Ha.. that gripe is now becoming obsolete. On a MB or MBP, put two fingers on the track-pad and press the 'single' mouse button. You will find this has the same effect as pressing the secondary button button on a WinDell or any other PC laptop. I don't know if this works on the PPC Macs. For the desktop Macs there is plenty of alternatives (Logitech, Macally) if you don't like the old one button Mac mouse or the Mighty Mouse. The latter incidentally includes a second and third and fourth mouse 'button' functionality but the ergonomics are not to everyones taste. I'll admit it took Apple much longer than it should have to remedy the 'missing second button' issue in it's product line, the two-fingers-on-the-trackpad feature on the Laptop line was especially long overdue since the old [Ctrl]+MouseClick was pretty awkward.
No, he's developing.NET apps using Windows. His database is SQL Server. He doesn't want to use Mono. So he's almost definitely developing for Windows. Mac apps have far better native options for development.
The only tip someone might find useful in this blog post is his informal test of memory settings in Parallels.
That's a bit harsh. I do the exact same thing as this guy does. I Prefer working with OS.X or failing that Linux as a Desktop OS to working with Windows and I sometimes develop for OS.X and Linux in my spare time using native tools. However at work I also have to use Windows for development purposes as well as for testing and for Windows only apps so I have solved the problem with Parallels and it suits me just fine for all sorts of reasons. For one thing I don't have to deal with the headache of having to juggle a Windows laptop for work as well as a the Mac because Parallels enables me to cram the whole lot, Windows, OS.X and all the devel tools onto my MacBook and a pint sized external drive for the Parallels image files I am not using at the moment. At home I have a more powerful development system built on the same concept but running VMWare for doing stuff my MBP and Parallels can't handle but unfortunately my employer is not that progressive and does everything via test systems managed by the IT department through an inflexible bureaucracy. Fortunately I am usually able to quickly set up a pre built Linux/Windows/Unix testing/development environment on my Mac and get a whole pile of work done in the time it takes the overworked guys in the IT department to find a machine and get a test environment up and running. Basically, thanks to Parallels, I can whip up a prebuilt instance of any operating system that runs on an Intel processor with in a matter of minutes without having to endure Windows as my primary Desktop OS and all this without ever rebooting anything other than a VM, which from my point of view is paradise. I'm not saying this is something every developer should do but this approach has it's advantages.
...as for your wish to be able to set a photo as a wallpaper, i don't quite understand the function of such a feature. when you're not using the screen to navigate through the UI, how much time do you spend looking at it?
Just a thought... but perhaps.... If you put a wallpaper depicting the Goatse guy in your iPod there is a slim chance a thief would be so nauseated by the wallpaper he would forget to steal the iPod. Personally I would never install such a wallpaper since the mere sight of it would make me so sick I wouldn't ever want to use the iPod but not everybody is as easily nauseated by Goatse photos as I am so the idea may have some merit for it's deterrent value.
Like the ancients, it's how we bury our dead which will be most telling to the next crop of intelligent life to evolve on Earth.
Burials are certainly a rich source of information but believe it or not some of the most interesting archeological discoveries have come from ancient rubbish dumps.
Your oh-so-funny post conveniently ignores the contribution of genetics in the predisposition to Type 2 diabetes.
No not really, my oh-so-sarcastic post simply failed to mention my own genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes and it also should have mentioned that I used to be one of those lazy nerds. Crawling behind a genetic predisposition for cover won't help you any more than it helped me. It is a statistical reality that the majority of patients with type 2 diabetes have been obese. Most of the time (there are exceptions as another poster here pointed out) a genetic predisposition to get diabetes only causes you to get diabetes 2 at an abnormally early age if you eat like a pig and never get off your ass and exercise which is how I contracted my diabetes. Several of my extended family also have this predisposition and have led very normal lives regardless because they eat and live healthy. My luck was that because of the genetic predisposition there are a few others in my family who have diabetes 2 and so I was dragged kicking and screaming to a doctor who diagnosed my diabetes very early. As a consequence of that early diagnosis and due to the fact that I became a sports fanatic I suffer very mildly from diabetes. So long as I stick with my diet and exercise I will probably never suffer very badly from it although there will always be some consequences. Unfortunately of the other people which I know and who also contracted premature diabetes 2 at an early age some 70-80% only take medication and do little else to deal with it. I shudder to think what sorts of medical problems they will have in 20 years time.
