Considering how much Terminal.app is like any terminal emulator (i.e., xterm, rxvt, etc.), you do realize that this line does, in fact, make you sound retarded.
Bullshit. Terminal.app doesn't give you scrollback hell like xterm (shutter) or rxvt (which I have used for over 10 years) does. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, scrollback hell is when your are actively tailing a file or some other activity that happens to put output to the terminal, the others automatically drop you back to the current commandline and I can't read what I'm trying to read. It has variable transparency, and yes I realize that other terms may have this. I've used every terminal app available under Windows, Unix, Linux, and OS X. Terminal.app is clearly the best that I have ever used. Its been so long since I've been annoyed by the other ones that I've forgotten, but the absence of any annoyances is good enough for me. I don't wish Terminal.app did X or it didn't do Y, it just works.
Who buys beverages from a movie rental store? Do you like paying more than twice regular price for such items?
I do. The liqueur store is in the same shopping center, and in my state (virginia) liqueur stores don't sell anything besides liqueur and some selected mixers. And, FYI the 12pack was $4.00. I usually pay $3.50 for a 12pack, sometimes $3.00 or $2.50 if I'm lucky.
I only noticed a lack of customers, and the inability of the cashier to give me an adequate sized bag for the 12pack of Coke that I bought. I was informed that the lack of bags was due to "cutbacks".
> I've got a mac now. The first of my life, from someone who wasn't ever a mac guy (and was probably more 'anti-mac' than most.)
Me 3.
I've ditched Linux for a PowerBook, and I will not look back. Its been a little over a year, and I've just become used to what it does, and what I _don't_ have to do.
For my needs, the OS still has a long way to go, but its pretty damn good. I'm a sysadmin, and the Terminal.app is worth the investment in a PowerBook in itself.
"It's the legal fees that are battering the company," said OptInRealBig.com lawyer Steven Richter, father of Scott Richter. He said the company faces lawsuits from Microsoft and other parties in Colorado, California and Utah. "OptIn is profitable but for these lawsuits."
Wow, the kettle doesn't fall far from the black pot tree now does it?
Unless you have an '*' next to your name, you don't pay for slashdot other than the electricity to run your box. Don't give me the "but the ads are there" tripe either. I know most of you either use Adblock or ignore them anyway.
I don't see your '*', but a registered user and evan an AC adds traffic and credibility to the site. I don't know the numbers of subscribers, but I doubt/. would at all be the same if only subscribers were allowed to the site, or if it would exist at all. Also, I would assume that/. gets paid the same regardless of people using adblockers or whatever (or they should demand the same). Magazine ads pay a rate given the size, placement, and according the the volume of sales of the magazine. The same is for TV, radio, and newspapers. I've never heard of a TV, radio, newspaper, or any advertiser supported medium failing financially because people weren't "looking at the ads". Hopefully advertisers will realize that aside from a low cost quick fix gimic (also the ads for those gimics immediately stop when sales get below some threshold), an ad is best at promoting product awareness and a positive feeling towards a company and its products. I have never heard of someone up and trading in their car at 8pm at night and buying a new one because of an ad on TV. However, if its time to buy a car, the attitude towards a particular brand of car and the reputation of the manufacturer via ads and seeing similar cars on the road and people's feedback can increase sales. I'm beginning to think that the self delusion of sales people and their BS are wearing off on marketers to the point that marketers think they are salesman and are getting some kind of direct commission of a sale from advertising. Sorry, your only a marketer. Sales is a different job.
The source is available. Start your own site.
So true. But/. is currently a staple because of its userbase and its longevity on the net. I've been reading since it was "chips and dips" or whatever in Taco's dorm room when he was in school. Slashdot is aggressively indexed by google and is a good site _because of its users_ and its notoriety. The code is good, and it is available, but I know of no other even miner website of interest that uses slashcode. Sometimes I wish there were a more mature version of slashdot or at least a way to filter besides friends and foes for a more informed crowd vs the college kid that knows everything because he is a college kid that knows everything.
First, don't lock yourself into any pay subscriptions.
Klunk!
Klunk!
Rip.
Thats the sound of my cell phone hitting the trash, my satellite dish hitting the trash, and my gym membership card being ripped up.
Oh, wait. I don't have a contract with those types of companies. Why? They have lock in subscriptions.
