It's typical, and there is a long history of it: back to the 1984 macs with a disk format that was incompatible with other machines for no other reason that just for the hell of it.
In '84 the PCs didn't use the 3.5" disks, just Macs, and I think the format was chosen so that Apple could fit the drive controller in one of the ASICs they already had rather then add another for controlling the drive... (it may also have offered more space then trying to use what would over the next five years become the 'PC 3.5" standard').
Monitors aren't interchangable with PC monitors: just to make things more difficult. Same with mice and keyboards.
The now-old TiBook had a 100% standard VGA out. The Apple LCD monitors don't use the same DVI PC's do because Apple wanted one cable to carry power, USB, and also the video signal. The mice and keyboards are USB devices, PC mice work just fine. The keyboards probably do too, except it might be hard to figure out which keys are command and opt (alt and windows maybe?)
Moves designed just to frustrate the users like this are much more rare in the PC world, because with an open market things like "Microchannel" are treated like an obstruction to work around.
Really...want to see the connectors on my Viao? Micro-USB, and the VGA and stuff is only available if you buy the I/O bar (or maybe the VGA is, but the PS/2 ports and serial and printer ports are not).
Apple seems to be using mostly standard connectors, mostly. I think the special ADC one for the monitors is justified. The micro-VGA would only be if there was limited space, like on the iBook (where they include the adaptor for free). No idea why they would do it on the eMac.
Does this mean that now Apple monitors will be supported when connected to DVI output? They work already, but I'm talking about support and returns
They exchanged either an LCD monitor or the 3rd party converter at the local Apple store for a friend of mine who was using the monitor on a PC running Linux who wasn't the least bit shy about saying that. (the replacement worked, the original has problems with the USB devices built into the monitor)
I don't know if that is an official policy or not.
Maybe they will finally make the 17" LCD model conform to standards so it will work as well as the Cinema Display.
I thought the 17" used the same connector as the Cinema (and the new super huge one). Which is pretty much just the DVI, plus USB, plus power, which is a nice idea & it's too bad only Apple uses the connector rather then Apple's connector becoming the standard...
It runs OS X; who knows, it might already be part of the default install.
Hmmmm... $ uname -a Darwin [...] 5.4 Darwin Kernel Version 5.4: Wed Apr 10 09:27:47 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
$ which emacs /usr/bin/emacs
Seems to have it, vi is a bit more my style though (it's too bad OSX doesn't also have w3m...). Even has ssh, and ssd (and a click box to turn it on).
$10 says slashdot.org gets a noticeable boost in the number of people visiting the site during that time... people's curiosity will be peaked and they'll have to come "just once" to see if the blackout is working.
Doubtful as the "great blackout" is just on the comment pages, and from the front page you can see how many comments there are, and how many are at or above your threshold...
So nobody has to "break the picket line" to see if the store is empty -- in effect it has these big plate glass windows...
There IS, however, something wrong with giving this kind of novel the premiere literary award of the genre. I'd hate to see the Hugos become depreciated (like the Nebulas) because they're given out to Rowling and Buffy.
There is also something deeply wrong with denying the award to the best novel/show/movie because one thinks it cheapens the Hugo.
I don't know if she deserved to win last year, but if Buffy won some year I don't think it would cheapen the award (and if so not by nearly as much as denying it merely because "it's TV", or "it has a funny name")...of corse I don't think it deserves to win this year, not because the musical was bad (it was quite good), but because this year something was better (not sure there was anything better the year "Hush" was out...).
This is very worrying - I recognise just two names on those lists.
Maybe you should try a few new ones...how about Connie Willis (forget Passages though, get Book of the Dead, very good, plus in paperback...used even!). Allen Steele is also quite good, I remember "discovering" him in the mid-90s. I have heard Neil Gaiman is quite good, so that will be the new author I'll be trying next...so maybe someone can recommend one of his books...plus it is likely anyone nominated for a Hugo has produced fine work.
It seems a largely successful strategy and it might be better if more countries were to consider it.
So long as "more" is "all". If one country doesn't renounce violence it can just take whatever it wants from the other countries. If several don't they could just split up the world...
I work for an all mac, underfunded nonprofit though. (yay macs, since with them we can get away with 2 full time techs and a 20 hour research assistantfor about 100 users, and still mamange to do allthe fun sys admining and webcasting stuff we have to do). Getting the funding to pay an extra $10 for 100 computers, when there are free alternatives available that are jstu as (or almost) as good just isn't going to happen.
Probbably not...but you might be able to get Omni to give a way cheaper licence ($0 or so) if you explain that (a) it is for a non-profit, and (b) can't afford it, and (c) you own a personal copy...
