So, um, how is iPhoto any different from ACDsee? There are plenty of tools available for Windows that do what it looks like iPhoto does.
Today, Apple showed us a little round wart of a computer with very little expandability that uses laptop parts in a somewhat creative way. There's really not much beyond that, from what I can tell. Am I supposed to be impressed?
- A.P.
it's a breast implant dammit!@!@#!
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that's all i needs to say.
For anyone drooling over the thought of a BeBox...
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...according to the auction page, there aren't any.
But you can get an almost-as-ancient Apple "Proforma" computer, and a Laserwriter II!
Now, how am I going to keep my kids away from this filth? I can't watch them 24/7.
People who are trumpeting this victory as a "win for free speech" need to think twice and consider that there are parents out there who feel otherwise.
It came down off Bugtraq at about 9AM this morning. Everyone already knew about it. And, unless you're one of those security-through-obscurity people, you should have no problem with this kind of thing. (It's not like they wouldn't be available to people otherwise...)
A hard-disk-less machine with a 300-something MHz CPU being used as a DV editing workstation simply because it has a Firewire port? People buy RAID cards for their NLE machines because single drives aren't even fast enough sometimes for digital video editing, and somehow a USB drive will be sufficient?
What the hell?? No offense, but this has got to be the worst Ask Slashdot ever.
...next time anyone tells a "joke" as bad as the "upgrade to a pentium and convince lance armstrong to try it" joke, can we take them 'round back and shoot them?
It's a sad thing that some simpletons think all college graduates know nothing, and the paper they spent five years acquiring would do a better job lining a birdcage floor.
It's equally sad that some other morons think anyone without a college degree isn't worth hiring; they're obviously too unmotivated and undedicated to get a degree, so why should I expect anything spectacular from them on the job?
I think I've just summed up about half of the 1000 comments attached to this story. It would be nice if most people on slashdot weren't so quick to pigeonhole things into easy-to-understand little chunks. But then, what would become of slashdot?
Seriously, I could've told you that 5% of the net is unreachable at any given time. It's called "PPP Connections". This is some sort of breakthrough research?
Requiring copy-protection to be built in every single computer peripheral capable of storage is kinda significant, yet merits no mention. Maybe nobody's supposed to know about it?
I'm needing a replacement for my single-CPU doorstop. Two screamin' 66 MHz PowerPCs ought to hold my office door open twice as well as the PowerComputing Mac clone does now.
There is no perfect email system, and there never will be, but the way Microsoft does things is fundamentally wrong. The default "trust all attachments" behavior of Lookout and Lookout Express, coupled with the default behavior of hiding extensions for known filetypes, mated with most users' general inexperience in all things computer-related equates to one huge fucking train-wreck of a problem, wouldn't you agree?
This whole mess could easily be avoided (or at least toned way, way down) if Microsoft would wise up and start shipping their mail clients (and their web browsers) with much more locked-down defaults.
Yes, I'm picking on Microsoft. They're a huge company and a lot of people who simply don't know any better use their products. Their products ought to know better; don't leave security up to the end-user, and don't make the IT guy's job more tedious than it already is.
... who hasn't gotten a single one of these worms? I think the only one I got was the "I send you this file in order to have your advice" thing like 6 months ago. No Nimda for me, no Sircam, no other elite macro viruses. Are the people I converse with in email just cooler/smarter than everyone else, or is this whole email virus thing more hype than reality?
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So, um, how is iPhoto any different from ACDsee? There are plenty of tools available for Windows that do what it looks like iPhoto does.
Today, Apple showed us a little round wart of a computer with very little expandability that uses laptop parts in a somewhat creative way. There's really not much beyond that, from what I can tell. Am I supposed to be impressed?
- A.P.
that's all i needs to say.
...according to the auction page, there aren't any.
But you can get an almost-as-ancient Apple "Proforma" computer, and a Laserwriter II!
- A.P.
It looks like a Mallomar. Or a really big whitehead.
- A.P.
Now, how am I going to keep my kids away from this filth? I can't watch them 24/7.
