Disclaimer: I am a 20-year Mac user/owner. It is my platform of choice.
He probably could not have sold his client a Mac. Many small businesses use specialized software that is developed for Windows only. It sucks, and frankly, having dealt with some of this software, the software often sucks as well, but that's the reality of the situation.
So no, your not locked into any key icons (such as the internet explorer one)
Exactly what I was thinking. It would be even cooler if you could animate the keycaps - I would love to install Firefox, and watch the fox eat the IE icon, then curl up around the earth to take a nap, taking its place:-).
All iTunes does it supply music for download and transfer those songs, which are not then played automatically as they so many times describe, but rather are played when selected, and only after the player is disconnected from the computer, i.e. not controlled by the computer.
Isn't this AirTunes? Basically, you are using iTunes to tell the little box in the other room to play music through your sound system, but it's still controlled by your computer.
As many people on this forum have already pointed out, people and strong passwords generally don't mix. The real solution is biometrics. A retinal scan or fingerprint is much more difficult to "steal" than a password. Yes, it can be done, but not easily; certainly not by 99.99% of those who can and do steal passwords.
But I don't see what Microsoft stands to gain from doing this.
I suppose they do get to sue and potentially shut down people who have been hurting their sales by selling counterfeit copies at retail prices. It's beneficial in the long run.
That's one thing. The other is (potentially) reduced technical support costs, as counterfeit software may have been repackaged in a less robust way than the original (e.g., missing.DLLs, etc.).
I scanned through the man pages but didn't see how to use launchd as a cron replacement. I'm about to upgrade to 10.4 and currently use cron to run my nightly backups. Does 10.4 no longer provide cron? How do I configure launchd to run my nightly script? Can someone point me to the appropriate FM?
When I was reading Dr. Lau's homepage, I realized that her lab is performing the ultimate overclock: cool down atoms to the nanokelvin range in order to "freeze" light, allowing optical computers to be developed that can run faster than anything that can be accomplished in silicon.
It's not clear from the article that they are going to change the permission model implemented in NTFS. It could be something as simple as having the default user created on the install NOT be Administrator and not be in the Administrator group, but in the Users group (and appropriately setting the permissions for the Users group).
They have a shorter life in a "rundown test" where you put the batteries in and leave the power on until they're drained. In real-world scenarios (like how many digital pictures you can take) they do really well.
Another real-world scenario is using AAs in your Belkin Backup Battery Pack for iPod w/Dock Connector (who comes up with these names?), which is pretty much the "leave the power on until they're drained" scenario if your on an all-day hike or an intercontinental flight.
Speaking of Star Trek, when I read the article summary, one of the first things that came to mind was TOS episode Miri (genetically engineered virus kept kids young for hundreds of years, but when they hit puberty, they aged and died within days).
I program server-side Java code as well, and we usually run a couple of hundred threads over some small number of CPUs (2-4). Furthermore, the apps run non-stop for months at a time; during its current run one of our apps has been running for 3 months straight and has launched close to 1.5 million threads during that run.
I still laugh when people think multithreaded is a big deal or "leads to hard to diagnose bugs". So can the use of pointers, but you don't see anyone saying that we should remove dynamic memory allocation from programming languages...
I guess I got lucky then. I bought a 12" PowerBook G4 about 3 weeks ago and have no issues with it. Good battery life (> 4 hours), no dead pixels, no wobble, and the trackpad works extremely well. I especially like the new "scrolling trackpad" feature, though it's taken me some getting used to putting two fingers on the 'pad (10 years of avoiding putting multiple fingers on the 'pad is taking some effort to overcome:-).
Well, alright, it wasn't a PC, it was a Sun server.
This was in the 1989-1990 time frame. The company I worked for at the time (Language Technology - they don't exist any more), had a rack mounted Sun-3 server that was our primary file server. We had too little RAM in the server (I think we had 16MB) so the poor thing was constantly paging.