Its imperative for people to realize that they should _never_ sign up for an annual contract or whatever for a monthly service. There is absolutely no benefit for you to do so, it only benefits the company. I really don't know why people put up with this.
I am a happy user of my cable company's HD DVR (motorola 6xxx model), and I'm a picky SOB. There are a few small annoyances that I can't think of offhand, but its a pretty slick box (and it does not use my phone line).
Being that my cable box is a monthly add on service to my existing cable bill, it would seem illogical for the cable company to add a "feature" like popup ads. Regardless if I view ads or not, the cable company gets the channels at a fixed rate and I pay a fixed rate according to what channels I want. The tv channels get their advertising revenue at a rate based on their audience, not by the view (like web advertising) or according to me viewing the ads or not.
Also, its worth mentioning that I still see a good amount of ads. It seems like I still see the same ad multiple times. In fact, I just went out and bought 8 brand new cars on those low lease deals because the ads were so good to distort my logic. (Just kidding)
Now, TiVo too gets paid the same if you watch the ads or not. So why are they doing this? I guess the base rate of revenue is not paying off their debt fast enough.
Personal data need to be treated as government certification of Secret documents, or at least give it Collateral classification level treatment. When personal data is checked out and allowed to be placed on laptops or other portable devices for removal from the central location where the data is stored, personal responsibility needs to be ensured and access should be confirmed by 1) need to know basis and 2) those who are trained to undergo training with confidential data.
That sounds fine and good, and what _should_ be done. But there first needs to be some desire or interest for the government to do such a thing, and there is no evidence of any interest whatsoever. I see government sponsored prime time TV ads reminding us to behave and not get high and to be good mommies and daddies by paying attention to our kids and their homework, but I have yet to of seen an ad about protecting my government initiated and issued social security number. Its still legal for just about anybody to ask for my government social security number with no laws protecting me if that person mishandles or misuses my SSN. Identity theft is practically legal, and there is little to no initiative to pursue or prosecute people that steal (or infringe for those people that are anal about the word "steal") people's identities.
So why doesn't the government actually care about this? Because people are adaptive, and will basically stay at their status quo after an identity theft. A poor person's identity theft will keep them poor, and being that they have little credit, not much theft is going on, and their credit is probably bad already, and they are already behind on their bills, etc. A middle class person will suffer a temporary setback (probably most vulnerable of the classes), but they aren't going to loose their job because someone opened up a bunch of credit accounts in their name. In other words the government will still get paid one way or another. Rich people will still be rich, regardless of an identity theft, and its likely they will take care of the pursuit of the thief themselves.
Basically, from the government's point of view, identity theft is a victimless crime. I know no one personally that has been affected by it, but I've read stories here and other places about it. It basically seems like a pain in the ass, kinda like being hassled by the law or a divorce, but life goes on, and I would only expect for it to escalate a little higher over the next couple of years and then taper off some.
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To move files from one disk to another: hold down the Apple key when dragging files. Dragging ordinarily moves files, but when you drag from one disk to another, OSX wants to help you by assuming you want to copy.
In windows, I _always_ DNDed files via the right mouse button and let it pop up a menu to move or copy or whatever it says. I was never bright enough to figure out what the OS was going to do with my files with a plain DND (it was also variable if multiple files were selected of different types vs all of one type, ARGG!)
OSX just treats my folder as one file -- screw the contents, it's just a file to OSX.
I guess that is why I use the commandline. I don't know the voodoo tricks yet.
The best was with older Mac's and whatever the issue was with trying to use a file on a floppy or other removable device. Something like you would copy the file to the desktop from the disk, edit it, at some time later eject the disk, and your file was gone from the desktop.
I don't remember the details, but crap like that and the memory mismanagement of pre OS X Macs kept me on other systems.
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both VLC and MPlayer pop fullscreen to the "root" window
I don't know about MPlayer, but VLC can be configured to display on a certain display at fullscreen. Its cool, I'll have the VLC controller on my laptop display and the video on my HDTV. It works surprisingly well.
Cracks me up that here we are in 2005 and you can't "go to" a specified time in any of these apps- you have to scrub close to where you want and let fly from there. You want precision? You have to dump into editing software and hope to hell the quicktime API can handle the video (it horks like a mother on a wide, wide variety of divx-variants).
