Has anyone managed to get Minecraft working on OSX Mountain Lion? - Apple removed the java plugin, and Oracle Java 7 doesn't appear to be compatible with OpenGL. The closest Ive managed is to get it running in Windows 7, under virtual box. But, its far from ideal.
Its not a crime to ignore the DNT flag. AND, there can never be a law to make it a crime, as microsoft actions have made DNT not a true indicator of a users preference.
Lets say that in the future there is a call to put into law that this DNT flag is honoured by advertisers. A bill will be put to congress that states If advertisers do not respect the DNT flag, they will be committing a crime. However, passing this law would run into problems, because Internet Explorer is defaulting the flag to true! Advertisers would quite rightly claim that the DNT flag is not a true indicator of what internet users want. The bill would be thrown out..... DNT will die. This is what Microsoft are doing. By setting the flag on by default, they are killing the standard. It will hurt consumers, because from then on, setting DNT on or off in any browser wont make any difference what so ever....advertisers will ignore it, track people anyway, and there will never be a law to enforce it.
They say this is a good thing, and on the surface it looks great. Protecting the privacy of their users. In reality, its fucking up the privacy of the entire internet in a similar way that non-standard IE6 fucked up the usability of the entire internet a few years back.
Lets say that in the future there is a call to put into law that this DNT flag is honoured by advertisers. A bill will be put to congress that states If advertisers do not respect the DNT flag, they will be committing a crime. However, passing this law would run into problems, because Internet Explorer is defaulting the flag to true! Advertisers would quite rightly claim that the DNT flag is not a true indicator of what internet users want. The bill would be thrown out..... DNT will die. This is what Microsoft are doing. By setting the flag on by default, they are killing the standard, for what ever reason. It will hurt consumers, because setting DNT on or off in any browser wont make any difference what so ever.
They say this is a good think, and on the surface it looks great. Protecting the privacy of their users. In reality, its fucking up the privacy of the entire internet in a similar way that non-standard IE6 fucked up the usability of the entire internet a few years back.
"It also happens to be a bit of a clunker compared to many other modern *nix based OS's"............... Um, you do know that OSX is certified UNIX dont you?
(hands over large brown paper bag, containing a huge amount of cash to director of Toyota)....
Now, how is your quaint little green electric car project getting on. I hear you've run into a few problems with it?.... Well, im sure you'll be able to put this inconvenience behind us both and get on with some good old gasoline powered motors like you have always done.
I made a game, hosted on facebook that earns me a fair income from people spending facebook credits with it...... Facebook handle everything to do with credits, etc.... purchasing them, giving refunds, etc.
How can I make money, if Diaspora took over. Would people become too frightened to spend if there isn't a benevolent dictator to step in should they feel they've been duped?... If I cant make money, then I wont make stuff. No stuff, means a boring Social network
I am 39, going 40 this year. 3 years ago, I was an RPG programmer (IBM Iron). My employer, TD Waterhouse bank, had no interest in moving to more modern tech.
I saw the writing on the wall to my carer, I needed to act. So, I made a facebook game..... it was pretty pants poor, though I did learn new skills. More importantly, I was able to show this game off in an job interview for a Java Web developer.... I got the job because of it.
So, my advice to you is to build your own personal project, Make a website, make a facebook game. the game might not get you anywere, but it will improve your carrier prospects no end.
Do you know if it works in Wine? - I run some Windows on my mac, using Dawine - Seems to work fine. You can also get it for linux too. Might be worth investigating.
You know what parenting is all about? Its about getting your kids prepared for the real world, and not have it hit them like a brick at 18, or whenever you choose to let them off the leash. Its about teaching them respect. allowing them to make their own decisions, but being their to support them when (because of lack of experience), they make make the wrong ones.
If you ban them from the internet unless you're there watching their every move and making sure they're not looking at bad stuff, then they're gonna end up hating you with a passion. Using the internet in secret around their mates house, loosing any kind of respect for you.
Do apple ban redistribution of sourcecode? No. VLC for iPhone's source code was available for download. (before VLC was pulled on request of one of the authors of VLC) Do apple ban redistribution of the binary? Any iphone is free to copy from your iphone backups, and to send to whoever wants it....not that the recipient would be able to do much with it! Do apple ban the use of using other peoples sourcecode in your own project?. Of course not
What apple do, is prevent installation of anything, that hasn't come from the Appstore. This is the so called walled garden!. To be honest, I dont mind a walled garden, as I would rather not have a device that can be infected with Adware/Trojans/Viruses!.
