Hardly a out-there, inspired idea, the custom toolbar. Customizing aspects of the GUI is a pretty old idea, and drag and drop is a pretty old idea. Even if the two didn't evolve seperately, the prototyping time lines of Aqua and IE5 suggest to me that Aqua probably was designed first, even if IE5 was released first. Consider how long OS X (in it's various forms) has been in the planning and development stages... Personally, I'd chalk it up to an obviousness of design rather than anyone stealing anything.
They might sue you if you make a body kit for a Geo Metro that makes it look just like an M Coupe. Especially if it's a bad body kit - clearly wants to be the slick looking reality, but just a bad copy.
I'm assuming I can customize Aqua however so plenty of stuff stays out in front? Bottom line Windoze is for those whose real desk is a mess but they know where everything is, while Aqua is for neat-freaks.
Oh, aqua is for both. The dock can be both the cluttered, every single windows represented (1). It can also be really really tidy. I'm almost to the point where I prefer it to NeXT/After/GNUstep, although it would need autoraise to really win me over completely. The parent post is right though, it's easy to tell what window is live, and the dock is much nicer than the start bar, once you get used to how to use it efficiently. It still needs work, though, and it is getting better with revisions. There is not a lot of customization available with 10-10.0.4. (2) 10.1 looks like it doubles the amount of customization that you can do from the GUI, and of course there have always been lots of 3rd party GUI toys for the Mac. It's really a nice GUI.
itachi
(1) - except, ironically enough, the window in front. Minimized windows live on the right side of the dock next to the trash, meanwhile applications that are running live on the right
(2) - not entirely true, there are some undocumented changes you can make through the CLI. Mostly picking between widget options, as far as I've seen, rather than turning widgets on and off, so tuning the GUI for speed vs. glitter is not quite an option yet.
1) Osama bin Laden is a suspect. There is no proof of anything
2) Unless the US is going to be the world's biggest hypocrite once more, we should recall our favorite maxim of criminal law, innocent until proven guilty
3) The USS Cole is one ship, not two
4) Although Osama bin Laden may have conspired to commit acts of terrorism, he certainly wasn't flying one of the planes, or driving the suicide boat, or whatnot. If he is guilty of a crime, it is conspiracy to commit murder (presumably between 15 - 5500 counts, depending on which of the acts you credit him for he was actually provably involved with)
5) It is easy to say "gee, sorry I accused you of that, it looks like you really didn't have anything to do with it" It is very hard to say "gee, sorry we shot first and asked questions later, but we really thought it was your fault at first"
I know I've been trolled, but I figure some rational people might read this too...
Crypto is older than most nations. My rights are mine to voluntarily give up, not yours to take from me. If I have nothing to hide, it doesn't mean I want my stuff public. I like my privacy, I like keeping some of my thoughts to myself. If you have nothing to hide, tell/. your credit card numbers, SSN, and so forth.
Feel free to trade in your rights, but don't offer up mine for the sacrfice, as they are not yours for the taking. If I volunteer to sacrifice my rights, that's my choice. If I don't, they're still my rights, so keep your Homeland Defense Gestapo away from them, bub. Remeber that it is your right of free speech that lets you say that you'd be willing to give those rights up, and it's your right to free speech that lets you say you are angry. Also, you would do well to remember that not everyone with stories from friends and neighbors agrees with you.
Back when I worked at a small cafe, my boss used to make homefries out of purple potatoes. Definitely a little odd to see purple on a plate of breakfast foods, but good. I miss purple potatoes...
Cointelpro, AIM, the Black Panther Party, Waco, Ruby Ridge, launching missles at Sudan, propping up dictators as a favor to industry (to the point of the term "banana republic" being coined in response), CIA backed drug runners, the "Cocaine Coup" in Bolivia, hiring ex-Nazis for defense research, testing LSD on the populace in a search for mind control, and you say lay off Uncle Sam? If only 10% of it is true, that's still way too much.