I guess more people will mod me as flaimbate for being candid in my experiences, but WTF? It is 2005 and a Mac that is supposed to be the multimedia machine of professionals can't "go to" a specific time reliably? Dang!
I've been talking with a coworker about buying a personal machine, and he says that he starts doing research and looking for a box (Windows, Linux, or Mac) and then just gives up. I haven't plunked down my personal cash for a computer since my P1 233 MHz, because I cannot justify the cost/benefit, and I still can't because of issues like we are discussing. Computers are fine for servers and crunching numbers (what I do for a living), but to be an integrated device for games, movies, music, pictures, data storage and manipulation, etc. They still basically suck. Maybe my years of being away from Windows and forgetting some of the reasons that I disliked it so much are to blame here. But I think that Windows is the best of breed for my personal interests at home. I do wish the commandline was better on Windows. I simply need that power. And the cygwin apps are usable, but at roughly 50% of the speed of a native Windows app.
Hmm, cassettes and VHS tapes. Maybe the 80s were more advanced than I thought.
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Finder does not seem to be multithreaded, if any network communication gets stuck the whole thing does.
Fortunately, I have not experienced this problem. To me the finder (and every other "file manager') is mostly worthless. This weekend I was transferring a bunch of data that I had backed up on CDrom to a new external harddisk, actually from CDrom to my local HD, reorganize the data, or whatever, and then put it on my external drive. I never knew there was no way to move data from one disk to another (or I just don't know how). I have to copy the data, then put the old files in the trash, and at some point delete the trash.
It kills me that there is no way to simply preview a text file with a non text file looking extension. Maybe I'm just old school. But I find the commandline better for well over 99% of file interaction. I can type 'cat filename' and see what is in there, I can move, compare, copy, delete, edit, compress, use wildcards, multiple operations via a 'for' loop, or do anything basically from the commandline, so that is where I stay most of the time. The only real benefit of a GUI file manager is if I need to select seemingly random files to move or delete where a wildcard or sorting by date or extension or whatever will not be efficient or effective.
QuickTime (player).
I'll give you this. I cannot believe that my $2,500 PowerBook with all of this useful software and a great OS comes with nagware to play a subset of media files out there. I'm sure the "Pro" version handles these irritations, but it kills me that the damn thing does not remember the volume and defaults to 100% EVERY TIME. In my opinion, this is a disgrace for Apple to include such crap with their computer. Unfortunately, Mplayer and VLC aren't much better. VLC is about the best, but it still kinda sucks if you want to do something like seek ahead or behind in a file.
Aside from the high dollar professional multimedia apps for the Mac, in my experience OS X sucks for simple things like playing music or movies. For home use, I may buy a Windows computer (and I hate windows), but Windows seems to be the only OS that comes with working media software -- Winamp, and I assume there is something for video. I wouldn't mind using Windows too much if it came with some way to do remote commandline stuff. Its been years since I've used Windows, but cygwin was very useful then, maybe there is a working sshd or similar for the system. I'll have to check into it.
Each and every slip had the full credit card number, the expiration date, and a copy of the cardholder's signature.
Many other stores, restaurants, etc simply store this information in the trash. I guess you can consider the new Walmart approach progress.
However, I don't care too much if my credit card info gets stolen, and being that the credit card people don't do anything to protect themselves from this kind of theft, I guess they don't either. There is, and always will be a balance between security and ease of use, and the level of security vs value of that being secured (nobody puts much of a lock on a piggy bank, Fort Knox has an entire Army base guarding it).
I really guess that most people are either just a) honest, or b) too stupid or lazy to be dishonest. I'm actually shocked that CC theft is not more of a problem, and have been for years.
I don't see it as such. After all, slackware does not provide support for the hurd kernel or the bsd kernel either. I doubt Patrick has any big beef with any of the packages he doesn't support, but its not worth the extra layer of complexity to provide something as 2 monolithic desktop environments that are both in active development for each release of slackware. Its simply an executive decision, and I don't know why other distributions are still wasting their time supporting both.
I don't know how well a Linux distribution is supported at the GUI level, but if there were any, there would have to be two scripts to walk people through for everything. That would be difficult just in communicating with the people in India at the helpdesk (du du sztha!)
I think this is a mature decision, and I would imagine that other distributions will (or should) follow suit.
