Of the list you mentioned, The 800XL had: joystick ports, cartridge port, sprites (p/m graphics), 4 sound channels, plugged into a TV, 320x240 8 bit (sort-of) color.
Yet, that aside, I would consider the 800XL a computer. The 5200 (which was internally very much the same) was a game console.
The difference. The 5200 really couldn't be used for much else (I suppose it could have if somebody really wanted to hack it) whereas the 800 series computers were very adept at it.
Let's look at that list again. - joystick ports Yep, could be joysticks. But I also had a sound digitizer that plugged into it as well as a drawing tablet. There were other hardware bits that could plug in (like a realtime clock, which these systems lacked)
- cartridge port I had games on cartridge, but I also had a programming language (logo) as well as an art program (AtariArtist) which used the aforementioned drawing tablet. It was really for things that could be loaded instantly instead of waiting for IO times. In addition, since storage was limited on these systems, it worked well for applications UNLIKE GAMES where you would need additional disk access so that you didn't have to juggle floppies after loading the app.
- sprites (p/m graphics) Primarily good for games, but also used for other things. (Like the cursor in AtariArtist, etc)
- 4 sound channels Not utilized much outside of games, but there were processing tools for audio (music composition, etc.) which used it.
- plugged into a TV Primarily to keep costs down. This made it affordable to the home user.
- 320x240 8 bit (sort-of) color The Atari had an 8 bit color palette, but it had different graphics modes that determined how many of those could be on screen at once. The most popular mode would have been mode 7+16 (IIRC) which would have been 4 colors (more if you do a display list interrupt). Games used the graphics a lot (of course) but it was also used in my word processor (full page previews drawn to approximate page layout) as well as in the art programs available.
So all in all, it really depended on how you used it. Just because it shared commonalities with games machines doesn't mean it wasn't a 'real' computer.
I have Firefox set to treat all cookies (that aren't on my whitelist) as session cookies.
Thing is, I'll have firefox open for days at a time sometimes. They should probably add an option in addition to the existing 'Keep cookies: until I close Firefox' along the lines of 'until I close Firefox, or [XX] hours. Whichever comes first.'
That way, I could set it for 4 hours to allow hassle free session management - but not have tracking cookies hanging out if I happen to leave my browser open for a week.
The designer also certifies that the logo does not infringe upon the rights of any third party and that it does not violate any copyright.
How is anyone supposed to certify that?
You can certify that you aren't willingly or knowingly violating a copyright, but you never know if someone will pop out of the woodwork with a logo (you've never seen) that yours looks too much like.
There's one point to consider. The first web ads were NOT of the 'pop up' and 'pop under' varieties. Banner ads were first, and pop ups and pop unders started appearing BEFORE any mass accepted ad blockers were out there - not because the ad purveyors were competing with ad blockers, but because they are competing with EACH OTHER.
Even if we all stopped blocking ads and lived in the default IE (non XP SP2) world of allowing every and any ad on the system, they'll still get more obnoxious over time because they'll want to be the first to offer the new type of ad to their customers.
Q) Why advertise with 'Quadruple-click'?
A) Only Quadruple-Click offers you the patented "kick them in the balls and scream at them when they're down" technology. Most other services only offer banner ads, interstitials, and pop up advertising. Be sure your message is heard.
The A*Team wasn't a sitcom, but by no stretch of the imagination was it drama so here goes:
1) Bad guys do something to good guys 2) Good guys look for A*Team but meet weird guy 3) Weird guy is Hannibal in disguise - accepts job 4) Break Murdoch out of mental institution 5) Drug BA so they can fly 6) Go in with a big show of force to scare bad guys 7) Have celebration with good guys over victory 8) Bad guys strike back (surprise surprise) 9) Build some monster truck out of old garbage cans and a lawnmower 10) Bust up the bad guys with lots of explosions and flying people (yet nobody dies) 11) "I love it when a plan comes together."/smoke cigar 12) Get away just as the military police arrive on scene
I really liked NewsRadio early on. I think the show could have survived the demise of Bill (Phil Hartman) if they had just continued on and NOT brought in John Lovitz. Is there ANYTHING that Lovitz is in where he plays anything mildly amusing?
