One of the reasons I applaud Elvis Costello is because on the back of "The Delivery Man" (his new album), it says "This artist does not endorse the following warning. The F.B.I. doesn't have his home phone number and he hopes that they don't have yours."
An interesting thing is that trying to open one of those files in Pages results in a dialog that says "This XML files was created with an unsupported beta version of Word" and it doesn't open it. I'm not drawing any conclusions, I just think it's interesting.
One button is one half of the mouse, the other is the other half. The scroll "wheel" is, for all intents and purposes, the dividing line. You can click the scroll wheel, and you can squeeze the mouse for a fourth button. You don't have to know exactly where the buttons are, since all but the scroll wheel have such a large "click area."
It's a lame question, yeah, but maybe he chooses to use Outlook. Revoke his "geek card." Bullshit. That's what Slashdot is becoming. Not a safe haven for geeks, but a haven for geeks sick of getting belittled who take that frustration out by belittling "lesser" geeks.
This isn't intended to be a troll or flamebait, but...
Can we please get people to stop using "Mac" in uppercase letters? It's not an acronym. You wouldn't say "INTEL" or "WINDOWS," so don't say "MAC" unless you're talking about MAC addresses.
I won't comment on your other points, but Macs have used PC-standard RAM and hard drives for a long time. Apple doesn't bar you from using the "cheap" stuff. If you want to buy a crappy IDE drive from some two-bit company that no one has heard of, hey, you can do it. Same with RAM.
I think this is a Slashdot record... a dupe of a story that developed over 20 years ago!
All sarcasm aside, how is this news? Yes, they were flops. Again, 20 years ago. Some site is just putting up a history now, but that still doesn't make it news. It's just blatant flamebait. Come on, editors, take "stuff that matters" to heart!
Better to have the holes exist and be patched than to have them exist and not patched, or denied that they exist (also know as "just plain ignored"). Software will always have holes. The security record should be measured on how quickly they get patched AND how many exist.
I just finished reading all the damn comments at +2 and above, and Slashdot's users are still looking like hypocritical asses. Myself included.
Apple's accepted because they used BSD in OS X, that they were using F/OSS. Now people are complaining that Apple's claiming they invented/innovated it. That they're just riding the F/OSS wave.
Make up your damn minds!
Linux is just an OS, Windows is just an OS, OS X is just an OS, Solaris is just an OS, Plan 9 is just an OS, etc.
Tiger will be out in 5 days, Longhorn will be out in a year. Review Tiger NOW, review Longhorn THEN, and compare them when they're both out. Isn't that simple?
Can't the community just objectively go over the new, or NOT new, features of each OS and evaluate without going into this fucking OS evangelism?
Answer: Apparently not.
I'll now get off my soap box and let the trolling continue. Thank you.
"btw, rumour has it that the next OS X release might even feature support for a mouse wheel:)"
If that's a joke, it's pretty lame. I'm not taking offense, but jokes about "one mouse button," "not supporting two buttons," and "lacking scroll wheels" have been beaten to death more times than a dead horse with an abusive owner.
Yes OS X supports scroll wheels without any extra software, yes it supports a second (even third) mouse button without extra software, and yes you can use the damn two-button USB mouse you bought at ShitMart for 10 bucks.
Personally, this doesn't affect me, but I see it as a reasonably smart move. Really, the only 100% effective way to seal a vulnerability is to take away whatever caused vulnerability in the first place. I'm sure there's a workaround so you still have the same functionality with some other, more secure, method.
Then again, I've never used this, I have no idea what I'm talking about, and I'm just exercising my Slashdot right to be opinionated!
If you didn't get it yet, Jaguar was OS 11, Pnather was OS 12, Tiger is OS 13.
Uhh... "About This Mac..." says "Mac OS X Version 10.3.8" It doesn't say "Version 12.0" I'll give you points for trying, but it's not 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, etc. Pay closer attention next time.
I like how IGN listed it as a "rumor you won't hear anywhere else." Halo was and continues to be the Xbox's "killer app," and I can't see Bungie leaving the series off with so many questions unanswered. Not to mention the large amount of cash it will get Microsoft.
Finally! A nice post on Slashdot! Yes, you're right, they would just have to set a bit, but it still seems a bit "shadow conspiracy" to me, especially considering Apple isn't the most pro-RIAA out there.
What paranoid bullshit. That would mean that they'd be releasing firmware updates every couple of weeks to update the list of "preferred" artists, and then it would have to scan through your tags and make a neat little catalog so it knows who to play. Doesn't that seem rather pointless? Besides, if it plays the artists, haven't you already paid for them? Who would buy into kickbacks for more people to listen to their songs? Just tune in a radio station! They play repeats all the time! Honestly, some people.
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"Then there was the whole vulnerability factor. Halo 2 allowed you to charge into enemy fire taking masive hits one after the other with little or no effect on your life. This doesn't offer much appeal or challenge for me. It's almost like playing with a God cheat. I know some lamers get off on that type of play but, that really doesn't thrill me..."
Play on Legendary mode, then try and run right into enemy fire. You'll need that God Mode if you think you can still pull it off.
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"Insightful"? I guess some mods live in constant fear of teleporting demons. Better not tell them about Black Mesa, here on Earth...
