I seem to recall having seen a year or two back that WB had decided it was okay to show Speedy Gonzalez cartoons again. In any case, while they do contain silly stereotypes, it's ultimately about the Mexican mouse showing up the stupid "Gringo pussy-gato" every time. Speedy's the hero. He's not there to be mocked, but to do the mocking.
Apple could be in big trouble over this and I personally would not develop such an app if I were Steve Jobs for obvious reasons. Its risky and could kill the macintosh in their core market if Adobe gives them the finger again.
I really doubt it. Apple released Final Cut Pro and destroyed Premiere. If Adobe threatens to pull Photoshop, Aperture 2.0 will be a Photoshop replacement, which will end very badly for Adobe.
Doh! It's been five years, and I just copied the spelling from the Slashdot article. Plus, my name has a "Berg" in it, so it looks like a perfectly fine syllable to me. (And, just to add to the confusion, my wife's has a "borg" in it.)
If you have a chance to take his Microprocessor Architecture class, do so. He rocks! We had people from the other professors' sections sneaking into ours to actually learn the material.
In situations where you know at the beginning of the quarter that the text book will do you no good after that class this is a good deal (economically) for the student since a 33% discount is probably more than the resale value of the book.
Heck no. At my undergraduate university, used books cost 75% of the new price, and if you just went to the book store early on, you could get pretty much everything used. At the end of the semester, buybacks were half the used price, and you could pretty consistently sell textbooks to other students directly for 50-60% of the new price. So that means that in the best case you pay nothing (buy used direct, sell direct at the same price) and in the worst case you pay 62.5% of the book's price (buy new, sell to store). Plus, you can take the book with you anywhere, keep it, loan it, photocopy it, take notes in it, and otherwise own it. My university even ran a free service where students could place for-sale and looking-to-buy ads for used books, which saw a lot of traffic.
Apple moved to Intel to get decent chips in PowerBooks, which is where the future lies. AMD is simply not up to Intel in the mobile processor arena. Also, perception-wise, among the general public (you know, the 98% of computer-buyers that don't even know what Slashdot is), Intel is a recognizable brand, while AMD is just another TLA.
Obviously, the problem is not that Mail.app does not work with SSL connections, as my mail server only accepts SSL for POP and IMAP, and I've been checking my mail without a hitch since 10.3.9 came out. Thus, could you be a bit more specific about what that exact problem is?
Sweet! I've owned Season 3 for ages and always wanted the rest of the show. Season 4 is now on DVD, and it looks like they've just started releasing seasons 1 and 2!
You know, I remember that Warcraft II for the Mac had built in TCP/IP play, allowing me to go on IRC and get trounced without having to pay for some hack like Kali that routed IPX traffic over TCP, like the inferior PC version required. Blizzard has always had excellent support for the Mac, and its employees whom I have met at developer conferences were all great guys. However, enough talking, I need to get back to leveling up my World of Warcraft character using this nice PowerMac G5 of mine...
Legality vs. Morality
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Flying By Brain
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Just because something is legal doesn't mean it isn't wrong. Anyone who actually spends some time with animals will soon realize that they do have emotions and personalities and other hallmarks of self. To subject them to unnecessary pain and suffering is morally wrong. If using animals as a resource, they should enjoy decent living conditions and a quick and painless death.
Hey, as the owner of several pet rats, I'm highly incensed by your comment. They're all much friendlier, rational, and intelligent than Bill O'Reilly. Plus, I've never heard them tell anyone to shut up.
Puppets and/or marionettes having sex has been done before. If you do not value your sanity, watch Let My Puppets Come, an eye-bleed-causing piece of trash from 1976 full of hardcore puppet porn. It's so terrible, IMDB apparently refuses to list it. If for some reason you feel compelled to track down and watch this monstrous, obscene crime against humanity, be aware that there's several different cut that vary wildly in length, from 45 minutes to over 100 minutes.
Of course, if you really want to be pretentious and cool (like me), then you need to play Nobilis, a diceless resource-management game where you take on the roles of what are basically gods. It's even written by a woman, and looks great sitting on your coffee table.
Re: Xcode vs. Xcode Tools
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"Xcode Tools" is Apple's official name for the entire suite of developer tools, while "Xcode" is just the name of the IDE. Given that this is an official Apple PR article, I don't find it surprising that they conform to this naming protocol.
(On a side note, this has caused confusion in the past. For one update (I believe it was 1.2), there was the Xcode 1.2 Update Available automatically through Software Update, which only updated the IDE. There was the separate Xcode Tools 1.2 download (not available automatically) that contained more updates for the entire suite. The product manager thus discovered that no one downloads ReadMe files for products before downloading the product itself.)