Ask a Palestinian how it feels. I swear, if the world doesn't go after certain members of the Israeli govt. for war crimes, it'll be all the biggots will need to forever win arguments about Jews having too much power/influence/whatnot. Karma be damned, the fact the the world is letting this crap happen is really getting to me.
Well, there is a first ammendment issue. It's not so much not pissing off the press as not doing something that the constitution (theoretically, anyway) prohibits. Trying to squash news could backfire badly - see the Pentagon Papers and the precedent that it set re: prior restraint. Of course, you'd be justified to point out the whole desert storm thing. In this case, since Islam is hardly popular in the US (because we're backwards, willfully underinformed and willfully ignorant), I have my doubts whether enough of a stink will be made. Stink-making being the only thing that really keeps the first ammendment from being trampled daily...
Germany has political issues with allowing hate speech, radical medical experimentation, etc. Something about the not-do-distant past. It makes sense - if I was part of the German govt, I'd be very reluctant to do anything that even remotely reminded people of Nazis.
Well, it beats IE dying on ME and trying to heave the whole machine out the window with it's dying breath... I swear, if MS made hardware too, they'd come up with a way for the entire box to burst into flames with an IE crash.
No, if you RTFA, they got rebates if the uptime wasn't up to what the contract specified. So really, MS was paying them to keep using windows... Wow, Linux might not be cheaper. (and really, given the security of the last red hat install I looked at, I would say it's time for them to look at OpenBSD on the desktop... Of course it's been a while, Red hat may have improved...)
I dunno, I'm forced to use w2k at work, and I run Mozilla as my primary browser. 0.9 was stable on it, and 0.9.3 is very nearly rock solid. Even if Mozilla does puke, it almost never takes 2k with it. I'd go with hardware in this case - try swapping the ram with another box and see what happens, or try running it with only half of the ram installed, if it still fails, try the other half...
Yeah, but if I opt to receive email from Bob's Email List Co., and then Bob turns around and sells my address to Larry's Spam Co., that doesn't mean that I opted in to getting Larry's spam. In fact, it is quite clearly UCE. No amount of verbiage will alter that basic fact. Opting in is a list by list thing - if I opt into bugtraq, that doesn't mean I also want vuln-dev, even though they are run by the same people on the same servers.
Actually, I bought my car mostly because it was too good to pass up - 35 years old, but only 76k miles, never been restored, but in great condition. Sure, she's a complete pig in terms of handling and gas consumption, but it's a lot easier to find a classic american car here than it is to find a Delta Integrale. There are some American cars with decent power to weight ratios, though. The Dodge Viper, the performance versions of the Focus, or pretty much any of the classic hemi muscle cars. With the power of a hemi, there's no such thing as a bad power to weight ratio...
Screw that, for 24k USD, you can get an Subaru Imprezza WRX. Hell, if you're not in the US, you can get a Imprezza 22b, or an old Delta Integrale, or an Lancer Evo, all for way less than that GM PoS. The Corvette hasn't been a decent car since it lost it's curves, and even before that it wasn't the best performing car around. Besides, the Ferrari isn't special because it's fast, it's special because it's dead sexy. The Corvette looks like it was beat with an ugly stick.
Exactly. The v-8 in my Coronet will turn out more horsepower at peak (about 240 hp around 4k rpm) than the inline 4 in a Subaru WRX (227hp at around 6k rpm). It's an especially meaningless comparison, since the WRX is about 1/2 to 2/3 the weight of the Coronet so in the end it does perform way better with less hp (with only about 1/2 the engine displacement).
The specialized pieces are kind of nice, actually. There's nothing saying that you have to use them, but for places where it's convenient, it's nice to have them. Some of my personal favorite lego creations used quite a few of the specialized pieces, but were completely unrelated to the original set that they came with.