People who are trumpeting this victory as a "win for free speech" need to think twice and consider that there are parents out there who feel otherwise.
- A.P.
...I caught my dog with a leg up on my Episode I DVD.
I let him keep it, he seems to have more fun with the thing than I ever did.
- A.P.
...now we can re-export playstation 2's.
eBay.ru, here I come.
- A.P.
Break it. Buy a chipped player.
- A.P.
It came down off Bugtraq at about 9AM this morning. Everyone already knew about it. And, unless you're one of those security-through-obscurity people, you should have no problem with this kind of thing. (It's not like they wouldn't be available to people otherwise...)
- A.P.
Those are Xenon-based. The fake ones the riceboys use aren't, though...
- A.p.
A hard-disk-less machine with a 300-something MHz CPU being used as a DV editing workstation simply because it has a Firewire port? People buy RAID cards for their NLE machines because single drives aren't even fast enough sometimes for digital video editing, and somehow a USB drive will be sufficient?
What the hell?? No offense, but this has got to be the worst Ask Slashdot ever.
- A.P.
You heartless bastards. Couldn't you have given it 'till 7:55 AM?
- A.P.
...next time anyone tells a "joke" as bad as the "upgrade to a pentium and convince lance armstrong to try it" joke, can we take them 'round back and shoot them?
...so, if I rip Universal CDs in my DVD drive, will I be breaking the DMCA?
- A.P.
It's a sad thing that some simpletons think all college graduates know nothing, and the paper they spent five years acquiring would do a better job lining a birdcage floor.
It's equally sad that some other morons think anyone without a college degree isn't worth hiring; they're obviously too unmotivated and undedicated to get a degree, so why should I expect anything spectacular from them on the job?
I think I've just summed up about half of the 1000 comments attached to this story. It would be nice if most people on slashdot weren't so quick to pigeonhole things into easy-to-understand little chunks. But then, what would become of slashdot?
- A.P.
Yes. You might recognize one of their products. It's called a wireless access point.
Seriously, I could've told you that 5% of the net is unreachable at any given time. It's called "PPP Connections". This is some sort of breakthrough research?
- A.P.
...buy a Commodore VIC-20?
- A.P.
Requiring copy-protection to be built in every single computer peripheral capable of storage is kinda significant, yet merits no mention. Maybe nobody's supposed to know about it?
-A.P.
I'm needing a replacement for my single-CPU doorstop. Two screamin' 66 MHz PowerPCs ought to hold my office door open twice as well as the PowerComputing Mac clone does now.
- A.P.
...maybe she just doesn't like the Internet. Don't force-feed it to her.
- A.P.
Please read what he said again.
There is no perfect email system, and there never will be, but the way Microsoft does things is fundamentally wrong. The default "trust all attachments" behavior of Lookout and Lookout Express, coupled with the default behavior of hiding extensions for known filetypes, mated with most users' general inexperience in all things computer-related equates to one huge fucking train-wreck of a problem, wouldn't you agree?
This whole mess could easily be avoided (or at least toned way, way down) if Microsoft would wise up and start shipping their mail clients (and their web browsers) with much more locked-down defaults.
Yes, I'm picking on Microsoft. They're a huge company and a lot of people who simply don't know any better use their products. Their products ought to know better; don't leave security up to the end-user, and don't make the IT guy's job more tedious than it already is.
- A.P.
... who hasn't gotten a single one of these worms? I think the only one I got was the "I send you this file in order to have your advice" thing like 6 months ago. No Nimda for me, no Sircam, no other elite macro viruses. Are the people I converse with in email just cooler/smarter than everyone else, or is this whole email virus thing more hype than reality?
- A.P.
...what makes this any different from any other version of Windows?
The best way to secure a Windows box is to take a pair of scissors to the ethernet cable.
- A.P.
We were gonna have to shell out MAD DOLLARS ($$$) for windows XP until me and my friends found a L33T 0-DAY KRAK for it on IRC!!!
Now the entire library network is running XP Server!!!
Free software r0x0rs!!!
- A.P.