I have been using macs since 1985 and I have had 6 different computers. I'm now lusting after #7 which, if I buy, would make it about 7 in 18 years... about every 2.5 years.
But I think that trend could be slowing a bit since my iBook seems to still be able to handle everything OSX throws at it and I have no intention of replacing it anytime soon (it's 2 years old).
but isn't the i* software suite just doing what Microsoft did with Windows and Internet Explorer?
I think this is a very good question. Often us Mac users are blinded by these rose-colored spectacles they make us wear... but we should be wary of this practice.
In the sense of killing competition, I think that we will see what happens to Watson whose functionality is being subsumed by the new version of Sherlock.
This seems to be analogous to accusing a car maker of building a machine that can be used to kill people or used to transport drugs across state lines... etc.
It's a little scary how, when someone gives us a tool to do something productive, they may be accuse of building something "dangerous". This sort of attitude could really parallize creative people from building useful things. Hopefully reason will prevail in this case.
I know the obvious solution would be to disable Flash, but my daughter likes playing online games that require it, so that's not an option...
Since you seem to be using OSX, the better solution is to give your daughter her own login with flash enabled, and for you to have a login with it disabled.
My experience has been that experts rarely make good teachers. For example, professors that are really intimate with a particular subject are not very good at coming down to the level of a student who is learning it for the first time.
There are exceptions of course but I believe this happens all the time.
I'm not defending Apple but the instructions for the install clearly state "If you have previously installed iTunes for Mac OS X, delete the old version before installing the new one."
Then the code that checks for the existence would fail and the bug wouldn't rear it's ugly head. However, we all know that most users don't RTFM.
Of course, if they really meant what they said in the instructions, the check for existence should have asked the user to remove the old version instead of doing it automatically.
Did I just put a quarter in the juke box?
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What happens if you accidentally drop your media full of MP3's in a juke box at the local bar?
I have used various flavors of *nix over my 16-year career and am currently using mostly Linux and some Solaris.
That said, I am intrigued by OSX for a few reasons:
1) the method of bundling software (Bundles) that puts libraries, config files, binaries together as opposed to the typical Unix method of putting like file-types together... seems like a more object-oriented method
2) extensive use of XML in configuration files
3) a re-newed perspective on directory names that are more meaningful (why does usr contain so much non-user stuff?) like System, Library, etc.
4) the fact that all this stuff can be hidden when I just want to forget about all that stuff (yet to be seen if this is true but...)
Basically, it comes down to a lot of "things that make you go hmmmm". I will be taking a serious look to see if it something I could switch to... and it would be cool to have a shiny new dual-processor to try it on.;-)
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>>Surely nobody will enter an admin password requested by an ".mp3" file.
:-)
>you must not have met the users on my network.
Surely you don't give those users admin priveleges?
Google is still a great search engine but a little competition can only be good for us, the users.
Or stop being so cheap and support your local bookstore.
;-)
Can you tell my wife works at the local bookstore?
I bet my local bookstore, the Tattered Cover in Denver, wished they had done this. They had to fight such a case in court. Thankfully they won.
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http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.lev.TatteredCoverRe
I have been using macs since 1985 and I have had 6 different computers. I'm now lusting after #7 which, if I buy, would make it about 7 in 18 years... about every 2.5 years.
But I think that trend could be slowing a bit since my iBook seems to still be able to handle everything OSX throws at it and I have no intention of replacing it anytime soon (it's 2 years old).
I think this is a very good question. Often us Mac users are blinded by these rose-colored spectacles they make us wear... but we should be wary of this practice.
In the sense of killing competition, I think that we will see what happens to Watson whose functionality is being subsumed by the new version of Sherlock.
This seems to be analogous to accusing a car maker of building a machine that can be used to kill people or used to transport drugs across state lines... etc.
It's a little scary how, when someone gives us a tool to do something productive, they may be accuse of building something "dangerous". This sort of attitude could really parallize creative people from building useful things. Hopefully reason will prevail in this case.
Since you seem to be using OSX, the better solution is to give your daughter her own login with flash enabled, and for you to have a login with it disabled.
My experience has been that experts rarely make good teachers. For example, professors that are really intimate with a particular subject are not very good at coming down to the level of a student who is learning it for the first time.
There are exceptions of course but I believe this happens all the time.
I'm not defending Apple but the instructions for the install clearly state "If you have previously installed iTunes for Mac OS X, delete the old version before installing the new one."
Then the code that checks for the existence would fail and the bug wouldn't rear it's ugly head. However, we all know that most users don't RTFM.
Of course, if they really meant what they said in the instructions, the check for existence should have asked the user to remove the old version instead of doing it automatically.
What happens if you accidentally drop your media full of MP3's in a juke box at the local bar?
I have used various flavors of *nix over my 16-year career and am currently using mostly Linux and some Solaris.
... and it would be cool to have a shiny new dual-processor to try it on. ;-)
That said, I am intrigued by OSX for a few reasons:
1) the method of bundling software (Bundles) that puts libraries, config files, binaries together as opposed to the typical Unix method of putting like file-types together... seems like a more object-oriented method
2) extensive use of XML in configuration files
3) a re-newed perspective on directory names that are more meaningful (why does usr contain so much non-user stuff?) like System, Library, etc.
4) the fact that all this stuff can be hidden when I just want to forget about all that stuff (yet to be seen if this is true but...)
Basically, it comes down to a lot of "things that make you go hmmmm". I will be taking a serious look to see if it something I could switch to
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Wait, I bet you're a wind player, aren't you? Bah!
As any wind player would know, this is the same as Db which has 6 flats. And I'm sure this language will drive like a car with 6 flats too.
What are the open-source alternatives? How about Jabber (www.jabber.org) or Ding (www.activerse.com) or good old IRC? Are there others?