I don't know what's more troubling, that some moderators have no sense of humor whatsoever, or that some moderators found my silly little post "Insightful".
And to those moderators who can't tell "flamebait" from "funny",
Obligatory and traditional post stating that the Mac is OS is superior because it lacks such "features" as Messenger, is unaffected by Windows viri and that iCab, the Mac only browser has a popup blocker built into it.
Also included in the traditional post is a gratuitous slam against Windows users: "Windows users are poopieheads for using Windows!"
Finishing up with a "In Soviet Russia..." joke
In Soviet Russia, you annoy popups!
It has been my pleasure to provide the Slashdot Community with the obligatory and traditional posting making fun of the Windows OS and WIndows Users, contrasting the Windows OS with the Mac OS,in a snarky, superior and uninformative manner, in a comment thread about yet another flaw/fault/sploit in the Windows OS.
Was it Vannevar Bsuh who said that computers would be as big as the Empire State Building and need to be cooled by the water flow of Niagria Falls?
Let's Google and find out!
WikiPedia sez:: "Vannevar Bush has an unfortunate eponym: vannevar [1] owing to his habit of overestimating technological challenges. He asserted that a nuclear weapon could not be made small enough to fit in the nose of a missile as in an ICBM. He also predicted "electronic brains" the size of the Empire State Building with a Niagara Falls-scale cooling system."
And he was a Scientist who should have known better, partiularly the comment about computers. The folks at Bell Labs had demonstrated the transistor previously to Bush's statement. The implications of the transistor were well known in the scientific community at the time.
I guess Bush missed that memo from the Terran Science Council.
Scientists are proved wrong every day. That's how science works.
And as for 'office' politics, well, we all of us know how absolutely apolitical scientists are, solely devoting all their scientific energies to making new discoveries in the Field of Science! (Gratuitous reference to The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. Collect 'em all!)
"Search the American Physical Society for the "What's New" newsletter archives. Bob Park and other renown scientists can give you plenty to chew on regarding the utility of low-G manufacturing."
A PROBE has pierced the haze around Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, revealing details that have shattered theories about its composition.
The Cassini space probe, launched nearly seven years ago by an international team, became the first craft to orbit Saturn and its rings and moons on Wednesday.
It performed so flawlessly on its 3.5 billion kilometre trek to Saturn that scientists scrapped an orbit correction.
On its first trip past Titan on Thursday, the robot probe snapped infrared images that left scientists puzzled.
"This is the best view of the surface yet and we don't know what to make of it," scientist Elizabeth Turtle said at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Photos taken at 340,000km above Titan show a murky landscape with fuzzy linear structures, which could be mountains, rivers or faults.
They will get a better shot at Titan in October, when Cassini descends to 1200km to snap close-ups of the moon.
It has atmosphere and soil similar to primordial Earth and may contain the building blocks of life.
Scientists believed bright patches on its surface seen earlier were pure water ice.
But the first infrared images taken by Cassini revealed water ice as dark patches because it is mixed with material that may be organic, raining on to the surface.
The infrared map showed a mass of clouds the size of Victoria and Tasmania in the southern hemisphere, which may rain down liquid methane and be linked to storms or an upthrust on its surface.
Cassini also mapped inter action between the huge magnetic bubble that surrounds the Saturn system, and Titan's dynamic atmosphere.
The 80,000km-wide gas cloud follows Titan and is evidence the moon's upper atmosphere is breaking down.
"I'm using a 800MHz G3 iBook and it's plenty fast enough for me doing just about anything. Unless you're using photoshop or crunching numbers, why do you even need a G4? "
EXACTLY! My current Mac is a PowerMac 5500/225, with a Sonnet Crescendo 400 Mhz G3 card in the L2 cache slot.
Photoshop 4 runs perfectly well and at a respectable clip on this machine, As do my spreadsheets and just about any other application I ask it to run.
Compared to the first/second gen CRT iMacs. my Mac just blows them all away in terms of speed, and I get to use all my old SCSI and serial port peripherals, too.