'Lovitz' combined with the storyline just running out between Dave and Lisa made this unwatchable in the final seasons.
Of course, my story from years ago when I was in college. I was at the college bookstore during that first week of the semester when it is totally mobbed (everyone buying books, supplies, etc.)
I go through line. Step through the detector and it goes off. The cashier asks "What'd you take?"
The manager comes over and I step through again - no alarm. Bag goes through again, no alarm. Both go through, no alarm.
I'm not sure why I didn't complain to the manager about her. I know I was irked by the situation. I must've had somewhere I wanted to be, and didn't want to waste the time. And, no, I didn't acutally steal anything.:)
You should be uninstalling the old version before you install the new one.
Wasn't that the mantra when it was in its pre-1.0 days. I remember people complaining then, but the response was "it's not yet 1.0, what do you expect".
Now that it is an official release, I don't think expecting users to uninstall before installing an 'update' is the best way to go.
BTW. It does seem to operate without doing an uninstall first. I went from 1.0 to 1.0.1, then to 1.0.2 without uninstalling first. Though the entires are all listed in Add/Remove (not that I much care).
I know that in iLife 05, iDVD will install even if you don't have a superdrive. Does anyone know if it works with external DVD drives?
I've got an external firewire Sony DVD+-R/RW drive. If it will work, I could just get the combo-drive model.
I know there was a hack that would allow non superdrive systems to use iDVD, but was wondering if it was now part of the official build of iDVD.
Failing directly buring in iDVD - i believe it now supports creation of disk images. Are these standard disk images that I would be able to burn to the DVD drive outside of iDVD, or are they some sort of "iDVD-only" disk image?
I forgot the point that the video arrives as a DV stream regardless of the original format. So plug in your vcr or older legacy camera (like hi-8) and get DV captures directly into the computer.
Go to the site that has the search for which you want to create a keyword.
On that site, Right click the form field and choose 'Add a keyword for this search'... it will prompt you with the save bookmark dialog.. there will be a box labeled 'keyword' - enter the keyword you want to use.
Once added, FF will allow you to use that keyword in exactly the way you described.
You can also add them manually, by mucking with the URL the way you describe, but this UI method allows you to do it and automatically creates the passable fields for you.
Or... people are pro-firefox but don't think that donating to a full page ad in the paper is the best use of money.
I'm definitely pro-firefox. I've gotten numerous people to switch. I'm willing to spend my time getting someone installed and tweaking the app to their preferences, but I can think of a lot of other places I'd rather spend my money than for a one-shot ad in the paper.
How about a trade-in? People bring their old PCs to their local Apple store, and they get a big discount off a new Apple.
But then what does Apple do with the computer?
They've just taken a hit to their profit by offering a discount. They could:
Sell the (traded-in) computer themselves but that would mean in a way "endorsing" non-apple computers
Donate the computer But where? Education... that's where Apple tries to sell big. Poor countries... maybe, but then you're making it look like Apple is trying to dump their 'trash' onto poor countries. Not a great PR move.
Throw it away now they'd have to pay even more to dispose of them
'Silently' sell them to to some other entity which would then re-sell them Which would just mean a new supply of cheaper competitor machines enter the market(when the seller re-sells them) where they (Apple) have subsidized the cost difference between a new and used machine
I just don't see any way this would be a 'win' for Apple... as much as I'd like to trade something in myself.
Wordpad isn't bad... but the lack of a spell checker and only extremely simplistic paragraph formatting make it useless for anything more complex than a letter to a friend or a recipe.
cheaper/leaner MS Works
MS Works actually ships with the full version of Word.
Abiword
I've downloaded Abiword, and I like that there's another alternative, but in fonts don't show as nicely (odd letter spacing) and I've had troubles with placed graphics that I just don't have in OOo.
I can't see a reason to use OOo except when you feel the need to have a million "collaboration"/"compatibility" features (in which case your time is better spent on the guaranteed compatibility of Word proper with erm.. Word files)
You don't see a reason... good, then don't use it. I *do* see a reason, and therefore I *do* use it.