Short version: Lazy people, including nerds who sit in front of computers all day eating little other than junk food and candy and never get any exercise (and no, making a virtual character run around in a first person shooter doesn't count as exercise) tend to get fat which eventually leads to them developing a condition called diabetes 2. In order to control their diabetes they have to take drugs and possibly inject them selves with insulin. JANUVIA is a new drug that helps some diabetes 2 sufferers control their blood sugar level more efficiently although in most cases it will only prolong the inevitable. This is because most people who contract diabetes 2 are usually apathetic about it and make do with taking their medication but don't do anything to change their lifestyle. They avoid serious exercise and continue to stuff their faces with candy and junk food so the drug only slows down the diabetes and eventually they end up suffering one or more of the following diabetes related ailments: renal failure, blindness, chronic wounds, kidney failure and coronary artery disease. The list is probably longer but those are the only ones I could remember off hand.
Half of us will be Swedish, and the other half will be British?
Yes and the Brits will make revolting sausages out of the Swedes and eat them with bacon and eggs.
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With this news, I better get rid of my Redhat stock. This news cannot be good news for ReaHat or any other Linux vendor. I hope I am not too late.
I doubt it is terribly bad news for Red Hat. Even if Oracle create their own distro I doubt they would get away with ceasing to certifying their products for any other Linux distros. There are simply to many people with already established contractually sealed working relationships with SUSE and Red Hat. Of course Oracle will recommend the use of Oracle Linux® (can they even register that as a trade mark if it contains the word 'Linux'?) and all updates to Oracle products will appear for Oracle Linux® first and only 2-3 weeks later for SUSE, Red Hat etc. but that's about it.... unless Larry wants to piss off every last one of the sizable number of IT professionals world wide that haven't been assimilated into the Microsoft collective yet. Even if they do stop certifying Oracle products for anything but Oracle Linux® I doubt it would be much of a problem to get Oracle products working on un-certified Linux distros. It would simply take a bit of debugging and howto files for Oracle instalations on un-certified Linuxes are easy to find.
What really matters is that there is more than one player in the market....The only reason you can buy a Core2 Duo for such a great price is because of the performance of AMD over the past few years....
If I were a large PC seller (Dell, HP etc) I would be thinking the same thing....being able to trade off two companies against each other gets me a better price. If Intel were the only CPU provider you probably wouldn't be able to buy a PC for less than $1500.
Now if only things would also work like that on the operating system market....
Interestingly, while Microsoft's monopoly power dominates the PC industry, it didn't achieve that position in the same manner as Apple found success with the iPod. This is very important to understanding why Microsoft can't compete with iTunes.
It has everything to do with choice.
More than 80% of Microsoft's revenues for Windows come from corporate volume licensing and OEM copies of Windows bundled with new PCs. That means the company doesn't have to compete to sell a product at retail.
So you are hypothesizing that Microsoft can only succeed if they can impose a product on people by means of it's monopoly as opposed to Apple who has to persuade people to choose to use their product? The interesting thing is that Apple is now in a virtual monopoly position on the online-music market precisely because it was so successful at persuading people to choose to use their iPod.
Free tools, lots of give aways, maybe buy a game company.
Gaming is the only reason to go with Vista anymore.
I do know that Apple doaes have most of the major titles, but there release is late.
I would also have advertisments that are about gaming on a Mac. -- his mind is not for rent, to god or government. - Rush, the musicians, not the fat tard.
As a Mac user, the thing that most seems to tempt Windows users about the Mac and OS.X is when they start bitching about malware and how complicated and time consuming it is to configure their Windows defenses and I bow out of the conversation by pointing out that I don't have that problem. Some are also tempted by the ease of use (even simple things like how easy it is to switch WIFI networks and network location profiles) and also by the iApps. Most of these people could care less about games as long as they have their Office suite and a few favorite programs which has led **a few** of my acquaintances to switch. Most continue to bang their head against the Windows and will probably continue to do so until they run into one one of these restrictions even if that seems unlikely since most of them will get a Vista instance pre-installed along with each new PC they buy and won't bother to migrate a Vista instance to a new machine. The one thing I could imagine that will really piss Windows users off about Vista is what is already pissing them off about Windows XP and that is WGA false positives. In VIsta the damn thing will disable parts of their OS and cut them off from updates unless they jump through flaming hoops to get a new activation code:
c. If, after a validation check, the software is found not to be properly licensed, the functionality of the software may be affected. For example, you may
need to reactivate the software, or
receive reminders to obtain a properly licensed copy of the software, or you may not be able to
use or continue to use some of the features of the software, or
obtain certain updates or upgrades from Microsoft.