HFS+ (and HFS before it, and MFS even earlier) have always been case-preserving but case-insensitive. Starting with Panther, there is the option to format volumes in a case-sensitive version of HFS+; I am unsure how well former version of the Mac OS deal with such volumes. Journalling can be enabled on either variant of HFS+ (and is now on by default).
Parent's logic is correct as far as I'm concerned. Additionally, if GIF gets pronounced "jif", then it's audibly indistinguishable from the JIF image format (a comparatively obscure but LZW-free GIF alternative).
Several people have posted workarounds to enable the full-alpha support of PNGs under IE, but all the ones I saw require changing each and every image tag that points to a PNG. The following chunk of JavaScript takes care of all PNGs without any other changes to the HTML source. (Like other methods, it requires a 1 x 1 pixel transparent GIF image as a placeholder.)
Is there some DRM or something on Mac hardware that prevents people from illegally copying OSX on the mac platform?
Nope, none at all. It would annoy customers, and, frankly, Apple doesn't care that you're pirating their $129 OS, because you can only run it on a computer for which you already paid Apple at least ten times that much.
I have a command-line alias set up to use SSH port reflection from port 25 on my laptop to port 25 on my server. My mail client is then configured to use localhost as the outgoing mail server. Whenever I need to send email, I just need to enter one command in a terminal window to enable it until I move elsewhere and the connection is broken.
I used to just run sendmail directly on my PowerBook, but I got too many bounce messages from servers that refuse to accept mail from known dynamically allocated IP ranges, on the assumption that I must be a zombie spammer.
>My pet peeve, for example, is the Finder: it's 2004, why can't they make Finder windows update immediately when a new file is created, and why can't icons stay in the same place when files are modified?! I mean, if Windows has been able to do it for 10 years, it shouldn't be that hard!
As to the former, Panther seems to have fixed that, with views usually updating when files are created elsewhere. (Jaguar and prior did have issues with this.) As to the latter, I wouldn't know, given that I use Column View exclusively...
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Or a Speedy Gonzalez cartoon?
I seem to recall having seen a year or two back that WB had decided it was okay to show Speedy Gonzalez cartoons again. In any case, while they do contain silly stereotypes, it's ultimately about the Mexican mouse showing up the stupid "Gringo pussy-gato" every time. Speedy's the hero. He's not there to be mocked, but to do the mocking.
Apple could be in big trouble over this and I personally would not develop such an app if I were Steve Jobs for obvious reasons. Its risky and could kill the macintosh in their core market if Adobe gives them the finger again.
I really doubt it. Apple released Final Cut Pro and destroyed Premiere. If Adobe threatens to pull Photoshop, Aperture 2.0 will be a Photoshop replacement, which will end very badly for Adobe.
If you are stupid enough to purchase a laser printer for your counterfeiting ring with a CREDIT CARD, you deserve to get caught.
Duh, just pay for the printer in counterfeit cash. It takes money to make money, you know...
Doh! It's been five years, and I just copied the spelling from the Slashdot article. Plus, my name has a "Berg" in it, so it looks like a perfectly fine syllable to me. (And, just to add to the confusion, my wife's has a "borg" in it.)
If you have a chance to take his Microprocessor Architecture class, do so. He rocks! We had people from the other professors' sections sneaking into ours to actually learn the material.
Heck no. At my undergraduate university, used books cost 75% of the new price, and if you just went to the book store early on, you could get pretty much everything used. At the end of the semester, buybacks were half the used price, and you could pretty consistently sell textbooks to other students directly for 50-60% of the new price. So that means that in the best case you pay nothing (buy used direct, sell direct at the same price) and in the worst case you pay 62.5% of the book's price (buy new, sell to store). Plus, you can take the book with you anywhere, keep it, loan it, photocopy it, take notes in it, and otherwise own it. My university even ran a free service where students could place for-sale and looking-to-buy ads for used books, which saw a lot of traffic.
Apple moved to Intel to get decent chips in PowerBooks, which is where the future lies. AMD is simply not up to Intel in the mobile processor arena. Also, perception-wise, among the general public (you know, the 98% of computer-buyers that don't even know what Slashdot is), Intel is a recognizable brand, while AMD is just another TLA.
Obviously, the problem is not that Mail.app does not work with SSL connections, as my mail server only accepts SSL for POP and IMAP, and I've been checking my mail without a hitch since 10.3.9 came out. Thus, could you be a bit more specific about what that exact problem is?