I own a copy of Office 97. While it works, it is getting dated. I don't really want to spend the money to update to a newer version of Office because I only need to occasionally use files that I get from other people (my main business is in design).
Writer... OOo does just as good of a job with most Word files as Office97 does. Sometimes O97 is better, sometimes OOo is better at preserving the original document... it really depends on what version the original was authored in - but having Office itself is no guarantee of exact compatibility either.
I own Acrobat, but I appreciate the built in PDF capabilities of OOo. In fact, I once needed to create a PDF of a Word doc for work. I opened in Office 97 and created the PDF through Acrobat. I also opened in OOo and did a direct PDF create. The resulting PDF was actually smaller from OOo with no loss of quality in the PDF (I'm guessing that Word was embedding metadata or some other filler which made their document larger)
Calc... I don't do too much intensive spreadsheet work. For what I do, either Office97 or OOo will do.
Impress... I'm not a big PPT fan. Impress doesn't handle all PPT files correctly... usually it messes up things like wacky transitions and animation effects (which I wouldn't use anyway) so it doesn't affect me, but I could see where someone who is into that kind of stuff would be set back.
I own and use Illustrator for most graphic work, but I actually like using OOo Draw for flow diagrams and such because the drawing tools are geared toward that kind of thing. (I wouldn't use it over Illustrator for illustration, though)
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... strong enough that you refuse to spend the initial outlay on the Word license to make up for the number of problems you'll have in using feature-filled Word files.
I don't see too many 'feature-filled Word files'... most people use the basics - just enough to make Wordpad incapable of doing the job (which is by design, I'm sure). OOo does a great job for me so I see no need to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade MS Office. I'd rather use that money to upgrade something more useful to what I do.
If it doesn't work for you, fine. But it works for me and I'm sure quite a few others, so I use it.
Right now, a home grown app we use where I work gives us the following error:...
JavaScript error. Quite frankly, doing any type of JavaScript work in IE is quite painful compared to MozFF. The JavaScript console is quite a bit nicer than the IE JS error reports. I'm sure if you go through your code, you'll find what's wrong.
#2: Can't figure out how to default MSN messenger clicks to it. Associated all.htm and.lnk extensions to Firefox but it just didn't take.
Using WinXP and MSN Messenger 6.1.0211 and links inside messages here DO open in FF. Do you have FF configured within windows to be the default browser?
You can have FF check to see if it is the default. Tools - Options - Default.... 'check now'
I've seen some computers that didn't seem to accept the change. In XP you go to the control panel - add remove programs - set program access and defaults - and set it there.
I've found this plugin to be very useful for printing some pages that don't supply either a 'print-friendly' CSS or page.
With it, I've been able to eliminate page elements that would cause my print to only occupy the center 2 inches of the page because of navigation panels, etc.
When you first install it, you will waste some time though, just going through pages and getting a kick out of watching elements disappear at your command.
... ActiveX makes it an excellent vector to infest your computer with spyware. Every time I go away for a few weeks, I come back and discover that my roommate's girlfriend has been browsing the web on my computer using IE. [snip]... on my XP box
I'm no fan of IE... but why can your roommate's girlfriend access YOUR computer with an account with sufficient privileges to install Active X controls?
You say you use XP. Create a locked down account that can browse, but not change the internet security settings in IE. Or lock down the account, and remove access to IE altogether.
I'd be far more worried that you're letting unknown persons on your system without adequate security settings.
I like to be able to see one taskbar button for one task. To be, the fact that two pieces of content are delivered via the same protocol and markup language does not mean I necessarily want them in the same window.
You make it sound like having the ability to use tabs means you MUST use them. That's the beauty, you can use them when you want them, and use separate windows when you don't.
For regular browsing, I like tabs for easier switching between windows. For research, I like tabs so that I can open many links (from a Google search) and keep them grouped. If I want to do something else, I'll open a new window so that there is a clear separation.
You're not forced to use tabs in FireFox, but you don't even have the choice in IE.
JV: How many people in the United States build their own sets?
TT: Well, I'm talking about engineers.
JV: Let's say there are a thousand. But there are 284 million people in this country. You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way.