Now "Spam" is indeed threatened as a trademark, since people indeed are referring canned corned beef in general as "Spam". But I can't see any relevance in whether people use the same term to refer to unsolicited email or not. It's not like there is any risk the two 'products' would ever be confused.
... any publicity supposed to be good publicity? I suppose you could have your self a good little argument about that. Speaking for myself I only found out about Hormel and it's products in the first place when I got curious about the origins of the word "Spam" after the term came to be applied to unsolicited E-mail. If anything people are probably more likely to notice the product in a supermarket shelf because now it sticks out among a slew of other similar products for having the same name as Junk mail. I wonder if they can back up their trademark dilution claim with a reduction in sales?
Thankfully, the safety systems of the bombs prevented a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosions nevertheless distributed a large quantity of radioactive bomb guts over a wide area (thus the contamination problems mentioned).
When the Glomar Explorer salvaged the K-129(or tried to, according to the 'official version' they only got parts of it) the CIA lost some of the ICBMs as they were hauling the hulk up from a depth of 5500m. One of the missiles apparently fell several thousand meters to the ocean bottom. Apparently the CIA crew aboard the Glomar were scared shitless as they watched it happen through the cameras attached to the salvage claw. I have always wondered what sort of chance there was of a nuclear detonation when it impacted the ocean bottom and what effect it would have had... a tsunami perhaps?
Please elaborate. I would like to know specifically what you can do on the Windows version that you can't do on the Mac version. These must be functionality difference, so you can't say "keyboard shortcut XYZ doesn't work on the Mac," since the Mac version likely uses a different keyboard shortcut. Also, your calling it a "scary application" indicates your tolerance for difference.
For most things I have to do I can usually map the suggestions in HowTo articles aimed at the Windows version of MS Office more or less directly to the MS Office 2004 programs on my MacBook Pro but there are still some differences in functionality and number of features between Word/Excel/Powerpoint for Mac and the Windows versions. From what I have been told by MS Office power-users the Mac version usually limps behind the Windows version in terms of features. Personally I am plenty happy with Office for Mac, even when I am writing illustrated manuals or books up to 150 pages long, but for power users the lack of support for some advanced features in Windows and Excel in particular is a deal breaker. Another major gripe that people have with Office for Mac is that they just bought a new Intel Mac and although every other application just races ahead on the new machine, MS Office for Mac is dog slow. This is of course because Office is running on top of Apple's Rosetta but most regular users don't stop to think about the implications of that fact, all they care about is that Office for Mac is dog slow. I'll be interested in seeing how the next version of MS Office runs on the Intel Macs because MS Office 2004 pretty much sucked on my old G4 Powerbook but that wasn't Microsoft's fault. The G4 processor was simply in dire need of replacement. Then there is also the Aqua port of Open Office which seems to be coming along fine but they need developers.
I don't know but I am sure US customs will make sure that retrieving at least one of them will involve a large and cold hand, a latex glove and a rectal search.
Nope. Its "the most powerful". While they might cover the same surface area, Olympus Mons stands much higher.
True, Olympus Mons is absolutely huge. The summit is at 27 kilometres above the mean surface level on Mars and it covers a surface area the size of Arizona. It would be fantastic to be able to stand on that summit and enjoy the view.
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Everyone: Gah! Still only one mouse button!
Ha.. that gripe is now becoming obsolete. On a MB or MBP, put two fingers on the track-pad and press the 'single' mouse button. You will find this has the same effect as pressing the secondary button button on a WinDell or any other PC laptop. I don't know if this works on the PPC Macs. For the desktop Macs there is plenty of alternatives (Logitech, Macally) if you don't like the old one button Mac mouse or the Mighty Mouse. The latter incidentally includes a second and third and fourth mouse 'button' functionality but the ergonomics are not to everyones taste. I'll admit it took Apple much longer than it should have to remedy the 'missing second button' issue in it's product line, the two-fingers-on-the-trackpad feature on the Laptop line was especially long overdue since the old [Ctrl]+MouseClick was pretty awkward.