I've watched countless users sit there and click though endless dialogs warning them about how they're about to unleash bubonic plague upon the world or whatever. These people regard warnings as a hassle, something to be dismissed as quickly as possible. They do not regard them as an actual warning. Warnings are something that apply to other people.
One big difference.
Windows users are used to a braindead OS and associated applications that incessantly popup bozoboxes that usually mean nothing and are an annoyance, and people click OK to get rid of them without thinking.
Also, most dialog boxes in OS X have much more meaningful text on their buttons besides "OK" and "Cancel". Its unlikely that a user (but still possible) to click on a button that says "Release bubonic plague now".
I doubt your teacher friend was working 50 years ago, but supposedly the average vocabulary of a 15 year old has decreased from about 25,000 words to 10,000 over the past 50 years.
I don't know what to think of that. I do know in reading older texts how "flowery" they sound compared to now.
For example, do you think that Amazon will move to a simpler website design to accomodate relatively few mobile users? Or would they go to the trouble to create an alternate 'mobile-only' website?
The answer?
Yes, if the market demands for such a headache merit doing so.
They better hurry up. I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of nowhere away from stores and internet connections, and I only had my cellphone and needed to quickly buy something from Amazon so that it would be at home in the next couple of days or sooner if I felt like paying more. Oh, but nevermind, someone beeped in on call waiting while I was making the purchase, I gabbed loudly with my friend about important mindless stuff, and then forgot about what I needed to buy.
I'm pretty much into technology and toys, but I don't see where a web storefront available on my cellphone would make my purchases at Amazon more pleasant. I guess it could be cool for email, or maybe quickly tracking of my order from Amazon. Granted I drive to work and don't sit on a train, but the limitations of cell phone web browsing do not seem to overcome the advantages of shopping in route with my phone.
Also, its shit becuase if you've got Acrobat 7 installed, any pdf's you view in Safari have to open Acrobat first, no matter how many times you tell it to 'always open with preview'. Bugger.
I prefer all of my non HTML and image stuff to be downloaded to my download directory, managed by my download manager, and launched whenever I want without having to go back to the website, waiting for the movie to buffer and pause, etc.
So, I have Safari just download extra junk and I have no plugins loaded in Safari. Well, my taxes require Acrobat proper because preview does not seem to do PDFs with forms. Got Acrobat, and now Safari loads a blank page with nothing when I follow a PDF link.
I noticed in Acrobat's preferences, if I uncheck all of the internet options I have my browser back. Been fine ever since.
However, I cannot unload the "Print to PDF" option in all of my applications. It just comes with OS X, and I consider it more of a feature than not.
I can't say a definitive "yes" or "no", but I can say one thing.
You will not be disappointed in buying a Monster Cable.
You may find something cheaper at about the same quality from somewhere that you did not buy your TV from. You may have to go through a laundry list of "do"s and "don't"s about what is important for each kind of cable that you need for what particular application you are going to use it for as suggested above, and you may be satisfied, and be able to go out and party like a rock star for a couple of days on the money that you saved, or...
You could just buy a Monster Cable that is sold at the store that you just unloaded $1,500+ dollars on a TV and buy a cable for well under $100 that will ensure that your $1,500+ TV looks OK.
You get what you pay for, more or less. I've heard that its recommended to spend about 10% of the cost of your electronics for cables. Being that taxes are in that ballpark for my purchase, and they have no value added to the quality of the picture or sound, it does not seem excessive to me to spend 10% on good cables and call it good enough. However, you could only spend 5% and get the same quality. Its up to you. Personally, I don't have a problem spending money on something that I know I will not be disappointed in spending.
In my experience, when encountered with a breech, its safest to assume the worst. The ability to guess how ignorant or stupid a hacker is/was is not very wise. Even a moron that can break in, can leave a backdoor to come back in.
I remember when a database got hacked and all of the usernames and passwords were in plaintext, which has of course been fixed. More about that breakin here.
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Considering how much Terminal.app is like any terminal emulator (i.e., xterm, rxvt, etc.), you do realize that this line does, in fact, make you sound retarded.