I did drop a USB card into the PCI slot, so I could use a more modern mouse, and when I finally get an iPod, I'll change out the USB card for a USB/FireWire card.
All I really NEED right now, is an internal CD-RW SCSI drive to replace the stock CD-ROM drive.
(maybe. If anyone actually does successfully rip the DRMed CD by this method, please post the details so we can all benefit. I'd try it myself, but as I live in the US, I'm not about to waste my money ordering a CD from Europe of a group I don't particularly care for.)
I get the impression from what I've read, that the Mac DRM only works with OS X.
If so, may I suggest the following:
Get a cheap, used PowerMac with a working CD drive, the System 7.6.1 install disk, and a copy of SoundJam MP V.1.
Install System 7.6.1, install SoundJam MP, rip the fucking HELL out of the CD and share with ALL your friends, far and wide.
Oooopsss! I mean, make your backups of the tracks on the CD and store those backup safely offsite.
And then tell the "Boys" to fuck off and die until they tell their record company that they will not tolerate DRM on their CDs in future.
...I would like to thank ALL you Windows/O.E./I.E./I.I.S. users out there for your noble sacrifices as targets for every little viri writer/wanker out there.
Your selfless efforts to protect all us Mac OS users from their evil efforts brings a tear to my eye!
The ONLY Mac virus I've ever encountered in my 15+ years as a Mac user was found on a used Color Classic I bought five or so years ago from a now defunct Computer Renaissance shop over in Porter Square, Cambridge.
A quick application of Disinfectant destroyed the virus.
As long as the suckers continue to use Windows, and are too stupid to protect their machines, they'll be the target, not me.
...I sincerely thank ALL you Windows users for walking around with great big targets on your backs and between your eyes and on your asses and having all those viri wankers, er, writers using you for their perverse pleasures.
Keeps 'em away from the rest of us, don't you know?
Thanks, guys! I and the rest of the Mac using world appreciate it.
"That sounds pretty silent, but not completely, excepting the Palm maybe. In this computer NOTHING will move. The others did have moving parts that made noise:
Commodore: Floppy drive"
I see your 1541/71/81 Commodore drive (and Dobbs knows, the 1541 could raise a racket when the R/W head was trying to find Track Zero!) and raise you the Commodore 1750 RAM Expansion Unit!
One whole whopping HUGE megabyte of RAM disk. Once all the needed software was installed, you didn't need a floppy drive. Unless you shut the thing off and powered it up again.
But, yes, you are correct about Commodore drives. Although, if you just wanted to play some games, sticking a cartridge in the Expansion Port DID result in a pretty quiet computer.
Save for the game sounds of course.
I suspect that we'll never see a truly silent modern computer until some manner of really efficiant passive cooling for the CPU and graphics card comes along.
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FROM:Bill Gates
TO: MicroSoft Asia
Subject: Linux/Piracy in Asia
DAMMIT! Re-arrange those deck chairs FASTER!
And tell the band to play 'Nearer my God to Thee' LOUDER!
I don't know what's more troubling, that some moderators have no sense of humor whatsoever, or that some moderators found my silly little post "Insightful".
And to those moderators who can't tell "flamebait" from "funny",
#1 Get a life, you pathetic little wankers.
and
#2 <Cartman>"Suck my balls!</Cartman>
#3 PROFIT!
Obligatory and traditional post stating that the Mac is OS is superior because it lacks such "features" as Messenger, is unaffected by Windows viri and that iCab , the Mac only browser has a popup blocker built into it.
Also included in the traditional post is a gratuitous slam against Windows users: "Windows users are poopieheads for using Windows!"
Finishing up with a "In Soviet Russia..." joke
In Soviet Russia, you annoy popups!
It has been my pleasure to provide the Slashdot Community with the obligatory and traditional posting making fun of the Windows OS and WIndows Users, contrasting the Windows OS with the Mac OS,in a snarky, superior and uninformative manner, in a comment thread about yet another flaw/fault/sploit in the Windows OS.
Thank you for your gracious attention!
