i would guess they're in part pissed off because that would indicate that for their desktop publishing they use Macs.
this would be a non-issue if these were being sent to the Mac Business Unit, but they aren't. hence the egg on face nature.
one might ask why they don't try using Publisher for all of their Publishing needs. it would certainly cut down on the number of items they published in a year.
This is just getting stupid. At some point, can't one side or the other just go all in per se, and call the other player out?
If IBM's case is as strong as it appears, why are they drawing this out? Call their bluff and make them show their hand. It was entertaining for a while just for being completely ridiculous, but now it's tired. Put this horse down.
I can believe some of these games might help, but to be honest I ended up more freaked out about spiders and anything spider related AFTER playing Aliens vs. Predator.
Those damn face huggers scared the crap out of me in that game. I can honestly say that out of every game I've ever played (a lot), that is the only game where I was truly freaked out while playing. You'd be tooling along, minding your own business, while that creepy music and sound effect combo worked it's way into your brain.
Then the aliens would start rushing you. Your proximity sensor would start going nuts. You look left, right....nothing! Then you look up! Oh crap, here comes three of them. You kill them off, and just as the rush is wearing off, WHAM!!!
Big 'ol face hugger slaps up against your monitor. I yelled and fell backwards out of my chair. If you tried to treat someone afraid of spiders with a game like that you should lose your license.
to be realistic, for something to be dead in a technology world, something else has to kill it.
what's killed bluetooth? bluetooth killed the IR port, but i don't think that anything has come around to kill bluetooth.
802.11 isn't really for the same applications. for simple, small, easy to use devices bluetooth is top notch. mice, keyboards, phones, small file sharing etc it's wonderful.
it might not have taken off and be everywhere, but it's around, it's used, and there's nothing else widely available that works along the same lines.
who knows though, maybe something else will come along and bumb off bluetooth, but until then, it's not dead. on life support, maybe.
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http://www.chipworks.com/art/siliconart.htm
that link should still work. at least until a million of you all hit it. oh well, props to the first 1,000.
I have to wonder how long until people start to realize that for truly critical (read millions of dollars) work, you're best off having the production machines OFFLINE.
It would be a pain in the ass only being able to code on one machine, but even something as simple as a KVM switch would make it tolerable.
No internet, and none of this stuff is a problem. Not to mention you can keep working while various worms/viruses make their rounds.
The 'net is just too insecure these days, especially if you're running some version of Windows.
you took the machine apart, you played around with the internal hardware. after playing with the fans originally the heatsink was extremely hot and that machine wouldn't run. rather than take that as a good sign to stop what you're doing and go back, you decided to continue blindly forward.
yeah, you've done some work before on machines, but didn't the fact that the heatsink was burning hot clue you in that something was seriously wrong?
so now you take apart the heatsinks and replace those. fast forward three days and it's borked.
why would they cover that? you take it apart, you break it. why would they fix it?
I'm just surprised with out noise concious submarine captains/designers are that they'd want Xserves. from everything i've heard, pretty much all 1U hardware is damn noisey. guess the space is worth more than the price.
although i can't condone the fact that his songs no longer work, i feel i should point out two things.
1st, no company has yet gotten authorization to distribute musical content outside the US. i'm guessing this is a record label issue.
2nd, in his case he had to reinstall everything. it asked to reverify his address, but he'd changed his address on his credit card. it was Canada now, not the US. not sure what else they could have done. if they sell songs outside of the US, they get in big trouble.
if he hadn't wiped everything, his songs would still be working today.
the "technology" they used to verify he was a US customer was his credit card billing address.
(which makes me think that someone could try a PO box in the US and then get their mail forwarded to Canada and get around the US restriciton)
in one fell sweeop, they manage to take a swipe at Google (right before releseing their search engine) and just happen to do a search for Apple as their single word example.
from the "article" To a certain extent, this probably reflects the interest of people searching as well as those linking, but is the world really that much more interested in Apple Computer than in old-fashioned apples?
man, how blatent can you get. they aren't happy that links are going to their (not so much) competition and can't help but take a cheap shot at them.
same with their lame Google issues. "i put in the word "the" and didn't find the book i wanted called "The Dumbass Who Works at MSN", therefore Google sucks."
actually what you'll find is that when you buy that shiney new G5, it actually has this little piece of paper inside that offers you future OS upgrades for free, or $30 per. (i don't remember offhand).
also, last i checked the number of a release was rather arbitrary relative to what was added or not added. the differences between 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 are pretty hefty. well worth $30 per.
but i suppose it's much better to assume you have to pay full price for each.
Panther has serious bluetooth issues out of the box
out of the box? there is no box to be out of. you're running a beta OS at best. they have misspelled words, non functional apps etc. of course there's stuff that doesn't work.
on the off chance that you're one of the few developers who are SUPPOSED to have this, i would expect you to shrug this off as typical in a beta build. otherwise this sucker comes with zero promises or warrenties.
To me this was the best part of the Panther update, after Expose.
