I think that in your example it would actually be "Think Olson Twins on Acid". Using this kind of grammer can get very awkward, but I thought that "think different" was great marketing. Try this one though
Think example is actually "Think Olson Twins on Acid".
That's the closest I can get to making it readable/comprehendable.
I think you nailed it. At the end of the day, the punishment only has to be tough enough for apple to not need to worry about illegal distribution of its software. This guy's life is already ruined. He's already going to be flipping burgers for the rest of his life. I think that sends a perfectly strong signal to the rest of the pir8 world. You'll survive, but you'll never be able to have the life that you dreamed about. The key is simply that they can survive.
That was my first thought too. It strikes me as a pretty obvious issue and one would also have to think that Apple thought of this as well. They probably have some kind of backup plan. Maybe they could include stickers that you can put on your old keyboard or something like that. Not bundling a keyboard and mouse is a big step for them. It will be interesting to see how they handle it. They might also try to sell their own keyboards and mice.
you're joking, but that's why I can't see this happening. Steve Jobs would never sell his baby like this. Why would he? Things are going so well these days. They might develop a close partnership, but no one is going to buy Apple.
If not, hopefully the Networks/Corporate Parents sue the pants of the PTC.
I love the idea of suing "the pants off" the PTC. If they think sex on TV is so bad, then that could be a lot of fun to watch. I wonder if we could broadcast the trial. It would certainly get me to watch prime-time TV.
and not only are CDs (usually) just demos (every AC/DC album is recorded live in a room w/ awsome acoustics), they're usually horribly over-produced demos. Not only that, but back in the 90s, you had bands like Aerosmith making albums that they did not want to make, but the studio demanded it. It's no longer about the artists anymore. For the most part, at least in the eyes of the record companies, they're all interchangable now. It's really too bad.
Early versions of VPC only ran windows. Later, it became able to run other operating systems. Given that those early versions of VPC and Xen need OS compatibility to be specifically coded for them, what exactly is the difference between virtualization and those early versions of VPC?
that's great but try explaining the concept of multiple desktops to a novice. Maybe you can demo it if you're directly teaching them yourself, but try documenting an idea like that in the manual that came with the software in a simple way that a technophobe can understand. Good UI design has absolutely nothing to do with features. You can have all the features you want but if they aren't implemented in a simple way that's easy to understand and use, you haven't really done a good job with your UI.
I'm not able to get into the site to read the article right now, but if Gates is proclaiming that the end of passwords will make things completly secure, he's out of his mind. Gates is the one proclaiming the end of passwords, not Linux/Unix users/developers. This idea sounds like it comes from the thoughts of a man in denial. Regardless, in all things security, there's no on-off switch. Where there's a system that someone can log into, someone else will always be able to log into it as well. That's just the way it is.
Would it work if sites required two passwords so that the user would have two passwords to remember for one site? That would allow users to have simpler passwords while still making it more difficult for hackers if they had to guess two words instead of one, imho. Of course, I didn't read the article so maybe that was already suggested.
I wanted to install fedora 3 on VPC 7 for the mac, but I keep getting the processor error. I found instructions for installing fedora 2, but I can't think of a good reason to bother at this point now that we have fedora 3. Has anyone gotten it working on VPC 7?
I was wondering if there was a way I could install linux on a kind of virtual hard disk, kind of like the way virtual pc works. I'd love to dive into linux and open source in general, but I don't want to have to worry about screwing up my system either. Re-partitioning is not an option because it would be far more work than I'm willing to put into it.
My father has a home office and he's had the entire house wired with Cat5. The network has 4 macs, and depending on the moment, between 2-4 Windows PCs (2 laptops). Unfortunately, because of the way they're being used linux is not an option, but I don't allow IE or OE on the network here and Firefox and Thunderbird are the only open source programs that I allow. It's also the only open source software that I'm comfortable putting on other people's computers as well because they make the transition easy. I think we're going to see a waterfall effect for Firefox. I also think that when people do get a virus or an email worm, and they do see all the hassles that they cause, they're going to be open to a change in software. Firefox and Thunderbird are best of breed (although I still prefer safari) and it's gotten bad enough that that is going to make a major difference. That having been said, Firefox and Thunderbird are going to have to continue to improve because IE is going to improve now as well. Personally, I think this is going to be fun to watch and it would be great to see standards compliant web browsers start dominating the way they should.
See, I don't think there's any reason that you can't build a first person action game built on an absurd premise with absurd, but simple puzzles and basically build an adventure game with a first person view where the gameplay is action/shoot-em-up, but keeps all the elements of the classic adventure games where you have all these other characters that you can talk to and get hints and help and end up using odd items in your excessively large inventory to beat bad guys and beat puzzles. Basically, cross John Carmack with the guys who did the script for Sam and Max Hit the Road. I'd be curious to see what they could come up with.
