In the scope of all things, is it of any real importance that Apple has yet again changed the buttons on the iPod? I own several Macs and an iPod 3G and I couldn't care less.
What does that say about our society when a fairly simple re-design of a product garners such attention? Is it really important? Does it make your life better somehow?
Damnit, do not mod me as funny. I am completely serious.
MC, as it is know to those of us that have known the love of Midnight Commander, is a a tool of incompareable power. From its assorted views, to its many tools and commands, it is a diamond in the muddy rivers of linux console apps.
Seems to me that at least part of the reason for slow or declining PDA sales is that PDA users tend to upgrade their PDA's far less often than they upgrade their PC, laptop, or phone.
I'm still using my Palm 505 (and I only upgraded from my Palm V to the 505 because I got a great deal on it used from a co-worker) , My wife has been using my old Palm III for ages. A close friend uses a handspring he's had for years.
Almost none of my associates have a PDA released within the last year. Conversely, nearly everyone I know has a PC or Mac and phone purchased within the last 18 months. Electronics sales are typically based on a 12-18 month upgrade cycle. If PDA users are going 2-3 or more years between upgrades you can see why Sony is pulling out of the market.
> and solely used by people who know, and want to know nothing about computers.
I've been using Linux almost daily since late '94, Sun products since 92, spent a number of years as a VMS sys-admin. I spent close to three years working on a Linux distro that was top 10 on distro watch.
I own 4 Macs, all of which get heavy use and run OSX. My iBook is my 'take it everywhere all day long" computer.
I guess you're wrong on that point.
> the other main player in the make-a-fast-buck-off-the-stupid industry has to be Apple computers
Just for fun I put a freshly installed OSX box directly on the net for two weeks. It ran various proto analyzers, log watchers, etc., but nothing was done to enhance the stock security setup. Over 250 attempts and not one sucessfull intrusion. I even had a cracker friend of some renoun have a go, he also failed.
Apple has done an outstanding job creating hardware and software that just work, are virtually hassle free, and are reasonably secure. Personally I could care less who the vendor is as long as I get what I want and it does what it should. (In fact around '96 or so I swore I'd never touch another Mac)
It's a shame that all the winning themes, if and when they are completed, will only be compatible with Unsanity's ShapeShifter. Which is fine except that it's closed source and proprietary.
I still have OSX 10.2.8 on my primary Mac because ShapeShifter seems to be the only game in town for themes on 10.3.x, and I think it was kind of sneaky the way they got all the big themers on board around a proprietary standard for theme packages and a proprietary engine and then started charging for it.
If we were talking about a doc or media formats most of you would agree that this is a bad thing, why should theme engines be any different?
When living in a back-lot guest house Venice, CA I was woken up in the early AM to someone pounding on the main house back door....it was the next door neighbor asking "What's the number for 911, my mom is having a heart attack!"
If only the Darwin Awards had been around back then.
The crux of the matter, for me anyway, is the quantity not the quality. This has occurred as a direct result of deregulation to both television and radio. To alleviate the onslaught of television advertising I bought Tivo, for radio I bought an iPod car adaptor and simply stopped listening to anything other than NPR.
During the 80's the average number of commercials run hourly was 10 to 12 when the federal government regulated commercial time. Since deregulation the average is about 20 commercials.
I see three viable choices for the future:
1) Change the compensation method. Harry Shearer had an item on his radio show awhile ago that it would cost about $280 annually from every TV watcher to do away with ads completely. Do something similar to what the UK and the BBC do now. It would give the content producers more freedom as well, no more sponsor pressure to change this or that.
2) Cable companies need to change. ATM I pay about $80 for 250+ channels of crap I mostly don't watch and about 8 channels that I do. Let me pay $1-$2 per month for the channels I *do* want and pass the extra back to the networks that I support. The networks would then have more incentive to have better programming and less incentive for advertising. The cable company has to pay a monthly fee for every channel they carry - let the consumers decide via the marketplace which are worthy of survival.
3) Tivo/RePlay and FF past the commercials if networks don't get a clue. I suspect sometime soon we'll see a major television set manufacturer embed a Tivo, or a Tivo like device, in the set itself.
If the content producers and networks think they can get around this with product placement they are just wrong. In my house we have a game: anytime we see product placement in a show we all shout "Product Placement!". The key to stripping its power is to be aware of it (and making fun of it also helps).
For millions of Americans, the "master-slave" relationship means one thing and one thing only: over 200 years of institutionalized, legal American slavery.
Yeah, nevermind the Egyptians had slaves, or many African tribes that made slaves of the captured members of other tribes, or the Aztecs, or the Incas. It was only the Americans that ever had slaves.