Should have been followed with:
TT: So, how many people in the United States produce movies? How come the public policy is specifically targeted toward protecting the interests of that small minority?
As web content moves away from static pages to more dynamic solutions (particularly XML) a more sophisticated crawler is neeeded, one that can read over this bewildering malstrom of data and extract form it meaning and content.
It's all in how you build your pages.
For PriorArtDatabase.com there is only a handful of actual 'pages'... everything is actually pulled from source XML files. But the URLs are created in such a way that it appears to be separate pages to a search engine. I've seen the googlebot on thousands of documents from the site, even though they are actually being handled from the same script on the server.
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I had an Atari 800XL.
Of the list you mentioned, The 800XL had:
joystick ports, cartridge port, sprites (p/m graphics), 4 sound channels, plugged into a TV, 320x240 8 bit (sort-of) color.
Yet, that aside, I would consider the 800XL a computer. The 5200 (which was internally very much the same) was a game console.
The difference. The 5200 really couldn't be used for much else (I suppose it could have if somebody really wanted to hack it) whereas the 800 series computers were very adept at it.
Let's look at that list again.
- joystick ports
Yep, could be joysticks. But I also had a sound digitizer that plugged into it as well as a drawing tablet. There were other hardware bits that could plug in (like a realtime clock, which these systems lacked)
- cartridge port
I had games on cartridge, but I also had a programming language (logo) as well as an art program (AtariArtist) which used the aforementioned drawing tablet. It was really for things that could be loaded instantly instead of waiting for IO times. In addition, since storage was limited on these systems, it worked well for applications UNLIKE GAMES where you would need additional disk access so that you didn't have to juggle floppies after loading the app.
- sprites (p/m graphics)
Primarily good for games, but also used for other things. (Like the cursor in AtariArtist, etc)
- 4 sound channels
Not utilized much outside of games, but there were processing tools for audio (music composition, etc.) which used it.
- plugged into a TV
Primarily to keep costs down. This made it affordable to the home user.
- 320x240 8 bit (sort-of) color
The Atari had an 8 bit color palette, but it had different graphics modes that determined how many of those could be on screen at once. The most popular mode would have been mode 7+16 (IIRC) which would have been 4 colors (more if you do a display list interrupt).
Games used the graphics a lot (of course) but it was also used in my word processor (full page previews drawn to approximate page layout) as well as in the art programs available.
So all in all, it really depended on how you used it. Just because it shared commonalities with games machines doesn't mean it wasn't a 'real' computer.
I have Firefox set to treat all cookies (that aren't on my whitelist) as session cookies.
Thing is, I'll have firefox open for days at a time sometimes. They should probably add an option in addition to the existing 'Keep cookies: until I close Firefox' along the lines of 'until I close Firefox, or [XX] hours. Whichever comes first.'
That way, I could set it for 4 hours to allow hassle free session management - but not have tracking cookies hanging out if I happen to leave my browser open for a week.
How is anyone supposed to certify that?
You can certify that you aren't willingly or knowingly violating a copyright, but you never know if someone will pop out of the woodwork with a logo (you've never seen) that yours looks too much like.
Even if we all stopped blocking ads and lived in the default IE (non XP SP2) world of allowing every and any ad on the system, they'll still get more obnoxious over time because they'll want to be the first to offer the new type of ad to their customers.
The A*Team wasn't a sitcom, but by no stretch of the imagination was it drama so here goes:
1) Bad guys do something to good guys
2) Good guys look for A*Team but meet weird guy
3) Weird guy is Hannibal in disguise - accepts job
4) Break Murdoch out of mental institution
5) Drug BA so they can fly
6) Go in with a big show of force to scare bad guys
7) Have celebration with good guys over victory
8) Bad guys strike back (surprise surprise)
9) Build some monster truck out of old garbage cans and a lawnmower
10) Bust up the bad guys with lots of explosions and flying people (yet nobody dies)
11) "I love it when a plan comes together."/smoke cigar
12) Get away just as the military police arrive on scene
I really liked NewsRadio early on. I think the show could have survived the demise of Bill (Phil Hartman) if they had just continued on and NOT brought in John Lovitz. Is there ANYTHING that Lovitz is in where he plays anything mildly amusing?