That's a bit harsh. I do the exact same thing as this guy does. I Prefer working with OS.X or failing that Linux as a Desktop OS to working with Windows and I sometimes develop for OS.X and Linux in my spare time using native tools. However at work I also have to use Windows for development purposes as well as for testing and for Windows only apps so I have solved the problem with Parallels and it suits me just fine for all sorts of reasons. For one thing I don't have to deal with the headache of having to juggle a Windows laptop for work as well as a the Mac because Parallels enables me to cram the whole lot, Windows, OS.X and all the devel tools onto my MacBook and a pint sized external drive for the Parallels image files I am not using at the moment. At home I have a more powerful development system built on the same concept but running VMWare for doing stuff my MBP and Parallels can't handle but unfortunately my employer is not that progressive and does everything via test systems managed by the IT department through an inflexible bureaucracy. Fortunately I am usually able to quickly set up a pre built Linux/Windows/Unix testing/development environment on my Mac and get a whole pile of work done in the time it takes the overworked guys in the IT department to find a machine and get a test environment up and running. Basically, thanks to Parallels, I can whip up a prebuilt instance of any operating system that runs on an Intel processor with in a matter of minutes without having to endure Windows as my primary Desktop OS and all this without ever rebooting anything other than a VM, which from my point of view is paradise. I'm not saying this is something every developer should do but this approach has it's advantages.
...as for your wish to be able to set a photo as a wallpaper, i don't quite understand the function of such a feature. when you're not using the screen to navigate through the UI, how much time do you spend looking at it?
Just a thought... but perhaps.... If you put a wallpaper depicting the Goatse guy in your iPod there is a slim chance a thief would be so nauseated by the wallpaper he would forget to steal the iPod. Personally I would never install such a wallpaper since the mere sight of it would make me so sick I wouldn't ever want to use the iPod but not everybody is as easily nauseated by Goatse photos as I am so the idea may have some merit for it's deterrent value.
...built in North Carolina, new Europe...
Is that the 'new Europe' Grand Moff Rumsfeld set up to compete with 'old Europe' in the hope the former will eventually replace the latter?
Like the ancients, it's how we bury our dead which will be most telling to the next crop of intelligent life to evolve on Earth.
Burials are certainly a rich source of information but believe it or not some of the most interesting archeological discoveries have come from ancient rubbish dumps.
Your oh-so-funny post conveniently ignores the contribution of genetics in the predisposition to Type 2 diabetes.
No not really, my oh-so-sarcastic post simply failed to mention my own genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes and it also should have mentioned that I used to be one of those lazy nerds. Crawling behind a genetic predisposition for cover won't help you any more than it helped me. It is a statistical reality that the majority of patients with type 2 diabetes have been obese. Most of the time (there are exceptions as another poster here pointed out) a genetic predisposition to get diabetes only causes you to get diabetes 2 at an abnormally early age if you eat like a pig and never get off your ass and exercise which is how I contracted my diabetes. Several of my extended family also have this predisposition and have led very normal lives regardless because they eat and live healthy. My luck was that because of the genetic predisposition there are a few others in my family who have diabetes 2 and so I was dragged kicking and screaming to a doctor who diagnosed my diabetes very early. As a consequence of that early diagnosis and due to the fact that I became a sports fanatic I suffer very mildly from diabetes. So long as I stick with my diet and exercise I will probably never suffer very badly from it although there will always be some consequences. Unfortunately of the other people which I know and who also contracted premature diabetes 2 at an early age some 70-80% only take medication and do little else to deal with it. I shudder to think what sorts of medical problems they will have in 20 years time.
Short version: Lazy people, including nerds who sit in front of computers all day eating little other than junk food and candy and never get any exercise (and no, making a virtual character run around in a first person shooter doesn't count as exercise) tend to get fat which eventually leads to them developing a condition called diabetes 2. In order to control their diabetes they have to take drugs and possibly inject them selves with insulin. JANUVIA is a new drug that helps some diabetes 2 sufferers control their blood sugar level more efficiently although in most cases it will only prolong the inevitable. This is because most people who contract diabetes 2 are usually apathetic about it and make do with taking their medication but don't do anything to change their lifestyle. They avoid serious exercise and continue to stuff their faces with candy and junk food so the drug only slows down the diabetes and eventually they end up suffering one or more of the following diabetes related ailments: renal failure, blindness, chronic wounds, kidney failure and coronary artery disease. The list is probably longer but those are the only ones I could remember off hand.
You overestimate the harmlessness of Readme files.
Half of us will be Swedish, and the other half will be British?
Yes and the Brits will make revolting sausages out of the Swedes and eat them with bacon and eggs.
I doubt it is terribly bad news for Red Hat. Even if Oracle create their own distro I doubt they would get away with ceasing to certifying their products for any other Linux distros. There are simply to many people with already established contractually sealed working relationships with SUSE and Red Hat. Of course Oracle will recommend the use of Oracle Linux® (can they even register that as a trade mark if it contains the word 'Linux'?) and all updates to Oracle products will appear for Oracle Linux® first and only 2-3 weeks later for SUSE, Red Hat etc. but that's about it.... unless Larry wants to piss off every last one of the sizable number of IT professionals world wide that haven't been assimilated into the Microsoft collective yet. Even if they do stop certifying Oracle products for anything but Oracle Linux® I doubt it would be much of a problem to get Oracle products working on un-certified Linux distros. It would simply take a bit of debugging and howto files for Oracle instalations on un-certified Linuxes are easy to find.