Florida governor Jeb Bush and Florida secretary of state Kathleen Harris illegally removed tens of thousands of eligible Democratic voters from the voting rolls by wrongly claiming they were felons, who Jeb Bush declared are not allowed to vote. In fact virtually none were felons, and anyway Bush was wrong: reformed felons can vote in Florida. Why did they do it? A large percentage of the people targetted by Bush and Harris were Democrats. What they did was against Florida election laws and the election officials had informed they were breaking those laws. But to ensure that Democrats wouldn't vote, Harris then also avoided counting over 100,000 ballots from mainly black-dominated (usually Democratic) counties. The end result of this caper was Jeb's brother G.W. Bush being wrongly declared President, and the democratic process being subverted.
Harris and the Bushes were aided in their misdoings by the company that had been contracted to provide "scrub lists", which identify which citizens aren't allowed to vote--this company it turns out made essentially no effort to verify that people on the lists they were providing were not allowed to vote, and made apparently deliberate errors in misidentifying voters, such as wrongly matching a hypothetical felon who recently moved to FL from Georgia named Eric J Jones to Floridian non-felon Erica L Jones, preventing Erica from voting. Social security numbers were not used for matching. Although the Floida legislature has since passed a law requiring that Harris not use a private company to produce scrub lists, she has deliberately broken that law and hired a company anyway.
I'd rather filter spam at the router. Viri typically only target Microsoft platforms, which I don't use and won't allow on my networks. However spam affects almost everyone with an email address and wastes far far more bandwidth overall, so why not build in configurable RBL controls to the routers?
I get almost no spam through a combination of RBL, access file, procmail, and blocking spammer countries. But those measures do not prevent spam from wasting my bandwidth and taxing my mail server. If my ISP used spam filtering on their routers the amount of spam actually hitting my systems would drop by 70-80%.
If my ISP did something like this I'd buy everyone in their IT department donuts on Friday.
Who modded this as a Troll? How exactly did you think he was trolling?
I was wondering the exact same thing - what are NASA doing spending money and resources studying the ocean when they can't seem to keep space research on track.
I was also wondering about OS's used on the Top 500. I really wish they'd include the OS in the list as well. What would the OS statistics look like, I wonder?
You're thinking of Shimano BioPace chainrings. I still have a set on an old mountain/messenger bike and they rock for high RPM grinding on the pedals up the steeps, but you do notice them on the street. But then they weren't designed for street AFAIK.
The three top priorities for racing bikes are weight, weight and weight. Speaking as a lifelong rider, racer and former messenger, stuff like this never works out too well in practice. Anyone tried the electronic shifting systems? They (mostly) suck.
There have been may refinements, but as the article post says "few advancements in drivetrain technology" because what we have currently is very lightweight, works extremely well, is very reliable, and is easy to service.
> As most Mac aficionados know, Mac OS 9 was a fast, strong OS.
Heh, that's either -1 Troll or +1 Funny, I can't decide which.
My first Mac was a Mac+, and I've been using them (along with Suns and x86 Linux later) since then. Lemme tell ya something sparky, MacOS was not "strong", nor fast, nor "stable". Having used Macs all day, everyday as a graphic artist and designer for over 12 years I can unequivocally state that MacOS was not any of those things.
OSX is light years ahead of what came before. Your Kaleidoscope doesn't work now, and you can no longer fiddle with extensions for hours on end. Get over it and move on already.
What is up with the torrent of Longhorn stories on/. lately? The product is at least two, and more likely three, years away!
From the Jargon file:
vaporware:/vayprweir/, n.
Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
It's vaporware!
Is the frequency of these stories in any way influenced by the fact that Microsoft is a frequent advertiser on/.? I already know what I think, you draw your own conclusions.
What is up with the torrent of Longhorn stories on/. lately? The product is at least two, and more likely three, years away!
From the Jargon file:
vaporware:/vayprweir/, n.
Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
It's vaporware!
Is the frequency of these stories in any way influenced by the fact that Microsoft is a frequent advertiser on/.? I already know what I think, you draw your own conclusions.
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Very, very well said. You cut to the heart of my argument better than I did.
In the scope of all things, is it of any real importance that Apple has yet again changed the buttons on the iPod? I own several Macs and an iPod 3G and I couldn't care less.
What does that say about our society when a fairly simple re-design of a product garners such attention? Is it really important? Does it make your life better somehow?
Just get over yourselves.
Damnit, do not mod me as funny. I am completely serious.
MC, as it is know to those of us that have known the love of Midnight Commander, is a a tool of incompareable power. From its assorted views, to its many tools and commands, it is a diamond in the muddy rivers of linux console apps.
Plus it uses F-keys, F-Keys are cool.