I think you can make action games funny by making the premise of the game itself funny. For example, take a game like Redneck Rampage. The gameplay wasn't all that great, but just the premise on its own made it entertaining. At least, I thought it did. I think that a game like Doom for example, was built to be as intense as possible. Humor in games will make those games less intense, but for all but the most hard-core gamers, I think it will make them more fun, and it would bring some story elements into the game as well.
I don't know that that was the biggest issue in the microsoft/netscape thing. I think it's more about microsoft's html engine which did not properly support all the standards and all the websites that were developed and tested for it at the expense of external browsers. It's much easier to justify running Konfabulator and Dashboard at the same time than it is to justify running netscape and IE at the same time, especially if Dashboard can't run Konfabultor widgets
I think a lot of this is due to the fact that the G4 was never a good chip for desktop computers to begin with. Motorola was always more interested in the embedded market and that's probably the biggest reason that Apple is working with IBM now. Personally, I think that Apple should work with both companies. Moto makes better laptop chips and IBM makes better desktop chips. It's true that Apple skimps on the GPUs and RAM, but Doom, from what I understand, is very CPU intensive which is why you won't get good performance from G4s.
I know that in my case, I'm no "whiny left winger". In fact, this is the first time I've ever voted democrat in my life. There are a few things that bother me about this election. First of all, when we had 9/11, for just a moment, not only was our entire country unified, but we also had the support of our allies as well. As it turns out, in his campaign the first time, Bush had promised to be "a uniter, not a divider", which was what convinced me that he'd be okay to vote for. I confess though that I should have known better than the whole "compassionate conservitive" nonsense. So, he's completely failed in every campaign promise he's made. I don't even blame him for the collapse of the economy, although I don't support the way he's handled it either. The other thing that bothers me is that we've now completely lost anything resembling a balance of power in this country. Finally, as far as the allies go, it doesn't bother me that we've done what we've done, rather I'm bothered by the way we've been ass-holes to the rest of the world and I'm bothered by the inablility of both Bush and apparently the "Americans" who voted for him to admit their mistakes. So, as someone who voted for Bush the first time, I will tell you that I never even considered voting for him in '04, no matter who the Democrats put up and I'm extreamily depressed by the lack of any balance of power in this country and I'm certainly not in favor of the idea of what apparently is an even smaller percentage (land-wise) of the country running the rest of the world. I think the northeast should just secede from the rest of the union.
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is it really that well known how corrupt our state is? I'm embarrased.
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you know, I live in RI and I wish that you hadn't told everybody this. my brother walks around in a t-shirt that asks those in charge to "Free Buddy!"
someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think OpenDoc worked a lot like this. Everything in OpenDoc was an object and they could all work with all the other objects that were available. I used OpenDoc once but I was only like 12 years old at the time so my memory is hazy. I remember it being a fascinating technology though, even if the software was really unstable. To this day, nothing has blown me away quite like OpenDoc did.
You know, I do have a girlfriend who is crazy about me, but that doesn't make me enjoy sexist or jewish (I'm jewish) jokes any less. They're just just jokes and it's okay to laugh at yourself. I consider it to be a healthy thing. My father could never laugh at himself. He was the most intense person I've ever known and I feel sorry for him. Now, maybe for the 13 y/o equivalents of Bevis and Butt-head who post here, these jokes may not be such a good thing, but that's not our problem. They're going to post those jokes regardless and we're not going to know how old they are, so we may as well just laugh. At the very least, if you're going to take jokes like that seriously, then I'd suggest not voicing your opinions about it here. You'll just make it more fun for the others to piss you off.
You are right, that this is about FairPlay, but there's still a ton of time for others to catch up. The online music business is tiny and it's not Apple's fault that it simply has the better business model. Jobs doesn't think there's money to be made in online music, the others disagree. We'll let the market decide. It's also worth mentioning that Apple wasn't the first to the table with this stuff and when the iTMS and iPod did come out, they were very different than everything else.
Just remember, anti-trust law doesn't exist to protect consumers, it exists to protect companies. This will be an interesting situation because, assuming that they don't do anything preditory, it would mark the first time that one company gained two related monopolies at the same time. This is going to be fun to watch. Not only will Apple have to walk a fine line between iTunes/iPod integration, their competiors will also have to be very very specific if they're going to sue for anti-trust.