I have a lot of drives that have been formatted as NTFS. If a computer pukes and dies, it's great to be able to back up the data to my laptop (mac) rather than having to take the drive to a PC to pull the data off.
As of yet the drives are read only, although it does have a non-functional (as of yet) authentication option so who knows.
Can mom write a text file. Yes or No? If yes, Linux passes. If no, then it fails.
What you really want to know is:
1. Can mom read e-mails? 2. Can she send e-mails? 3. Can she handle attachments? 4. Can she find her websites and bookmark them? 5. Can she take pictures with her camera and download them? 6. Can she plug in a printer and print anything.
Because that's what moms as a whole want to do. Yeah, writing stuff is nice, but so's corresponding and printing. It's a good start, but I'd say you'd need to flesh out the concept of the "mom test".
i know they're listed as a point releasee, but lets get real here. if nothing else, it's going to be 64 bit. OF COURSE you're going to have to pay for it.
unless of course you want to buy some shiny new hardware. (you know you want to)
How the hell am I supposed to tailgate the hell out of the car in front of me then? Some jackass will be going 45 in the left lane, while another jackass (me) wants to go 70. Am I just supposed to sit 300m back and hope the idiot realizes they're in the passing lane?
I don't think so. Damnit, they're infringing on my rights to be an asshole driver, and I won't tolerate it.
(not to mention the fun you could have with other people who have this car. cut 'em off and watch 'em twitch)
i'm picturing some kind of weekend, pay-per-view event, where IBM's lawyers square off against SCO's lawyers.
the SCO lawyers will be puny, whiney, and the villians.
the IBM lawyers would all be built like Goldberg and carry lead pipes in. it would be a bloodbath, over in a few minutes, and save us all the legal crap.
let's face it, SCO is going to get bitch slapped hard by IBM at this point. they're trying to play hardball and up until now IBM has pretty much ignored them. however, like a fly that bites i have a feeling they're about to get swatted back into nothingness.
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i actually have 7 200GB drives attached to a machine running Panter. it's never had any problems with any of them.
maybe i'm just lucky.
i would guess they're in part pissed off because that would indicate that for their desktop publishing they use Macs.
this would be a non-issue if these were being sent to the Mac Business Unit, but they aren't. hence the egg on face nature.
one might ask why they don't try using Publisher for all of their Publishing needs. it would certainly cut down on the number of items they published in a year.
This is just getting stupid. At some point, can't one side or the other just go all in per se, and call the other player out?
If IBM's case is as strong as it appears, why are they drawing this out? Call their bluff and make them show their hand. It was entertaining for a while just for being completely ridiculous, but now it's tired. Put this horse down.
I can believe some of these games might help, but to be honest I ended up more freaked out about spiders and anything spider related AFTER playing Aliens vs. Predator.
Those damn face huggers scared the crap out of me in that game. I can honestly say that out of every game I've ever played (a lot), that is the only game where I was truly freaked out while playing. You'd be tooling along, minding your own business, while that creepy music and sound effect combo worked it's way into your brain.
Then the aliens would start rushing you. Your proximity sensor would start going nuts. You look left, right....nothing! Then you look up! Oh crap, here comes three of them. You kill them off, and just as the rush is wearing off, WHAM!!!
Big 'ol face hugger slaps up against your monitor. I yelled and fell backwards out of my chair. If you tried to treat someone afraid of spiders with a game like that you should lose your license.
"At least now I (and many like me) won't have to pay any money just to dabble with Maya. "
Like you ever paid for Maya just to dabble with it. That's the biggest crock of shit I've heard in.....
Well, since that 24 hours for Windows patches article.
to be realistic, for something to be dead in a technology world, something else has to kill it.
what's killed bluetooth? bluetooth killed the IR port, but i don't think that anything has come around to kill bluetooth.
802.11 isn't really for the same applications. for simple, small, easy to use devices bluetooth is top notch. mice, keyboards, phones, small file sharing etc it's wonderful.
it might not have taken off and be everywhere, but it's around, it's used, and there's nothing else widely available that works along the same lines.
who knows though, maybe something else will come along and bumb off bluetooth, but until then, it's not dead. on life support, maybe.
http://www.chipworks.com/art/siliconart.htm
that link should still work. at least until a million of you all hit it. oh well, props to the first 1,000.
to me it's been a lot of fun. a game where your strategist is a person, and the units you have to work with are people.
all in all very nice. of course, a bad commander and you're hosed, so the key is to get folks who are good on both ends, the FPS and the RTS angles.
it just stuck me as the perfect solution to really crappy AI problems that have plauged games since the beginning.
I have to wonder how long until people start to realize that for truly critical (read millions of dollars) work, you're best off having the production machines OFFLINE.
It would be a pain in the ass only being able to code on one machine, but even something as simple as a KVM switch would make it tolerable.
No internet, and none of this stuff is a problem. Not to mention you can keep working while various worms/viruses make their rounds.