Bullshit. Terminal.app doesn't give you scrollback hell like xterm (shutter) or rxvt (which I have used for over 10 years) does. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, scrollback hell is when your are actively tailing a file or some other activity that happens to put output to the terminal, the others automatically drop you back to the current commandline and I can't read what I'm trying to read. It has variable transparency, and yes I realize that other terms may have this. I've used every terminal app available under Windows, Unix, Linux, and OS X. Terminal.app is clearly the best that I have ever used. Its been so long since I've been annoyed by the other ones that I've forgotten, but the absence of any annoyances is good enough for me. I don't wish Terminal.app did X or it didn't do Y, it just works.
Who buys beverages from a movie rental store? Do you like paying more than twice regular price for such items?
I do. The liqueur store is in the same shopping center, and in my state (virginia) liqueur stores don't sell anything besides liqueur and some selected mixers. And, FYI the 12pack was $4.00. I usually pay $3.50 for a 12pack, sometimes $3.00 or $2.50 if I'm lucky.
Good enough?
I only noticed a lack of customers, and the inability of the cashier to give me an adequate sized bag for the 12pack of Coke that I bought. I was informed that the lack of bags was due to "cutbacks".
> I've got a mac now. The first of my life, from someone who wasn't ever a mac guy (and was probably more 'anti-mac' than most.)
Me 3.
I've ditched Linux for a PowerBook, and I will not look back. Its been a little over a year, and I've just become used to what it does, and what I _don't_ have to do.
For my needs, the OS still has a long way to go, but its pretty damn good. I'm a sysadmin, and the Terminal.app is worth the investment in a PowerBook in itself.
This time microsoft deserves our support. It's time to go with the lesser of two evils :)
"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
-- Jerry Garcia
"It's the legal fees that are battering the company," said OptInRealBig.com lawyer Steven Richter, father of Scott Richter. He said the company faces lawsuits from Microsoft and other parties in Colorado, California and Utah. "OptIn is profitable but for these lawsuits."
Wow, the kettle doesn't fall far from the black pot tree now does it?
Unless you have an '*' next to your name, you don't pay for slashdot other than the electricity to run your box. Don't give me the "but the ads are there" tripe either. I know most of you either use Adblock or ignore them anyway.
/. would at all be the same if only subscribers were allowed to the site, or if it would exist at all. Also, I would assume that /. gets paid the same regardless of people using adblockers or whatever (or they should demand the same). Magazine ads pay a rate given the size, placement, and according the the volume of sales of the magazine. The same is for TV, radio, and newspapers. I've never heard of a TV, radio, newspaper, or any advertiser supported medium failing financially because people weren't "looking at the ads". Hopefully advertisers will realize that aside from a low cost quick fix gimic (also the ads for those gimics immediately stop when sales get below some threshold), an ad is best at promoting product awareness and a positive feeling towards a company and its products. I have never heard of someone up and trading in their car at 8pm at night and buying a new one because of an ad on TV. However, if its time to buy a car, the attitude towards a particular brand of car and the reputation of the manufacturer via ads and seeing similar cars on the road and people's feedback can increase sales. I'm beginning to think that the self delusion of sales people and their BS are wearing off on marketers to the point that marketers think they are salesman and are getting some kind of direct commission of a sale from advertising. Sorry, your only a marketer. Sales is a different job.
/. is currently a staple because of its userbase and its longevity on the net. I've been reading since it was "chips and dips" or whatever in Taco's dorm room when he was in school. Slashdot is aggressively indexed by google and is a good site _because of its users_ and its notoriety. The code is good, and it is available, but I know of no other even miner website of interest that uses slashcode. Sometimes I wish there were a more mature version of slashdot or at least a way to filter besides friends and foes for a more informed crowd vs the college kid that knows everything because he is a college kid that knows everything.
I don't see your '*', but a registered user and evan an AC adds traffic and credibility to the site. I don't know the numbers of subscribers, but I doubt
The source is available. Start your own site.
So true. But
First, don't lock yourself into any pay subscriptions.
Klunk!
Klunk!
Rip.
Thats the sound of my cell phone hitting the trash, my satellite dish hitting the trash, and my gym membership card being ripped up.
Oh, wait. I don't have a contract with those types of companies. Why? They have lock in subscriptions.
Its imperative for people to realize that they should _never_ sign up for an annual contract or whatever for a monthly service. There is absolutely no benefit for you to do so, it only benefits the company. I really don't know why people put up with this.