IE 7 is not standards compliant. So, therefore, IE 7 is proprietary internet graphical interface, that can display content from HTTP servers, that is encoded using microsofts proprietary content protocol.....which may be similar, but is not HTML/CSS.
Microsoft chose to do this, in order to try and leverage msHTML into the open internet. They failed. However, the mess they left is still around. Why shouldn't online retailers charge more to customers who insist in using proprietary clients, to cover the cost of converting the standards compliant HTML, to the Microsoft format?
I've got to about an hour, before they told me 'I can go to hell'.....
I managed to keep them talking while I setup a new VM from scratch, and then let them butcher that one believeing it was a real PC. And, then resetting it back to its original state a few times, after supposed crashes!..... haha. They havent phoned me back!
" In fact, Apple’s more tightly constrained systems are generally credited with being more stable and less prone to hardware/software and OS/app incompatibilities and mishaps,"
So, he's saying that apples gear is more stable, etc, because its tightly constrained???
Bollocks!... Look at linux, that's pretty stable and works with all hardware, and yet its arguably the most open of PC operating systems. The reason Apple gear is more stable is because Apple makes it that way, rather than just make something that looks good, and ship it "cus the suckers will buy it anyhow", which seems to be the mentally of most of the tech industry.
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Commenting to remove crap moderation! Pfff....Slashdot, why cant I change my mind!
Newton said 2+2 = 4
Einstein said 2+2= 3.38
(Where '+' is the addition of relative speeds. And units are in 100,000,000 of meters per second)
Has anyone managed to get Minecraft working on OSX Mountain Lion? - Apple removed the java plugin, and Oracle Java 7 doesn't appear to be compatible with OpenGL. The closest Ive managed is to get it running in Windows 7, under virtual box. But, its far from ideal.
Its not a crime to ignore the DNT flag. AND, there can never be a law to make it a crime, as microsoft actions have made DNT not a true indicator of a users preference.
Lets say that in the future there is a call to put into law that this DNT flag is honoured by advertisers. A bill will be put to congress that states If advertisers do not respect the DNT flag, they will be committing a crime.
However, passing this law would run into problems, because Internet Explorer is defaulting the flag to true! Advertisers would quite rightly claim that the DNT flag is not a true indicator of what internet users want. The bill would be thrown out..... DNT will die. This is what Microsoft are doing. By setting the flag on by default, they are killing the standard. It will hurt consumers, because from then on, setting DNT on or off in any browser wont make any difference what so ever....advertisers will ignore it, track people anyway, and there will never be a law to enforce it.
They say this is a good thing, and on the surface it looks great. Protecting the privacy of their users. In reality, its fucking up the privacy of the entire internet in a similar way that non-standard IE6 fucked up the usability of the entire internet a few years back.
Lets say that in the future there is a call to put into law that this DNT flag is honoured by advertisers. A bill will be put to congress that states If advertisers do not respect the DNT flag, they will be committing a crime.
However, passing this law would run into problems, because Internet Explorer is defaulting the flag to true! Advertisers would quite rightly claim that the DNT flag is not a true indicator of what internet users want. The bill would be thrown out..... DNT will die. This is what Microsoft are doing. By setting the flag on by default, they are killing the standard, for what ever reason. It will hurt consumers, because setting DNT on or off in any browser wont make any difference what so ever.
They say this is a good think, and on the surface it looks great. Protecting the privacy of their users. In reality, its fucking up the privacy of the entire internet in a similar way that non-standard IE6 fucked up the usability of the entire internet a few years back.
"It also happens to be a bit of a clunker compared to many other modern *nix based OS's"............... Um, you do know that OSX is certified UNIX dont you?
(hands over large brown paper bag, containing a huge amount of cash to director of Toyota)....
Now, how is your quaint little green electric car project getting on. I hear you've run into a few problems with it?.... Well, im sure you'll be able to put this inconvenience behind us both and get on with some good old gasoline powered motors like you have always done.
Kindest of regards, Director of ExxonMobile
I made a game, hosted on facebook that earns me a fair income from people spending facebook credits with it. ..... Facebook handle everything to do with credits, etc.... purchasing them, giving refunds, etc.