No, it's FreeBSD, a Mach kernel, and NeXT put into a blender, with a nice candy-coated GUI to make it look nice. It's not UNIX, but it's *nix. At least as much as Solaris & *BSD, imnsho. SSH into an OS X machine and poke around. It's closer to my OpenBSD machine (or the Solaris stuff at work) than any of the Linuxes I've used. I can't speak for the technical requirements of being a Open Group registered UNIX, though. In terms of codebase, it shares as any of the BSD derived *nixes. As for philosophy, what philosophy are you talking about? I can't think of a single common philosophy that all of the UNIX oses have in common, what am I missing?
Really? On my win2k workstation, if I look at the file I get no more information than if I just look at a file on a Mac. Now I can do the same thing with win2k that was suggested with MacOS, namely, change the default view preferences, but I don't see how this is a fault of the Mac and a benefit of Windows. As for *nixes, other than metadata possibly contained in the name of the file and execute permissions, there is no immediately visible source of file type information at all. How does a white rectangle and a yellow scroll in it tell me anything about a javascript file? If I already know the association between the file type and the icon, I'm fine, but I'm not seeing any other immediately visible source of metadata there. How will that tell me permissions, or creation date? If I want that info, I'll have to do the same thing that I'd have to do with the Mac - ask for the info. Stop trolling, sparky.
Well, you start terminal.app, and you use the file command to get info on the file. Man 1 file for more details. Or, through the gui, file info will tell you the file creator, creation date, last modification date, file type, creation app, etc. Command-F, I think. If you know how to use a computer, you can figure these things out. Of course, if a Mac is too challenging for you, I have a used etch-a-sketch... IHBT, IHL, I'll HAND.
May to September is when we get the chance to make huge changes with a major inmpact. All of the resnet upgrades take place during the summer (and that means jumpers that aren't seated right get discovered at the beginning of the fall semester), and it's easier to do major connectivity outages during the summer when most of the end users are gone.
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Hardly a out-there, inspired idea, the custom toolbar. Customizing aspects of the GUI is a pretty old idea, and drag and drop is a pretty old idea. Even if the two didn't evolve seperately, the prototyping time lines of Aqua and IE5 suggest to me that Aqua probably was designed first, even if IE5 was released first. Consider how long OS X (in it's various forms) has been in the planning and development stages... Personally, I'd chalk it up to an obviousness of design rather than anyone stealing anything.
itachi
They might sue you if you make a body kit for a Geo Metro that makes it look just like an M Coupe. Especially if it's a bad body kit - clearly wants to be the slick looking reality, but just a bad copy.
itachi
I'm assuming I can customize Aqua however so plenty of stuff stays out in front? Bottom line Windoze is for those whose real desk is a mess but they know where everything is, while Aqua is for neat-freaks.
Oh, aqua is for both. The dock can be both the cluttered, every single windows represented (1). It can also be really really tidy. I'm almost to the point where I prefer it to NeXT/After/GNUstep, although it would need autoraise to really win me over completely. The parent post is right though, it's easy to tell what window is live, and the dock is much nicer than the start bar, once you get used to how to use it efficiently. It still needs work, though, and it is getting better with revisions. There is not a lot of customization available with 10-10.0.4. (2) 10.1 looks like it doubles the amount of customization that you can do from the GUI, and of course there have always been lots of 3rd party GUI toys for the Mac. It's really a nice GUI.
itachi
(1) - except, ironically enough, the window in front. Minimized windows live on the right side of the dock next to the trash, meanwhile applications that are running live on the right
(2) - not entirely true, there are some undocumented changes you can make through the CLI. Mostly picking between widget options, as far as I've seen, rather than turning widgets on and off, so tuning the GUI for speed vs. glitter is not quite an option yet.