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"Think 'The Olsen Twins on acid'"
I think that in your example it would actually be "Think Olson Twins on Acid". Using this kind of grammer can get very awkward, but I thought that "think different" was great marketing. Try this one though
Think example is actually "Think Olson Twins on Acid".
That's the closest I can get to making it readable/comprehendable.
I think you nailed it. At the end of the day, the punishment only has to be tough enough for apple to not need to worry about illegal distribution of its software. This guy's life is already ruined. He's already going to be flipping burgers for the rest of his life. I think that sends a perfectly strong signal to the rest of the pir8 world. You'll survive, but you'll never be able to have the life that you dreamed about. The key is simply that they can survive.
That was my first thought too. It strikes me as a pretty obvious issue and one would also have to think that Apple thought of this as well. They probably have some kind of backup plan. Maybe they could include stickers that you can put on your old keyboard or something like that. Not bundling a keyboard and mouse is a big step for them. It will be interesting to see how they handle it. They might also try to sell their own keyboards and mice.
you're joking, but that's why I can't see this happening. Steve Jobs would never sell his baby like this. Why would he? Things are going so well these days. They might develop a close partnership, but no one is going to buy Apple.
If not, hopefully the Networks/Corporate Parents sue the pants of the PTC.
I love the idea of suing "the pants off" the PTC. If they think sex on TV is so bad, then that could be a lot of fun to watch. I wonder if we could broadcast the trial. It would certainly get me to watch prime-time TV.
and not only are CDs (usually) just demos (every AC/DC album is recorded live in a room w/ awsome acoustics), they're usually horribly over-produced demos. Not only that, but back in the 90s, you had bands like Aerosmith making albums that they did not want to make, but the studio demanded it. It's no longer about the artists anymore. For the most part, at least in the eyes of the record companies, they're all interchangable now. It's really too bad.
Early versions of VPC only ran windows. Later, it became able to run other operating systems. Given that those early versions of VPC and Xen need OS compatibility to be specifically coded for them, what exactly is the difference between virtualization and those early versions of VPC?
that's great but try explaining the concept of multiple desktops to a novice. Maybe you can demo it if you're directly teaching them yourself, but try documenting an idea like that in the manual that came with the software in a simple way that a technophobe can understand. Good UI design has absolutely nothing to do with features. You can have all the features you want but if they aren't implemented in a simple way that's easy to understand and use, you haven't really done a good job with your UI.
but it's still not like the idea of the red sox and yankees even talking to eachother
I'm not able to get into the site to read the article right now, but if Gates is proclaiming that the end of passwords will make things completly secure, he's out of his mind. Gates is the one proclaiming the end of passwords, not Linux/Unix users/developers. This idea sounds like it comes from the thoughts of a man in denial. Regardless, in all things security, there's no on-off switch. Where there's a system that someone can log into, someone else will always be able to log into it as well. That's just the way it is.
Would it work if sites required two passwords so that the user would have two passwords to remember for one site? That would allow users to have simpler passwords while still making it more difficult for hackers if they had to guess two words instead of one, imho. Of course, I didn't read the article so maybe that was already suggested.
I wanted to install fedora 3 on VPC 7 for the mac, but I keep getting the processor error. I found instructions for installing fedora 2, but I can't think of a good reason to bother at this point now that we have fedora 3. Has anyone gotten it working on VPC 7?
I was wondering if there was a way I could install linux on a kind of virtual hard disk, kind of like the way virtual pc works. I'd love to dive into linux and open source in general, but I don't want to have to worry about screwing up my system either. Re-partitioning is not an option because it would be far more work than I'm willing to put into it.
My father has a home office and he's had the entire house wired with Cat5. The network has 4 macs, and depending on the moment, between 2-4 Windows PCs (2 laptops). Unfortunately, because of the way they're being used linux is not an option, but I don't allow IE or OE on the network here and Firefox and Thunderbird are the only open source programs that I allow. It's also the only open source software that I'm comfortable putting on other people's computers as well because they make the transition easy. I think we're going to see a waterfall effect for Firefox. I also think that when people do get a virus or an email worm, and they do see all the hassles that they cause, they're going to be open to a change in software. Firefox and Thunderbird are best of breed (although I still prefer safari) and it's gotten bad enough that that is going to make a major difference. That having been said, Firefox and Thunderbird are going to have to continue to improve because IE is going to improve now as well. Personally, I think this is going to be fun to watch and it would be great to see standards compliant web browsers start dominating the way they should.