I think Apple made a mistake by not allowing users (or coders) easy access to a panel to turn off live scaling, live drag'ndrop and double buffering on a system wide level.
Some of that is probably true, but would increase the amount of testing they need to do. Double buffering being off though would either result in worse flickering and tearing then in other windowing systems (because none of the apps are written to minimize those effects), or would largely eliminate the advantages to the developers of having double buffering since they still have to worry about people who have turned it off. (Turning off the "single buffering" or backing stores would be far worse though).
Not unless they can gget OmniWeb to get rid of the nagware.
They can by giving them some money, like they do with the current PowerBook software bundle (OmniWeb and some other Omni stuff is in there, licensed for you by Apple).
Nobody pays for browsers anymore
Sure they do. Everyone who buys Windows pays for a browser. Even in the sense that you meant it people do pay, I did for example because I really like OmniWeb a lot and had $30 (or $25?) to spare.
I'm not a big fan of that watermark being there when its in the background.
Then consider paying for it. Either that or realize that you just posted "I'm too bloody cheap to fix something that irritates me, but I'm upset enough about it to complain in an international publication..."
the guy could argue that he wouldn't have stole the car, but the cops made it irregularly irresistible not to steal it.
The guy can also argue that alien mind control lasers were used to make him steel it. That's likely to be about as successful.
These cars are not exotic cars. They are left with the keys behind the sun visor which sometimes happens with cars not owned by the government. Even if they left the keys on the dash I don't think that would really make much of a legal defense.
Much better to try to argue that it was a harmless joy ride, the car would have been returned and all. A good lawyer might be able to get a young client off...or maybe off on only a short jail stay (better then a long one, eh?).
There are lots of things the US legal system does wrong, but as far as I know having too loose a definition of entrapment is not one of them.
Another possible scenario: Person with same brand/color car parks behind bait and leaves keys inside. Thief stoles persons car. Person picks up the bait car thinking it is their car.
That has actually happened (except the car was locked and hte key worked). I expect if you had the same make/model car parked in the same general area you stand a really good chance of talking you way out of it though...
Is this the case for most TiVo owners, or only those with no TV willpower?
Some people watch more TV, some people watch about the same amount (either by number of shows, or by total number of hours).
Some people watch more because, well, it catches more of the shows they like, and lets them play them back whenever. So if their social life has them out a few week nights, but leaves Sunday free they can watch the shows from the week nights.
Some people go out more (because of the above!) and either watch the same amount of TV, or more.
Personally I do about the same amount of other stuff, but I now do all my fiddling around on the net in front of the TV because I can skip back and watch whatever I missed, and skip over commercials that tend to catch my eye when I'm trying to do something like read slashdot:-)
What will it do to you? Buy one and find out...I mean are you chicken?:-)
1. They offer just the hardware without requiring subscription (or huge up front fee) and the unit is mostly functional without it.
They have always offered just the box no service fee (monthly/yearly/lifetime) required. If by "mostly functional" you mean "operates a lot like a VCR, recording by time and channel, but not program name" then you are set.
If not, well, what do you expect? It's only with this final respin of the hardware that they break even on the cost! Before that they lost money and had to make it up on service (just like cell phones, satellite TV boxes, and many other things you buy service on).
2. It becomes a general purpose multimedia machine which I can do what ever the heck I want to with.
It isn't supported as one, but there are all sorts of things that you can do to it...it's kind of a pain though. For that you are better going with OpenPVR, but you do lose the very nice UI that the TiVo folks have built (of corse if you like designing UIs that is an advantage...you can make a nice UI...)
To be fair (if somewhat nit picky) in the book people found that the aging process was directly tied to sleeping (So they didn't age because they didn't sleep).
It's fair, I was picking a nit too...mostly just so I could being up the sequel. Somehow I don't think the real drug will be found to eliminate/signifigantly retard the aging process...plus I'm not positave being turned sleepless after your brain had finished devloping had the same side effects in the book...
And it has a sequel?!? Cool, thanks for bring that to my attention. I'll have to look for that.
If you like reading PDF files (or palmdoc) I'm pretty sure it is on Fictionwise for a bit cheaper then the printed matter...of corse I would rather have the print version, but it is the easiest way to find short fiction by Nancy Kress and...er, whomever wrote Garden of Iden...
They become superhuman, due to all the extra time they have to live life
In the book the "sleepless" also don't age and are super smart to boot. As far as I know this drug doesn't do that... (the book, and it's sequel "Beggars and Choosers" are both really good fiction though)
I didn't think I had to mention that Apple didn't sneak into everyone's homes and forcably upgrade people.