Since we are in Japanese mode, how about Baka Linux?
10 flame warrior experience points and a puff of karma to the first one who figures out why I should be modded down for that suggestion.
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Now if only things would also work like that on the operating system market....
So you are hypothesizing that Microsoft can only succeed if they can impose a product on people by means of it's monopoly as opposed to Apple who has to persuade people to choose to use their product? The interesting thing is that Apple is now in a virtual monopoly position on the online-music market precisely because it was so successful at persuading people to choose to use their iPod.
Well luckily he has enough tubes for all those internets!
/dev/drain.
He must be planning to pipe the unwanted traffic down the
As a Mac user, the thing that most seems to tempt Windows users about the Mac and OS.X is when they start bitching about malware and how complicated and time consuming it is to configure their Windows defenses and I bow out of the conversation by pointing out that I don't have that problem. Some are also tempted by the ease of use (even simple things like how easy it is to switch WIFI networks and network location profiles) and also by the iApps. Most of these people could care less about games as long as they have their Office suite and a few favorite programs which has led **a few** of my acquaintances to switch. Most continue to bang their head against the Windows and will probably continue to do so until they run into one one of these restrictions even if that seems unlikely since most of them will get a Vista instance pre-installed along with each new PC they buy and won't bother to migrate a Vista instance to a new machine. The one thing I could imagine that will really piss Windows users off about Vista is what is already pissing them off about Windows XP and that is WGA false positives. In VIsta the damn thing will disable parts of their OS and cut them off from updates unless they jump through flaming hoops to get a new activation code:
When the Glomar Explorer salvaged the K-129 (or tried to, according to the 'official version' they only got parts of it) the CIA lost some of the ICBMs as they were hauling the hulk up from a depth of 5500m. One of the missiles apparently fell several thousand meters to the ocean bottom. Apparently the CIA crew aboard the Glomar were scared shitless as they watched it happen through the cameras attached to the salvage claw. I have always wondered what sort of chance there was of a nuclear detonation when it impacted the ocean bottom and what effect it would have had... a tsunami perhaps?
Please don't feed the trolls.
Please elaborate. I would like to know specifically what you can do on the Windows version that you can't do on the Mac version. These must be functionality difference, so you can't say "keyboard shortcut XYZ doesn't work on the Mac," since the Mac version likely uses a different keyboard shortcut. Also, your calling it a "scary application" indicates your tolerance for difference.
For most things I have to do I can usually map the suggestions in HowTo articles aimed at the Windows version of MS Office more or less directly to the MS Office 2004 programs on my MacBook Pro but there are still some differences in functionality and number of features between Word/Excel/Powerpoint for Mac and the Windows versions. From what I have been told by MS Office power-users the Mac version usually limps behind the Windows version in terms of features. Personally I am plenty happy with Office for Mac, even when I am writing illustrated manuals or books up to 150 pages long, but for power users the lack of support for some advanced features in Windows and Excel in particular is a deal breaker. Another major gripe that people have with Office for Mac is that they just bought a new Intel Mac and although every other application just races ahead on the new machine, MS Office for Mac is dog slow. This is of course because Office is running on top of Apple's Rosetta but most regular users don't stop to think about the implications of that fact, all they care about is that Office for Mac is dog slow. I'll be interested in seeing how the next version of MS Office runs on the Intel Macs because MS Office 2004 pretty much sucked on my old G4 Powerbook but that wasn't Microsoft's fault. The G4 processor was simply in dire need of replacement. Then there is also the Aqua port of Open Office which seems to be coming along fine but they need developers.
Yeah!!! And they will be using somethign muchmore sophisticated than a chisel... like... like... an electric power-tool!!
What are the 34 data items?
I don't know but I am sure US customs will make sure that retrieving at least one of them will involve a large and cold hand, a latex glove and a rectal search.
True, Olympus Mons is absolutely huge. The summit is at 27 kilometres above the mean surface level on Mars and it covers a surface area the size of Arizona. It would be fantastic to be able to stand on that summit and enjoy the view.
(reads headline) Oh... interesting... apparently C++ has died... again...
If you've got any illegal MP3's, your player kills you.
Judge, jury and executioner all in one!
So what you are hypothesizing is that in a few years we will see a Microsoft Zune or iPods with Sony EbolaFlash® memory chip technology.