Was it Vannevar Bsuh who said that computers would be as big as the Empire State Building and need to be cooled by the water flow of Niagria Falls?
Let's Google and find out!
WikiPedia sez: : "Vannevar Bush has an unfortunate eponym: vannevar [1] owing to his habit of overestimating technological challenges. He asserted that a nuclear weapon could not be made small enough to fit in the nose of a missile as in an ICBM. He also predicted "electronic brains" the size of the Empire State Building with a Niagara Falls-scale cooling system."
And he was a Scientist who should have known better, partiularly the comment about computers. The folks at Bell Labs had demonstrated the transistor previously to Bush's statement. The implications of the transistor were well known in the scientific community at the time.
I guess Bush missed that memo from the Terran Science Council.
Scientists are proved wrong every day. That's how science works.
And as for 'office' politics, well, we all of us know how absolutely apolitical scientists are, solely devoting all their scientific energies to making new discoveries in the Field of Science! (Gratuitous reference to The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra . Collect 'em all!)
"Search the American Physical Society for the "What's New" newsletter archives. Bob Park and other renown scientists can give you plenty to chew on regarding the utility of low-G manufacturing."
.
I refer you to Clarke's First and Second Laws
Particularly the First Law.
Probably the slashdotting is subsiding.
I'll try again and see what happens.
Hah!
The first page DID load pretty quickly. But then...
I tried searching for "aeron chair" and got timed out. Many times.
A WHOLE LOTTA geeks must be searching for their dream chair for the home office/frag station.
Why?
I was lucky enough to get into the newspaper site before it got slashdotted, and copied the text just in case.
As it turns out, the site did get slashdotted and I posted the info for those folks who didn't want to wait for the slashdot effect to dissipate.
Oh, and it's spelled "redundant". Two n's, not one.
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Flash on the Titan
05jul04
A PROBE has pierced the haze around Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, revealing details that have shattered theories about its composition.
The Cassini space probe, launched nearly seven years ago by an international team, became the first craft to orbit Saturn and its rings and moons on Wednesday.
It performed so flawlessly on its 3.5 billion kilometre trek to Saturn that scientists scrapped an orbit correction.
On its first trip past Titan on Thursday, the robot probe snapped infrared images that left scientists puzzled.
"This is the best view of the surface yet and we don't know what to make of it," scientist Elizabeth Turtle said at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Photos taken at 340,000km above Titan show a murky landscape with fuzzy linear structures, which could be mountains, rivers or faults.
They will get a better shot at Titan in October, when Cassini descends to 1200km to snap close-ups of the moon.
It has atmosphere and soil similar to primordial Earth and may contain the building blocks of life.
Scientists believed bright patches on its surface seen earlier were pure water ice.
But the first infrared images taken by Cassini revealed water ice as dark patches because it is mixed with material that may be organic, raining on to the surface.
The infrared map showed a mass of clouds the size of Victoria and Tasmania in the southern hemisphere, which may rain down liquid methane and be linked to storms or an upthrust on its surface.
Cassini also mapped inter action between the huge magnetic bubble that surrounds the Saturn system, and Titan's dynamic atmosphere.
The 80,000km-wide gas cloud follows Titan and is evidence the moon's upper atmosphere is breaking down.
Reuters
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Buying a Windows machine instead of a Macintosh?
/. post?)
(Would this be considered a generic
CURSE my current lack of mod points!
Best laugh I've had for days!
Thanks!
so an A.C. sez:
"I'm using a 800MHz G3 iBook and it's plenty fast enough for me doing just about anything. Unless you're using photoshop or crunching numbers, why do you even need a G4? "
EXACTLY! My current Mac is a PowerMac 5500/225, with a Sonnet Crescendo 400 Mhz G3 card in the L2 cache slot.
Photoshop 4 runs perfectly well and at a respectable clip on this machine, As do my spreadsheets and just about any other application I ask it to run.
Compared to the first/second gen CRT iMacs. my Mac just blows them all away in terms of speed, and I get to use all my old SCSI and serial port peripherals, too.