'Lovitz' combined with the storyline just running out between Dave and Lisa made this unwatchable in the final seasons.
Of course, my story from years ago when I was in college. I was at the college bookstore during that first week of the semester when it is totally mobbed (everyone buying books, supplies, etc.)
:)
I go through line. Step through the detector and it goes off. The cashier asks "What'd you take?"
The manager comes over and I step through again - no alarm. Bag goes through again, no alarm. Both go through, no alarm.
I'm not sure why I didn't complain to the manager about her. I know I was irked by the situation. I must've had somewhere I wanted to be, and didn't want to waste the time. And, no, I didn't acutally steal anything.
Wasn't that the mantra when it was in its pre-1.0 days. I remember people complaining then, but the response was "it's not yet 1.0, what do you expect".
Now that it is an official release, I don't think expecting users to uninstall before installing an 'update' is the best way to go.
BTW. It does seem to operate without doing an uninstall first. I went from 1.0 to 1.0.1, then to 1.0.2 without uninstalling first. Though the entires are all listed in Add/Remove (not that I much care).
Not only that, but apparently GM is way ahead of Apple regarding processors.
Introducing the G6
Wonder if they can fit that in a laptop.
I know that in iLife 05, iDVD will install even if you don't have a superdrive. Does anyone know if it works with external DVD drives?
I've got an external firewire Sony DVD+-R/RW drive. If it will work, I could just get the combo-drive model.
I know there was a hack that would allow non superdrive systems to use iDVD, but was wondering if it was now part of the official build of iDVD.
Failing directly buring in iDVD - i believe it now supports creation of disk images. Are these standard disk images that I would be able to burn to the DVD drive outside of iDVD, or are they some sort of "iDVD-only" disk image?
Anyone know?
I forgot the point that the video arrives as a DV stream regardless of the original format. So plug in your vcr or older legacy camera (like hi-8) and get DV captures directly into the computer.
For capture hardware you can save yourself some hassle by looking at the analog firewire converters like the Canopus ADVC line.
This way, you never need to worry about drivers, just plug the thing into a firewire port and it makes any analog device look like a firewire camera.
I have the older ADVC100, and it makes capture easy. I can move the thing from computer to computer and platform to platform with no problems.
... a week or so before the jump so that I can grow the goatee.
Go to the site that has the search for which you want to create a keyword.
... it will prompt you with the save bookmark dialog .. there will be a box labeled 'keyword' - enter the keyword you want to use.
On that site, Right click the form field and choose 'Add a keyword for this search'
Once added, FF will allow you to use that keyword in exactly the way you described.
You can also add them manually, by mucking with the URL the way you describe, but this UI method allows you to do it and automatically creates the passable fields for you.
Or ... people are pro-firefox but don't think that donating to a full page ad in the paper is the best use of money.
I'm definitely pro-firefox. I've gotten numerous people to switch. I'm willing to spend my time getting someone installed and tweaking the app to their preferences, but I can think of a lot of other places I'd rather spend my money than for a one-shot ad in the paper.
But then what does Apple do with the computer?
They've just taken a hit to their profit by offering a discount. They could:
but that would mean in a way "endorsing" non-apple computers
But where? Education
now they'd have to pay even more to dispose of them
Which would just mean a new supply of cheaper competitor machines enter the market(when the seller re-sells them) where they (Apple) have subsidized the cost difference between a new and used machine
I just don't see any way this would be a 'win' for Apple
If you only need text processing, Notepad/Wordpad
... but the lack of a spell checker and only extremely simplistic paragraph formatting make it useless for anything more complex than a letter to a friend or a recipe.
... good, then don't use it. I *do* see a reason, and therefore I *do* use it.
... OOo does just as good of a job with most Word files as Office97 does. Sometimes O97 is better, sometimes OOo is better at preserving the original document ... it really depends on what version the original was authored in - but having Office itself is no guarantee of exact compatibility either.
... I don't do too much intensive spreadsheet work. For what I do, either Office97 or OOo will do.
