Well yeah. But how fscking hard is it to get stuff delivered to your own office through the mail, or ups or something. Sheesh. If the Linux community chipped in to hire them (now _that_ would be funny; do they satisfy their new client, or what? heh) Where would they go? Finland? Or each one gets on a randomly chosen plane to someplace with a net connection?
It wouldn't be so bad if they had some sort of 'blind' system in place to prevent the testers from knowing who comissioned the test until after the results were in (of course, this means being really honest and really open or otherwise no one would believe that there really is a chinese wall, or whatever)
Why would Microsoft do that? They want to read your email, to steal information about you. Besides, I wouldn't trust a closed-source encryption program. It might send a copy of your private key, or unencrypted data to the author and you'd never know. This is not so weird. Current versions of MS Office connect to Microsoft (when a TCP/IP connection exists and they're running) to update itself. Can you set a preference to get it not to do so? No. Can this be used to force upgrades (e.g. by releasing a very crappy update and never fixing it)? Yes.
Hey now! If it's printed in the book, it gets protected as free speech. If it were machine-readable, then it might get restricted. Given the nature of the solitare system though (designed to be useable with merely a deck of regular playing cards) I doubt that would stop anything.
Don't forget those of us who refuse to moderate at all. Why should you, by default, not see things that other people (who are unknown to you - moderators are anonymous) don't like.
I say I'll think for myself - I don't need moderators thinking for me, and I don't need to be doing someone else's thinking for them.
Pfft. I say do away with the country top levels, and increase the number of generic top level domains.
One of the great things on the net, I thought, was the erasure of borders. OTOH, the UN is the last entity I'd want to see functioning as a government; it's structured poorly for it, and has the intelligence of a wet paper bag full of hammers. InterNIC (or whatever they're calling themsevles now) is no better. Why is it impossible to set up a distributed naming registration system, tehn impliment it on some flag day, and to hell with all of them.
'Governing body? We don't need no steenking governing body!'
Exactly. Caveat emptor should be the motto of the software purchaser. And even better, this opens the door for a great number of business opportunities, rigorously testing software. Ahem, fair and accurate testing. Mindcraft has ruined their reputation, so let anyone interested in this market take note. Stay honest, and you'll be fine. Fudge your data and if you get caught you're screwed.
Who decides what is in the public interest?... No more missile guidance software?
Are you kidding me? If someone had to decide what software could do based upon the 'public interest,' email programs would report people to the authorities if it detected certain words (e.g. bomb, protest, president, ryder, conspiracy). Software that permitted individuals to stand up for themselves, like do-it-yourself law software, would be the first thing to go. But if there's one thing that is firmly in the public interest (or at least, in the interest of the people who tell me what's in my interest, not that I asked) is missile guidance software. And tax software that errs on the side of the government... that sort of thing.
I'm telling you, it's time to found a new country somewhere, where we don't have to put up with this crap. There's a lot of room for an artificial island in the Pacific... I vote we go there.
This is nuts. If you're going to purchase software from someone (either for preexisting stuff or as a comissioned work) then it's your job to ensure that you feel comfortable with their work. If you don't like it, go somewhere else, or be willing to let them know about design changes you want. I work as a designer. If I screw something up, but the customer signed off on it (having not caught the error) then it's not my problem anymore. If someone is willing to accept a program, or whatever, then that's it. Otherwise test stuff out before you have to rely on it.
I really must remember to hate Cablevision... oh wait, I already _do_ hate Cablevision.
Geeze... I live in Boston, and I can _see_ Newton from where I live. I'd give anything to get something better than this crappy 56K. But Cablevision can't even fit all their channels onto a single coax. Whatta gyp! Can't wait to move into the west burbs.
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I suspect that the cost is a bit higher because of the auto ejection... we already lost auto injection a number of years back, because it would drop the cost. (too bad - it was cool)
More relevantly, Quark is the only program I know of that still uses a keydisk. There may be a couple of others, but by and large everyone uses cds if they have installer disks at all.
And if you're ever going to bring out a floppyless machine, it's best to make a clean break. When the original Mac came along, IIRC, there were no arrow keys on the keyboard. If there were, who would bother using the mouse? They were put on later, after the mouse was established, and could survive on it's own.
If Apple had floppies as an option, Quark would always require them (why not) and you'd still be spending money. But as it stands, Quark will soon have to put boxes on the shelves with no floppies at all, or lose money because of people who don't want to go through any hassle.