The 'net is just too insecure these days, especially if you're running some version of Windows.
so let me get this straight.
you took the machine apart, you played around with the internal hardware. after playing with the fans originally the heatsink was extremely hot and that machine wouldn't run. rather than take that as a good sign to stop what you're doing and go back, you decided to continue blindly forward.
yeah, you've done some work before on machines, but didn't the fact that the heatsink was burning hot clue you in that something was seriously wrong?
so now you take apart the heatsinks and replace those. fast forward three days and it's borked.
why would they cover that? you take it apart, you break it. why would they fix it?
It's just his white Chimera brother finally coming out after all these years.
I'm just surprised with out noise concious submarine captains/designers are that they'd want Xserves. from everything i've heard, pretty much all 1U hardware is damn noisey. guess the space is worth more than the price.
although i can't condone the fact that his songs no longer work, i feel i should point out two things.
1st, no company has yet gotten authorization to distribute musical content outside the US. i'm guessing this is a record label issue.
2nd, in his case he had to reinstall everything. it asked to reverify his address, but he'd changed his address on his credit card. it was Canada now, not the US. not sure what else they could have done. if they sell songs outside of the US, they get in big trouble.
if he hadn't wiped everything, his songs would still be working today.
the "technology" they used to verify he was a US customer was his credit card billing address.
(which makes me think that someone could try a PO box in the US and then get their mail forwarded to Canada and get around the US restriciton)
in one fell sweeop, they manage to take a swipe at Google (right before releseing their search engine) and just happen to do a search for Apple as their single word example.
from the "article" To a certain extent, this probably reflects the interest of people searching as well as those linking, but is the world really that much more interested in Apple Computer than in old-fashioned apples?
man, how blatent can you get. they aren't happy that links are going to their (not so much) competition and can't help but take a cheap shot at them.
same with their lame Google issues. "i put in the word "the" and didn't find the book i wanted called "The Dumbass Who Works at MSN", therefore Google sucks."
oh well.
actually what you'll find is that when you buy that shiney new G5, it actually has this little piece of paper inside that offers you future OS upgrades for free, or $30 per. (i don't remember offhand).
also, last i checked the number of a release was rather arbitrary relative to what was added or not added. the differences between 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 are pretty hefty. well worth $30 per.
but i suppose it's much better to assume you have to pay full price for each.
Panther has serious bluetooth issues out of the box
out of the box? there is no box to be out of. you're running a beta OS at best. they have misspelled words, non functional apps etc. of course there's stuff that doesn't work.
on the off chance that you're one of the few developers who are SUPPOSED to have this, i would expect you to shrug this off as typical in a beta build. otherwise this sucker comes with zero promises or warrenties.
To me this was the best part of the Panther update, after Expose.
I have a lot of drives that have been formatted as NTFS. If a computer pukes and dies, it's great to be able to back up the data to my laptop (mac) rather than having to take the drive to a PC to pull the data off.
As of yet the drives are read only, although it does have a non-functional (as of yet) authentication option so who knows.
you have two choices for the letter you send to your representative. e-mail or fax.
60,000,000 e-mails can be deleted/filtered in a heartbeat.
at least 60 million faxes are a pain in the ass.
see if you can get someone to whip up a G5 icon for ya' :)
Sorry, but that's was the weaniest test possible.
Can mom write a text file. Yes or No? If yes, Linux passes. If no, then it fails.
What you really want to know is:
1. Can mom read e-mails?
2. Can she send e-mails?
3. Can she handle attachments?
4. Can she find her websites and bookmark them?
5. Can she take pictures with her camera and download them?
6. Can she plug in a printer and print anything.
Because that's what moms as a whole want to do. Yeah, writing stuff is nice, but so's corresponding and printing. It's a good start, but I'd say you'd need to flesh out the concept of the "mom test".
how about if it were a 64bit OS instead of a 32 bit one. would that work for you?
i know they're listed as a point releasee, but lets get real here. if nothing else, it's going to be 64 bit. OF COURSE you're going to have to pay for it.
unless of course you want to buy some shiny new hardware. (you know you want to)
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How the hell am I supposed to tailgate the hell out of the car in front of me then? Some jackass will be going 45 in the left lane, while another jackass (me) wants to go 70. Am I just supposed to sit 300m back and hope the idiot realizes they're in the passing lane?
I don't think so. Damnit, they're infringing on my rights to be an asshole driver, and I won't tolerate it.
(not to mention the fun you could have with other people who have this car. cut 'em off and watch 'em twitch)
*i'm mostly kidding*
i'm picturing some kind of weekend, pay-per-view event, where IBM's lawyers square off against SCO's lawyers.
:)
the SCO lawyers will be puny, whiney, and the villians.
the IBM lawyers would all be built like Goldberg and carry lead pipes in. it would be a bloodbath, over in a few minutes, and save us all the legal crap.
let's face it, SCO is going to get bitch slapped hard by IBM at this point. they're trying to play hardball and up until now IBM has pretty much ignored them. however, like a fly that bites i have a feeling they're about to get swatted back into nothingness.
i guess courtTV needs their drama too.