I'm a mostly happy TiVo Subscriber
I am a happy user of my cable company's HD DVR (motorola 6xxx model), and I'm a picky SOB. There are a few small annoyances that I can't think of offhand, but its a pretty slick box (and it does not use my phone line).
Being that my cable box is a monthly add on service to my existing cable bill, it would seem illogical for the cable company to add a "feature" like popup ads. Regardless if I view ads or not, the cable company gets the channels at a fixed rate and I pay a fixed rate according to what channels I want. The tv channels get their advertising revenue at a rate based on their audience, not by the view (like web advertising) or according to me viewing the ads or not.
Also, its worth mentioning that I still see a good amount of ads. It seems like I still see the same ad multiple times. In fact, I just went out and bought 8 brand new cars on those low lease deals because the ads were so good to distort my logic. (Just kidding)
Now, TiVo too gets paid the same if you watch the ads or not. So why are they doing this? I guess the base rate of revenue is not paying off their debt fast enough.
Personal data need to be treated as government certification of Secret documents, or at least give it Collateral classification level treatment. When personal data is checked out and allowed to be placed on laptops or other portable devices for removal from the central location where the data is stored, personal responsibility needs to be ensured and access should be confirmed by 1) need to know basis and 2) those who are trained to undergo training with confidential data.
That sounds fine and good, and what _should_ be done. But there first needs to be some desire or interest for the government to do such a thing, and there is no evidence of any interest whatsoever. I see government sponsored prime time TV ads reminding us to behave and not get high and to be good mommies and daddies by paying attention to our kids and their homework, but I have yet to of seen an ad about protecting my government initiated and issued social security number. Its still legal for just about anybody to ask for my government social security number with no laws protecting me if that person mishandles or misuses my SSN. Identity theft is practically legal, and there is little to no initiative to pursue or prosecute people that steal (or infringe for those people that are anal about the word "steal") people's identities.
So why doesn't the government actually care about this? Because people are adaptive, and will basically stay at their status quo after an identity theft. A poor person's identity theft will keep them poor, and being that they have little credit, not much theft is going on, and their credit is probably bad already, and they are already behind on their bills, etc. A middle class person will suffer a temporary setback (probably most vulnerable of the classes), but they aren't going to loose their job because someone opened up a bunch of credit accounts in their name. In other words the government will still get paid one way or another. Rich people will still be rich, regardless of an identity theft, and its likely they will take care of the pursuit of the thief themselves.
Basically, from the government's point of view, identity theft is a victimless crime. I know no one personally that has been affected by it, but I've read stories here and other places about it. It basically seems like a pain in the ass, kinda like being hassled by the law or a divorce, but life goes on, and I would only expect for it to escalate a little higher over the next couple of years and then taper off some.
To move files from one disk to another: hold down the Apple key when dragging files. Dragging ordinarily moves files, but when you drag from one disk to another, OSX wants to help you by assuming you want to copy.
In windows, I _always_ DNDed files via the right mouse button and let it pop up a menu to move or copy or whatever it says. I was never bright enough to figure out what the OS was going to do with my files with a plain DND (it was also variable if multiple files were selected of different types vs all of one type, ARGG!)
OSX just treats my folder as one file -- screw the contents, it's just a file to OSX.
I guess that is why I use the commandline. I don't know the voodoo tricks yet.
The best was with older Mac's and whatever the issue was with trying to use a file on a floppy or other removable device. Something like you would copy the file to the desktop from the disk, edit it, at some time later eject the disk, and your file was gone from the desktop.
I don't remember the details, but crap like that and the memory mismanagement of pre OS X Macs kept me on other systems.
both VLC and MPlayer pop fullscreen to the "root" window
I don't know about MPlayer, but VLC can be configured to display on a certain display at fullscreen. Its cool, I'll have the VLC controller on my laptop display and the video on my HDTV. It works surprisingly well.
Cracks me up that here we are in 2005 and you can't "go to" a specified time in any of these apps- you have to scrub close to where you want and let fly from there. You want precision? You have to dump into editing software and hope to hell the quicktime API can handle the video (it horks like a mother on a wide, wide variety of divx-variants).
I guess more people will mod me as flaimbate for being candid in my experiences, but WTF? It is 2005 and a Mac that is supposed to be the multimedia machine of professionals can't "go to" a specific time reliably? Dang!