Me, other than Quark, I haven't used a floppy of my own free will (sometimes at work, which is prepress, but we also have a SyQuest, Zips, Jaz, Bernoulli, MO, DAT, etc. to be able to take anything that comes in the door) for years and years. I would have been pissed off if Quark made me buy a floppy for that one program. Instead I made an Image, and I put Quark on 'the list.'
I find this really funny because I am a huge anime fan - Escaflowne, Nadesico, Porco Rosso... I really don't like H anime at all.
OTOH, I thought it was a pretty funny joke.
Anyway, I've got one of the new G3 minitowers. It's nice, I like it... but I really don't think that it looks like something out of an anime, or any sf made in the past couple of decades. If they had thought of the idea of microcomputers back in the 70's, then I could see the development of a similar design....
Bah. Give me a recliner with probes to plug my brain directly into the computer Matrix-style and then I'll start paying attention.
Nah, you'd just sprain your brain if you used it that much.;)
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I've done this. You've got three options.
1. Call up Quark and bug them for the version of Quark that doesn't require a keydisk. They'll bitch and groan, charge you money, spank you and call you chester, but they'll do it.
2. Use existing floppied Macs to create a disk image of the keydisks, with Apple's DiskCopy utility. It's stashed on just about all of their installer CDs and you can dl it too. Then mount the image from each floppyless Mac and Quark doesn't know the difference.
3. Get a floppy drive and share it between the various Macs whenever you need it, like the Grey Sisters did with their eyeball. It's a USB device, so you can hot-swap it, etc.
I also suggest looking into Adobe's new dtp program, which is called InDesign or something like that. It's supposed to read Quark files with a high degree of accuracy, accept native Illustrator and Photoshop files and generally run Quark's ass outta town. Given that those morons (Quark) took years to put out v4, which has maybe three improvements, I would not be averse to this.
Honestly, I'd love a nice cherrywood case. With a lot of brass hardware attached.
what about a mix of nice wood, leather, and textured black plastic -- something like the inside of a Lexus? That would be cool.
Why not just use a Lexus? Toss the cpu in the trunk, heads up display, keyboard on the steering wheel (horn == ^G). Makes parking a bit tricky, but it's probably better than a cubicle. I dare you to try it.
I'll say. I've got one. It weighs something like 20kg. I like having a couple of well-placed handles for something that heavy. (it is NOT flimsy. it's putting a dent in my desk!) If a sharp metal edge or something is more to your liking, glue on a razor blade.
Anyway, what I'd really like to see: shocks. It would kick ass to have a low-rider cpu bouncing all over my desk. Would probably have to be a hd-less machine. And I think we'll skip the low-rider vdu.
I'm going to _assume_ that you're really asking this question and are not being facetious.
Traditionally, the quality of usenet posts suffered greatly every September. It's entirely coincidental that large numbers of students enter school in September, and are given access to the Internet.
Unfortunately (or not, depending on how you look at it) edu domains no longer produce the domiant number of newbie posters. Now we get newbies all year 'round. Oh boy!
According to the Jargon Guide, anyhow, the permanent September (ESR has it as "The Septmeber that never ended") began in September of '93, when AOL got usenet access.
I had gotten an edu account through FSU a little while before that, so I get to gripe a little bit. The amount of griping one's entitled to is proportonate to the time spent on the net prior to that date.;)
I tried one of those at Macworld NY last summer. It wasn't amazing. IIRC it was hooked up to a playstation, with some driving game. To acellerate, you had to be _very_ calm. I don't think it would be healthy to try to play HalfLife or some other shooter with it. Not that it was easy to use in the first place. Worse would be the state of mind of a person who had mastered using it for that. Yikes!
Now what I'd want in an ultimate geek throne is all of that, plus a john. It's not a throne unless it's got a john attached.;)
I just hope that we can avoid a permenent September. While moderation may be preventing such a situation, I'd really prefer some way of getting people to behave responsibly than enforcing responsibility. The reality of that is unlikely; still, I can dream.
(could be much, much worse./.'s system is probably one of the best. I just don't like that there is a system, that's all)
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Well yeah. But how fscking hard is it to get stuff delivered to your own office through the mail, or ups or something. Sheesh. If the Linux community chipped in to hire them (now _that_ would be funny; do they satisfy their new client, or what? heh) Where would they go? Finland? Or each one gets on a randomly chosen plane to someplace with a net connection?