I did drop a USB card into the PCI slot, so I could use a more modern mouse, and when I finally get an iPod, I'll change out the USB card for a USB/FireWire card.
All I really NEED right now, is an internal CD-RW SCSI drive to replace the stock CD-ROM drive.
They do have a choice. They can say "NO! No more music from us for your company!"
If you're willing to accept the consequences of saying "NO!", it's the most powerful word in any language.
Fuck the cowardly Beastie Boys!
That's not the point.
The point is circumventing the DRM that keeps people from playing the CD they bought as they see fit, be it on a computer or an iPod.
Fuck the Beastie Boys for allowing DRM of ANY kind on ANY of their CDs.
(maybe. If anyone actually does successfully rip the DRMed CD by this method, please post the details so we can all benefit. I'd try it myself, but as I live in the US, I'm not about to waste my money ordering a CD from Europe of a group I don't particularly care for.)
I get the impression from what I've read, that the Mac DRM only works with OS X.
If so, may I suggest the following:
Get a cheap, used PowerMac with a working CD drive, the System 7.6.1 install disk, and a copy of SoundJam MP V.1.
Install System 7.6.1, install SoundJam MP, rip the fucking HELL out of the CD and share with ALL your friends, far and wide.
Oooopsss! I mean, make your backups of the tracks on the CD and store those backup safely offsite.
And then tell the "Boys" to fuck off and die until they tell their record company that they will not tolerate DRM on their CDs in future.
...I would like to thank ALL you Windows/O.E./I.E./I.I.S. users out there for your noble sacrifices as targets for every little viri writer/wanker out there.
Your selfless efforts to protect all us Mac OS users from their evil efforts brings a tear to my eye!
Thank you all!
You got the first part right, Sparky!
The ONLY Mac virus I've ever encountered in my 15+ years as a Mac user was found on a used Color Classic I bought five or so years ago from a now defunct Computer Renaissance shop over in Porter Square, Cambridge.
A quick application of Disinfectant destroyed the virus.
As long as the suckers continue to use Windows, and are too stupid to protect their machines, they'll be the target, not me.
...I sincerely thank ALL you Windows users for walking around with great big targets on your backs and between your eyes and on your asses and having all those viri wankers, er, writers using you for their perverse pleasures.
Keeps 'em away from the rest of us, don't you know?
Thanks, guys! I and the rest of the Mac using world appreciate it.
And here I am, occasionally contemplating the one fan in my PowerMac 5500/225, and thinking that I should replace it with something a bit quieter.
I can see why you wouldn't that in the bedroom.
NINE FANS?
What do you have in that case?
"That sounds pretty silent, but not completely, excepting the Palm maybe. In this computer NOTHING will move. The others did have moving parts that made noise:
Commodore: Floppy drive"
I see your 1541/71/81 Commodore drive (and Dobbs knows, the 1541 could raise a racket when the R/W head was trying to find Track Zero!) and raise you the Commodore 1750 RAM Expansion Unit!
One whole whopping HUGE megabyte of RAM disk. Once all the needed software was installed, you didn't need a floppy drive. Unless you shut the thing off and powered it up again.
But, yes, you are correct about Commodore drives. Although, if you just wanted to play some games, sticking a cartridge in the Expansion Port DID result in a pretty quiet computer.
Save for the game sounds of course.
I suspect that we'll never see a truly silent modern computer until some manner of really efficiant passive cooling for the CPU and graphics card comes along.
"That should be the first computer I have to be completely silent."
I've had silent computers for YEARS.
VIC=20
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Mac Plus
Palm IIIx
It's still broken. I'm using the latest version, 2.9.8.
And yet, there are other sites who use the same multiple tiny images to form one big image thing where iCab displays everything perfectly.
Supposedly, version 3 will have working CSS.
Still and all, it's still the best browser for the Classic Mac OS environment. Hell, they STILL support 68K Macs under System 7.6.1!
"They might consider getting their very own GeekMan to make sure that their site renders properly in Gecko and Opera. :/"
And iCab , too!
..."Any fool can use a computer. Many do."
Ted Nelson