This guy is clearly out of his depth. Here's his homepage at M.I.T. He seems to be more of a management expert than anything else (kinda like a graduate-level PHB).
However, he is the auther of the classic textbook "Operating Systems". So classic that it was written in 1974, and has been long out of print. What the hell was MS thinking? This guy wouldn't know a GUI if it bit him!
This came out of a report from an anime convention last week. The studio reps said that they would pay attention to petitions for new series, but not online petitions. I suspect that Fox would pay even less attention.
I don't think there's been a single example of an online petition having an effect. Please provide examples if I'm mistaken.
The exploit is specific to IE for Windows, and Outlook and Outlook Express use IE as their HTML preview engine. IE on the Mac is immune (supposedly) but I would suspect that Microsoft pulls the same trick on the Mac with Entourage.
Hopefully, the object model for Entourage is different, and the extensions it uses (bat, pif, exe, cmd) aren't valid on OS X anyway, and you'd have the chmod the files to make them run.
BTW, if you're using Moz on OS X, you should check out chimera the OS X native port. It's a beautiful browser.
I've seen (at least some of) all of the above (I'm an anime junkie), but I've never seen anything with the scope and quality of animation of Akira.
Evangelion is probably my all-time favorite, but the animation is nothing to write home about. The animation in Akira is stunning. Metropolis is probably the closest I've ever seen, but it doesn't quite approach the grandeur of Akira.
That's obvious (in hindsight) but has it occured to you that these people aren't stupid? On the face of it, it seems like a pretty dumb thing to do, but there may be method in their madness. If they blamed slumping sales on poor product and the economy, they couldn't do anything about the problem.
However, if they blame their sagging sales on file trading and say copy protection is the answer (which we all know it isn't), then they can be perceived as 'pro-active' in the eyes of their shareholders.
Even if you can't do anything about the problem, it's better to look busy. Throwing up your hands and saying 'the economy sucks' may not be acceptable to these guys.
All the major servlet engines run on W2K/IIS. The only way I know how to tell, off-hand, is from an error message. So if you can crash it, you'd know:)
It actually has been done. There was a segment on a Discovery Channel program about it a few months ago. You sat down at your computer and completed a personality profile. This was downloaded into the gizmo. Two gizmos would connect wirelessly, and give you a compatibility rating. The accuracy was hit and miss, as I recall.
I've had my IceBook for almost a year now, and I saw my first kernel panic a couple of days ago, when I upgraded my Wacom tablet driver. What a shock! I'd forgotten what thos things looked like!
I've found some niggling inconsistencies and minor bugs, but honestly, it just works(tm). It's so much better than any product to ever come out of Microsoft that there's no comparison. And the dev tools are free! And I mean a real set of professional GUI tools, better than Visual Studio. Developers should factor those costs into their comparisons when pricing Macs.
'Cos with VNC I can remote access my Dad's Win98 box from my OS X iBook, and fix LookOut Express for him. Can't do that with X-Server or Terminal Services.
Not personally a big McFee fan, but I would love to hear the old "Joinny Chase, Secret Agent of Space" series they did back when. That was the coolest radio program ever.
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Carly and Mike, and a number of senior execs, are going to take home about $75 million in bonuses, IIRC.
And you thought that management worked for the shareholders...
A cognitive disorder wherein they lie without guilt or concern
Gee, sound like a perfect description of this man.
This guy is clearly out of his depth. Here's his homepage at M.I.T. He seems to be more of a management expert than anything else (kinda like a graduate-level PHB).
However, he is the auther of the classic textbook "Operating Systems". So classic that it was written in 1974, and has been long out of print. What the hell was MS thinking? This guy wouldn't know a GUI if it bit him!
Here's a few more:
-affordable networking (AppleTalk)
-laser printers
-PostScript
-3.5 floppy drives
That online petitions don't work.
This came out of a report from an anime convention last week. The studio reps said that they would pay attention to petitions for new series, but not online petitions. I suspect that Fox would pay even less attention.