Worked fine for me. I wonder if WIPO will make this sort of thing illegal....
It wouldn't be so bad if they had some sort of 'blind' system in place to prevent the testers from knowing who comissioned the test until after the results were in (of course, this means being really honest and really open or otherwise no one would believe that there really is a chinese wall, or whatever)
Why would Microsoft do that? They want to read your email, to steal information about you. Besides, I wouldn't trust a closed-source encryption program. It might send a copy of your private key, or unencrypted data to the author and you'd never know. This is not so weird. Current versions of MS Office connect to Microsoft (when a TCP/IP connection exists and they're running) to update itself. Can you set a preference to get it not to do so? No. Can this be used to force upgrades (e.g. by releasing a very crappy update and never fixing it)? Yes.
Hey now! If it's printed in the book, it gets protected as free speech. If it were machine-readable, then it might get restricted. Given the nature of the solitare system though (designed to be useable with merely a deck of regular playing cards) I doubt that would stop anything.
(next they'll come for the poker players...)
Don't forget those of us who refuse to moderate at all. Why should you, by default, not see things that other people (who are unknown to you - moderators are anonymous) don't like.
I say I'll think for myself - I don't need moderators thinking for me, and I don't need to be doing someone else's thinking for them.
Pfft. I say do away with the country top levels, and increase the number of generic top level domains.
One of the great things on the net, I thought, was the erasure of borders. OTOH, the UN is the last entity I'd want to see functioning as a government; it's structured poorly for it, and has the intelligence of a wet paper bag full of hammers. InterNIC (or whatever they're calling themsevles now) is no better. Why is it impossible to set up a distributed naming registration system, tehn impliment it on some flag day, and to hell with all of them.
'Governing body? We don't need no steenking governing body!'
Exactly. Caveat emptor should be the motto of the software purchaser.
And even better, this opens the door for a great number of business opportunities, rigorously testing software. Ahem, fair and accurate testing. Mindcraft has ruined their reputation, so let anyone interested in this market take note. Stay honest, and you'll be fine. Fudge your data and if you get caught you're screwed.
Who decides what is in the public interest? ... No more missile guidance software?
Are you kidding me? If someone had to decide what software could do based upon the 'public interest,' email programs would report people to the authorities if it detected certain words (e.g. bomb, protest, president, ryder, conspiracy). Software that permitted individuals to stand up for themselves, like do-it-yourself law software, would be the first thing to go. But if there's one thing that is firmly in the public interest (or at least, in the interest of the people who tell me what's in my interest, not that I asked) is missile guidance software. And tax software that errs on the side of the government... that sort of thing.
I'm telling you, it's time to found a new country somewhere, where we don't have to put up with this crap. There's a lot of room for an artificial island in the Pacific... I vote we go there.
This is nuts.
If you're going to purchase software from someone (either for preexisting stuff or as a comissioned work) then it's your job to ensure that you feel comfortable with their work. If you don't like it, go somewhere else, or be willing to let them know about design changes you want.
I work as a designer. If I screw something up, but the customer signed off on it (having not caught the error) then it's not my problem anymore. If someone is willing to accept a program, or whatever, then that's it. Otherwise test stuff out before you have to rely on it.
picky picky.
I really must remember to hate Cablevision... oh wait, I already _do_ hate Cablevision.
Geeze... I live in Boston, and I can _see_ Newton from where I live. I'd give anything to get something better than this crappy 56K. But Cablevision can't even fit all their channels onto a single coax. Whatta gyp! Can't wait to move into the west burbs.
You're not cleared to see that OS. ;)
I suspect that the cost is a bit higher because of the auto ejection... we already lost auto injection a number of years back, because it would drop the cost. (too bad - it was cool)
More relevantly, Quark is the only program I know of that still uses a keydisk. There may be a couple of others, but by and large everyone uses cds if they have installer disks at all.
And if you're ever going to bring out a floppyless machine, it's best to make a clean break. When the original Mac came along, IIRC, there were no arrow keys on the keyboard. If there were, who would bother using the mouse? They were put on later, after the mouse was established, and could survive on it's own.
If Apple had floppies as an option, Quark would always require them (why not) and you'd still be spending money. But as it stands, Quark will soon have to put boxes on the shelves with no floppies at all, or lose money because of people who don't want to go through any hassle.