Please, let's all try to remember that:
1) Osama bin Laden is a suspect. There is no proof of anything
2) Unless the US is going to be the world's biggest hypocrite once more, we should recall our favorite maxim of criminal law, innocent until proven guilty
3) The USS Cole is one ship, not two
4) Although Osama bin Laden may have conspired to commit acts of terrorism, he certainly wasn't flying one of the planes, or driving the suicide boat, or whatnot. If he is guilty of a crime, it is conspiracy to commit murder (presumably between 15 - 5500 counts, depending on which of the acts you credit him for he was actually provably involved with)
5) It is easy to say "gee, sorry I accused you of that, it looks like you really didn't have anything to do with it" It is very hard to say "gee, sorry we shot first and asked questions later, but we really thought it was your fault at first"
I know I've been trolled, but I figure some rational people might read this too...
itachi
Crypto is older than most nations. My rights are mine to voluntarily give up, not yours to take from me. If I have nothing to hide, it doesn't mean I want my stuff public. I like my privacy, I like keeping some of my thoughts to myself. If you have nothing to hide, tell /. your credit card numbers, SSN, and so forth.
itachi
Feel free to trade in your rights, but don't offer up mine for the sacrfice, as they are not yours for the taking. If I volunteer to sacrifice my rights, that's my choice. If I don't, they're still my rights, so keep your Homeland Defense Gestapo away from them, bub. Remeber that it is your right of free speech that lets you say that you'd be willing to give those rights up, and it's your right to free speech that lets you say you are angry. Also, you would do well to remember that not everyone with stories from friends and neighbors agrees with you.
itachi
Back when I worked at a small cafe, my boss used to make homefries out of purple potatoes. Definitely a little odd to see purple on a plate of breakfast foods, but good. I miss purple potatoes...
itachi
Cointelpro, AIM, the Black Panther Party, Waco, Ruby Ridge, launching missles at Sudan, propping up dictators as a favor to industry (to the point of the term "banana republic" being coined in response), CIA backed drug runners, the "Cocaine Coup" in Bolivia, hiring ex-Nazis for defense research, testing LSD on the populace in a search for mind control, and you say lay off Uncle Sam? If only 10% of it is true, that's still way too much.
itachi
Ask a Palestinian how it feels. I swear, if the world doesn't go after certain members of the Israeli govt. for war crimes, it'll be all the biggots will need to forever win arguments about Jews having too much power/influence/whatnot. Karma be damned, the fact the the world is letting this crap happen is really getting to me.
itachi
Well, there is a first ammendment issue. It's not so much not pissing off the press as not doing something that the constitution (theoretically, anyway) prohibits. Trying to squash news could backfire badly - see the Pentagon Papers and the precedent that it set re: prior restraint. Of course, you'd be justified to point out the whole desert storm thing. In this case, since Islam is hardly popular in the US (because we're backwards, willfully underinformed and willfully ignorant), I have my doubts whether enough of a stink will be made. Stink-making being the only thing that really keeps the first ammendment from being trampled daily...
itachi
Germany has political issues with allowing hate speech, radical medical experimentation, etc. Something about the not-do-distant past. It makes sense - if I was part of the German govt, I'd be very reluctant to do anything that even remotely reminded people of Nazis.
itachi
Well, it beats IE dying on ME and trying to heave the whole machine out the window with it's dying breath... I swear, if MS made hardware too, they'd come up with a way for the entire box to burst into flames with an IE crash.
itachi
No, if you RTFA, they got rebates if the uptime wasn't up to what the contract specified. So really, MS was paying them to keep using windows... Wow, Linux might not be cheaper. (and really, given the security of the last red hat install I looked at, I would say it's time for them to look at OpenBSD on the desktop... Of course it's been a while, Red hat may have improved...)
itachi
I dunno, I'm forced to use w2k at work, and I run Mozilla as my primary browser. 0.9 was stable on it, and 0.9.3 is very nearly rock solid. Even if Mozilla does puke, it almost never takes 2k with it. I'd go with hardware in this case - try swapping the ram with another box and see what happens, or try running it with only half of the ram installed, if it still fails, try the other half...
itachi
Firewall, load balancer, or proxy? Netcraft has some info about that in their faq re: OS and www server info.