I've been talking with a coworker about buying a personal machine, and he says that he starts doing research and looking for a box (Windows, Linux, or Mac) and then just gives up. I haven't plunked down my personal cash for a computer since my P1 233 MHz, because I cannot justify the cost/benefit, and I still can't because of issues like we are discussing. Computers are fine for servers and crunching numbers (what I do for a living), but to be an integrated device for games, movies, music, pictures, data storage and manipulation, etc. They still basically suck. Maybe my years of being away from Windows and forgetting some of the reasons that I disliked it so much are to blame here. But I think that Windows is the best of breed for my personal interests at home. I do wish the commandline was better on Windows. I simply need that power. And the cygwin apps are usable, but at roughly 50% of the speed of a native Windows app.
Hmm, cassettes and VHS tapes. Maybe the 80s were more advanced than I thought.
Finder does not seem to be multithreaded, if any network communication gets stuck the whole thing does.
Fortunately, I have not experienced this problem. To me the finder (and every other "file manager') is mostly worthless. This weekend I was transferring a bunch of data that I had backed up on CDrom to a new external harddisk, actually from CDrom to my local HD, reorganize the data, or whatever, and then put it on my external drive. I never knew there was no way to move data from one disk to another (or I just don't know how). I have to copy the data, then put the old files in the trash, and at some point delete the trash.
It kills me that there is no way to simply preview a text file with a non text file looking extension. Maybe I'm just old school. But I find the commandline better for well over 99% of file interaction. I can type 'cat filename' and see what is in there, I can move, compare, copy, delete, edit, compress, use wildcards, multiple operations via a 'for' loop, or do anything basically from the commandline, so that is where I stay most of the time. The only real benefit of a GUI file manager is if I need to select seemingly random files to move or delete where a wildcard or sorting by date or extension or whatever will not be efficient or effective.
QuickTime (player).
I'll give you this. I cannot believe that my $2,500 PowerBook with all of this useful software and a great OS comes with nagware to play a subset of media files out there. I'm sure the "Pro" version handles these irritations, but it kills me that the damn thing does not remember the volume and defaults to 100% EVERY TIME. In my opinion, this is a disgrace for Apple to include such crap with their computer. Unfortunately, Mplayer and VLC aren't much better. VLC is about the best, but it still kinda sucks if you want to do something like seek ahead or behind in a file.
Aside from the high dollar professional multimedia apps for the Mac, in my experience OS X sucks for simple things like playing music or movies. For home use, I may buy a Windows computer (and I hate windows), but Windows seems to be the only OS that comes with working media software -- Winamp, and I assume there is something for video. I wouldn't mind using Windows too much if it came with some way to do remote commandline stuff. Its been years since I've used Windows, but cygwin was very useful then, maybe there is a working sshd or similar for the system. I'll have to check into it.
Each and every slip had the full credit card number, the expiration date, and a copy of the cardholder's signature.
Many other stores, restaurants, etc simply store this information in the trash. I guess you can consider the new Walmart approach progress.
However, I don't care too much if my credit card info gets stolen, and being that the credit card people don't do anything to protect themselves from this kind of theft, I guess they don't either. There is, and always will be a balance between security and ease of use, and the level of security vs value of that being secured (nobody puts much of a lock on a piggy bank, Fort Knox has an entire Army base guarding it).
I really guess that most people are either just a) honest, or b) too stupid or lazy to be dishonest. I'm actually shocked that CC theft is not more of a problem, and have been for years.
Being in the telemarketing industry, I can whole heartedly confirm the stupidity of most people.
Pot meet kettle, kettle pot.
But still, a slap in the face to the GNOME crew.
I don't see it as such. After all, slackware does not provide support for the hurd kernel or the bsd kernel either. I doubt Patrick has any big beef with any of the packages he doesn't support, but its not worth the extra layer of complexity to provide something as 2 monolithic desktop environments that are both in active development for each release of slackware. Its simply an executive decision, and I don't know why other distributions are still wasting their time supporting both.
I don't know how well a Linux distribution is supported at the GUI level, but if there were any, there would have to be two scripts to walk people through for everything. That would be difficult just in communicating with the people in India at the helpdesk (du du sztha!)
I think this is a mature decision, and I would imagine that other distributions will (or should) follow suit.