How can I make money, if Diaspora took over. Would people become too frightened to spend if there isn't a benevolent dictator to step in should they feel they've been duped?... If I cant make money, then I wont make stuff. No stuff, means a boring Social network
I am 39, going 40 this year. 3 years ago, I was an RPG programmer (IBM Iron). My employer, TD Waterhouse bank, had no interest in moving to more modern tech.
I saw the writing on the wall to my carer, I needed to act. So, I made a facebook game..... it was pretty pants poor, though I did learn new skills. More importantly, I was able to show this game off in an job interview for a Java Web developer.... I got the job because of it.
So, my advice to you is to build your own personal project, Make a website, make a facebook game. the game might not get you anywere, but it will improve your carrier prospects no end.
Do you know if it works in Wine? - I run some Windows on my mac, using Dawine - Seems to work fine. You can also get it for linux too. Might be worth investigating.
You know what parenting is all about? Its about getting your kids prepared for the real world, and not have it hit them like a brick at 18, or whenever you choose to let them off the leash. Its about teaching them respect. allowing them to make their own decisions, but being their to support them when (because of lack of experience), they make make the wrong ones.
If you ban them from the internet unless you're there watching their every move and making sure they're not looking at bad stuff, then they're gonna end up hating you with a passion. Using the internet in secret around their mates house, loosing any kind of respect for you.
Im dyslexic, you insensitive clod!
+1 informative.
Do apple ban redistribution of sourcecode? No. VLC for iPhone's source code was available for download. (before VLC was pulled on request of one of the authors of VLC)
Do apple ban redistribution of the binary? Any iphone is free to copy from your iphone backups, and to send to whoever wants it....not that the recipient would be able to do much with it!
Do apple ban the use of using other peoples sourcecode in your own project?. Of course not
What apple do, is prevent installation of anything, that hasn't come from the Appstore. This is the so called walled garden!. To be honest, I dont mind a walled garden, as I would rather not have a device that can be infected with Adware/Trojans/Viruses!.
IE 7 is not standards compliant. So, therefore, IE 7 is proprietary internet graphical interface, that can display content from HTTP servers, that is encoded using microsofts proprietary content protocol.....which may be similar, but is not HTML/CSS.
Microsoft chose to do this, in order to try and leverage msHTML into the open internet. They failed. However, the mess they left is still around. Why shouldn't online retailers charge more to customers who insist in using proprietary clients, to cover the cost of converting the standards compliant HTML, to the Microsoft format?
You think anti-virus would have protected mac users from this?
It wouldn't.
This is the most f*in insightful comment I have seen on slashdot. +10
I use a computer that has a unix command line, comes pre-installed with Apache/PHP, runs office and photoshop natively.... And just works.
Really..... I dont mind paying over the odds for a computer that does this.
I've got to about an hour, before they told me 'I can go to hell'.....
I managed to keep them talking while I setup a new VM from scratch, and then let them butcher that one believeing it was a real PC. And, then resetting it back to its original state a few times, after supposed crashes!..... haha. They havent phoned me back!
>>And since basically NO custom business apps run on it,
You are so wrong.
http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/
If apple made eveything iOs, then what are developers going to code with?
Apple releases an iOs SDK for windows?
*shudder*
A user has asked for Airprint to be supported. a quick google search of "windows airprint", gives instructions how to do it. its an easy fix.
However, you rather tell your users they should be using windows 7 instead.
I have conducted user training on password complexity.
Then I did a password audit a few months later and the percentage of users using "password123" or a permutation of that had declined from 20% to 18%.
Disempowring them, was, unfortunately, the only effective solution.
Everyone hates them, the monthly change of password to something that hasn't been uses the last umpteen times, for the sake of security.
A fingerprint reader can be purchased for $50..... So, why, still do the IT departments want to put their staff through the password mangle??
" In fact, Apple’s more tightly constrained systems are generally credited with being more stable and less prone to hardware/software and OS/app incompatibilities and mishaps,"
So, he's saying that apples gear is more stable, etc, because its tightly constrained???
Bollocks!... Look at linux, that's pretty stable and works with all hardware, and yet its arguably the most open of PC operating systems. The reason Apple gear is more stable is because Apple makes it that way, rather than just make something that looks good, and ship it "cus the suckers will buy it anyhow", which seems to be the mentally of most of the tech industry.
Didn't oracle say they were taking over releases of Java on the mac?