See, I don't think there's any reason that you can't build a first person action game built on an absurd premise with absurd, but simple puzzles and basically build an adventure game with a first person view where the gameplay is action/shoot-em-up, but keeps all the elements of the classic adventure games where you have all these other characters that you can talk to and get hints and help and end up using odd items in your excessively large inventory to beat bad guys and beat puzzles. Basically, cross John Carmack with the guys who did the script for Sam and Max Hit the Road. I'd be curious to see what they could come up with.
I think you can make action games funny by making the premise of the game itself funny. For example, take a game like Redneck Rampage. The gameplay wasn't all that great, but just the premise on its own made it entertaining. At least, I thought it did. I think that a game like Doom for example, was built to be as intense as possible. Humor in games will make those games less intense, but for all but the most hard-core gamers, I think it will make them more fun, and it would bring some story elements into the game as well.
I don't know that that was the biggest issue in the microsoft/netscape thing. I think it's more about microsoft's html engine which did not properly support all the standards and all the websites that were developed and tested for it at the expense of external browsers. It's much easier to justify running Konfabulator and Dashboard at the same time than it is to justify running netscape and IE at the same time, especially if Dashboard can't run Konfabultor widgets
I think a lot of this is due to the fact that the G4 was never a good chip for desktop computers to begin with. Motorola was always more interested in the embedded market and that's probably the biggest reason that Apple is working with IBM now. Personally, I think that Apple should work with both companies. Moto makes better laptop chips and IBM makes better desktop chips. It's true that Apple skimps on the GPUs and RAM, but Doom, from what I understand, is very CPU intensive which is why you won't get good performance from G4s.
I know that in my case, I'm no "whiny left winger". In fact, this is the first time I've ever voted democrat in my life. There are a few things that bother me about this election. First of all, when we had 9/11, for just a moment, not only was our entire country unified, but we also had the support of our allies as well. As it turns out, in his campaign the first time, Bush had promised to be "a uniter, not a divider", which was what convinced me that he'd be okay to vote for. I confess though that I should have known better than the whole "compassionate conservitive" nonsense. So, he's completely failed in every campaign promise he's made. I don't even blame him for the collapse of the economy, although I don't support the way he's handled it either. The other thing that bothers me is that we've now completely lost anything resembling a balance of power in this country. Finally, as far as the allies go, it doesn't bother me that we've done what we've done, rather I'm bothered by the way we've been ass-holes to the rest of the world and I'm bothered by the inablility of both Bush and apparently the "Americans" who voted for him to admit their mistakes. So, as someone who voted for Bush the first time, I will tell you that I never even considered voting for him in '04, no matter who the Democrats put up and I'm extreamily depressed by the lack of any balance of power in this country and I'm certainly not in favor of the idea of what apparently is an even smaller percentage (land-wise) of the country running the rest of the world. I think the northeast should just secede from the rest of the union.
is it really that well known how corrupt our state is? I'm embarrased.
you know, I live in RI and I wish that you hadn't told everybody this. my brother walks around in a t-shirt that asks those in charge to "Free Buddy!"
someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think OpenDoc worked a lot like this. Everything in OpenDoc was an object and they could all work with all the other objects that were available. I used OpenDoc once but I was only like 12 years old at the time so my memory is hazy. I remember it being a fascinating technology though, even if the software was really unstable. To this day, nothing has blown me away quite like OpenDoc did.
You know, I do have a girlfriend who is crazy about me, but that doesn't make me enjoy sexist or jewish (I'm jewish) jokes any less. They're just just jokes and it's okay to laugh at yourself. I consider it to be a healthy thing. My father could never laugh at himself. He was the most intense person I've ever known and I feel sorry for him. Now, maybe for the 13 y/o equivalents of Bevis and Butt-head who post here, these jokes may not be such a good thing, but that's not our problem. They're going to post those jokes regardless and we're not going to know how old they are, so we may as well just laugh. At the very least, if you're going to take jokes like that seriously, then I'd suggest not voicing your opinions about it here. You'll just make it more fun for the others to piss you off.
You are right, that this is about FairPlay, but there's still a ton of time for others to catch up. The online music business is tiny and it's not Apple's fault that it simply has the better business model. Jobs doesn't think there's money to be made in online music, the others disagree. We'll let the market decide. It's also worth mentioning that Apple wasn't the first to the table with this stuff and when the iTMS and iPod did come out, they were very different than everything else.
Just remember, anti-trust law doesn't exist to protect consumers, it exists to protect companies. This will be an interesting situation because, assuming that they don't do anything preditory, it would mark the first time that one company gained two related monopolies at the same time. This is going to be fun to watch. Not only will Apple have to walk a fine line between iTunes/iPod integration, their competiors will also have to be very very specific if they're going to sue for anti-trust.