I've watched countless users sit there and click though endless dialogs warning them about how they're about to unleash bubonic plague upon the world or whatever. These people regard warnings as a hassle, something to be dismissed as quickly as possible. They do not regard them as an actual warning. Warnings are something that apply to other people.
One big difference.
Windows users are used to a braindead OS and associated applications that incessantly popup bozoboxes that usually mean nothing and are an annoyance, and people click OK to get rid of them without thinking.
Also, most dialog boxes in OS X have much more meaningful text on their buttons besides "OK" and "Cancel". Its unlikely that a user (but still possible) to click on a button that says "Release bubonic plague now".
I doubt your teacher friend was working 50 years ago, but supposedly the average vocabulary of a 15 year old has decreased from about 25,000 words to 10,000 over the past 50 years.
I don't know what to think of that. I do know in reading older texts how "flowery" they sound compared to now.
www.archive.org for free unlimited live dead bootlegs--you'd dig it!--I've got about 217 entire shows on an external hard drive myself!
and the old man never was the same again
For example, do you think that Amazon will move to a simpler website design to accomodate relatively few mobile users? Or would they go to the trouble to create an alternate 'mobile-only' website?
The answer?
Yes, if the market demands for such a headache merit doing so.
They better hurry up. I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of nowhere away from stores and internet connections, and I only had my cellphone and needed to quickly buy something from Amazon so that it would be at home in the next couple of days or sooner if I felt like paying more. Oh, but nevermind, someone beeped in on call waiting while I was making the purchase, I gabbed loudly with my friend about important mindless stuff, and then forgot about what I needed to buy.
I'm pretty much into technology and toys, but I don't see where a web storefront available on my cellphone would make my purchases at Amazon more pleasant. I guess it could be cool for email, or maybe quickly tracking of my order from Amazon. Granted I drive to work and don't sit on a train, but the limitations of cell phone web browsing do not seem to overcome the advantages of shopping in route with my phone.
Also, its shit becuase if you've got Acrobat 7 installed, any pdf's you view in Safari have to open Acrobat first, no matter how many times you tell it to 'always open with preview'. Bugger.
I prefer all of my non HTML and image stuff to be downloaded to my download directory, managed by my download manager, and launched whenever I want without having to go back to the website, waiting for the movie to buffer and pause, etc.
So, I have Safari just download extra junk and I have no plugins loaded in Safari. Well, my taxes require Acrobat proper because preview does not seem to do PDFs with forms. Got Acrobat, and now Safari loads a blank page with nothing when I follow a PDF link.
I noticed in Acrobat's preferences, if I uncheck all of the internet options I have my browser back. Been fine ever since.
However, I cannot unload the "Print to PDF" option in all of my applications. It just comes with OS X, and I consider it more of a feature than not.
I can't say a definitive "yes" or "no", but I can say one thing.
You will not be disappointed in buying a Monster Cable.
You may find something cheaper at about the same quality from somewhere that you did not buy your TV from. You may have to go through a laundry list of "do"s and "don't"s about what is important for each kind of cable that you need for what particular application you are going to use it for as suggested above, and you may be satisfied, and be able to go out and party like a rock star for a couple of days on the money that you saved, or
You could just buy a Monster Cable that is sold at the store that you just unloaded $1,500+ dollars on a TV and buy a cable for well under $100 that will ensure that your $1,500+ TV looks OK.
You get what you pay for, more or less. I've heard that its recommended to spend about 10% of the cost of your electronics for cables. Being that taxes are in that ballpark for my purchase, and they have no value added to the quality of the picture or sound, it does not seem excessive to me to spend 10% on good cables and call it good enough. However, you could only spend 5% and get the same quality. Its up to you. Personally, I don't have a problem spending money on something that I know I will not be disappointed in spending.
Maybe, maybe not.
In my experience, when encountered with a breech, its safest to assume the worst. The ability to guess how ignorant or stupid a hacker is/was is not very wise. Even a moron that can break in, can leave a backdoor to come back in.
In a number of expressions, Nathan uses [A-z] to capture all letters.
How can this be a good book when it makes such mistakes? If this book is for beginners (as it seems) the editing process should have been much better.
I guess the author was a novice and used Word to type the book. Word is notorious of automiscorrecting technical documents.
How about that thing called encryption?
I remember when a database got hacked and all of the usernames and passwords were in plaintext, which has of course been fixed. More about that breakin here.