itachi
Yeah, but if I opt to receive email from Bob's Email List Co., and then Bob turns around and sells my address to Larry's Spam Co., that doesn't mean that I opted in to getting Larry's spam. In fact, it is quite clearly UCE. No amount of verbiage will alter that basic fact. Opting in is a list by list thing - if I opt into bugtraq, that doesn't mean I also want vuln-dev, even though they are run by the same people on the same servers.
itachi
Actually, I bought my car mostly because it was too good to pass up - 35 years old, but only 76k miles, never been restored, but in great condition. Sure, she's a complete pig in terms of handling and gas consumption, but it's a lot easier to find a classic american car here than it is to find a Delta Integrale. There are some American cars with decent power to weight ratios, though. The Dodge Viper, the performance versions of the Focus, or pretty much any of the classic hemi muscle cars. With the power of a hemi, there's no such thing as a bad power to weight ratio...
itachi
Screw that, for 24k USD, you can get an Subaru Imprezza WRX. Hell, if you're not in the US, you can get a Imprezza 22b, or an old Delta Integrale, or an Lancer Evo, all for way less than that GM PoS. The Corvette hasn't been a decent car since it lost it's curves, and even before that it wasn't the best performing car around. Besides, the Ferrari isn't special because it's fast, it's special because it's dead sexy. The Corvette looks like it was beat with an ugly stick.
itachi
D'oh. s/inline/boxer/ Think, then post...
itachi
Exactly. The v-8 in my Coronet will turn out more horsepower at peak (about 240 hp around 4k rpm) than the inline 4 in a Subaru WRX (227hp at around 6k rpm). It's an especially meaningless comparison, since the WRX is about 1/2 to 2/3 the weight of the Coronet so in the end it does perform way better with less hp (with only about 1/2 the engine displacement).
itachi
The specialized pieces are kind of nice, actually. There's nothing saying that you have to use them, but for places where it's convenient, it's nice to have them. Some of my personal favorite lego creations used quite a few of the specialized pieces, but were completely unrelated to the original set that they came with.
itachi
No, it's FreeBSD, a Mach kernel, and NeXT put into a blender, with a nice candy-coated GUI to make it look nice. It's not UNIX, but it's *nix. At least as much as Solaris & *BSD, imnsho. SSH into an OS X machine and poke around. It's closer to my OpenBSD machine (or the Solaris stuff at work) than any of the Linuxes I've used. I can't speak for the technical requirements of being a Open Group registered UNIX, though. In terms of codebase, it shares as any of the BSD derived *nixes. As for philosophy, what philosophy are you talking about? I can't think of a single common philosophy that all of the UNIX oses have in common, what am I missing?
itachi
Really? On my win2k workstation, if I look at the file I get no more information than if I just look at a file on a Mac. Now I can do the same thing with win2k that was suggested with MacOS, namely, change the default view preferences, but I don't see how this is a fault of the Mac and a benefit of Windows. As for *nixes, other than metadata possibly contained in the name of the file and execute permissions, there is no immediately visible source of file type information at all. How does a white rectangle and a yellow scroll in it tell me anything about a javascript file? If I already know the association between the file type and the icon, I'm fine, but I'm not seeing any other immediately visible source of metadata there. How will that tell me permissions, or creation date? If I want that info, I'll have to do the same thing that I'd have to do with the Mac - ask for the info. Stop trolling, sparky.
itachi
Well, you start terminal.app, and you use the file command to get info on the file. Man 1 file for more details. Or, through the gui, file info will tell you the file creator, creation date, last modification date, file type, creation app, etc. Command-F, I think. If you know how to use a computer, you can figure these things out. Of course, if a Mac is too challenging for you, I have a used etch-a-sketch... IHBT, IHL, I'll HAND.
itachi
May to September is when we get the chance to make huge changes with a major inmpact. All of the resnet upgrades take place during the summer (and that means jumpers that aren't seated right get discovered at the beginning of the fall semester), and it's easier to do major connectivity outages during the summer when most of the end users are gone.
itachi