Seems to me that at least part of the reason for slow or declining PDA sales is that PDA users tend to upgrade their PDA's far less often than they upgrade their PC, laptop, or phone.
I'm still using my Palm 505 (and I only upgraded from my Palm V to the 505 because I got a great deal on it used from a co-worker) , My wife has been using my old Palm III for ages. A close friend uses a handspring he's had for years.
Almost none of my associates have a PDA released within the last year. Conversely, nearly everyone I know has a PC or Mac and phone purchased within the last 18 months. Electronics sales are typically based on a 12-18 month upgrade cycle. If PDA users are going 2-3 or more years between upgrades you can see why Sony is pulling out of the market.
Obvious troll but I'll bite:
> and solely used by people who know, and want to know nothing about computers.
I've been using Linux almost daily since late '94, Sun products since 92, spent a number of years as a VMS sys-admin. I spent close to three years working on a Linux distro that was top 10 on distro watch.
I own 4 Macs, all of which get heavy use and run OSX. My iBook is my 'take it everywhere all day long" computer.
I guess you're wrong on that point.
> the other main player in the make-a-fast-buck-off-the-stupid industry has to be Apple computers
Just for fun I put a freshly installed OSX box directly on the net for two weeks. It ran various proto analyzers, log watchers, etc., but nothing was done to enhance the stock security setup. Over 250 attempts and not one sucessfull intrusion. I even had a cracker friend of some renoun have a go, he also failed.
Apple has done an outstanding job creating hardware and software that just work, are virtually hassle free, and are reasonably secure. Personally I could care less who the vendor is as long as I get what I want and it does what it should. (In fact around '96 or so I swore I'd never touch another Mac)
So who's stupid now smart guy?
to india. Hmmm, Homer seems to have a slight Delhi accent now.
I guess that would be one of those variable displacement engines that we were promised along with space travel and flying cars.
I am I missing something?
It's a shame that all the winning themes, if and when they are completed, will only be compatible with Unsanity's ShapeShifter. Which is fine except that it's closed source and proprietary.
I still have OSX 10.2.8 on my primary Mac because ShapeShifter seems to be the only game in town for themes on 10.3.x, and I think it was kind of sneaky the way they got all the big themers on board around a proprietary standard for theme packages and a proprietary engine and then started charging for it.
If we were talking about a doc or media formats most of you would agree that this is a bad thing, why should theme engines be any different?
When living in a back-lot guest house Venice, CA I was woken up in the early AM to someone pounding on the main house back door....it was the next door neighbor asking "What's the number for 911, my mom is having a heart attack!"
If only the Darwin Awards had been around back then.
The crux of the matter, for me anyway, is the quantity not the quality. This has occurred as a direct result of deregulation to both television and radio. To alleviate the onslaught of television advertising I bought Tivo, for radio I bought an iPod car adaptor and simply stopped listening to anything other than NPR.
During the 80's the average number of commercials run hourly was 10 to 12 when the federal government regulated commercial time. Since deregulation the average is about 20 commercials.
I see three viable choices for the future:
1) Change the compensation method. Harry Shearer had an item on his radio show awhile ago that it would cost about $280 annually from every TV watcher to do away with ads completely. Do something similar to what the UK and the BBC do now. It would give the content producers more freedom as well, no more sponsor pressure to change this or that.
2) Cable companies need to change. ATM I pay about $80 for 250+ channels of crap I mostly don't watch and about 8 channels that I do. Let me pay $1-$2 per month for the channels I *do* want and pass the extra back to the networks that I support. The networks would then have more incentive to have better programming and less incentive for advertising. The cable company has to pay a monthly fee for every channel they carry - let the consumers decide via the marketplace which are worthy of survival.
3) Tivo/RePlay and FF past the commercials if networks don't get a clue. I suspect sometime soon we'll see a major television set manufacturer embed a Tivo, or a Tivo like device, in the set itself.
If the content producers and networks think they can get around this with product placement they are just wrong. In my house we have a game: anytime we see product placement in a show we all shout "Product Placement!". The key to stripping its power is to be aware of it (and making fun of it also helps).
Well actually they are the single largest property holder and the single largest stock holder in the world - it could be very lucrative.
For millions of Americans, the "master-slave" relationship means one thing and one thing only: over 200 years of institutionalized, legal American slavery.
Yeah, nevermind the Egyptians had slaves, or many African tribes that made slaves of the captured members of other tribes, or the Aztecs, or the Incas. It was only the Americans that ever had slaves.
Well, at least in Florida, yes.