Anyway, one day I was in a meeting in our boardroom, which had a big window all along one wall that looked into, among other things, the big window that lined one wall of our computer room. Suddenly, there was this loud electronic noise. I turned to my colleague and said "Do you hear that?" when all of a sudden there was a loud BANG! and the computer room went opaque. The Halon system had discharged.
It turns out that the "noise" I had heard was the fire alarm. The Fire Department came and evacuated everyone, then, when they determined that there was no active fire, set up big fans to air out the Halon. Two hours later, when we were allowed to go back into the computer room, we pulled the server out of the rack. The top of the card cage was carbonized black.
After a few days of investigation we figured out that our Xylogics disk controller card had caught fire. It turned out that there was a design flaw on that particular model of disk controller such that if there was constant disk activity a diode at the top of the card would overheat. We were so RAM-poor that we kept that sucker seeking hour after hour, until finally the diode overheated to the point that it and the PC board actually caught fire.
Insurance covered everything; we got a new server (same model, though we got a better disk controller;-), but we were down for about a week while the parts came in and we put everything back together.
So, you see, we killed our server through excessive disk usage.
I just can't see how fixing the Hubble is more risky than a manned mission to the Moon, never mind Mars. While the Shuttle has so far had an approximately 1-in-60 failure rate, we haven't launched a manned craft beyond Earth orbit in over 30 years, and I'm sure they're not going to bring an old Saturn V out of mothballs for the first Moon mission.
So, is it really more dangerous to ride a 25+-year-old Space Shuttle design that's flown over 100 times to orbit and rendezvous with the Hubble than it is to ride a brand new design past escape velocity on a multi-week (Moon) or multi-year (Mars) mission?
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The answer: yes.
The question: why is this posting in the Apple section?
I agree. 100%.
Maybe we can get some of those Cosmic Rays that could threaten the astronauts headed to Mars to kill the NLRB instead...
Disclaimer: I am a 20-year Mac user/owner. It is my platform of choice.
He probably could not have sold his client a Mac. Many small businesses use specialized software that is developed for Windows only. It sucks, and frankly, having dealt with some of this software, the software often sucks as well, but that's the reality of the situation.
Well, if they guy makes $1000/hr, then if it takes Mr. Tucker more than 24 minutes to clean his PC, it is cheaper for him to buy a new one.
Of course, then there's set-up time, application installation...make it two hours....
Exactly what I was thinking. It would be even cooler if you could animate the keycaps - I would love to install Firefox, and watch the fox eat the IE icon, then curl up around the earth to take a nap, taking its place
And who would "you" be?
Isn't this AirTunes? Basically, you are using iTunes to tell the little box in the other room to play music through your sound system, but it's still controlled by your computer.
Shouldn't that be "In a prequel designed around him to center, more of the same just picture unfortunately can I"?
As many people on this forum have already pointed out, people and strong passwords generally don't mix. The real solution is biometrics. A retinal scan or fingerprint is much more difficult to "steal" than a password. Yes, it can be done, but not easily; certainly not by 99.99% of those who can and do steal passwords.
Not again! :-)
Michael Crichton. I think John Crighton was the lead character on Farscape.
That's one thing. The other is (potentially) reduced technical support costs, as counterfeit software may have been repackaged in a less robust way than the original (e.g., missing
I scanned through the man pages but didn't see how to use launchd as a cron replacement. I'm about to upgrade to 10.4 and currently use cron to run my nightly backups. Does 10.4 no longer provide cron? How do I configure launchd to run my nightly script? Can someone point me to the appropriate FM?
When I was reading Dr. Lau's homepage, I realized that her lab is performing the ultimate overclock: cool down atoms to the nanokelvin range in order to "freeze" light, allowing optical computers to be developed that can run faster than anything that can be accomplished in silicon.
A great hack.
It's not clear from the article that they are going to change the permission model implemented in NTFS. It could be something as simple as having the default user created on the install NOT be Administrator and not be in the Administrator group, but in the Users group (and appropriately setting the permissions for the Users group).