I don't think there's been a single example of an online petition having an effect. Please provide examples if I'm mistaken.
The exploit is specific to IE for Windows, and Outlook and Outlook Express use IE as their HTML preview engine. IE on the Mac is immune (supposedly) but I would suspect that Microsoft pulls the same trick on the Mac with Entourage.
Hopefully, the object model for Entourage is different, and the extensions it uses (bat, pif, exe, cmd) aren't valid on OS X anyway, and you'd have the chmod the files to make them run.
BTW, if you're using Moz on OS X, you should check out chimera the OS X native port. It's a beautiful browser.
Uh, huh. This guy is a real business 'genius'. A pity these guys aren't public, shorting them would be a good investment.
Isn't that what they've wanted for the last twenty years?
No, it doesn't. It uses PDF. NextStep/OpenStep used display PostScript. PDF is a different animal.
I've seen (at least some of) all of the above (I'm an anime junkie), but I've never seen anything with the scope and quality of animation of Akira.
Evangelion is probably my all-time favorite, but the animation is nothing to write home about. The animation in Akira is stunning. Metropolis is probably the closest I've ever seen, but it doesn't quite approach the grandeur of Akira.
That's obvious (in hindsight) but has it occured to you that these people aren't stupid? On the face of it, it seems like a pretty dumb thing to do, but there may be method in their madness. If they blamed slumping sales on poor product and the economy, they couldn't do anything about the problem.
However, if they blame their sagging sales on file trading and say copy protection is the answer (which we all know it isn't), then they can be perceived as 'pro-active' in the eyes of their shareholders.
Even if you can't do anything about the problem, it's better to look busy. Throwing up your hands and saying 'the economy sucks' may not be acceptable to these guys.
Huh? Are there other anime of Akira'a calibre?
I thought Akira was unique. If there's anything else anywhere near as good, please enlighten me.
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So, I guess
public void Pigeon()
is what makes them crap on your shoulder?
What short memories you people have! IBM and Apple tried this once before, and it was a bomb. Doesn't anyone else remember Taligent?
All the major servlet engines run on W2K/IIS. The only way I know how to tell, off-hand, is from an error message. So if you can crash it, you'd know :)
Or the Programmers' Guild.
However, I don't think they have quite the same objectives that you do.
It actually has been done. There was a segment on a Discovery Channel program about it a few months ago. You sat down at your computer and completed a personality profile. This was downloaded into the gizmo. Two gizmos would connect wirelessly, and give you a compatibility rating. The accuracy was hit and miss, as I recall.
If it was crazy sex, it would offend the Christians. If it was a gaze of love, pRon freaks be up in arms.
Or it could have gone off on some pervy hobbit fancying tangent.
And Sam will kill him if he tries anything.
I think this is because spell-check is a Cocoa feature, and the mainstream Mozilla for OS X (fizilla) is Carbon.
Check out Chimera, on mozdev.org, for a true Cocoa port of Mozilla. It's very early, but very fast, and shows a lot of promise.
I've had my IceBook for almost a year now, and I saw my first kernel panic a couple of days ago, when I upgraded my Wacom tablet driver. What a shock! I'd forgotten what thos things looked like!
I've found some niggling inconsistencies and minor bugs, but honestly, it just works(tm). It's so much better than any product to ever come out of Microsoft that there's no comparison. And the dev tools are free! And I mean a real set of professional GUI tools, better than Visual Studio. Developers should factor those costs into their comparisons when pricing Macs.
'Cos with VNC I can remote access my Dad's Win98 box from my OS X iBook, and fix LookOut Express for him. Can't do that with X-Server or Terminal Services.
Not personally a big McFee fan, but I would love to hear the old "Joinny Chase, Secret Agent of Space" series they did back when. That was the coolest radio program ever.
Check the OS X page of VersionTracker. It's second on the list.
No, it's just that no one has subscribed, so Taco sold Slashdot to the Python boys. Now it's nothing but spam, lovely spam.
Soon, they'll be promoting the Spam Club!