Schools tend to buy new computers during the summer, and not necessarily every year. So, since OSX became the default OS in January, schools that buy new Macs this summer will be running OSX this fall. Schools that don't buy new Macs this summer may not switch to OSX until next fall.
"is seeing" is a process, not an event. It is being widely deployed, it isn't everywhere now, and I wouldn't expect it to be yet. Not all of OS9's apps are avialble yet (not even all of the big ones...even though they pretty much all run in the Clasic box).
Some schools have lots of OSX machines, some have none at all.
Of course some have already switched, but most have not, and many schools still use Macs that are too old to run OSX at all (or at least to run it well - a 266MHz Rev B iMac with 64MB RAM technically could run OSX, but it's probably not a great idea).
I'm pretty sure any power Mac could run OSX if Apple really put some resources to it, NeXT ran Ok on the far far far slower 680x0 (x=4? 2?) at something like 20Mhz or 30Mhz or so. They would need another widget set that wasn't so hard to draw...
Of corse I doubt Apple would break even on the attempt. It's the kind of thing on free software people would work on:-)
It also wouldn't really make today's apps run all that well on old old hardware.
. My finger slips while selecting something from the GUI and I quickly select two things in a row (or something like that). GUI locks up.
Never seen anything like that.
2. Closing and reopening the case. Not long after a reboot it comes back instantly. After an hour or two it takes between 20 seconds and never coming back. Frequently never comes back if I leave the PowerBook on but unattended - I guess because it goes into standby mode and has the same problem.
I had this problem from time to time under OS 10.0, under 10.1 it has happened exactly three times (and I would guess I do 10+ suspends most days)
3. I've had one kernel panic for absolutely no apparent reason.
Three, all in OS 10.0, two provoked by umount -f (which seems to work under 10.1), the other was under lots of swap load, but nothing else special.
4. I've had to reboot because it denied I had an Airport card. (I do!) It mysteriously was there on reboot.
Denied as in the menu bar thing went out, or as in "ifconfig en1: no such device"? A few times it has stopped doing it's thing and doing "ifconfig en1 down && sleep 2 && ifconfig en1 up && sleep 2" a few times fixed it.
I have also had the network part stop working sometimes. It happened a fair bit under 10.0, not so much under 10.1. Sometimes the ifconfig bounce did the trick. Almost all other times clearing the arp table would do it. It happened last month, but not yet this month.
(your #1 and #8 never happened to me at all)
Lots of dumb things can lock it up too. I wanted to use pppoe. Accidentally I had the modem selected in the Internet Connection dialogue when I asked it to make a connection. I immediately changed to ethernet and tried to make a connection. I guess the shock of making a ppp connection through two different devices simultaneously was too much of a shock for the system. Anyway - it locked up of course. Another dumb thing that can make it lock up is launching an application during a software update. I'm not so worried about these latter problems but I'm still not impressed.
It's not that I disbelieve you, but this is different from my experience. Maybe the hardware is marginal (do you have AppleCare? You could try to have it replaced)? Or maybe there is some driver other then the MS mouse one that you missed?
The point of the do-it-yourself and do-it-by-yourself mentality at Universities is that knowledge it is nothing without integrity and a student who just knows the API's and interfaces will be obsoleted with those API's in 5 years. However a student who learns the fundamentals and reasoning behind these API's, will stand a chance at learning the new and interesting things the industry churns out.
On the other hand it is important to learn how to use large complex libraries. I think it is appropriate to make people in a data structures class write the code to manipulate the structures, and it is probably a good idea to do it in some of the other classes. It isn't a good idea to do it in all the classes...
I got around all the drudge work by writing my own lib in collage. So if I needed linked lists I had some macros for that (this was pre C++), if I needed associative arrays I had a macro for skip lists (the data structure was only two years old at the time so it was great for perplexing the grad student/graders), and another for lame hash tables (they didn't grow the array when the density got too high).
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In '84 the PCs didn't use the 3.5" disks, just Macs, and I think the format was chosen so that Apple could fit the drive controller in one of the ASICs they already had rather then add another for controlling the drive... (it may also have offered more space then trying to use what would over the next five years become the 'PC 3.5" standard').
The now-old TiBook had a 100% standard VGA out. The Apple LCD monitors don't use the same DVI PC's do because Apple wanted one cable to carry power, USB, and also the video signal. The mice and keyboards are USB devices, PC mice work just fine. The keyboards probably do too, except it might be hard to figure out which keys are command and opt (alt and windows maybe?)