Another real-world scenario is using AAs in your Belkin Backup Battery Pack for iPod w/Dock Connector (who comes up with these names?), which is pretty much the "leave the power on until they're drained" scenario if your on an all-day hike or an intercontinental flight.
Speaking of Star Trek, when I read the article summary, one of the first things that came to mind was TOS episode Miri (genetically engineered virus kept kids young for hundreds of years, but when they hit puberty, they aged and died within days).
Didn't make me feel particularly comfortable...
This would be great. Then I wouldn't get the 350+ e-mails from our CVS server every time our repository gets tagged for a new release.
Amen.
I program server-side Java code as well, and we usually run a couple of hundred threads over some small number of CPUs (2-4). Furthermore, the apps run non-stop for months at a time; during its current run one of our apps has been running for 3 months straight and has launched close to 1.5 million threads during that run.
I still laugh when people think multithreaded is a big deal or "leads to hard to diagnose bugs". So can the use of pointers, but you don't see anyone saying that we should remove dynamic memory allocation from programming languages...
I guess I got lucky then. I bought a 12" PowerBook G4 about 3 weeks ago and have no issues with it. Good battery life (> 4 hours), no dead pixels, no wobble, and the trackpad works extremely well. I especially like the new "scrolling trackpad" feature, though it's taken me some getting used to putting two fingers on the 'pad (10 years of avoiding putting multiple fingers on the 'pad is taking some effort to overcome :-).
Sorry to hear you've had such problems.
I'm curious: why do you think the situation will be any different with GNU/Hurd?
Double-check your math. It's pi * r^2, not pi * d^2, and the sea is 800 to 900 kilometers in size, not 800 to 900 meters. So it's really
(8.5*10^5 / 2)^2 * pi * 45
or 2.55E+13 cubic meters
or 6.74E+15 gallons.
Well, alright, it wasn't a PC, it was a Sun server.
;-), but we were down for about a week while the parts came in and we put everything back together.
This was in the 1989-1990 time frame. The company I worked for at the time (Language Technology - they don't exist any more), had a rack mounted Sun-3 server that was our primary file server. We had too little RAM in the server (I think we had 16MB) so the poor thing was constantly paging.
Anyway, one day I was in a meeting in our boardroom, which had a big window all along one wall that looked into, among other things, the big window that lined one wall of our computer room. Suddenly, there was this loud electronic noise. I turned to my colleague and said "Do you hear that?" when all of a sudden there was a loud BANG! and the computer room went opaque. The Halon system had discharged.
It turns out that the "noise" I had heard was the fire alarm. The Fire Department came and evacuated everyone, then, when they determined that there was no active fire, set up big fans to air out the Halon. Two hours later, when we were allowed to go back into the computer room, we pulled the server out of the rack. The top of the card cage was carbonized black.
After a few days of investigation we figured out that our Xylogics disk controller card had caught fire. It turned out that there was a design flaw on that particular model of disk controller such that if there was constant disk activity a diode at the top of the card would overheat. We were so RAM-poor that we kept that sucker seeking hour after hour, until finally the diode overheated to the point that it and the PC board actually caught fire.
Insurance covered everything; we got a new server (same model, though we got a better disk controller
So, you see, we killed our server through excessive disk usage.
I just can't see how fixing the Hubble is more risky than a manned mission to the Moon, never mind Mars. While the Shuttle has so far had an approximately 1-in-60 failure rate, we haven't launched a manned craft beyond Earth orbit in over 30 years, and I'm sure they're not going to bring an old Saturn V out of mothballs for the first Moon mission.
So, is it really more dangerous to ride a 25+-year-old Space Shuttle design that's flown over 100 times to orbit and rendezvous with the Hubble than it is to ride a brand new design past escape velocity on a multi-week (Moon) or multi-year (Mars) mission?
...I just have one thing to say:
:-)
Neener neener!