Florida governor Jeb Bush and Florida secretary of state Kathleen Harris illegally removed tens of thousands of eligible Democratic voters from the voting rolls by wrongly claiming they were felons, who Jeb Bush declared are not allowed to vote. In fact virtually none were felons, and anyway Bush was wrong: reformed felons can vote in Florida. Why did they do it? A large percentage of the people targetted by Bush and Harris were Democrats. What they did was against Florida election laws and the election officials had informed they were breaking those laws. But to ensure that Democrats wouldn't vote, Harris then also avoided counting over 100,000 ballots from mainly black-dominated (usually Democratic) counties. The end result of this caper was Jeb's brother G.W. Bush being wrongly declared President, and the democratic process being subverted.
Harris and the Bushes were aided in their misdoings by the company that had been contracted to provide "scrub lists", which identify which citizens aren't allowed to vote--this company it turns out made essentially no effort to verify that people on the lists they were providing were not allowed to vote, and made apparently deliberate errors in misidentifying voters, such as wrongly matching a hypothetical felon who recently moved to FL from Georgia named Eric J Jones to Floridian non-felon Erica L Jones, preventing Erica from voting. Social security numbers were not used for matching. Although the Floida legislature has since passed a law requiring that Harris not use a private company to produce scrub lists, she has deliberately broken that law and hired a company anyway.
Source: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, by investigative reporter Greg Palast.
You forgot ads.osdn.*
Don't specify your layouts in px.
Um, yeah. From the css page for the example you gave:
position:relative;
width:auto;
min-width:120px;
margin:0px 210px 20px 170px;
border:1px solid black;
background-color:white;
padding:10px;
z-index:3;
}
#navAlpha {
position:absolute;
width:150px;
top:20px;
left:20px;
border:1px dashed black;
background-color:#eee;
padding:10px;
z-index:2;
}
I'd rather filter spam at the router. Viri typically only target Microsoft platforms, which I don't use and won't allow on my networks. However spam affects almost everyone with an email address and wastes far far more bandwidth overall, so why not build in configurable RBL controls to the routers?
I get almost no spam through a combination of RBL, access file, procmail, and blocking spammer countries. But those measures do not prevent spam from wasting my bandwidth and taxing my mail server. If my ISP used spam filtering on their routers the amount of spam actually hitting my systems would drop by 70-80%.
If my ISP did something like this I'd buy everyone in their IT department donuts on Friday.
Who modded this as a Troll? How exactly did you think he was trolling?
I was wondering the exact same thing - what are NASA doing spending money and resources studying the ocean when they can't seem to keep space research on track.
I was also wondering about OS's used on the Top 500. I really wish they'd include the OS in the list as well. What would the OS statistics look like, I wonder?
.2%
IBM: 31%
HP: 28%
Linux: 20%
Sun: 12%
Cray: 6%
Other: 2.8%
Apple:
Microsoft: 0%
Err, or something like that.
You're thinking of Shimano BioPace chainrings. I still have a set on an old mountain/messenger bike and they rock for high RPM grinding on the pedals up the steeps, but you do notice them on the street. But then they weren't designed for street AFAIK.
The three top priorities for racing bikes are weight, weight and weight. Speaking as a lifelong rider, racer and former messenger, stuff like this never works out too well in practice. Anyone tried the electronic shifting systems? They (mostly) suck.
There have been may refinements, but as the article post says "few advancements in drivetrain technology" because what we have currently is very lightweight, works extremely well, is very reliable, and is easy to service.
> As most Mac aficionados know, Mac OS 9 was a fast, strong OS.
Heh, that's either -1 Troll or +1 Funny, I can't decide which.
My first Mac was a Mac+, and I've been using them (along with Suns and x86 Linux later) since then. Lemme tell ya something sparky, MacOS was not "strong", nor fast, nor "stable". Having used Macs all day, everyday as a graphic artist and designer for over 12 years I can unequivocally state that MacOS was not any of those things.
OSX is light years ahead of what came before. Your Kaleidoscope doesn't work now, and you can no longer fiddle with extensions for hours on end. Get over it and move on already.
-1 Troll. How in the world did this get modded up? Where are the benchmarks? Who did them? What games? Yet another referenceless, dataless troll.
What is up with the torrent of Longhorn stories on /. lately? The product is at least two, and more likely three, years away!
/vayprweir/, n.
/.? I already know what I think, you draw your own conclusions.
From the Jargon file:
vaporware:
Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
It's vaporware!
Is the frequency of these stories in any way influenced by the fact that Microsoft is a frequent advertiser on
What is up with the torrent of Longhorn stories on /. lately? The product is at least two, and more likely three, years away!
/vayprweir/, n.
/.? I already know what I think, you draw your own conclusions.
From the Jargon file:
vaporware:
Products announced far in advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
It's vaporware!
Is the frequency of these stories in any way influenced by the fact that Microsoft is a frequent advertiser on
Get real. Two or three years is an eternity in IT.