... I'm not a big PPT fan. Impress doesn't handle all PPT files correctly ... usually it messes up things like wacky transitions and animation effects (which I wouldn't use anyway) so it doesn't affect me, but I could see where someone who is into that kind of stuff would be set back.
... strong enough that you refuse to spend the initial outlay on the Word license to make up for the number of problems you'll have in using feature-filled Word files.
... most people use the basics - just enough to make Wordpad incapable of doing the job (which is by design, I'm sure). OOo does a great job for me so I see no need to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade MS Office. I'd rather use that money to upgrade something more useful to what I do.
Wordpad isn't bad
cheaper/leaner MS Works
MS Works actually ships with the full version of Word.
Abiword
I've downloaded Abiword, and I like that there's another alternative, but in fonts don't show as nicely (odd letter spacing) and I've had troubles with placed graphics that I just don't have in OOo.
I can't see a reason to use OOo except when you feel the need to have a million "collaboration"/"compatibility" features (in which case your time is better spent on the guaranteed compatibility of Word proper with erm.. Word files)
You don't see a reason
I own a copy of Office 97. While it works, it is getting dated. I don't really want to spend the money to update to a newer version of Office because I only need to occasionally use files that I get from other people (my main business is in design).
Writer
I own Acrobat, but I appreciate the built in PDF capabilities of OOo. In fact, I once needed to create a PDF of a Word doc for work. I opened in Office 97 and created the PDF through Acrobat. I also opened in OOo and did a direct PDF create. The resulting PDF was actually smaller from OOo with no loss of quality in the PDF (I'm guessing that Word was embedding metadata or some other filler which made their document larger)
Calc
Impress
I own and use Illustrator for most graphic work, but I actually like using OOo Draw for flow diagrams and such because the drawing tools are geared toward that kind of thing. (I wouldn't use it over Illustrator for illustration, though)
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I don't see too many 'feature-filled Word files'
If it doesn't work for you, fine. But it works for me and I'm sure quite a few others, so I use it.
Um. Regardless of it being Slashdot or anywhere else, I'd like to think that nobody carries used condoms in their wallet.
Right now, a home grown app we use where I work gives us the following error: ...
.htm and .lnk extensions to Firefox but it just didn't take.
.... 'check now'
JavaScript error. Quite frankly, doing any type of JavaScript work in IE is quite painful compared to MozFF. The JavaScript console is quite a bit nicer than the IE JS error reports. I'm sure if you go through your code, you'll find what's wrong.
#2: Can't figure out how to default MSN messenger clicks to it. Associated all
Using WinXP and MSN Messenger 6.1.0211 and links inside messages here DO open in FF. Do you have FF configured within windows to be the default browser?
You can have FF check to see if it is the default.
Tools - Options - Default
I've seen some computers that didn't seem to accept the change. In XP you go to the control panel - add remove programs - set program access and defaults - and set it there.
I've found this plugin to be very useful for printing some pages that don't supply either a 'print-friendly' CSS or page.
With it, I've been able to eliminate page elements that would cause my print to only occupy the center 2 inches of the page because of navigation panels, etc.
When you first install it, you will waste some time though, just going through pages and getting a kick out of watching elements disappear at your command.
I'm no fan of IE
You say you use XP. Create a locked down account that can browse, but not change the internet security settings in IE. Or lock down the account, and remove access to IE altogether.
I'd be far more worried that you're letting unknown persons on your system without adequate security settings.
You make it sound like having the ability to use tabs means you MUST use them. That's the beauty, you can use them when you want them, and use separate windows when you don't.
For regular browsing, I like tabs for easier switching between windows. For research, I like tabs so that I can open many links (from a Google search) and keep them grouped. If I want to do something else, I'll open a new window so that there is a clear separation.
You're not forced to use tabs in FireFox, but you don't even have the choice in IE.
Tax forms from the IRS are free. But many people pay someone (who knows what they're doing) to fill them out for them.
Should have been followed with:
TT: So, how many people in the United States produce movies? How come the public policy is specifically targeted toward protecting the interests of that small minority?
It's all in how you build your pages.
For PriorArtDatabase.com there is only a handful of actual 'pages'