One of the reasons I applaud Elvis Costello is because on the back of "The Delivery Man" (his new album), it says "This artist does not endorse the following warning. The F.B.I. doesn't have his home phone number and he hopes that they don't have yours."
An interesting thing is that trying to open one of those files in Pages results in a dialog that says "This XML files was created with an unsupported beta version of Word" and it doesn't open it. I'm not drawing any conclusions, I just think it's interesting.
One button is one half of the mouse, the other is the other half. The scroll "wheel" is, for all intents and purposes, the dividing line. You can click the scroll wheel, and you can squeeze the mouse for a fourth button. You don't have to know exactly where the buttons are, since all but the scroll wheel have such a large "click area."
In-fucking-sightful?!
It's a lame question, yeah, but maybe he chooses to use Outlook. Revoke his "geek card." Bullshit. That's what Slashdot is becoming. Not a safe haven for geeks, but a haven for geeks sick of getting belittled who take that frustration out by belittling "lesser" geeks.
Get the fuck over yourself.
This isn't intended to be a troll or flamebait, but...
Can we please get people to stop using "Mac" in uppercase letters? It's not an acronym. You wouldn't say "INTEL" or "WINDOWS," so don't say "MAC" unless you're talking about MAC addresses.
[gets off the soap box]
Thank you.
I won't comment on your other points, but Macs have used PC-standard RAM and hard drives for a long time. Apple doesn't bar you from using the "cheap" stuff. If you want to buy a crappy IDE drive from some two-bit company that no one has heard of, hey, you can do it. Same with RAM.
I think this is a Slashdot record... a dupe of a story that developed over 20 years ago!
All sarcasm aside, how is this news? Yes, they were flops. Again, 20 years ago. Some site is just putting up a history now, but that still doesn't make it news. It's just blatant flamebait. Come on, editors, take "stuff that matters" to heart!
They've been liquid-cooling them since a couple revs ago, just so you know. But it is neat.
Just to bring a bit of dullness to a joke, and for those youngsters who don't know...
This is a bit that Dave Barry does frequently in his books and essays, taking odd phrases and stating that they would be "good names for a rock band."
Again, sorry for the dullness.
I just finished reading all the damn comments at +2 and above, and Slashdot's users are still looking like hypocritical asses. Myself included.
Apple's accepted because they used BSD in OS X, that they were using F/OSS. Now people are complaining that Apple's claiming they invented/innovated it. That they're just riding the F/OSS wave.
Make up your damn minds!
Linux is just an OS, Windows is just an OS, OS X is just an OS, Solaris is just an OS, Plan 9 is just an OS, etc.
Tiger will be out in 5 days, Longhorn will be out in a year. Review Tiger NOW, review Longhorn THEN, and compare them when they're both out. Isn't that simple?
Can't the community just objectively go over the new, or NOT new, features of each OS and evaluate without going into this fucking OS evangelism?
Answer: Apparently not.
I'll now get off my soap box and let the trolling continue. Thank you.
"btw, rumour has it that the next OS X release might even feature support for a mouse wheel :)"
If that's a joke, it's pretty lame. I'm not taking offense, but jokes about "one mouse button," "not supporting two buttons," and "lacking scroll wheels" have been beaten to death more times than a dead horse with an abusive owner.
Yes OS X supports scroll wheels without any extra software, yes it supports a second (even third) mouse button without extra software, and yes you can use the damn two-button USB mouse you bought at ShitMart for 10 bucks.
Personally, this doesn't affect me, but I see it as a reasonably smart move. Really, the only 100% effective way to seal a vulnerability is to take away whatever caused vulnerability in the first place. I'm sure there's a workaround so you still have the same functionality with some other, more secure, method.
Then again, I've never used this, I have no idea what I'm talking about, and I'm just exercising my Slashdot right to be opinionated!
Fair enough. And Ubuntu is definitely a respectable OS. I boot it off of a second hard drive, so, nice choice.
192 MB of RAM just isn't enough to have a good experience. 256 is the bare minimum I'd run OS X with. 512 is better.
He was killed by the oil industry. Take THAT, free power!
Blockquoth the poster...
Uhh... "About This Mac..." says "Mac OS X Version 10.3.8" It doesn't say "Version 12.0" I'll give you points for trying, but it's not 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, etc. Pay closer attention next time.
I like how IGN listed it as a "rumor you won't hear anywhere else." Halo was and continues to be the Xbox's "killer app," and I can't see Bungie leaving the series off with so many questions unanswered. Not to mention the large amount of cash it will get Microsoft.
In other words... Halo 3 coming? We KNEW that.
Finally! A nice post on Slashdot! Yes, you're right, they would just have to set a bit, but it still seems a bit "shadow conspiracy" to me, especially considering Apple isn't the most pro-RIAA out there.
Cheers!
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"Then there was the whole vulnerability factor. Halo 2 allowed you to charge into enemy fire taking masive hits one after the other with little or no effect on your life. This doesn't offer much appeal or challenge for me. It's almost like playing with a God cheat. I know some lamers get off on that type of play but, that really doesn't thrill me..."
Play on Legendary mode, then try and run right into enemy fire. You'll need that God Mode if you think you can still pull it off.
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A little known fact is that God rested on the 7th day to nurse the hangover he had from drinking heavily while developing .Net.
Thank you, I thought I forgot to post anonmously.