Really...want to see the connectors on my Viao? Micro-USB, and the VGA and stuff is only available if you buy the I/O bar (or maybe the VGA is, but the PS/2 ports and serial and printer ports are not).
Apple seems to be using mostly standard connectors, mostly. I think the special ADC one for the monitors is justified. The micro-VGA would only be if there was limited space, like on the iBook (where they include the adaptor for free). No idea why they would do it on the eMac.
They exchanged either an LCD monitor or the 3rd party converter at the local Apple store for a friend of mine who was using the monitor on a PC running Linux who wasn't the least bit shy about saying that. (the replacement worked, the original has problems with the USB devices built into the monitor)
I don't know if that is an official policy or not.
I thought the 17" used the same connector as the Cinema (and the new super huge one). Which is pretty much just the DVI, plus USB, plus power, which is a nice idea & it's too bad only Apple uses the connector rather then Apple's connector becoming the standard...
Hmmmm...
/usr/bin/emacs
$ uname -a
Darwin [...] 5.4 Darwin Kernel Version 5.4: Wed Apr 10 09:27:47 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
$ which emacs
Seems to have it, vi is a bit more my style though (it's too bad OSX doesn't also have w3m...). Even has ssh, and ssd (and a click box to turn it on).
Doubtful as the "great blackout" is just on the comment pages, and from the front page you can see how many comments there are, and how many are at or above your threshold...
So nobody has to "break the picket line" to see if the store is empty -- in effect it has these big plate glass windows...
There is also something deeply wrong with denying the award to the best novel/show/movie because one thinks it cheapens the Hugo.
I don't know if she deserved to win last year, but if Buffy won some year I don't think it would cheapen the award (and if so not by nearly as much as denying it merely because "it's TV", or "it has a funny name")...of corse I don't think it deserves to win this year, not because the musical was bad (it was quite good), but because this year something was better (not sure there was anything better the year "Hush" was out...).
Maybe you should try a few new ones...how about Connie Willis (forget Passages though, get Book of the Dead, very good, plus in paperback...used even!). Allen Steele is also quite good, I remember "discovering" him in the mid-90s. I have heard Neil Gaiman is quite good, so that will be the new author I'll be trying next...so maybe someone can recommend one of his books...plus it is likely anyone nominated for a Hugo has produced fine work.
So long as "more" is "all". If one country doesn't renounce violence it can just take whatever it wants from the other countries. If several don't they could just split up the world...
Not really since the dumping claim was dropped after they reached an agreement that made Cray the exclusive US distributer.
Probbably not...but you might be able to get Omni to give a way cheaper licence ($0 or so) if you explain that (a) it is for a non-profit, and (b) can't afford it, and (c) you own a personal copy...
It's worth a shot at any rate.
What did you write it in the first time? Pascal? PPC assembly? (or much longer ago 680x0 assembly?)
Some of that is probably true, but would increase the amount of testing they need to do. Double buffering being off though would either result in worse flickering and tearing then in other windowing systems (because none of the apps are written to minimize those effects), or would largely eliminate the advantages to the developers of having double buffering since they still have to worry about people who have turned it off. (Turning off the "single buffering" or backing stores would be far worse though).
They can by giving them some money, like they do with the current PowerBook software bundle (OmniWeb and some other Omni stuff is in there, licensed for you by Apple).
Sure they do. Everyone who buys Windows pays for a browser. Even in the sense that you meant it people do pay, I did for example because I really like OmniWeb a lot and had $30 (or $25?) to spare.
Then consider paying for it. Either that or realize that you just posted "I'm too bloody cheap to fix something that irritates me, but I'm upset enough about it to complain in an international publication..."
Not in boardrooms, but the SEC uses so pretty neat stuff in detecting likely (illegal) inside trades and other stock, futures, and commodity fraud.
Plus there is some older tech used to catch white collar crime: wiretaps, and other servalance equipment.
The guy can also argue that alien mind control lasers were used to make him steel it. That's likely to be about as successful.
These cars are not exotic cars. They are left with the keys behind the sun visor which sometimes happens with cars not owned by the government. Even if they left the keys on the dash I don't think that would really make much of a legal defense.
Much better to try to argue that it was a harmless joy ride, the car would have been returned and all. A good lawyer might be able to get a young client off...or maybe off on only a short jail stay (better then a long one, eh?).
There are lots of things the US legal system does wrong, but as far as I know having too loose a definition of entrapment is not one of them.
That has actually happened (except the car was locked and hte key worked). I expect if you had the same make/model car parked in the same general area you stand a really good chance of talking you way out of it though...
