?
"Apple simply can't compete on PC hardware. Not at the volume they deliver. They have two long term options: 1, increase their volume. 2, get out of hardware."
Why do you say that Apple can't compete on hardware? They're doing great right now. Do you expect that to change? And if you do, are you also one of those people who said back in '90 that they've be out of business in just a couple years?
Apple's business is great now. Never better. Never.
I don't think Steve Jobs gives a shit what you think as long as he's making billions.
You make billions and then maybe he'll listen to you.
I read about this in the 70s, when I was in high school.
Back then, a writer referred to it as a kind of Wankel rotary electric motor and I'm pretty sure the "inventor" was an American. Could be wrong about that.
At any rate, this Slashdot topic is late by about 30 years.
> In Austin there are three cable "ISPs": RoadRunner, Earthlink, > and a local one whose name I forgot.
Grande.
What you say about DSL is true. They really are Keystone Cops operations.
I live in the Austin city limits. My house was built in 1978. I've been waiting for DSL as an option since 1998 but still can't get it. I figure I never will.
I remember when Southwestern Bell used to run ads that went something like, "Who do you want to trust your data to? A cable TV company, or the telephone company, which has provided reliable service for years?"
"I've never had to worry about such things. I use Outlook 2003 every day with an up-to-date virus scanner and I maintain my Windows XP with Windows Update regularly."
That reminds me of John "Johnny Wad" Holmes once said. He talked about how, as a professional porn actor, he took intellegent and professional steps to keep him safe at work.
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"I have several macs, and an IMAP server. The simple fact is that Mail.app doesn't share the filtering database."
No that's a bad idea. Your case is unique because you are specifying that just one user uses a bunch of computers, but the general principal you are advocating completely ruins the premise of adaptive filtering.
Suppose we're sitting in an office... You don't want to see penis enlargement ads but I love 'em. How that big server-level database of yours supposed to work?
Bad idea.
--Richard
ISO 8601 is A standard... not THE standard.
There are several "standards" that function just as well. What you said isn't wrong, but implies that there's one (and only one) right standard and that just isn't true.
--Richard
Simple: Births.
:->
Six years ago, neither of my kids had computers. Now they both have Macs. Multiply that out!
Thanks for sharing your polital views.
Now go away.
"Some myth ("IE don't support PNG !!!") really die hard."
Let me put it this way...
You wouldn't want your girlfriend to be faithful to you to the same degree that IE support PNG.
>> How many folks on a Mac are really interested in using anything other than Safari and Mail?
My father and I both use Mozilla. My ex- and her family use the "new" Netscape.
Safari and Mail are great, but they still lack. Mozilla's email component runs rings around Apple's Mail.
Admittedly, we are running Mozilla on fast 867MHz G4's.
--Richard
Terrible business model. The model has failed.
That fact that only one company retains a version of is proof.
--Richard
I feel it's necessary to offset you bigoted statements with regard to the Mac OS X doc only because someone who's not familiar with the Mac OS X environment might accidentally believe you.
So, for the record, the OS X Dock is just fine. It's handy, flexible, functional, and unobstrusive as you want it to be since it's also configurable. I've been using Macs since 1987, BTW, so it's not like I'm a newbie with them
I suspect you are pundit. Is "Minna Karai" a pseudonym for "John Dvorak"?
--Richard
You just described lock-in.
It has nothing to do with merit.
That remark about the mouse was rather silly.
The guy's got an easy life, I guess.
"If you use iTunes, the only handheld player that can help you is an iPod."
This is just not true.
--Richard
"Apple simply can't compete on PC hardware. Not at the volume they deliver. They have two long term options: 1, increase their volume. 2, get out of hardware."
Why do you say that Apple can't compete on hardware? They're doing great right now. Do you expect that to change? And if you do, are you also one of those people who said back in '90 that they've be out of business in just a couple years?
Apple's business is great now. Never better. Never.
I don't think Steve Jobs gives a shit what you think as long as he's making billions.
You make billions and then maybe he'll listen to you.
--Richard
"Microsoft's compiler produces better (smaller, faster) x86 code than GCC."
Just a reminder... nowadays, size and speed are unimportant factors in software development for the desktop.
Just a reminder.
--Richard
I read about this in the 70s, when I was in high school.
Back then, a writer referred to it as a kind of Wankel rotary electric motor and I'm pretty sure the "inventor" was an American. Could be wrong about that.
At any rate, this Slashdot topic is late by about 30 years.
--Richard
"How the fsck do you /. a .edu system?"
Bandwidth shaping?
"Yet, again, we have to explain to the socialists how the world really works."
You have an excellent explanation but it does not invalidate his observation... or mine.
"It seems to me that M$ does best when they have serious competition."
Yes, that's when they buy their competition.
"The almighty dollar swayed them."
I like the two guys, but we just got a dose of how the market REALLY works.
Some people out there think it's about privacy or features or convenience.
--Richard
"let people choose their favorite player"
People don't want to choose.
(Slashdot members don't count.)
You forgot anal probing.
> In Austin there are three cable "ISPs": RoadRunner, Earthlink,
> and a local one whose name I forgot.
Grande.
What you say about DSL is true. They really are Keystone Cops operations.
I live in the Austin city limits. My house was built in 1978. I've been waiting for DSL as an option since 1998 but still can't get it. I figure I never will.
I remember when Southwestern Bell used to run ads that went something like, "Who do you want to trust your data to? A cable TV company, or the telephone company, which has provided reliable service for years?"
Well, the answer is: the cable TV company.
--Richard, an ex-swbell.net dialup subscriber
"Break Privacy Laws and you'll face a monetary penalty from $600 to $600000"
All that's good to hear, but it's the enforcement that counts.
$600? That's a common speeding ticket in the U.S. and would deter no one from doing anything here. Heck, it's almost like granting permission.
--Richard
ACC is an open standard. The DRM is your problem.
I thought you made some interesting points, however, what you wrote and what people are actually doing with their web sites are two different things.
"I've never had to worry about such things. I use Outlook 2003 every day with an up-to-date virus scanner and I maintain my Windows XP with Windows Update regularly."
That reminds me of John "Johnny Wad" Holmes once said. He talked about how, as a professional porn actor, he took intellegent and professional steps to keep him safe at work.
Next thing I read was that he had died from AIDS.
--Richard