Me, other than Quark, I haven't used a floppy of my own free will (sometimes at work, which is prepress, but we also have a SyQuest, Zips, Jaz, Bernoulli, MO, DAT, etc. to be able to take anything that comes in the door) for years and years. I would have been pissed off if Quark made me buy a floppy for that one program. Instead I made an Image, and I put Quark on 'the list.'
Heh.
I find this really funny because I am a huge anime fan - Escaflowne, Nadesico, Porco Rosso... I really don't like H anime at all.
OTOH, I thought it was a pretty funny joke.
Anyway, I've got one of the new G3 minitowers. It's nice, I like it... but I really don't think that it looks like something out of an anime, or any sf made in the past couple of decades. If they had thought of the idea of microcomputers back in the 70's, then I could see the development of a similar design....
This is Ground Control to Major Tom:
You've really made the grade, and the papers want to know who's shirts you wear. Over.
Gene Hackman movies are always good. ;)
Bah. Give me a recliner with probes to plug my brain directly into the computer Matrix-style and then I'll start paying attention.
Nah, you'd just sprain your brain if you used it that much. ;)
I've done this. You've got three options.
1. Call up Quark and bug them for the version of Quark that doesn't require a keydisk. They'll bitch and groan, charge you money, spank you and call you chester, but they'll do it.
2. Use existing floppied Macs to create a disk image of the keydisks, with Apple's DiskCopy utility. It's stashed on just about all of their installer CDs and you can dl it too. Then mount the image from each floppyless Mac and Quark doesn't know the difference.
3. Get a floppy drive and share it between the various Macs whenever you need it, like the Grey Sisters did with their eyeball. It's a USB device, so you can hot-swap it, etc.
I also suggest looking into Adobe's new dtp program, which is called InDesign or something like that. It's supposed to read Quark files with a high degree of accuracy, accept native Illustrator and Photoshop files and generally run Quark's ass outta town. Given that those morons (Quark) took years to put out v4, which has maybe three improvements, I would not be averse to this.
Honestly, I'd love a nice cherrywood case. With a lot of brass hardware attached.
what about a mix of nice wood, leather, and textured black plastic -- something like the inside of a Lexus? That would be cool.
Why not just use a Lexus? Toss the cpu in the trunk, heads up display, keyboard on the steering wheel (horn == ^G). Makes parking a bit tricky, but it's probably better than a cubicle. I dare you to try it.
they look like they came straight out of an Anime movie
Yeah, well, the tentacles (optional, incld. with dvd) are a pain in the ass.
I'll say. I've got one. It weighs something like 20kg. I like having a couple of well-placed handles for something that heavy. (it is NOT flimsy. it's putting a dent in my desk!) If a sharp metal edge or something is more to your liking, glue on a razor blade.
Anyway, what I'd really like to see: shocks. It would kick ass to have a low-rider cpu bouncing all over my desk. Would probably have to be a hd-less machine. And I think we'll skip the low-rider vdu.
I'm going to _assume_ that you're really asking this question and are not being facetious.
;)
Traditionally, the quality of usenet posts suffered greatly every September. It's entirely coincidental that large numbers of students enter school in September, and are given access to the Internet.
Unfortunately (or not, depending on how you look at it) edu domains no longer produce the domiant number of newbie posters. Now we get newbies all year 'round. Oh boy!
According to the Jargon Guide, anyhow, the permanent September (ESR has it as "The Septmeber that never ended") began in September of '93, when AOL got usenet access.
I had gotten an edu account through FSU a little while before that, so I get to gripe a little bit. The amount of griping one's entitled to is proportonate to the time spent on the net prior to that date.
I tried one of those at Macworld NY last summer. It wasn't amazing. IIRC it was hooked up to a playstation, with some driving game. To acellerate, you had to be _very_ calm. I don't think it would be healthy to try to play HalfLife or some other shooter with it. Not that it was easy to use in the first place. Worse would be the state of mind of a person who had mastered using it for that. Yikes!
;)
Now what I'd want in an ultimate geek throne is all of that, plus a john. It's not a throne unless it's got a john attached.
I just hope that we can avoid a permenent September. While moderation may be preventing such a situation, I'd really prefer some way of getting people to behave responsibly than enforcing responsibility. The reality of that is unlikely; still, I can dream.
/.'s system is probably one of the best. I just don't like that there is a system, that's all)
(could be much, much worse.
I've got $3.47, one topping pizza, a six pack and half a pack of cigarettes.
I've got this Conan surplus Wheel Of Pain(TM) that I got off of ebay, and I've been meaning to get it running. Rob would be the just ticket.