You can bet on stock loosers by buying the right puts/calls. It's also an easy way to loose a lot of money.
Plus I'm sure Bill Gates would pay you a ton of money to go out and buy one of each Unix out there...more then one even...
Some people watch more TV, some people watch about the same amount (either by number of shows, or by total number of hours).
Some people watch more because, well, it catches more of the shows they like, and lets them play them back whenever. So if their social life has them out a few week nights, but leaves Sunday free they can watch the shows from the week nights.
Some people go out more (because of the above!) and either watch the same amount of TV, or more.
Personally I do about the same amount of other stuff, but I now do all my fiddling around on the net in front of the TV because I can skip back and watch whatever I missed, and skip over commercials that tend to catch my eye when I'm trying to do something like read slashdot :-)
What will it do to you? Buy one and find out...I mean are you chicken? :-)
They have always offered just the box no service fee (monthly/yearly/lifetime) required. If by "mostly functional" you mean "operates a lot like a VCR, recording by time and channel, but not program name" then you are set.
If not, well, what do you expect? It's only with this final respin of the hardware that they break even on the cost! Before that they lost money and had to make it up on service (just like cell phones, satellite TV boxes, and many other things you buy service on).
It isn't supported as one, but there are all sorts of things that you can do to it...it's kind of a pain though. For that you are better going with OpenPVR, but you do lose the very nice UI that the TiVo folks have built (of corse if you like designing UIs that is an advantage...you can make a nice UI...)
It's fair, I was picking a nit too...mostly just so I could being up the sequel. Somehow I don't think the real drug will be found to eliminate/signifigantly retard the aging process...plus I'm not positave being turned sleepless after your brain had finished devloping had the same side effects in the book...
If you like reading PDF files (or palmdoc) I'm pretty sure it is on Fictionwise for a bit cheaper then the printed matter...of corse I would rather have the print version, but it is the easiest way to find short fiction by Nancy Kress and...er, whomever wrote Garden of Iden...
In the book the "sleepless" also don't age and are super smart to boot. As far as I know this drug doesn't do that... (the book, and it's sequel "Beggars and Choosers" are both really good fiction though)
I didn't think I had to mention that Apple didn't sneak into everyone's homes and forcably upgrade people.
"is seeing" is a process, not an event. It is being widely deployed, it isn't everywhere now, and I wouldn't expect it to be yet. Not all of OS9's apps are avialble yet (not even all of the big ones...even though they pretty much all run in the Clasic box).
Some schools have lots of OSX machines, some have none at all.
I'm pretty sure any power Mac could run OSX if Apple really put some resources to it, NeXT ran Ok on the far far far slower 680x0 (x=4? 2?) at something like 20Mhz or 30Mhz or so. They would need another widget set that wasn't so hard to draw...
Of corse I doubt Apple would break even on the attempt. It's the kind of thing on free software people would work on :-)
It also wouldn't really make today's apps run all that well on old old hardware.
Never seen anything like that.
I had this problem from time to time under OS 10.0, under 10.1 it has happened exactly three times (and I would guess I do 10+ suspends most days)
Three, all in OS 10.0, two provoked by umount -f (which seems to work under 10.1), the other was under lots of swap load, but nothing else special.
Denied as in the menu bar thing went out, or as in "ifconfig en1: no such device"? A few times it has stopped doing it's thing and doing "ifconfig en1 down && sleep 2 && ifconfig en1 up && sleep 2" a few times fixed it.
I have also had the network part stop working sometimes. It happened a fair bit under 10.0, not so much under 10.1. Sometimes the ifconfig bounce did the trick. Almost all other times clearing the arp table would do it. It happened last month, but not yet this month.
(your #1 and #8 never happened to me at all)
It's not that I disbelieve you, but this is different from my experience. Maybe the hardware is marginal (do you have AppleCare? You could try to have it replaced)? Or maybe there is some driver other then the MS mouse one that you missed?
I thought they were implying Linux is joyless...
It is different, but not hugely different. If you read their white pages they discuss a few of the differences.
On the other hand it is important to learn how to use large complex libraries. I think it is appropriate to make people in a data structures class write the code to manipulate the structures, and it is probably a good idea to do it in some of the other classes. It isn't a good idea to do it in all the classes...
I got around all the drudge work by writing my own lib in collage. So if I needed linked lists I had some macros for that (this was pre C++), if I needed associative arrays I had a macro for skip lists (the data structure was only two years old at the time so it was great for perplexing the grad student/graders), and another for lame hash tables (they didn't grow the array when the density got too high).