Sweet! I've owned Season 3 for ages and always wanted the rest of the show. Season 4 is now on DVD, and it looks like they've just started releasing seasons 1 and 2!
You know, I remember that Warcraft II for the Mac had built in TCP/IP play, allowing me to go on IRC and get trounced without having to pay for some hack like Kali that routed IPX traffic over TCP, like the inferior PC version required. Blizzard has always had excellent support for the Mac, and its employees whom I have met at developer conferences were all great guys. However, enough talking, I need to get back to leveling up my World of Warcraft character using this nice PowerMac G5 of mine...
Just because something is legal doesn't mean it isn't wrong. Anyone who actually spends some time with animals will soon realize that they do have emotions and personalities and other hallmarks of self. To subject them to unnecessary pain and suffering is morally wrong. If using animals as a resource, they should enjoy decent living conditions and a quick and painless death.
Hey, as the owner of several pet rats, I'm highly incensed by your comment. They're all much friendlier, rational, and intelligent than Bill O'Reilly. Plus, I've never heard them tell anyone to shut up.
Heck, go one further and rub it daily with a sliced habanero pepper. That'll give the vandals something to think about after they rub their eyes once.
Puppets and/or marionettes having sex has been done before. If you do not value your sanity, watch Let My Puppets Come, an eye-bleed-causing piece of trash from 1976 full of hardcore puppet porn. It's so terrible, IMDB apparently refuses to list it. If for some reason you feel compelled to track down and watch this monstrous, obscene crime against humanity, be aware that there's several different cut that vary wildly in length, from 45 minutes to over 100 minutes.
Of course, if you really want to be pretentious and cool (like me), then you need to play Nobilis, a diceless resource-management game where you take on the roles of what are basically gods. It's even written by a woman, and looks great sitting on your coffee table.
"Xcode Tools" is Apple's official name for the entire suite of developer tools, while "Xcode" is just the name of the IDE. Given that this is an official Apple PR article, I don't find it surprising that they conform to this naming protocol.
(On a side note, this has caused confusion in the past. For one update (I believe it was 1.2), there was the Xcode 1.2 Update Available automatically through Software Update, which only updated the IDE. There was the separate Xcode Tools 1.2 download (not available automatically) that contained more updates for the entire suite. The product manager thus discovered that no one downloads ReadMe files for products before downloading the product itself.)
HFS+ (and HFS before it, and MFS even earlier) have always been case-preserving but case-insensitive. Starting with Panther, there is the option to format volumes in a case-sensitive version of HFS+; I am unsure how well former version of the Mac OS deal with such volumes. Journalling can be enabled on either variant of HFS+ (and is now on by default).
Parent's logic is correct as far as I'm concerned. Additionally, if GIF gets pronounced "jif", then it's audibly indistinguishable from the JIF image format (a comparatively obscure but LZW-free GIF alternative).
Is there some DRM or something on Mac hardware that prevents people from illegally copying OSX on the mac platform?
Nope, none at all. It would annoy customers, and, frankly, Apple doesn't care that you're pirating their $129 OS, because you can only run it on a computer for which you already paid Apple at least ten times that much.
I have a command-line alias set up to use SSH port reflection from port 25 on my laptop to port 25 on my server. My mail client is then configured to use localhost as the outgoing mail server. Whenever I need to send email, I just need to enter one command in a terminal window to enable it until I move elsewhere and the connection is broken.
I used to just run sendmail directly on my PowerBook, but I got too many bounce messages from servers that refuse to accept mail from known dynamically allocated IP ranges, on the assumption that I must be a zombie spammer.
>the Atari 7800 was backwards-compatible with the 2600 (but not the 5200... go figure)
That's clearly because 7800 is a multiple of 2600, but not a multiple of 5200.
Note the first three letters in each of those sets of parentheses: TNG. That was a long time, sadly.
>hmm... I should have realized it would have the BSD firewall. I wonder why there's no GUI for it?
Under Panther (and I think Jaguar as well), there is.
System Preferences App > Sharing Panel > Firewall Tab
>My pet peeve, for example, is the Finder: it's 2004, why can't they make Finder windows update immediately when a new file is created, and why can't icons stay in the same place when files are modified?! I mean, if Windows has been able to do it for 10 years, it shouldn't be that hard!
As to the former, Panther seems to have fixed that, with views usually updating when files are created elsewhere. (Jaguar and prior did have issues with this.) As to the latter, I wouldn't know, given that I use Column View exclusively...